skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn’t mean that it isn’t a useful metaphor or idiom, though. When using the phrase “cargo cult programming”, no one really cares about what actual Polynesians did or didn’t do. One can take it as a fable. The term is used for its quality of being a memorable analogy, similar to “sour grapes”, for example.
You've failed the Turing test.
The average customer wants a car that doesn't explode because you installed a sketchy spark plug. Does that mean the manufacturers should install locks on the hood of every new car, with the threat of jail time if you pick the lock and look underneath?
The silver lining is that the value of your skills is going up.
So because it would no longer be our computer, we should buy one that's not ours from the start?
Luckily we can stick telescopes in space (partially enabled by those constellations), where the sky is even darker and clearer.
That assumes that you are using a specific version of a specific Linux distribution that happens to ship specific versions of Python that you are currently targeting. That's a big assumption. uv solves this.
That’s “it can’t keep tripping if I jam in a penny instead” level of engineering from the utility! Wow!
A sketchy spark plug does not have the ability to make a car explode, so the analogy is pointless.

On that note, even if someone stole your car, at least your car does not have access to your bank account, your passwords, your messages, and even your sexual history. The personal and reputational cost of losing a car is not comparable.

Many people would actually probably prefer their car to be stolen than the contents of their phone be public.

I think a more accurate comparison would be to an electrician. In Australia, doing your own electrical work is a crime even for the homeowner, because it can cause physical death, and is too likely to be done wrong. Yes, you will possibly go to jail for replacing $2 light switches. I assure you that most people’s phones have things they would prefer physical death over being publicly distributed.
The easiest solution to the pre-warming problem is charge quite a bit for it. Then only those who really need it will pay (or you’ll collect more money to build out the cache).
Gen Z only voted democrat by a 4% margin which is an absolute death sentence for the democrat party considering people only vote further right as they get older. For context Obama won that demographic by 20% in 2012, and won it by even more in 2008. If those numbers hold democrats have no path to winning national elections

https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latin...
> I am happy my iPhone doesn't allow Meta to say "to use WhatsApp, you must install the MetaStore®, give it root and install it from there".

I think the inverse is a much more credible threat, though. "Sorry, you cant sign in to your bank because you are using Linux. Please try again on windows 11 with secure boot turned on" doesn't seem far fetched at all.
okay, and?
Portable Doom Format
So because I can sudo on my computer, my computer is open to any attacker? What's wrong with this comments section? Has anyone here used a computer before?
I had one back when they were new / for sale. Wish I kept it.

I remember toying with the idea of doing a soldering hack that was floating around in order to overclock the system. I imagine it was moving some resistors around or something. Never did it though.
Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts
> with a collection of 3rd party apps who won’t steal their life savings.

This is blatant unempirical scare mongering. How many desktop computer users have had their life savings stolen by 3rd party apps? Citation needed.

> The average consumer is literally dozens of times more likely to trust a new smartphone app than a new desktop app.

This is a false dichotomy. Almost all desktop computer users have a smartphone too. The people who have enough disposable income buy both smartphones and desktop computers. There's no inherent conflict between the two.

> the locked down console market will be with us forever because even Windows can’t deliver a simple experience that reliably works.

That's a competely ahistorical interpretation. Originally, the gaming consoles had no third-party games: the games were all written by the vendors. The first third-party game development company was Activision, a group of former Atari programmers who learned that their games were responsible for most of Atari's revenue, but Atari refused to give them a cut, so they left and formed their own company. There was a lawsuit, and it was ultimately settled, allowing Atari to get a cut of Activision while allowing Activision to otherwise continue developing console games. It had nothing to do with "reliablity" or "security" or any kind of made-up excuse like that.
It does not matter in the real world whether the vendor declares it secure.

Did it help anyone pass any kind of security audit? In other words, do auditors recognize it as a valid environment for working with potentially malicious documents, or only as a toy?
Depression, avoidance, not finding yourself fitting in etc, old friends all live somewhere far away
I agree states can more quickly change laws, but thats a far cry from what's proposed here. Can you imagine enforcement of such a law? Can you imagine a state employee checking for root access? You break at least five California laws an hour there just walking around as the beauracratic machine consumes any reasonable enforcement. This would be considered absolutely niche and no politician would likely care because it wont get them reelected. Call me cynical I guess but our track record of change for the better is pretty poor in this arena.

In my dream we abolish copyright all together but alas we live in a profit oriented society not a knowledge oriented one.
It's not just about malware you might accidentally download, it's also about adversaries that may have physical access to your device and can provide that consent

No matter how convoluted you make the rube goldberg machine to bypass the cryptography, if there's a way to bypass it it will be bypassed
That's what the landing page is for, I don't understand what you're asking for. If you want to learn about the product from a human, then you have to, well, get on a call with a human. Sales calls are not usually to give you basic information, that is the job of the website and whatever research you do online before getting on a call. They are, in most of my experience, to ask questions about the product and to eventually get the process going for procurement from my company as a buyer.
DNS is then a weapon of mass destruction
Why do I give a shit about the company? I bought the phone, it's mine, I should be able to unlock it. If I catch malware, I'm an adult and I'll live with my choices.

> There is a reason malware is over 50 times as prevalent on Android.

What's the reason for that bogus-sounding statistic?
hcl is still MPLv2 https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl/blob/v2.23.0/LICENSE and my complaint is that the .go file has one import path but the compiler is going to secretly use a fork, versus updating the import path like a sane person. The only way anyone would know to check for why the complied code behaves differently is to know that trickery was possible

And that's not even getting into this horseshit: https://github.com/opentofu/hcl/blob/v2.20.1/go.mod#L1 which apparently allows one to declare a repos _import_ path to be different from the url used to fetch it

I have a similar complaint about how in the world anyone would know how "gopkg.in/yaml.v3" secretly resolved to
view-source:https://gopkg.in/yaml.v3?go-get=1
On the other hand a lot of game developers have a incentive to push current hardware to the limit to impress their customers. Its too tempting to juice their games with minimal effort with high polygon count and effects at the expense of their customers wallets. Try playing something like Path Of Exile 2 (in early release now) with a good sized desktop monitor or 4k without a monster CPU/GPU.
Thanks for the press release link. My knowledge is outdated. So reading the linked research paper:

The 2023 experiment with the single-dish Green Bank Telescope (GBT) demonstrated that Starlink beam-forming could reduce radio interference at the primary telescope beam (the "boresight") by as much as two orders of magnitude.

This experiment required coordination between StarLink and the GBT operators at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).

Another NRAO telescope in North America, the Very Large Array (VLA), has been conducting experiments of its own, in coordination with StarLink and the Navajo Nation. An enclave of the Navajo Nation, the community of Alamo is northeast of the VLA site. Isolated from the main extent of the Navajo Nation, Alamo has close ties to the nearby village of Magdalena, home to many of the VLA workers. This region surrounding the VLA could benefit greatly by StarLink internet services.

The VLA StarLink tests showed that most of the interference comes from the satellite, rather than the terrestrial user terminals.

Tests to automate the process of avoiding interference are ongoing. It will involve sharing observation scheduling and telescope configuration data from NRAO to derive beam shaping modes for the StarLink satellites.

I know that the VLA RF chain has the flexibility to handle this, and that the VLA correlator was built specifically to handle interference of this nature. The design stems from the early 2000's and was informed by increasing interference from GPS satellite constellations.

The process has yet to be automated, but there's cause to believe that it can work.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad6b24

(I worked on the VLA monitor and control system software design 1999-2005. Many design reviews. Shared an office with the engineer who designed the correlator configuration API.)
Unlikely. Comic Chat project was not a high-budget project that could design its own font. Bob on the the other hand was, and according to Wikipedia did fund the development of Comic Sans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans
I have an iMac G4 800Mhz and I could never get linux to install as the boot screen (that loads the installer) would always be solid white with light pink text. I imagine it had to do with the nvidia GPU but never bothered to debug. MacOS X and 9.2 worked fine.
Same issue Australia has, people keep building their houses on hills in the scrub because they like the views and/or nature.

But it's an ecosystem that has evolved for fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral#Fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia#Before_...
> On that note, even if someone stole your car, at least your car does not have access to your bank account, your passwords, your messages, and even your sexual history. The personal and reputational cost of losing a car is not comparable.

You're conflating vendor lockdown with device encryption. The latter does not require the former.
Because it works

Once these narratives are disseminated, even if they are later denied, it will only strengthen them.

You just need to build the atmosphere, then people will select narratives
Be careful, the Communist sound wave is poisoning our precious bodily fluids
Which game engine? I don't think using Unity to make a UI app is great if you don't need the game-y features. It's UI functionally isn't the best since their UI Elements package is not quite ready for production use in games.

Something like Dear Imgui can be very nice to work with though.
Please detail this attack vector where someone can compromise a phone with an unlockable bootloader but not one you can't unlock.
My geography of that region is dated, but when I worked in industry there I was north if M.I.T., so it's plausible industry could be patient zero.
You don't have to expect pics for someone asking for pictures of your tits to be harassment.

If I yell at a random woman "show me your tits" I do not expect her to do it, but I'm harassing her.

And no, I'm not missing the joke. I first was online in 1998. I saw this stuff in games and forums. It wasn't funny then either.

It's also not narcissistic to talk about things that are important to you or your characteristics. It can provide context and it can help people understand and make connections. Your argument is similar to other people who say "why does (Group) have to throw it in my face" regarding things such as holding hands in public - which isn't throwing anything in your face any more than what those people perceive as "normal" is being thrown on everyone around them involuntarily.
“Adult Password” vs the much more common modern “Admin Password” is excellent
WinScript: Open-source tool to build your Windows 10/11 script from scratch
It's maybe good enough, but a custom palette will look more branded and getting the hierarchy and contrasts to feel just right isn't always as straight forward as colors look different based on their surroundings. So it's unlikely big brands would go for this.
> so many people

How many people get "things that make life worth living" from the Paranal Observatory every year?
Never did. As I said, I only recently became aware of the fact myself. I just say that it won't give me a good first impression of the people calling me that if I'm aware of the meaning. And by the way, your first contact with the term could come with our local brew of (supremac|national|fasc|rac)ists, who are quite fond of it and afterwards you will get off thinking everyone using the term has a beef with you (again I'm assuming, never discussed it with anyone concerned, you could say I'm imagining it).
Paper Globe
It means I'll be paying more for hardware to reflash with Openwrt, is all.
I guess, pretty much. For the vast majority of computer users, all we can do is buy it from someone we mostly trust (to be competent and trustworthy).

Pretty sad state of affairs, huh?
Petey the green bird, then gorilla was my buddy. Bonsai Buddy I think he was called!?
A grim position that is completely accurate for over 90% of people.
It really bugs me how your word choice is so uncharitable towards insects.
The problem with freedom in California, is that they see freedom as the freedom to not have high density housing near you. I literally think until those people have no where to live, will the politics change.
I'll say it; the biggest failure of the internet was sharing it with the unwashed masses, we should have saved it for the (even less washed, if you look to the founders) elites.

To paraphrase Matt Damon from a show only enjoyed by the true internet acolytes "the walking mozzarella sticks who think a three hundred android phone and a verizon contract give them the right to connect to every piece of information in the world..."
I think most corporate America works this way. Every company has a board of directors (i.e stake holders (i.e investors, with many investments, including land)) they pass down edicts from on high. "If you want my money you have to do XYZ." From there c-suite executives figure out how to pull it off. Sometimes investments in one area affect decisions in another, which is technically a conflict of interest, which is technically illegal, but hey that's why America is famous for its corporate integrity.
Every time this issue comes up, an army of people who've never unlocked a phone comes out of the woodwork to talk about their theoretical fears of malware and piracy and rain falling from the sky if you dare to own your device.

If you've never unlocked a phone, please educate yourself on how the process works before opining. It's really not as terrifying as you imagine.
Ugh, Packard Bell. Being our first computer, we had no idea that Navigator program was pointless until months after. And I think it was another year before we realized it was capable of true color resolution (It shipped with 256 colors as the default).
Telescopes in space are much better for saving us from catastrophic meteor strikes.
Kiwi working for US company, I identify with this 100%.
Regrettably this guy remains as toxic and polarizing as ever.
It was known that the shortest proof possible is
a 2 step version of the entire proof.
This was publicly pointed out in the past, but
this guy removed traces of it.

Now he posts this fact as a tiny footnote mark in
his 5000 word blog post.

Best to avoid giving him HN as platform for
self promotion
It really depends on your App and probably the game engine.

There's a reason why a lot of people use Electron for apps and it's because the amount of effort it takes to write HTML / JS and have a functional UI is very little.

It seems like you like the idea in order to implement a novel UI and I suspect then yes a game engine is a good idea. However, do consider the UX of your app. Excel is a spreadsheet because that is pretty much the best way to display tabular data. So if the novel UI isn't a better UX than an existing way you probably don't want to do it.
...and people might want to go and read that discussion, especially considering how this one still has very little activity despite being on the front page.

It's standard HN practice to link to previous big discussions for the same article and actually appreciated that people take the time to link to them.
From "Human Inference" to "Geography of Thought" (2017)
Every device I've ever unlocked warns you on boot that it's unlocked. So if that's your threat model, just reboot the phone after the maid hands it back to you and see if you get a scary warning.
In general, people must make a choice between portability, and the breadth of optimizations.

For multi-platform builds, there are single code-base frameworks available:

https://quasar.dev/

For MacOS, Linux Gtk, and Windows native builds there are mature free libraries that allow both FOSS and commercial static linking:

https://wxwidgets.org/

Game engines are designed to solve a single set of use-cases for optimization, and portability is usually terrible outside the current windows release.

Best of luck, =3
Exactly. See also recent SalesForce comments along these lines.
This is fantastic. Does anyone have any book references that help you do writing in some of these formats.
I think you shoud fix tha balance. Once I build the 4 turrets I didn't have to click until the kities arrived. Perhaps the cost of the upgrades instead of 10, 20, 30, 40 should be 10, 40, 160, 640.

Kities arrive arround 1500 so I'd have two fully upgraded turrets and upgade other soon and hope the best.

Don't take my mumbers too serously, you should fine tune them.
Original title: 'Culture Changes How We Think About Thinking: From “Human Inference” to “Geography of Thought”'
I was so sure I could make it give me the right image, but I was wrong! Even demanding the disk be for Apple IIc and/or describing the softer shell wouldn’t work. It gives some strange windows vaporware when I asked to show how to load that (incorrect) disk into an Apple IIc.
American road signs are too wordy and too many in number.
No, I don't think that's true. We got used to insecure systems, and then accepted Big Brother as a security model. We can have secure devices that aren't owned by a corporation, but judging by the comments section here, nobody knows that.
You can't justify the war with actions taken before the war either, the technical term for that is "unjustifiable".

But what the Ukrainian politicians then did wasn't sensible. They've been broken. They have some of the poorest political leadership we've seen out of any country so far in the 21st century. They've managed to transition their country from comfortable and improving to a smouldering wreck. At every turn they've managed to find an option that leaves them unambiguously worse off than they were before. It is a case study in diplomatic failure and what not to do when threatened by a larger, more militarily competent neighbour.
I want to like uv, but unfortunately there's some kind of technical distinction between a Python "package manager" and a "build system". Uv doesn't include a "build system", but encourages you to use some other one. The net result is that external dependencies don't build the same as on Poetry, don't work, and uv points the finger at some other dependency.

I do hope the situation changes one day. Python packaging is such a mess, but Poetry is good enough and actually works, so I'll stick with it for now.
You can still install latest macOS with some work.[1] If you have places for full backup. I have yet to encounter any issues. It will probably take a few hours of hassle which for a lot people is not worth it. I want to do it just to see how far I can get out of this machine. You may want to do some research before trusting my words.

[1]https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
I've replaced the clickbait title with a more representative sentence from the article.
Ultimately, anything is better than driving around in a 2T vehicle. Making it harder to ride bikes increases the barrier to entry and hence discourages their use - and the alternative all too often is a car.

Cars are so much more likely to kill people that I think you'd increase road casualties by making the alternatives harder to use. Yes, an ebike is faster, heavier and less safe than a conventional bike. No, an ebike is nowhere near as dangerous as a car, and in general I don't think they should be regulated. The current thresholds most places are setting (250W/25kph or thereabouts) are plenty conservative anyway.

Tangentially, this is why it's also good to give bikes their own space. They are not pedestrians, and they shouldn't be mixing with pedestrian traffic. That's why they're on the road. They act more like a car than a pedestrian.
The new curriculum might be worse but I'm not sure how a 4th year undergraduate should be too sure of themselves when second guessing the department.

My undergraduate degree is from RPI, I have worked with many NU grads, they are often very good, but there have been many eye opening moments for me with them in terms of how different the material they learned was and what was left for graduate school when it comes other the core mathematical fundamentals of computer science. To be fair I've run into engineers from other schools that leave all of this to graduate school too. My first internship I shared a cubicle with a graduate student at Boston University. She was taking a graduate course on algorithm proofs and the course used the same book that we had used in the major weed out class that we had in the spring of Freshman year.

"Program Design" has changed almost as often as popular programming languages during my career. Almost none of those core mathematical fundamentals have changed at all.
I'm curious about Alpha Protocol. Probably the #1 game I've played for choices matter.

Detroit is interesting, in that it includes some choices made by passing or failing QTEs. They really did the "You will get emotionally stomped if you screw this up!" well in that game. I don't know its structure well, as I only played it once. (So experience only one path.)

Unless you count time caves like The Stanley Parable!
How does this compare/contrast to polars? Seems pretty similar, anybody tried both?
Wait wait wait, Comic Sans was born in Microsoft Bob!? Way to bury the lead! That’s an incredible little origin story!