skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they are available, however Modula-2 provides safer strings, arrays and reference parameters, no need for raw pointers for those use cases.

In Modula-2, the equivalent to unsafe code blocks is IMPORT SYSTEM module.

EDIT: For those that aren't aware, GCC finally got GNU Modula-2 as part of the official set of frontends and no longer a side project, bring up to four (D, Go, Ada, Modula-2), the set of safer languages out of the box on a full GCC install.
If you are going scam people with locked iPhones over the internet, why send an iPhone at all? You should just send a literal paperweight. It will serve the same purpose. It's not like the marketplace will be like "It's an iPhone. Even if it is locked, the seller is right. We will remove the negative rating and let the seller keep their reputation".

By the way, I recently sold an iPhone 8 (through App, but the transfer was in person) and out of 5 potential buyers, all of them asked the same three questions: "Is it on and unlocked?, is it carrier sim-locked?, which is the battery %?".
SDL handles everything for you.

On Windows, good luck with running DirectX 6, 7, 8, and some DX9 and Direct Draw games under Windows > 8 without issues.

Direct Draw games will lag even under an i5.
Why not add a valve? Every cylindrical cell has one, but manufacturers seem to be allergic to adding one on lipo packs. Apparently having them swell to 5x the size and break the device casing is preferable.
Its a justifiable worldview. I'm an Indian dev and I've seen obvious backdoors like these added to the backlog as a low priority bug. If somebody spends time on this, that means features are being delayed and you are rewarded less.

I've worked in lambda web editor (not in Git) and my lead considered replacing sql injection with parameterised queries was a distraction/insubordination. Cant wait till audits, data breach insurance and imprisonment becomes the reality.
Frontier, Cloud Imperium Games, Free Radical / Crytek UK / Dambuster, Ninja Theory, Playground Games
Next step, ban offshoring, lets end globalisation, one never knows which state might be working for their own purposes, with agents on service delivery companies.
> tuyguntn was strongly implying that it's #1

No, I didn't, I only asked a question by replacing words Hezbollah with IDF, pager with building. When pagers got blown up, there were civilians near by
EU regulation primarily governs European companies and the European subsidiaries of foreign companies; at most, you generally only see leakage outside Europe (eg RoHS has kind of spread; rather than produce separate non-toxic products for Europe and toxic for RoW, a lot of companies have gone non-toxic everywhere; Apple was a leader there). If your only window into EU regulation is Hackernews, I can _kind_ of see how you'd come to this conclusion, but regulation of tech multinationals is very much a drop in the bucket.

But also I mean I think you're confused about the purpose of these rules. While certain EU rules are protectionist, these ones aren't; the purpose of forcing manufacturers to make things repairable isn't to promote European manufacturers over foreign ones, it's to protect the consumer.
I think if you want to host in Europe then Hetzner is the clear choice. They won't monitor your hardware for you though, you need to let them know if something breaks and they'll replace it very quickly.
Demagoguery.
Each company's policy of seting an age limit is a legal tool to protect the company, not a social tool to protect the children. This law, while also being a legal tool, is specifically designed to be implemented with social tools by the professionals who work with children.
It’s one thing to be able to hang off a finger hooked over a tiny ledge, it’s much easier to hook a handle and lift a load vertically. Most adult humans could lift 10kg witha couple of fingers.
>for years

Centuries in fact.

The prevailing wind is from the west so the worst air has always been found in the east.
Drop protection is one of the main reasons, especially when you use batteries with soft shells.
Not sure if it's the preferred term or not but the cover for the business end of a pen is often referred to as a lid.

Either term would be acceptable in the UK though. We generally don't make the distinction.

