skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Host is reporting some domain I've never heard of.
What could he possibly do next (if he avoids a prison term)?
I viewed this on my RoundRect
Probably the best outcome that could be expected for all involved. What a bizarre story though. Even if it causes a chilling effect on future leakers it did not make the US government look better at all, from my view.
I do not understand, windows 10 was so good.
> Over the next few months, roundrects worked their way into various parts of the user interface, and soon became indispensable.

At which point we realized they are just a fad like any other design ever was and went to sharp corners and flat design. And back to round corners, and back to sharp, and back to..

Hell, I can see this circle of hell happening in front of my very eyes. I think a year ago someone at Chrome had the brilliant idea to "refresh the design" as happens so often in big organizations and suddenly the tabs got round and we got little round corners around the navigation bar and..
That hasn’t always been true!

I remember with great displeasure the bad old days of creating a 3x3 table for every container and jamming a rounded corner gif into each of the four corners to create this effect.
Round rect technique aside (fascinating stuff!), the storytelling here is really charming. Reads like a clever short story

> Bill returned to Texaco Towers the following afternoon, with a big smile on his face. His demo was now drawing rectangles with beautifully rounded corners blisteringly fast, almost at the speed of plain rectangles.
Yeah no. You can take the subway to a LIRR station called Jamaica or a parking lot in Howard Beach. Neither is actually at the airport let alone within a mile of an actual check in counter.

NJ transit isn’t a subway, and even so you still can’t take it to Newark Airport. You can get off a mile or two from the nearest terminal. Utterly inexplicably, the PATH train, which is reasonably described as a subway system, stops an entire stop short of even doing that, despite the tracks continuing onwards to that AirTrain station.

Once you get off each of these subways, in a location that is near to, but definitely not in, an airport, you may choose to take a slow and oddly expensive rubber wheeled bus that sort of is a monorail (and is certainly not a subway) device onwards to a terminal.

And of course at LaGuardia you can’t do even that.

So yes, it is “really true” that you can’t take the fucking subway to the airport.

All you have to is try it, get off the subway, and then ask “am I in an airport now?” and if the answer is no then you’ve figured out the problem.
FWIW, I continue to run Linux as my primary desktop, and I do not regret it. Nothing is free, but very few things are worth your dignity. I made my choices.
It works well for the Mac OS, but for all that it's a core part of the Mac OS identity, I really hate that Microsoft is using round rectangles to the point that device manufacturers are painting the underside of laptop and tablet glass screens so as to cause a physical rounded effect at the corners, and I'd liefer have the crisp square Windows 10 screen appearance than the rounded Windows 11 (though the overall increase in consistency is nice otherwise).
"...I no longer feel like the harder I work, the worse the world is for everyone except the investors." This is the main reason why I refuse to work overtime. I've long realized the only people getting rich here are the owners/founders.
Even at its best, a robotaxi will only be a showpiece without much real-world use. The robotaxi was not the reason the stock was sold.
I strongly suspect this is primarily in non-tech companies who have been hit much harder by recessionary forces and inflation. On top of Section 174 making it harder to offset the tax burden of R&D work done by SWEs, I'm surprised things aren't worse than they are.
>You are claiming a false binary. They could hire drivers as employees.

Isn't that what's essentially happening today? They're forced to "hire drivers as employees" (insofar as being guaranteed pay even if there's no work to be done), and the results were predictable: the firms simply refuse to hire all the drivers. Previously they were willing to take on anyone they can, because they didn't have to pay for them even if they didn't have work for them.
Yeah, but how?
I fully agree. Except I don't even think Google should "call" MI6 before publication. Nobody knows who else knew or used this vulnerability. Patching bugs is the right thing to do period.

>Bugs are critical to national security so we should let people exploit them? Oh that's exactly what they're saying.

The author is just a tiny step from saying that the government should have a right to exploit every device and decrypt every communication. It's a scary and authoritarian position, but sadly quite common for IT people working in law enforcement. From experience they are good people with good intentions, but we know what the road to hell is paved with.
I have been an open source developer for twenty years.
I'm hoping they mean the prerelease implementation was only creating leaks due to bugs that have been fixed, so a machine that runs the release implementation for the same amount of time wouldn't see such behavior.
This reminds me of an XKCD[1] where the character marveled about an obscure piece of single-purpose hardware running Java.

[1] https://xkcd.com/801/
Indeed! Travelling last-minute, you could even be 'quids in' by popping over to the continent for an afternoon so that you'd be eligible for an Interrail ticket:

4-Day Interrail Global Pass, Adult passenger: €283
Eurostar seat reservation (any destination) x2: €060
= €340 (~£288)

Nearly fifty pounds less than the price of two Leeds <-> London Anytime Single fares, £331.80! And since hotel rooms in London aren't cheap either, you might even save money by staying the night in Lille rather than London. Kings Cross is part of the same station complex as the Eurostar departures at St. Pancras, so you would save money, spend less than three additional hours travelling and not even risk getting rained on.

