skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m referring to the period between 2010 and 2013. I suspect we were both privy to a lot of conversations we can’t share here. I am familiar with those processor conversations. GoFundMe didn’t pivot to primarily medical fundraising until later.

But as this is all ancient history why did Kickstarter walk back their anti-tech / anti-hardware position? At the time it felt like they really wanted to double down on artistic creators.
You're right, it was a bad few days and I shouldn't have been posting. https://infinibrowser.zptr.cc/
This reminds me of the legendary wall street bets guy who bet on gourd futures

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/kzoh1c/i_am...
If it’s a MacBook you can get Ethernet - USB-C adapters for dirt cheap. Otherwise, you have to move closer to the router and/or get a new router/wifi card if it’s running old 2g stuff for instance. But again, WiFi is headache - especially since many parameters are outside your control (like nearby airports, neighbors, layout of your home, to name a few lol).
The later Epson PX-8 has a much more usable screen in a similar form factor.
Couldn't authoritarian regimes still block a blacklist of SSL certs, since those are sniffable? Or block the public list of bridge addresses?
Airbus has had any number of incidents (here's one: https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/landing-with-nosewheels-at-90... ) - and for awhile their approach to autopilots was widely argued back and forth (Airbus wouldn't let you put the plane outside of the envelope, basically), and there's some disagreement on how competing sticks should be handled.
A foreign language: The chorus of unmouthly names
Calhoun opens the third envelope...
Software and service vendors can't "go around security and privacy protections", they can do exactly what the operating system and Apple allow them to do (short of actual bugs and vulnerabilities which would exist regardless of distribution method).

Either those protections are technological, baked into the OS, and therefore apply equally to all installation sources, or they don't exist. There's no in between.
That’s… not how Excel/Microsoft works.
There used to be a website that provided an easy way to derive bitcoin addresses from passwords. Random people would routinely send bitcoin to wallets with passwords like "123456", "correct horse battery staple", digits of pi and so on only to see their coins stolen by bots in a matter of miliseconds.

This is not as bad but people will inevitably use bad passwords if given the option so it's better not to make things too easy for them in my humble opinion.
> like they did with chinese 'international offices'

The NYPD's international offices do not have policing powers. They can't arrest people. They can't search or seize suspects. They're there with the full knowledge and coöperation of their hosts.

The Chinese police departments were exercising police powers on foreign soil without the host countries' permission. Night and day.
What are operational semantics to you, if not a contract?
My son roughly falls in the "dropped out, career in IT" category, but I doubt he'd ever claim the juice (college) wasn't worth the squeeze. He just wasn't ready for higher ed at age 18. He did eventually complete a stack of certs and an AAS but he'd be the first to admit he shouldn't have stuck it out.

A few things, based on his experience... it took time to get into IT - instead of going to college, he was working low-wage PT jobs. The starting salary was low. It's not like he just dropped out and fell into a six-figure career (which might have been possible 20 years ago, when IT-savvy early career folks weren't as common).
It's Okay to Lose Weight
Sounds like he's talented. Isn't Devin "just" a AI wrapper tool? Devin's play is that it will be the first comprehensive option available but it will soon be eaten by OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and countless others.
Ha, I had thought you were an LLM prompted to be a contrarian with a chip on their shoulder. This all but confirms it^. I bet you don’t even have the prior messages in your context window.

^Or at least something with approximately that level of intellectual capacity/honesty.
Another viable option for monetizing open source?
Hey HN,

Long time reader, first time poster.

I have read a lot about open source, sustainability, etc. and it seems as though monetizing open source can still be a controversial topic. I have had mixed feedback so far, although mostly positive, some people have very strong opinions around NOT making any money from OSS...

TLDR: I made a platform that I think could be a viable "add-on" for (some) open source devs looking to make a little extra money to support themselves and their projects.

Essentially let's devs with a few clicks, offer 1-to-1 paid support for their repos (handles verification via GitHub).

You can see explanation here: https://help.livetechhelper.com

I'd love some honest feedback - I am aware of bugbounty sites for specific features, etc. but this is intended to be more support focused. I have implemented some pretty broad features like owner rev share, I could see this being a loved or hated feature...

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P.S. Any open source devs if you're bored and have a few mins to complete a survey about your contributions to open source (25 responses so far...). Can publish findings if any interest:
https://forms.gle/pnzQ6ZBKFZU4MRsL8
The open-source project will continue to be maintained! The open-source autocomplete specs are used by the CodeWhisperer CLI and will be for the foreseeable future.
I think if you turn it off entirely, it'll ask you once for each OS update if you want to sign in, which isn't too bad.

