skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I will hold Apple responsible for the execution of the action.

How do you think you'll do that? And then, how would it be different than with an app developer?

When this happens for example https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254901336 and you don't have another Apple device available.

I can dispute a card transaction, cancel a payment, maybe even send a nastygram to a developer. But if I dispute something with a middleman like Apple, Google, Steam, etc. I have to consider the possibility that they'll cancel my whole account if they think I'm abusing their system with any dispute.
what do you even do at this point?

so much of US flight infrastructure is based around boeing and they're literally falling apart in the sky

nasa wanted competition with spacex so badly that they've pushed boeing to strand two of their astronauts in space

companies that fail due to inherent internal structural and corruption issues need to be broken down and sold off, but we can't even do that because the US is somehow reliant on it

why must we write out our own downfall through corruption with failing companies? i bet there's thousands of upstarts that would take 1/1000th the funding given to boeing for a lot of their important projects that would come up with genuinely innovative solutions to problems we never knew we had if there were actual competition in aerospace
Bashbro – New software release (bashttpd rework)
It's hard for companies to do the right thing because the wrong thing is cheaper, and cheaper is king in business
It is and it isn't. They have a huge commercial interest in not unnecessarily sharing money with Red Hat for customers that basically need a supported/certified platform primarily for their Oracle products. SUSE has had fairly recent management changes (including ex-Red Hatters coming in). Red Hat should probably never have acquihired the CentOS team in the first place--not a comment on the people but bringing CentOS in-house with all that implied. And the others are fairly small.
Well, the main reason that you'd buy a Ferrari in the first place is status signalling, so if it's extra-difficult to get, that makes it _better_ at status signalling. Kind of a variant of a Veblen good; the presence of whatever the special model is in their driveway indicates that the person has completed the rich-person equivalent of throwing a ring into Mount Doom, so is impressive to people who are impressed by that sort of thing.
Disaster for us too, not VPS but VMs on-prem.
The humorlessness is really strong with this one. I caution you not to read the other comments further down lest you catch a hissy fit.
And TikTok too. I used to frequent RepLadies just for the incredible review quality some years back that users were writing. Incredible pictures, auth vs replica comparisons, and total detailing of every step of the order/shipping process with a dated timeline.

Ironically it felt like the “Hermes” of the replica community because of its level of quality - such a shame it’s no longer, and the child subreddits that popped up to “replace it” just aren’t the same.
What a mess. Centos Stream 8 seemed to work at first but then after upgrade to 9 secure boot didn't work at all, I couldn't even boot the 9 install media.
I'm not addicted, but I've had that account since I was a teen, and it carries many memories and connections. I shared it here, hoping someone had a similar experience and could maybe share if they fixed it.

It's nothing like that at all.
Great list of things to think about for a good reading experience. Linkable headings is my favorite. I will often grab the IDs from source when needed. Hard pass on the external link decoration though. Please just don't break the back button and everything will be fine.
I don't know how much this applies to other institutions, but speaking personally, my undergrad Operating Systems course very much threw the students to the wolves.

It wasn't one of those "memorize the textbook and you'll be fine" type of classes. It was a "do a bunch of independent research and figure a whole lot of things out for yourself" type of class.
Definitely, but my point is that that’s not the only way to do it.

You can also store only an ID in a QR code, but you could also fit more information and a digital signature of it in there.
There is also no such thing as public transport fully funded by ticket sales. If there are large government subsidies then it is a valid question if all the costs associated with ticketing are worth it.
Europe and Australia will both not break encryption
No matter what they tell you, it's a people problem (2008)
I barely use Facebook to be honest, but it still had all my memories and connections. I've had this account for a very long time.
The key to an inefficient government is taking money and redistributing it.

How much does it cost to execute this whole plan? You end up taking a large percentage just to run the program with little to show for. It does make for great political campaigns.
Microsoft shelves its underwater data center
It's not a feature, but I like websites without sticky headers or footers.
I hate seeing it on mobile, but I don't like it even on desktop.

The worst is the sticky side button overlapping the main content.
A few years ago, I sometimes saw "share on social media" buttons obscuring the article, and that was so annoying.
Good list, though here comes my Hacker News-style pesky comment:

Justified text on a screen is a feature that makes my eyes and brain hurt.

