skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Showing their true colors. "Going mask off" as the kids would say.

There's an observation that computer programs tend to reflect the organizational structures of the company that developed them. I would go further and argue that company cultures are a reflection of the founders that built them.

In the case of Apple, Steve Jobs was an emotionally manipulative psychopath that was very good at conning people, making anyone he talked to buy into his bullshit. When he didn't get his way, he'd cry like a child and throw tantrums. Everyone at Apple absolutely lionized the shit out of Jobs, even during the interregnum period where the company was being torn apart by idiots. All of the upper management was his own hand-picked successors, who have largely continued doing exactly what Jobs was doing, just with higher scale.

The world largely did not notice this because the actual product (at least, when Jobs was actually in the driver's seat) was good. Part of the capitalist social contract is that we don't care about how the sausage was made so long as we aren't assuming the risk[0]. But this is still very much a religious cult that just so happens to be shaped like a for-profit corporation, run by people who were hand-picked by its dogmatic, emotionally unstable founder[1]. It just so happens to also employ actual geniuses.

In the Apple religion, there are commandments, and one of them is "thou shalt not install unauthorized third party software, for it is the malware of the beast". Like other religions, the commandments are based in some kind of plausible system of rules, we can absolutely Chesterton's Fence them, but that rationale has been forgotten by true believers who take them to axiomatic extremes. Apple is not exactly going to die on this hill[2], but they are going to try to make the system as restrictive as possible within the DMA's constraints, because they've RDF'd[3] themselves into thinking their greed is protecting users.

[0] Also, most of the people Jobs really fucked over were the kinds of people society did not care so much about in the 1980s.

[1] This also applies to the FSF, except it's rules are "thou shalt not bind the user to your tech cult". It's an anti-cult cult.

[2] Though I've had the urge to make fake sales pages for an Apple Nuclear weapons program and photoshop the words "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" on Tim Apple's head.

[3] Reality Distortion Field, not Resource Description Framework
It's not a potential: we know this is going to happen, because we've seen it happening before.

The _marketed_ intent behind those regulation is a good one. The actual regulations are just favoring one player over the other: I guess the lobbyists were ahead of the process this time (good for them). As much as everyone would claim ignorance later, I'm not willing to give them the credit of being that stupid.
I don't personally have a glottal stop in "look cool". I think it's the same as "lukecool" except for one vowel, at least in my English:

* lukecool /luk kul/

* look cool /lʊk kul/
No?

Thousands of HN users complain ad-nauseam, every week, that many types of jobs are of no value or even net negative.

e.g. health insurance billing departments
Apple believes this is an existential threat and they are fighting against it as hard as they can. But is this a self-fulfilling prophecy? These actions come with a cost. This gives Epic visibility and it harms trust in Apple’s brand. How do they balance these costs against the perceived threat?
> Russia has essentially bought off a large chunk of the GOP

Source?
He tweeted something. There was some reporting he might have sent a letter asking questions too, the same as you or I could do.

If any official action was taken it would have to be documented with a case: https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu/search
Building Group Cohesion Horizontally with Holochain
Dial-up is still used for a lot of industrial uses as well. Have a few tanks of Diesel off away from any network infrastructure? Run a phone line to your ground reader and dial into it from your SCADA software. Many ground readers have modems built in.

Works great on military bases where they still use POTS.
It is curious that there are no European gatekeepers either.
Another example that comes to mind is the Nemesis system from Mordor games
The alternate is this distopia where a megacorp decides how long you get an alternative, possibly only until the moment you step outside the zone. Or even the moment you turn on a VPN.
Honestly it does feel like it’s getting harder to keep up with scammers even for technical people. The volume of attempts across all channels is just overwhelming

Feels like a state change recently but I’m not ready to speculate as to why
Oxford says the Middle English term luke appears to be derived from hléow, an Old English adjective meaning warm, sunny, or sheltered. The Old English word is the source of lew, a Middle English adjective that meant lukewarm and later appeared in the phrase lew-warm, which survives in dialectal English.

I could be wrong but it sounds like the same root at lee/leeward? Logically being in the lee of something would be associated with warmth.

Edit: yes https://www.etymonline.com/word/lee

Edit 2: if the opposite of leeward is windward, the opposite of lukewarm would be windcool
What's sad is there were early technologists warning about the social media problems, but they were ignored by the 90% builders of it and $. Same thing happening all over again, except no one thinks Facebook is really helping people.
You have no idea that this is what happened. You are literally just making this up.

It's entirely possible the regulator asked EPIC to make an assurance that they would comply with Apple's rules, which are legal under the DMA, and then told Apple they'd need to accept the assurance.

If EPIC does now pull a stunt like they did in the US, the EU will now have reason to treat them with suspicion, and Apple will be able to point to the assurance as evidence that they accepted Apple's rules.
Ah yes, 24gb top-of-the-line GPUs, I happen to have a whole warehouse full.

