skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
did they really need to call it the same thing and with the same extension as Python pickle files !? that's doing to be so confusing if it becomes popular
Especially since Go has a culture of backwards compatibility and the API doesn't change if you move files around on a package.
Lack of -v3 binaries are common in Docker containers. Most, if not all of development, CI and deployment targets support -v3. And yet images like Postgres or Redis are built with the absolute lowest common denominator in mind.

How many CPU cycles are wasted globally because of this? It’s nuts
> Firstly, in UK law there is an implicit assumption that computers are "reliable". This means that the burden of proof is on the accused proving the software has bugs, rather than them being presumed innocent until proven guilty.

This really is an incredibly stupid law. I could see assuming that computers are correctly operating as _instructed_ (e.g. the cpu doesn’t have bugs), but assuming that software is implemented correctly is just crazy. Everyone knows that software is buggy and updates are released all the time. Declaring that software is infallible is ridiculous.
Thanks! Here is the repo if you have any issues/suggestions:
https://github.com/jlawrence6809/CSS-Selector-Helper-for-Chr...
> self-reported results from an online survey

Via a survey link “shared in one Croatian social media group that brings together individuals who share interests in watching movies and TV shows” [1]. Moreover, “the survey was active for one month” during which “voluntary participants…were randomly exposed to one of two scenarios” and then asked to answer questions about “their emotional appraisal and their future intentions to engage with illegal and legal streaming services.”

It’s an interesting pilot study. But the conclusion is limited to Croatian film enthusiasts who volunteer to take an online survey. It does create the case for broader research with a random sample.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756322...!
Given the unix philosophy of providing important functionality only in the c runtime library and having all software dynamically link against it, wouldn't the most crucial step in this be to replace glibc with an implementation that isn't written in C?
Thanks, sent.
Is one of the ways they make browsers and app store apps more secure, that that is dissimilar to old school installation.
Right, but employers aren't allowed to coordinate to calculate whether the hit the cap together or not. They don't have that discretion. See

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-26/part-31#p-31.3121(a)(1...
Show HN: Syncs your VSCode projects to Start Menu on Windows 10/11
I use VSCode on Windows 11, but a pain point is whenever I want to open a specific project, I have to open VSCode and go to File -> Open Recent and pick the project from there (I could have also opened a terminal and type `code project-dir` but it's also kind of cumbersome).

Ideally I should just be able to search for a project name in the Start Menu and directly open the project from there.

Hence, I built a utility program that syncs VSCode's recently opened projects to Start Menu so that I can press Windows Key, search for a project name, and directly open the project from there.

If it sounds like a nice idea to you, here are the instructions on how to use the program here: https://github.com/sekai-soft/code-opener?tab=readme-ov-file...
Ask HN: What to do if your first customer ask for shares of your SaaS?
so I did some consulting works for a company, making software to help them doing their business so that they doesnt use excel to tracking everything, like invoice, a transaction progress, delivery, accounting parts and etc.

and I see a chance that this piece of software could be sold again as saas

problem is this first customer think that to do that I need to give them some share since I learn about the business area and business process from them, how is the correct way to handle this?

I know this is my mistake I should act as a saas company/startups since the beginning instead doing a software consulting job

from the story that I found the internet one of the over is giving them one time purchase or lifetime update instead subscribing like any other users

iirc some startups do this for their first 10 customer

and also for the notes the boards at the company that I do the consulting jobs, say that they have many relations and connections about the same type of company and this boards could introduce me and gives me lead to more users currently I only know them
I've had some ideas for browser extensions over the years, most recently a few months ago. I remember looking at Mozilla docs for making a Firefox browser extension and, as a SWE w/10 YoE (mostly fullstack web), I was left confused. The documentation felt incomplete and I left the article with more questions than I had before.
Something that’d help here is if extension galleries displayed price tags and let you filter by paid (bonus points for being able to distinguish between one-time and subscription).
I remember signing up for a lot of psychological studies in undergrad. They’d pay you $20 an hour for your time to sit in front of a computer and usually click a mouse when you see a certain color perhaps. Then during that session they might ask you something like “now imagine a loved one has just died” then you’d continue clicking on colored boxes. It seemed to me by targeting college students seeking easy beer money between classes there might be some significant sampling bias, but I’m no research psychologist.
Yeah I have many different cloud storage subscriptions. And although I don’t like Dropbox as a company due to the things they did, it is the only thing that really works, all the time.

