skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically, the hard parts of writing a plugin are:

1. understanding the DSP behind it

2. correctly implementing the GUI

I have yet to see a mechanism by which language choices really help with the problems of either of those aspects of the job.
> The average life expectancy of hunter-gatherers is low mostly due to high infant mortality followed by mortality of those under 15 years. If you live to 15 you have a pretty good shot of living to 60. The modal age at death is 68-78 [0].

Even that's "mostly" from infant mortality, a significant non-infant mortality still remains. From your linked article

>~60% of newborns in these populations survive to age 15 and ~40% to age 45. Those who survive to age 45 can expect to live another ~20 years

In other words, even if you survive past 15, there's a 33% chance that you won't make it to 45.

>Notably, the health span of hunter-gatherers may be longer. Those who survive have healthier older years. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia are very rare in H-G culture at ages where they become widespread in subsistence culture.

Is there a direct source for the healthspan claim? The study you linked substantiates the individual disease instances being lower, but that could also be caused by dying at around 68-78, before those ailments usually set in.
I think the original poster is arguing the point that having personal vehicles is the wrong solution, and that the life style of the typical american cannot imagine that as a solution.

I think it is impossible to put the personal vehicle genie back into the lamp. Any future climate solution cannot involve decreasing the quality of life for the typical american (or western person, i'm using american as a catch-all term).

EV is the compromise already.
Is thiS supposed to be some Loony Tunes joke? ACME is the name of the protocol.
I loved my pebble(s). 2 great stories:

1. They supported 3rd party watch faces based on a file. There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file and, if done from your phone, upload it right to the watch. Once, when out at midnight beer launch, I made a custom face for the beer and won a little keychain from the brewery. My apple watch is nowhere near this functionality.

2. Once time in 2014, I ran into some Pebble engineers at an ice cream shop in Palo Alto, they spotted my watch, they bought my scoop! Fun, weird little Silicon Valley moment.
Digitization has clearly added lots of negatives that otherwise wouldn’t last. As simple as, does it really make sense for something local with only local and fittingly small consequences, to be discussed at a global level? But anybody can post a photo or video to be seen the world over. Depending on content there will even be users on the internet policing (“influencing”) other users in the internet to weigh in on whatever. But clearly human societies function at a level of cohesion that breaks apart at scale. Ie there isn’t one truly universal way to live that everyone can and in time could be made to live.

Edit-I’d venture even the ability for the internet to bring together people who would otherwise not have a cohort “breaks at scale” because people just don’t scale like that.
> On the other hand, macOS has a weird snapping implementation where you need to click and hold the green “zoom” button, then choose to “tile” left or right

TIL, and I've been using MacOS and OS X for almost 15 years.
The funny thing is - many years ago, MacOS was ahead of Windows in window management for a long time.

Sure, that maximize button doing a weird thing was still there - my "favourite" app was iTunes, which randomly switched it to a different mode - but otherwise, Expose was something amazing that other systems later copied, as well as the Dock system.

However, it kind of stalled recently, and the "tile window to the left" is laughably bad; as if coming from iPadOS.
I go between ubuntu, Mac, and increasingly rarely windows which for many years was my daily. I am not fully at home in any of them but they are all good enough now that it doesn't matter. most of my time is ubuntu machines through jump desktop
I'd say it slightly different: I hope that we can have the courage to tell the people closest to us when their behaviors make us feel angry or disgusted or ashamed.

I don't like to use the word "criticism" because I believe it tends to be about trying to objectively label their actions, and much more prefer opening up about we individually feel or even how we imagine others might feel in reaction to those actions.

I agree with you in that this may be more well received by people who feel closest to us and also may be easier for us to open up to them when we fee close to them.
I agree but how many people actually get alignment in their jobs?

I’ve been trying to figure out how some people can keep going without that alignment. Some say to just treat it as a job, but that doesn’t seem to be working for me. I guess I’m one of those people who must get an aligning job.
> I don't think we should really take so much inspiration from the brain. We didn't make airplanes work by building bird machines so why should we do that here.

It’s not that we should mimic the brain’s implementation, but we should certainly strive to match the brain’s capabilities. One of its outwardly observable capabilities is that it is extremely efficient in the size of the training data set it requires.

Efficiency isn’t an implementation detail, it’s definitional to what “highly intelligent” means.

GPT-3 is not an airplane, it’s a zeppelin. Zeppelins also have scaling laws dictating that a zeppelin should be very very large. Building bigger and bigger zeppelins is one thing, justifying expending resources on gigantic zeppelins by stating the scaling law and concluding that a jet aircraft will magically pop out if you build a big enough zeppelin is quite another.
Could buy one on ebay for $50! Apps still work on iPhone and Android ;)
I agree with most of the commentors here. This is completely insane and the people pushing this stuff are stupid.

