skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say, that looks seriously impressive and I'd buy it if I had the spare cash.
As someone working in developer tools for a company with thousands of people developing software on MacBooks, MAN do I resent SIP. I've recently started calling it "Systems Implementation Prevention".

It's incredible that it's 2024 and I can't cobble together anything vaguely container-like on macOS because:

* bind mounts don't exist (?!)

* clonefile() could maaaybe do the job but doesn't work cross-volume and a lot of the stuff outside of /Users is a different volume

* there's no filesystem namespace.

* chroot doesn't work either because /usr/lib/libsystem.B.dylib is required, but also pretend.

* And it sounds like chroot runs afoul of some SIP rule nowadays even if you can get past the above.

* A lot of this could be worked around with FUSE, but in order to turn that on, we'd have to turn off a lot of SIP.

The closest we can get without virtualization is sandbox-exec, which just allows allowing/denying file reads by path, with no path translation. And also is deprecated.

Nevermind that dtrace exists but you're not allowed to use it either.

Truly, the worst UNIX.
> Most official documentation is awful

This goes doubly so for google cloud documentation. Firebase docs are decent, but if you're a developer who's gotten used to google's documentation style I could see skipping right over it.
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It might make a lot of money. Who cares.

What about meaning? Is there any reason a busy adult should be playing any games?

Is the technology exciting anymore?

We could ask the same about a lot of creative narrative industries. I am just focusing on games. What is an exciting new game?
"We will let anyone run arbitrary JavaScript on all your web pages if you send them a referral link" is surely a 6-7 figure vulnerability for a web browser. That this vulnerability was discoverable using about two steps of analysis tools suggests many more issues are in the product.
Koyfin and yCharts do that. You're looking for "total return".
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> Their innovation abilities have been lacking

And Qualcomm's haven't? What did they really design besides the Snapdragon X Elite in the last 10+ years?

> but I hope it happens

So more industry concentration and even less competition would somehow be a good thing?
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As a games coder I was glad when the xbox 360 / ps3 era came to an end; getting big endian clients talking to little endian servers was an endless source of bugs.
That security guarantee to Poland turned out quite expensive in the end.
People are so quick to judge without knowing the details, the situation is more complex than I'm willing to go into here, and I'm comfortable with my decision.
Generating the spec from your code is only an option if you are deploying a monorepo.
I discovered this term monotropism and now I can't stop thinking about it (only partly joking): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropism. Not saying it necessarily applies to your situation but I hope you can see why I make the connection.

> Monotropism is an individual's tendency to focus their attention on a small or singular number of interests at any time, with them neglecting or not perceiving lesser interests.

I recently also picked up Magic: The Gathering again and started playing at a local shop. Now I can't stop thinking about decks which might be fun to brew. I guess I'll see how long it lasts but I intend for it to be a long-term interest.
I agree. We have a license monoculture despite whatever irrelevant number of licenses people say exist.

Create real terms. Create demands for your work. Charge something. Charge nothing but require volunteer hours. Do something different. Do something meaningful.

If you’re a small open source author you can afford to be creative. Most of the time no one’s going to give you a cent in the first place. There are ten thousand and one open source projects who haven’t made even $100.00.

You owe no one.
If you have a passport, they already do. If you have a driver's license or state ID, they most likely do.
Yeah, if you think the difference between "liberal" on "conservative" is about "change" vs "status quo" rather about outward distribution of power vs. preserving narrow concentration of power, you would tend to view a genuinely reactionary party as "liberal" and a liberal/progressive party that has drawn conservative support against the reactionaries as just "conservative".
Interesting how you’ve done this
Facial recognition, and the lack of regulating it: a victim of conflating privacy in the sense of limiting government powers and privacy in the sense of whether or not a piece of data is sensitive of embarrassing.
Not wanting to contribute more to my palantir profile and accidentally becoming a person of interest due to some shitty algorithm.
That's literally what middlemen do, they wouldn't exist if they couldn't extract value from the items they pass along.
Why do you want to avoid virtualization?
15 MHz m68030 with a 16 bit memory bus and 10 megabytes of RAM -- A Mac LC II, by any chance? :)

> towards the late '80s and early '90s

By the late 1960s, really. It would probably be possible to port Linux to the IBM Model 67 [1]; might even be easy since GCC can already target the instruction set. The MMU is sufficient. Maybe a tight squeeze with the max of 2 MB of fast core. Would be in a similar ballpark, a bit slower, to that 68030 machine.

Full virtualization, and hardware enforced memory and IO boundaries, were invented early on, too. It took a while for such features to trickle down to mini- and then micro- computers. And then much longer for popular software to take advantage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_67
> * A lot of this could be worked around with FUSE, but in order to turn that on, we'd have to turn off a lot of SIP.