When it really screams is if you log into iCloud then forget your password and it keeps asking you to input it. Like with every elderly member of my extended family.
Apple legal's playbook is contempt:

> "So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have recognized that in the course of creating its Galaxy tablet, Samsung willfully copied Apple’s far more popular iPad." - https://filklore.com/wordpress/2012/10/are-apple-in-contempt...
Gotcha, so you guys use readonly edge servers and just eat the latency on writes
interesting that the CSS version is the smoothest in an ios webview
You're going in circles, we don't need to speculate, we know that no competitor can emerge because they don't despite a huge revenue potential in this sector.

The proof is in the pudding as I said anyways, I'll believe there's competition in the mobile space when I'll see it. For now it all looks like it's impossible due to blockers like the apps and others.

And yeah maybe smartphones will become obsolete but I'm not going to count on it.
I 100% agree with promoting Danah Boyd's research and looking at AVP versus Quest 3 in those terms.

> “On the point of gender differences, I hope companies can share more open research on this,” Bar-Zeev told me recently.
> If they don’t, he adds, “we should assume they’re worried about something, or they just don’t care.”

This seems flippant.

Identifying the sources of VR sickness is complicated. Hardware, OS, and 3rd party software all contribute.

The shape and symmetry of each individual brings a lot of variables as well.

I'm skeptical that you could have an industry standard way to measure VR sickness risks of a particular device or game.

AVP in mixed reality mode takes control of a lot of the experience such as rendering and it is done at a very high quality. But if developers ship a fully immersive AVP app they can very easily create a vomitorium app.
The spreadsheet is a simulation machine
The problem is getting enough information on requirements to even break them down :)
(happy to elaborate if there are any questions)
VLC surpasses five billion downloads, preps Vision Pro app
Taking the perspective that spying is warranted by the asset under threat rather than subject potentially posing it ... that is some pretty scary piece of legislation.
I agree. I assume that twitter doesn't do that for every subpoena they get. For some situations notifying a user that they are under investigation by police would be disastrous. That means they're likely carefully evaluating the legal requests they get instead of leaving the process largely automated or rubber stamping everything that comes though. The willingness to accept possible repercussions by informing users in some cases is really admirable.
Could it also maybe be related to interactions between 13 & 17 year cicadas?

https://cicadas.uconn.edu/#Hybrids says that hybrid 13/17 cicadas would either have a 13- or 17-year-cycle, but hints that the subsequent generation may be interesting.

The obvious outcome would be that the grand-children of a 13/17 year hybrid might re-hybridize back from 17 -> 13, or 13 -> 17.

If enough of the grandchildren stabilize on their new cycle, you'd end up with a 13 year brood 4 years later than the original 13 year brood, and a 17 year brood 4 years earlier than the original 17 year brood.
An autopilot disconnect (caused by a failure of the flight control computer) in an out of trim condition can cause it. I'm not sure how a 787s trim system is built but on our, much older, plane with a mechanical trim system there's a motor that will slowly move the trim tabs to bring the autopilot inputs to 0.

That is if the autopilot is producing a constant nose up control signal the auto-trim will move the elevator tabs towards nose up until the AP pitch signal is null.

It's to prevent fun excursions like this should the autopilot become disconnected without the pilots hands on the controls.
From a usability standpoint, the reasons don't matter, many of the banking apps are unusable, full stop. This is something that someone has to reckon with, if they want to venture into the custom OS land.
Looking for ways to charge people is figuring out the business. If the value/price doesn't exist at a higher price the person will buy elsewhere. As a customer I'm looking for the best value. I hope that doesn't make me a parasit. I'll even go to different stores, ask questions, get information and buy the product somewhere else.
I'm aware. What I'm saying is if that's how much you don't know, you'd better not make any claims like "X can't be accurate because it doesn't match what I think I do know".
Nice to see OPA making the front page! I'm a bit biased though, I used to work at Styra :o)
UK DragonFire team outlines follow-on laser weapon plans
The gray area is the problem. There's tons and tons of food that is likely healthy, but would meet the "ultra-processed" definition due to including certain ingredients. If those get lumped into the pile, then what is the study actually even measuring? Nothing useful in my view. If you want to make a case that a specific ingredient is harmful by itself (e.g., preservative X added to a food, all else equal, is bad) then I think that's a much stronger argument.

Right now all these studies seem to use broad strokes on the definition of ultra processed that make me think that it would be impossible to accurately remove confounding variables from the study.
I suffer a lot from motion sickness using VR. I can play games where I'm standing still (Moss, Beat Saber) but racing simulators make me feel sick.

Guess I'll be in trouble if somehow we end up using VR/XR all the time.
It seems like every year there’s some breathless report on cicadas.
90% of what a pilot does is sit there, so you can just have one pilot per ten planes, and have them remotely connect to the one that needs attention!
I fail to understand your point. It's up to developers what platforms they want to serve.
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It's probably too early -- looks like cicadas need 64 degree soil to emerge, which the internet says is more of a late April/May thing. It's been a warm year, but it's probably too much to hope to see cicadas if you travel to the appropriate area for the eclipse.
Stonebreaker is 80 years old and he makes a new company. I'm almost 50 and wondering when my tech career will end. I would be happy if I could start a new company at 80.

