skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. As mentioned in the original comment, I've tried this several ways on multiple different machines. The configuration is never the same, but the performance always is.

I've tried everything from hardware to network configs, always the same abysmal performance
The look of surprise on their faces is almost universal when the feds knock on the door with a search warrant in relation to something that came from their IP address.
The issue is the computer age has allowed gray-area-illegal pricing discrimination to be partook at unprecedented scale. McDonald’s sets a price per market not user. It’s funny you mention them though, because just look at the shenanigans with the $10 whopper sticker prices to drive people to “download the McDonald’s app”. It’s just setting up a reverse auction in disguise.
Google seems to have fully bought into the philosophy that the user is a security threat. The devices are no longer about protecting the user from other threats, but also about protecting the device from the user. Termux is the type of application that enables the user to do stuff that the Google designers don't think is safe (like send SMS messages programmatically!) so maintaining the APIs it depends on is not a priority.

I doubt anyone at Google is trying to break Termux, but they don't care about power users and they think Android should function like their iPhone and treat users accordingly.
If you (or your client) are ok with your data going off premises.
Are we back to the “you wouldn’t download a car” pointof things?
This is all true. My naïveté is showing; I assumed if they were developing a phone they’d just say so outright. I guess I don’t understand what benefits being vague about the kind of device gets them.
An alternatively hypothesis is that users with credits in their account are committed spenders, and so are less likely to receive discounts. In the same way, frequent users are more committed.

I rarely use Uber/Eats, so when I do I almost always have ~1/3rd off through some voucher or something. They also do vouchers that work over multiple purchases in order to build habits.
It's time to start legislating against dynamic pricing.

I don't know if this particular claim is true but dynamic pricing is getting out of control. Things should have an advertised price rather than some amorphous ML system deciding to charge you more because you're desperate or you can afford it (according to some criteria).

These companies have to be careful too because they may open themselves up to discrimination claims. There are protected classes you can't discriminate against under federal law. Facebook already settled a case of race discrimination in housing ads [1]. This has nothing to do with dynamic pricing but I guarantee you dynamic pricing will open up more of these issues.

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-gr...
> Disclosure : my account was censored, I did not respect one of the "laws" specific to the instance.

In the early 2000s, hackers were staunch defenders of free speech. The internet was a safe space from an often conservative and religiously Puritanical "meat space".

Now that the pendulum has swung, a majority seemingly wants to shut down the things and the people that they disagree with. Moreover, the accepted social behavior encourages this kind of hate and range and spite. It's even been gamified.

In many ways, the future turned out a lot worse than I'd hoped for. This is certainly one of the things I loathe.
Is it one of the Lenovo Chromebook tablets? I encountered one the other day. It was pretty damn nice actually, I may end up buying one for myself.
One of the main avantage of regulating a professional board (eg. Engineers, doctors, etc) is to make an individual fully responsible. What if that "lowly swe" wasn't so lowly anymore and the company executives could go to jail if they pushed code without his stamp on it? In civil engineering, if your boss asks you to stamp something illegal and you do it, you can lose your title.

It garantees that there is always one person in charge who will take personal responsibility for the act and will fight for thing to be done properly and no one can bypass him.
I did in fact follow the link. I actually went further than you, all the way to the GitHub, where I saw that it was actually just a web app. All TS.

And you can 100% load PWAs offline, which might be slightly more progressive than your idea of a web app, but I hope not overly so.
Do you wish for the Star Trek AR game with the tubes gobbling up the discs, and the mind control side effect?

It seemed mildly compelling, and Tetris like.

* https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/a13595750/star-t...
Wouldn't the lambda here by always escape? It gets created in the function and passed into another one. Looking at the byte code it looks like it always allocates in when its in the interpreter:

invokedynamic #16, 0 // InvokeDynamic #0:apply:()Ljava/util/function/Function;
To be clear the tablet is crap (just one comical example: the Battery Saver mode enables dark mode, but the screen is an LCD! Wat!) but I'm pretty sure my keyboard/mouse issues aren't specific to the model, but due to the fact that most Android devs don't even consider that use case.
> Claims like this go viral because they're practically unfalsifiable

How in the world is this unfalsifiable? Can't you just have two Uber accounts and cross check their prices?
Well one can't have everything.

The average webdev in many countries of Europe earns pennies and cost of living being still abysmal. Meanwhile one can only be breathing in the USA with a CS degree and easily make quite a lot, more than enough to get by.
But minus the overly ostentatious carpet, and the faint smell of cigarettes.
Can't curl do this?
Well, look at it this way: you gave stuff to LinkedIn.

Whatever their terms say, they're storing your stuff, they are serving your stuff, and they've reserved the right to extract value from your stuff in perpetuity, according to your agreements when you signed up, when you posted, and when they updated. Doesn't matter about your privacy settings, because it all happened on LI.

I mean, you can delete the stuff you posted if you don't want future AIs trained? Delete your whole account if you didn't like LinkedIn messing with it?

(I could likewise say this about MS Windows, Apples or anything: if you don't want someone to have your stuff, give it to someone else, or don't give at all?)

But in the end, you voluntarily gave it to them, because it was free, but you are the product, and not the artist.
This has been the case for a long time. If you don't believe me, why not break out the old phonograph and spin up the classic 1961 album "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine", in which Ronald Reagan (the actor?) warned us that Medicare is just a "foot in the door" toward becoming an authoritarian dystopia where the government tells everyone which town they're allowed to live in? Just ignore the fact that it was produced as part of a stealth campaign by the AMA [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Coffee_Cup
I think you've been gotten by the Reddit-ification of everything. Essentially, many people assume sinister motives on everyone else's part. If you're saying/asking something like you did, it must be because you have an agenda.

Fortunately with a bit of time it will even out and probably go positive. It's the early voters on comments that are the most negative and quick to judgment.
The ITRON specs can be downloaded from the TRON website: https://www.tron.org/specifications/

Most of them are available in English, although a few of the more peripheral specs are Japanese-only.

At least some of the BTRON and CTRON specs were published in English - http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/tronspecs.html - but don’t appear to be available online.

CTRON appears to have been based on OSI-I see references to FTAM and MOTIS (the X.400 mail transport protocol)-and also advertised support for ISDN as a key feature-which would make it very dated by today’s standards

I can’t find any references to actual specs for MTRON. I am wondering if it was ever actually specified, or if it was just vapourware

> (I had also had idea of my own operating system design, which also uses TRON character code,

You don’t need a whole operating system for that. It could just be a library which supported converting TRON code to other character sets, displaying text in TRON code, etc.
and also that any drift over time is swamped by weather effects
> Is it not meaningful that these dangerous things can now be done far more cost effectively?

It is meaningful. Humans can publish 10 books with 10 mistakes inside, A.I. can publish a trillion books with countless mistakes. Radically different scale.

Imagine this: A writer after he finishes writing a book, he goes to a government office, and stamps electronically the hash signature of the book as "Human Approved". Then anyone can search the Book stamp in an internet database. Everything else is labeled as A.I.

Is it so difficult for a government to use a software like that? How about an open source software? (It doesn't exist, but it could be implemented by some people.)

> In fact, public sentiment against AI (in the US) seems to be rapidly increasing, and is bipartisan

That cannot be true. A massive poll of at least 10.000 people could demolish that myth. The poll should be organized by the age of participants, rather than political parties. Candidate ages are, 18-30 years old, 30-60, and 60-Rest.

Ages 18-30 will be 80% in favor of A.I.
well you can guess why. but i agree with you
illuminated and backlit are two different things, there's a matter of polarization
This. B2C expectation is a fixed price, as if it was a property of the product or service, and any sudden changes need some plausible justification (like idk. import costs just went up because of a calamity, or sth.). When I go to the grocery store, I don't want to pay whatever I can individually negotiate with the seller - the hassle and resulting unpredictability has a large dollar cost on individuals' life too.
I would assume that I'd agree, but I've never attempted to use something like a Surface with a keyboard. For me, a desktop OS and a full size laptop keyboard are just two non-negotiables if I'm working on pretty much anything.
Maybe BE. Brain Excellence.

Also, do you have a PowerPoint explaining how to setup a Center of Excellence?
> think a big part of the reason (maybe the only reason?) they went to USB-C is because they were legally compelled to by European regulations

It wasn't the only reason, it was inevitable even without the regulations. They'd already switched their laptops to USB-C in 2015 (?), and the iPad in 2018. The phones and some accessories (keyboards, mice, charging cases for AirPods and such) were the last remaining Lightning devices. All the regulations did, if anything, was set a deadline that was probably internal no more than one or two years past when they made the switch.
You’re confusing unprovable and unfalsifiable. It could proven either through a whistleblower or finding an example where two accounts request the same ride at the same time and show a different price. If these sort of anecdotes aren't acceptable to you, you might say it's unprovable.

Unfalsifiable means it's impossible to submit evidence to contrary. In this case the proposition is that Uber sometimes charges you more based on having credits in your account. There is no way to prove this never happens through an experiment. If an experiment showed that two rides cost the same to users with and without credits, it doesn't show that it never happens.
No one chooses to be alive, but to be alive is to struggle to survive. Were it not a market, it would be compulsion. If it were neither of those it’d be hunting and gathering. There is no free lunch. We have and we live by effort.
I'm not a big fan of Uber, but this seems like a case of "confirmation bias." The author formed an opinion, then searched for anything that confirmed it and accepted that as proof, even if it was completely unrelated or just due to chance.

