skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The longer you look at it the more interesting the issue is.

The fee Uber has been paying and the assertion that it doesn't protect a company from legal liability.

The fact that what initially seems like a horrid and ridiculous argument ("we're an app!") actually unpacks to something consequential.

The fact that Uber's model ostensibly relies on personal cars being used (so who's responsible for the lack of accessible cars?).
Other titans tried, they all failed to capture. Blackberry lagged for too long and Microsoft simply lacked the network effects since early advertisement was based on how large the app stores were.

The only solace is that you can modify Android to the point where there's almost no Google interference whatsoever. But of course some apps choose to rely on that (e.g. Banking).maybe one day Apple will begrudgingly get to that point.
G-con 101: Intro to UTXO Finance
An alternative to the ritual include foo.h as the first line of foo.c strategy is to compile each header individually, `clang -x c -Wall foo.h -c -o /dev/null` or similar. That catches roughly the same developer intent.

Similar to the cross compiled / native distinction, it's probably a good idea to put platform specific things behind an interface up front. Link time is a good point to swap out win32 for linux or similar and implementing the second target is much easier if you drew the line up front. The platform layer might also be one worth writing a mock for as part of testing.
Flybys only, no lander. This mission is monolith-compliant.
In a strictly business sense, Uber made the right call. Paying $35,000 plus lawyers to learn this is a service they need to provide is cheaper than building it preemptively. In a human sense, it's pretty fucked.
What homelab people who do not work with/in a data center daily doesn't realize is how noisy and power hungry is the equipment they procure.

They got a managed switch, nice. It has VLANs, stacking, etc. nice. How many 48 port switches you can possibly stack in a home? You got a Sun ZFS7420. Great. That's a rack with two controllers with 1TB RAM each. That thing screams. An entry level 7320 is maybe workable, but you can't do 7420 at home. Same for HPE/Dell/Netapp storage boxen.

Doing Infiniband is home is another thing I can't understand. Fiber cables are extremely expensive. Copper is range limited and thick, plus unless you do HPC, its latency and speed doesn't mean much. Go fiber Ethernet. Much more practical.

I understand the curiosity and willingness to play, but it's not that practical to play with these at home (noise, space, heat, power wise). I also buy high end consumer hardware. TP-Link has 4/8 port smart managed SOHO switches for example, they even have PoE. Power your Raspi cluster via PoE with less cables and get some respectable computing power with no noise. Neat! No?

Dell's Rack servers are generally not noisy at idle, but a 2U server under some real load is unbearable. What's funny that an Intel N95 has the same power with an i7-3770K with better SIMD support while being 4x more efficient, and that thing is not slow by any means.
I don't know, I haven't been keeping track of the specific UI of every social platform to correlate design changes with instances of attempted political action. Why is it relevant?
sadly, a lot of patients consider that good care - around me, doctors stopped weighing patients, and don't ever discuss lifestyle changes or dietary changes (patients by and large don't want to hear it) - they just give the patients the pills they want to offset the poor lifestyle choices.
There is a glottal stop between the sounds in "look cool". You couldn't do that to lukecool without it sounding like two words.
Not using HTTPS means that anybody can inject malware for visitors to your website.

There are no websites that don't need SSL.
Sounds like selling snow to an eskimo.
Well I regularly do indeed wing it in Blender. It is poorly suited for conforming to specific measurements out of the box, but with some plugins it's usable enough. Definitely wouldn't imagine it being in spec for any professional usage but for hobbyist maker stuff getting within 100 microns is more than accurate enough. I mean hell, I can't really measure much more accurately with my callipers anyway.
You could say “chilled water”
The Apple II had a one-bit DAC!

Accessing address 0xC030 (PEEK(-16336) or STA $C030) would cause the machine's internal speaker to click. I assume it was the result of the voltage to the speaker toggling from digital on to digital off.

POKE(-16336) was quieter. I figured it was because it was implemented as a quick read-then-write instruction sequence, too fast for the speaker diaphragm to move end-to-end (effectively a quieter sound). Assembly behavior was different.

In spite of its simplicity, there were games with amazing PWM sound effects (crude by today's standards, but magical in the early 1980s). The software company Muse even produced a sort of speech synthesizer that played sampled words, like an audio version of a ransom note. It sounded wonderfully awful.
> Hatchet is built on a low-latency queue (25ms average start)

That seems pretty long - am I misunderstanding something? By my understanding this means the time from enqueue to job processing, maybe someone can enlighten me.
We shouldn't limit our use of language based on laws written 100 years ago. It's pretty clear that those laws are inadequate to restrain the monopolies that exist now.

Said another way, you might be right about US antitrust law, but when that law was written the technology didn't exist to create "vendor lock-in" on millions of products at once.