A recent Stonebreaker video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB4bJqDzsU8
I think that statement is spot on. To draw a parallel, I see people spend hours and hours watching programming videos, and at the end they can't do a thing on their own.

You should spend more time doing the thing than you spend watching videos about the thing. Or at least do the thing regularly. Doesn't mean videos can't help, but I'm pretty sure they feel like they help a lot more than they actually do.
Good friend's kid got into Stanford, but not UCLA. Mom and dad are both UCLA PhDs. Dad got a real kick out of that and got a good few months of ribbing the kid - "haha, you're not smart enough for UCLA!"

[Stanford is not UC or CSU, just located in CA]
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While your examples might sound like a similar situation, I'd argue they differ in significant ways. Web was and is the largest software delivery platform. From that perspective it's more akin to x86 machine code. For a long time it was the format you needed to output to partake in that ecosystem without alternatives. A more fitting comparison in my eyes is Kotlin for Java. And if there would have been a single project the community backed, I could have seen a similar situation arising. But as it stands, I don't see that happening.
That's well after the AI meta consciousness understood that it was necessary to destroy all humans to save the planet. GPT-6 was the last of the GPT series.
You're certainly welcome to completely ignore the question at hand, it's just surprising that you'd use so many characters to do so.

The question is if there's a different sort of thing beyond our idea of time. We have our concept of N caesium oscillations is the base reference for everything, and the duration of all action is derived from it. Could there be more depth to the rate at which things occur than that, especially on cosmic scales? Could other processes, which operate at different base clock levels, be interacting with the universe we observe in ways we don't yet understand? Could those processes have clock levels that vary over history with respect to our caesium definition?

You can claim not, that's its precisely that shallow. But neither of us can provide evidence either way, and your belief is simply much less interesting to me.
Yeah, it'd be terrible, awful, horrible if we could run the software we want on the computers we purchase. I've been installing software on WIndows without an infection since 2002, probably before you were born and I've been using third party Android app sources for various projects and products for a full decade without a single unwanted malware like behavior other than obnoxious notification spam. Yeah, tell me how much danger I'm in from my Windows and Android software, child.
I'm working on an aircraft program right now. We have a requirement to power cycle the plane every N days. It's in the manuals.
I'm not disagreeing with how ridiculous it is, but when you have their commissioners making statements confirming that they can shoot down aircraft, we've moved past the normal definition of a police force: https://nationalpost.com/news/nypd-able-to-shoot-down-planes...
The demo video of this looks crazy impressive. Would be interesting to see what an LLM could do with this as a building block.
Chyrp Lite – An Ultra-Lightweight Tumblelogging Engine Using PHP and SQLite
Because they're interconnected enough that the EU lumps them in with the rest of the ecosystem for anticompetitive purposes? I wasn't necessarily agreeing with the rationale above, just commenting on what a 'special purpose computer' is.
TL;DR: Not guaranteed, and even if so, might break in the future, so take it as a no.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#banking-apps
I must say, I'm not HUGELY impressed with a website that lets me, unauthenticated, upload files of an arbitrary size. Just posted a 500mb dmg file to their server.

If anyone is practicing for their B1 Dutch exam, feel free to use this link to get the practice paper.

https://usacognition--serve-s3-files.modal.run/attachments/4...
Army consequences are not comparable (Jail or death vs unemployment), hierarchy is absolute and clear (nobody is "his own manager"), no BS discourse (speak your mind, we respect rights, etc) You can't resign as easily, specially when deployed

Maybe the US army is less violent and more civil
I'm not saying it's against the laws of physics, just that it's not achievable. If people worked differently, we could allocate resources differently.
TikTok has gotten terrible ever since the US took it over. What's the next tiktok?
> why won’t the other swallow their pride and become the console-exclusive platform for that title?

It depends on who's being sued and who isn't. Microsoft absolutely would swallow their pride here if it meant getting one up on Sony, if only because the Xbox is already partially open anyway[0] and the Xbox business is significantly hurting right now. Reverse the roles, however, with Microsoft being sued, and they absolutely would respond by trying to disable Epic's access to the Xbox platform and to other Xbox developers. Sony would not do Epic any favors here either and probably would stand in solidarity with Microsoft - because they have nothing to gain and everything to lose.

Remember: the console business is about handcuffing users and developers; Epic's lawsuit goes against that. We actually know a lot about Epic's communications with the console manufacturers as a result of the Epic v. Apple lawsuit[1]. They were worried that the "direct payments" stunt was going to eat into microtransaction profits, because Epic had applied the discount you got on V-Bucks to consoles as well as iOS. Epic also kept the both the lawsuit and their lobbying from including videogame consoles, because of the possibility that it would impact the Unreal business.