/s
If we had version control for the law and a linter for the constitution, how would that change the political landscape? How would you feel about people arguing against codifying their values?

I don't think our legal or political processes can survive the rigor coming their way.
You must not spend too much time on Reddit...
lukecool would be pronounced loocool which would be a bathroom air conditioner.
> only needs hydrogen atoms for fuel rather than rare and dangerous elements like uranium and plutonium

hydrogen isn’t exactly the safest element. not that any element is truly safe if used in the wrong way.
I suppose but the government also has put effort into tracking empty homes. They've even gone so far so as to measure electricity use to get a feel for empty homes by neighbourhood.

Vancouver now has an empty homes tax and BC also has a speculation tax, which is effectively an empty homes tax. Since the creation of both those taxes the amount of empty homes has steadily dwindled.

It's not likely that there are a remarkable amount of empty investment condos that is having an impact on rental vacancy. The most likely cause of near zero rental vacancy is that there's not enough rental apartments in existence.
Url changed from https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-magnets-ready-fusion, which points to this.

(Normally we prefer the best third-party article to a corporate press release but the balance of information here points the other way.)

Edit: I should say that if there's a more informative third-party article, we can switch to that.
The apian version of Chomsky's null hypothesis?
I do wonder if this is cheap and low risk enough to get a repair shop with these kinds of skills to do it for you, rather than paying for the upgraded storage.

If it were at all common though, I'd expect apple to change something so you couldn't re-pair the M1-3 CPU to replacement chips without some internal tool.

>Firstly, the SSD is usually placed on the outer borders of the MacBook, making it the most accessible to liquid ingress. Secondly, the power delivery system involves a buck converter circuit controller by a BGA IC. This means that high voltages are placed within millimetres of the sensitive lower-voltage lines that power the SSD’s chips. Liquid can easily cause a short circuit that sends higher voltage to the SSD, destroying the chip and preventing any possibility of data recovery.

Maybe sell a $15 upcharge to conformal coat most of the logic board whenever you're doing a third party repair.
> Has anyone in their company really argued that, "we should choose availability instead of consistency"? It's way more nuanced than that, and as far as I know, everyone knows that

… I'm usually experiencing the CP/AP split from the seat of a user, using the system. From where I sit … yes, it certainly feels like people are, somewhere, saying "we should choose availability", given the number of systems I've had to interact with that are trivially not CP.

Specifically, refer to https://jepsen.io/consistency — these are better, more specific terms, IMO; the number of systems that don't obey "Read Your Writes" (at the very bottom of the tree!) is pretty stark. Many Azure services, for example, are not read-your-writes; this means I'm perpetually wrapping things in loops that attempt to wait for the upstream system to become consistent, which is impossible to do in any manner that's foolproof, prior to moving on to the next API call (which would otherwise fail, if it depends on a write from the prior API call, but can't read it, because read-your-writes). Off the top of my head, I've seen empirical violations of read-your-writes in all of ARM, AAD, ACR. My latest container registry is also not read-your-writes.

S3 used to fail read-your-writes, in certain circumstances. (That have since been fixed.)
I don't really understand the notion that Sweeney's original response was terse or insufficient. He said exactly what needed to be said (good faith effort to follow the rules) succinctly and professionally. Should he have offered a pinky swear or a blood oath? Or an essay pledging his allegiance? I generally like Apple and their products but in this instance they came across as bitter and petty.
If you support the Palestinian peoples and the cause for peace or one of the various proposed solutions for long term peace, there’s no problem. Debate and differing opinions are expected.

Hamas though is a terrorist organization. Internationally recognized as such almost universally. They started this war with rape, murder, and kidnapping of innocent civilians. If you do business with them you’re breaking the law. If you give voice to them or publicly support them you are an enemy not only of your own country, but of peace and good sense. I have nothing but the harshist judgement for someone openly claiming to support Hamas.

If I found out my company had relations with Hamas I wouldn’t protest, quit, or cause a scene, I’d call the FBI. That is not a political issue, it is a serious legal and moral issue.
The cheapest from Amazon works well. Just make sure it matches PCI Gen and slot overall for throughput, e.g. PCI 3.0 x4 are fine for NVMe 3.0, but for NVMe 4.0 more is needed.
To clarify - you're right, this is a long time in a message/event queue.

It's not an eternity in a task queue which supports DAG-style workflows with concurrency limits and fairness strategies. The reason for this is you need to check all of the subscribed workers and assign a task in a transactional way.

The limit on the Postgres level is probably on the order of 5-10ms on a managed PG provider. Have a look at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39593384.

Also, these are not my benchmarks, but have a look at [1] for Temporal timings.

