skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't use the Google brush to paint the other FAANG companies.

By all accounts I've heard, working at Facebook/Meta is a pretty rewarding experience (if harvesting user data is your thing) in all the ways Google is not.

That said, it's strange that the author conflates staying with a Series A company through IPO would have been the preferred alternative. That would have been like experiencing the worst parts of Google on fast forward.
Pricing isn't based on operating costs but market value of services offered. That's how every business in the world works.
What’s the story there?
I’m really surprised lights used to simulate sunrise placed 20-30ft away could completely melt the foam holding the exterior windows in place.
> His reasoning boiled down to "Linux is too popular".

You made the right choice. That founder demonstrated domain incompetence alongside a demonstration that they don't know when to delegate, with a side of shallow reasoning.
Except disguised such that people think it is not webmail. They are replacing a desktop IMAP client (which stored data locally) with a webapp that (it sounds like) copies all of your Google Mail to a Microsoft server.

I do think this is a big deal, certainly my expectation was that the New Outlook work alot like the old Mail app.
We did our builds in docker, for various reasons. So we relied on the docker buildx cache and some other tricks that I don't recall because I didn't work a ton on the build system.
I don't think it's parody. Wayland is just so kafkaesque not even windows know their own contents.
I do feel it is starting to become a real joke now though which is affecting their brand. I think also over the lifetime of the M3 models it'll start to become a real issue for even 'basic' work as RAM usage continues to increase.
And yet the Metaverse is the punching bag of any discussion about Meta, despite Zuck throwing the weight of an almost-trillion-dollar company behind this vision. Perhaps a whim is not enough? And if the execution is excellent and the vision takes off, sounds like it does solve a problem, so what's the issue? If the choice is between spending one's billions on luxury items or pushing the envelope in some fantastical direction, I'll always vote for the latter (though I am a fan of Gates' approach to philanthropy as well).
Given that my country, Ukraine, is already sliding there pretty rapidly, it really can't get worse tbh. I would take corporate wars over interstate wars any day.

(wrote this from my home with a backup power generator while studying courses on how to fly FPV drones via goggles and on cybersecurity/electronic warfare)
It is enraging because I know that not technical people will buy it and then after suffering 2 years they will seek for an upgrade, not knowing that this is just a memory issue. Which btw could be an easy and cheap upgrade, but no, with apple you have to toss the 1600 machine altogether.

Similar to the situation where apple was downgrading the iphone cpu after a year to hide their faulty batteries.
Protégé: A free, open-source ontology editor for building intelligent systems
You double your RAM, but get at least 3 or 4x more available to applications. Consider the relatively fixed OS overhead (4 to 6 gigs?) which almost always gets worse with updates.
Some people can't stop using Windows yet. Switching to Thunderbird is a good step toward being able to stop using Windows.
My problem with Apple devices are that:

1) The base configuration comes with insufficient resources (low memory, low disk space, till surprisingly recent past slow HDD instead of SSD), and

2) The upgrades are way too expensive compared to any other hardware manufacturer, meaning that

3) The advertised price is a lie! Almost no one should buy the base configuration.

You see a device advertised as 1500$. You think "Sweet! That's the price I am willing to pay!". But then you go through the selection process and end up with a 2000$ minimum on the checkout page. Even though it's not the same, psychologically, it feels like when you try to get an AirBnB for 100$ a night for 3 night and end up seeing a price of 920$ in the checkout page instead of 300$.

Apple is pricing necessities (like 16 GB of RAM) as luxuries, and people don't like that.
> $55 per TB

Want to boost the capacity of your $500 toy? Add $1650 in storage!
https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/rus...

> At the same time, support for the Russian military action has neither increased nor decreased. Three in four Russians (76%) continue to say they support the military operation, with 43 percent expressing strong support and 33 percent somewhat supporting it.

Apologies if I accidentally condemn the 24% of Russians who aren't neofascists (and yet, can't be bothered to protest, lest the state get upset).
According to Bunker by Bradley Garrett, the Mormon's are extensive preppers and have supplies for more than the population of Salt Lake City underground. So if there is a worldwide catastrophe, this prediction may come true.
The price charged is prohibitively far above what is reasonable for avoiding ads, and Meta is quite aware of the advertising value of each subscriber that I can only assume they set the price so high as an intentional deterrent. They want as few people as possible to purchase this alternative, rather than simply to try to keep their revenue satisfactory either way.

In other words, they want to pretend that they are allowing users to freely choose between paying or seeing their information used in ads, but even if the GDPR does allow pay-or-OK consent schemes - this is itself an unsettled legal question - it’s far from clear that declining an unaffordably priced alternative counts as the kind of free consent the GDPR requires for consent-based processing. Lots of cases are still working their way through European DPAs and courts.

And, frustratingly, I don’t think they promise no tracking even with the subscription. They just promise not to use the information for ads. They still allow themselves to process your data for many other purposes which under EU law should have a way to say no.
A nitpicky plot hole: There's no way poor people in this near-future dystopia would have access to a device that can access darknet forums, nor would video hosting sites allow hacking instructions, nor would the building's ISP allow access to anything besides ad-infested walled-garden services. At least, you'd have to jailbreak your computing device first, which is chicken-and-egg, and also hacking your phone would bring even worse risks to a precariat than hacking your toaster (especially if your phone serves as government ID).

In the grim dark future, there is only authorized bread.
> In 2020 this whole scenario sounds absurd

Why ? I use Citrix at work in 2023 and nobody thinks it absurd to run the program on another computer and display it on yours.

Except the wayland developers (last i heard). /s
This is the stupidest HN feature. It does very little for clickbait (flagging and voting is better), and routinely screws up titles to the point it drastically changes or reverses their meaning.
She sounds like she likes to use her brain to solve exotic puzzles, she should take up Sudoko or something, instead?
How is increasing the lifespan of the MBP more unfriendly to the environment??
Not convinced of the point that these inventions "come from science fiction", sci-fi popularizes and speculates about the future of current science and technology, it doesn't invent the science and technology. Cell phones have existed in experimental forms since the 1940s[0] so they certainly weren't invented by Gene Roddenberry, he just speculated that they would become smaller and more powerful.

Likewise, Stephenson was riffing on the existing technologies of the internet and VR[1][2] by performing the simple trick of asking what happens when these technologies get better, smaller, cheaper and more widely available. Honestly, the speculative part of scifi is the easy part. The credit due these artists is in their fantastic story telling abilities and their world building around the what ifs. They shouldn't get the credit for inventing the technology itself since it a) already existed and b) the notion of it getting better over time is fairly universal and not driven solely by their visions.

[0] https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/bell-telephone-launched-...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qe4suqGZmU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfHMSqQKg6s
Why does APPLE RAM cost so much?? (Apr 19, 2005)
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/why-does-apple-ram-cost...

Maybe one day Apple will lower memory prices. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it...
For what it's worth though, that's possible to mitigate. I don't believe Mullvad uses PXE and they do have a "secure boot" validation chain, starting from Coreboot on the hardware.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructur...
We can’t predict seasonal demand that accurately so trying to use a finite reserve for anything but outlier events is risky. Plan for a large deficit and the infrastructure you create to fill that reserve is sitting around in the off season reducing the size of your deficit. Plan for a small one and your estimate may be wildly inaccurate.

What’s left for “seasonal storage” is to cover gaps in production from extreme outlier events using surplus production. That is useful, but also largely covered by battery power as I just covered.

Granted if someone comes up with cheap enough seasonal storage it might have a place, but that’s a possibility not a guarantee.
> Elixir has much more interesting features that have nothing to do with the types/no types discussion

My point exactly. Sidetracking every Elixir discussion with complaints about type (especially when they are actually working on it!) gets tiring quick, when Elixir is much more than "just" a dynamic typed language. It's literally missing the forest for the trees.
"zed" should be an option. It is used in some major dialects of English. The names of the letters came from Greek; "zed" comes from "zeta".
They didn't say it was. They were asking what use a hash would be.
Twofer Goofers in the wild: pairs of rhyming words
I wonder how long this will work? If I was Google, I'd think about banning IMAP logins from the Azure servers that are doing this syncing.
There's also the issue of AWS actually running out and not being able to take on more customer, or at least larger customers. It is solely for the benefit of AWS, not it's customers in any case. If it was about the customers NAT gateways would get reduced in price at the same time.

That being said, I do know companies that have freed up 80% or more of their IPv4 allocation with no service impact. It was simply not an issue previously and AWS made it easier to just allocate more public IP addresses.

They at least hit the right price to ensure that people care, but not making it unreasonable if you do need an IPv4 allocation.
I was looking into getting a UPS for my server. Some UPSes do power conditioning, and all do AC/DC conversion. I got to wondering why I can't buy a UPS that outputs DC and feed that directly into a silly looking PSU.
I don't think it answers the question - I bought a Windows laptop because it's more affordable, but I'd rather be driving a Mac, hardware-wise. Does the same concept not apply to you and your car, or others who have chosen a Mexican made car over a Swedish one?
Who's furious? Seems like the negative views on this 8GB configuration are driving benchmarks like this, which in turn give the buyers the ammo they need to make a purchasing decision.

In this case, a couple hundred bucks extra seems to make a world of difference in performance and therefore, more importantly, longevity of the machine.

EDIT: Apparently from reading here, folks in the MacRumors comments are furious. Guess I'm glad I don't read the comments!
If Meta found a way to double their ad revenue from non-paying users, would you expect the price for this subscription to double?
Same here. Turned in my 14" MBP M1 for a M2 15" MB-Air (1TB NVMe, 24G RAM). Lightweight, fast, excellent 15" screen. Hands down the best laptop I have ever had (and I have a stack of MBP boxes in my closet from the past 10yrs).
Agreed.

Glad to see its being actively developed. Would use if hands became incapable
Wait till they find out credit card numbers are not hashed and salted before being transmitted to a merchant over TLS.
Heading control measures the current heading, subtracts the set heading, and applies rudder to bring the difference back towards zero.

Speed control does the same with speed sensors and the throttle.

That's why aircraft autopilots have been around since 1912.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopilot
I used to go drinking with Iain regularly (we lived in the same city).

Iain was a hard-left socialist -- in US terms, a communist. He's been dead for a decade now, but I'm pretty certain his opinion of Elon Musk as he is self-revealed today would be unprintable: he hated everything billionaires stood for.

Hence: irony being dead.
And then I can drive it on the road? Who is selling these vehicles?
You no longer need the original executable. However, the artwork is from the original game. As are the levels (although there are also original levels available).
ICBC trying to curb impact of US ransomware attack, says China
good points ! :+1:
https://archive.is/U3jpN
What is the status of Cursorless Emacs?
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You can't extend the size of the ipv4 packet headers unfortunately without breaking backwards compatibility, so we're stuck with with the address size.

However, we're pretty stupid how we use ipv4. A connection identifier is actually 48 bits, which is a massive pool. Currently nearly everything on the internet runs 32 bit ipv4 address with a 16bit port number. The vast majority of internet traffic waste the last 16 bits because of convention (Hey only accept HTTP/SSL connections on port 443! lol)

We could extend ipv4 a couple hundred years by adopting SRV records, which would be a painless change compared to swapping ipv4 to ipv6. That puts the last 16 bits of the total 48 bits to work.

The other part of the ipv4 packet is a bunch of flags that are pretty dangerous and nobody uses. Those might be able to be used as identifiers, but it'd be pretty not-backwards compatible.

I'm a critic of the ipv6 transition because of the players promoting it in a certain way that is detrimental to the consumers. However, one thing ipv6 gets correct is the concept of network flows and the removal of a ton of cruft from the ipv4 packets. In that regard ipv6 is very well designed.

Anyway, I will continue to turn off ipv6 and block it on all the devices and networks I operate, as it offers no benefit to me personally, only downsides, and it's just one more thing to monitor for privacy.
These seems quite illogical to me.

If there was no 8GB option, the price of the base model would be higher -- going by the comments, apparently $200 higher.

That would kind of screw over the people who don't open 20 Lightroom tabs or similar workloads, who might want that $200 for something else.

I guess people are imagining that if the 8GB option didn't exist then 16GB could be had for the same price, but that isn't rational. I think all Apple customers would quite like their prices to be lower, of course, but it's not like they are suddenly about to change from a publicly traded for-profit company to a charity organization.
This article feels very specific to Europe. I think the US does a really good job of funding tech innovation, especially given its size and how complex it operates.
Wow, are stories are very similar but with a different ending (I'm sorry you were part of Jan 20).

Also started pandemic beginning of Pandemic as an SRE (not ads), didn't have onboarding in place and no one to really take me under their wing. Ran into long-latency issues, created & co created many agile pieces for the team, etc. I ended up "I'm leaving or joining a different team" and managed to get to a different non-Cloud team and it's been much better since, but 2 1/2 years of "awful".
Yep it's a complete anti-feature and I have no idea why it's still in use.
AMD offers RAM encryption on their threadripper server CPUs and also in their Ryzen PRO on workstation/laptops (you have to enable it in the bios).

https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/amd-memory-guard-...

https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-busine...
Didn't know that about flickering, interesting. Maintaining the candle properly by e.g. trimming the wick does help with a clean burn. Beeswax has almost no flicker and gives off light that's the most similar to sunlight, but it's quite expensive.
> * "OMG Every device needs a publicly addressable IP!!!"

> ok, but why?

So we can get rid of STUN/ICE/etc and make peer-to-peer easier. All you're left with is hole punching through your SPI firewall (no worse than today).

> Are you _really_ just going to allow random traffic into your network?

I don't know why this misconception is so wide spread: globally addressable ≠ globally reachable.

Firewalls still exist with IPv6.

Before I recently changed ISPs, I was with one which gave out IPv6, and so all devices had an address (including things like my printer). But I couldn't initiate connections from the outside in—only replies to internally-initiated messages were let in by my Asus.

Even if things were wide open—which they were not—good luck scanning a /64.
> the starting price is dependent on the 8GB configuration

I disagree with this. I posit that it would save Apple money to chop off the 8GB SKU and sell the 16GB model (with the smaller SSD) as a base.

This wasn't necessarily the case with the M1/M2. But 8GB of DRAM is dirt cheap these days.
I personally love the book „Engineering a Compiler“ by Cooper & Torczon. Its got the perfect mix of theory and practice and helped me a lot understanding the whole subject. No prser generators and dependencies is a huge bonus too, the first chapters quickly get you up to speed with lexing and various methods of parsing.
> they want to pretend that they are allowing users to freely choose between paying or seeing their information used in ads

Alternatively, they’re selling their product with an ad-supported tier.

> I don’t think they promise no tracking even with the subscription

This is annoying. But people are willing to pay to avoid ads. I imagine the wanting-free-stuff-masked-as-principles constituency is stronger in the privacy community. (Also, the overlap of people who would pay for privacy and are on Facebook is small.)
> Turbulence is undetectable

Not inherently, and we're getting there. See e.g. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/18/3/798 for the use of time-of-flight sensor sampling (i.e. a depth-of-field camera) to build a picture of local turbulence (in water rather than air, but the principle translates.)
Once GitHub works with ipv6 I’ll start to take it seriously.
I don't think this is the kind of generation they are talking about.

Solar is intermittent and you would need expensive energy storage to even things out.

I guess unless you can shift your compute usage to match production. Maybe that would work? But then your compute utilization is pry suboptimal. Why own hardware that is only in use 8-12hrs a day?
Ah, that makes much more sense. I must have missed that. Thanks for the clarification!
> they're more efficient as a threat or deterrent than in actual use.

Why do you believe so?
It doesn't cost apple $200 to go from 8GB to 16GB, it's likely 1/10th of that since they are ordering processors in the millions at the lowest point available in silicon manufacturing. I've never had an apple product fail either and I can't say that for other laptops (hp/dell) I still have my MacBook pro from 2011, using it as a NAS (running linux tho) my Dell from that year is long since dead.
> It's an amazing feeling when your OS isn't insisting left and right on behavior you don't want.

Yepp, I get this confirmed every so often when I need to boot/install Windows. I will not deny Linux has issues, but so far these issues could be solved or at least worked around. They can be frustrating at times, but at least they tickle the problem solving and learning part of my brain instead of the part reserved for unreasonable anger.
Yeah. That’s over the power limit that USB-C can deliver. We have some Dell 17.3 inch laptops with discrete GPU’s that are like that.
It probably works, but temperature could be used as an excuse should anything not work. "Undefined behavior" and all that.
That's a very obscure test case...
Some real terminals had a few different row/column modes, e.g. 80x24 or 132x40 (IIRC). I don't recall if text was reflowed when switching.
Is Photographers in Conventions a Thing?
First time in a convention and probably the last one.

In _every_ talk there was a photographer roaming the auditorium shooting with his camera using flash. So every few seconds there was this bright light in an otherwise dimly lit room. I lasted for 7 or 8 talks before I had a terrible migraine leaving the convention early.

Is that customary? Are all conventions like that?
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In my experience, 3 passes of box blur looks good enough for small kernels (less than 50px). Is this faster than that?
No one is arguing for free access. What people are arguing for is respecting fundamental rights. It is not the job of users to create business strategy plans for an enterprise. The enterprise has the burden of proof to problem solve and find a monetization strategy that both is profitable and legal. Meta still can serve ads. Ads that are GDPR compliant. So either GDPR-applicable consent (informed, unambiguous, uncoerced, specific, withdrawble) for personalization or contextual ads that require little personal data processing to serve.
Weather Modification Activities in Japan
the led the armies, but they also led the country. all of the risk and all of the reward.
Sounds to me like you're interpreting simple criticism of a brand as "people getting furious and being mortally offended" because you're biased by your own brand loyalty.

You're just going to have to accept that some people don't like your favorite brand's newest product, it's not the end of the world.
> What should have happened instead is that the world bank should have helped to finance the new system as a way to make up for their previous disastrous handling of the situation

That seems like charity, which granted i am all for, but i don't think the World Bank is a charitable organization, plus 300 million is a MASSIVE amount for charity. In the absence of charity it seems like the two choices are 1. Have no water or 2. Pay a lot to have water. At least with 2 you have the potential for the lowering of water prices over time.

Is there an alternative? Or am i wrong about the world bank and these charitable acts are it's purpose?
Ah, thanks -- still disturbing but a little more understandable now.
is this real Bill's account/post ?
Man I loved this game as a kid.

I wonder though ... they say it's now pure open source that's been "rewritten" from scratch. Hate to be a party pooper but is that really true? It took all of two minutes to find this in the code:

https://github.com/dkfans/keeperfx/blob/master/src/engine_re...

//BucketKindPolygonStandard in this function could also be BucketKindPolygonSimple or BucketKindBasicUnk10 idk all 3 pretty similar
int z;
struct BucketKindPolygonStandard *v5;
int v6;
struct BasicQ *v7;

if ( (ec1->field_8 & (uint16_t)(ec2->field_8 & ec3->field_8) & 0x1F8) == 0
&& (ec3->view_width - ec2->view_width) * (ec1->view_height - ec2->view_height)
+ (ec3->view_height - ec2->view_height) * (ec2->view_width - ec1->view_width) > 0 )
{

I dunno, this looks a lot like decompiled code. There are lots of other variables with names like v15, v16 etc in other parts of the code too.
> So we can get rid of STUN/ICE/etc and make peer-to-peer easier. All you're left with is hole punching through your SPI firewall (no worse than today).

Do you really think Roomba is going to let you run your Robot Vacuum without contacting, er permission, from their data center in Virginia?