A “refuse” to “upgrade” to the fileprovider version, as I don’t want stupid&slow functionality like iCloud Drive.
"they annoy people, leading to resentment and rejection of environmentalism as a whole"

I hadn't thought about it that way before, but I think you're exactly right. I feel this in myself. I am pro-environment, or at least I want to be. But when I think about the actual effects of all these laws and regulations it just makes me mad and want to ignore or fight ALL environmental laws. I have to use a paper straw now? It just seems to go on and on.
> if these anti-piracy campaigns did work, the anti-piracy organizations would go out of business

Aren’t these campaigns run by ad agencies?
I wish more news websites did this..
24 * 1.04 = 24.96
When was the last time you went? Nearly everything, even non-specialist, are booked out a month or more.
Yes, nuclear is a good complement to ~24 hour storage, and removes the need for several-day storage. The problem with coal is that it's killing a lot of people.
Is that mutually exclusive with using your normal programming language as a config language?
Perhaps you haven’t updated your version of iOS in the last 4-5 months, or haven’t tried it recently?

This is high on the list of surprising warts on iOS that has been fixed.
But we can change the way capitalism works (see the EPA or FLSA) much more easily than we can change human nature.
I tend to reuse them twice: one more shopping and then becomes a trash can liner.
We can't experiment with humans, so social sciences will always have to deal with low quality, statistically noisy results.
Indeed.

For example utility scale solar can be less than 30% the cost of a residential solar installation, but also adds profit margins, interest rates and distribution costs to a residential customer.

In the later Ringworld books Larry Niven introduced solar 'panels' sprayed onto any surface and wirelessly broadcasting power. The DIY installation costs would now be almost zero.
Ok well we are talking about something else entirely -- credit card purchases with an FX cross.
The Landscape of Compute-near-memory and Compute-in-memory
Isn't there much more UV then IR during winter for example? Makes me wonder why they don't just wire the panels in parallel instead, or if the voltages differ too much, have e.g. 20% of the upper layer wired in series with the lower one and then that in parallel with the remaining cells from the upper layer. [Now 10 seconds after hitting submit I realize that leads to the same problem...]
You buy $10 of groceries at a time?
The underlying current I see is the continued degradation of the reputation of universities.

I am of the age where more and more aspects of society become laid bare, I'm a bit slower than most. So I'm not sure if higher ed was always this nakedly bankrupt due to bad incentives, or if it has genuinely degraded substantially.

I tend to think, as with most things, a bit of both. MBAs have invaded the university managerial class for the unquestioned negative effects, and financialization has reached the ivory tower, but these similar "drive to publish/grant" has been referenced by my direct or tangentially related close relatives for decades who worked in higher ed (one long term evolutionary psych tenured, one tenured physicist, two as adjuncts/grad students/researchers that left to be IT people). 5-7 people or so? I meet the minimum sample size for a psych paper! (ducks the incoming rain of shoes from psychologists)

But I think there's value even in specious science. At least they are turning over the rocks, even if it's shadowed in bad statistics atop surveys. Each social discipline has a different angle into social studies that I find useful in some manner, a sort of zeitgeist long-run calculus that may drive us forward.
Tail recursion is when the recursive call is last in a function; this algorithm uses breadth-first search to simultaneously 1. search the space of inputs and outputs 2. find the smallest set out of outputs to reach a reward. Again, tail recursion is completely irrelevant.
Wisdom of the crowds is obviously dog shit.
They do pile up though even if you use them. I've never purposely purchased one of these bags, but have acquired way too many of them just from getting deliveries or picking up things I order in advance. I've disposed of so many of them after only a single use because I don't have room and will never use them.

On top of that, I've made the problem even worse because they are just horribly bulky to carry around if you aren't driving to the places you shop. Due to this bulk I went out and purchased some nice thin nylon bags that are easily pocketable so I actually use them. But they came in a package of like 30 when I've needed maybe 5 of them including the ones I've given to people.
https://archive.ph/fSrri
"Dat bwessed awwangement, coherence widdin a beam."
I also got the cloudflare block.
I literally thought the title meant a Venture Capitalist, not Video Call smh
This is oddly topical considering how that Alexander docudrama just stirred this pot with Alexander and Haphaestion.

I haven't seen it but I read an article where the reviewer states something like "we've got to the point it's all right for 2 guys just to make out in a series made for the masses" he said something like he was pleased to realize that.

Your comment feels like you are seeing the forest but missing the trees. Yes, Greek masculinity seems better than modern masculinity, apparently they were far more comfortable conveying and displaying the forms of affection you identified, hence the universal acceptance of their deep friendship.

OP means they were actually f*cking tho and that does change motivation for the plot and subsequent events of the story considerably - perhaps even more adequately explaining the behavior and actions of Achilles than the traditional "best bro" interpretation.

That was the specific tree in the forest OP was referring to
I'm a basketball fan, and think that going to a game live is one of the most exciting sports events there is, not comparing to seeing it on TV. My partner and stepdaughter agree too, though they are certainly not basketball fans as such.