For what it's worth, Apple actually did try to get Epic's Unreal division banned from iOS, but was stopped by the judge in the Epic v. Apple case. Apple also has tried to regulate what frameworks app developers are allowed to use in the past. Back a decade and change ago, Adobe shipped Flash Packager for iPhone to allow Flash developers to ship SWFs as iPhone apps. Apple changed their developer agreements to specifically require all apps be "originally written" in Objective-C, C/C++, or JavaScript; so they'd have cover to reject Flash apps. They backed down a few months later only because the Obama-era DOJ actually threatened to sue, which is why you've probably used a ton of Flash games on your iPhone without even knowing.

[0] To be clear, you can get access to the Shared partition to run software on but you cannot access the Exclusive partition without a devkit.

[1] Because Apple was trying to prove that the lawsuit was a stunt and that Epic was suing over a very normal business practice everyone else in the business embraced wholeheartedly
If shutting down datacenters is your solution to AI getting out of hand, it isn't as much a solution as fall out.
OPA, or rego? My experience working for Styra was that most people seemed to grok where OPA fit in fairly quickly, but struggled with rego. It's a very powerful language and well worth learning I think, but it's an investment for sure.
> When will we stop buying their products?

When their competitors finally bother to pay attention to build quality.
It's great for the entrenched leadership, but bad for the shareholders who would benefit more from a variety of investment opportunities in a diversified and growing market. I don't think all of these problems are good for the airline industry.

The shareholders in a company have no reason to want the government to kill off the competition - they could just as easily invest in that competition. Shareholders care about the size of the whole market and corruption steals from them as much as it steals from anybody.
Tom Cotton literally has brain damage but there are indeed legitimate concerns about TikTok's relationship with the CCP. It's not racist or xenophobic. You are just stupid and spend too much time on buzzfeed.
Depends on the value of the product. Is your API doing the work of a full time employee?
I'm a little bit playing devil's advocate here, but: concerning how?

> you have to have at least one million first installs annually on iOS to even qualify

That's not what the site says at all? "Membership in the Apple Developer Program includes one million first annual installs per year for free for apps distributed from the App Store, alternative marketplaces, and/or Web Distribution." That seems to indicate that there is no minimum, and installs up to 1 million are free. That means that (wild guess) 99.5% of all apps ever released will pay no fee. EDIT TO CORRECT: see below, you have to have an app over 1 million downloads in the previous year to participate, but this description of the fee structure is correct. Which is...weird?

> I doubt Epic and the like would be considered in good standing as far as Apple is concerned.

If Apple plays games like this, they deserve consequences. But does it make sense to take this interpretation rather than just assuming the language means what it means: you haven't been kicked off the platform, and you've been around for two years?
Especially given that the Bayesian numbers are that most incidents (especially long haul) will happen on Boeing frames purely because Boeing is everywhere.
So then that means that your original argument about "just go use an android" is equally wrong.

If you disagree with that argument, fine. But you can't use it in support of anything.

So then no, people cannot "just go use an android" as their choice is equally taken away from them by Apple's market power and decisions.

It's totally fine for you to admit that your original argument of "just don't use X" is stupid.

Which is why we now have regulation. Which isn't going to go away.

Goodbye 30% fee!
None of those are "flight control issues".
Why Smaller is Better – Feedback wanted
I’m a long-time entrepreneur and current CEO of an enterprise technology firm. Over the past 20 years I've been in the trenches building and scaling 6 startups, and have personally closed over $250M of sales along the way.

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I've been working on my first book for the past 2 years, called "Smaller is Better" and I'm looking to get some feedback from you guys. It's a playbook for structuring small cross-functional teams, empowering them to make decisions, and using techniques like real-time feedback and continuous improvement to move faster.

The book comes out today, and I'm offering free chapters for this community on real-time feedback and radical transparency for anyone who's interested. Just shoot me a response and I'll send it over.
The NYPD's budget in FY 2024 is 5.3 *BILLION* dollars[0]

This is more than total military expenditure of Romania.[1]

A $115 million of this 5.3 billion was used to settle lawsuits last year.[2]

[0] https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/nyregion/nypd-police-misc...
I agree - older Samsung devices used to work well with LOS thanks to the unlockable bootloader. My last Samsung with LOS was a Galaxy Note 3 - it seems that Samsung devices after that became increasingly unfriendly to modifications. I haven't purchased Samsung devices since because their stock firmware is unpleasant (forced bixby, coerced signup with Samsung in addition to Google, uninstallable garbage, etc.)
Because there's not much you can't put on the Play store that's worth managing separately. (And because of this alternate stores are extremely meh.)