skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes their OS responsibilities could be a lead albatross, too. I would, very mildly, suggest that the cash money that kept MS afloat as a player all these years was always coming from enterprise, specifically their lock on office formats. Shows you that sometimes it really does help when you pay off the ISO TWG/TAG to make your format the ISO format. That scheme would shake out different today[1], because man, respect for ISO is not what it was in the 1990s. For goddamn good reason.

To quote a colleague in my industry, who's far more eloquent than I: "ISO can die of dicks"

[1] Which doesn't prevent a whole cottage industry that will promise to make Your Special Sauce an ISO-Approved Special Sauce. Selling shovels to miners, I guess, except replace "miners" with "greed-eyed motherfuckers trying to make imagemaps a data exchange format".
> There is a move to rename the crime to "financial grooming" because the term "pig butchering" is an intentional form of victim shaming. Anyone who is still using the term pig butchering should be immediately discredited.

Your first sentence was fine, although I disagree that the term is intentional victim shaming.

But you came into a forum where people know term A, and went on full blast with "anyone who is still using (well known) term A instead of term B (that many people didn't even know exists) should be immediately discredited."

That's needlessly aggressive and doesn't really help get your message across.
Well the core purpose of the official app is to slurp up as much user data as possible and deliver targeted ads.
https://management30.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IKIGAI--...

They're labeled on the linked image.
onnly found out about this because it was an option to view diffs when installing git using Nix
Free DWG Reader?
Hey guys, i'm looking for some help. I was tasked with finding a free software for editing/viewing 2d dwg, on the same kind of licensing that Libre office uses. Does anyone know a free one? alternativeto.net was a dead end, most of the free ones where bought by the paid ones.

Thx in advance.
That “Anonymous Comrades Collective” site is like a communist version of Kiwi Farms. What a cesspool. Steer clear.
The Era of Flat Power Demand Is over [pdf]
+1 on the recs for his main work. I also wanted to mention that I loved his book Tatja Grimm's world, too. It's great, alternate world fantasy, but with Vingean depth of thought about what it all might mean... Looking it up now, I see this is a rework of what must have been a very early novel for him, based on a work that came out in 1969!

Thinking about this too, I'm sure he did a great job as a professor, supporting his family and teaching. But in addition, he had this greater creative gift to reach millions, too! I think this pattern probably applies to a lot of us. Working and doing useful things during the day out of necessity... and like him, I hope everyone on HN puts in the effort and time to do something creative, too, and finds their audience. It'd have been a shame of the creative side of Vinge had never gotten out!
Didn't receive the income for 4 months of rent until January of the next year. Reported the income in the year it was received. Isn't that generally how it works? (not an accountant or a tax expert)
Maybe I'm missing something but this looks like a rebranded scientific method.
>I mean, you can say that's "only in cases you support" dismissively, but I call it "dependent upon the facts of the situation."

I point out dismissively because clearly "right to protest" or whatever is only a marginal factor for opposing them getting kicked out. The real reason is that they supported the protesters, and because they support them, they can do no wrong, regardless of what the laws might be. Maybe this is painfully obvious to everyone already, but I want to point out that specifically.
If you like Vue, you'll love VitePress
The ironic/funny thing about your comment is that Google Workspace does have a pretty full featured chat platform, known as Google Chat. And it's clearly not dead (yet), because I just hit it on my account and get a nice pop-up, "Welcome to the new Chat", "Catch up with all your direct messages, group chats, and spaces - all in one place", and then get some walkthroughs on the new features related to the home screen, filters, etc.

But I agree, Google product management for anything but search and ads is such a cluster-f of afterthoughts, side-of-the-desk work, and the impending feeling that it will all get shut down once whatever engineer championed it leaves or is promoted to something else. Also, a huge part of the entrenchment of Slack is all of its programmability and plugins - lots of companies run "ChatOps". I don't see any of that in Google Chat, and even if it were there I think you'd need to be crazy to actually develop a plugin for it before it likely gets shut down or is migrated to something else.
What they were probably pitching 19 years ago would have been ordering via SMS on basic phones, most likely via USSD codes. That’s why he mentioned contracts with cell networks, as they’d need to secure numbers and codes.

That model absolutely has taken off, just not in places where everyone has smartphones. USSD services - driven by basic text menus - powers everything from microtransactions to ordering food to accessing government services in many parts of Africa to this day:

https://africastalking.com/ussd
If it's like anything else coming out of Google, most likely those who made it got their cake, I mean pomo package, and moved to something else. Some other folks were left to maintain it until the inevitable sun setting.
You can't buy anyone's product from anyone but the manufacturer of that product, what is this tautology meant to mean?
What is this “having green bubbles” stuff? My messages are green on threads with Android users, to indicate the capabilities of the messages I am sending. Not theirs. I don’t even know how to tell who’s on what in a mixed-ecosystem thread.
Edited my comment above, but this looks really rad. I made an account and going to try porting a side project DB to it later!