We also colloquially sometimes refer to a bike helmet as a "lid" too. Although that is slang.
The food is still prepared to restaurant standard and brought out by waiters. The dishes are still done by someone else. You just skip the awkward, inefficient, and disruptive step of the waiter coming up to your table (or worse, having to flag them down) to order, order more drinks, ask for the bill, pay for the bill, etc...
Same here, kudos for using Qt.
I'm pretty suspicious of trusting the firmware on things like that either, to be honest. (Personally, I tend to use serial cables and a little custom board to turn serial breaks into resets, but I know my NIH instinct is probably a little on the high side. It would be unreasonable for me to suggest someone new to colo start making random extra boards to stick inside their machines!)
Thanks to the "write once run anywhere" philosophy of the language, and the design choices in the OS (e.g. containerization), it is easely porable to any CPU.

Safe bet for enterprise users.
It's not a nonsense argument.

If you're sitting in an office twiddling your thumbs for 4 hours a day you're not defrauding your employer.

If you're at home working a second job (or mowing your lawn) for 4 hours a day then you're committing fraud and violating your contract with your employer.

Fundamentally it's a legal issue about fraud.

If you want remote work then you need a very different kind of employment contract. (One that specifies concrete deliverables, not time owed.)
Looks like the article was deleted and purged from archive.org. I wonder if anyone saved a copy elsewhere?

From the comments it seems likely the author realized they may have accidentally committed a crime or at least done something that could cause real legal consequences for them and quickly destroyed the evidence. That's probably better than leaving it up but I'd wager it wouldn't protect them from any legal consequences publishing the article already made possible.
> OpenFeature support: The system must support OpenFeature.

Why is that important? I generally don't understand what open feature is trying to accomplish or why it's useful. You can write your own shim to avoid lock-in if you really have to.

Out of the options available, unleash seems the most reasonable that is open source but it does not support open feature and if I were to guess, it won't.
This is obviously satire for people still stuck in the 90ies. We moved on and are far more productive now, sorry.
I've been reading Oliver Burkeman's latest book[1], which starts with a message a previous book of his [2] dug into quite deeply:

You can't do it all.

Just reflect on it for a moment before you continue: you can't and won't get to do it all.

You won't be all the things you dream about being, you won't get to visit all the places, read all those books, eat all those meals, have all those experiences, there just isn't enough time. And that's OK.

When I see a book or blog article called something like "500 films to watch before you die", I think: first, that's a todo list, no thanks; secondly, assuming an average run time of 2 hours, I perhaps have time in my life for 5 a week max, so this is now 2 years of my life, or if I just do one a week this is now a 10-year project. I might not even live that long, and then if I know I'm about to die I'm going to feel anxiety at an incomplete list.

Give up with the big lists and goals for this stuff. Just go do things.

And I heartily recommend Burkeman's books.

[1] https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ab57bc2b-afcf-405a-a57b-...
[2] https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/f7c8a521-f921-432a-b48a-...
Very likely yes (Rosetta for the Mac already does this), but the big issue is that a ton of Unity games use JIT compiled Mono, and that would require dynamic recompilation, which as we've seen with Rosetta, would lead to terrible realtime performance
Missed saying "Looks cute"
Great... Does this mean my pc will hallucinate kernel panics when it doesn't even have a kernel?
If you really wanted the truth, you would have already found it yourself by now and I don't need to give you a source to prove it. This is only one example out of >14.000 dead children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkNDNj05XA

And remember, no one will admit in official documents that they have deliberately targeted civilians, not even countries officially recognized as executing a genocide. Not a single one will have any official document saying: target innocent civilians. You can derive it from their actions
It's feels you simply don't have empathy or even imagination.

Your "cut and dry" philosophy flies in the face of reality.

A kid is raised in the hood, beaten by their parents, watches someone get shot to death in a drive by one day and the next week someone shot in the back by cops. In school they quickly learn that bullies leave you alone if you punch back. On the street doubly so, they learn demonstrating a willingness for violence mostly gets you left alone.

At 17 years old they're at a McDonald's and someone shoulder checks them. Maybe it was an accident, maybe it wasn't, but the kid tosses a "what the fuck?", and the other person had done it by accident but is mad at the reaction so on a whim says "fuck you bitch." Our main character throws a punch, a fight ensues, the cops come, he's arrested.

This person should be jailed forever?

This makes no sense to me from any analysis angle. Ethically, practically, capitalistically, no matter how I slice it I can't square it. If you argued for him to be immediately executed it would at least make a little bit of capitalistic sense and be logical within the context of a fucked up ethical system (a non evidence based one) but no instead you want them locked up for life.

Why? And why not argue instead for summary execution of the undesirables?
LocalLlama is the place. Really high quality people and discussion there and surprisingly collaborative. Very different than most subreddits.
It can also be a good thing: given the EU's 2027 requirement for user-replaceable batteries, this could ensure the battery can only be changed if the phone isn’t stolen.
I imagine they'll run into some of the same issues lazydocker [1] did. It seems non-trivial for seamless, comprehensive compatibility.

[1] https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker/issues/4
Well here in the UK Lord Sugar has vocally complained about people working from home (whilst doing so himself).

He's well know to have made most of his money in commercial property and has said he wants to protect that.

If a billionaire, lord of the realm, TV celebrity doesn't count as "elite" I don't know who does. I can't really think of a bigger hypocrite that that.

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/02/05/british-billionaire-lo...
SQLTools: Database Management for VS Code
Valve has little control on what other companies target. Their previous push for native gaming produced very little results: Valve ported all their titles, a few minor publishers released native titles and some porting companies ported some AAA titles, but it was only a drop.

Proton has caused a significant increase in Linux playable games. The side effect is that it effectively killed porting companies.

edit: also all porting companies were effectively using their proprietary equivalent of proton (although often inferior) .
I'd strongly encourage you to leave academia for at least 2 years, preferably a little more -- and go intern, or work at, at least 2 or 3 different companies. This will benefit your mental health, working practices, and sense of perspective.

Academia is full of superstitions and misunderstandings about 'industry', and is an ideologically closed system designed to present itself and its practices as of the highest value. Including, as mentioned here, hijacking 'industrial values' (such as utility, applicability, etc.) and presenting itself with them.

This is in part a straight deception: academics need to lie about this to governments and other funding agencies in order to get funding. And in part naivety, their sense of 'application' is so far removed from any, that they are poor judges of it.

Enabling these deceptions is, of course, that academic output does occasionally have an impact over longer time horizons. But it is more the case that something written ~30 years ago will today find some use by a small team somewhere -- which might have a lot of impact, but isnt on the scale or time lines you'd need for your research today to give you an ROI.

Indeed, as you'll see if you're in industry long enough, there is often something very suspicious and deceptive about the values of various research communities. Even when researchers are told: no one cares about this, this does not have the value you say it does, this isn't a real problem etc.-- they continue. Why? Because they aren't interested in solving problems people have, they are interested in whatever puzzles are current within their community.

If you want to solve real problems using research, it is better to go out and undertand what problems people actually have, then go back into research aiming to help them.
The Idea was to embed heated filament in the adhesive and use that to release the battery, that's not used in every other phone on the market. Currently, you heat the whole phone/battery.
> Do it with the ssd then. you don't need to lock the screen, the battery or the faceid sensor. it makes no sense security wise.

They don't lock the battery or display.

The display sensor and FaceID components are paired because they don't want rogue actors e.g. governments/spouses replacing them with compromised ones.

Privacy and security may not be a priority to you. But for many it is a million times more important than being able to repair the device.
Huh, good points.
It doesn't seem to be just a micro sensor faking it, as it reacts as expected for example when opening the windows.
I guess the only way to tell if they are any good is to buy a verified good CO2 sensor and compare the outputs then.
"Source Attribution" gets a whole subtree in Linebarger's 1954 propanal scheme:

a. Source
(1) True source ("Where does it really come from?")
(a) Release channel ("How did it come out?") if different from true source without concealing true source
(b) Person or institution in whose name material originates
(c) Transmitting channel ("Who got it to us?"), person or institution effecting known transmission—omitting, of course, analyst's own procurement facilities
(2) Ostensible source ("Where does it pretend to come from?")
(a) Release channel ("Who is supposed to be passing it along?")
(3) First-use and second-use source (first use, "Who is said to have used this first?"; second use, "Who pretends to be quoting someone else?")
(a) Connection between second-use source and first-use source, usually in the form of attributed or unacknowledged quotation; more rarely, plagiarism
(b) Modification between use by first-use and second-use sources, when both are known
(i) Deletions
(ii) Changes in text
(iii) Enclosure within editorial matter of transmitter
(iv) Falsification which appears deliberate
(v) Effects of translation from one language to another

(nb a.3.b.iv suggests "fake news" is not a recent phenomenon; indeed, Linebarger's book provides biblical examples)
Hey @brudgers,

Thanks for the feedback.

I didn't understand what you meant by "People have more than one computer."
The scripts only work with Linux and macOS, as the page mentions.
> And if they're working an 8 hour work day it's because they're working two remote jobs at the same time.

I'd love to see actual stats on this, because I hear it a lot on HN (pretty much exclusively from the pro-office side) but I can't imagine there's that many people doing this. Even if there was, why is this a problem? Presumably they're getting work done in those 4 hours that is satisfactory to the business, so what if they do some work on the side as well? Who cares?

I do hybrid (2 times a week in the office) and don't mind it, but I know for a fact that pretty much every single person in my team does much less work on the office days than when they're remote, because we're mostly socializing, taking coffee breaks and taking full advantage of our 1-hour lunch break (rather than the 15 minutes it takes at home to just eat the meal). Most of us will even opt out of office days when we have a big deadline.

Hell, I'm much less productive at the office simply because the chairs & monitors suck. At home I've got a quad 4K monitor setup in an extremely comfortable chair, my own desk, my own food & beverages of choice, my own music blasting as loud (or quiet) as I want it. How could I be more productive in the office?

Turns out most people aren't mischievous children that have to be under constant supervision to get work done, and in fact they were better when given the freedom to approach the work in a way that suits them best.
That library looks like some seriously cool wizardry! I'm excited to play around with it later
Cool. But to guard your sleep a bit more than just caffeine blood concentration is needed.

Caffeine will influence your sleep schedule by influencing your cicardian clock via its effect on the underlying signaling.

That effect stacks with that of bright light etc, so half-life is not enough.

Rule of thump:
2 espressos 3h before normal bedtime will delay your sleep by ca. 40 minutes even without bright light.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4657156/#:~:tex....
At least the screen is only touced by you. My peril are the touch screen ordering places (practically all fast food places nowadays) where based on their outlook hygienically challanged persons swipe their fingers up and down for long before you have a chance following them. There is an icecream place opened nearby I had no chance trying because they only have touchscreen order. Guys at the till only serve icecream and all orders must go through the touch screen. They put the icecream into a cone - if you dared to ordered so - and put into the fingers of the customer who just swiped the same finger over a screen swiped by dozens of unknow people before. Oi!
Would this be really necessary for a replacement battery? Are many people replacing the battery twice over the life of the phone?
Let's hope this gets higher and higher and the cloud provider drop their prices so they are actually competitive instead of 10-1000x higher.

(t4g.2xlarge is pretty naft and on demand, that costs me $200/mo without any extras; I can get a dedi with similar (but better) specs, more diskspace, free backups etc for $33/mo ; until that's at least equal for that instance, it's still worse, but then I would possibly consider it)
> we hustled over to their battery guide, which sure enough described passing 9V through this fancy new adhesive.