This is Hacker News, but even still, I feel kind of icky suggesting a 500-kilometre detour to save money on a journey between two British cities no further than that distance from each other. How I wish we could just have a British version of the Austrian 'climate ticket' and leave all of our inscrutable rail fares behind us!
Not only on macos, on the hardware as well. Macbook that I'm typing this comment on has a screen with rounded corners on top, and it just feels better than right angles on the bottom.
I agree.

Although US intelligence is probably happy about this.

Not saying it's a good or bad thing, but it's certainly an easy way to gather it.

I can understand them doing it.
Most of that time was spend escaping the Swedish arrest warrant.
This is also what I thought of
So basically he done his time
This would be my second time. The first startup got started right after my wife gave birth to our second child. And not gonna lie, the challenges introduced by that very nearly wrecked our marriage. But the alternative of a BigCo job would have killed me on the inside, and I'm very lucky to have had my wife's support then and now.

If OP's wife is pregnant I would not recommend switching careers right now. That would be maximizing time away from home when you are needed most. But that's not how I read the OP:

> if I need a full time position once my wife and I start having kids

Sounds like they're still thinking about it, and maybe a few years off.
To be clear I don’t think this is an acceptable practice, but the concept wouldn’t be completely unfamiliar because Nintendo did this with the NES and their lockout chip/seal of quality system
There are lots of things we don't know and that's why there is no good reason to attribute intentionality to computers and algorithms. That's been my argument the entire time. Unless there is a good argument and proof of intentionality in digital circuits it doesn't make sense to attribute to them properties possessed by living organisms.

The people who think they will achieve super human intelligence with computers and software are free to pursue their objective but I am certain it is a futile effort because the ontology and metaphysics which justifies the destruction of the biosphere in order to build more computers is extremely confused about the ultimate meaning of life, in fact, such questions/statements are not even possible to express in a computational ontology and metaphysics. But I'm not a computationalist so someone else can correct my misunderstanding by providing a computational proof of the counter-argument.
These articles don’t provide the complete picture. Who are the buyers of these loans and what is their motivation knowing full well these are future underwater loans.
> Not the solution: Give children serious diseases.

Actually giving serious diseases (well, infestations) is being investigated as a solution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
That's the kind of thing where I prefer to manage the services/group policies manually or at least run something open-source:

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil
Thanks for the super-speedy response!
Thats true for most cars with a bit of a cult interest past a certain age, not just ferrari. An old civic in one of the nicer engine trims would also hold value at this point, even appreciate.
One day, you try to login, and there's a message: "You've violated our terms of service and we've cancelled your account."

You did nothing, and now it's all gone!
https://archive.today/tddt1
> Intellectual honesty would be to point out the memory safety issue CVE of Postfix in the past decade.

this thread isn't about Postfix, you brought up Postfix as a counterpoint to a wider topic where such a anecdote doesn't hold up nearly as well in a broader scope. Don't purposefully narrow the topic and move goalposts just to win internet fights.
No but the English equivalent doesn't get accused of reflecting the English' romantic and emotional love of nature.
They may not be future underwater loans. Buyers are speculating on a distressed asset someone is willing to let go at a discount. Might be worth nothing, but also might be worth something. Banks have more stringent regulatory requirements with regards to these loans than speculators.

From the piece:

> For investors, the attraction of snapping up discounted commercial real estate loans is that the loans could be worth a lot more if the industry recovers in the next few years. And in the worst-case scenario, the buyers get to take possession of a building at a discounted price after a foreclosure.

“Buy when there is blood in the streets” — Baron Rothschild
I think you could just have a different code for each given index and all the symbols seen until that point.

This seems to do something similar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-adaptive_binary_arithm...
>No, you've got it ass-backwards. It's Uber's job to provide the best customer experience given their constraints, it's not NYC's job to bend over backwards to adapt its laws to Uber's model.

>The problem is the fault of Uber.

Are you claiming that the government can do no wrong regardless of what laws they pass?
I think it's that, plus following where the money is coming from. While it's nigh-impossible to get retail customers to pay for windows and they want to get enterprise used to the idea of bringing everything into their 365 services, windows will be seen as a loss leader for other parts of the business, which includes advertising. Similarly I think google's purchase of doubleclick had a large influence over the years, android and chrome were in part ventures to present their ads.
Ask yourself this: how many of these "AI" products are A) real or B) need a lot of workers to implement.

SaaS required a lot of workers in feature factories churning out code. Does "AI" require this? Why or why not?

If AI is a bust are finance bros going to be bullish on tech?
That has been the expectation the entire time computing has existed. It will always be the expectation. There is no future where that isn't going to be true.

What actually happens is a cycle. Things rise, things fall, things die.

On the initial upswing things tend to get better while profit and growth are aggressively pursued. Once market dominance is achieved, things tend to get shitty thereafter until someone topples the stagnant product.

This is a legitimate opportunity for Linux + hardware partners, if someone can finally realize they need to build and market to average consumers, rather than expecting average consumers to skill-up / knowledge-up just to use their software.
You don't just pretend bad things don't exist and then have them magically stop happening.

What is being advocated for is control of language. It is UNACCEPTABLE.

Part of me wants to hand out copies of 1984. I fear that some of you would see it as a how to manual.
Not just rounded rectangles, but squircles too. Every icon or rectangular element in Apple software and hardware is a squircle.
> Ferraris have to be serviced by licensed mechanics.

"Have to"? Says who? "Licensed"? By who?

As someone who is very close to both the "factory authorized" and "non-authorized" sides of the Ferrari service industry, this is incorrect or at best a gross oversimplification of things like warranty service or the Ferrari Classiche process.

There are a lot of misunderstandings and myths circulating about Ferrari ownership, but this is a new one to me.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

CFAA (a)(2)(C)

In many cases, couldn't this be argued to exceed authorized access to a protected computer?
I just installed Ubuntu on my self built computer with Nvidia GPU. It's working really well!
See also:

https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/

http://88x31.nl/

https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/88x31

Those sites are cool, but I like the thematic focus of this one. Focus Now!

“Netscape, for those of you who have been living in a bubble or don't have graphical web access, started it all, with their "Netscape Now!" buttons. Other people started making their own buttons, using the same style but substituting their own graphics and text. (Many of them kept the "Now!" lettering, as that's part of the joke.)”
WSL seems like a variation of the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish tactic Microsoft has used in the past.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...
Very early stage as we're still fundraising for the seed round to start the lab, but most of the core team is already assembled. It's still in stealth mode, and this is supposed to be a pseudonymous HN account so I won't post details here. But you can reach me at the email in my profile if you're curious to know more.
I'm not sure this is the case? A few things to consider:

- Everyone I know of any cultural background says they're going to the "grocery store" by default, even if they're going to H Mart or whatever. If they're specific about going to a Mexican/Asian/etc store, it's because they're looking for stuff not easily found elsewhere.

- Many are very proud of their culture's cuisine, and are more than happy to make a distinction. They don't feel "othered" for it.

- Big box stores absolutely tailor their stock to the demographics around them. A Safeway or a Costco in the Bay Area isn't the same as one Eugene, OR. What's considered "normal" in one area is not the same as another.
x = Discord
Tech CEOs are hot now, so workers are hiring $500-an-hour fashion consultants
Once I have my (now ex) girlfriend at home, and she wanted to check her email. So she used my computer to login on Outlook and just do her thing for work. Little did I know that logging to Outlook actually added some new account on my computer (for the same windows User), and it started to sync all the stuff from my ex's workplace.

Fast forward 1 month later, we broke up, and I was still seeing her stuff popping on my computer, as "recently opened" in the file explorer, or "recommended" in the start menu. Since we recently broke up it was really affecting my mood to be constantly reminded of her.

I struggled for like 3 months to find the option to deactivate it. I even considered formating my computer. It really felt like a private space violation, like my computer wasn't even my own, and all that just with a naive email login followed buy a ton of implicit behaviors.
In day camp in Brooklyn, we always had woodworking. In successive summers, we had an instructor who wanted us to round the corners and edges of everything, and another instructor who insisted we keep everything as square and sharp as possible.
Very happy for people who are pleased with macOS and Apple in general. Well, I guess realistically, I'm kind of happy for whoever is actually pleased with their computer in general, even if somehow for someone that is Windows.

That said, I just want to make it abundantly clear: I can barely even tolerate the macOS desktop for a fraction of my day. I hesitate to rant about every single thing that pisses me off about it, I think it's wasted time: the direction macOS is going in is not compatible with me and my computing needs and I don't think anyone has to worry about it. The point is, macOS is not the solution for everyone. I don't think I could have a stronger distaste for Apple and their philosophy if I tried, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

(This opinion is, unfortunately, up to date. I am currently using macOS in some capacity, regrettably.)
>and has absolute control over what software runs on it including banning any programs it doesn't like

Don't forget taking the idea from an app developer, implementing it themselves, and then banning the app from the developer that came up with the idea. Apple has done this so many times, and it's completely abusive.
https://archive.ph/eYe4G
Maybe it's true that

>> There just really isn't anything out there that is remotely close to SWE in terms of comfort, pay, and accessibility.

