skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blender is an another good example
What "feedback" do you get from the glasses. Imagine taking a picture or sending a message...
We had a term for implicit state machines at a place I used to work: infinite flag machines[0].

[0] I suspect the majority of hn folks are familiar with finite state machines, but just in case: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine
The price in cents is the way "it was always done" in retail, back when POS terminals were not directly connected to cash registers and the worker had to manually type in the amount. But yeah, sudden change in US design will causemany errors everywhere.
The push back was largely about the creepiness of being potentially surveilled all the time. This is just the same
> At my previous job the other person working in our backend was the CTO, which worked part-time and had lots of CTO attributions. I remember spending about 20 hours tops in the span of 2 years on that backend. It was THAT good.

It might be "cargo culting" but I am curious what properties of that good system were true?
New neurotech eschews electricity for ultrasound
Completely agree. Hopefully the open source nature helps keep this door open.
> The United States has dug itself into a huge life-expectancy hole, and not just because of the virus that slipped into the country in stealth fashion in 2020. In articles this year, The Washington Post has explored the many reasons this country lags peer nations in life expectancy, and a major finding is that chronic conditions such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer play an underappreciated role in suppressing life spans.

Rebound from Covid? In the context of worsening heart disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer sounds Orwellian. Ultimately, Covid was a symptom. A symptom of a general population that's on average unhealthy, often in more ways than one.

Furthermore, life expectancy is a somewhat of a bogus metric. The better question is: is the *quality* also improving with the quantity? Is meds instead of prevention (read: changes to diet and lifestyle) improving lives or simply keeping people alive longer so they can be prescribed still more and more meds?

The System is working, better for some than others. Follow the money.
The open source art ai community is far more mature than people think.
Given Nextcloud's track record that doesn't bode well for Roundcube's future. We tried to make Nextcloud work for us for years, but it's just too terribly clunky, unstable, bug-ridden, and customer hostile. I hope none of that rubs off on roundcube.
Digital dashes have been a thing for a long, long time. They're objectively better in some ways (imho) and costs add up!
No jailbreak yet.
> The assertion I'm making is that words have meanings.

No, you are assigning specific meanings to words, and I'm disagreeing with them.

"That's not how aggression works" is an assertion you made without anything to back it up. It's just your opinion, and not very well justified either. (You also failed to explain how, in your opinion, aggression does work!).

The article itself doesn't show what you claim are the only possibilities for passive aggression.
Love it. Thank you. Ultimate guitar is nothing just scamming bullshit.
This is such a tragic story, I think anyone working in tech should be forced to read this once a year to remind them that the work we do can massively impact people (even if it's very abstracted from us!)
Always felt wrong. Now it's even more wrong.
The idea of paying for use instead of data collection is a good one. The problem is that the companies are treating it as another money grab instead of a reasonable alternative payment option. They don't make anywhere close to $10 a month selling ads to a user. If they wanted to offer $2 bucks a month, they would probably still profit more on this, and it would also be a reasonable deal for the user.

edit: not correct. Closer to $20 per month per user in the US for FB actually.
No need. We are perfectly capable of blocking everything from the EU ourselves. As in, Brexit.
If you don't think in terms of money, but rather in terms of stuff, it becomes clear. You can print all the money you want, and the only thing that there's more of is money. There aren't any more houses, or food, or cars. There's just more money.

On the other hand, we can try to move it around some, so that the poor have access to somewhat more of the stuff, even if that means that the well-off have less. But the well-off have to have less for this to work - "we'll help the poor, but it won't cost you" is a lie.

On the other other hand... just giving them stuff isn't likely to change things for many poor people in the way that they really need things to change. (Which is back to the point of the article.)
Also, it's not just the published rate. They do things like...

- add credit card surcharges

- bill whole minutes

- no refunds for unused minutes when the service isn't needed.

And, it's not just phones. Similar treatment for email/telegram type services, commissary type items, books, music, etc. Some even deduct from these accounts for medical service visits.

The US incarceration system is a shit show.
The horror story I used to hear was from the pre-cloud era-- when you set up a new computer to build, you'd need to wait a day while the initial pull & build finished before you could really do anything.
It seems bizarre to describe a modern company as an "open source email pioneer"

The email pioneers are from a different era. Sendmail is a pioneer in email, not some modern company.
"Pioneer" means they did not invent it. If they invented it, they could say inventor instead of pioneer.
Until you create an AI to do those other parts too.
(There is an AI being tested right now that tries to do that in the game dev community)
> That's not how publicly traded businesses are run

That's not necessarily true. There are plenty of examples of public companies which have grown in more sustainable way while prioritizing their core businesses.

> You are serving the needs of the shareholders. Line must go up therefore you need to constantly expand.

