skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The contrary view is that language is just part of the I/O system, not where the hard work gets done.

The meaning of "where" in your claim is very slippery. AR Luria in The Working Brain points out that damage to virtually every part of the brain can result in language dysfunction. To say that a whole lot of things happen apparently without language doesn't demonstrate that language is an extra. The brain generally isn't very modular and my alternative take would view language as accompaniment that sometimes is "just words" and sometimes touches very specific details (edit: plus allow recursive access these other brain-functionalities, as others point out). We can see how GPT-3's output is a stream of plausible things punctuated by some statement that shows "it doesn't anything" (IE, gets the implicit context wildly wrong).
The total costs will not go down, but the effectiveness increases substantially until everyone "has to have" the same expensive technology and funding cannot possibly be diminished lest our country becomes vulnerable.

The dreaded "arms race" doing its thing since the dawn of humanity.
I absolutely cannot stand the way these TV providers continually try to rope their customers into their disputes. This happened when I had directv, it happened when I had comcast, it happens now with YoutubeTV.

I would never in a million years, as a business owner, message one of my clients and blame a vendor for bad service and want them to help solve the dispute.

I just do not get the thought process here. "Well, these people are paying us a ton of money every month and we're just swimming in profits. Lets ask those same customers to try to get us a better deal for us with Disney so that we'll be more profitable!

No.
Oligopoly. There are very few popular food delivery services. If you are petty over 4 bucks, you end up cooking at home.

It is like saying that people outraged by FB will change anything. What are you going to do? Move to TikTok?
Awesome work, glad you guys are still at it.
That is a tremendously big “if” considering how many times that problem has been attempted. Even just detecting the key of a song is awfully fuzzy.
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Absolutely. Those points you are making [regarding why you don't believe that Taiwanese people will have a heavy majority that is for escaping to the US], they are valid, regardless of whether I agree with them or not. And I don't necessarily have a strong reasoning for disagreeing with them, hence why I am perfectly ok with agreeing to disagree on those. Especially since I agree with you in premise, I just disagree on the magnitude.

I fully agree with the violent takeover being a remote hypothetical though.
Convincing project managers to tackle tech debt is hard enough. Contributing to open source won't even reach the middle ear unfortunately.
Blood lead levels did not increase above regulatory or guidance values.

And this was after screening for the mugs with the highest concentrations of lead in their ceramic glaze. I think we're done here.
I'd be interested to hear your counter anecdote.
The source code is not what is deployed.

There is typically no link back from a deployed system to its source, even if you compiled the binary within your organisation.

If it came from an external organisation, things are exponentially harder.

Modern deployment systems are largely "one-way", with no way to trigger a full recompile from the deployment end of things. If you have a VM with "SomeRandomBinary.exe" running on it that has a vulnerability in it, you don't have many options.

IMHO, typical IT as done in the wild suffers from this write-once attitude, where the chain of provenance is too easily broken.

Companies like Google have a very non-typical setup that can be copied only by very small orgs like startups. Typical enterprises look nothing like a startup or a FAANG.
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> "chronic ingestion of excess carbohydrates" can't be the cause because plenty of people do that and do not get diabetes, therefore it is just a contributing factor

You can smoke every day of your life and never get lung cancer. Doesn't mean the one doesn't cause the other.
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One of the things I always thought Copyright law needed was some kind of FRAND style provisions, if we as a society give an owner exclusive rights we should require that owner (if the choose to distribute the work) to do is in a non-exclusionary, fair manner.
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>I have set some things on fire spontaneously

That's you setting things on fire.

Here, the user did not set the headphones on fire.

If normal operation can cause the headphones to catch fire, Bose should market these headphones as such, e.g. "Do not charge these headphones, doing this may cause them to catch fire. Discard after first use."
> significantly less conscientious and dutiful?

Not significantly so, no. These are still cream of the crop within their group.

> That doesn't exactly sound like a great thing for society.

It's not ideal, but far better than the alternative.
Very cool! It might be hard to imagine applications for this, but one could be Xenobots, which are soft robots made from living cells.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/science/xenobots-robots-f...
Fabulous animations, I hope this means we're close to applying these genetic algorithm techniques to soft robots that we can actually build.
> I'm saying that the original devs are criminals

That’s an unbelievable stretch. I wonder how your mind works.
Seems more than a little bit unstructured.

You don’t need a faster memcpy/memmove, what you need is less copying of data and sane use of the restrict keyword.
You can’t think of healthcare costs?
> Battons and pepper spray don’t work well.