Making the jump from there to keeping a software job being the right choice for everyone makes a lot of values assumptions, though. I personally can't stand working at a desk all day. If I stick to software engineering, there's no way to get away from the desk. Similarly, I value sending my kids to a public school where they aren't limited to a bubble, and I don't need an expensive house.

There are people who genuinely love physical labor. I have family who still live on a farm and didn't even own a computer last I heard. Sure, they're not making SWE money, but they're happy with their life. Their son went off to school but chose to come back to the farm. I have family who happily spent their entire working lives as carpenters/woodworkers and are still very able, but there are plenty of Hacker News responses that claim all carpenter/woodworkers end up cripples.
Artykul <https://artykul.org/>
> One of the weirdest things my website does is that it serves everything from a .zip file

whyyyyyyy

why would you do this to yourself

It looks like you're still pushing a bunch of stuff over with git so it's not like you're making it easier to just ftp over one file or something, whyyyyyyy
I went to trade school during law school. It left me stunned
It's always possible, just rarely preferred and almost never easy.
Synthetic biologists are researching how to construct basic unicellular lifeforms artificially. The “holy grail” of synthetic biology is we have a computer file describing DNA sequences, protein sequences, etc, and then we feed that into some kind of bioelectrochemical device, and it produces an actual living microbe from raw chemicals. We aren’t there yet, although they’ve come a long way, but there is still a long way to go. Still, there is no reason in principle why that technology couldn’t be developed - a microbe is just a complex chemical system, and there is no reason in principle why it could not be artificially synthesised out of a computer data file. And yet, if some day we achieve that (I expect we will eventually), we’d actually have the “sequence of operations specified formally/symbolically for reconstructing [microbial] life”. And once we can do it for a microbe, doing it for a macroscopic multicellular organism is just a matter of “scaling it up” - of course in practice that would be a momentous, maybe even intractable task, but in theory its just doing the same thing on a bigger scale. Just like how, factorising a ten digit number isn’t fundamentally different from factorising a trillion digit number, although the first is trivial and the second is likely to forever be infeasible in practice. Practically a very different thing, but formally exactly the same thing
Write a book, be an internet pundit
https://archive.ph/BfHhK
Priorities change. He's not really a threat anymore. They've thoroughly scared people who might copy him.
You're being unreasonably pedantic.

What does it matter whether it's technically a "subway" train or a train that is not technically a "subway" but works the same?

The point is, you can take the train to two of NYC's three major airports.

(And no, AirTrains are not buses. That's a bizarre and false thing to say. They're trains.)
Aren't Apple rounded rectangles now squircles?
https://medium.com/minimal-notes/rounded-corners-in-the-appl...
Coincidentally this exact thing happened to me. I checked out the podcast after reading about it here. Luckily I was visiting Europe last month so got some time to listen to this 3-4 hour podcast episode, almost like a half audiobook!
As someone working a TUI game I wanted stuff like this myself so just wrote what I now refer to as a "terminot". Actual shaders and non grid align rendering. Nice to see people attempt to emulate it in a proper terminal emulator.

If anyone is interested in what a terminot does:
https://streamable.com/t5kz2y
>Most people don't get that at all.

What makes you think that?
...to get an allocation for the latest and greatest model. Pretty sure you can walk into most Ferrari dealers today and order a Roma, for example, without previous ownership history.
Wasn't there a tape accusation as well? I don't see why it wouldn't be both.
Yes, let's spend 6 trillion dollars replacing Taliban with Taliban, and destroy the life of one foreigner just to make an example.

And who was punished for killing journalists in [0]? The whistleblower.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstri...
See it
Elastic Compute Clowncar braking in 3, 2, 1
It's not a fork, but there is VSCodium

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
AI Is Accelerating the Loss of Our Scarcest Natural Resource: Water
You have to report it to the FTC. The FTC only works when people give them reports to initiate investigations.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/
Prepare for the PS6 to cost $1200 then. The hardware is sold at a loss, which I think justifies them being able to recoup their costs through selling software.

Honestly I don’t know why people think they should be able to publish their software on anything anyways. I can see the iOS/android argument at least because they’re ubiquitous. But there is nothing wrong with how game consoles currently work. It’s a win for Sony/M$/Nintendo, game developers, and consumers. If it wasn’t, then games would only get released on PC (which already allows for exactly what you seem to be advocating for)
EU is also bigger on population level than USA as a whole market.

That's a bit like saying that USA is tiny on population level because of states like Alaska.
> Don't connect to the internet, press 1 hotkey and enter 1 line of text ("OOBE\bypassnro").

I've been a Linux user for decades through some dark days and some "hard" distros, and I would call that "very difficult". Part of the difficulty is knowing what you don't know, and that absolutely qualifies.
Home PCs? Clone the drive and restore it in the other computers.
We just have really different ideas on what "very difficult" and "extremely obscure" are. Use whatever phrasing you want, no worries.