I am curious about the example though, from a legal perspective. Would the only seller of gasoline have a monopoly, even if other fuels were available, and the only barrier to using them was the switching cost of buying a new vehicle?

Edit: For what it's worth, wikipedia uses the word monopoly when "a single vendor controls the market for the method or technology being locked in to".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
I googled "Dihuni" and the 3rd result is a Reddit post about them being a scam, so that doesn't give me much confidence and anyone who orders should probably be careful.
How did anyone think the deception wouldn't be promptly found out? Too many people would rush to replicate it.
It's pretty confusing, because X (formerly twitter) has a chatbot called Grok. I assume this is a different thing?
Agree, it's the Tolkien equivalents of today that will be remembered a century from now, all the millions of ranting writers will be entirely forgotten except for the occasional curious reader who stumble across an archived copy.
On paper, these look promising, no direct experience. Also on Amazon US/CA.

$170, N100, 16GB LPDDR5, dual 2.5GbE, https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-n-box-pro-intel-n100-mi...

$210, N100, dual 3.5" SATA, M.2 NVME, dual 2.5GbE, https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-r1-2bay-nas-intel-n100-...

$250, Ryzen 5700U, https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-cyber-amd-ryzen-7-5700u...
Hmm, maybe the MMC child windows were owned by a different thread (which would also involve a separate message loop and a context switch) but not a different process? I distinctly remember finding some windows in there that were not owned by the main thread, but I don't have my notes accessible at the moment.
Actually they were, partially
It was mind-blowing to me that in previous threads, Apple fanatics were defending Apple, saying that Epic had broken the developer agreement. It hadn't. Schiller clearly stated that he banned Epic because he didn't believe Sweeney when Sweeney literally said that he would abide by the agreement. I don't see this behavior with any other company.
More SLO County homeowners are losing their fire insurance
Realistically, we can't reduce false positives to absolutely zero without giving up on some True Positives (sensitivity/specificity tradeoff).

Nature intentionally plays loose with potentially world-changing discoveries. It probably makes sense to have some journals that publish with fairly high rates of (post-hoc determined) false positives, simply to move the fields forward more quickly.
iOS Safari is the only thing that prevents a Chromium/Blink hegemony. A popular Chrome on iOS would be a return to the IE6 days (Firefox has such a minuscule market share, no one even notices it)
Did those patients press “4” for “urgent problems to be responded to immediately” or something?

> If people had to pay, maybe they would _think_ before asking questions.

Be careful, a lot more people might be calling at 4am because they figure it’s okay because they’re paying for it. At least other contractors can give people a “fuck off” quote for work they don’t want to take, but might be difficult to implement that here.
Expecting employees to enable you to do what they aren't okay with having supported and be silent is just as entitled a worldview. Employees are not to Management/Executives as a child is to a parent. We're all adults. We're all here together, and literally the only thing the Exec title carries with it is potential liabiliy.

Don't like not having your every whim kowtow'd to by people below you? Well, feel free to fire and incur the increased uninsurance premiums that will detract from your bottom line. And hey, there's other places to hire people in. But oh wait.... Everywhere else still recognizes the legotimacy of secondary strikes. Let me know how that works for ya.

Or... You know, listen to the people actually doing the hard work. Be a pity if something unfortunate were to happen to that all those cooperative people that make you making money possible.
Archive [1] as sometimes they region restrict, however the article applies to more places now

[1] - https://archive.is/ibDlH
Siblings have mentioned the TV game show Lingo. I can't precisely date Bulls and cows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_cows), but it's hard to imagine that it (the gameplay, if not that particular pen-and-paper game) isn't much older than television, hence than Lingo.
Yeah, they’re a partner. I can believe your stat for specialists, but not for the general practitioners you’re most likely to be emailing.
Europe is the home of ARM, the core technology licensed in Apple silicon for what, 15 years now? STMicroelectronics too, who is just as important in the production of the iPhone as Texas Instruments.

More logically, the United States is reluctant to regulate phone shipments because Apple and Google constitute the strongest surveillance network ever exported internationally. Europe stands to lose nothing if Epic or Spotify go bankrupt, the 'muh protectionism' argument only makes sense from the perspective of companies that actually matter. So obviously there has to be something bigger at play, the Commission wouldn't be listening to scoundrels and nobodies unless they said something that made sense.
It's good scrutiny to have, but I'm surprised that there are now at leat 3 users here that really believe that Apple reversed course in 3 days out of the goodness of their hearts. I can't even get a response from many customer services in 3 days. No company thst big turns on a dime without extreme arm twisting.
you have to give it to the guy - he continued coding even after loosing in the court and having to read tons of legal papers -

Sept 10, 2021: Lost a court case, climbed a mountain, read hundreds of pages of legal papers, wrote some code. Just as determined as ever to fight on until there is genuine developer and consumer freedom in software, and fair competition in each mobile platform software component.

https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1436583527290654720?s=20
Federal Reserve Board Announced Ending of the Bank Term Funding Program
> Miss me with actual harms being done.

I'm pretty sure a middle-schooler could understand the EU Commission's reasoning here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/image/conten...

You might disagree, but this is an Apple-specific behavior that does demonstrable harm to the market and consumers. Apple was flippant towards Dutch regulators when they were being investigated over this, and that negligence earned them scrutiny on a much larger stage. The further Apple doubles-down, the more legislative artillery the EU will dedicate to stopping them; this reversal on Epic's account is evidence that Apple doesn't see light at the end of their tunnel, they're not building a defensible case.
pdu: https://github.com/KSXGitHub/parallel-disk-usage

Great compliment to ncdu for a single-view disk report and blazing fast.
For the search database, I did have to manually download each and every company, all 856,000 of them. To cut down on size though, I included all data points except for filings. This is because they're large, but also because they're updated often. By excluding them the database stays more up-to-date.

Other than the search database which needs to be available on demand, the rest of the filers are queried and analyzed on demand. This is required because some filers get really, really big. Blackrock Inc alone is about a 30MB file.
I’m pretty sure Copilot just came out to some JetBrain’s products. Like literally this week. At least two people in my team already tried it in IDEA. Iirc from the thread the were messaging in it was still behind some nightly build and not on stable, or something. I’m sure you can google it. =)
> The publication has filed several DMCA copyright requests
The really sad part is that go-nowhere do-nothing legislation like this sucks the air out of the room for real concern over Facebook. American citizens desperately need data privacy laws and assurances that prevents unjust data collection and profiling from companies like Facebook. The news regulation angle is a manipulation of outrage that worse yet gives Facebook the exact "free ride" they want. It's such an insidious diversion you'd think Mark Zuckerberg planned it himself.

Nonsense appeals like this one really makes you wonder what it's like for Rupert Murdoch et. al these days. Your penthouse is nice, but something feels off. Nobody is talking to you, the TV is on but nobody's watching. A press event happens at the White House, and your daughter reads it to you from her phone before you even see it hit the Fox ticker reel. Something inside such a man must snap, watching the concept of 'news' obsolete itself before his very eyes. For someone who's namesake is built on traditional media, it would probably feel like watching yourself die. He stumbles away to fetch the vinyl for Komm, süßer Tod and sits listening with his hands folded until he can find a way to make it all work out.

On the bright side, the cries from traditional media have garnered about as much credibility as Craig Wright running up a bar tab. Hopefully the commercial nature of either side helps to paint their true intentions.
Many gyrocopters can clutch the gearbox to the rotor for "jump" takeoff, they ae still classed as gyros because the rotor is unpowered in flight. On the ground the torque is resisted by the wheel brakes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3RPYWmdv174
He now confirmed contact

"I take note with satisfaction that following our contacts Apple decided to backtrack its decision on Epic exclusion."

From Day 2, #DMA is already showing very concrete results!

https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1766167580497117464
>> [cdelsolar] Are you a literary critic?

> [jfengel] I am. (Or at least, adjacent to one, a Shakespeare scholar.)

I love this about HN. It gave me "Are you John Nagle, or was that a quote?" classic vibes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048947
Yes, this is all true -- and it is also undeniable that AirBnB caused a dramatic reduction in hotel pricing in NYC.

In 2008 it was close to impossible to find a hotel in useful parts of Manhattan for under $500/night (in 2008 dollars!). That pricing seems outrageous now.
Those are terrifying

What a mess.

After the "metrics" revolution we started to measure and incentivise everything. It has not worked well for science.
I remember playing tunes using the serial output of a Grundy Newbrain. Not exactly hifibut fun.
here is the full record that comes from copyright.gov (https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=P...):

Type of Work: Computer File

Registration Number / Date:
PA0002342355 / 2022-03-28

Application Title: Wordle.

Title: Wordle.

Description: Electronic file (eService)

Notes: Videogame.

Copyright Claimant:
The New York Times, Transfer: By written agreement.

Date of Creation: 2021

Date of Publication:
2021-06-20

Nation of First Publication:
United States

Authorship on Application:
Josh Wardle; Domicile: United States; Citizenship: United
Kingdom. Authorship: computer program code and text of
instructions.

Rights and Permissions:
William Patterson, Swanson, Martin & Bell, 330 North Wabash
Avenue, Suite 3300, Chicago, IL, 60611,
wpatterson@smbtrials.com

Copyright Note: C.O. correspondence.

Names: Wardle, Josh
New York Times

===============================================================================
This could just be availability bias but man if it doesn't seem like Boeing has some sort of quality issue every other week.
Meh. Geometry kernels are oversold. Triangulate, CSG and triumph. CSG is the non-trivial part - and Manifold (https://github.com/elalish/manifold) is excellent at this.