Particularly we need to improve our search and I've been lazy about tweaking our ts_vector setup.
I regularly get scam calls that spoof my area code.

Hell, my number is even commonly spoofed! Every few months, I get a call from someone, then I get to explain to them that scammers can spoof phone numbers.
I would love all hardware to have an "open option" that disables all security keys, doesn't let you run signed software, whatever, but lets you "hack" the device.

I'm also fine with Nintendo selling games via their store and physically, and taking whatever cut they can bear of it.

(80% of App Store revenue is "games" anyway, so it's a much closer analogy than people might expect. They may end up opening everything except games and only cost them 20% of revenue.)

Meanwhile you can get full advantage of the iPhone ecosystem "for $100/yr" which is nearly free, including App Store distribution, etc. If anything, Apple should be charged with dumping in those cases.
It is literally an alternative to YACC and other parser generators.
I think that's a reasonable distinction to make. I also think it's more like "firmware" insofar as it's a squishy, environment-dependent usage.

It seems unreasonable to me to cite the name "application specific" and conflate that to "single product." Nobody would debate that an Nvidia Tegra T20, for example, is an ASIC and yet it is contained within numerous products. An even more prevalent example would be any TI buck converter, used in a likely unknowable number of products.

I expect the level of application specificity needed to satisfy a particular view on ASIC varies by exposure and domain usage, which is why I think it's more like "firmware" than like "program" in a taxonomy of names. I also think that ASICs is a kind of parent group, members of which are things like microcontrollers, microprocessors, memory devices, FPGAs, and CPLDs. To draw such a hard contrast between "ASIC" and "FPGA" seems to not appreciate that an FPGA necessarily has fixed design elements (components, peripherals, etc.) to effect the function and provide more tight tolerance functionality like high speed signaling, which are limited resources by locality (only assignable within some bank of pins, for example).
Only if the justice department believes Google has been using its dominant market position to harm consumers.
Cool. Now do google, amazon, fb, Verizon, att, chevron, exxon, gp, oracle, microsoft, etc.
I just don’t understand the appeal of “Super Apps”. Do users really want to hire a taxi with the same application they use to message their friends, and have that be the same application they use to buy household goods, and have that be the same application they use to control their garage door? It doesn’t make sense to me. These are totally different tasks. Why would a user want to use the same app to do them?

Imagine the extreme end result of this: You buy a phone, and it’s OS comes with only one app installed: The Super App which you launch and do everything through it. How is that Super App not in fact the OS at that point?
This is a false narrative. iPhones back up full message history and all photos by default in a non-e2ee fashion that is easily readable by both Apple and the government unless the user and everyone they message with specifically opts into e2ee (which approximately nobody has, even in tech circles).

There is no “going dark” issue on iOS platforms. Apple has played ball in full with the USG on that front. In fact, Android backups are e2ee so the government can get more data from Apple on iPhone users than they can get from Google for Android users.
People lock themselves in hotel rooms and refuse to leave more often than you'd think.
I think I use this indirectly through the git-delta pager which is a great pager replacement for git.
Even more, accelerating due to a being in an (idealized) rocket also feels the same.

https://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/equivalence-principle

This has to be true, because if you can't (internally) detect the difference between nothing and a planet being nearby, you obviously also can't detect how massive the planet is, so you can't know if your acceleration relative to the nearby environment is due to gravity or something else, or even how much "absolutel" acceleration you have.

Standing on earth (or the floor of your rocket) feels different due to electromagnetic effects of the nearby "touching" external objects.
Mods are raging that they are getting paid. Users don't care because mods are power tripping assholes who make spez look classy by comparison.
They're sunsetting the sunset?
US finalizes ban on last form of asbestos in use
The API situation seemed baffling to me at the time. The timing wasn't coincidental and it was clear that they were responding to people training LLMs on the Reddit corpus.

But here's the thing: prevailing HN sentiments notwithstanding, your average Redditor leans left and is fairly anti-big-tech, so Reddit could have leveraged this angle. They could've said it's a pro-user move to stop OpenAI and the likes from unfairly profiting off your work. And most users would have applauded.

But Reddit didn't say that. They took a PR hit and decided to wait it out. The cynical explanation was that they were actually just trying to get some of that LLM money for themselves. And not long ago, they announced a big deal with Google to give access to user data for training purposes: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensi...

Frankly, I was on the fence about the API access thing until the motivation became clear.
I went to San Diego State and majored in CompSCi in 2006. Vernor was a bit before my time but heard legendary stories. Rest in peace.
I don't necessarily think so. Evan puts a LOT of effort into balance. But even so, I've gotten to where I have 5 challenge modes turned on to make it a challenge, so maybe you're right.
Redis was created for the same reason most of us create open source tools: to scratch an itch, to solve a problem (or improve a solution).

