skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They love their iPhones, they hate their laptops.

Feels like unsubstantiated generalisation.

Source(s)?
Let me describe exactly how you are defending them then, if you really think you aren't:

"this same expectation in the Apple ecosystem is why I've received single digit spam from their messaging services" implies it can be justified as an anti-spam measure that open services can't match. But I've received also single-digit spam (cumulative over multiple years, not per year) on the WhatsApp running on my rooted Android. Nor would this even hypothetically stop non-RCS spam.

In general, companies always have some convenient excuse to cover their user-hostile moves. HP bricked printers using 3rd party ink for "security". Uncritically believing them, or even inventing excuses for them, is defending them.

"if they don't want rooted phones to use their RCS gateway I don't think they should be forced to allow it" - so we've established these companies are actively hostile to your freedom to use your property as you wish. But you are willing to disregard any monopoly/market-power abuse concerns, and grant them the freedom that they deny you (you used "should", so I assume you're not giving a mere factual description of what you think the law is). Just like letting Bell charge extra for using competitor's equipment [1] has ill effects on the market (try selling a phone when all your customers will have to pay an extra monthly fee to Bell for using it) and was rightly banned, so does letting the Google/Apple duopoly control smartphone software. Saying they should be allowed to continue to abuse and expand their market power is a defense of these companies, or rather, is a defense specifically of their anti-competitive and user-hostile practices.

The difference between a "defense" that merely seeks to correct facts, and one that justifies behavior, can be subtle (e.g. "this is necessary to fight spam" vs. "this was done to fight spam" vs. "there was no other way to fight spam"), but I think your phrasing put you in the latter category.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System#Nationwide_monopol...

Edit as reply: "I think" and "I believe" do not meaningfully change your position. "I think action X is justified because of Y" and "Action X is justified because of Y" only differ in implied certainty, not in quality.
> won't be any lay-flat seating

If crash rates go down, and you have a flat surface that you’re strapped onto that is angled and has an airbag-like system to ensure as many G’s as eyeballs in or out, sure we could.
That is mostly wall mass and engineering, not anything to do with the use of wood. I have lived in very quiet wood buildings.
they screw us more than once already. CSS Tricks is not their first victim, there is also scotch.io, where I learn Angular stuff. One day I tried to visit a saved article in my bookmark, the entire site and all its subpage are gone, and just redirect to digital ocean. That is more screwed than CSS Tricks is today, all that content, puff, gone!
In recent months, the government’s position on the exchange has been rather clear.
The government had already arrested officials from Binance.
Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, has been fined $10 billion by the Nigerian government for making money via “illegal transactions,” according to Bayo Onanuga, a special advisor to President Bola Tinubu. In a Friday interview with the BBC, Onanuga revealed the monetary fine.

In recent months, the government’s position on the exchange has been rather clear. In fact, just this week, the government intended to come down heavily on unpaid taxes from unregistered exchanges, and it had already arrested officials from Binance.
Location: Linz/Austria/EU
Remote: OK (Any timezone OK)
Willing to relocate: NO
Technologies: Typescript, React, Node, Firebase, Postgres, GCP
Résumé: brandstetter.io/Resume_Brandstetter_Jurgen.pdf
Email: j@brandstetter.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-brandstetter
Salary: USD140k / year

I'm a senior full-stack developer with an aspiration for team/product lead or CTO-like position. For ~7 years I was co-founder and CTO of an ed-tech company called: amy.app . My co-founder and I scaled the company to about 25 employees. Before that I gained a PhD in Human Robot Interaction in NZ.
Currently I'm exploring how LLMs, in particular vision, can be used to automate back office jobs.

I'm very product/customer focused and pragmatic. I like to move super fast.

My dream environment is an early-stage/full-remote startup.

PS: I have a family, that means the main compensation via shares isn't an option for me.
PPS: to demonstrate my speed: Here is an LLM project I fully(!) developed within 48h. It even got some traction on HN: https://www.line-items.com/
How did you resolve this? I just realized today that I forgot to file two years ago & want to take care of it asap
>This makes absolutely no sense.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34716375

What about now?
Like I could care less (but the "like" is silent)
> The notion that Apple was purposefully trying to kill PWAs never made sense in light of their significant investment in supporting PWAs over the last four years, down to recruiting industry rockstars such as Jen Simmons.

Apple's investment into PWA support can charitably be characterised as "begrudging". You don't need to defend this company. They have been behaving badly for a long time.
That will only benefit those who can aford it.

If theves are going to broadcast their crimes in advance it's stupid to chose not to receave the announcement.
>Mozilla has reversed a browser monopoly? When? Do you mean back in the late 90's when Mozilla's predecessor (Netscape) lost their monopoly to IE? I guess that's technically true they reversed a monopoly back then... but that's not exactly helping your argument.

It was circa 2002 (introduction of Firefox).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars#/media/File:Brows...

Maybe you should have done some research before throwing out all that seething condescension?
Green Idea | Estonia | REMOTE | Full-time | Windows + DirectX C++ Developer

I'm looking for a C++ developer to build Geospatial / GIS visualisation and editing tools for Windows. These will work in both 2D and 3D. These will act more like desktop applications like AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max rather than full-screen video game applications.

The project is likely to be iterative so if you thrive on agency and being a part of the brain-storming process, you should feel at home.

Knowledge of the following is expected:

* C++17

* Computer Vision + Graphics, photogrammetry

* CUDA

* DirectX

* DuckDB and SQLite3

* GDAL and GEOS

* Packaging Windows Applications for distribution

* Python

* QGIS & ArcGIS Pro

* WinUI 3 and Windows Ribbon

We're based in Estonia but flexible with time zones between here and California.

Contact me via https://www.linkedin.com/in/marklitwintschik/ to apply for the role.
I have 30+ years experience, all as a programmer/IC (never management). 2023 and 2024 were the worst tech job environment since 2001/2002. I wouldn't judge anything based on hiring in the last 2 years.

In 2021, I extensively used LinkedIn and got several job offers, so it's fairly useful in my opinion.
Specfic performance is a behavior, eg go open source, fire Altman, break it off with MS, etc
They are not designated as a gatekeeper.
Is that even close to a tit for tat? How many people would be upset because they couldn't have some "high end" bag vs how many would be upset about not having a mobile device?
Random freezing sounds more like a software problem than a hardware problem.

Caused by the stock Android you praise? Or where does get HMD the hardware-adaption layer from? To my understanding (no inside knowledge) they have zero own development.
Here are few big ones from the past 12 months.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/bingbang

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792371/security-breach-...

https://www.wiz.io/blog/midnight-blizzard-microsoft-breach-a...

I would agree, the Windows OS has really matured since XP, from a security perspective at least.

I would definitely expect better than this from a tech giant like MS. When was the last time Google, Meta, or Apple got breached like this?

Edited to add, I think them open sourcing some security training is good, it benefits everyone whether or not MS themselves are a great example of a secure company.
> There was a time when if you wanted an app, it had to be for Windows. [...] Desktop computers have never been a free for all.

You're not going back far enough (as shown by your statement mentioning only Windows). Back in the MS-DOS days, there was no technical block to doing whatever you wanted with your system. It's no coincidence that Linux originated in these days; the openness of PC clones running one of the DOS variants (MS-DOS wasn't the only one) allowed for the full replacement of the operating system with nearly zero effort. You didn't even have to change the boot sector; a DOS program (LOADLIN.EXE) could completely switch the currently running operating system.

Things are much more locked down in desktop computers nowadays, and the only reason they aren't completely locked down is that Linux had already become popular enough to convince Microsoft to allow for a backdoor (actually a pair of backdoors: signing by Microsoft for popular distributions, and manual disabling for less popular distributions and development).

> [...] people learned to be terrified of installing software. [...] Microsoft claims 60% of users never leave that mode to install even one app outside the Microsoft Store. That’s how much the “Normie” has learned to fear programs, [...]

Is it fear, or is it just convenience? If everything you want or need at that moment is on whatever software store you have (be it the Microsoft Store or Steam or something else), there's not much incentive to look beyond it. It's like what's been said about video streaming providers: once every show you wanted was on a single streaming provider, there was not much incentive anymore to look around on seedy corners of the web for movies, but once that convenience is no longer available (because said provider no longer has the media you want), people once again look for alternatives.

(As an aside, think about the reason "developer mode" in more recent Android versions is hidden behind a secret knock on a disused corner at the bottom of the settings application: if it weren't a hidden setting, "normal users" would enable it. The same with bypassing some security warning pages in the desktop Chrome browser. If "normal users" really feared freedom, they would stay away from these options without the need to hide them.)
>> oil change every 3 months or so

That's just plain stupid.
Thank you!

In the beginning, I used kognise's water.css [1], so most of the smart decisions (background/text color, margins, line spacing I think) probably come from there. Since then it's been some amount of little adjustments. The font is by Jean François Porchez, called Le Monde Livre Classic [2].

I draft in Obsidian [3] and build the site with a couple python scripts and KaTeX.

[1] https://watercss.kognise.dev/

[2] https://typofonderie.com/fr/fonts/le-monde-livre-classic

[3] https://obsidian.md/
If android and the play store are gonna be locked down, you might as well get an iPhone.
Absolutely true.

I just intended to push back against the notion that frameworks should not be considered.
Related:

Interference Lithography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_lithography

Photonic Crystal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_crystal

Photonic Crystals created by Holography:

https://slideplayer.com/slide/4662298/
I've had fun trying to educate auditors, though this was a long time ago and several jobs back. In short: I couldn't educate the auditor.
> Not because of conscious fear, simply by default. If Navalny became Russian president - the next day 80% of Russians would be completely persuaded they were always against the war.

This seems similar to how the people in Germany reacted after the Nazis lost WW2.
The thing is, the way the tax system is structured, it's much better if you don't file and stay under the radar. The IRS knows that but they probably didn't pursue it due to it being a marginal phenomena and lack of abilities. Now that they need money (and maybe the size of these cheats is higher?) they are going after them.

It is also possible that they are over-estimating the amounts owned and once they get to auditing they find out that these "millions of dollars" are just "$1Ks of dollars" and the audit doesn't turn that profitable after all.
What kind of workforce? Engineering, manufacturing or sales & service?
All shame to the activity monitors. No shame to the wigglers.
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We are AE Studio, a bootstrapped software and data science consulting business. Our mission has always been to reroute our profits directly into building technologies that have the promise of dramatically enhancing human agency, like Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI). Today, we are ~150 programmers, product designers, and ML engineers; we are profitable and growing. We also have a team of top neuroscientists and data scientists with significant experience in developing ML solutions for leading BCI companies, and we are now leveraging our technical experience and learnings in these domains to assemble an alignment team dedicated to exploring neglected alignment research directions that draw on our expertise in BCI, data science, and ML.

We’re looking for experienced (ideally mid to senior-level), product-focused data scientists with ML experience who are excited about working on a variety of client projects (spanning a variety of domains and technologies), and advancing our research in BCI and alignment.
I do want to say that we, as a society, place people in the position where they are more likely to do things that hurt everyone far more than it would be to lift them out of whatever position they’re in. It’s hard to make progress on this because, like, the homeless person knows just as well as anyone else that they shouldn’t make a mess, and the person who can’t afford to eat knows just as well as anyone else that they shouldn’t steal toiletries from stores. And many people in those situations do actually avoid doing that, which is great. But what would be even better is removing factors that make it more likely that people will behave poorly or justify it to themselves. I feel really good about trips I make on the train rather than the car but it’s partially because I have the time and money to do this pretty easily.
It's encrypted in flight with TLS, and on the back end it's encrypted with the retro-encabulator, with AES 512.
Indeed, Monster works for contract roles better than other because it is less expensive than LinkedIn for recruiters and has active candidates. Start contracting and convert to Fte is what I’d recommend
SEEKING WORK. Melbourne, Australia, remote only. (Lots of experience with US clients).

I specialise in maps (Mapbox and similar). JavaScript, Vue, Node.
Prefer smallish projects where I can build the whole thing myself in a few weeks, rather than being part of a bigger team.

https://hire.stevebennett.me
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
I think it's arguable that SpaceX and Tesla represent far more of Musk's contribution than anything else. But even with X, it helps to realise, he thinks he is doing good for the world by echoing rw thought.
People don't use blurry low quality images in the web. These low qualities don't matter outside of compression research.

Average/median quality of images is between 85 to 90 depending how you calculate it.

There, users' waiting time is worth during image formats life time for about 3 trillion USD. If we can reduce 20 % of it we create wealth of 600 billion USD distributed to the users. More savings come from data transfer costs.
There is more than one creature that is colloquially called "daddy longlegs", such as the crane fly.
I mean... yes? If a disk has firmware that prevents the owner from destroying it when desired, that's really not okay. It even has a practical angle in cases where you need to make a disk unreadable.
Discussion about the US dollar misses the point.

They do it because they can, basically we all live under the influence of the US empire, they can put pressure on most banks of they really want to, and if they really want to, details like which currency was used will not stop them.
> I wonder by numbers how many of these people had ~no income, but had securities trades that with the cost basis ignored look like $400k of income?

I think a common misconception is that these measures target fat cats rolling in $400k+ in personal ARR. However, if you’re a retiree and just sold the family farm to downsize, then you could easily have $400k in income for a tax year.
Location: Cambodia (UTC+7)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Potentially
Technologies: TypeScript of late, C/C++, C#, Java, Scala, JS, Kotlin, Android, Python, More
Résumé/CV: LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/nicholas-dudfield-3b938629), GitHub (github.com/sublimator)
Email: ndudfield@gmail.com

Curious debugger, doer, and hands-on maker of things, creative and self-reliant. Ideal for early-stage companies. Worked remotely since 2011 from Cambodia for U.S. companies, including SublimeHQ/Ripple/Coil and smaller NFC/RFID startups. Easily managed 12hr timezone differences, and open to working within EU time zones for even better alignment.

Like many, I am presently interested in AI(esp. browser++), however I remain open to anything interesting.

Thanks.
I'm starting to notice the opposite of price inflation - I see more and more sales and bogo or buy-2-get-4 shenanigans. Brands trying to get consumers to buy certain products again without actually lowering the sticker price, probably in the hopes that it sticks.

I am sure the price hikes have had an impact on sales, maybe there was a slight delay in consumer adaptation and that's why hiking and more seemed like a good idea (short-term).

I wonder if the large brands have psychologists on staff coming up with the best strategies to make high prices stick long-term without too much short-term impact.
Location: Utah
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Willing to relocate: maybe
Resume/CV:
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Monarch Money | Remote | Mix of Software Roles | Full-time

We are Monarch Money—a tool to manage your personal finances. We're a small team (<20 total) but are seeing a ton of growth. We're hiring for fullstack engineering, infra, mobile. Our stack is React/React Native, GraphQL, and Python/Django. Also doing some interesting things with Postgres.

https://www.monarchmoney.com/careers
I went to the URL. Login-walled. Closed tab :(
Everyone is just doing whatever
When you look at others, it sometimes seems like they have everything perfectly sorted out. The reality is that everyone is just figuring things out as they go. So, don't let that hold you back; just go ahead and do your thing.
Man, imagine the sights awaiting to be discovered in the rest of the Universe.
We use a couple nice home-grown functions in ZFSBootMenu to help debug things. We have a zdebug logging function that's peppered liberally throughout the code base - https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme...

Hitting ctrl-t on our main menu will, when booting with debug logging enabled, show a screen like this: https://i.imgur.com/Ge75zkP.png

We also have a flamegraph profiling mechanism that can be enabled with https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme... . That will dump data to a serial port, which when re-assembled, can be used to produce a graph like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/master...

Bash is suprisingly flexible.
> Stop defending childish, modern idiocy.

Found the busybody.
The `die()` trick is good, but bash has an annoying quirk: if you try to `exit` while you're inside a subshell, then the subshell exits but the rest of the script continues. Example:

#!/bin/bash

die() { echo "$1" >&2; exit 1; }

cat myfile | while read line; do
if [[ "$line" =~ "information" ]]; then
die "Found match"
fi
done
echo "I don't want this line"

..."I don't want this line" will be printed.

You can often avoid subshells (and in this specific example, shellcheck is absolutely right to complain about UUOC, and fixing that will also fix the die-from-a-subshell problem).

But, sometimes you can't, or avoiding a subshell really complicates the script. For those occasions, you can grab the script's PID at the top of the script and then use that to kill it dead:

#!/bin/bash

MYPID=$$

die() { echo "$1" >&2; kill -9 $MYPID; exit 1; }

cat myfile | while read line; do
if [[ "$line" =~ "information" ]]; then
die "Found match"
fi
done
echo "I don't want this line"

...but, of course, there are tradeoffs here too; killing it this way is a little bit brutal, and I've found that (for reasons I don't understand) it's not entirely reliable either.
Think it sends a confirmation SMS?
Wow, that really sucks. I appreciate the explanation as well as your frustration with it.

My desktop had a mixture of PNG and WebP files solely because of this limitation. I use the past tense because they've now all been converted to JPEG XL lossless.
I usually switch jobs every 2-3 years. Usually when I get a new job I stop speaking to recruiters for about 12-18 months, and then I open up again and start responding to Linkedin pings again, just to see what's out there. Same at my current job, where I'm coming up on 4 years. However, the last 3-6 months there just haven't been many Linkedin pings. Fortunately I wouldn't want to switch anyway right now, so I'm not concerned, but I still notice. This is in the Middle East (in the past I worked in Europe, London, US, FAANG). As others have said, [cold] applying to jobs [via forms] is a waste of time, zero conversion rate; I also know this as a hiring manager on the other side.
And whats the best way to handle private user data? The thing that Microsoft have been headed away from for the last 10 years?
We need more strongly worded regulations / verdicts to tame these anti-competitive behaviors.

Whichever country drafts the next regulation on the same line should incorporate a clause something like "Users must be free to create, distribute & install any software / applications on their own devices without any involvement of Platform Operator, with equal access to APIs available to native stores".
Hilariously, legally, software seems to be unpatentable in both the US [1] and EU [2]. Yet those laws are routinely ignored, and we continue to be plagued by software patents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_...?

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Eur... - The wiki states that because of the "as such" clause, the exclusion of software patents does not apply to software that does anything inventive or solves a technical problem. But those are already requirements of patentability for anything, software or not. In other words, this interpretation of "as such" renders that entire clause totally meaningless - it could be struck entirely from the law, and software would be no more or less patentable. Clearly such a reading is absurd, and only shows the willingness of courts to ignore law for business interests.
Would it be accurate to say that the variable values are fresh per iteration as of 1.22 and fresh only per initialization prior? I was looking for a falsification of that description in the text.
Lots of good info here about how they added more fuzz tests, but no mention whether the fuzzing actually found bugs?