skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One last thing:

> If someone feels like that’s a degraded experience, that’s an issue with them and their expectations rather than the car.

The renter's expectation is that they just get in and drive to their destination. I don't think that that is an unreasonable expectation to have when renting a car.

OTOH, it is unreasonable to tell paying customers "you have to put in more effort and pay more if you want to be a customer"; the customers are just going to go elsewhere, where the business is being snobbish and using the "You're holding it wrong" response.
If you host your own instance:

> SearXNG protects the privacy of its users in multiple ways regardless of the type of the instance (private, public). Removal of private data from search requests comes in three forms:

> 1. removal of private data from requests going to search services

> 2. not forwarding anything from a third party services through search services (e.g. advertisement)

> 3. removal of private data from requests going to the result pages

From: https://docs.searxng.org/own-instance.html#how-does-searxng-...

The docs mention a caveat below at "What are the consequences of using public instances?":

> If someone uses a public instance, they have to trust the administrator of that instance. This means that the user of the public instance does not know whether their requests are logged, aggregated and sent or sold to a third party.
Google used to do that, but then stopped.
You can still do it manually by specifying by excluding them in (every) search you do,but the list can get along and it is far from a good user experience.

Kagi has this feature built in and it is a good user experience.

You can also use the uBlacklist browser plugin.
My problem with that is that is slows everything down.
I am not certain but I think all the works is done after the search
is complete. That it filter the actual result.
The two above limit it from ever being part of the result.
And redis doesn't want to pay contributors. Same gist, same shortsighted take on the whole matter.

Based on the open source license redis had before, what did aws do wrong? They didn't even have to contribute back, yet they did.

Investors of redis based their SaaS offering on open source and community work. Now that they achieved critical mass they want to reneg on the license.
Can you link something official saying that? Like documentation or CEO saying that.
Trust was also on that list, and that's absolutely a thing they can lose.

So far as I can tell, "trust" is the only reason Apple has for their rules about sexual content.
> So far we haven't run into this, but we might need to provide an option for an UPDATE to drop locks on retry if deadlock turns into a bigger problem than livelock.

I'm not sure what you mean by that: the design can deadlock but you just have not seen it happening yet?

Edit: oh i see in a comment bellow that deadlocks are detected and abort the transaction.
I actually just checked and it isn’t, but it would not surprise me if it was real, given there are commands such as `M-x butterfly`, `M-x fortune` or `M-x doctor` in Emacs [1].

[1]: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/fun-games-in-emacs has a list of fun Emacs commands (mostly games) to try
It's hard to quantify, but I think Amazon would have to be in the top contenders for most value gotten from open source software
Why was the investor okay with this?
Anything by Diana C. Reep. Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings is particularly insightful:

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0205721508
We started switching to macOS ARM this year (using the same Office365 and Intune for MDM) and yeah, there were a few hiccups here and there, but in general happy to be off Windows 11 (in time for our W10 devices to ease into EOL) and don't think we could be happier any other way.

In the budget end the new MacBook Airs are about the same price as the low end Dell laptops we used to buy, and on the higher end the MacBook is competitive price for price but in all cases the quality is better per dollar.

Be careful - if you want 3 screens you have to go with MBP M3 Pro as a minimum.
I created the requisite planets and stars, then created, in order, the Trisolarans, The Borg, and Barbarella. I then made them battle each other. The Borg defeated the Trisolarans, but Barbarella defeated the Borg. Good to know!
privacy is achieved through the proxy and therefore aggregation of disparate requests/queries. some anonymity is therefore achieved, at least from the perspective of source search engine operators, by blending into 'the crowd.'

but the idea is not necessarily anonymity so much as privacy by foiling the creation of any even somewhat accurate marketing/data profile derived from 'your search.'
Microsoft Is Scrapping Edge (2018)
Microsoft isn’t forcing anything to be e-waste. They’re dropping support for what will be a 10 year old OS. You’re not forced onto Windows 11.

You just won’t get support or security patches. While people should upgrade, industries will still keep w10 around for a long time, just like they do with XP, 98, NT4, etc.
Supplement videos never get to the (or any) point though - you can watch it for hours for amusement or just look up the company to see what they are selling. It's like that infinite GIF of a truck heading towards the security pillar, shown from all camera angles.
Unfortunately, pkg-config couldn't handle C++ files nor the transition from lib32 to lib64; as Captain Kirk heard from Bone: "he's dead, Jim".
Why doesn't someone make a paid distro that doesn't have these problems? The market is absolutely there. Oh wait, that's mac, sort of.
AWS was also a major Redis contributor, so asking them for more money to keep using a product they helped build and maintain was nothing but greed from Redis Inc. Valkey seems to be much more in line with Redis, and it will probably replace it as the THE in-memory cache solution.
The thing with Commodore was that as a company it was just totally dysfunctional. The basically did little useful development between C64 and the Amiga (the Amiga being mostly not their development). The Amiga didn't sell very well, specially in the US.