But the thing that bothers me most is, if these people are so stupid, why do they keep winning?
Google Cloud Print was shutdown [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/
One of the advantages of using the standard ACME protocol is that you will be able to very easily switch CAs should you need to. It could possibly even be automatically switched on the fly, if one CA has some sort of outage. That’s a nice advantage for improving reliability and flexibility.

This is presumably a core feature of Google Cloud, and if you’re already using their other cloud products, I can’t imagine being too worried about features randomly going away.

(Disclaimer: While I work for Let’s Encrypt, this is my own opinion and not necessarily that of my employers)
When I worked as a consultant at Home Depot's headquarters, they often sent out emails from the "Orange Voice" pushing employees to lobby their members of Congress on various bits of legislation and issues. What was very clear was that Home Depot absolutely hated each state having its own set of laws. Even worse were local laws. They wanted there to be just one government for them to lobby for their issues and when one state requires them to have some operational quirk such as customer accessible price scanners with printers attached, the first instinct is to find a way to get the feds to find a way to make that state requirement go away.
> by supporting good faith communication (truth)

You can have good faith communication over something like the Fermi Paradox or SETI, but the truth is unknown. With a lot of complex social and political realities, the truth is also unknown. Some facts are known, but how they fit whatever grand narrative is in dispute. And with technology, often the dispute centers around preference or what's popular, where for example, which programming language is better doesn't really have a truth value in the general sense.
> If none of the Android device makers have been successful selling a smart watch, what hope did Pebble have?

Samsung, Huawei, etc. have quite successful smart watch lines.
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartwatch-marke...
It seems clear that the central issue of slavery transformed over 50 years from a general agreement that it was less than ideal and would go away in its own, to a deeply polarized issue which half the country thought it an abomination that should be immediately eliminated and the other half began to to think of it as a positive good for the slaveholder and slave.

It was more regional than our current disputes which are almost fractal in their geography
sometimes it's because the software existed before the conventions. Such is the case for Xorg.
except they removed the tablety features too, so that can't be the reason imo
there is a hidden feature buried deep inside mac accesibility options whic let you do a double finger 'dobule click' with only one touch.

IT IS THE KILLER APP for macOS. If I hadn't discovered it years ago I'd be so distraught
Hubris and isolation led Vladimir Putin to misjudge Ukraine
The entire source code of Ardour is posted on the Internet. Nevertheless, it has no known bad-intent copies, and generates more than US $200k/yr. It is also the basis of two products generally viewed as "commercial", even though they are also GPL-licensed.

Almost all of the source code of VCV Rack is posted on the Internet. There have been a few forks for specific reasons, but it's almost certainly the most widely used software modular synthesis in existence, and has created both a paying job for its creator and a mixed libre/paid ecosystem for module developers.

The entire source code of Vital, one of the most acclaimed software synthesizers of 2021 is posted on the Internet. The author (Matt Tytel) makes a living from his work.

The definition of commercial might be a little wider than you think.

Finally, there are several ways to use SC in a product that do not involve the GPL. You fire up sclang as a separate process, feed it SC code, and sclang controls the server. Nothing you write is linked to anything GPL licensed.
At least resell it. Plenty of people out there still using them.
I think you do have to have a payment card on file, even if there’s no payments to be made.
> since the user is waiting for the “page” to load, most recommendation requests have a budget of only 500ms or so and it is only possible to score a few hundred items in a request.

This doesn't make much sense to me since a recommendation is rarely needed instantly. Why not spend, say, 10 s constructing a better recommendation while the user is doing something else, during which the recommendation can simply be blank. Obviously if the user requests a recommendation on first visit, you're out of luck, but I'm thinking the typical use case is for a recommendation after the primary reason for visiting has been completed.
Karabiner can map home end to cmd left cmd right. Install it and go to advanced, custom script site and you’ll find it.
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A webUI IMO seems a reasonable feature though. My mom doesn't have a smartphone, only a laptop. She'd have to return it since she would have no way of configuring it.
I really wonder how much of it relates to how those professions often prohibit or strongly discourage 1st-person expression and encourage 2nd-person or 3rd-person. For example, police don't often say how they individually are feeling, often they refer to law and to the suspect and other parties. Politicians tend to talk about what their constituents want ("Americans want this! Americans hate that!") more than saying how they themselves feel and what they want.

So I wonder how much of the appearance of bad faith is because the people won't or aren't sometimes allowed to even share their personal perspective and experience.
>A Ukrainian intelligence official said the FSB had spent millions recruiting a network of pro-Russian collaborators who ultimately told Putin and his top advisers, among them the current FSB director, what they wanted to hear: The central government in Kyiv wouldn’t hold and resistance would collapse.

>The official singled out pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who made Putin the godfather of his daughter, as a significant source of misleading information. Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian politician who has long promoted Russian interests, was charged with treason last year but allegedly escaped house arrest in the days after the invasion.

>European officials said the Kremlin was also getting information from out-of-touch former elites associated with Yanukovych, who, like Medvedchuk, stood to gain from a Russian power grab. In the weeks before the invasion, the British government warned that Russian intelligence was plotting with Yanukovych’s former prime minister, chief of staff and deputy prime minister.
Because every one of their complaints is about the GUI and has nothing to do with the Mac Operating System itself. Obviously they haven’t gotten far enough to have any complaints they can actually expound upon other than “I’m not able to arrange windows myself” and “also, I could use an app to do that but won’t!”
Most windows users install 7zip or Winrar.

Each point is carefully crafted whiny nonsense. It’s not unclear.

Also, you can use a computer every day, most high school students do, and learn 2 apps:
Word processor app
Web browser app

And that is the full and total extent of their capabilities. It’s VERY easy to fall into the trap of “wow this OS is bad, because it doesn’t work like the other one!” When that is again, total fucking bullshit. If you skin MacOS to look like windows or vice versa 99% or users will think the GUI is the OS, and so all their complaints are about the current GUI setup.

It is the Automobile equivalent of “I don’t like that I had to adjust my mirrors”.

Who gives a shit?
At which point you’ve used a rhetorical tactic and turned a conversation into a game.

I’m saying the space of people communicating is larger than the space of people using words in rhetorical games.
It uses google cloud binding, but you can request and use these certificates from any system.
Pre-order is reliable signal. How does one go about software services though?

For the past 2 weeks I've been analyzing a problem & I think my target segment desperately needs a solution (based on discussions on online forums, including HN.) I'm about to begin market research to validate my assumptions & to check if my userbase can actually shell out money.

Presently, I'm thinking of getting some pilot users & offer my service for free (or a small fee, since I'd be doing some non-trivial work for them). If the results seem promising, I'll pitch my idea to others. I've been part of few early stage startups but this is the first time I'm doing something of my own. Is there a better way to do this validation?
Surely this is just google derisking an external dependency (letsencrypt), so they have full vertical integration, no?
The big difference here is that their ACME server is part of Google Cloud. Google Cloud is a paid service and in the 5 years of using it, I cannot remember any gcloud service being deprecated, without a similar alternative being introduced. (e.g cloud image registry being replaced with artifact registry)
You have to use the steinberger SDK to make a vst

https://github.com/steinbergmedia/vst3sdk

But audio plugins come in many formats.
Bingo. As someone who started a brick and mortar business that is tied to our home, the financial failure would have very real impacts on us, regardless of having an LLC.
Despite the name I don't think that was actually part of GCP.
I was salty about that too, but it wasn't a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) product. It just had cloud in its name.
Homebrew isn't the only game in town. I've been using MacPorts without issue since I bought my first Mac in late 2003.
I feel like Alvin Toffler was already onto something in Future Shock (1970). The modern world is just too interconnected and things are changing too fast. We're constantly thrust into ambiguous situations, exposed to a flood of information beyond our capacity to process, and grievances of the historical past pile up and rub against each other because there are no borders, no boundaries. Careers, ways of life, communities, everything just rent asunder.

Overall, I think our ape reflexes are overwhelmed. No wonder so many of us start to descend into madness in our private, demon-haunted worlds, that Sagan wrote about. All of us are completely overcome by this never-ending torrent. There is no peace.

On top of that, we've had a simmering culture war since before I was born. The volume on it has just got turned up all the way. People are, frankly, traumatized at every turn.

And then, on top of that, technology is just shoveling this pile in your face constantly. Trying to get in every second of every day and get a slice of that sweet, sweet, attention economy. So they can dose it up with some advertising steroids to get you to buy, buy, watch, watch.

Is it any wonder we are all nuts? We're being driven nuts!
Where I can, I'll sidestep GDPR (and CCPA and Australian Privacy Act and whatever) problems by explicitly avoiding collecting data that might fall foul of that.