Ragged text is much easier to read. Uneven and beautiful, like a plant whose details you rest your eyes upon as you observe, rather than a uniform concrete structure where vision is lost.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
Anti-steering rules are completely normal in contracts between cooperating commercial entities. We sell on Amazon and we’re not allowed to steer Amazon’s customers off of Amazon. Amazon disables hyperlinks in the messaging system for communicating with customers. They rejected our PDF spec sheets for having links to our website. They will de-list our products if they’re available for a lower price on another site.

And, honestly, they’re completely justified, IMO. They’ve done all the work of furnishing a customer who is ready to purchase. Why should they then have to allow us to steer that customer off of their site to complete the sale? Of course, we’re still allowed to sell outside of Amazon, but we have to do all the legwork to get customers. And, being in the midst of an effort to do just that, it’s a huge amount of work, so I think they’re justified in not wanting us to poach their customers.
Case in point - my friends wanted to imbibe a certain white powder with alcohol and I had to let them know that it is magnitudes more toxic to take them together. Did they have a less fun time? Probably. But I won't have their premature deaths on my conscience.
Let me take a swing at this: the chip itself has two GPIO. The dev board the chip is soldered to already uses up one of them for the reset system, allowing the chip to programmatically reset the whole board. You’re basically undoing that so you can use it. I’m guessing the consequence is you can no-longer have the software reset the whole device anymore.

And now if this is wrong, hopefully I’ll be corrected and we’ll learn more. :)
Compiler Design. Dragon book and all. Learned a ton from that class
Introduction to Vector Embeddings
This take, popular though it is, seems to be more vibes-based than reality based. Most blogs I visit have RSS feeds. The site we’re both currently posting on has a fully functional RSS feed. It’s hardly dead.
> the direction that Intel currently wants to take is apparently quite the opposite.

It's not just Intel. It's clear that ARM is also going in the same direction, by allowing newer cores to be 64-bit (AArch64) only, dropping compatibility with the older 32-bit ARM ISA (actually three ISAs: traditional 32-bit ARM, Thumb, and Thumb2), and IIRC some manufacturers of ARM-based chips are already doing that.
Deadly? More like the music's too loud.
This is actually pretty dope. I didn't know something like this existed. Sounds like a tactic a natural psychopath or manipulator would use. I'm neither. Maybe I used a bad example out of ignorance. Let me try again.

Boeing will not face any consequences just like no one at Ford Motor Company has ever faced any consequences for dumping toxic waste in New Jersey in the 1960's. This has been a continuous issue for decades, and no one to date has been held to account.

Boeing will not face any consequences, just like no one in the Sackler family did any time for actively promoting opioids as a harmless pain killer. Please google the article, "NY Times 2023 - An Appeals Court Gave the Sacklers Legal Immunity. "

I can keep going. I'm not crazy or trying to trick anyone. There's messed up things companies do, and no one is held accountable. If I was a someone's handyman and hurt a client or a clients neighbor I would be held to the full extent of the law. There are families, companies, and institutions out there doing terrible things, with no consequences. Why? Because they hold all the power. That is a fact.
> Hard to explain but I think it is a bit different than paying for "status symbol"

I mean, yes, this is what all buyers of status symbols think. No-one is going out buying a Birkin bag or a Ferrari or a Rolex or a monkey NFT or whatever saying "better go buy a status symbol today". Or, at least, very few people.
You only need 50% majority to declare an extraordinary emergency situation ("außergewöhnliche Notsituation", Art. 109 Abs. 3 Satz 2 GG) and then any expenses related to the emergency do not fall under the debt brake.

The government can just direct government-owned corporations (e.g. Deutsche Bahn) to make new shares and purchase them with fresh money, thus giving the corporation a free cash infusion. Financial transactions are also not covered by the debt brake.
LockBit claims to exfiltrate 33TB of data from US Federal Reserve
Okay, but I can see the price of Netflix and Spotify. Or are the prices different on iPhone? I don't have one, so I'm only going on what you're saying.
>It won't fix unresponsive governments.

Neither will anything else. Ultimately it's your life and you're the only one that's going to have to defend yourself at a random time. If a crime is committed against you then you're just a statistic for the government. Nothing more.
If was satisfied with my own presumption I wouldn't have asked ;)
There's some DRMed video that shows how to do it, and some text explaining why:

https://i.imgur.com/nNMMdhF.png
Good, it can stay there.
Oh, exactly. But let me know your thoughts on this - let's say if you have a graph which represents existing sci-fi novel = rather than the current model which is just blindly generating text on statistical probabilities would it not help to have to model output also try to fit into this rather imperfect sci-fi novel KG? If it doesn't fit logically. Based on how strong your logic requirements are system can be least creative to most creative etc.