Many years ago, I got tickets to a wrestling event (WWE, I believe) at a corporate box. We went (coworkers and I) only interested in drinking in the box, but found ourselves getting very into it. Being there definitely has that energy and experience.
When I think about it, it astonishes me that there are people in the world who take Apple's developer tools, and make some really beautiful and useful iOS apps. I've tried on and off since high school and have never been able to do it. I started in high school with Xcode and Objective-C, which is a very difficult language to work with (being not that far removed from C/C++). When they moved to Swift I thought "okay finally, now I can make some iOS apps!", but Swift also proved to be a bit of a strange language, it's like the pendulum swung in the opposite direction- Apple was trying to cater to non-devs with it. So we ended up with something that was sort of like Python but still retained some elements from Objective-C.

Of course during this entire time span, Xcode remained a garbage IDE. That's probably the main hindrance for devs and would-be devs. Swift can be navigated, Xcode is a black hole of doom.
4 versions into the public release and they still haven’t figured out how to let users reliably download wallpapers from their servers
What has compiling the kernel to do with it, its about the fact that Linux let you control ever single aspect of your OS and tweak it to your liking. Its a pretty good example of what shows you how it is to control your PC, more so then browser extensions. Just look at what a pain in the ass it is to remove Edge from windows, even now the EU has mandated it, its still a 10+ step guide that requires some tool from Github ... and b4 that you could not even to that. Your start menu in win11 is polluted with "news" and Bing AI crap ... with no simple way to just disable it. If you use Linux you are in control and there are no annoyances and almost no proprietary code from the very start.

You have endless different Desktop Endorsements ... Linux offer way more control over the OS then any browser extensions do. Firefox killed the system where you could more modify the look of the Browser, I do not mind, but I am still making this point when we talk about feeling in control.

You make no sense.
So, maybe Ogden, Utah's cleanliness was due to bear-proof garbage containers?
Yes, that's a good point. The nostro accounts don't change often, but they do change as new business lines come and go, but I don't remember the validator having any rules based on the target accounts in the system I was involved with. However I may be wrong, and that was 10 years ago, so things have probably moved on.
That's a good program for joyriders. In Canada, there's a major problem with high end cars and trucks being stolen by professional rings that ship them out in containers. In the UK, Land Rovers have become uninsurable and the manufacturer had to become the insurer.
Surprised to see a focus on companies like OpenAI, Google and Apple but nothing on Nvidia. They're the king, they run the market, they decide who does what and where they do it at. Nobody but Nvidia was invested in an HPC stack that extended to a wide range of consumer and server hardware, all we can do today is mourn the smoldering corpse of OpenCL and the industry's failure to work together. Nvidia profits because Apple, Google and Microsoft all refuse to bury their hatchet.

AI could end up being a failure even bigger than crypto, and Nvidia would be made king off it regardless. Even if it succeeds, who else besides Nvidia sells integrated HPC systems on TSMC silicon? They're peerless, the hostility between vendors ensures that nobody will ever cooperate long enough to replace CUDA.
Don’t copy that floppy!
I’m willing to bet that willingness to ban plastics and not dumping plastics into the ocean in the first place are highly correlated.
My understanding is that the Earth's gravity well extends much further then is commonly understood. The ISS at 1.3 million feet high gets 89% of Earth's gravity.

Stuff floats on the ISS because it's in free fall as a consequence of being in orbit around the Earth. Orbit is a function of speed i.e. the quick description of orbit is that you're moving so fast you miss the ground.

Starting at a higher spot doesn't get you much (OK,you get some because of a thinner atmosphere but it's not worth the price of the candle) in terms of speed. You better off putting the effort towards finding a spot close to the equator (which gives you speed from the Earth's rotation).

Most important thing to keep in mind that I know very little of this beyond beyond what I've picked up from so youtube video's and a bit Kerbal Space Program so I would take what I've said with a grain of salt.
How Thoreau challenged understandings of work, technology and the natural world
> Compatibility: Because extensions hook into websites in unsupported ways, updates to websites often result in extensions temporarily breaking, and extension authors scrambling to fix them.

Has anyone who's built a browser extension solved this?
I've got some colleagues who live in apartment buildings in an area of Canada that's like that.

About half a year ago, they were telling me about how they're seeing more and more of those thicker bags in their buildings' large shared garbage dumpsters, rather than the much thinner plastic bags that used to be used for bundling garbage back when they were still readily available.

