skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you just ignore the new Journal app, does it do anything worth caring about?

If Apple had added FreeCell, Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Tetris "classic games" apps to iOS 17.2.1, would you have been bothered?

Apple has been a for-profit corporation for a bit under 50 years now. My assumption is that they've always had "capitalist ethics". But years ago, when Apple was a relatively small player in the market, it was much easier for most people to sweep their misbehavior under a "always side with the scrappy underdog" rug.
there are millions and millions of people still living in rural villages. how dare they want electricity? they should be sacrificing their already meager quality of life to fix problems that Westerners are disproportionately responsible for, and subsidize profligate Western consumption.
I've been following this for a long while now, as I frequent one of the forums that this person is also active on.

Even if the sentence is overturned by a higher instance, the confiscation of all devices for months and the additional legal trouble have made pretty sure that this person will not make the same "mistake" again.

The company's public statements during the whole affair were another story entirely. For these alone they'd deserve the next guy to just sell the credentials on a forum and have them blow up.
Netflix is missing a big opportunity by not supporting all 200 Vision Pro users.

The Vision Pro REEKS of Post-Jobs. It’s too tech savvy to be a consumer Apple product.

Part of the magic of Apples brand is they’ve never really been one to jump the bandwagon. This feels more like a Microsoft product, like that table surface thing from 15 years ago.
Norway is a beautiful modern liberal democracy, Saudi Arabia is a theocratic desert dictatorship hellhole.
One of our customers bought a special switch with huge buffers, on the order of hundreds of megabytes per port.

It was a specialised SKU used only for dedicated backup networks. As in, networks that process only the traffic for disaster recovery backups. Latency on that type of network traffic is totally irrelevant, and the only thing that matters is achieving the maximum possible throughput — whatever the wire protocol allows.

That’s the one time I’ve seen exactly 10 Gbps sustained.
Good points - social communities have less of an autopilot component than b2b SaaS.
Bummer that they weren't able to make it work.
Who cares about weather or factories? The missing big ingredient is predicting humans a bit better than another human can. This would unlock a humongous multiplier. All the rest seems peanuts, really.

Re: synthesis, I wasn't aware of such distinction at all, it looks more like a misunderstanding.
Exactly. Maybe he could just be exploring an API.

It isn't hidden, maybe this is how I'm supposed to get data.
Testing/Validation and bugfixing. Just having Vulkan isn't enough to enable it by default, everything actually has to work right. Even for Android this is only for specific types of devices. You should be able to force enable it on Linux right now though. It's just not GA quality guaranteed.
I'm not sure why this post focuses so much on the angel investment. There are probably 10 reasons why Ello failed, starting with the fact that bootstrapping social network userbases is hard, and ending with users won't pay for social networks. None of these are directly related to the fact they built the site with investor money and not volunteer hours.
> I never said Apple is the only platform users trust, but that there is value in the trust that the platform brings.

Value is relative. Oxygen is extremely valuable if you don't have any, but it's also commonly available.

If Epic had an iOS app store that charged 10% instead of 30% and a reputation among users for not allowing malware, who is going to pay Apple 30%? It doesn't matter how good Apple is in absolute, it matters how good they are relative to the alternatives. Which makes prohibiting the alternatives a means to extract undue rents.

> Beyond that, there would be value in it being the platform that comes preinstalled, even if side loading was a thing.

But this is just the evil to be prevented.

> The brand damage comes from the sum of incompetence of all users (not just the diligent ones) multiplied by the capability to do damage.

The assumption here is that it's legitimate to blame the brand for your own actions, which is absurd. If your self-driving car drives itself into the sea, you can reasonably blame the manufacturer. If you get drunk and drive your car off a pier your own self, this is not the fault of the Ford Motor Company and any attempt to divert blame will be rightfully met with skepticism and ridicule.

Now, you can have a poor design and get blamed for that. For example, the way software is installed on Windows is much worse than the way it is on Linux.

On Windows the default is to run random opaque binaries from arbitrary websites. Windows is full of malware, and it's not just because it's "more popular" or whatever.

On Linux the default is to install software from the system package manager, which contains vetted packages. But you're not in any way limited to one of them. If you want Firefox nightly builds, Mozilla has their own repository. You can install the Nix package manager from the Debian package manager.

You can also download source code from github and compile and run it yourself, which can be dangerous, but that's quite technical and unusual for unsophisticated users to do, and is different from the usual way they install anything which makes them rightfully wary. And this combination works great because you can simultaneously do whatever you want and yet be confident that if you're only doing things in the default way, someone has vetted these things and it's highly unlikely to be malware.

> Plus, if you made it a hassle, the anti-competitive argument you raised with Google rears its head.