The company was going to shit after the Amiga launched, it took a competent manager to save the company and turn the Amiga around into a moderate success.

Commodore didn't really have money to keep up chip development. They had their fab they would have need to upgrade that as well, or drop it somehow.

Another example of that is the Acorn Archimedes. Absolutely fucking incredibly hardware for the price. Like crushing everything in price vs performance. But ... literally launched with a de-novo operating system with 0 applications. And its was a small company in Britain.

The dream scenario is for Sun to realize that they should build a low cost all costume chip device. They had the margin on the higher end business to support such a development for 2-3 generations and to get most software ported to it. They also had the software skill to make the hardware/software in a way that would allow future upgrades.
Recently posted on the SIGCSE mailing list:

We would like to share the final report from an NSF-funded workshop tasked with creating a vision for computing education for the next 15 years. The report, entitled Piecing Together the Next 15 Years of Computing Education is available from our website for the workshop: https://cerfutureworkshop.wpcomstaging.com/final-report/

We hope that the report and the questions and challenges it raises spurs discussion within the SIGCSE community and within Computer Science Departments as to how we can shape the future of our discipline.

If you are a computing education researcher, we hope that the ideas can inspire directions for future work within the discipline.

In addition to this final report, the website contains a series of preliminary reports (https://cerfutureworkshop.wpcomstaging.com/summary-of-outcom...) and podcasts (https://cerfutureworkshop.wpcomstaging.com/podcasts/) to dig deeper into the issues raised during our workshop.

Thanks,
Adrienne Decker & Mark Weiss
PIs and workshop organizers
How we communicate
It's more profitable for Amazon in the long term, as they can potentially eliminate competition. Amazon's use of "open-source advocacy" is questionable, and I wonder if anyone believes it.
Yes, of course. That is a major reason why people use open source. And since AWS was a contributor to Redis, why it would be absurd for them to pay license fees on a project they helped build and maintain.
Why is there so much excessive delicacy when talking about Israel? Evidence of war crimes, even if just on small scales like graffiti and personal property destruction with a hate bias already exists. American military would long since have arrested its own soldiers for these minor infractions based upon evidence already available by journalists. It seems there is no accountability for IDF soldiers that commit bias crimes.

Worse still is that a sizable minority of Israeli citizens are openly advocating for conquest and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
The counter argument for the J curve/French Paradox study is that their data for people who don’t drink is biased — it doesn’t distinguish between people who never drink because they don’t want to, and those who stopped due to underlying health conditions (thus making it appear as if mortality among those who don’t drink is higher).
Uni has to be way cheaper than K-12? The teacher density is way lower in uni and TAs are not FTE.
At least it’s finally rational!
Huh?

This statement does not make any sense.
> Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows ...

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2015/05/08/window...
The only Windows box I have is an AMD-based gaming rig and last time I checked the hardware isn't Windows 11 compatible. Time to check out how the gaming experience on Linux is these days.
The recipients need to think about were to shop, switch cards once in a while, all extra work to get 1% back of the 2% that the card issuers extract from the economy.

Meanwhile in Europe the issuers are capable of running a profitable business on only 0.3% fees (and much lower for debit). So even though you may think rewards programs are nice, they are in the end costing you more, not giving you free money.
But macOS is a free update and compatibility within X was just as likely to break. So other than marketing nothing changed.
I'm not in tech anymore. I'm now in Industrial Rope Access, specializing in geo-stabilization.

One of the projects I've worked on involved the installation (thankfully not by my team) of a very expensive, over-engineered rock-fall catch-fence. At the top of a ridge.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...

Quoted from Jerry Nixon.
Eva is a fellow technical writer. I'm glad to see tech writers get visibility in here.
Three screens - one internal, two external - is possible on Macbook Air M through DisplayPort adapters.

While Apple say it's not officially supported it does work.

My work setup is 2x 24" + laptop on the side.
Surely you can run your own instances on some sort of "Compute" in GCP?

https://cloud.google.com/products/compute
So much for the "last version of Windows we'll do" then.