I wouldn't be surprised if it has gotten worse since then, as people have gradually used up the thin plastic bags they'd previously collected and used for bundling garbage.
If I remember correctly, the effects of that study were driven by grocery delivery. People would have the bags pile up due to a lack of a bag-return process. (Please double check, though.)
Flutter is moving away from Skia, understandably.
The major difference is that VM's are intended to be a security boundary as a primary function, and give you tools like hardware virtualization or enforcing single tenancy for a given NUMA node to reduce the attack surface.
Just like the locks on your door or safe. Doesn't "fix" the problem of theft, but slows them down quite a bit.
Linux has reached 4% for the partial Feburary 2024 data on StatCounter
For the 2024-02 dataspan, Linux has reached 4.02%. Happy Linuxing!
I get OpenAI of course, on the social side I understand your choice, but I don't agree it's obvious. Twitter, in my mind, is headed down and not the best brand in that space anymore. Point and case, we're calling it Twitter not X in this conversation.
Depends on what you want to achieve. AppArmor/SELinux prevent access to files and directories. Virtualization and containerization tries to build a jail. You can combine the solutions, a container running a distro with SELinux like any from the Red Hat ecosystem.

They have all had vulnerabilities, My preferred method is to not install stuff I don't need, and fix any dangerous configuration for the programs I do need. I prefer Podman over Docker because of rootless for example.
This was a case where someone pretended to be other people at the company over video calls. It's not a huge leap for that to happen to multiple employees - if it didn't happen here having multiple people doesn't eliminate this attack.
It's a sophisticated attack for sure, but the data collection really isn't too difficult now. A minute or two of audio is sufficient for voice, and a single good image.
LOL really? I'm behind on the wallpaper drama but a few weeks ago I installed something that downloaded all of the new Sonoma realtime HD whatever they're called wallpapers to a foler on my NAS so that all my android tvs could stream them as idle screens..

It is like 60gb+ of data I didn't want that getting hammered by 3 different tvs because I have a limit.

Also they're really not that interesting. I find them pretty boring to be honest and prefer Wallpaper engine by far.
Technically Google is the one paying Mozilla CEO's $7m salary.

Clearly a good investment, Firefox market share is lower and lower, and has been steadily declining since Google became Mozilla's main income source.
I got what they were saying. My point is that if you have a line feed then a comma is an entirely redundant piece of syntax. Commas should only be needed if you are placing multiple statements on a single line. Just like how several programming languages treat semi-colons (eg Go, bash, JavaScript, etc). So mandating them is the opposite of that modern languages should be insisting upon.

In Murex (my own language) both commas and semi-colons can be dropped if the statement or expression is terminated by a line feed.

list = %[
chair
table
“bed-side table”
]

YAML, for all of its warts, also behaves similarly too.

It’s a much better way to handle lists and objects because the comma only exists for the same reason the semi-colon does in C-like syntax: as a parser hint. But if you’ve got a new line then that hint is completely redundant.
> not allowing developers to be mean to customers.

apple has a history of denying apps for monopolistic reasons & collusion price fixing : https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple#Restriction...

> t's the same way that apple leans hard on their suppliers but at the end of the day it has led to creating a healthy and wealthy ecosystem

yes, like using child labour and working environments that require suicide nets: https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple#Student_and...
Microsoft is bringing the Linux sudo command to Windows Server
It's not the money. It's the time. Lots of companies move fast enough that a $25M deal won't wait as long as it takes to fly from HK to London.
There's a scale of disagreement and responses I see in people.

Discomfort

You can agree, and accept the evidence of something. And yet still say
in good faith that you don't "go along" with that. My favourite idiom
is when French people say "Sure, But that's not my philosophy".
Personal philosophy is considered of equal importance to
"scientific"/observed truth and expressing discomfort is okay. An
example might be "AI being able to write poems as well as people".
Even if a study shows that nobody can tell the machine from the poet,
one can still say "I am not okay with that fact". The discontent makes
no effort to challenge, except maybe personal withdrawal or denial.

Scepticism

This is healthy. Indeed it's part of the scientific method. We should
always tolerate and maybe encourage sceptical thinking. The sceptic
debates and disputes. But the sceptic is still open to being won over
by arguments. The sceptic is expressive of her disagreement.

Cynicism

When we see again and again that a group or an idea is wrong, or
persistently deceptive, the focus shifts from the ideas to the
identity of the group. Nothing said by <psychologists or economists or
politicians> or whatever can be trusted. A cynic can be healed, but
often only by overwhelming new evidence or a deep personal shift in
world view.

Opposition

The opponent has already decided in their mind they cannot or will not
accept some ideas. The good opponent sets up an alternative hypothesis
and engages in research to find new truths that will hopefully
displace the old ones. The negative opponent spends time only on
discrediting others.

Iconoclasm and Vendettas

This is the height of unreason. Being stuck in a black and white
world, split over good and evil in which the opposition must be
completely eradicated. I see this more and more in the world now.
People, like the "internet campaigners" you mention make a career out
of aggressive iconoclasm. They engage in "wars on..." and talk of
"zero tolerance".

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Not sure I want to attach moral value judgement to any of these
"levels", I'm sure I can be capable of all. Some things are clearly
rotten in the world and people are tepidly accepting of them, whereas
other things absolutely need consigning to history. But there's a lot
of ugliness in the last two categories even if they are morally
justified.