We can distinguish between making it a hassle to install random malware and making it a hassle to install a competing store from an established organization the user could plausibly trust to do the vetting for them instead of Apple.
From Andrew Gelman: "Any sufficiently crappy research is indistinguishable from fraud" https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2016/06/20/clarkes-la...
Here is a twitter comment from Nov...
https://nitter.net/odrotbohm/status/1730356168755703945?t=xG...

Make of it what you will...
Yes sorry you're right, I don't know what I was looking at. Members of that group are 13-25.
> I'm not saying you're really facing any legal liability

Why would I?

> but the strategy you're proposing here

I am re-framing the words of others. Didn't propose anything.

> involves defrauding your investors.

I don't have any investors.
I just had one like this from a well known company over Christmas. I had made it to the first interview and it went exceptionally well. I received a follow up the next day that they were excited to continue and the hiring manager would reach out soon to schedule the next round of interviews.

Unfortunately a day later I got a notice from them that the role I was interviewing for was being closed down. They encouraged me to look for other roles I was interested in and we could continue from there. I sent two, and then right after new years was informed they were freezing all hiring until mid January when they finalized their new head count. Then they were among the number of companies announcing new layoffs in the last couple weeks.

Talk about disappointed but still being appreciative. I'm still excited about maybe getting on with the company one day simply because they treated the hiring process with a lot of respect and didn't waste my time. It wasn't a me thing, but just bad news coming down from higher up internally.
The Value of Open Source Software
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I remember a joke (or conspiracy theory) from the 90’s that the US Postal Service wanted to charge people per email.
I mean, yeah. Of course it is.
It was Oslo Tingrett, This is the lowest level ordinary court (there are 23 of them), above is the Lagmannsrett (6 of them) with handles appeals from the Tingrett. Above the Lagmannsrett is the Høyesterett (High Court) which again handles appeals from lower courts. As far as I know cases cannot be brought directly in the high court but must progress through the lower courts first.

Both tingrett and lagmannsrett are district courts in the sense that the cover specific geographical areas (kretser, circuits).

https://www.domstol.no/no/om-rettssystemet/de-alminnelige-do...
> Should not be lethal.*

oh gosh I didn't notice that

> I really love this one about how cyclists are effectively geofenced

thanks! I'm in a much more bike friendly city now. although that may change again soon ..
A browser extension sounds like a potential solution here.
'Civilizations rise and fall' a community prepping for the downfall of America
I am also going to highly recommend Scratch[1]. That is what got me into a programming around that age. You can even help him make a website to host his games on.

[1]: https://scratch.mit.edu/
Yeah that's not. Notice how the one below it is also a joke, the "banana stand" one. The others read as legitimate.
What a poor take that projects your own biases onto the situation.

Every layoff should be recorded and she broke no laws.
You've pointed to 'many' countries and also to laws stopping this. Now you've evaluated likelihood. Since you were able to drive a likelihood calculus, what specific laws were you calculating against?
I guess the moral of the story is, if you find hardcoded credentials, immediately inform whoever is in charge without actually using the credentials.

Or can that still get you sued?
SHA2 is fine. The "reputable" RNG comes with your OS; just use getrandom.
The problem is we have Notes app why is Journal needed?
As someone who worked my tail off for my PhD dissertation for years, the notion that someone just copied and pasted random sections of random works irks me.
Down voted, hmm... I'll add bit more then. Sometimes it's even good that model cannot be easily reproduced. Original developers usually have some skills and responsibility. While 'hackers' don't. It's easy to introduce bias into the data , like removing selected criminal records, and then publish model with similar name. That would be confusing, some may mistake fake one for the real.

PS: If I ever make my models open I can't open the data anyway. License on images directly prohibits publishing them.
So weird that I started reading C. S. Lewis’ “a grief observed” yesterday and today this popped up on hn. Your comment and OP’s thread made me go from a lurker to registering an account.

I was 2.5 years old when my brother was born with complications, brain damage being one of them. Could breathe by himself, but fed through a tube and couldn’t move. 3 months later he died.

Not sure what the total impact from this event has been, but I am affected by this event even today, decades later. It’s weird how something can impact a little child that much, but the loss was/is real. Especially with kids that I played with that had siblings (at that time when I was back to zero). Not unfazed, but not mentally crippled either. My parents didn’t, unfortunately(?), take me to any counselors or so, it wasn’t even recommended by any in the medical support apparatus.

I am often reminded that “God gives and he takes” (especially Job’s book), that might be the most pragmatic approach I’ve come up with over the years. And I still miss him when the wound opens once in a while, but at least he didn’t have to suffer.

I haven’t finished the books yet, but C. S. Lewis has at least two on this topic: “a grief observed” and “the problem of pain”, the latter written before losing his wife to cancer.

I hope you and your family can come through this trying time with your hope and faith intact.
If it's true that modifying my plaintext before putting it through a standard encryption algorithm might affect the security, then it might also be possible that sending, say, an HTML payload is more secure than sending a JSON payload. That would be weird.

Can existing encryption algorithms encrypt any payload or can't they? It would be odd if we're worrying about timing attacks, etc, when we can't even securely encrypt any possible plaintext first.
>As a kid you are shielded from stuff, and it catches people so... unprepared.

Yeah, I still remember my dad going in to the hospital one weekend for what he thought was heartburn, but mom made him go anyway... he didn't come home for 2 weeks after being admitted and receiving triple bypass cardiac surgery.

In the dog's case, we thought he ate something bad, he was a little lethargic but otherwise seemed ok, no fever or anything... we almost decided to wait a couple days to see if he got over it before taking him to the vet. Even the vet seemed shocked when she came back in the room to tell us the diagnosis from the ultrasound. We never expected to be deciding whether he'd live or die that day.
Keepass + cloud drive for storage.

Easiest, safest solution, imo. Your very own personal database of passwords for everything. Takes a bit to set up but once your done, you're done.

I believe they even use this at nasa/jpl.
You serve the whole fish, it's not that uncommon in some cuisines. I can't imagine why you'd want raw fish skin and cooked meat though (there has to be some heat gradient due to the ice touching the outside of the fish)
"Am I out of touch? No, it's the >20 million buyers who are wrong"
Can you link to some times this has happened in the past? I searched and found some opinion pieces and quotes, but no evidence yet.
Ah yes, the homogeneous entity of germany born in 1939...

To the bottom you go.
The class of drugs are Bi-specific T-cell engagers from what I understand. I have a relative going through treatment and the possibility of these treatments was raised so I have been reading some but I'm not claiming to be an expert. The risk of side effects like the Cytokine storm seems to be similar to CAR-T, but this type of treatment doesn't require the blood harvesting, cell modification, and return for reinfusion. It seems like a better (more generic) way of accomplishing something similar.

In the case of the family member in question it sounds like one of these therapies are an option after CAR-T treatment currently. But it might be a preferable option in the future. I'm not sure if that is related to novelty and lack of data or something else.
> Here's a good article on the problem. Seriously, given how excellent most other qualities of life are in Germany, and how smart/educated Germans are, the Internet situation is jarringly bad (for anyone who visits or emigrates, and isn't used to it).

> I think there's even a bit of pride about it, I hate to say. Germans are pretty proud of their outdoor activities and general physical health, and "device obsession" works directly against that... and is still not as much of a thing there as in the US for example. You could make an argument for it...

Honestly, I am not sure what kind of "device obsession" in other countries vs Germany you are talking about. My impression, as a German, is that many German people value other qualities of technological products than what is valued in other countries.

For example, many German customers value long-lasting, robust products instead of the latest fad that will be out of fashion in a few years. For example, many Germans who are able to afford them would love household appliances built by Miele. Also, because of the German history (two dicatorships on German soil of which one ended little more than 30 years ago), many Germans are much more suspicious of "spying devices" (e.g. internet-enabled home appliances (IoT)) and things that might track you (this is also a reason why many Germans strongly prefer paying cash).

But it is nevertheless my impression that many Germans nevertheless do have quite some love for devices that do fit their values; it's just that the taste is quite different from the taste in other countries.
> nobody did the simple test of waving around a geiger counter to see if it was her or something she had that was hot.

Not to justify the experience, but I don't think the purpose of the test is to explicitly discriminate the difference between a person being hot or an item the person has being hot. The test is often used to identify people who work with nuclear materials, where then you want to determine if they are a nuclear worker, spy, terrorist, or simply a member of the public.

I'll also add that despite being really good at detecting radiation there's really high variance in how people respond to sources. I had a tritium keychain shipped from China a decade ago and it sat in customs for several weeks. The general public does not know the difference between radiation types or even understand levels. I highly doubt they are using sensitive detectors and just using a cheap Geiger Counter (which beta emitters will set off). I very highly doubt they are using neutron detectors.

Interestingly I bought the tritium on Amazon but it no longer seems like you can buy them there. There are several listings that __look__ like they sell them, but here's an illustrative example[0]. Note the last picture specifies the vial is not included. When you search Amazon you will come across a lot of phosphorous and certainly there are many sellers trying to pass this off as tritium. It looks like you can still buy uranium ore though...

[0] https://www.amazon.com/TEC-SCR-Isotope-Chain-Reaction-Aqua/d...

[Note] For those reading, tritium is perfectly safe. Radiation levels are not high enough to pass through skin and even light clothing will block it. A keychain is typically a very small quantity which is contained in a glass vial that is coated with phosphorous (to emit light, like a CRT monitor), and then contained in acrylic. I have personally tested that keychain and even let students use it as an extra credit in a radiation detection lab (they were asking about the safety). There is danger if you consume it or rub it in your eyes or genitals (or other soft body parts), but the amount you'd have for a keychain is very insignificant and poses zero risk. It's worth mentioning that tritium is going to be a gas, so if you break the vial it still will not represent danger unless you break it inside your mouth or right in front of your eyes (still likely low risk) due to the fact that it will quickly disperse (it is lighter than air). Tritium is fucking awesome and I wish production was a bit higher so we could have more access. It is commonly used in watch hands and gun sights but can essentially be used in anything you want to "permanently" glow in the dark. Half life is about 10 years but worth mentioning that you won't get a bright glow, but it will be easily identifiable at night or very low light conditions.
There is also Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager and Azure Stack that might be an alternative for companies that ran Windows on their vSphere environment. I've seen Windows shops already switch to that because the licensing a lot cheaper.

There's also Nutanix, RedHat and other options that people have mentioned here.
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[delayed] shows when a comment isn't being displayed yet because it's still less than N minutes old, where N is the 'delay' setting in the commenter's profile (about which, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).

Does that answer your question?
Congress proposes Section 174 reform and tax credit
Will “all the latest technology” be available? The expertise the US once had in this area is largely gone, and won’t come back immediately. I think there’s real reasons to be concerned that the US will fall behind countries like China in areas like innovation because of this self-inflicted brain drain.
My bet is on "uncommon attention management strategy".
yes, I practice this. however its quite difficult, as most package sites dont surface this information. so I end up comparing the go.sum of god knows how many packages:

https://github.com/3052/google/blob/main/go.sum

of course its a balancing game, because if you can add one import and save 1000 lines of code, it might be worth it. I am probably the outlier though. I would guess most people just find the module with the most stars, and turn off their brain after that, regardless if that module is a bloated piece of crap.
We have been building a platform called Aperture in the open-source trying to solve this very problem.
Our approach is to let the developer decide how long they want to wait in the queue using a timeout parameter. If timeout is hit, they may re-try with exponential backoff or load shed.
While in the queue, requests get prioritized based on a weighted fair queuing algorithm. If there is tiering in the app, there could be a policy that can allocate majority of the capacity to paid vs free customer tiers. But this allocation is not really static, if there is free capacity available in the system then the free customer tier can take all of it. This is just like how CPU time is allocated by Linux based on nice values, even low priority processes are allowed to take up all the CPU time when demand is low.
Apart from relative allocation across user tiers, Aperture's request scheduler can also ensure fairness across individual users within each tier to make sure no single user is hogging up all of the server capacity.

The demand and capacity is determined based on a request rate quota or the maximum number of in-flight requests.

Would love the community here to check us out on GitHub and provide feedback:
https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture
Xen Orchestra is another alternative.

But the issue with this and Proxmox is vsphere is not just the web interface.

Usually a company has Veeam integration for backups, and server creation/decom automations all built on the vmware platforms...
Running a startup AT ALL is extremely stressful and precarious if you're paying anyone a salary. 90% of startups die in flames. Stress and danger are table stakes, I would think.
It's definitely not a myth.

A trivial example is assigning pointers to incompatible types or passing them to incompatible function parameters not being an error. GCC 14 and Clang 16 are only just now making these errors by default. C++ never had this problem.

Another example, is having type safe generic functions and classes. Using void* to pass around arbitrary types is something that you don't need to do in C++ because it supports generic programming.

In C++ you can for example, pass an array of a specific length to a function, and make it a compile time error to pass an array of incorrect length, using std::array. In C arrays decay to pointers.

static_case is also a thing in C++ that allows you to cast between types much more safely.

There are so many things that I could probably spend several hours typing them out and I don't think that is really needed.

C++ is certainly more type safe than C, whether or not you think the tradeoffs it makes are worth is something to debate for sure, but it gives you tools to write type safe code that simply don't exist in C.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Modern_C_porting#What_changed.3...
I’m at a loss with VMware. We’ve been full vdi since 2011 and can’t afford cloud solutions. Citrix is overkill. Love Nutanix, but can’t use AHV due to VMware horizon. We’ve had zero or thin clients for all workstations. It’s been so easy, until now.
That happened to mp3.com as well - it was once a Bandcamp-like site, until it was acquired by CBS Interactive after a disastrous music locker service got it nuked from orbit by the RIAA. It's now, for all practical purposes, a parked domain.

I still have a CD-ROM from them (back then, everybody and his brother published a CD-ROM).
You might want to add a confirmation popup to the report button. I clicked it not knowing what it was and accidentally reported a post.