Didn't the latest MacOS update add something similar with userspace filesystems
A lot of happy memories playing this game on a knockoff Apple II+.

To this day it's still impressive to me that they got 3D wireframe rendering (with hidden line removal!!) working on a 1 Mhz 6502 chip - that thing doesn't even have multiply and divide instructions.
I think OP mean to say "this bug could let an attacker gain $200k of value easily", though you are right the market clearing price for such a vulnerability is probably low due to huge supply.
We treat corporate speech as an extension of human speech because corporations are made up of humans, and there is no way of abridging the speech of corporations without also abridging the speech of the humans within that corporation.

Also, abridging corporate speech creates a precedent for abridging the speech of all human collective entities like religions, political parties, advocacy groups and the press, because there is no particular reason why corporations as an abstract entity created by humans to express collective human will should be unique in this regard.

You can't simply nullify rights when people exercise them in aggregate. That isn't how free societies are supposed to work, and it's too easy to undermine.
Yeah, I didn’t pick that episode title!

Being able to write code faster absolutely does make a difference for me though - it helps me be much more ambitious with the projects I take on.

I wrote a note about that a few days ago: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/speed-matters/
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Colima offers the best experience for docker alternative. LIMA offers the equivalent of WSL, where both docker and podman are supported. I like LIMA a lot as I deal with both, but COLIMA rocks for simplicity. I think COLIMA + Container Desktop are perfect replacement on mac for traditional Docker Desktop users.
Interesting, the camera is usually a bit behind the officer, perpendicular to the lane. Did you walk past the station or was it pointed towards you?
> What about meaning? Is there any reason a busy adult should be playing any games?

Fun?
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> flagging chips business

Is it "flagging", though? Intel still seems to be pretty good at designing chips and their next gen laptop chips (made at TSMC) are allegedly more power efficient than the Snapdragon Elite (of course remains to be seen). It's the foundry that's dragging down.
It does (for NVIDIA at least)
Companies should do what they say they're going to do, but these dev kits are an example of something that's relevant to HN but not to Qualcomm's business.
It's not in Alpha though, they've been around for years and have launched formally.
A memcpy should not be slow. It should be nearly as fast as generic memory copying can be. Most of the time you shouldn't even hit the actual function, but instead a bit of code generated by the compiler that does exactly the copy you need.
> What did they really design besides the Snapdragon X Elite in the last 10+ years?

The Snapdragon 8 series have been the flagship SoCs for non-Apple phones for years, that's why people had high hopes for the Snapdragon X on PCs
Forget ads, but what you just described is advertising.

OP, you need to figure out how to grow your user base and ad spend proportionally. Look into figuring out customer acquisition costs (CAC) and lifetime value (LTV). Keep the diff of those positive and in theory you have a working strategy.
> What did they really design besides the Snapdragon X Elite in the last 10+ years?

Lots of 5G modems
Your basically-absolutist stance is about as unenlightened as the one that you’re arguing against.
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I really don't see it. Maybe a merger of some sort but still. Has Qualcomm anything to gain from taking intel, and likewise intel from being merged in?
A... single patent? No, there are licensing agreements for that.
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Yea, though when the larvae are dead, I think "Were these fumigated?" haha.

At least we can wash most of that off.
colima + docker CLI goes a long way.

$ colima start

$ docker context use colima

And that's it.

And Kubernestes? No thank you, life is already hard as is.
You don’t need k8s to scale. Can you make other poor choices? Sure.
It's only PM2.5 deaths because those are un-debatable.

Far more will die due to other kinds of pollution it emits, and an unknowable number will die due to the effects of climate change caused by CO2 emissions.
Yeah ive always been blown away by how fast memcpy is. I'm guessing the OP is from a different world of engineering than I am.
> stronger domestic player

Is it though? Qualcomm is more likely to just strip Intel for parts than to turn it around and we'll just end up with more market concentration and less competition.
Since this thread seems interested, I will reveal the main issue being that based on my analysis, reporting to PCI and the state AG would have absolutely destroyed this (very) small business and the businessowner, someone who helped me in a very rough time, and thus I felt both options were bad/wrong, but resigning without whistleblowing was the better of the two options. I appreciate the analysis and really hope I made the right choice, and if I change my mind, I can still whistleblow on this, which has been a solace in the struggle in this decision.
It's very heavyweight, and there's no good shared filesystem option.

We did use virtualization for a bunch of stuff before the move to Apple Silicon, back when Hypervisor.framework and xhyve actually existed and were plausibly useful.

Those also fell by the wayside in the architecture migration and now virtualization has a massive performance cost.

Apparently the M4 chips are on ARMv9 which is apparently much better at virtualization, but it remains to be seen whether apple provides anything lightweight again.
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Qualcomm's RF design is best in class. This is their bread and butter and they have been consistently good at it forever.

Apple purchased intel's RF baseband division,which was awful, and has been working on it in secret for years. It remains to be seen how this will go for Apple. It is attractive to Apple for cost and efficiency reasons (theoretically they can bury this all on a single SoC if they wish to) not because Qualcomm is bad.

It bears in mind that just because you are good at one thing does not imply you will be good at another. For instance, Intel's networking is mediocre to bad depending on the product or various entities trying to produce MIPS and ARM products failing time and time again.
how far are you from a spanish speaking country?
> That has to be so much fun to get paid to roast and humiliate a group of people who think so much of themselves.

When they are making money hand over first and paying you to roast them, you aren't humiliating them, you are serving as a foil whose whole purpose is to reinforce their ego and sense of triumph against a world that doesn't get what they are doing.
Yes, since quite some time... It's oversaturated as hell and mostly copies of <current trend>. If you're a part of a community of yonder, be glad and stick to what you have. It's not built to last.
I don't like these ambiguous titles. From the title I thought I was going to read that byte order doesn't matter when in fact the title should be "a computer's byte order is irrelevant to high-level languages". At least, state the fallacy in unambiguous terms one sentence right away. In any case, was an interesting read.
you have to periodically login or good bye data
You can use some Arc AI features to summarize it for you :)
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I've been using Linux on laptops almost exclusively for years. I made two exceptions:

1) one job required mac laptops. The user experience was, for my tastes, subpar, and the performance was the same or worse.

2) I keep a windows install around for the rare case of playing a game.

It really isn't that hard to look up hardware compatibility online, and of the three OSs, windows is easily the worst. Booting occasionally fails, sometimes reboot will shut down, or the shut down option will reboot instead.

I've had less problems running Linux (currently fedora) than anything else in the last, I dunno, 8 years?
Europe absolutely exercises significant antitrust influence upon US firms.

In practice, yes, as you point out: US firms must have assets in Europe to compete effectively.

But even if they didn't, Europe could deny access to the European market. So there is no reason to try and minimize surface in Europe. e.g. Apple has to comply with European antitrust rulings about app store access, even if Apple were to just sell their product to third party distributors in Europe and not have any presence in Europe.
> which are the point of the concern.

Well, that's not in evidence here. There is maybe one commenter total in this thread other than myself who is NOT commenting as if these are real debts, that cannot be paid off since "the UK is broke" and will somehow cause the UK to be bankrupted or harassed by debt collectors.

> It can be good if it is invested wisely with positive ROI exceeding the cost of borrowing. Borrowing for negative ROI obviously impoverishes the future for the benefit of today.

Even this is a misunderstanding of sovereign debt. The UK can pay off all its debts by tea time. The cost of borrowing can therefore be $0. The UK is choosing to make payments to debt-holders for various reasons but none of them are "we need the money to make investments and this is the only way to get it, making payments to debt-holders". The UK does not need to borrow in order to spend.
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The issue with governments implementing mass warrantless surveillance is not training or standards, NIST or otherwise.

It should be straight-out illegal. Governments do not have "free speech" rights.

As for private citizens doing it: I think there are already sufficient laws about recording people without their consent. You can hire someone to stand on a corner and watch for a specific person to walk by, but a law prohibiting you from recording everyone who walks by is most likely going to withstand a court review. It's a question of scale.
Qualcomm makes lots of their money by holding a monopoly on wireless chip patents. They use lawyers to bully other companies out of the space.

You can compare this with the patent wars of the companies in Silicon Valley which came to halt when the orgs realized they were effectively giving money to lawyers instead of innovating.

Qualcomm doesn’t really have real competition in Southern California. It’s cheaper for them to bully smaller companies with lawyers than employ more engineers (not sure if it’s possible to employ more engineers in the wireless space regardless).

You could also argue Qualcomms success is related to the other companies which reside around them. They have effectively built an “office moat” with their wireless patents.
>My favorite anecdote is that one of the successful SaaS companies I worked at grew in part due to radio ads on NPR. That worked because our market was education, and people who are professional educators tended to listen to NPR.

Same, although medical instead of education. I've noticed a few different times now when vendors were trying to sell us on big purchases, I've heard ads for them on NPR.
Why does anyone continue to use Dropbox?
But I've already got Observium at home.
Is this actually true? For example Ryanair flights will show up on Google Flights, but not on ITA Matrix.
The headline seems intentionally bombastic and false. The text specifies that they are interested in lines of business, for example consumer computing, not the entire entity.
Dropbox synced with an empty folder, i.e. deleted everything. I didn't notice for over 30 days which was the cutoff for their historical files. Thus my easy off-site copy which I was previously very attached to effectively deleted everything. I did not go back.
How can you expect your products to have good software support by developers then?
> The Snapdragon 8 series

They "just" are just using standard ARM cores which is hardly comparable to what Intel and Apple are doing (and they have been lagging behind Apple by a few years since forever; arguably Intel is closer to the M series than Qualcomm is to A series).

> Snapdragon X

I thought it's because they finally designed their own core, since ARM has been completely ignoring the laptop market and couldn't really offer anything?
These are gorgeous. What a great idea.
Nobody likes subscriptions but in the near future everything will be a subscription even your clothes or food.

In the future everything will be owned by the riches, we will just rent our lives from them.
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Some interesting alerts like

1)Pakistan medical instruments—https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_224.html

2) Ear candles—https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_225.html

3) Powered muscle stimulators—https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_240.html
He's right that you shouldn't use ifdefs, but I think a macro like le32toh() is far clearer and more concise than a bunch of shifts and ors.

Also, a lot of comments in this thread have nothing to do with the article and appear to be responses to some invisible strawman.
Many engineers at SV startups use Arc on a daily basis. This bug could've resulted in the compromise of multiple companies, probably including crypto exchanges. A browser bug of this severity is extremely valuable, even for a niche browser like Arc.
I came here to write the same. I learned a thing or two about how higher level languages work.

Two areas I find it does matter: Assembly language where bytes are parsed or sorted, or transformed in some way by code that writes words

, and

binary file representations when written on a little endian machine and read by a big endian machine.
What license are these released under? The page doesn't seem to say
> Washing and destemming a tomato is more of a problem to solve now that will need another 10+ years of price reductions in robot+end effector costs and increased efficiency before it beats bulk washing and hand-destemming (or crude machine work). Maybe it'll be a grad-student's project for a theoretical future home-bot

Heh, fair. I wasn't thinking of this as a practical usage, it was just the first thing to come to mind when imagining a task requiring a lot of pressure sensitivity and a range of forces.

Then again, now that I've said it, I believe the current approach to this is to breed really hard, tasteless tomatoes and then agitate them in a vat. Perhaps we can eventually get tastier produce if robots can handle more fragile things!

Hm... or you could invert things and make a glove, then use it as a controller. (VR, or just a richer set of control dimensions for eg photo editing or something.) I guess that needs to generalize across hand shapes and sizes, not just swapping out the glove, but I'd be up for a calibration/training phase.

> * Harder to suggest items for food as soft grippers (inflatable fingers) will grip at the precise pressure that they're inflated, reducing the need for sensitive feedback. The application for this touch sensor would be food that needs a combination of different pressures to properly secure something, can't think of a great example

How do you know the right pressure without feedback? A lot of foods vary in firmness over time and ripeness. Lemons, for example. I guess most don't, as long as you're sticking to a single type of food.
it’s pretty obnoxious especially when it’s something vital that I use my mac for everyday like displaylink or google chrome audio sharing or microsoft teams
Turned my Web app into a Chrome extension in 15 minutes
Making a chrome extension is easier than you think.

I just made an extension that opens my web app from spacemake.io in an extension pop up window.

Added some functionality to it like the extension auto detects if you're on a twitter spaces url & makes it even easier to download audio.

Opened up a whole new distribution channel for me.

Literally created this in 15 minutes:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/space-make/pmlieddm...
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Ask HN: What are some ways to build a powerful moat for your product?
Nowadays, software is slowly but surely becoming more of a commodity than a unique product that requires specific skill and expertise, thanks to AI. To address this new market where anyone can compete, what are some ways to build a powerful moat?

For example, any programmer with a basic understanding of web development can create a Twitter clone using Django, Flask, or Spring Boot. However, their moat isn't simply the technical skill involved; it's the millions of users who are familiar with the brand and use the app daily.

So, if you were trying to build a new software product and you want to have a powerful moat already built in at the outset, what would that be?
The reason I'm not impressed by the AI hype nowadays is because 99% of these so-called apps have no moat; they're just waiting to be swallowed by OpenAI and similar companies.
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> It really isn't that hard to look up hardware compatibility online

Code for, “buy a new computer.” In which case my point stands even stronger: who cares if the boot loader is locked, if I can just buy a different computer with it unlocked?

Also, good for you that Linux works. That’s not anywhere close to universal.
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Probably the line of thinking is that security can be a back burner issue until product market fit is achieved.

Doesn't matter if you build the most secure product if nobody is using it, right? Where that breaks down is that a browser MUST be relatively secure, otherwise you've given up the whole ballgame.
Uh, Hypervisor still exists, and is still supported: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor