skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One troubling analogy would be occasionalism.

Occasionalists believe that in order for cause and effect to work, God has to intercede. This rather elegantly deals with a whole load of theoretical problems around causal realism.

If you were an occasionalist, you might think, if such a thing as a 'god-of-the-gaps' exist, it should be possible to build a device that mimics its powers, a 'god machine'. Such a device would be very useful.

Except, if occasionalism is wrong, and the universe simply doesn't work like that, it's obviously going to be totally impossible to build a machine that replicates the effect, or to understand how the effect could function.

What if consciousness is just another 'god-of-the-gaps', and we can't replicate it or understand it, because it's fundamentally a nonsensical concept?
This isn’t a faux pas, this is a hit piece. Any halfway intelligent person would be able to tell the difference between the two.

The bridge was designed to do this, this is something that the builders intended. The previous bridge on this spot was actually replaced with this one because the previous one couldn’t accommodate the local shipbuilding industry.
The Infinite Loop That Wasn't (2020)
Realistically, it is pretty expensive and the batteries will run out soon.
Thing is on Android, hardly anyone pays for everything. No money from iOS, no money...
Many people i know say that Facebook ads simply stopped working. You pour in $100K and... nothing happens.
This extension uses the ability that Chrome Extension API gives to block some URLs. So it blocks the video and keeps only the audio since the YouTube serves them in separate files
I am about to do so. Truth be told I am angling for Kotlin over Java, but I wouldn't be unhappy if it went that way.

Java has come a long way, 17 has a lot of nice language features and Amber, Panama, Loom, Valhalla are all doing great things for the JVM.

There's also the excellent ecosystem, and some of the Kotlin libraries have quite nice APIs.

I think tooling is a plus too, Gradle is a flexible and extensible build tool. I've also been experimenting with Graal, I'm not committing to using it, but it does look very promising (and has an easy to use plugin for Gradle). We could use it to build some very slim Container images, if it works out.
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I'm glad that you are intimately knowledgable but your original claim was that %30 is a bad deal and large corporations are in a mission to help small developers agains Apple.

Then when I press you to show some calculation, you admit that you actually need to be "a bit bigger than a small". Essentially, what you say that all you need is a dream and a few million dollars in the bank. Thanks, great advice.

You keep repeating that you know a lot and I am sure you do but your arguments fall short of actual information. You keep saying things that "you need to learn" which I tolerate and try to be respectful despite I really don't enjoy being patronised.

Besides, I want to note that the real issue for me is not the %30 or %15 or whatever cut Apple takes. The real issue is that Apple/Google/Amazon or any other company can cut you off if they want. At this point, I think these services must be regulated like utility, i.e. businesses that depend on these must be guaranteed to be treated equally and fairly. Apple is has done fine for the most part but IMHO what we need is rights, not all that BS about making Apple change their software to accommodate something.
Well, it's less ZFS and more Linux, but it makes for reasonable problem on 32bit platforms (though there was a lot of work to move of vmalloc() in ZoL)
This is a possible scenario. But there are many ad blockers out there with millions of users and they continue to be accepted by the Google
They'd be ok for small icons where the details are indistinguishable
Without improving it?
The findmy-network is the improvement that makes these devices actually worth something, compared to the small number of devices in the tile network.
How is this a privacy/security nightmare, when you literally get audible notifications and notifications on your phone when you are being tracked.

And how do you come up with these random price estimates, AirTags are available for under 40 and not for 80 usd.
My god you’re full of yourself.
The only popular crate that I can think of that still requires nigthly is Rocket[0], the 0.5 release does not but the lack of maintenance means that it has been three years since 0.4 and months since the last update. In that time Warp, Axum, Tide, Actix and many more frameworks that are all on stable has eaten its lunch. As for long compile times, I agree, it has gotten heaps better but is still far from Go (nor will it ever get that good), but for most my projects with incremental debug builds its in the ballpark of ~2 seconds, which is good enough for me and `cargo check` is close to instant. Release builds, yeah, they are slow.

[0]: https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket
> 1. All Apple did was giving users a choice (and they should've done that ages ago). If users didn't mind being tracked, or liked the "more relevant adverts" tracking provides, they would not have opted out.

The choice existed for a long time. What Apple did was make that choice front and centre for everyone, as opposed to being buried in a settings menu for privacy-conscious people to hunt down.
Anyone know of a similar library but with low-poly / low-res SVG/PNG flags instead? These flags are great, but they're also huge (some bigger than 400kB), which isn't really necessary if you're only showing them as small icons no larger than 10-20px.
Whoa, that is indeed a really bad approximation. The site notes that all the flags are forced to 4:3 so many of them need to be retouched (few real sovereign flaga are in this ratio). But that's just really bad approximation - the sun and eagle are way out of proportion.

I noticed also that Bouvet Island (bv) is represented by an almost comically bad version of the Norwegian flag. Finally, many of the colors are off, e.g. flag of Saudi Arabia.

This site is dangerous - by using these ridiculously incorrect flags you actually risk offending certain users.
I think this sort of abuse comes naturally to humans, in combination of the broken environment they were raised in, and due to different pressures and opportunities later. So however disconnected culturally and physically, they produce similar patterns. Relating this to the current context, I don't think Chinese officials needed to study US and Canadian boarding school abuse to create an environment where they mistreat their minorities in a similar way. Rather it's because we're all humans and we behave similarly under similar circumstances.
I'd suspect most of the advantages were from the move away from C++, for two reasons. First, the C++ version was a rewrite of the C version. Second, they had new graduate students working on the code, not professional software developers.
Use yt-dlp and pass it the SponsorBlock flags to auto skip intro/outro/sponsor/non-music sections. I used to use this to pipe videos into cmus or MPV but now just let a browser with ublock/sponsorblock go in the background
I recently upgraded my home PC to Slackware-current, 14.2 being decidedly too long in the tooth :)
Never seen Nepal written like that before.
Maybe we should just paint the country code on a white piece of cloth instead.
> We do experience reality directly: our nerve endings do.

Depending on how you define "reality" we only experience a tiny subset of it. We can only see/hear/touch/smell/taste a very restricted universe, only what our "antennas" can detect. In fact I would argue that we experience close to 0% of all of reality. On top of this extremely restricted input our processing of it is imperfect which means some of what we experience has nothing to do with reality.
I don't see how any of this is democracy or stupid people's fault? Generally where it is worst is where democracy is weakest.

There's a reasonable case to be made that anti-democratic propaganda led to World War II and more democracy was one of the safeguards put in place to prevent repeats.
Well look what happened to Athens.
why? What is the difference?
Magnetic drive is poor below the micron scale, but you could switch to electrostatic. No equivalent of diamagnetism to draw on tho.
A Privacy Engineering Stack for Developers
Youtube serves the audio and video in separate streams. Presumably this extension just blocks the video stream.
Ask HN: Why is WebAssembly friendlier with system languages?
It's a naive question but points me directly to a large hole in my understanding of WebAssembly. Here are the hints I already gathered but didn't give me quite a complete picture yet:

1. It makes sense that any language with GC-less memory management will be easier to port to WASM, because in WASM all we have is a linear array of bytes as memory.

2. But then higher languages like Kotlin have a LLVM backend, and then derive WASM binaries from LLVM IR. What makes this possible?

3. Even dynamically typed languages like Python are ported to WASM (I guess they ship the interpreter itself with the binary which will make them heavier) but I'm not sure how is it different from #2 or am I confusing two different routes?

4. What does this even mean - https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/#gc-proposal-for-webassembly ? "GC proposal for webassembly" - how will it aid in WASM becoming friendlier with higher level languages?

5. What exactly is ahead of time compilation? What relation does it have with WASM?

All this means I have a very shallow understanding of memory management. So feel free to get as technical as possible. Thank you!
The GPL-side license trolling happened way before Oracle was in talks to buy Sun. On Dtrace team (first CDDL licensed code) afaik the expectation was that they would see Dtrace integrated pretty fast in Linux. Of course, it's all anecdata (just like the opposite view about purposeful incompatibility from another Sun employee).
You can care about your career and your self improvement while still maintaining healthy boundaries around the mental effort expended for your job. We’re in it for a long time but jobs come and go
Yes. The extension block the video URLs and keeps only the audio ones that sets them as source in the video
People who create and build things tend to have strong emotional needs to control that thing. This includes for example, the ui designers at netflix, and the people who run the company. You see this in all kinds of domains from filmmakers who don’t want their movie released on certain formats even though fans want it, to game designers nerfing beloved tricks because content gets skipped, and making cutscenes unskippable, apple wanting control of what apps you put on your phone and how you repair it and so on.

Often there is a profit motive as well but I think the underlying prime cause of this stuff is just control

Netflix has some vision for how their service should be used, and they don’t want you fucking with it, and various weird contractual obligations and profit optimizations are gonna get you less and less choice.

The people who want to customize are a small minority so there isn’t any competitive advantage to offer it, and niche players can’t exist in domains like netflix, or iphone.
I don't think you would need a 2.0 (backward-incompatible language change) for any of this.
Do you think if you say his name 3 times he’ll appear?
You are right, but people can step into problems because if their political beliefs in their jobs. Or suddenly being passively forced into behaviours if they don't want to lose your job. I guess this is the case in the US for republicans, for what I read and the personal accounts I get. Some people are trying hard to get this into Spain too, with less success.
> Digital costs less but does it makes anything ?

Yes. It makes knowledge available cheaply. Someone who works out of a van detailing cars can start doing basic PDR with nothing but YouTube and practice.
Agreed. For advertisers with larger budgets, marketing mix models are still the only way to understand the relative performance of FB, Google, TV etc. - each of which is a "walled garden" that doesn't exchange data with others.

FB marketing is effective, question is at what price. If those prices drop, ad dollars will flow back. It will take a few quarterly modeling cycles to reflect this though.

The contra-contrarian view is this: FB, Google have an unusual mix of large, medium and small advertisers all bidding for the same inventory. That's what makes FB and Google somewhat immune to large advertiser pricing pressures (and issue of the day spend bans). However, only the larger advertisers have budgets for complicated cross-publisher modeling. If organic FB tools show higher CPAs, it will drive the smaller marketers to other platforms causing some interesting feedback loops.
The simple reason is that what you think is math is actually not math at all.

When I started studying theoretical math, on my first day, I was told to completely forget what I have learned in school because "it is not math". And then when we talked with our professors about them giving lectures for other students (studying electrical engineering or physics, etc.) we would hear from them something like "Yeah, these guys think math is hard but they don't actually study math".

In short -- adding or multiplying things, applying numbers to formulae -- isn't math.

Actual mathematicians do not need to calculate a lot of stuff in their heads (though estimating things is sometimes helpful) and don't need to remember formulae (although if you spend any time doing actual math you will learn a lot of formulae). And if they need to they are just as likely to pull out a calculator or Google as any other person.

And funny thing is -- before I went to study math I have attended trade school. There, besides a lot of useful topics like economics, accounting, law, touchtyping, etc., we had one semester of actual arithmetic. Which was actually about calculating stuff in your head, fast. We would spend ENTIRE time learning tricks to calculate things faster. And the exams would consist solely of sheets of paper with columns of things to calculate (multiply these three six-digit numbers, etc.) which we had to do in memory.
> Apple so scared by competition

That's a loaded question.

I don't think they are scared, it's just easier for them to collect their cut when the payments flow through their systems. It also enables them to do really good customer service and this helps them sell more iDevices. Purchasing, refunds, cancellations are all handled by Apple and are accessible from a single place and that makes for a superb customer experience.

Let's not forget that companies are not charities. When they are charities, they register as such.
I think you mean: Its Webkits all the way down
The tool seems useful, but listening to the edited audio gives a suffocating feeling, because the speaker makes no pauses to breathe. Absolutely terrible sensation, exactly like I had earlier with commercial news radio stations that were packed with advertizing and announces.
> Even with 500 servers?

Not sure what answer you expect here? Just because you have 10 years of experience doesn’t mean you’ve ever worked with more than 25 servers at a time (at least I haven’t).

I consider it a source of pride, I think. You absolutely don’t need mega scale for most things (or maybe mega scale, but still not many servers)
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The incompatibility is on the GPL side, not CDDL side, and even there it's unclear because of the "derived work" term involved. CDDL was created because GPL would artificially limit inclusion in other projects, and while views on its compatibility with GPL were split at Sun (some employees, even legal counsel if one believes claims on this very site, expected CDDL code to be possible for inclusion in GPLv2 projects like Linux, some made rather public remarks on purposeful incompatibility but without anything to support it).

And no, it's not illegal to put ZFS into linux kernel, because GPLv2 applies only on distribution.
Yes exactly, that was my point. High quality political analysis is niche in the US, but it is more mainstream in Russia.
Meilisearch raises a $5M Seed to change the world of user-facing search
https://blog.meilisearch.com/meilisearch-raised-5meu-seed-fundraising/
> I'm not talking about Gödel or unprovable statements, because even if something is not provable it might be constructable.

What precisely do you mean by that statement? What is the thing that is not provable but constructible? A conjecture? If so, then what do you mean when you say that a conjecture is constructible? What does it mean to construct it?

As far as I know, "construction" in maths usually means a finite process. And proofs are finite sequences of strings, satisfying certain rules specified by a proof framework (such as sequent calculus). So I'm curious in what way something could be constructible, but not provable. To be honest, I don't understand how those words could apply to the same things, because proving usually applies to conjectures, statements, formulas etc. But constructing usually applies to definitions and proofs, which cannot said to be true or false at all.
> The 1:1 variants seem to indicate that this collection is intended more for the benefit of UI designers etc. who want all flags to have consistent shape for their designs rather than as a reference for the definitive versions of flags.

So the UI people just make up fake flags then. Cool.
Now if Canonical made sure their own modifications don't break... ;)
India's anti-conversion laws fuel attacks on Christians
Citizen answers this question better than Facebook
Lies.

Don’t you all see it? Facebook has been declining over the past year and this is a convenient way to blame someone - anyone.

Let’s face it, what are your friends all using now? That’s right - video - YouTube and TikTok.

Facebook had no answer for video and thus lost a lot of eyeballs.

Instagram is a poor clone of TikTok and most people just repost their popular TikTok videos on Instagram reels anyway - hardly any original videos show up there.

As the world transitions to short form video even YouTube is going to feel the pinch.

Don’t you notice every one of your favorite content creators starting “clip” channels which are blowing up with YouTube shorts and reposts to TikTok?

Facebook is beginning its long inevitable decline. Who knows if it will accelerate or just be a slow death?

And Zuck is very smart. The moment I saw the rebrand to Meta I knew that he saw this day coming perhaps years ago. He knows the next frontier is the meta verse and so he’s trying to make Facebook be the epicenter of it.

Who knows if it will work. But this has nothing if anything to do with Apple. And everything to do with the long term trends of history… or if you will, psychohistory.
Forget arithmetic; I remember conversations with exceptionally capable academic mathematicians who in many cases couldn't count without making mistakes. The likely reason: every number triggers a symphony of mathematical results and complicated ideas in their minds, from both memory of association as well as logic itself, and by necessity their minds also conjure up new concepts every now and then. All this added mathematical machinery interferes with the actual counting process at hand.

In an extremely interdependent field like mathematics, maybe the more you know, the harder simple operations become, because our short term memory inevitably gets occupied and interrupted with all the more complicated stuff.
XFS definitely feels better designed at times.
I prefer to be paid based on how valuable my work is to the employer, not the cost of living wherever I happen to be or even my personal financial needs.
When crypto-exchanges go broke, you'll lose it all
Plus the population is much more open to cooperate on military tech given their political situation.
Ah, the appeal to authority. To me your just another anonymous commenter on HN. Really, I couldn't care less, every lawsuit has lawyers on both sides and half of them will lose their case, but will maintain that their customer was right all along and that they will now appeal and then when they run out of appeals they quietly slink off into the dark with their money.

EU anti-competitive law has been tested in court time and again by the big telcos and as a rule they have lost every time they tried to get smart with words.

Apple will - I predict - fare no different.
A lovely release note. I wish the Slackware team all the best with this release, it looks very solid. The only thing I would wish for would be a bridge to be able to use Arch packages. And maybe also a complete copy of how the arch Linux project managers it's Wiki, which is world class for Arch users and useful for other distros too. Since Slackware require some knowledge in order to get it right, a world class knowledge base wiki would be welcome.

Cheers and congrats to Pat and team
> 64 bytes isn't that much overhead?

On the contrary, 64 bytes is a huge overhead. The standard maximum transfer unit (MTU) is 1500 bytes. So 64 bytes is 4.2% of the packet (at best!). Add the fact that you need a source and destination address, that's 128 bytes, or 8.5% of the MTU. Or, if you will, 8.5% (or more) of internet traffic, just in port numbers.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the suggestion, but it would be a terrible idea to have 512 bit port numbers in TCP/UDP packets.
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It seems like a loophole if there's a PIP quota. Doing a PIP on someone leaving means you don't have to use a quota slot for someone staying.

Though it may also be common to request a transfer when you sense your boss doesn't value you.
They didn't even say they read it at 11:30, they said it was sent at 11:30.
> That's a theoretical model. A hypothesis, most likely unattainable.

“Theoretical model” is a tautology.

And it really should be attainable: We’ve successfully eradicated smallpox worldwide, we are close to doing that with polio, and many other illnesses have been eradicated from certain regions via vaccination programs. This is a thing we can do if we try.

> It is not. The net is full of accounts of people telling out precisely what is wrong with masks for them

What I see is always in one of the following categories:

• People asserting that other people (never themselves) with asthma or similar breathing issues can’t wear them, even though literally everyone I know who has asthma or who uses a CPAP machine is actually fine with masks, to the extent that in many cases they get angry with anti-maskers risking giving them covid. Occasionally I also see anti-maskers also asserting that masks make it difficult for children to learn facial expressions in school, which, while superficially plausible, still seems to fail to against reality.

• People who have decided everything about this is a political meme and not real, like this: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/anti-mask-pr...

• People claiming that wearing masks lower blog oxygen levels despite all the evidence from e.g. surgeons, furries (two groups I would not have expected to list together before actually doing so).

It may be that all the above categories have totally overwhelmed real personal anecdotes of people who personally are unable to wear masks. I have no doubt, for example, that there is at least one person with no external nose or ear cartilage for a mask to hold against and who for whatever reason has not had plastic surgery. But this is not what I have ever seen. Always one of the above, on every occasion.