It's called "dynamic pricing" for a reason. Like stock market prices, it fluctuates rapidly based on hundreds of factors.

You don't need credits to see different prices—just compare with a friend's phone. Sometimes, their fare will be higher than yours, and other times, it will be lower.
The strategy is not to build a product but a marketplace, where others will build products and you will take a cut.

App stores are the largest marketplaces. Instead of taking a cut from levels produced for a game, articles published on a website, videos published on YouTube, or plugins developed for some enterprise software, they take a cut from all applications developed for a platform. But the principle is the same.

The problem here is not taking the cut, per se, but rather the oligopoly. If we had dozens of app stores, with easy switching for users, the developers would move to less abusive ones. Maintaining the infrastructure costs some money, so taking maybe 5% would be appropriate. Or maybe taking 10% and providing excellent development tools in return.

With websites that monetize articles, I don't mind that they take a cut, because I can easily move away from them if I decide that they take too much and it would be cheaper to host everything myself, and maybe pay someone to move the articles from the old place to the new one. Moving articles is simple, it's just text and pictures, and maybe some formatting gets lost in the process.

With Apple and Android, there are no other places to move, and the applications would need a rewrite. Which is why they have greater leverage.

The problem is not taking a cut (what the author refers to as parasitism). Infrastructure costs something; how else do you imagine it would be paid for? The problem is the lack of choice.
> A government that has been purchased by banks, insurance companies, drug companies, and defense companies cannot act in the market fairly and therefore should not act at all.

Yeah but this is a problem in any system except anarcho-capitalism, which Milton Friedman did not believe in like most functioning adults. The point is precisely that Friedman is such a small-government proponent, much more in fact than the neocons who touted his rhetoric, and despite that he still didn’t think you could get a stable system without government intervention solely to make the markets freer. AFAIK he’s spent a great deal of time on market failures, which he knew were very real.

A real world example would be the EU which in many respects is substantially more free market in practice than the US corporatocracy. Despite all the shit it gets (some well-deserved), they do actually enforce their rules predictably, and companies just align and move on with their day. Of course, it depends on how you define freedom, but the point with a free market is competition – that everyone can play, higher connectivity and strong signaling mechanisms, price transparency you get outrageous efficiency. In many EU markets, you have a ridiculous amount of consumer choice and real competition. For instance telecom used to be quite garbage and now it’s light years ahead of the us, no matter if you go with low cost or premium offerings.
> I’d probably move our nextcloud over to a nextcloud provider.

I recently moved (from Contabo to Hetzner), and I struggled to migrate NextCloud. I ended up creating a new Nextcloud container and re-uploading the files. I did have some more unique setup (trying to move from Caprover to Coolify, and the Coolify NextCloud image was using sqlite instead of MySQL for the NC database). If you migrate, just make sure to back-up the files locally first in a different folder, because the server is authoritative, so if on the new server the files are missing, they will also be deleted locally.

It's nice to hear you are dedicated to self-hosting. If you ever need a self-hosted Hotjar alternative, check out my UXWizz platform :)
Why would you go through the trouble, when nobody else is doing that, because the success of the system is highly dependent on network effects?

These things have first-mover disadvantage, and last-mover advantage.
If two accounts show different prices, it proves the pricing algorithm isn’t standard, but if they show the same price, it doesn’t prove that there are never situations where the pricing algorithm is predatory. It’s hard to prove a negative.
We are committed to keeping the Brainfuck community healthy
-- best sentence ever
> Free markets depend on transparent pricing.

Specifically, transparent in that I can compare prices, which I can just check with my work phone or Lyft or Waymo, so they are. But when I buy a can of coke from the store, I have zero clue as to why it's priced. The algorithm used there is as opaque as Uber's is. I'd love for Uber to be transparent as to why a ride costs what it does, and how much goes to the driver, but there's no reason for them to do that.
Considering Uber’s stated, implicit and possibly legal goal is to maximize their profits, why do you believe they are choosing to not maximize profits in these situations?
BF is slightly hard to read, more like a well written Perl.

IMHO any solid enteprise should use Ook! or similar substitution - power of Perl, with verbosity of COBOL !

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Ook!
I'm surprised they're putting SMS 2fa in now. In 2016 the NIST released new guidelines that essentially "banned" SMS 2fa use. It's heavily suggested that US banks follow NIST guidelines, I'm unsure if there's any actual legal requirement for them to.

You could always send the portion of the guidelines to as many credit union people as possible. Someone may bite.
Given enough time Uber will just look like an another taxi service I guess.
This is the classic "security through obscurity" argument. Yes it makes it harder to find vulns and develop exploits when the source isn't available, but once there are enough users to make it worth it, people are gonna fuzz the shit out of it regardless whether it's open or not.

At least with open source, you have white hats (and gray hats to some extent) using the available source to get hints. These end up getting reported a lot more than for closed OSes. There may seem like more CVEs for Linux than Macos for example, but that isn't proportional to the number of vulns, researchers, or exploits out there.

That said though, even if open were less secure (which I don't think it is), it is still a better and more ethical model for software and would be worth the security risk. Luckily for the world, open is more secure (or at least equally secure).
I understand and completely agree republishing content (even altered) isn't cool, and I also agree government use of technology for mass surveillance is incompatible with our idea of democratic/open societies. However, in the case of LinkedIn posts you have already given the ideas behind your content to the world (and in this case specifically and explicitly LinkedIn) for free.

I've said this before, but it's sad how quickly this community swapped from being champions of the free exchange and use of information for the betterment of humanity to gleefully stomping on an incredible and beautiful new technology because someone else might make money off it. Reminds me of the Judgement of Solomon [1] (people would rather kill the whole technology and all the incredible things that may come with it then miss out on "my cut!", "my cut!" even if it's a single LinkedIn post in a corpus of billions)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Solomon
Migration for the future, LOL. Like stepping off a boat, with a suitcase and the shirt on your back. Except it's just another third world country, from which you will have to do it all over again.
Ghidra has Z80 support (based on the installation on my laptop), but I've never used it.
That example is literally in the article though. Clearly it’s not enough to convince OP.
> Isn't it more the case that all actors audit all software? Open source just has potentially more "auditors" than closed source?

Perhaps bad actors don’t audit more than good actors, but this doesn’t address whether there are more good or bad actors doing the auditing. I think this is a more valuable comparison if we’re talking about risk mitigation and the safety of open-source software. Do you know that there are more good-faith auditors than bad?

Very much related — we should probably acknowledge the disparity between the two groups in terms of motivation, sustainability of said motivation, financial resources, and time.

The idea of burnout among open-source maintainers is long-known and endlessly discussed. They often/mostly volunteer their time — to some thanks, but also to a deluge of “doesn’t work” tickets with no repro, as someone pointed out on this recent post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579591

Bad-faith actors tend to be highly motivated, with ideological or financial goals. They have more and perhaps better resources, more so if state-funded, and more time to commit.

This doesn’t mean there’s a constant and unmanageable risk to open-source software, and I certainly don’t agree that open-source OSes are a bad idea. But it’s not as simple as having actors auditing on each side or the difference in numbers between closed and open-source.
Exactly what i was thinking.
It isn’t for most people here. But the most valuable tool for fixing a broken computer is a working one, and a lot of people don’t have more than one anymore. Some don’t even have that.

My wife texted me on Friday as she was visiting her mother six hours’ drive away. She needed her laptop. They do not own a desktop, and her dad was at our house on a business trip with his laptop in tow.

Do not underestimate the utility of just outfitting houses that you/spouse spend a fair amount of time at with at least functional computers and such. I put MoCA and three access points in their house as a Christmas gift. It cost me $500 and about two hours of work, but I have never gotten another call about bad WiFi. I bought an AppleTV for their house just to have a Tailscale endpoint. I think they will eventually end up actually using it as an AppleTV, but until then, it’s my door into their network (and another private VPN service for me).

My 2008-era spare laptop isn’t snappy, and it’s not in good shape. But it boots Windows and Linux, and in the absence of anything else it can at least SSH and web-browse, write a USB drive, etc.
> whereas the scientist has to simulate the true physical equations.

Every model of nature is an approximation. In high-performance computing, it is often a serious tradeoff where to "cut corners" to make the computation even feasible (e.g.

- Which grid size or tesselation do we use?

- Do we use a more regular grid to make use of optimizations or do we use a more irregular grid/tesselation for more precision at the places where it matters?

- Do we use a simpler or more sophisticated model?

- For multi-scale problems: do we compute each scale individually and combine the results?

- etc.).

EDIT: In my opinion the central difference to game development is that in science each such possible optimization where one might cut corners has to be deeply analyzed. Simply using an easy, pragmatic shortcut that "looks sufficiently good" is rarely possible in science.
Photo Formatting in Markdown
TLDR: You use HTML and CSS.

I set out to make a blog in the simplest form possible a few weeks ago. Today I wanted to add some formatting when including photos in posts. It turns out I made some bad calls already when I set things up optimizing other areas like process and publishing.

Maybe someone out there will find this as funny as I did while I was writing it.
Blatant scam?