skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java bytecode is transpiled to Dalvik's own bytecode as a build step. Dalvik itself doesn't run Java bytecode. This is one of the reasons why Oracle sued Google: clearly Google was trying to appropriate Java with some clever IP law dodges with this Dalvik business.
sweet. thank you
Aya Neo Next Lite Handheld Gaming PC Will Run Linux by Default
I don't even use that stuff 99.9999% of the time.

You can literally get by with knowing like 5% of git and be extremely productive with it.

that other stuff does come in extremely handy for troubleshooting or fixing mess ups, but people struggle with just the very basics of git.

what you need to be productive with git can be learned in a morning.
First Gen iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac Mini, iMac (all form factors) they were all amazing and had very few problems.
have you met SAP? :)
Something is not right if that is also true for CS grads as there are more CS grads than ever, unless they are moving into unrelated fields or worse, working part-time at a supermarket. For example, how many more web developers does the world really need especially when we have tools like Wordpress? Or is the industry hiring 10 people for every one person job?
...and in this case provably wrong - there have been (in the USA) just 2 deaths, in all of commercial aviation, since the 737-max was introduced in 2015 - thats 2 deaths in 9 years.

In the 9 years before (2014 back to 2006) that there were ~100 deaths, so 5000% higher deaths in the 9 years before the 737Max was introduced - and even that is very, very low historically.

(and for the record, not claiming the 737Max is directly responsible for those lower deaths, just that in general - and across the board - aviation has never been safer than it is now).
Superior technology is not enough to win. For the most part, people are happy with Google, it integrates well into all that various surfaces folks use, etc. ChatGPT had a lot of hype and seemed the closest to getting mind share to the point where it would affect search usage, but from what I can tell, it's not made a dent. Anecdotes from the bubble of technologists don't really speak to the wider trends anymore.

Things which are mediocre and still dominate their segments include: Toyota cars, Heinz ketchup, GoPro cameras, Microsoft Windows, etc. Brand loyalty, trust, and familiarity simply go further than you think.
Just somewhat surprised because if anyone did a `git pull` they'd get divergent history and therefore a merge on default configuration. It would take a lot of manual work to ruin more than one copy of the repo.
You or I might not on a given day depending on our particular limited purposes, but the greater world around us absolutely does.
Does such an event cause brood cross-breeding, or do broods generally just breed with brood mates?
If anything, every time I have to click through one of those banners I wish that activist organisations/politicians had to pay me for having to go through it.
In an outdoor context one could also harvest another abundant energy source. I think this is actually sort of interesting. A swarm of individual lights could each be pulsed randomly at a very low duty cycle and the effect might still be usable.
Woolly mammoth movements tied to earliest Alaska hunting camps
EU AI Act Proposal
Depends on what the original poster uses his MB Pro for and how much computer power is required. That is why I compared it to an iPad. A M2 is quite a powerful processor on its own. Any "power" user won't use the VP for computing, I guess, but it could well hold its own against an aging MB Pro, as long as the kind of software used it supported at all.

My M2 Air runs circles around my Intel MB Pro I am using for work. So the VP would certainly be faster, but probably not run the software I need. But then, maybe there will be an Emacs optimized for the VP :)
I dunno. I'm in my 40s and I can't even begin to imagine the neck strain you'd have after strapping goggles to your face for 8 hours a day. Even counter-balanced, it's going to be hard on your neck.

We'll probably see chiropractors giving these things out for free to drum up business...
This is especially easy if you can shutdown environments that are only used for dev/staging tasks. With 168 hours in a week - how many hours do those things need to be running?
I run a little tool for Heroku to make it easy to do this kinda thing.
> You can run AAA games on any apple silicon

This is a pretty big oversimplification. Anyone familiar with VR tech and VR gaming knows that experiences that aren't made and instead are modified after the fact to be VR compatible =/= VR experiences. In that sense, I would say the only truly AAA VR game I know of is Half Life Alyx. And it is incredible mind you, but this is a very, very, very exclusive club for games to be in. MAYBE you could count Skyrim VR as it's by far the most polished VR port I've played, with only some jank here and there. But then you have stuff like Fallout 4 VR which, and I say this as someone who put an unethical amount of time into Fallout 4, Fallout 4 VR is just... trash. Just pure garbage. Utterly unplayable. And then there's Doom 2016 VR, which like... you took a run and gun and had to remove the run part to make it so people wouldn't vomit violently after 5 minutes. Is it even the same game?
Toronto man uses AirTags to track stolen SUV to Dubai [video]
No CO2 emissions is not the terminal value of the human race. It is a means, not an ends. The damage of that extra ton of CO2 is not infinite.

If releasing a marginal megaton of CO2 caused climate issues that cost a thousand lives over the next 200 years but we want to release that marginal megaton because it let's us save ten thousand orphans than we should release that CO2.

It might be that in the world we live in the correct CO2 per ton tax that takes into account externalities is literally greater than the price of capturing a ton of CO2, in which case all but niche cases (antique car drivers and space launchers probably) will stop producing CO2. But I don't know that and the estimates I've seen have a CO2 tax that pays for the climate externalities at less than a quarter of the price of atmospheric carbon capture (and thats the top end of CO2 tax estimates!).

The optimal level of fraud is not zero and all that. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
I’m guessing it’s because of the phrase “boomer nerds”.

But, the generational aspect really is relevant. I think probably a lot more nerds in later generations who were interested in aerospace engineering got sucked into software for a variety of reasons. During the boomer specialization period aerospace was more appealing as a career.
An RNG that runs in your brain
Profitability does not depend on "what the consumer wants". It depends on what you can sell. Usually selling the consumer what they want is the most naive and least profitable way of doing that. If business were only concerned with giving consumers what they want, advertising agencies would go out of business.

If you want to maximise profitability, you need to make the consumer want things they don't need, then sell it to them in the most unfulfilling way you can get away with at the least cost to you. This is why the game industry is so desperately moving to subscription models (following the greater trend in software) and why Amazon is full of thousands of nearly indistinguishable brands selling you the same flawed goods. The benefit of this model is that you can also better compete on price (because you don't have to compete on quality) and normalize buying the same damn thing over and over again instead of having it last half a lifetime. If you do need to seem like you compete on quality, just add flashy new features of questionable use and remove old ones - often enough you can just cycle back after a few generations.

And if you're really lucky you can frame your product as a lifestyle or fashion good. Like there's now literally a current trend of people buying a specific travel mug as a fashion and lifestyle item. Filling their storage cabinets with dozens of these things in different colors or buying useless accessories for their accessory travel cup. This isn't driven by the consumers wanting travel mugs, this is entirely driven by selling the idea to consumers that they must own this specific travel mug and must have at least one in every color that is necessary to match their outfits. If it wasn't for advertising, nobody would buy them.
Productized Services in Tech
You make good points.

My VCS is designed for self-hosting, not cloud.

I will support customer installations, not host customer source code.

I am hoping that customers see less of a need for deep pockets in that case.
My absolute favorite false cognate is 'arraigned' (English) vs. 'araignée' (French).

Arraignments would be far more nervewracking if they significantly involved spiders.
> Maybe the best in terms of error reporting

IMO this alone makes it worth it. The Rust compiler produces error messages that sit in a class of their own compared to almost everything else. I believe we should strive for more DX like that.
> The laying off Sundar should be what investors want the most.

Alphabet union [1] should put forth such a public letter, in keeping with tradition of Google stakeholders publicly demanding unnecessary expenses to be reined in [2].

[1] https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/

[2] https://www.tcifund.com/files/corporateengageement/alphabet/...
To be more agnostic, it breaks the game on Linux (with Steam Deck as a special case—being the most popular Linux distro for gaming).

- "From reports I've seen it affects Linux desktop too, not just Steam Deck."

He's a bunch of such reports:

https://www.protondb.com/app/1446780
Those searches aren't monetized anyway afaik, so I'm not sure it's really a bad thing for Google that you no longer make those queries.
We also got a lot better at other things in the same timeframe. There's now a much larger volume of software that, on average, work better, which wouldn't have been possible with the number of software folks back in the day. Yes I know, Javascript frameworks, bloat, etc. In general my computers are much more reliable than before.

We've invented entire tech-based industries while old ones are fading away. It's not clear that it's actually a decline, especially since the economy has shown steady exponential growth over the past couple of centuries.
You got a reference to back that up?
Yeah the majority of their focus was on the consumer facing side of barcodes and then how QR codes replaced them (they haven't).

I can't see any of the warehouses in the middle of nowhere that I deal with changing their setup to scan everything with "AI" like Amazon is supposedly doing. It's hard enough to get them to use barcodes right now.
Best way to prevent piracy is to not let anyone use your software!
I wonder if this move is sound. Granted, inflation of consumer products hasn't died down, so they are getting choosier in how they spend, affecting Google's advertising revenue. So Google is betting more heavily on AI as a potential vehicle for revenue. But will the current AI tech really prove so disruptive, with high pricing?
I wish that Capcom had to refund every single user who ever played this on Linux. It shouldn't be legal to stop people from using things that they've previously bought from you.
"Studies of 19th-century news stories in American newspapers, however, suggest that the form spread several decades later than the telegraph, possibly because the reform era's social and educational forces encouraged factual reporting rather than more interpretive narrative styles.[2]"
See the key here is that I do not buy that they are "suffering". They are just in a less priviledged position than before.

They are still very wealthy and priviledged individuals with great professional prospects in India. Allow me to prioritise my compassion list, and put them at the bottom, in the name of the hundreds of millions that are literaly hungry.
API keys provide a straightforward mechanism for limiting use, and for allowing clients that get lots of traction to pay for higher limits. That’s not a cargo cult, that’s just design.
If you’ve ever had to remove private information from history before making the repos public (think domains, names, configuration, etc) you will appreciate the ability to rewrite history (and all the other things --force gives you)
Ah yes. The old “if everyone can’t have it, no one can have it” argument. Journalists are just elementary school tattletales at this point. Aren’t we also being told that because we can work from home we’re going to be outsourced?
IANAL but "public places" is orthogonal to "private property". A mall is private property but there's no expectation of privacy because it's a "public space".
> hit or miss quality

Psiloc(yb)in content varies a lot among fruiting bodies of the same batch, genome, flush, hell even within the same cluster (example papers [1][2]). So even for known/good sources I would suggest mixing at least a couple of fruiting bodies to have something known and repeatable. Since powder degenerates faster, honey is a good water/air/light free preservative.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17401967/
[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/037887...
It is interesting to note that the author works at VPBank, which is one of the larger Vietnamese banks. Saving $150k per year on an AWS bill, is really nothing to them.

The fact that they even outsource their compute to AWS is kind of surprising when they could just fill up their existing data centers (like VNTT https://vntt.com.vn/) with equipment, and save a whole lot more money.
It is unfortunate that cost management isn’t something most engineers keep an eye out for on a regular basis. Spinning up unnecessary resources, not cleaning up resources properly once not needed, writing inefficient code, etc. all quickly adds up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per month in big companies.

I once found a “test” db cluster from an engineer who hadn’t worked in the company for 3 years. We were paying 300k yearly for it before discounts. It took me a literal click to shut it down. And I’m not proud of it but, had to send out an org wide email on the savings achieved (corporate politics :shrug:).
Couple of years ago I saved about 14 mn of revenue per year for my company. I got a 250$ bonus for it.
The complexity people think they face with Git can often be overcome with a good UI and/or tutorials.
You can get an extension that will automatically click "allow all" and everything will be exactly as it was before this directive.
Not everyone spends so much time on this site that they can easily spot a post as an extension of a related discussion elsewhere on the site. Someone posted this page, it got upvoted by others who found it interesting, and now it's on the front page. What's wrong with that?
Ask HN: Term for unspoken/implicit/implied/subconscious conspiracy?
I haven't yet found a term that has consensus or is well used.

(Explicit) Conspiracy: An explicit agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

Implicit/subconscious Conspiracy (Appreciate that this can be considered an oxymoron): A group acts in a certain way, or does not act in other ways, that are conspiring tacitly - Something is either 'generally known' or subconsciously believed, such that people's actions will be a certain way.

I think that it's valuable to define this (rather than writing it off and saying "you're just describing standard social dynamics"), in part because:

- There is a conspiratorial element to 'deciding (not) to do something en masse' i.e. not acting completely independently, but not needing explicit discussion

- And feel that there is an insidious long-tail in 'conspiracies' that doesn't get talked about enough.

- And feel that when people think of 'conspiracies', they mistakenly visualize it as mostly 'discussions in back rooms'.

'Conspiracy of silence' belongs to this set, but is not the set itself.
What about dentists is so much better now??
Pretty important to know if you're sticking to the speed limit though
You don't even need game assets, your company's icon library is likely enough to tip
the scales into territory git doesn't handle well.
How is the language being presented connected to Datalog whatsoever? It uses a very alien syntax, and has no mention of Datalog's defining feature, recursion that is always guaranteed to terminate.

Here's an __actual__ small (and very fast) full blown datalog engine: https://github.com/brurucy/micro-datalog
My personal pet peeve: Budget phones have barely budged over the last seven years. Look at the Moto G series in comparison: https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?&idPhone1=8103&idPhone... 8core arm big.little, 1080p IPS, 15MP front, GPS, LTE. Am I talking about 2016 or 2023?

All that's changed is that the screen glass has gotten worse.

Also, I checked a few months ago and as far as I can tell it isn't possible any longer to get a Thinkpad T series with a 4K monitor. edit: Though they seem to have fixed that at least.
Good read indeed - a lot of conclusions being jumped to there.
> and we still don't have a good understanding of the cause of the obesity epidemic.

yes, we do. it's not rocket science. sedentary lifestyle + huge amounts of cheap calories, esp. cheap carbohydrates. the Japanese are much skinnier than the US because the eat ~1000 calories less than the US. much of Asia and the ME are skinnier due to poverty and climate -- easy to be thin when you live in a sauna. and they're rapidly catching up to the US; America just got there first, and hard.
Sounds like a solution with accountability.
Your starting with ad hominem is becoming a regular occurrence on HN; you're clearly not mature or developed enough to be worth engaging with if ad hominem is your starting point due to lacking emotional regulation and strength to any other argument point you did or didn't put forward - due to the amount of effort you're willing to put in.

You can't brainstorm any scenario where the money spent makes sense? And indeed, I didn't give much detail at all for the costs, except for the upcoming surgery.

And then you jump to actual whataboutism.
It is somewhat version-controlled but not completely. If you use the reflog you can find it again and you can find how it moved around. But the reflog gets rewritten and gc'd so it's not true vc.
I've had to replace instrument clusters due to the gauges failing. In fact I've had two different vehicles that needed to have work done to repair/replace physical gauges. Generally speaking, moving parts will fail more often than solid state things.
that's one of the main reason we made this feature "opt-out".

if you want to keep it up, you have to tag it.

once you tag it, it can opt-out 7 days. then you have to extend it (simply chat with our bot)
Yes, I agree about the decades blurring together. A lot of "the Sixties" happened in the early- to mid-1970s, and the 2010s didn't seem to start until about 2015 (and are ongoing today).

However, there was definitely a distinct 1990s Internet, and I remember using it in the actual 1990s. A big part of it was just the newness of the whole thing. That was still happening in like 2001 and 2002, but by the middle of the 2000s the Internet was not new anymore and large numbers of people had home broadband.
That may be the case for Instagram, which was developed separately and then acquired, and which still uses separate accounts that AFAIK can be created without a Facebook account, although they can be connected to one.

Messenger though has always just been the chat function on Facebook, which can nowadays also be used via a dedicated website/app if you like. It doesn't even have separate account infrastructure on the backend, unlike Instagram. Looks like they're getting around that by essentially creating a second Facebook account, with social media features disabled.
It’s a bit slower to upgrade so there isn’t as much delight to counter the negative. In the 90s you had to constantly upgrade. A 1995 computer wasn’t going to work in 2004s environment. But a 2015 computer still is largely functional now. No machine learning or fancy games, but it can still surf the web.
Understanding how top-down operator precedence parsing works
So I think if you don't want to eat cheese for your own reasons or advocate for that.. kudos.

However, my experience is not all farms are so aggressive even in the USA (look for bull bred) and in France I've seen plenty of cheese making operations very in touch with traditional methods and not what I'd personally call cruel at all (sheep cheese made in the Pyrenees in particular)

Also the regulations in France prevent a constant pregnancy. https://agriculture.gouv.fr/le-bien-etre-et-la-protection-de...

I think things could be improved of course and I'm all for improving the lot of animals.
> it's a huge source of sustaining inequality

The biggest source of inequality is that humans are essentially unequal, and you only have to see the outcomes among siblings to see that this is true.

If a family cannot ensure equality among siblings, certainly a government will fail horribly.
There's a new fallacy, where AI is dismissed if it "can't replace" a human completely. AI is more like an augmentation tool, that allows fewer people to create work faster by effectively outsourcing the grunt work.

Better tools like Copilot and ChatGPT reduce the amount of time it takes to deliver a feature, reducing the need to horizontally scale developers.

Why hire 10 when 3 could do the same work with AI tooling?

I think while tech is obviously contracting post-COVID from overhiring, it's also true that you just don't need as many people anymore.
It's not clear what law would have been violated here.

> "A British man accused of public disorder"

Is it public disorder, if it's in a private chat, intercepted by members of the security services?
Profit doesn't mean you invested in hiring for the right things in the right departments, especially with as much shift in the overall market as we've seen in the last year.
It also breaks "Resident Evil 5", a game I have owned for many years but was never able to play because of a broken "Games for Windows Live" DRM that was only recently removed.
He pitched the creation of Chrome, but that was before he was "in charge" of Google
Since you’re updating it anyway, the very first example says "D has @property functions, which are methods that you call with what looks like field access, so in the above example, c.d might call a function.”

It is true that `c.d` might call a function, but it’s not because of @property functions (which exist but are discouraged), it’s because the parens are optional to call a function/method if there are no arguments.
I got a popup today after opening google play, which let me decide if I want these services linked together or not.
I don't think I said we weren't making backups. We have two pieces in place:

1. We are a Microsoft 365 shop, so OneDrive stores versions of files and all that. Admittedly this is not a "backup" necessarily, but it does serve a portion of the purpose of backups and are far more easily accessible to users themselves.

2. We also have a backup service running on every company issued laptop that backs up to a backup service.

What I am not advocating is that a small team should setup their own cloud for the purpose of backups. That's a lot of work and maintenance. I am an IT team of 1. My time is better spent on actually getting work done, not playing around with self hosting stuff and maintaining that.

Backups are important, otherwise I wouldn't be spending thousands of dollars on it in my tiny little budget each year. But I disagree pretty strongly with the priority of _how_ to do backups.
I second the disgruntled commenter's feelings. This has nothing to do with Datalog.

Here are three accurate and sound Datalog implementations:
1: https://github.com/ekzhang/crepe
2: https://github.com/s-arash/ascent
3: https://github.com/brurucy/micro-datalog