> https://youtu.be/7M6-NLm0GBM

I get your point, but I mean this is an edge case, and yet still after a few minutes they subdued him. Against anyone other than the Hulk they should work pretty reliably.
This is total misinformation, sorry. Julia may, depending on your setup, be slow to initially load, but the compiler is quite fast generally.

Also, there's a solution to precompile binaries with no JIT penalty...

https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl

Enjoy!
This is exactly how these companies think.
>The issue here is not your European upbringing but rather the American justice system

That's right, and let me fix the rest of the comment:

> Suing Americans can be awarded enough money to pay for their medical bills in some cases, and that's their only recourse when the injuries are severe
So cool to see Matthias here on HN. He has a ton of other articles and videos where he tests different things like this. I encourage you guys to check him out if you haven't.
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Ask HN: Is it even worth reading news outside of HN?
A part of me is overloaded with tons of news (which turn out being a noise after all) and «Last hour Ipad deals!!!» garbage in RSS. Another part thinks all the worthy news are showing up on HN within a few hours anyway.

The question is, am I missing out on anything if I only visit HN?
don't be too negative, there are lots of alternatives. humanity will lose almost nothing if wolfram cease to exists.
That’s the one I have. I don’t usually have difficulties with reading comprehension, I’m a big fan of Dostoyevsky translations. But for some reason I can read some chapters in the Hays translation a dozen times without having any idea what he’s saying.

If that’s an issue unique to me, it probably means I need to push through and it’s an opportunity to improve. The reviews seem positive and I’ve heard it recommended many times.
Even with an audit and 100% unit test coverage, and static code analysis, vulnerabilities slip through. Software is not perfect and you do not have a silver bullet.
I used to violate these rules some time ago. I set the PTR records for a corporate SNAT to the name "127.0.0.1." and it had the funny side effect I was expecting. Many forums listed me as coming from "127.0.0.x" making many moderators think I did something to their forums. People on IRC figured this out instantly. This was long ago. No idea what effect it would have today, if any. Anyway, the reason I mention this is that the DNS rules are rarely ever implemented as documented or intended or at least not consistently.
What does transcription mean ?
So when you need to do a hotfix, how do you know which commit to branch from if you do not tag the releases that were deployed to production?

To me the only additional complication of gitflow to trunk-based development is the existence of the main branch, because you also create a release branch when you want to make a release. Getting rid off the main branch is usually through tagging, but as I mentioned is not easy to automate the tagging when you do not have an additional branch to use in your pipeline.
> PowerPC was more performant but limited to Apple (echoes of the current M1).

IBM shipped a lot of PowerPC machines also. I think they still have some current machines on that architecture.

> Power efficiency wasn't really a thing back then.

If I remember right, that was what caused Apple to switch to Intel. IBM just couldn't get the heat and power consumption on the G5 down to a level that would make it feasible for laptops.
> Reforming these two policies would be entirely sensible, if the country wasn't so hopelessly polarized.

I guess it will have to get a lot worst before it gets better...
Not only are they not interested in spending time auditing code, your typical enterprise lacks the skillset to do so effectively. They couldn't do it if they wanted to, short of contracting it out.
I work in finance and, for compliance reasons, we've been trying to stamp out employees using WhatsApp but it is basically impossible.

No matter how much we threaten disciplinary action in our handbook, people still use it, they just hide it more. Obviously we have no way of proving it, but we can see people doing it when the office is open. The financial regulator says we should use technology to reduce WhatsApp use - but given it's happening on personal phones, I'm not sure what we're supposed to do. Obviously nobody would accept company spyware on their personal phone.

Is there some solution to this issue that I'm missing?
If you watch the linked video, six mins in he has a “bow score” based on strength and flex. Osage Orange was 2nd, after Dogwood.
>> Most of these are about wanting control over the design of the software

As an open source maintainer, the part that stood out to me was all the stuff nobody really wants to do. For example, look how long it took GIMP to switch to GTK3. In a paid corporate environment switches like that are scheduled, assigned, and implemented.

I'm very fortunate to work on a project (solvespace) that has members who tend toward different specialties - build system, macOS, Windows, C++ modernization, algorithms & math. And yet I don't get to assign tasks and expect results because we are all volunteers. If we were all paid things could go way faster.

Wolfram has been going fast for decades and would not work as OSS. The best we have in OSS is Octave, Maxima, and Julia, but none of those come close.
> Monopolies, lobbying and protectionism got in the way of keeping the web truly machine readable.

Exactly and that ship has long since sailed. The good ship Web 3.0 (semantic web) launched in ‘99 and was a ghost ship until recently when it was boarded by crypto pirates now flying the web 3.0 flag.

> There's tremendous value in restoring some of it.