Yet the market did not reward them and the shareholders are not particularly happy. While these pressuresfor public do exist at the end the incompetences of Unity's board and upper management are to blame.
What is this magical existing technology that works cross-OS, aspect ratio and device better than web?
I run it on TrueNAS Scale. Yes it is all quite fragile, but I managed to get it in a state where it works if I don't touch it. It's all backed on a ZFS volume. Barring significant hardware failures I will be able to access my data locally. I use Storj for mirror remote. Rebuilding would be a bit of a pain, but I have reached the E2EE personal cloud ideal. If [better than storj] cloud storage services offered BYOPK E2EE then I wouldn't need to jump through such hurdles.
Apollo was very much pushing the envelope of bleeding edge technology, while the bosses were probably not too happy, it was far from the only occurrence, and didn't threaten the contract.
This is on point.

I purposely didn’t buy a Tesla because I wanted to drive a car, not a toy.

Are touch interfaces all bad? No, but in situations where heavy focus is required and the inputs are dynamically changing, they are a disaster.
Hats off to the backup guys.
Why is Poland (EU member) lumped in with Ukraine and the former USSR who need permits?
This is how every software UI should be designed as well.
Skills relating to interpersonal relations become less and less needed as technology improves, labour becomes more and more compartmentalized and you no longer need social cohesion to get any commodity, you need only interact with the market. I agree that most people are better off talking to real people, but it's nigh impossible to force anything on as large a scale as society when it's not the easiest and most profitable choice for the individual(in this case chatbots are easier and more profitable than IRL social contact, at least for the people that use them.)
agreed - although My understanding is that the word Paul uses there is actually not even a real word, and appears nowhere else in literature at the time - so we really have no clue what he means.

I always find it interesting that there is at least this one verse where there is some contention as to whether it is an explicit ban on male homosexual relationships - But there is absolutely no argument whatsoever : there is no reference at all to female homosexual relationships in the bible. Ever. And yet the church is often very preoccupied with viewing lesbian relationships as a sin. Very strange
Ironically I personally find this type of writing more representative of social "science", likely because I am more familiar with that discourse than Christian discourse.
Compact accelerator technology achieves major energy milestone
I still reach for PgAdmin for explain plains. I think the visuals are really nice and help me make sense of things. I've not seen something better.

But for everything else, jetbrains / datagrip etc is just infinitely nicer to use.
The Montreux Convention[0] prohibits large warships from transiting the Bosporous Strait. That carrier displaces 65,000 tons, the upper limit of the treaty only permits warships of 15,000 tons or less. The UK is one of the signatories to that treaty.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft...
It’s the place where both the audience and all the interesting authors are.
It is always sobering to read this story. I feel an obligation to read it through every time I stumble upon it.

A lot of what we do as software developers really doesn't matter, so it's easy to forget that sometimes it does.

Regulations are written in blood.
i wonder if ideas like side by side deployments were on their radars back then. maybe pretty expensive, but it seems like with systems of people and machines that complicated you'd want live validation of everything before cutting over.
Oral History of Robert P. Colwell – Chief Architect for Intel's IA32 [pdf]
Depends on environment. If you can do disk snapshots that's the way to go (can be hard with disk striping). wal-g works for storing both base backups & wal to various storages in parallel & can be throttled with env variables

Source: worked on Azure's managed Citus pg
12-18mos before that changes.

no company in the world is going to maintain 2 separate software products that compete with each other. They will be merged, my prediction is 12 to 18 mos
Android OS runs on nothing but Linux. And it's a mess. Swing/SWT I won't even comment on.
Close friend worked at Google Brain, now Deepmind. Said he presses tab 70% of the time and it just works. When shown my paid version of Copilot said it felt his auto completes had higher accuracy.
Do you have recommendations for a self hosted webDAV server that could act as a Dropbox / GDrive replacement? I‘m using Nextcloud only for that use case because I haven’t found anything that seemed as stable.
fun?
Thanks for the comments. I have fixed the headers :)
...and they will still try to find ways to use the data after you pay. Because the fines are rounding errors versus the profits.
It's the average per user, not a precise figure that fits on every user, but nevertheless I have seen no evidence to suggest that it would be inaccurate so far. Maybe you can find some?
It’s not even opening.
Dupe of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38393711
This is a google webcache link - because there is zero chance the original site will stand up - but it contains PDFs of BBC Basic books from the '80s which have entered public domain.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4YHOl0l...
Do you have an expectation of privacy in public?
Tiny bit of discussion at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38413131
Is that an EU-issued specific phenomenon? Even when I travel to the EU and use Amex (or Apple Card or a number of others) this doesn’t happen. Think it falls under the “no foreign transaction fees” feature set.

