skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if there's a way to prevent the growth at all costs that is demanded by the financial markets.

Growth and private investment are part and parcel.
not every academic knows how to use a terminal, or computers more broadly.

a Seafile seems much more appropriate.
Something vaguely Timecube.com[1] about the presentation style.

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20160112000701/http://www.timecu...
Japanese isn't compact. It generally uses fewer characters to convey the same meaning (unless the sentence is full of loanwords from English), however the problem is that the characters are usually written significantly larger than Latin characters, simply because they're so much more complex, so the amount of actual space on the page comes out roughly the same.
This is great, it even has a configurator:

https://www.loadership.com/loaders/dot_circular_scale

Thanks for sharing!
For some reason steam is really just better than anything else combined. Maybe except gog as it's drm free
No. But I wish government agencies depend less on other entities. A government agency isn't in a business to make money. They should be concerned less with economic efficacy and more with accomplishing their goals.

They have a fiduciary duty towards the citizens.
I was surprised and confused about this, specially because I take certain care on the screenshots I paste on technical docs everyday, using PNG and a quantizer to reduce color depth.

But on second read I think we're making a mistake because we work on a different domain. I think the article exclusively refers to images produced I'm the workflow of video/CGI/3D rendering and generation for the motion films/multimedia industry. And there it can probably make sense to use a format like that, same as when I use a DNG or similar for storage of my photos.

I think when he said "screen-grab" he wasn't referring to an screenshot of a computer app or desktop, but to a frame of a video or something similar.
> Has software quality really gotten worse? I would say, yes, over the last 10-15 years definitely.

By what metric?

Taking all your above examples, I (and many others) could argue that the move to web brought new techniques that overall improved software for developers and users. That's not to say I'm right, or you are, but to point out that everything you put forward is purely subjective.

What has objectively gotten worse in the past 10 years?
Also the latter is the bane of lazy languages, which make space leaks both commonplace and extremely difficult to notice.
It's honestly confusing but to be fair to Microsoft:

> all institutions’ tenants will receive 100TB of free pooled storage across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, with an additional 50GB or 100GB of pooled storage per paid user for A3 and A5 subscriptions, respectively

This is a bad change, period (plus the justification given is basically stepping on a gaping wound), but there are storage guarantees much greater than what McGill's are doing.
The apps need to be enabled to run on other xOS devices, an iPad can run iOS apps but the developer need to enable the flag.

In this instance it would be the same, visionOS can run iPadOS but the devs won't enable the flag.

If Apple strong arm them to run without a flag it can get pretty messy for Apple since they would be taken over control of what the app developers allow or not with their own apps.
I never understood leaf blowers. They just move the leaves but the wind will blow them back. I had a Toro brand corded electric blower that could be reversed to suck and chop the leaves into a bag, that could then be emptied into the compost bin. Much more effective solution.
That's a valid criticism. The only thing that usb-c got right as a standard was the symmetrical shape.
> At the end of the day, developers need to finance their projects. No other toolchain out there [1] is going to give you the flexibility, development speed, and freedom to develop beautiful looking desktop apps using the muscle memory you trained while writing webpages.

Why do you restrict yourself to only knowing how to write webpages?

> Of course, you can write the same application in Qt, GLFW, whatever, but I don't think anyone will disagree that it's much slower to build and prototype responsive UIs with these tools.

Maybe because you don't have the "muscle memory" to write Qt?

But since you mentioned Qt, one of the greatest hits to developing cross platform applications was the Nokia/Microsoft disaster.

Nokia bought Qt from Trolltech and made it LGPL, because their plan was to make money from the hardware not the software. Then they died, for reasons that have been commented on endlessly.

From the ashes of Nokia rose Digia or whatever it's called this week, a company that maintains Qt badly and thinks it's a good idea to threaten developers that download their LGPL product.

RIP Qt, RIP cross platform development.
Designing a debugger like SoftICE is unnecessary now: modern processors support virtualization, which means you can run the entire OS inside a VM and debug it from your hypervisor.
Alex Horne was awarded an honorary doctorate. The Taskmaster game being tweaked as an outreach to children to think about thinking.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=n5KojJeqqt4
> is trained at same level as everybody else in 1st minute.

At some unspecified point in the future, at least decades away, if ever.
I agree, LGPL is totally fine.

But I also believe that most devs are not comfortable with linking/packaging/dependency management, and therefore don't really know how to handle LGPL (or to say it in a more politically correct manner: "don't have time to handle it properly"). Which is obviously a pity.
I wish loaders would provide some feedback on what is going on.

So often, I look at a loader and think "How long will it take? Is it actually still doing something? Or should I try to reload the page?".

Also, I often wonder why developers put tools like this on an extra domain instead of just putting it on a page or subdomain on their personal domain. Is there a reason for this that I am missing?
Just like mobile phones had in '90s.
CERN is one of the few institutions in the world to keep using Hadoop clusters, I wonder how it feels like!
No, they're just enforcing that everyone must have an account to use the Hue app. But big parts of the whole Hue ecosystem depend on local access, so it's out of the question that they'd remove it.
There are several very compelling arguments against shared libraries.

You could (theoretically, I think) link Mesa statically.
> It's not a matter of identity, but explanatory power. To reiterate, the self-acknowledgement/'diagnosis' as autistic (not ASD) is 'useful from a self-compassion and tolerance standpoint'. So instead of, why do I find X difficult when everyone else finds it easy (or even laughs/condescends/points it out), I can say, I'm autistic, that's not easy for me.

I have no problem saying I have autistic traits, as do both my children. I find some things easier than the average person and other things harder, and no doubt my autistic traits have something to do with both. But I'd much rather say "I have autistic traits" rather than "I am autistic". Traits have far greater reality – and scientific validity – than diagnoses.

Autistic traits are also very common in people with something other than autism – in fact, most psychiatric disorders, a significant subset of those diagnosed with them display heightened (even if subclinical) autistic traits. Identifying with a diagnosis rather than traits encourages ignorance of that reality.
If you hace any problem with facebook app Then talk to real person on facebook representative.
Some things are enjoyable in themselves, without needing a “so that”.
That's true, but the overall trend is clear. Wine is pretty good these days. For old windows software it is sometimes better than the latest windows versions.
ok, you go killing your cousins in space then, i would prefer the earth to be a no-murder zone
I swear if this is chromium based I’m gonna hit my desk.

Update: It’s unclear, anyone know how to find out? Haven’t hit my desk yet.
Nice Ad post, there are A LOT of free resources to learn math on the web, why go through $49/month ?
People are citing Khan Academy which I warmly recommend, there are a lot of good Math teachers teaching math on YouTube,

and there is also OpenStax.org [1] which releases free public books on different subjects including... you guessed it... math !

Go check it out ! But maybe for some people, spending money is a necessity because it motivates them to finish the courses. It happens.

[1] - https://openstax.org/subjects/math
Honestly I've lived in countries (Korea) that have recycling programs that are a kafkaesque nightmare where you literally have to peel the plastic off a tissue box to recycle both the plastic and the paper, and if you don't, you have neighbors who dig through your trash to snitch on you, pushing a fat fine down your throat. That, I cannot tolerate.

I'm a big fan of tackling the low hanging fruit of recycling and waste reduction, and not including a charger is definitely up there.
> Nordic languages (Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish)

Do you have a citation for that? I know some Swedish and often need to read documents in it and I don't get the impression that it's any more compact than English.
This just straight up doesn't make sense to me—states aren't monolithic entities or rational actors. I think it's easier to say that the modern state exists at the behest of capital, at least in the west.
On the Microsoft page[1] about this change they say

> Storage of this “dark” data takes up space on servers and results in increased electricity consumption, generating 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 alone.

Where "dark" data is data that is unused. However they link to this World Economic Forum Page [2] which says

> In 2020, digitisation was purported to generate 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

So the 4% figure is not the storage of only dark data, but the storage of ALL data. The WEF page says that half of all data is unused, but how much of the energy usage is due to the unused data? I would think the bulk of the energy would be used when the data is accessed, and data sitting on a drive not being accessed isn't really using any energy.

This is really misleading.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/microsoft...

[2] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/10/dark-data-is-killing-...
Yeah, the PornHub one is clearly a bunch of jokes, it is funny, but no way it's real
I think only some of their ToS are conditioned on competing, where I (not a lawyer) would seek advice first is:

"""For example, you may not:

…

• Attempt to or assist anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems (except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law).
"""

May be fine, IDK, I'm not a lawyer.

I may also be looking at the wrong ToS entirely: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use
Sacrifices? Who wanted a different charger that only works on their phone?

I like having one connector for everything.
It really depends on the distro. But of course there is the same risk as ElectronJS: getting a huge Ubuntu distro that ships with everything is faster than building up from a lean distro.

Not better, just faster.
Maybe you should consider working for publicly listed companies then, there is no mechanism where they can limit how much equity you own.

The one customer owned cooperative I have worked for did limit equity to one share per shareholder, in addition to being the most pathologically corporate and political company I have ever worked for or known off. Maybe worker owned cooperatives work better.
Super-fast deduplication of large datasets using Splink and DuckDB
I don't like large corps dumping and killing all competition but MS seems to be giving 100TB pooled + per paid user + option to buy more. So not a bad deal.
"Microsoft did no such thing" was about this post's headline, that Microsoft limited the students' storage. It did not. I changed the wording because "no such" is too strong since they did adjust pricing model 'plans', and they did give some (stupid) talking points McGill copy-pasted.