To this comment and OP, my startup is using web scraping to pre-populate machine-readable data for a DNS-based protocol called NUM [0]. So as others have said, whilst web scraping itself may be difficult to build into a viable business, it can be a key component of a viable business. Email in my profile if you want to discuss.

0. https://num.uk/blog/we-crawled-5m-uk-websites-and-published-...
Similarly, TeX bakes units into its syntax, but METAFONT (which is much more pleasant as a programming language in general) just has a production for <numeric token> <numeric variable> instead (yes, it has a very involved context-dependent grammar), though it gives up type checking because of that.
>You're conflating...

I am conflating nothing as I was summarizing the comments of other people in that sentence. The other comments do conflate different battery types; you can educate the people who make them. Ctrl+F "lithium" in this thread will get you plenty.
According to Hector Martin in the last progress report, the Wifi driver is up next, then some not terribly demanding work on various drivers (like adapting the NetBSD driver for the real time clock, and getting the M1 iMac SKU with four USB ports to see all four) after which he will tackle the kernel driver for the GPU.

https://asahilinux.org/2021/12/progress-report-oct-nov-2021/

As an interesting aside, in the progress report he mentions that after he installed Arch Linux, even without support for the hardware GPU:

>glxgears has no right to run at >60FPS with software rendering, but it does
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The download link leads to a github repository called “haskell-language-server”; how are these projects related?

Edit: it’s addressed in the Wingman’s landing page FAQ.

> Wingman is built on top of HLS, and that's the reason it doesn't require dedicated editor support.

The project’s source code also lives in HLS, as a plugin: https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server/tree/mast...
4% who knows-- at least historically it was a pretty conservative figure--, but if your concern about inflation is the ballooning money supply you should expect broad market investment to at least keep pace with inflation, since you're moving your wealth out of the supply-inflating asset.

A really conservative approach for someone like the OP would be to come up with a low watermark level of spending that is enough to live comfortably, invest enough in extremely low risk investments that just keep up with inflation to support that level. Keep their long term obligations within that level of spending... then invest the rest of their money in the market and spend the additional yield discretionarily.

Here is a really conservative approach for the OP's figures: Assume OP could live comfortably on 70k/yr in present dollars and that they'll live to 104. They set aside 77*70k=5.39m dollars in extremely low risk investments which merely expected to at-least meet inflation after taxes. They invest the remaining 3.04 million in riskier investments they expect to return more (market indexes, maybe a few companies, a bit of Bitcoin)-- and spend 4%/yr of that pool on discretionary spending, so an extra 120k/yr bringing their total spending budget to 190k.

Re-balance every once in a while to keep the nearly-riskless pool at the right size to guarantee their base spending level -- adding to it if it under-performed cost inflation or taking from it when it over-performs.

Purchase of a home could be taken out of the base spending pool, so long as care is taken to make sure the the funds needed for its maintenance and property taxes are included in it.

If the riskier investments perform well the discretionary spending budget will go up, if they perform poorly they'll at least preserve their base spending level. They could do somewhat better by immediately cutting spending during down markets -- those 4% figures don't assume that you're doing that but someone whos base spending is secured by another pool of assets should have a lot of ability to do so.
Matthias is such an inspiration. A true hacker, I'd say.
> I can absolutely envision - without much difficulty - a megatons-to-megawatts motion swiftly bringing an end to this period in Earth's history.

I can't figure out if you're talking about a nuclear war changing the world, or a nuclear disarmament process that somehow also leads to energy production.
I'd say usable desktop hardware acceleration requires accelerated rendering in the browser and video decode acceleration. These tend to require pretty exotic features and still aren't implemented in a few PC graphics driver.

OpenGL ES 2.0 is pretty simple in comparison, and you won't have to deal with undocumented features and so on.

It's also not as simple as coverage, you also need good performance, which means you need a good optimizing compiler for the GPU architecture, and that's not obvious either. Unless they are using Apple's drivers? I don't know that they are. From reading her website it seems they are not.
No, it was UberEats: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/rj0a19/made_...
Short answer: Yes.

Longer answer: Staying in any kind of echo chamber for too long is a bad idea. Like-minded people will reinforce ideas that they like, and it can be an isolating and potentially damaging experience to exclusively read from HN. The real crown jewel in HN's crown is crowdsourced link aggregation, and there are a lot of aggregators for a lot of different topics. Take some time to find quality sources, vet them for a short while and incorporate them into your daily reading. There's a lot of information out there these days, so it can seem appealing to hide from it. There are also really high-quality information sifting tools available though.
Thank you, will have a look!
> The disclosure process was terrible, they clearly had no time to perform a thorough validation of the hotfixes, and this is the result.

Even with proper disclosure, patching can be harder than it seems at face value. Take shellshock (the bash RCE from 2014) for example, the first patch was released a week after discovery and publication happened after the patch was released. Yet there were still a flurry of further CVEs found and further emergency patches required as a result.

The problem is once a major vulnerability is discovered, you then have a the worldwide attention focused on that specific vulnerability looking for other ways to break it. So it’s not really a surprise that you find multiple CVEs for most major vulnerabilities.
Likely the cable gets physically damaged, which degrades the signal integrity on the cable. Basically if the cable is cut there will not be any signal anymore, but there can also be states somewhere in between.

With reduced integrity the chance of data loss or corruption during transmission increases. There are typically low level integrity checks and forward error correction used to compensate for some of that on serial links, but they can only do so much. If data is detected lost its pretty much up to the upper level protocol on what to do next: One could retransmit, do nothing, or just use the corrupted data. Since retransmission would not help audio protocols they likely will use the other options, and so you get degraded sound.
Do we? Or does "positivity" enable insecure software because there isn't enough social pressure against making dangerous engineering decisions?
To me its a bit like going on holiday and renting a car with the steering wheel on the other side. Takes a little getting used to, but whole populations can cope with driving on the right, or the left. Smalltalk has a beautiful simplicity, allowing one to express really complex ideas, which to me seems like a super-power. But being image-based can be a pain especially when working in large teams. Merging in everyone's changes could be a PITA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
I think that's a fair interpretation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)

> Tying (informally, product tying) is the practice of selling one product or service as a mandatory addition to the purchase of a different product or service. In legal terms, a tying sale makes the sale of one good (the tying good) to the de facto customer (or de jure customer) conditional on the purchase of a second distinctive good (the tied good). Tying is often illegal when the products are not naturally related. It is related to but distinct from freebie marketing, a common (and legal) method of giving away (or selling at a substantial discount) one item to ensure a continual flow of sales of another related item.

> Some kinds of tying, especially by contract, have historically been regarded as anti-competitive practices. The basic idea is that consumers are harmed by being forced to buy an undesired good (the tied good) in order to purchase a good they actually want (the tying good), and so would prefer that the goods be sold separately. The company doing this bundling may have a significantly large market share so that it may impose the tie on consumers, despite the forces of market competition. The tie may also harm other companies in the market for the tied good, or who sell only single components.

> One effect of tying can be that low quality products achieve a higher market share than would otherwise be the case.

> Tying may also be a form of price discrimination: people who use more razor blades, for example, pay more than those who just need a one-time shave. Though this may improve overall welfare, by giving more consumers access to the market, such price discrimination can also transfer consumer surpluses to the producer. Tying may also be used with or in place of patents or copyrights to help protect entry into a market, discouraging innovation.

> Tying is often used when the supplier makes one product that is critical to many customers. By threatening to withhold that key product unless others are also purchased, the supplier can increase sales of less necessary products.

> In the United States, most states have laws against tying, which are enforced by state governments. In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice enforces federal laws against tying through its Antitrust Division.
Great and useful content.
Most importantly, has been shown to be updated every time with new learnings, as the log4j issue is a moving target. Good stuff by the team!

Disclaimer, I work at Snyk.
They're not a problem in my experience. At worst you'll get banned by the merchant. Bank never required proof or anything the few times I charged back (for not delivering the items for over a month, pre Covid).
... when the bank teller's are software-driven entities, they might :)
I'd agree if this was the first CVE. But that got some attention to log4j, which quickly exposed two more CVEs. There's no such thing as perfect, but these problems almost certainly would have been caught by a competent security audit.
This is so simple and so powerful. The idea of making a one-piece 75 meter telescope lens in space is wild.
Yes. Consider paying a small amount to specific news agencies for news you trust, and graze the margins of other, including possibly contrary view sites to understand perspectives.

I pay for the guardian. I read nytimes, wapo and drudge to understand how others see it.
That sounds more like Intranet of Things, and is probably better for anything where security matters.
Your search engine relies on ad revenue, hence your results.

There is plenty of cool tech. mRNA vaccines, prototype quantum computers available for anyone to hire on AWS, high-speed wireless networks, spacecraft sampling the edge of the sun, etc.

People were saying the same thing around the year 1900, that everything in nature was basically explained…
One of the reasons this 16 year old company went bankrupt once already, sold their IP to China, and even Chinese didnt bother manufacturing it.
That's a good sound bite, but -- if taken literally -- we have sadly evolved upon the wrong planet. Yes, we should minimize lead exposure but there is no actionable way for even 30% of the Earth's population to live at blood lead levels lower than 5 ug/dl.
How about using AGPLv3?