Make "user accounts" effectively anonymous. Don't collect email addresses or phone numbers or names. Just use cookies with GUIDs or autogenerated username like the default Reddit ones (without allowing people to put their own name or other PII in). Maybe let the user keep refreshing until they get a random username they don't hate, but it'll end up being something like "Abrasive-teapot-86" and never $walletName or $emailAddress. If you need to let people move accounts between devices/browsers, let them grab their GUID and call it "secret account key" and tell them never to share it. Also let them know there's no such thing as "resetting their password" and to store that secret account key if they want to be able to recover a "lost" account.

You can't _always_ get away with that. But if you can, it saves a lot of headaches.
That is interesting.

I have not gotten that far yet.
> so i give them the benefit of the doubt and willing to have someone explain why and how i should teach them in a less racist way.

I think you misunderstand their motives here. I don't think even the wokest of the woke believes in their heart that math is racist. It's about power for its own sake.

By labeling this or that arbitrary thing as racist or colonialist or trans-phobic, these people force every conversation back to their topics, on their terms, and their turf. By doing this, they are A) Establishing themselves as the default moral authority, and B) Successfully pushing the idea that reality is nothing more than what they say it is.
The Gumroad widget they are using to ask for money doesn't work on Firefox Android. I touched everything, nothing let me enter a price. Not a Security Zines bug but a Security Zines problem.
No mention of defaults, but some of the other articles in their Help Center describe it as in the process of rolling out: https://help.bill.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409933681677#can-i-...
Stallman's pages for Amazon and Apple are both longer.

https://www.stallman.org/amazon.html

https://www.stallman.org/apple.html
Obama has not been in power in more than four years. If you want to blame someone, look towards those who refuse to vaccinate, die in the hospital after accruing huge medical bills that they don't pay.
There are tons of options that start with -f and can't be decomposed in that way [1, e.g. -framework]. They are essentially atomic options with a loose naming convention.

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html
What does winning mean for either side? The other side doesn't just cease to exist. Nor do the people in the middle our outside the dichotomy. Does it mean autocracy? And how will the prevent revolution? How does it prevent an ongoing, unwinnable civil war which fizzes out to another armistice after everyone is sick of not winning?
The visual programming languages tend to have really thorough guides on the DSP - max/msp's built in docs in particular, but pure data and external libraries are super in depth too. They also tend to have horrible GUI practices...
Ask HN: Code signing open source windows applications?
I've spent a month building an open source application for windows [1] mostly assuming that windows worked as it did the last time I built a desktop app (circa 2003). Obviously, things have changed and we now live in new world of Authenticode signed applications! Exciting!

In no particular order:

1. This seems extremely hostile to open source. I have to outlay ~90 AUD per year for the cheapest possible code signing? When I'm not making any money off my product??

2. It looks like have some movement towards a service that will do code signing much in the same way Lets Encrypt offers free certificates in the form of https://www.sigstore.dev/ - has anybody used this? any other options available in the near future that might also solve this?

3. Finally, I'm about ready to give up and just eat the cost. Any suggestions on what provider to use? (I'm based in Australia)

[1] https://github.com/Rodeoclash/vodon-pro
The reason may be so that services on private subnets don't need internet access to use Let's Encrypt. Just a guess though.
As others have said, try us.

Generally speaking if you're making a good faith argument and doing so civilly, this place is pretty tolerant of all sorts of views even if not everyone shares them.
One counfounding factor is that we tend to normalize. There are environmental conservation groups in Wales working to keep the sheep because that's "how it's always been", when better would be to allow more beaver to grow up and shape the land so that it might be reforested again. Same with Ireland, which used to be a rainforest and home to much-larger and more numerous fish than are seen today. [0]
I can imagine having a nice, safe home, with enough food and ways to maintain good health, without all the trappings I am currently entangled with and which have a cost far beyond what I feel this planet can reasonably bear as we push to the next billion people. That life would be easy enough (I'm not saying without effort, mind) because I'd have been born into it, learned the necessary skills, learned about the tens of thousands of other life-forms I live with.

To transition now? I might be scared. I might miss my computer. I might think too highly of myself and less about the collective, nevermind seven or eleven or sixteen thousand generations hence. I'm at the "raise a child" stage of life and even now I (think I) accept my own death if were to happen today. The stories I care about involve humans existing alongside so much other life for thousands of years hence, with an unbroken history (oral or otherwise) so those at the end of life on earth have a really interesting story to look back on. Measuring humans in the billions and cheetahs in the thousands is not a healthy sign (for example).

[0] Feral : Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life, by George Monbiot

See also : The Old Way : a story of the first people, by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (lived with the Zhu/wasi (the slash is a click), or Ju/wasi as her mother spelled it, for about five years in the 50s and noted the changes over the decades from hunter-gatherer to pastoralist, with efforts to maintain culture along the way)