I was not actually aware that building KG from text is NP-hard problem. I will check it out. I thought it was a time consuming problem when done manually without LLMs but didn't thought it was THAT hard. Hence I was trying to introduce LLM into the flow. Thanks, will read about all this more!
Discord. Maybe reddit.
We need a standard size and connection layout for smaller devices. Something with built in protection so the end users can be careless with them.

I hope to one day see a few rectangular ones (Like old smart phones) and a few cylindrical (something besides 18650 / 21700).
We have those, with two recognition systems. The system the article describes is for the low count, disposable fares (a few tickets or a 3 day pass). Most people in Montreal have a chip card (the OPUS) which is reusable (and 5$ to buy).

The OPUS is also super interesting because it's a stored value card that holds the tokens on the card as opposed to a simple ID. The system was developed when cellular connectivity was still spotty, so they needed a card that would work on buses without internet access. It's pretty bad from a UX point of view though: you can only store a few different kind of fares, you can't recharge the card online (until recently you had to go to a terminal to do it, now there is a NFC phone app), you can't declare a card stolen, etc.
My understanding is that ARM64EC only makes sense in terms of binary translation. That is, the x64 bits get translated and the ARM bits don’t.
Your way of thinking advocates for no accountability by employees. The company did it?
Out of curiosity, what textbooks did you use in that course?
The idea that squishy humans can move about safely near 1500kg+ moving vehicles traveling at even average speed is a fallacy. The first cycling/car fatality happened in 1896. I guarantee you that vehicle size and weight was much less than what we have today.
I was living under the impression that the Oyster card already solved this problem years ago.
I like Cassidy James' idea of linking a blog post to a Mastodon post[1], and showing the corresponding social interactions as a comments section at the bottom of the post. All static site client-side!

1. https://cassidyjames.com/blog/fediverse-blog-comments-mastod...
> many company divisions are set up in such a way to dilute guilt

not only the internal structure of the firm, but the legal framework in which firms operate, not to mention the cultural mythology situating it all

diffusion of responsibility as one of the defining characteristics of the modern era
It's not that a company is a person. It's that it's multiple people, some of whom make decisions.
Compared to the Windows registry, Apple’s usage of plist files for system state, are a bastion of stability.

That said, they are still files and weird stuff can happen. It shouldn’t, but it can.

It is entirely possible a third party app is responsible for this, just as much as it’s possible it’s a bug in the OS.

If you read any of the links you supplied, you’ll see how easy it is to delete the file. This being the case, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that something else damaged the file.

Sophos had no reason to quarantine the critical file it did that Tableau used. I’ll happily bitch about Tableau till the cows come home, but this was absolutely not one of them.

Again - we were prepared to 100% blame Tableau. We had no idea that the issue was a missing file and we’d have never ever discovered it unless the Security Manager had pinged me.

So, it’s very easy to blame the broken thing from being broken. But sometimes it’s not the broken things fault.

No one should be expected to cover every last single potential issue that can affect something - it’s a fools errand. You do the best you can and move on.

If the issue here is, from what it sounds like, a corruption plist then the solution is to apparently delete it and let the OS heal itself after.
I like the idea of using periods for collections of commands. I have a todo list hacked together with shell scripts and I've been thinking about how I might want to stay away from collisions. I think I'll use do.thing style commands, so my commands will be:

do.item Add an item to the bottom of my todo list
do.soon List the items that I need to do soon
do.next List the next item to work on
do.mark Mark the current item done

How do you implement namespaces? Is it just that you do this with all the commands you create for this company?
> Not really.

Yes really, that’s why the vast majority of languages default to a hashmap (if they even have tree-based maps at all). Turns out the average application is a lot more interested in a low-constant-factor O(1) best case than in a high-constant-factor O(log n) worst case.

> Hashmaps don't have guaranteed performance characteristics

Of course they do.

> require the "correct" hash function to work properly.

And tree maps require correct comparators to work correctly.

> In particular, their performance degrades as they become more "full" requiring a re-allocation to a table of generally n-times the size.

Yes? Also “n-times” seems like pretty fuddy fud. And it seems weird to be more worried by the reallocation of a hashmap when a tree requires an allocation per node, so your average balanced tree requires a heap allocation per entry. And two pointers, for up to 16x overhead not including the allocator’s own metadata.

