skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does replace Jack and Pulse Audio as it implements its APIs.
If you have pulse and pipewire running in parallel they will actually conflict.

You can still have pulseaudio installed, but you can disable its daemon or socket so it doesn't actually run.
I see, I don’t know but its license is pretty clear in saying that you cannot use it outside of Microsoft stuff: “You may install and use any number of copies of the software to use solely with Microsoft Visual Studio family of products.”
Ask HN: Where do you see Firefox going?
I have remained loyal to Firefox since the earliest time (think eff-ing Phoenix) but lately, changes are really going on my nerves (latest: replacing the reload button on Firefox for iOS with a button for the "Home" screen for whatever reason). I am certainly not averse to change but I don't like change as a purpose in itself instead of for the better. Unfortunately, a lot of changes nowadays feel like they are solely to keep the UX team employed. Losing Firefox just for that would be a bad bargain. Gecko is the only decent non-chrome/ium browser engine that is left and Firefox is the only browser that is using it. We sorely need this remaining bit of diversity! It needs to survive. Despite that, the current leadership of Mozilla is either hell-bent on actively running it into a brick wall or outright ignorant of the fact that this is actually happening for a while already.

Do you think they will somehow turn the corner or is Firefox inevitably going to die? I cannot see how they could possibly avoid it if they keep on doing what they currently are doing.

(As sad as it is but I wouldn't even put it past them to read one day that "sustaining a browser with a low digit marketshare is not a reasonable use of our resources anymore" and that "Mozilla is glad to announce that from now on, we rather focus on the broader mission instead").
Pre covid there was a pub chain in london that banned use of electronic devices, presumably to get people talking instead of tweeting.

Went in with a colleague to have lunch and go over some diagrams. Got laptop out so we could see the diagrams and then got kicked out, had lunch down the road instead.

If I’m eating out on my own I’ll read a kindle. That’s not allowed. Read a dead tree is fine though. Pathetic.
I wrote this (slightly crazy) generic vector for C: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/blob/master/common/utils/... If you search for "string" in this page you can see how it is used: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/blob/master/plugins/data/...
Austria has had both male and female world champions a few years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_table_football_c...

There's 3 different popular table "systems" I have seen: Garlando, Leonhart and Tornado.

In Austria, Garlando is used almost exclusively (except active competitive players who need to know all of them), therefore Austrians aren't as good at Tornado/Leonhart typically.
Well, I gave it a +1 and a subscribe. Hopefully we can break the chains of sRGB soon.
I'll be damned. That guide actually worked for me. Thanks for the heads up :)
I agree for the analysis on the EU side, I don't know for other countries but the fact that France had to cripple the covid app to get it accepted will strongly play against them in the future, that "show of power" on Apple side was a terrible mistake in my opinion.
Solar can take care of the energy easily. For the materials, I would expect a prebuilt facility to autonomously mine things to provide raw materials. Easier said than done of course. Without true AI, it wouldn't be possible to make them 100% autonomous because eventually they would run out of materials.
It's literally the first sentence of TFA.

...lower numbers of COVID cases have appeared amongst smokers compared to non-smokers, even as other reports suggest smoking increases severity of the disease.
It's the difference between textual mimicry, and what we humans do, which is communication. We conceive of an idea, a concept, that we wish to communicate, and the brain then pulls together appropriate words/symbols as well as the syntactic/semantic rules that we have internalized over decades of communicating to create a statement that accurately represents the idea. If I want to communicate the fact that X and Y are disparate things, I know that "not" is a symbol that can be used to signify this relationship.

The core of the difference to me (admittedly not an AI researcher) is intentionality. Humans conceive of an intention, then a communication. This is not what models like GPT-3 do as there is no intentionality present. GPT-3 can create some truly freaky texts but most that I've seen longer than a few sentences suffer from a fairly pronounced uncanny valley effect due to that lack of intention. It's also why I (again, recognizing my lack of expertise) think expecting GPT-3 to do things like provide medical advice is a fool's errand.
I just read through a bit of their documentation. So, I only have all of five minutes of experience with Nim. But it looks like a pleasant language to work with. I could see this becoming popular and it looks like something I could figure out pretty easily.

I did not see any allocs/de-allocs, which suggests some kind of garbage collector is being used? I guess a lot of that is straightforward with stack allocated data structures going out of scope. But that would put this language in the same realm as Go and not Rust/C/C++, which don't rely on garbage collectors.

I'm mainly doing Kotlin currently, which also has a multi platform compiler (with native, js, and jvm compilers). Though particularly the native compiler is a bit a work in progress. But, Nim could be considered similar to that as well. Though obviously the languages are very different, what is similar though is a focus on programmer convenience. It's something I really appreciate in Kotlin and it seems this language has a lot of that too.

It will be interesting to see how this language grows and evolves. Looking at Rust and Go in recent years, there are a bunch of gnarly topics that inevitably come up like how to deal with asynchronous stuff and co-routines, generics, error handling, etc. Kotlin also had its fair share of that. That's when languages get more complicated. I think Rust is a good example of a language that has a pretty high level of complexity at this point.

Just a first impression. But mostly a good one.
Is there DARK MODE support?
Maybe even healthy individuals could improve memory via this therapy?
>I'm a bit confused here. I self admittedly an extremely amateur history buff but my impression was that Greece had completely declined by 200 ce when they are claiming this papyrus originated from. why would a text even exist at all on the subject of Christ from that Era in Greek.

The New Testament was written in Greek ("The New Testament is a collection of Christian texts originally written in the Koine Greek language, at different times by various authors"). Heck, Paul's epistles were written to mostly Greek-side churches, addressed in Greek.

Furtherore, while Greece had declined as an "superpower" (basically Romans took over), Greek culture, communities, and the use of Greek language had not, and were prevalent in the Eastern part of the Empire, which later became the Eastern Roman Empire (known as Byzantium).

The Eastern empire used Latin at first as official language, but the common language of the majority of the population was Greek (which was also what was taught, and the language were literature and such was written).

This includes the old core ancient Greece (modern-day Greece, Asia Minor, southern Italy, Cyprus), and all the way around eastern mediteranean and the middle east - e.g. places like Alexandria, Antioch, etc. where Greek were spoken, and had big -and ruiling- Greek-speaking populations from the hellenistic times). Byzantium itself turned to use Greek as official language after 2-3 centuries (and kept it for another millenium).
With DIY biohacking we're already seeing the trickle down of the kind of work that used to require University or Government level of funding starting to take place in garages and makerspaces. It won't be long before we see the same effect with self-replicating machines.
I have the coffee table version of Pong. A mechanical simulation of the original CRT screen. :)

It works and looks great.

https://www.tablepongproject.com

I would love a mechanical PacMan.
Yeah personally I feel that it's humans who are the unstable component, unable to keep to policies for millions of years, not the machines. Our weapons have immensely increased in power in the 20th century, and improvements are being researched constantly. The number of countries with nuclear capabilities is ever increasing. How do you prevent nuclear armageddon in such a world? "Don't nuke all of humanity" is a policy that most humans would agree with, but you only need a few who don't. If we want to be a civilization that survives for millions of years, we have to give up control to machines that can uphold such policies for such time spans.
"Single use vaping devices"

So, these are devices containing a rechargeable li-ion battery without a charging circuit, meant to be discarded after single use? What's the background story here?
Bread has a special place in Christian symbolism because of the Eucharist. The bread of the Eucharist is called "the body of Christ." The ritual associates material nourishment and spiritual nourishment. Epiousios must be related to this idea...that our days are to be used to fuel our spiritual life. I don't think the word is used in the same secular sense as your case.
Yes. It reads "AI" ... "blah blah" ... "nuclear" ... "blah blah" ... "future" ... "blah blah"
Baerbock doesn't have a PhD, this was about a political book. Guttenberg did plagiarize in his PhD, and that was entire pages almost verbatim from other sources. That was an extremely blatant case.

I haven't seen the new allegations about Baerbock, I only looked at the original set of allegations. This is one of the original alleged instances of plagiarism:

Baerbock:

Der Wettbewerb scheint auch weltweit eröffnet. In Amsterdam ist ein 130 Meter hohes Holzhochaus geplant, in Chicago ein 228 Meter hohes und in Tokia eines mit 350 Metern Höhe

Spiegel:

Und der Rekord dürfte früher oder später ohnehin gebrochen werden: In Amsterdam ist ein 130 Meter hohes Holzhaus geplant, in Chicago ein 228 Meter großes und in Tokio eines mit 350 Meter Höhe.

That was the point where I didn't look further into it. I don't have the time nor interest to look into every case in detail, and if they consider this example plagiarism then I can't really trust their judgement, it's simply different than mine.

And Laschet had plagiarism allegations as well shortly after these ones, those news just disappeared faster.
https://archive.is/19qhs
> So is society willing to sacrifice (some people' s) health for such progress?

Strong yes. We accept health issues in shift workers, traffic deaths etc because of economic benefits. With moderate use, I don't think stimulants are having worse effects than that, and they have a much higher pay off.

I have a vague feeling that the general rejection is similar to that regarding anti-depressants. People are much more hesitant to use drugs that target what we think of as "the mind" than anything else. Very few people refuse antibiotics, but many refuse to take anti-depressants.
I argue from time to time that people should just stop listening to or trying to debate with climate denialists and their ilk, and this often gets pushback from those who believe in a marketplace of ideas (which I consider a nice but somewhat naive metaphor that overlooks the existence of market failures). the thing is that denialists are professional propagandists, and when their propaganda fails some economic stakeholders simply resort to more direct methods of addressing problems. It's not hard to find people willing to do dirty deeds for relatively cheap in many parts of the world, including wealthy and civilized countries - the price is just a bit higher, as are the legal risks. While assassinations are unlikely in places like the USA they're far from impossible.

By contrast, militant environmentalists have been treated as major public safety problems. Prior to 9-11, the FBI was telling Congress in all seriousness that it was the #1 terrorist threat on their radar, despite environmental saboteurs activists never having killed anyone (unless you count Ted Kaczynski as an environmental activist but most people regard him as a unique case whose motives aren't so easily simplified): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Scare

There's a basic cognitive mismatch here in that environmental scientists and activists do present an economic threat to the established order but tend to do so almost exclusively through normal political channels, whereas their opponents are demonstrably willing to commit murder instead - might not be true or provable in every single case, but if you don't think 227 people in a year is a meaningful data point then I have a decommissioned pipeline to sell you at an incredibly low price.

It's especially facile to say governments must do more to protect people. Governments foster such outcomes in the first place as often as not, since politicians want to be dispensers of economic growth and a great many of them are captured by resource extraction industries. Environmentalists would be better served by taking security threats seriously and developing latent militant capacity of their own rather than relying on the conscience of comfortable.
I think this is entirely plausible. Grothendieck did not walk the established paths, but invented lot's of new concepts as he was working on problems. IIRC he was largely an auto-didact in his early years. In his work he never tried to reconcile the existing theory, and somehow improve it. He started form a blank slate (see EGA/SGA/FGA series of books) and build-up the proper concepts (Schemes,K-theory,Categories) that would allow the problem to unfold in the most natural setting and slowly resolve itself: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/The+Rising+Sea

Sometimes ignorance is a blessing. It frees you from keeping all the historic clutter in your memory, and see an un-distorted picture.
https://archive.is/9FGR7
>The judge actually said exactly that.

Where ? Quote from [1]

> 1. Apple Inc. and its officers, agents, servants, employees, and any person in active concert or participation with them (“Apple”), are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from prohibiting developers from (i) including in their apps and their metadata buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers to purchasing mechanisms, in addition to In-App Purchasing and (ii) communicating with customers through points of contact obtained voluntarily from customers through account registration within the app.

How the ruling is interpreted and what's ultimately implemented in terms of alternative payment methods remains to be seen. But I dont see it mentioned anywhere 30% goes to Apple from alternate payment method. So please provide a source for that.

[1] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21060628/epic-apple-i...
That’s easy compared to boustrophedon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
Why does HN surface a link so pointless as this one.

I can't use Twitter without an account + the information density on this one isn't much high. Just a guy speculating about something they can't know.
I think you're exactly right - it's not that Apple can't see which way the wind is blowing, it's that they can still make billions more by dragging out the process and not giving an inch on anything they care about until absolutely forced to. Sure, it might not look great, but it takes a lot more than "bad optics" to persuade a company to willingly forego billions in profit.
My interpretation is that it's not a joke, but instead a way to convey the heuristic can have false positives.
I get better results using an incognito window and adblock, or sometimes a basic VPN.
Neither want or need any Google customisation.
I am a tea pot!
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The title brought memories in me about two quite uncomfortable dystopian short stories by Philip Dick: Second Variety and Autofac.
Oh no I still use firefox and like everyone I make bug reports or follow the existing once. But it's hard to recommend it to friends/family if you have to say "you only need to change these settings and install these addons" and I get responses like "I would rather use brave. It just works" or something like that.

I want firefox to be good. I don't even need to have the newest features I just wamt a stable browser I can use. Don't we all? Removing features I actually use and adding things I don't need is counterproductive and I don't know which part of their telemetry helped them make those choices, but many I didn't like.

> Should firefox throw away 90% of its userbase’s useful telemetry, most of who would have no problem with providing it?

Telemetry should always be opt-in.
Firefox throws enough messages your way if they would ask (like many other programs) "Help make firefox better" and then offer different level of reporting it would be fine.
They ask me to change my theme at the start, but they don't ask me if I want to send them my data?
> I don't see how people are supposed to reasonably manage 10+ reports.

True! I'm leading 5 people at work and I find that enough most of the time, as I still have projects that I'm actively working on, too.

If there are more people to come, I'll ask to integrate some kind of "team lead" for some of them, before all the work I do is micromanage and respond to mails.
Is it just me or does that video clip feel a lot like "Here's to the crazy ones" / the Think Different campaign from Apple back in the day?
This doesn't seem like a surprising result, but it's nice to see it demonstrated. It's also a clear demonstration that avoiding untrusted chargers isn't just a matter of avoiding plugging your phone into random USB sockets - if you have a sufficient level of concern, it's also a matter of not putting your phone down on a flat surface that someone could have put a charger in and then letting your phone do some cryptography.
Less efficiently. You can get by without leaf blowers, you just need more people and it takes longer. You can get by without computers, you just need more people and it takes longer. You can get by without machines, you just need more people and it takes longer.

We tend to favor things that are more efficient, and it's hard to go back, because the citizenry won't be happy if you tell them your plans of quadrupling the work force and raising taxes accordingly.
Not primarily to increase citation count only (though it certainly will help them). The Foundation Models paper reads more like a grant proposal instead of a survey paper because it basically spells out the author's research program.

What they are doing is coopting field of methodology under a new name and starting a new lab with that name. This has expectedly left a foul taste in the mouth of many colleagues, hence the controversy.
Does this Sony thing phone home, or demand other concessions?

I bought Audio Technica phones sometime back. The pads have burst twice. Now all the active features are dead.

I had sworn off Sony products because they always quit working after a year. Do they still do this? I felt like I was just renting.
gcc-11.2.1-1.fc35.x86_64 with whatever defaults the upstream project chooses.
I agree, but "religion" shouldn't be the only mechanism for objecting to that kind of personal violation.

On the other hand, if you work on company property with company equipment, that company can, at any time, take your fingerprints off of said equipment; just as it can access communications performed on their equipment or record you as you roam around company property.

So what is really being accomplished here?

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

PLEASE SHOVE YOUR DISRESPECT FOR YOUR USERS UP YOUR ASS, HACKER NEWS.
Ask HN: How to learn Programming in an interesting way?
I've tried to learn programming through many MOOCs but failed multiple times.

Are there any good resources that are interesting to learn?
The problem I face is most of these MOOCs are too boring in the beginning and I usually end up abandoning them.

Lately, I came across Project Euler and I'm having fun solving the challenges on the platform. I'm planning to learn Python as I like to pivot my career towards the data side and may create some generative art in the future!

Some help would be appreciated!

To give some context, I work as a Product Engineer developing digital solutions for an energy company. I don't code, but I understand the whole software development process at a high level. I currently act as a bridge between the development team and the management.

My expertise in programming is limited to the following:
- I've fairly a good grasp of HTML, something I learned by editing websites.
- I know a bit of SQL to query data
- I have some experience in Arduino programming and know how to code basic stuff
- I learnt C while in college and understand the basics of loops, conditional statements, etc.
What Is the Waterfall Methodology?
The counter point here is that small electrical and autonomous planes don't need large airports or long runways. They are very efficient in terms of space.
All of the long suffering smaller airports that can't even handle jets would potentially be of use for this. And given the lower noise and pollution levels, building more airports would not be as controversial as building new airports for jets currently is. Possibly even within city limits.

And that is of course before you consider VTOL.
I observe there's a lot of good/great technical content from conferences that are not discoverable due to their title/tagging. Rails/Django/JS/etcConf have a lot of technical and non-technical values. Sometimes the most interesting is the ones that isn't directly "on-topic" for the conference. Like James Long talk on CRDT on JSConf. The conference keynotes are also great.
This looks like a snide way of trying to say it isn't actually a bug. "A bug" means a malfunction in a program; there is no "the link to" those. What you are looking for is a link to a ticket about the bug.
So this is just domain squatting for another app?
I think the article is right that execs at Apple don't see it.

They are so used to being heroes and underdogs that it will be a major shock when they finally realize that people want to see them bleed over this. (Yes, I'm an Apple customer, I love some of their products.)

Same goes for Google and soon Microsoft (again).

There is a limit to how far one can abuse customers and developers and still be seen as the good guys
Doesn't seem to really work that way.

Instead, they claim that <whatever they actually want to do next> is what their $deity has revealed must be done.
As much as i dislike C++.. Std is invaluable in comparison to home baked C libs
That is really useful. Having to build an archiso every time I accidentally pacman to a kernel version that breaks zfs is annoying. I’ve only done it twice but still.
"other religions have similar tenants"

TENETS. The word is "tenets."
Okay this sounds great, what is the specific protocol they talk about in the article, is it some breathing techniques in the chamber or four one hour sessions per day for 5 years?
Given the state of the human race right now I think I'd rather give the Borg a fair shot. I'll be the first to volunteer for assimilation.
The hard part about college admissions is the fact that most young people don’t know what they want to do until after high school cause they are still exploring their options. Even more, for people who are passionate about lots of different things, it can feel very tough to opt for a single path and stick to it so that you become “awesome” at it.