At least for consumer stuff where you anyway eventually just want triangles for either rendering or 3d printing.

If your industrial workflow includes CNC machines you may benefit from actual analytic surface cuts and unions - maybe.
I'm sorry, I think you misunderstand the technology. Hardware virtualization covers much of the CPU cases, but there are still three attack surfaces: handling the guest instruction traps on the host side which can actually get quite hairy in corner cases, the devices the guest drives, implemented in software on the host side, and shared hardware information leakage.

These are all improving: hardware support is generally getting better and guests modified to behave nicer so weird cases can just fail, and devices are often now specifically designed for virtualization (plug for my old project VirtIO here!). But it's still software, and asserting there are no bugs left seems incautious.

The information leakage problems are an ongoing whack-a-mole which depends on your setup: they may or may not result in escapes, depending on the nature of the secrets.

Of course, higher level bugs are still there: convincing people or software to change settings, install software or pass too much information through existing channels which are perfectly secure!
Wow, you really nailed it on the head.

I have been tearing my hair out for the last hour trying to get my Always Free Oracle instance running again.
one of the problems is, how can a doctor in good conscience continue to renew your prescriptions, if they don't see you and re-evaluate the need?

Maybe they put you on 5MG on amlodipine for your moderately-high blood pressure 18 months ago, but since then you have put on an extra 75lbs and now you have critically high blood pressure - lots of liability if they just keep re-prescribing a low-dose that doesn't match your current conditions.

Everyone wants the easy path to getting the pills they think they need - then there is a bad outcome and some greedy lawyer and client come along and want $10Million in damages for the poor care they got.
Awesome project, I have submitted a request.
I don't want to give one company a monopoly just to prevent a potential monopoly. I want better anti-trust to handle both and all monopolies. And handling the existing and real monopoly is how that starts.
LK-99 is interesting because it really is like another example of cold fusion.

And I don't mean what you probably infer from that. If you look into the way that hydrogen adsorbs into a platinum lattice, and how phonon resonance modes can induce tremendous crushing forces on anything between two platinum atoms, cold fusion actually looks quite plausible. It's not like perpetual motion--there's a clear possible mechanism for it which is surprisingly fully compatible with the laws of physics as we understand them. 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 due to perceived guilt by association.

The theory behind LK-99 is pretty solid. The linear structure of these apatite compounds create chains of conductive electron bands that in theory might have sufficient band gaps to enable superconductivity. If you could get atomic precision in the copper/lead alternating pattern that creates those stresses. However I fear any research into room-temperature linear superconductors will now be as taboo as cold fusion.
I'm sorry, all we can do is listen to these? We can't read them?
To be clear, the 25ms isn't a guarantee. We have a load testing CLI [1] and the secondary steps on multi-step workflows are in the range of 25ms, while the first steps are in the range of 50ms, so that's what I'm referencing.

There's still a lot of work to do for optimization though, particularly to improve the polling interval if there aren't workers available to run the task. Some people might expect to set a max concurrency limit of 1 on each worker and have each subsequent workflow take 50ms to start, which isn't be the case at the moment.

[1] https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet/tree/main/examples/lo...
The protests against SOPA and PIPA.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA
> a massive metal vault designed to protect them from Jupiter’s punishing radiation. The commemorative plate will seal an opening in the vault.

Which makes me wonder, why not cover the massive metal vault's surface with more engravings?
Are NYT still writing news, or just copyright trolling?
Definitely just Apple trying to save face. Without the threat of fines and lengthy legal proceedings Apple would not have cared about "epic's commitment to follow the rules"
Tracking users without their consent is wrong and also forbidden in at least the EU.

Instead of letting Apple make and enforce the rules, we should have laws in place that hold App Stores accountable for what they are selling, just like physical stores.
Doesn't the name "Wordle" and the rules for the game come from an article in Creative Computing in the 70s?
I was going to respond the same thing but it’s really pointless.

What would it even mean to say that one doesn’t have the right to free speech, if having the right was indefensible after having spoken?

“You have the right to bear arms but I have the right to persecute you for bearing arms”??

“You have the right to remain silent but I have the right to jail you for remaining silent”??

“Rights” in this case seem to be conflated with the technical capacity to exist as a human being and nothing beyond that.

It’s just virtue signaling without substance.
I fully agree with you.

'But I am really saying, I'm dubious of anyone promoting "Use my new thing X which is good because it doesn't introduce a new dependency."'

"Advances in software technology and increasing economic pressure have begun to break down many of the barriers to improved software productivity. The ${PRODUCT} is designed to remove the remaining barriers […]"

It reads like the above quote from the pitch of r1000 in 1985. https://datamuseum.dk/bits/30003882