Seems my support for Microsoft might end up for good at October 2025. Might replace my aging 1080 Ti with an AMD card and start gaming on Linux. Seems the time has come to start evaluating.
This is absurd, wheels and doors are literally falling off their planes and the CEO gets a raise lol. Life is funny sometimes
Yes! My desktop PC is almost 10 years old at this point and it works perfectly, I've upgraded the CPU to an i7-4790K (the best of that generation) and added some RAM (32G total) which makes it very good for most of my work and even for occasional gaming. Thankfully I don't use windows that much, but I know I can't upgrade to windows 11, so according to Microsoft I would just have to throw it away in a year or two, which is completely ridiculous.
You are saying "10 year old OS" like it's a bad thing.
It makes plenty of sense,

Tell Microsoft: Don’t leave millions of computers behind (https://pirg.org/take-action/tell-microsoft-dont-leave-milli...)

20,000 call on Microsoft to save 400 million PCs (https://pirg.org/media-center/20000-call-on-microsoft-to-sav...)

RELEASE: Microsoft extends life of Windows 10 for $1 (https://pirg.org/media-center/release-microsoft-extends-life...)
My understanding was the opposite. Two examples I found where backdoor is working are:

env -i LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/sbin/sshd -D
env -i LANG=C /usr/sbin/sshd -h
> Sure but now we're talking about a universal problem across languages, rather than a C-specific problem.

Of course, but that's my point - C already gives you the ability to fix the incorrect typing problem, using the existing foundational `str*` functions.

A team who is not using the compiler's ability to warn when mixing types are still going to mix types when there is a safe strbuf_t type.

The problem with the `str*` functions can be fixed today without modifying the language or it's stdlib.

Most C programmers don't do it (myself included). I think that, in one sense, you are correct in that removing the existing string representation (and functions for them) and replacing them with len+data representation for strings will fix some problems.

Trouble is, a lot of useful tokenising/parsing/etc string problems are not possible in a len+data representation (each strtok() type function, for example, needs to make a copy of what it returns) so programmers are just going to do their best to bypass them.

Having programmers trained to create new string types using existing C is just easier, because then you solve the whole 'mixing types' problem even when looking at replacements for things like `strtok`.

Or ... maybe I'm completely off-base and the reason that programmers don't create different types for string-stored data is because it is too much work in current C-as-we-know-it.
For All Mankind is so so drama but it becomes super good if you are familiar with the nuts and bolts space program, and all the seasons hold up from this aspect - as the timeline diverges the tech becomes a bit less grounded, but it's forgivable for the audacity of a parallel history space dream the script shows.

The character arcs are more like ... Space Soap Opera arcs rather than more grounded but that makes it only more entertaining IMO. They don't fully open the soap box on first season which is probably why it's the best of them.

The soap aspect is also somewhat defensible. A number of significant individuals critical to the space program back then had super weird life stories beyond their technical contributions. For sure, you had the stereotypical buttoned up test pilots with nerves of steel... but you also had.. Black magicians and Industrial scale mass murderers.

So, it's arguable are the For All Mankind characters too looney or not looney enough by a large margin.

[0] Black magician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons

[1] Industrial scale mass murderer:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rudolph
We have the same desktops!
You have option to pay for extended support.

It is not like after this date all your systems are shut down forever.
It was a statement about uneconomic decisions.

> they don't change behavior as they're boiled alive.
I will just force my older computers onto a different OS. My wife and kids will just have to learn Linux.
> Grow up.

Get fucked.
Yeah it's a thin layer over MSI tables, so if you don't already know how Windows Installer works then it's not at all clear how to do many seemingly-basic installer tasks. And few people really know how Windows Installer works because that is itself obscure, poorly designed and documented.

But a thin layer over MSI is actually what you want; the commercial tools that preceded WiX and tried to abstract away what Windows Installer was actually doing were much worse. Because Windows Installer is such a mess of counterintuitive design and bugs that you are going to need to debug it.

WiX is to be saluted for greatly reducing the level of misery involved in making installers for Windows. But the level of misery is still very high indeed.
> Retailers could glean valuable insights from tracking how a shopper scans shelves and selects items.

What a dystopian prospect.
This being the second possible application thought of (as a good thing!) by a team member
is quite disturbing.
Have people become so desensitized to the omnipresent ads and tracking that they only consider the monetary rewards anymore?
Apple has already been doing this since forever.
As of 2025 we are no longer supporting our oil rig. Woops it caused a huge spill, that's not our waste
Wow. This is not just me who’s seen this? This is a phenomenon. Brilliant. Explains a lot about some of my managers.
> I love using Haskell, but have no idea what kind of machine code GHC spits out at the end

There is GHC's core, an indermediate representation of your code (mostly "just" desugared Haskell), which is comparable to Andreas' C++ Insights. Which you can get by passing `-ddump-simpl` with additional flags to disable displaying everything.

A list of other internal GHC data to dump is https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4/docs/html/users_gui...