Not sure what 'thread' you mean. If you mean Twitter, you are correct, I did not 'actually read the [Twitter] thread', I went to source at McGill and linked that here, then further linked to Microsoft policy update after using Kagi to find the Microsoft propoganda regurgitated by McGill:

https://kagi.com/search?q=Microsoft%20is%20introducing%20cha....

To be clear, Microsoft is not making McGill limit student storage:

"Every institution’s tenant has a 100TB base storage capacity. Microsoft 365 and Office 365 A3 and A5 paid user licenses add 50GB or 100GB respectively to the pool of storage. In addition, institutions can purchase additional pooled storage in 10TB increments for $300 estimated retail USD monthly to add to the tenant pool. To find your capacity, use this calculation: 100TB + (#A3 paid users x 50GB) + (#A5 paid users x 100 GB) + (additional storage purchased) = capacity/limit."

McGill is making a choice, there is a reasonable price to maintain whatever pool McGill want, and Microsoft's argument for matching Google academic threshold drop was posted 6 months ago, no scramble needed.
My gardener has been creating a leaf bank in our yard, where they don’t remove all the leaves and instead let them build up in select areas. It’s amazing the difference in wildlife, we’ve seen a continuous stream of critters that we never saw when everything was blown clean. I quite like the aesthetic as well.
Possibly a new equilibrium, but it would probably be a similar set of rules also written in blood. The tricky thing about just another extra rule, is that usually it's not a big disadvantage. But at some point, there will be just too many rules which can slow things down and cause more failures.

It would be interesting to see examples of procedures having been simplified for this reason.
I am confused by your comment.
Data Fetching in Vue
I was excited in June about Vision Pro now after buying the latest meta Ray bans, wearing them pretty frequently and enjoying them I'm perplexed why Apple didn't go in the same direction? That crazy heavy looking expensive storm trooper looking helmet (vision pro) is where they chose to start in the AR space ..weird?!
Louis Rossman: Haier Attacks Home Assistant, Destroys Open Source Project[video]
This information is very helpful for solve the problem.
> America was destroyed, even if only spiritually.

This is my point. If a constrained surveillance apparatus could have stopped 9/11, we could have prevented all the negative consequences of 9/11, including the growth of the surveillance apparatus itself.

The system that you are advocating for (pre-9/11 lack of surveillance) led to the event (9/11) that destroyed what it is you're advocating for.

This is a flaw I see in the libertarian worldview. There's an under-appreciation of unpredictable spillover consequences. In my view, sometimes rights and freedoms need to be violated in order to protect those rights and freedoms. It's not that I want violations of freedoms, it's that I see it as a pragmatic necessary evil sometimes.

Let's think through the causality step by step. When a terrorist attack happens, people are shocked and angry. Clear-thinkers like yourself have no input into the decision making during this time because you're a small political minority. Nationalism and security paranoia dominate decision making. Then we get the Iraq War and all the other stuff.

This is a funny discussion because you're probably a libertarian and I also consider myself a (left-)libertarian (or at least strong anti-authoritarian). But I'm one of those "paradox of tolerance" guys who wants to protect liberal democracy from some of the failure modes that emerge from the complex social system that democracy is embedded in. That means: keeping inflation low, ensuring housing costs are reasonable, eliminating sectarian violence (terrorism and hate crimes), keeping institutions robust and low corruption, quality public education, making sure people feel physically safe and socially respected, racial equality/harmony (equality of opportunity and no racism).
If you're raking your yard, a rake isn't so bad. If you're running a service, you can move much faster with a leaf blower.
Microsoft most valuable company,infographic details diverse portfolio
Can LibreWolf sync across devices like Firefox?
They could make the theme for bing and other microsoft websites dark instead of white, literally just a change of color, if they wanted to reduce screen power usage globally - so many "no impact" changes with software that this has to be a fake justification.
Not at all for universities I would say, at least in EU, but maybe here there is just more care in general put into privacy issues and where the data is stored.

But in general it is a trend that IT services are outsourced and that IT departments, and in general administration, in many universities suffer cuts, which is really bad. Apart from the problems this causes, imo this also pauses a security risk as if people's needs are not well covered by services provided, people will find their own solutions without knowledge or consideration to security.
I don't see how that's related at all. Apple chargers were always just dumb USB-A bricks, they didn't care what device you were charging with them or what kind of port it had. I don't remember when was the last time any phone came with a charger with an integrated cable instead of just USB-A/C output.
Massive Entertainment? Who made the Snowdrop engine and The Division?
“Every territory we pull out from, we get terror, terrible terror against us. It happened in southern Lebanon, it happened in the Gaza Strip, and it happened in [the West Bank] when we did it, in parts.”

I'm in support for Israel here. It's a weird situation. If i show my support for Ukraine, i wouldn't fear for my life but if i would do this for Israel this would get
very dangerous on the streets. And i'm living in central europe.
I don't think the title is correct. IMAP/SMTP will still be supported with App Passwords. That's my reading of it.
I don’t mind two step authentication using TOTP but as soon as you sign in to an android device with a google account, google decides to use that device for two step authentication and there’s no way to stop that short of signing out of google on the device.

But also how do app specific passwords protect you if you have malicious software on your computer rifling through your files?
> it doesn't strip EXIF.

Which is not a security issue per se, is it? If the goal of the project is to self-host it and share it with family, then keeping the EXIF may be a feature.
Not much use wanting to have a stand-alone place if you can't afford it.
That's fair. Milwaukee has some high end 18v polesaws that work extremely well, for example, but of course trade power for battery life, which can be equally frustrating.

I was just thinking of someone trying to cut their lawn, looking to buy a mower and weedeater. You definitely want something in a series, or something probably 60/80v.

Ego is pretty universally seen as 'the best.' There's a reason they don't make 18v tools.
Ford Abandons Effort to Patent Self-Repossessing Cars, at Least for Now
Yep, for some reason only poor indie gaming companies do that.

It's unrealistic to expect companies the size of Microsoft to take a break from putting spyware in your operating system and, for example, revert the piece of shit Skype has become back into a native app.
That we know of, at least.
Some types of pufferfish are known to build complex circular nests to attract mates and protect their eggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOGvVn7IWVY

And a lovely song about it: https://moulettes.bandcamp.com/track/pufferfish-love
My son was born with TEF/EA (TOF/OA in the UK) and needed a 4 hour surgery when he was 2 days old. The days before the surgery and the following month while he was incubated were agonising in ways I can’t even describe.

Even though my story isn’t nowhere near your situation, I can vaguely relate. To the pain you feel, but also to the strength you seem to have found, to look for the positives because, deep down, you know that being positive and embracing the situation is the best you can do for your son.

I’m sending all my love to you, your son and your family.
Oh my god, not from sony, at least!

That company had tremendous hardware but the serious affliction of being grotesquely obsessed with proprietary everything. I have nightmares trying to sort through my old boxes of cables.
It doesn't matter what he thought was in the database or what it was for. He knew it was hosted and provided by a third party for use with that third party's software which his client was using.

His crime wasn't accessing the data. His crime was accessing the data in a way he had not been authorized to do. As far as he was concerned, the investigation should have stopped at "there are hardcoded plaintext credentials here". But not only did he then also try if those credentials were correct, he also used those credentials to go spelunking. That's trespass even if he had reason to believe there were no other customers' data on that server.
I am going to be buying these by the truckload on ebay three years from now.

The current generation of GPUs is definitely going to have a long usable lifetime. Manufacturers finally have HBM totally figured out and yielding/aging well. Today's GPUs are the analog of the 28nm logic node -- it was the sweet spot for an absurdly long time.

There will be something faster/lower-power 2-3 years from now that will cause the BigCos to cycle their fleet, but it won't be anywhere near the VRAM/MemBandwidth boost we have today compared to 2-3 years ago. Their data centers are power-constrained, so they'll upgrade regardless, and the rest of us will feast on the windfall.

Don't ninja-bid on my auctions.
How would that help in the slightest though? Majority of monitors worldwide are just normal TN/IPS/VA panels, for them the colour of the pixels makes absolutely no difference in power consumption. While OLED monitors exist, they are pretty much a niche within a niche.
> More lines of code don't necessarily correlate to less secure

but usually it does
And there are several very compelling arguments in favour of shared libraries in sane system packages :-).
Same Microsoft that's forcing roughly 250 million perfectly fine PCs to be replaced due to new Windows 11 "requirements" and Windows 10 EOL.
No this is about getting users off fucking Outlook 2007 or worse.
having worked in two countries and several companies in my relatively short career, i personally find that fully remote work has a lot of limitations.

even when hybrid work is implemented, you require a strong communication culture. this is not a given for all companies, however. when you sit with your team across the desk, simple things like asking about a small detail takes orders of magnitude less time and effort than the digital alternative.

regardless of your opinions on taking breaks with your colleagues, i found off-work conversations happen much less often when everyone is doing remote. i am not arguing that everyone hates their coworkers (or maybe mine hated me and only stood to talk to me when in person), but despite post-pandemic era, this pattern still seems to hold up.

i would love to hear how others have done things differently in this context. the point remains that there are some things that need to be in place before you could fully make the most of remote-only teams.