Oh, come on guys, you don't pass a voltage through something, you apply a voltage to it and then (if it's conductive) a current will pass through it.
How often does a deployment rollback go smoothly? Almost never. The priority is roll-forward and reduced error scopes.
What do you not like about Firefox's Tree Style Tabs? I might be open to an alternative.
Inference Wholesale
I have a canvas library which was in serious need of a community. One of the things I tried to find that community was joining the indie hackers website - I mean, building in public is the sort of thing I'm already doing with my library's public GitHub repos yes?

I made an intro post and started to setup a profile. On the profile page it says: "Create a founder profile to show off your products, your revenue, and your most ambitious goals and ideas" ... and that's when I realised this wasn't what I wanted. I'm not a founder; I don't have a product to sell. Everybody on the site is shouting about how many customers they've got and how they've cleared their first $100k - but I couldn't see anyone keen to discuss the intricacies of coding up a 2d canvas filter.

So my library still doesn't have a community of people who want to discuss all things 2D canvas. It would be nice if I could find such a community (not on Reddit), or build one, but I'm glad I decided not to hustle with all the rest of the indie hacker crowd building stuff in public.
What advantages do you offer? How do you compare with similar projects?
Now that is alt.tasteless old-school :)
I think the issue is less their legal form, but their behavior and the resulting drama. If they are driving away the good developers, some kind of collapse might be imminent. You shouldn't invest anything in that.
I’m really curious to know how a world where branding was illegal could possibly work. Branding, when it comes down to it, is reputation management. If you don’t allow anyone to manage their own reputation then you don’t really have a free society at all. Heck, even people in prison are able to manage their own reputations within the prison population.

If you suppose, by wishful thinking, that no one could know the reputation of anyone else then you would have a chaotic and unpredictable society. You’d be unable to trust anyone to act fairly in even the most trivial circumstances. It would look like an unmoderated forum where everyone is anonymous and no one can pin anything on anyone else. Quite dystopian.
I loved Four Thousand Weeks. The new one sounds intriguing, but wasn't the point of the first book that "you don't even need to Finally Make Time for What Counts", because that is a rather new concept considering the history of civilization? You just did what you had to do. You don't have to make it count and min-max your life. Do you see this as a contradiction?
> Because that’s the rules that were collectively established over time and were eventually codified in things like The Hague Convention.

Why should an agreement negotiated in Europe in 1899 be binding on people outside Europe?
I'm a bit shy about the details but it's used by engineers. Actually there's a lot of opportunity in software for engineers. They pay huge prices and the quality of what they have is often poor. I'm aware of some gaps in the market. For example, modeling thermal distortion due to robot welding. That's not what my product does but that's one where the existing solutions are something like $50,000/year and it's a hard problem in part because the software has to run faster than an actual welding robot making a prototype to be economical to model it in the first place. It takes some clever research to invent the secret sauce to get those speeds.
It's the latter bit for me. Ok, so it's a quote from the article. So what? What's interesting about it? What's funny about it? Don't make me guess. Tell my why you thought it was worth your time copy-pasting it into the comment box. Foster some discussion!
What annoys me about this is the assumption that ULEZ means people can't drive any more.

Every single person with a car today can continue to drive under ULEZ without paying the ULEZ fee.

They just need to have a car that isn't high emissions. They can pay to drive a non-compliant car, or they can change car to something that is compliant, and don't pay the charge. That's it.

To facilitate that, the taxpayer through the ULEZ scrappage scheme offered £2,000 even if the car was not worth anything close to that value. I've seen people get £2k for vehicles that frankly weren't worth half that.

There are plenty of vehicles available for not much more money that are ULEZ-compliant.

I think the fact this happened at a similar time when we were exposed to chatter of "government interference" from Europe (Brexit), or Whitehall (Covid lockdowns), didn't help, but the language I hear some people using is insane - we're paying for the same level of personal protection for the Mayor as for the PM because of the number of death threats he gets.

I definite;y agree very little of the debate feels scientific.