I find it hard to believe many if any would see "create an open source tool" as a method to become a millionaire.
Oh no, workers are making more money.

What a shame!
Personally, I don't care about the build times as they happen in a GH workflow [1] and the compiled sources get updated to Cloudflare Pages that's how [2] gets deployed.

[1] https://github.com/logdyhq/homepage/blob/main/.github/workfl...

[2] https://logdy.dev
> In fact, it's an attempt by DOJ to stretch and redefine the edges of their rights under anti-trust rules.

Given the incredibly attenuated state of antitrust enforcement in this country, maybe that's not such a bad thing. Going after the most profitable company in human history would make quite a statement, producing a chilling effect to the corporations.
The question is, can you buy a car from a different manufacturer? When it comes to cars, yes you can.

Is apple a monopoly? Probably not, because you can also switch to android.
Does Apple have a large enough share of the market to influence the market? Likely, which is why the EU has DSA and DMA now.
There Are Already More Measles Cases in the US This Year Than All of 2023
I didn't know that, can they share logins across apps?

E.g. if I'm logged into Google Spreadsheets, am I also logged into Google Docs automatically?
Nah, users really are dumb and really will follow steps that will result in malware getting on their devices. This happens all of the time in Android-land. Burying the setting won’t change this, people will follow tutorials to disable the security protections if they think it will get them the content they want (and, in some cases, it will, wrt pirate apps etc).

There’s no real way to square the circle: either Apple (and the state) has realtime app censorship control (nominally for malware, as well as any other thing the state or Apple’s business model feels existentially threatened by), or the user can install any app they want, with all of the associated risks. Even with notarization and self-distribution you’re still in the first category because the state can compel Apple to treat protest apps or non-backdoored e2ee messaging apps the exact same as they do malware, and prevent them from launching.

Users mostly want the former, because most users aren’t worried about government censorship or oppression. Tech people and cypherpunks and pirates and protesters usually want the latter. Tech people usually want the former for their parents/grandparents for whom they serve as device sysadmin.
Show HN: Functional Programming in Python
I've been diving into functional programming a bunch lately and feel like Python has a lot of good support in abstract for functional programming (i.e. first class functions) but not so many handy tools for actually doing any functional programming (i.e. stringing together chains of functions).

I've started putting together a library of some standard tools with the idea of:
- Depending only on the standard library
- Being unimposing (you can use piece meal)
- Supporting type safetly as robustly as possible

It's still very experimental, but hopefully interesting to a few of you. Anyway, enjoy!
The Pebble was very obviously hampered by iOS limitations. In order to offload any code to the phone, you either had to write the code in Javascript (so it was basically a web app) or direct the user to manually download a separate companion app from the App Store. If iOS killed the companion app because it hadn't been opened on the iPhone recently (because, y'know, you were using it on your watch and not your phone), you had to manually relaunch the app on your phone.

This is all before even getting into things like ecosystem integration.
Not the original poster but for me it means not having to look at my phone for many tasks. I can see who texted or messaged me and the message without opening my phone. I can take or ignore a call. Basically anything that hits your message alerts can be displayed on the watch in most cases.

Maybe the Apple Watch is not the best fitness tracker watch but it’s plenty good for me and it’s health integration is pretty good especially with the ultra.
I've always done this as well!

Another strategem is to ask the people you meet with 1:1 how they feel you may help them be more successful. What can you do in their current workflow that will spread load, help you learn, help them succeed.

Most times you get "just happy to have you on board" but you can get valuable feedback as well as an understanding of stress levels of others on and off team.
If your security concerns are about governmental intrusions, then you have a security need that no single tool can resolve anyway. You need to address overall behavior and habits, which are likely to include things like not keeping sensitive data on machines that can be easily accessed regardless of the use of encryption or obfuscation.
I don't use smart watches but I have an example on the trackers.

Tile created trackers and every so often I get an annoying popup

> ~"Tile has been using your location, do you want to stop this?"

Apple then created a competitor product, 'AirTags', but their product does not have these popups.

This is anti-competitive because Apple bypass the restrictions they made on their platform for their product that their competitive have to follow.
uh-huh; if this is any indication, I gravely doubt that: https://huggingface.co/datasets/PleIAs/US-PD-Newspapers/view...

I couldn't figure out their search syntax but both date>2000-01-01 and just 2000-01-01 didn't cough up anything, so I also gravely suspect this data will only be antiquated language usage, too, to say nothing of the objectively horrific OCR job they did
A big Show HN thread from four years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22492343
fark pioneered foobies and i really have to think reddit nsfw has some of the biggest communities
Memcached – A Story of Caching
MM is 2,000 in Roman numeral notation, not a million.
A Garmin watch can’t track heart rate during an Apple Fitness Plus workout, an example.
I assume that's worldwide? That definitely seems niche to me compared to the global population.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771172
Looks like the oldest card nouveau supports is the Riva TNT from 1998. I think it's fine for nouveau to support that and a new driver not to. I didn't get the impression that nouveau is going away any time soon.
I wonder what things you'd like to see exposed by postgres to make something like this easier.

E.g. you have code to maintain the module magic and function info, for both of which there are some plans to change the contents in the next few major versions. If we were to provide zig consumable ways of creating the struct from C headers, would that help?
> Do users really want ...

The answer is clearly yes in a lot of markets, even if purpose-built apps might be better at a specific tasks, a single app that does dozens of things "well enough" is more convenient than having to juggle dozens of login infos and para-relationships with app developers (managing graymail etc).
Deadspin Is Becoming a Gambling Referral Site
> I tried traveling with a nissan leaf ev (24kwh) a couple years ago, and it was COMPLETELY impractical

A Nissan Leaf, especially the version with the smallest battery, is a commuter car. It's meant to drive you around within your city, never being too far from a charger. It's not meant to travel around with. Your experience isn't a Tesla vs Nissan experience, nor even a Tesla vs non-Tesla experience, nor even a electric vs gas car experience. It's a "travelling long distance in a 100-mile-range vehicle" experience.

Nissan, and most other car manufacturers, make cars that have much larger batteries and can go much further. Even most Leaf models can go much further than your 24kwh model. The charging experience is much better when your range is sufficient that you don't have to stop and charge every 90 minutes, and thus have a better diversity of chargers available.

One might similarly try to travel in a gas-powered golf cart and complain about how impractical it is.
Directly from the source, much better than the NYT paper.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1770844623562547394
I propose assembling a secret team within Google that will create a product (STOps) solely focused on the successful 'winding down' of Google products/projects/etc. so that when Google ultimately 'winds down' the STOps product it will no longer be able to 'wind down' any currently ongoing or future products/projects/etc...
In theory it would be really dangerous for a PI to get caught bugging someone and the police would find this during their investigation.
If you build it, they'll come. The only limit is yourself!
These days—meaning the last few weeks—I get:

• Home remodeling come-ons. So many. They know my name. Often “I’m calling for my Dad’s construction company, xxx, who is working in your area …” It’s a different company name every time.

• Medicare BS.

• “Scare” scams—just lately with no specific reason, just words such as, “…your case is urgent and you must call our agent Sam at 555-xxx…”

• Tax relief crap.
Together (YC S19) interviewing engineers that can solve this algorithm problem
At Together, we help people find peers, mentors and experts at their company to learn from.

We support matching 1on1, in groups, and events and workshops to increase knowledge transfer within a company and improve career development.

For example, employees at customers like the United Nations match around the world to discuss how to advance their career, how to move to another office, and their learnings and advice.

-----THE PROBLEM-----

We're challenging engineers like you to provide a solution to the following problem. If it makes sense, we'll accelerate you through our interview process for Engineer II:

- You have m mentees
- You have M mentors
- You have N match scores between mentees and mentors, based on how good of a match they are for mentorship.
- mxM > N, because not every mentee is eligible to match with every mentor. It depends on seniority constraints.
- Each mentee has a maximum mentor limit of 1
- Each mentor has a maximum mentee limit of l, where 0<l<4

How would you find the ideal set of matches to maximize match scores across all mentees and mentors?

Submit your answer in the "Anything else we should know" field here:
https://app.dover.io/apply/Together/cdb7d244-6af1-4647-adc1-...
You are right. That's a subjective line. As I've argued above all of ethics builds on top of subjective axioms. Personally I draw the line at complex emotions, which I define as anything more complex than insects.
> Apple is not a monopoly.

The lawsuits is literally about this.

> What is the point of buying a phone knowing what you are getting, and then complaining about something you knew full well it doesn't have?

Because the thing the company is offering is a behaviour that overall is not one we as a society want (Apple being allowed to dictate what businesses will and will not succeed by either locking them out of 1/2 of the major mobile OS, or by taking a 30% tax from their revenue and then competing against them).
Not the most important thing in the world but I'm surprised this is named VitePress when it uses Vue and is apparently replacing a project named VuePress. Surely the latter is the more appropriate name? I could make a static site generator with React or Svelte or whatever that also uses Vite.
My old boss had a cable with an RS232 connector with configurable pins. Back in the 90s and 2000s, there was a lot of equipment using RS232 but there was no reliable standard pin configuration. That often meant building a cable specifically for a given device.

By the time I came along in the 2010s, everything was Cisco or at compatible with the Cisco cables, so it wasn't needed much any more. It was such a neat idea, I almost regretted not being around to enjoy it when it was useful.