> Balanced trees could be regarded a more generic solution to the mapping problem and are more suitable in many applications.

And the amphibious cycle could be regarded as the more generic solution to the transport problem.
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I think there is slightly more to things like this (and Ferraris and Rolexes and so on). People often think of these as _investments_, not merely a way to show off, because they have very skilfully been marketed that way.
> In years of doing this not a single person has ever complained

I've never used your website, but if I did and the side arrow changed things, I'd immediately close it and never come back. You wouldn't get a complaint from me; you'd just lose me instantly and permanently.

It drives me absolutely nuts when sites do this, it is so disorienting.
No shaver sockets where you live?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets:_Br...
Chrestomathy:

1
: a selection of passages used to help learn a language

2
: a volume of selected passages or stories of an author
Life in the FastLanes: Decoding >100B integers per second with scalar Ru
I value links.

WordPress used to have a Links section in the sidebar by default. It was later criticised for the default links being to WP founders/devs. But it was there, and you could change it.

Links are the web for me. "If you like my site maybe you will like what I like".

Go look at https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/ - links!

Go look at other sites and if they are WP chances are no link list.

Am I blaming WP? Yes because I thought it was a terrible change. No because other site builders/SSG's appear to have followed.

Links make the web what it is.

We need more, not less.
Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from Windows 11 guide
I have actually three dates on my blog [1], (1) the date I started writing a post (hardcoded in the url/name), (2) the date it was first published (defined in the markdown frontmatter) and (3) the date a post was last modifed (based on git commits). I think all three are relevant.

[1]: https://du.nkel.dev/
A course on abstract interpretation [1], taught by Radhia [2] and Patrick [2] Cousot at ENS in 1989. To my shame, I must admit that I didn't appreciate it at the time.

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhia_Cousot

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Cousot
Google punishes websites that don’t have recent content, no matter how good it is.
I understand why Amazon won't allow you to link to your store directly but

>They will de-list our products if they’re available for a lower price on another site.

This sounds pretty shady
Not OP, but tying some new revenue source to some existing expenditure very often is. A classic example in the US would be lottery and casino revenues. Bills or referrenda legalising these (fairly recent, largely since the 1980s) were generally sold to the public as a source of revenue for public education. In the case of California, those services had been paid for through state and local property taxes which were capped (or kneecapped, depending on your point of view) through the 1978 referrendum Proposition 13, see: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13>.

In the case of lottery / casino revenues, the initial messaging was that these would provide additional funds for education. In time, general funds allocations for education have declined, justified by the availability of gambling taxes, funds, and fees. That's on top of further problems and externalities of gambling, including gambling addiction, organised crime, political corroption, and the like.

See for example: "The Big Lie: Gambling and Education Funding" (2012) <https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2012/10/the-big-lie-gambling-a...>.
Same here. After doing Java the entire first year, the second year we did a 6-hour course for C, and then had to write a ram-disk for a toy Linux operating system. We had to write the code, compile, boot in the new system, run a specific test suite, and repeat till the test passed. I am still not sure how we got the tests to pass, but I remember praying to the computer gods at one point, as well as a bunch of boot&hope development.
very cool, but too bulky for what it is. for just 4$ you can have this one https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806558695914.html
Boeing should face criminal charges, say US prosecutors – reports
How is it better to not talk about that something became worse according to somebody?
Romans probably thought so too
Comparing a Hermes appointment to clicking "buy" on an NFT is hilarious. Nonetheless, I've gotten three appointments, have spent around 150k EUR on bags. So far I've made $30k after VAT and US duty. No idea why Paris original Hermes bags go for so much more in the states. If I have an appointment, I'll fly round trip to Paris, buy the bags, and hold them until I go to the states. Great experience, very high class!
According to the article, Rust is (or was) used in the kajiya renderer and in the "creative platform", not in their production games:

> Our Rust project has different requirements than a video game. It’s a platform that will enable everyone — not just professional game makers — to build new small interactive experiences.

The kajiya renderer is available on GitHub, but contributions have slowed down since mid 2022: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/kajiya/graphs/contributors

The "creative platform" is now apparently available under wim.live (and has a twitter account called @createplaywim): https://wim.live/en/ - but the website only seems to play a video, I couldn't find any other functionality.

They seem to be using Rust in a lot of tools though: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios