skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s hard to say what’s happening in the video. If the ape is given a command-object-location and must discern all three to correctly complete the task, that would be difficult for a dog. (However, I suspect with as many hours of training as the ape has had, a dog could probably do it. I speculate it would learn all possible trios and remember them as individual commands rather than reconstructing them.)

If the ape is instead given an object and already knows he’s supposed to put it in the fridge, yes, a dog can do that easily. Given a command-object or command-location, a dog can do that as well. A dog can discern “Go bed” or “go kennel” or “fetch ball” or “fetch toy”. “Put ball bed” would be tough. (Dogs won’t “hear” all the cruft words like “the”, they’ll focus in on words they know and puzzle away.)

In any case the degree to which the ape in the video “understands” isn’t clear. It’s possible even with command-object-location test, the ape is doing what I suspect the dog would do. The difference between them might be scale, rather than kind.
I’m beginning to understand how Native Americans must have felt when they first heard stories of strange sightings off the coast. I’m optimistic that we haven’t received any missionaries or conquistadors yet. Maybe you do have to be slightly more evolved to master interstellar travel.
Not everyone is in a position to vendor source for all their dependencies and use a new build system to solve a solved problem.
In comparison, a 300 meter utility pipes and pedestrian suspension bridge in Canada cost $12M CAD (approx €8M) a few years ago.

It was wider and stronger than this one to support the pipelines, and also required larger towers to support it on either end, which are surely a large part of the cost.

So it doesn't seem unreasonably cheap.
Etsy actually has even more of a problem with dropship queens. Interestingly, I got a shoe rack for free because it was a double dropship from AE to Amazon to Etsy. LOL!
Look up the story woman who lived with a dolphin in a house for the specific goal of teaching the dolphin English.

Literally the house was made water proof and filled up to the waistline with water and the dolphin and the woman lived together. This wasn't a separate tank.

The two developed sort of a one sided sexual relationship where the woman would stimulate the dolphins genitalia before the lessons could commence as the dolphin wouldn't be able to concentrate otherwise.

Not even slightly joking. True story, the above actually happened. There's a podcast of it somewhere where they interviewed her.
Well, it's on the list. But I've to become a bit more competent on these systems first. Next one will be a version for the LINC (for wich I've already retyped and assembled the source code).
How would this even work? Every app has custom code to deal with the various payment providers. Including Stripe
Yes, you can of course sue the manufacturer directly. But the key issue Amazon is fighting is whether they're liable.
Please don't speculate on what's allowed and what's not. See an authoritative source like https://www.zomet.org.il/eng/

And also, many Jews don't hold that Shabbat Elevators are kosher. There's debate within the community. I take the stairs.
"When a lousy team meets a great market, market wins."

I think this is wrong, should be: "When a lousy team meets a great market, a competitor wins."
He hinted that for base installations it makes sense. GTK or Qt frameworks and libraries aren't part of the base and the are highly dependent on what app you're installing. Usually if you are just a casual Linux user you wouldn't understand this. In these instances they aren't commonly shared across all applications, just maybe 2 or 3.
> Lately I have been feeling like the economy just broke on a fundamental level over the past year.

We are reaping the success of monetary policy pushed to the point of absurdity. Interest rates have been pushed too low for too long - far beyond the point at which they have any real effect beyond flooding the world with more money.
They used a key on the Sabbath to change the operation of the elevator so they would not have to press buttons on the elevator? Sounds like more work so less observant, but I guess with most religions it is the thought that counts.
Some important points of the decision seem to be:

Amazon:

A) takes the payment (and later disburses it net30/60/90 whatever) instead routing of it (possibly less a fee) directly to the seller

B) Doesn't allow communication directly between the seller and buyer

C) Requires already fairly significant restrictions on the seller

I don't think eBay does any of those things or at least not to nearly the same degree.
Well the war on work from home is now peaking. We just had announcement to be back at office desk by June.
Also: that exec may have $1M expenses a year. He may be living paycheck to paycheck!

Almost all of us are N paychecks away from bankruptcy. The only difference between us is what number N is.

There are people who do nothing and dividends from their assets pay for their lifestyle and grow their net worth forever without labor. Those are the few actual upper (economic) class people!
Payment system for a small slice of purchases: digital goods. Saying they force a payment system without qualifying it makes it sound much more restrictive.
Hmmm... Never thought of this before.
Does this mean that in future an electric AI shabos goy
(gentile assistant for things like the stove problem) could not be Kashrut (Kosher) since giving it commands could close electric circuits?
Some of it is probably a direct result of people signing off of social media for the day (prompting other people to think thoughts about it).
Kill -9 the cyber daemon. Just be sure to use the rocket on the correct process and not init. ;-)

kill -9 -1 # dont try this at home as root, kids
I was keto for six months a year or so ago and definitely felt sharper at the time as well. Turns out I like carbs more than clear headedness
the economic calculus of a restaurant does not massively change based on a switch from tipped service to untipped service. there is still money coming in and food going out.

i am advocating that employers be held responsible for paying their employees. the current tipped service regime fails to attribute that responsibility to employers, and leaves employees vulnerable.

i have seen no-tip service implemented in a way that satisfied employees. i have seen also it done in a way that drove staff to quit, and in those cases the fault lay entirely with management trying to reduce compensation.

stop asking questions about a fantasy budget. i do not care. if tipped service was abolished tomorrow, employers would figure it out.
I've read that keto diets cause brain fog. I searched it quickly and a bunch of results turned up, too.

Is keto intended to be a long term diet?
I think the failure was to not realize it earlier and instead move to a more "message passing" + "error kernel" based approach for libraries where this is possible (which are surprisingly many) and use API stability only for the rest (except system libraries).

Sounds pretty sweet as far as composability is concerned, but there is the overhead caused by serialization and the loss of passing parameters in registers.
Apple can’t serve the entire market of smartphone users. If you care about this, maybe there is another phone for you.
SF BART and other agencies using the Clipper system recently (within the last few weeks) rolled out mobile device support for iOS and Android. I was able to put my Clipper card into my iPhone by just tapping the phone on my card.
Reading the VMWare blog was a little confusing. Parallels announced support for running windows on M1 a couple of weeks ago:
https://www.parallels.com/news/press-releases/show/2021-pd16...

With Parallels, it's an "insider Preview", so it appears the limiting factor is Windows releasing a finished version of the OS that includes an emulation layer that works well enough on apple silicon that it's not a preview? Is that vmware's issue?
I think, excluding the JIT and optimization, you just described worker nodes and worker pools [0] (?).

Another frame, can be, openfass serverless for certains part of code.

2cents, will keep the JIT for someone else, interesting topic

[0] https://medium.com/coinmonks/visually-understanding-worker-p...
Isn’t this especially true in the world of containerization? We literally ship entire images or configurations of OS’s to run a single application or system function.

Although, I have mixed feeling about containers, because I fully appreciate that Unix is the application and the software that runs on it are just the calculations. In that world, sure, a shared library makes sense the same way a standard library makes sense for a programming language. Thus, a container is “just” a packaged application.

Regardless, this concept is so out of the realm of “performance” that it’s worth noting that the idea of trying to reduce memory use or hard disk space is not a valid argument for shared libraries.
I'm also willing to wager they found a malfunctioning stripe reader for that video.
Do you mean fewer recent examples exist?

"Less recent examples exist" is a positive assertion about the existence of even older examples. The 'less' attaches to the 'recent'. 'Less' can't attach to 'examples' because you can't have 'less examples', because 'examples' is countable.

"Fewer recent examples exist" is a negative assertion about the existence of newer examples. The 'fewer' attaches to the 'examples'.
This is due to the maintainers on Arch and I've complained about it before too. They also update them almost daily so they just add noise to system updates. I just end up running the official Pandoc Docker container.
You compile a version of the dependency which intentionally behaves different (e.g. introduces random network errors, random file parsing errors, etc.) and "inject" it into a otherwise functional
setup to check if all other parts including error
reporting and similar work.

There are always other ways to archive this but using (abusing?) the dynamic linking is often the simpler way to set it up.

> and what aspect of this is useful for simulators and solvers?

Duno, but some programs allow plugin in different implementations of the same performance critical functionality so that you can distribute a binary version and then only re-compile that part with platform specific optimizations. If that is what the author is referring to I would argue today there are better ways to do it. But it's still working out either way and can be much easier to setup/maintain in some cases. (And probably falls into the "shared libraries as extension system" category Linus excluded from his commentary.)
What do you mean by buy yourself into the market in a short amount of time? Can you give an example? Don’t see this mentioned in the link.
this particular case doesn't involve a Fulfilled By Amazon (where the commingling problem happens) product (though it is mentioned in a sentence)
Ideally, you would have gotten bills back from the machine (if configured with something called a cash recirculator), but those aren't common.

And as a Canadian, I thought you'd be used to dollar coins ;) . The USA is pretty much the only developed country that uses bills for amounts that small-- which is a thorn in the side of the cash operation of places like NYC Transit.
That is a little odd. Teslas have a battery cooling loop. Electrek's diagram even shows it. That should handle kilowatts of heat easily. You'd figure pointing a big fan at the car, like on a dynometer, would work if you needed additional cooling. How much additional heat would ultrafast charging create, to justify heroic cooling solutions? Heat generated during charging is all waste heat, after all, reducing total charge efficiency. Not very green.
And made sure it was installed in every government building. Otherwise productivity would suffer.
You raise a good point, but alas you are less than a decade my senior.
DLL's are the windows version of shared libaries.

Shared Objects (.so) are the Linux version of shared libaries.

I.e. they are an implementation detail, and if you don't use them as "shared library" (in general) then it won't really fall under this category.
That is quintessentially pedantic. Aside from that, thank you for the trivia.
It's likely the elevator would be set by default to sabbath mode, unless someone specifically pressed the button to go to a specific floor.

Action is (arguably) more important than thought in Judaism.
very much a pop culture revisionist history yes.
PracticePy – Python coding exercises in a mobile friendly web app
These are some mini Python (3.8) coding exercises I put into a web app so they can be done on a phone.
Not GP but I think the keys were to enter the dorm building without scanning an electronic FOB or ID card, not for the elevator.
Shared libraries and dynamic linking make writing FFI wrappers in other languages possible. If every library were statically linked, I wouldn't be able to write things like this: https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-sound-jackffi
In this case it was not fulfilled by Amazon.
Sure, but what the remote people is able to see? Does those screens have extra-wide-angle cameras mounted on top?
Why did they name it Zanzibar?

Zanzibar is an island off the coast of East Africa known for being a place where people traded cotton for enslaved humans.

Not sure the connection.
Too bad they don't state how much it costs to print this house. Probably will get gradually cheaper. Can't wait to see what this technology can do for the developing countries.
Shared library and .DLL usage is like freedom, and writing a constitution.

Where you can agree, you share. Where you cannot agree, you table and hold.

Perhaps we are trying to share too much.

I have removed shared libraries from internal code for similar reasons.
I don't think it's viable, but I welcome any attempts to actually imagine how such regulation might work, what would it consist of.
But book "Willpower" mentions a lot of research where glucose did a lot positive for, well, not cognition, but for Willpower, ego depletion, and resilience.
I grew up very good friends with two brothers that had wealthy parents. We built our first company together at 18 and failed.

Since then, for about 5 years I did full time corporate work while they failed maybe two dozen businesses. The nice part is that out of those failures, two companies took roots and basically now they’re a lot wealthier than their parents and they long since paid of all the money they lost during those years.
Exactly. For example, I recently tested out some child protection software. It has a terrible rating in the store, precisely because it's good. All the teens and children give it one star ratings!

There are many other reasons why an app might have low reasons despite being pretty good - for example, people often have unrealistic expectations of technical apps, in spite of the fact the app does exactly what it's supposed to. So, many people give it a low review, but the few people who understand the limitations find it useful enough to pay for.

Both of these types of app will find their way on to this list, but there would be no point in trying to build a better version.

> when someone gives it a low rating because of a bug that’s fixed 2 days later, is there a mechanism to take that into account?

I think so on the play store. Not sure though.
You misunderstand. The key is to get into the room (as opposed to the presumably electronic locks which are usually used) and the elevator is set beforehand.
Too easy for bad actors to create multiple accounts or game this system. I think this would end up hurting genuine claimants of actual pirated works more that it would help the wrongly accused.
My guess is it will be a bad landing that eventually ends the mission. As they start landing on new terrain, they're eventually going to get unlucky and tip it over on landing.
> Which would give them ability to alter basically any app on the play store as they deem fit.

Google already controls the operating system, the Play Store, and the SDKs you used to develop your app in the first place. If they wanted to alter your app there is already ample opportunity to do so, what additional trust do you gain by managing your own signing key here?
Iirc this is why there will never be an HD version of Star Trek DS9. They filmed on actual film for much of it but the masters of the special effects are all on video tape.
Right, I mean fundamentally from a system operators standpoint is about return on investment.

It's not like MTA decided to go with swipe at the same time that everyone else decided to go with contact list. MTA started using swipe cards in 1993 - contact-less cards didn't start reaching widespread use until the 2000s. The costs of switching systems twice in like 10-15 years would have been probably not the best.

In a lot of ways, MTA sticking with swipe (till now) is a lot like the story of NYC in the 20th century. Through NYC scale, it runs into a lot of situations first, and goes with some solution that ends up being totally what no one else decides on using when they reach NYC scale (either due to lessons learned from NYC, or just improvements in technology or knowledge).
When was the last time you were able to swap a dynamic library and have things just work?
Which Nietzscheian piece is this from?
Mind explaining the fork vs joins inefficiency thing a bit further?

I feel like there's some wisdom here, but I don't think I grocked it
How is that the case here?
I would join your local slack (local in terms of geography) and any tech slacks that interest you. Google for them. Be active and you'll find some friends.

(Maybe a discord as well, that's not something I'm as familiar with.)
i was just reading about lean manufacturing and push vs pull is also used there .. i wonder how far is it from query systems
And yet that hasn't happened on macOS despite existing for two decades. The same can be said for Android and Windows, as well, with their respective lifetimes.

It could also just end up that the community, or even non-profits, step up and provide great distributions methods. In fact, I'd say this is the one of the most likely outcomes based on the past, given Maemo's user-supplied apt repositories[1], webOS's Preware[2], or Android's F-Droid[3].

We can also look at the prevailing commercial app stores on platforms with multiple app distribution methods to see what's most likely. They aren't ad based platforms, like Ubuntu's Snap Store[4], Amazon's AppStore[5] for Android, and Samsung's Galaxy Store[6] for Android.

Game distribution stores aren't like that, like Steam, GOG, Humble Store, Microsoft store, etc.

Even on iOS, Cydia[7] wasn't an ad based platform, and you could purchase paid apps on it.

[1] https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-repositories-and-c...

[2] https://webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:Preware

[3] https://www.f-droid.org/

[4] https://snapcraft.io/store

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Appstore

[6] https://www.samsung.com/us/apps/galaxy-store/

[7] https://cydia-app.com/
Parallels is owned by Corel, not Microsoft.
I've been following the controversy surrounding the recent Wong Kar-wai movies releases as both a fan of his movies and a physical media collector. The dramatically different color grading (a detriment most notable in In The Mood For Love, where the added green has dulled the violent reds into drab and sunfaded maroons), and the altered aspect ratios achieved by stretching and cropping, yield movies that are so far removed from the originals that they look like someone slapped an Instagram filter and called it a day. The response that's stuck with me the most is the tinge of hypocrisy in WKW's championing of the revisions, stating that the viewers should let go of the nostalgia for movies, which they themselves are built upon.

I'm glad I held on to the past releases, which I posit will remain the definitive versions in his canon.
> Since MS owns Parallels, ...

Corel owns Parallels, not Microsoft.
Yes and in fact, the majority of embedded systems are actually running not with 64-256MB of RAM, but 64K-256K of RAM.
For example, the STM32 line of Cortex M microcontrollers (MCUs) usually have between 32-256K of RAM, and 128K to 2MB of on-chip flash. Different world from a multi-core 1.5 GHz infotainment system (which is arguably embedded), which in turn is different from a laptop with 32GB of DDR4 or a server with .... well, you know....
Season of the Slump: Baseball keeps swinging and missing
Software that isn't executed on a user's machine is out of the user's control. The GNU AGPL redefines distribution to include serving over a network so that software served over a network must disclose source code as well (unminified JS, server-side code, etc). It's also copyleft, which is good: the purpose of permissive licenses is to enable proprietary derivatives, which is against the spirit of the Fediverse.
Probably because it being the Sabbath reminds people of the topic
A federated network is a group of systems that agree on a protocol to communicate and share resources.

Email is one of the classic examples where. Anyone can build and run their own mail server. As long as a server supports SMTP, users on it server can communicate with users on any other email server. No need for special cases which depend on which server you're sending mail to.
If the only person with the signing key is the author, then any user could verify the signature outside of Android, could they not?

Instead, even outside of Android, we simply cannot know.
> the fundamental problem of women in this day and age have a totally distorted view of the range of "attractiveness" for men.

Can you explain what you mean? Are you saying that the reason that modern dating is hard is because women are too selective?
As someone who runs a Linux distribution, please don't vendor your dependencies for the benefit of distribution maintainers, it makes it much more difficult to build a coherent system. Running different versions of common libraries causes real annoyances.
> see an authoritative source
> There's debate within the community
The Gay Science, which, in my humble opinion, is his greatest work! Page 279 of the Kaufmann edition, but Nietzsche repeats similar thoughts on a few other occasions in this book and elsewhere.
Yeah but there's something different about this. Given how smart whales are, this must also have some form of awareness as to what they're doing. Parrots mimic words and phrases and focus on the micro-pronunciations. This feels like the whale is doing an impression of humans in a conversation.
Well, that hurts more if it turbed out useless. If company pays yiu fir work they misjudged, thats theur fault
I love the part where processes start killing each other in a crossfire.
Apparently horses have a body language.
Bootstraping a second one with you as the angel investor and ceo can be difficult.

What about buy an existing startup vs bootstraping?
I feel Big Tech has warped the definition of open source by buying into it as a consumption model, not a participation model. After all, as a developer I don’t really care about contributing code, I just want free stuff. Google, Mongo, AWS , and others are more than happy to fulfill that need (each for their own selfish reasons).

For this reason, when we encounter “true” open source, we are perplexed why someone won’t help us for free. Sadly this just reinforces a kind of learned helplessness where we fed we can’t do anything without the open source project solving our problem...
It's not a "fix", you misled them into screwing up.
Yeah obviously an electronic shabbat goy is prohibited.
"[but] did one-star kinds of things." That is a great line (seriously). I will probably end up working that phrase into something at one point, which is why I have this post bookmarked, so I can "hat tip to m463 on HN" when I do.

P.S. Do you remember the name of that auto app? Name and shame! ;-)
as a jew, this is simply the nature of judaism