The only remaining “gotcha” that I run in to is sometimes a shop will try and get you to pay for something at the point of sale in USD instead of the local currency since they can (within reason but exorbitant) set the exchange rate. Tip- pay in local currency.
Insider stock lockups expire typically 6-12 months after the IPO, which in Unity's case was in September 2020.

So in fact the peak of Unity's stock was perfectly timed to allow insiders to sell their shares at those inflated prices.

I know personally someone who made closer to $10 million on Unity stock. If the IPO had been two years later, the stock would have been worth only a few million. (Or perhaps more likely not liquid at all, since Unity is the kind of company that would have no chance of an IPO in the current environment.) That's a life-changing difference.
> They are currently also bombing civilian areas, fully aware that they are civilian areas.

They might be "fully aware" that those areas are used by the "enemy" to stockpile materiel and gather personnel. That would make those areas legitimate targets. Can you prove a) there were no military targets there, or b) the attackers were "aware" there were no military targets there? I can't - nobody can. That's why when you allow a war to happen, we've all lost already. Everything after that is just choosing sides and framing events to align with your expectations/convictions. I don't like that because it distracts from the fundamental problem: that war and killing are just wrong, no matter who does it and how.
Sure, I recognize "some" people may be OK with no windows. How many is that? Lacking empirical data at hand, let's just look around. How many windowless bedrooms have you seen? I don't think I'm extrapolating from too few data points when I suggest the answer is, statistically, zero.

It's not just a couple of rooms, it's thousands (iirc).

The overweighting is out of all proportion and doesn't reflect common experience. Further, students tend to lack money and choices. Here is a choice between bad or worse. Even I would choose a windowless cell over sleeping rough. I would choose to eat bugs over starving. Must it come to this on a university campus?
This has nothing to do with the conversation topic, but I'm curious where you picked up the word "lucubration"? I know there are a vast number of words I've never encountered, but this one was... interesting.
In a post-scarcity society? Sure. Gotta achieve one first though.
I dont know what you mean by aligned right (if it aligned left it would have to know how much you intended to transfer before you started), but wells fargo web (and I think app) uses this, and I prefer it for making small payments. They know you're going to type the decimal anyway, so they save you a step. I get mildly annoyed that other banking sites make me type it. If I'm paying $83.21 I still have to type 4 digits, why not save me the step?
What a shame! There's some info on the Wikipedia page[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundcube#Project_.22Roundcube...
I've had very good luck with Seafile
What a joke

I was there when the acquisition happened and it was both “yay” and “what?”

There was so little communication with the overall staff - even at the M9 level - and the management seemed to be doing their own thing.

My prediction: Unity is going to be BedBath&Beyonded
27 states require no background check.

Several others (PA for example) split on type of fire-arm (long-guns = no check, handguns = check required, or similar).

Several others put the onus of coordinating through an FFL on the seller, the buyer just has to show up (though that does end up requiring a background check).

So, I'll stand by "most" (though it's admittedly fewer states than I thought - I would have guessed ~35 had no limits).
Or, that in 2023, there are still people who have convinced themselves they're not influenced by race and gender.
https://graphmetrix.com/trinpod
Why would they:

1. Name their company after a common fruit

2. That common fruit being already word that was used as a company name when they were launched (by none other than the Beatles)

3. Then after they lost a lawsuit, settle with said company based on an agreement that they wouldn't enter that company's field

4. Then a bunch of years later enter that company's field anyway

Long story short: because they can ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So basically NOT conforming to the CURRENT_THING at all. Yet still we don't blame them for such blatant lies... maybe because we actually think it's the right way to do things in life - lie and cheat the rules we don't agree with? I know one can even get elected president like this, but it's definitely not what I'd call "role model" behaviour, to put it mildly.
An administrative fine to a company because of GDPR violations allows the data subject to use the ruling as a basis for damages in a civil case. Further, emotional damages are allowed, also. And CJEU has reaffirmed there's no "minimum threshold" for damages. A user could claim 1 euro of damages. And there's momentum to make class action-esque "collective redress" a reality, which would be a mechanism with all the pros with class action in U.S., but with much less cons. Imagine 400 million users claiming 100 euros in damages. That's some change to spare for the company.
My memory is a bit hazy, but wasn't roundcube got its popularity because it has more features than squirrelmail? Back then when you need a webmail client, it's either squirrelmail or roundcube. There might be others but I didn't pay any attention to this space back then.
The old product is ok yes. The company is awful, with their roundcube next scam though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
> I was hoping by now we would have solved the problem of a decentralized repository of user-generated content

IMSLP is monetized but far from terrible. The problem with sites like UG and MS is that they're essentially hosting bootleg content, which is only okay for as long as you can fly under the radar. IMSLP is the wholly above-board approach.
Ok so do you just wear these around in public? Do you think people will see the pretty obvious lenses and be confrontational? That's the only thing stopping me... I love tech like this but I'm not trying to get bitched at in public when people think I'm filming them or their kids or something like that, you know?
This discussion will center solely on productivity so long as the expectation by investors in publicly traded companies is for irrational, infinite, quarter over quarter growth.

A company would happily trade everything else for that.
> You could just opt out by using another platform – or better yet, self-host your own instance of Nextcloud, Mastodon, or similar. It's not like you are out of options.

I can't believe people still argue this... Cutting off facebook today means that I cut myself off from my families message group, a way to message my grandma (I live abroad) and lose access to pretty much all shops where you have to book online. I've lived in places before where literally everything from finding apartments to events to buying second hand was done through facebook.

Once we have an interoperable standard then we can talk. Right now Facebook has complete domination and you severly hinder yourself in some places by not using it.
Some might argue that Apple's usage of it makes more sense. M-series for Macs and they are just incrementing numerically.

Meanwhile Arm Cortex is semi-random, sometimes incrementing (M0,M1) sometimes with a "+" designation (M0+) and then just seemingly random jumps up to non-sequential double digits (M23,M35,M52 with or without a P designation. Its like "come on guys, make your mind up".
Some of the stories that Colwell shares are eye opening. BC in this part of the transcript stands for Bob Colwell,

1:15:56 BC: Yeah. So I've got these notebooks all the way back to the seventies. That's just how I organize my head and I can find things that I want.

I have lots of pictures from my battles with this problem at Multiflow tracking this down: it has got to be this chip, it is not my design, it has got to be the chip. Eventually, Rich Lethin and I made a pilgrimage down to TI in Richardson, Texas and we said as best as well can tell many of your chips don't work properly. And does this come as a surprise to you?"

I half expected them to say, "what you are out of your mind! You've done something wrong. Come on, you don't know what you’re doing. Go use somebody else’s chips."

But no, they said "Yeah we know, let me see your list." And they looked at the list and said "here is some more that you don't know about."
[laughter]

1:16:39 BC: And we went "Thank you very much. This is what we needed." At lunch I asked them "how did this happen?" and by the way it wasn't just TI. Their parts were no worse than anyone else. Motorola's were no good, Fairchild's were no good, they all had this problem.

And so I asked TI, "how did the entire industry fall on its face at the same time? We are killing ourselves trying to work around the shortcomings in your silicon."

And the guy said, "the first generation of TTL was done by the old gray beard guys that really know what they are doing. The new generation was done by kids who are straight out of school who didn't know to ask what the change in packaging would do to inductive spikes."

He pointed out that what had happened was we had gone from 14 pin DIPs, which are small, to 24 pin DIPs which are really long and he said the dies right in the middle of that package and the power and ground have long leads, from the package out to the corner pins. Now if that had used middle pins they would have been short. But at the corners they got really long and therefore power/ground current inductance got really bad.

I said "that is just wonderful because we picked TTL specifically to try to avoid any such problems with the implementation technology." We said to ourselves, Multiflow machines are going to be such a risk at an architectural level and should pay off so well that we can back off the aggressiveness of the silicon technology, we will make up with it for the compiler. We will take no risks here.

Instead we signed up for this TTL family, and inadvertently just shot ourselves in the foot with it. It took us about a year to work around all the different ways in which it was failing. It was incredible. You learn a lot that way.
You could also back up to something like AWS Glacier. The cheapest tier (access less than once a year) is $1/TB/month. Maybe if you kept thumbnails locally, you could push all the data up and only pull it as and when you needed it.
I've been reading your comments here, and am really interested in hearing more about your story, especially your place of work. Where can I learn more? Your perspective is so interesting.

edit: I see your blog post linked below by someone else. I'll read that!
> One of the sneakily genius things Apple seems to be doing is, it goes to developers of some of the most "popular" apps and works with them to make their apps work well.

What exactly is the problem? Microsoft, Sun etc did the same. Microsoft has a library of software and put in “fixes” so old code that used undefined behavior would continue to run as the os was upgraded.
The root cause is AMD's bad support for rep movsb (which is a hardware problem). However, python by default has a small offset when reading memories while lower level language (rust and c) does not, which is why python seems to perform better than c/rust. It "accidentally" avoided the hardware problem.
The best suggestion I've seen on this is to set up an e-mail address for the house and to then use it for signing up for registering appliances and so forth.
Boredom is a common motivation for action.

Action is required to overcome depression, even if its just action to seek help.

Easy access to anything that can alleviate bordom (including TV) is going to increase the chances that someone is stuck in depression.