[1] https://www.windmill.dev/blog/launch-week-1/fastest-workflow...
This is just anticlimactic
Yeah eco-terrorism will really persuade masses about your cause, what a non-smart advice to be polite. I don't claim I have a solution, but above is not one
My partner has had issues that could be fixed with a few messages and the doctor just refused to respond and said they have to wait until the next appointment. It begins to feel like malpractice when they're refusing to fix simple issues because of billing limitations. I think the core issue here is that we're trying to make healthcare profitable when it probably shouldn't be. Stuff like healthcare, housing, and education _should_ be losing money because it's an investment in the population. If you have a hospital that's making money that seems like a bad sign
I really wish people involved in fusion research, and their university/corporate PR colleagues, had not spent the last forty years poisoning the fucking well. fusion power is still so far away that it can't even figure in to our plans for reducing emissions to zero, and yet people still publish articles like this to muddy the waters and make it sound like it matters in the short term at all.
Those are prison walls, mate.
We would all be carrying around government approved Windows Mobile phones.

Remember all this DMA stuff is coming from the same organization that wants to force Chrome and Firefox to accept TLS certificates issued by governments for any website they want: https://therecord.media/eu-urged-to-drop-law-website-authent...
> "Overnight, it basically changed the cost per watt of a fusion reactor by a factor of almost 40 in one day,"

So there is this myth that fusion enables unlimited cheap energy. This is 100% false. It's not unlimited at all. Most concepts relies on using lithium-6. That's not a super common element.

But more importantly, it's not cheap. That should be obvious, if you could reduce the cost per watt 40x and still not be competitive.
I geniunely did not know that there was a real difference between companies and asset managers. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks for informing me, and for the kind words, I'll make sure to avoid using the word company from now on.
Are extensions allowed to disable other extensions? That seems like it would be a poor design. If the feature was part of the browser, then sure, but not as an extension.
Like the Utwig Bomb:

> On it is written a very recognizable Precursor inscription, repeated over and over all over its surface; though it has not been completely translated, it seems obvious that the message is a warning. [1]

[1] - https://wiki.starcontrol.com/index.php?title=Utwig_Bomb
> I truly think that they would be mortified beyond words

My primary knows and gives me tips for navigating the administration of their own (as in, they own it) practice. I guarantee they hear quite a bit of griping and moaning from patients about phone tree and waiting room delays.

Retaining good admin staff in my area is very difficult, but doctors aren't going to close their practices because of it.
You never take something back. A grow set for example only ever grows. A monotonic counter only ever grows. Even a set where you can insert and delete once is like a set of counters that only ever grow (nothing: 0, added:1, removed:2).

Forgetting for example is fine, but deletion is not.
I think the trust comment is the crux of it. When AI can suddenly generate photorealistic images and answer any question, people wonder what it will be able to do next. Generate movies? TV shows? Video games even? And then a lawyer gets disbarred because ChatGPT made up cases and people's excitement starts to waver. And then people start using existing AI to make deepfake porn and people's excitement starts to waver. And then AI starts generating photorealistic black Nazis, and people's excitement starts to waver again. If the negative incidents keep happening but people's lives don't get better at the same time thanks to the utility of AI, people start asking "Are the downsides worth it?" and "Can we even trust the people making this stuff?".
From LGR: Frank Herbert's non-fiction book on computing

https://twitter.com/lazygamereviews/status/17637521534058950...
Yes very unlikely, that Apple didn't want to try out the new 10% penalty of global turnover, after the commission said she is looking into it and days after Apple was bonked with a 1.8bn fine for violating antitrust regulations
It’s interesting that it took 3 years from the physical test until paper publication.
If this is true, why wouldn't Microsoft patent the taskbar or directory structure tree layout pattern in Explorer?

I don't think you would be granted a design (let alone utility) patent that is as broad as "green and yellow blocks have significance, is a grid of 5x6, and has a keyboard below".

Not a lawyer though so what do I know
> The upgrade procedure is relatively simple

It's so simple! Just remove the mainboard and follow these 21 steps.
Why companies need a open source Customer Data Platform (CDP)?
While the CDP market is growing rapidly, there is also too much noise and confusion around CDP vendors.

Today, most companies are unifying their customer data in a data warehouse. Data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and others are becoming the single source of truth for companies and growing rapidly.

Naturally, companies want to make use of this data, and a CDP implementation becomes a natural choice.

But what companies fail to understand is that data control and ownership is a critical aspect of a CDP, companies tend to give away access to their datawarehouse to CDP vendors, which could lead to data privacy and security issues.

Today, open-source is growing rapidly, and companies are looking for open-source alternatives to every solution. Self-hosting and owning control of the data is a most preferred choice for companies.

That's exactly we are leading the charge with the first open-source warehouse native CDP.

Repo Link - https://github.com/Multiwoven/multiwoven
Since https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sam-altman-to-return... is hardwalled, we need to find an alternate source. I've put a stub article up there for the moment. Is there a better one?

theinformation.com used to open specific articles for HN readers on request*, but eventually stopped answering our emails.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> That said, Pons and Fleischmann rushed publication on shoddy data, making a mockery of themselves and causing cold fusion to become an untouchable subject no one would go near a generation later

Yes, they were shoddy

But no, the field was swamped within weeks with people trying to replicate it. It has lost its luster, and become a parody, but that is because it was wrong

It took a decade for the excitement to die down
there's both majesty and tragedy walking through the california redwoods.

The old-growth trees are amazing giants.

The other redwoods are beautiful too, until you start understanding the pattern of a ring of redwoods, surrounding the stump or hole. This is where an old-growth redwood grew for thousands of years, and was clear-cut to rebuild san francisco after the 1906 earthquake. not just for the wood to build, but to just burn. sigh.
New Zealand Kea are notoriously smart - they can work together to solve problems, and even seem to have something akin to laughter:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/90639503/kea-are-smarter...
> Microsoft simply lacked the network effects

Microsoft execs had their heads buried too deep in their own asses to be able to understand what was needed at the time.

They pushed a platform (Windows phone) that lacked interesting features out of the box, lacked cloud services integration to fill the gap left by the lacking base features, and required Windows as a development platform (and, iirc, C# as well?). It didn't even have any particular windows-ecosystem speciality: no special exchange integration, no special windows pc integration, nothing. Microsoft could have exploited the same reasons they exploited with Azure, Office365 and the general enterprise: microsoft phones should just integrates perfectly with other microsoft stuff. It could have been the no-brainer choice: we use ActiveDirectory and Office365 as a suite, we'll get a Windows Phones as everything just works immediately. No, nobody had thought of that.

The value proposition was just not there.

So basically another walled garden, but dumber. And the hardware didn't have anything special to make it "worth".
> Full context: "But, if this is the "Cargo is the best vs all others" debate, kindly count me out."

Okay, then my response to the full context is:

This isn't the "Cargo is the best vs all others" debate.

If you wish to be counted out, you can stop posting at any time.

You'll note that this is basically what I said to your post when I was "taking it out of context", with the exception that I also responded to some context you decided to leave out when you quoted yourself.

> Using ellipses and quote mining to make your opponent look foolish is the lowest form of sophistry and against HN policy.

I split up your comments when I quoted them to make it clearer what I was responding to.

> I fail to see what C has to do with the choice of build tools.

You are definitely smart enough to figure that out.

The author of the original article seems to see the connection, given they titled their article "How to Structure C Projects" and then went on to write a bunch about a build system.

> > C isn't perfect and it's not the best at everything.

> No one. NO ONE, has made any claims even remotely like that.

Sure, nobody is foolish enough to make such a claim so obviously. But if a person responds to any criticism of C with vitriol, one begins to think that person is invested in a belief that C is perfect.

> Actually, there is excellent modern tooling for C. There are proof assistants and model checkers. It's possible to do similar things in modern C as in Rust or other languages, from proving the absence of UB to proving memory safety features.

And I'm sure these modern tools are easy enough to use that everyone uses them, given their obvious benefits, right? Have you even used a proof assistant?

To be clear what point I'm making: these tools are amazing, feats of engineering, but they're not really viable for most C projects. Using a proof assistant is far harder than you're giving it credit for, enough so that I very much doubt that you've one to prove things about C programs. If you have, you're much smarter than me, because I've tried, and proving anything non-trivial was beyond what I could do with reasonable effort.

> By the way, did you know that you can build C/C++ projects using Cargo? Yeah. Me neither. Huh.

If I go into a average Rust project, and run "cargo run", Cargo will build the project, and the resulting binary will run.

If I go into a random C project, and run "cargo run", that won't happen.

And in fact, there is not a tool in existence where I can go into a random C project and run that tool, and it will build the C project. "make" is about as close as you can get to that, and in most C projects that simple four letter command is glossing over a whole lot of work that went into producing the Makefile.

I'll remind you of when you said, "I fail to see what C has to do with the choice of build tools."
Oh I definitely agree. But the point is that you’ve informed them of the process before expiring their link. These types of complainers are just looking for an easy button and don’t care about your security policies so I say to do this just so you can point at it and say it’s your process if someone really gets their panties in a wad over it.

It’s also why you say it on the site when the link is found to be expired. You basically remind them of the email even though they didn’t read it. Just consistent messaging is all. It might reduce the number of folks that decide to yell at you over it but will never fully eliminate them.

IMO the appropriate easy button is them using a password manager which is what I’d recommend. Also, just ignore these complaints if they don’t take your explanation and really push hard it’s a customer not worth pleasing at some point.