But getting an idea what assembly is finally generated is still hard (at least for mé). Or, to rephrase, to know if "everything" is finally unpacked and strict or not, and if not: why not.

Btw. IMHO still the best book to read (of course not up-to-date, but to get the basic concepts of GHC) is https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-imp...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/1987/0...
It's good enough I haven't even started my gaming rig for a few years now... Not painless, but my biggest problems were the System Shock remake that couldn't start a game (an update automagically fixed it) and terrible performances under Lutris with Planet Crafter (but somehow running it within Steam solve the problem). I also do not play the latest games though.
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There are multiple hosted Redis providers, not just Redis Labs and AWS.

I'm not sure why Redis OSS couldn't live on as open source product, while companies (including Redis Labs) offer managed Redis solutions.
Whatever app had to add a ... map?
I am not going to trust AI with my emotions.
Hehe, reap what you sow :) But - you are not really stuck though. If you have managed to go from 0 to 34 customers before you can do it again. It is totally an option to drop that product and/or startup, and go with a better one (guided by your learnings). Up to you to decide what is the best way forward :)
There's also https://metager.org
AFAIK they never said anything about OS X being “the last version of MacOS”. So no, they did not do anything like that.

I do remember Jobs talking about it being the foundation for the next 20 years, or something like that, but without mentioning any version number.
My friend was actually targeted by one of these. His registrar investigated the report and binned it. He wasn't even informed until they started to hit his Cloudflare account, which never acted on the report.
> Maybe I'm too old, but since when is simply using another software as opposed to built-ins considered modding? Most of these seem like replacements to me.

ExplorerPatcher /is/ modding. It's not killing explorer.exe and launching another UI that is independent from the os like, say, what blackbox for windows or litestep did.
It's patching running executables in memory in a way that could break whenever any data structure gets changed in a Windows update, which is a big deal because Windows is a rolling release OS that constantly adds and remove features. Users of explorer patcher found themselves having to boot in windows safe mode to disable it in the past after windows update ran. It's literally breaking your machine in a way that computer users that aren't very savvy might not understand how to fix. It's very bad publicity for MS who might get blamed by some: "my computer isn't starting anymore after a windows update, I hate MS" so it makes perfect sense to prevent this program from launching in a new major update.

And it's relying on the assumption that the old code paths it depends on won't disappear in the future. EP doesn't have a replica of the old windows taskbar: it's merely disabling Windows 11's new one and forcing the old one to appear, and it can do that because the code for the Windows 10 task bar is still there. You surely don't expect this to survive all future refactorings and cleanups?

ExplorerPatcher is the kind of software that would have been neat in the old world of Windows where a release of Windows gets frozen and sees no major changes past security updates except for the release of a Service Pack which you have to manually install yourself. It is a terrible idea in the current world of a rolling release state OS.
This is such a propaganda bullshit.

I live and work in Russia. Guess what country shines brightest in WAF logs? Guess where data encryption extorters operate from? Fucking US of A. There was even a case once, where I knew specifically the person who was harassing the service I supported and there was literally NOTHING I could legally do about that.

So stop pretending (or pushing your ignorance) as if western countries are doing any better in that regard - they just as well don't care what their hackers do in other countries. All that exceptionalism is just sad.

This happens because countries that aren't the best of friends simply don't cooperate with each other, and criminals don't shy to abuse it. So from the standpoint of the rest of the world, it's the western/nato/five-eyes countries who are "just lawless as long as they're not targeting their own". Except the rest of us just have deal with it rationally, while you pat yourselves on the back with your ignorant supremacist exceptionalism, using these situations as yet another way to brew hatered. How can you actually believe that you are the only ones who have problem with foreign hackers? This is insanely naive! It's a global issue and WE ALL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.

The only chance to trigger any legal action here is to establish legal presence. And even then there are no guarantees if there is no damage done in their jurisdiction. At least that is the experience for someone in Russia trying to deal with Western hackers. And that was before 2022. Now it's just open cyberwafare with hacktivists attacking everything in Russia and vengeful CTOs striking back.

And JFYI, proxies are also a thing. Shit load of foreign attacks are just your locals using a properly configured proxy.

Push your politicians to actually cooperate, instead of enjoying the leeway it gives to intelligence agencies. Otherwise, enjoy the treatment you give to everyone else.
Yeah, they probably could/should.

It'd take a lot to get developer adoption and buy in to a separate product that AWS builds themselves, so they adopted Redis. Easy money. It's easier to piggyback on something that won while making lots of money from it and say "well, I helped..." if things chanbge. Then, they chastise the creators as bad people once the gravy train stops.

AWS benefited from hosted redis before contributing. It wasn't adopted out of benevolence. They're still doing it with Memcached, for what its worth.