skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that distinction really helpful? The App Store has _rules_ some of which relate to user privacy, and some of which are in a grey area, and some of which don't relate to user privacy. Is needing to use Apple's payment provider a privacy protection? If you squint just right it might be.

I'm sure there are some subset of app-store rules that taken by themselves, without the context of the other app-store rules are not self-serving. But that doesn't mean the rules overall are - and that's the reality that competitors need to deal with. Unlike apple, they can't change the restrictions they need to comply with. Both in actually immediate sense, and in a more meta process sense Apple has an unfair advantage they can and do exploit to extract tolls from the interactions between users and third-party providers.

The fact that some of those protections also protect user privacy to the extent the user stays in Apple's walled garden is almost akin to blackmail: rather than trying to protect the user's privacy regardless, they've tied the user's privacy to the Apple ecosystem. It's all or nothing. Would be a shame if anything happened to that privacy of yours - are you sure you want to leave our walled garden? There aren't any other curated gardens (we made sure of that!), and your device unfortunately has no way to safely and conveniently opt in to risks worth taking, so it's our way, or the wild west out there... oh, and if you really want the wild west, we'll take your hardware too, you'll need to use android, and we use obvious UI patents to ensure it's inconvenient to switch a lot.

It doesn't take an evil, machiavellian plan to end up in a situation in which the rules are so slanted in Apple's favor. All it takes are lots of tiny by themselves reasonable features - but steps that are always tested against Apple's interests, since those get a voice in the decision-making process, and rarely tested against third-party interests. It may well be that Apple was well intentioned in its privacy rules, and that those rules truly do protect the user - yet still have those rules stifle competition in a way that also harms the user down the line.
That sounds like some terrible bureaucracy coupled with some hybrid privatisation. I would be livid if my politicians allowed some company to profit off their de facto monopoly on a central heating grid.
This can be easily fixed by exclusivity deals, cancellation of "unsecure" physical copies and the fact that none of modern media display devices even feature physical media drives.

You can't vote with your wallet if they kill all the alternatives with the help of IP law ;)
> the only place in government seriously engaged in countering our actual existential threats

The existential threats are, in my opinion, either internal (political), or ecological (e.g. climate change). I don't see how the space force is countering them.
Or rather, it makes perfect sense to slap on the bare minimum amount of blockchain to your scheme, given that it never had any use for blockchain in the first place but you can’t get funding without the right buzzwords
I am. That's why I mentioned that you can not infer my statements directly from the numbers you find on Wikipedia etc. You can not simply add up those numbers.
Yes - the default model really needs to be trained with an opensource optimizer on a corpus of open source code (ie. with a license at least as permissive as llvm itself).

A blob trained with proprietary google tech on a proprietary google codebase isn't opensource. Even if it were, Google C++ differs in style quite widely from typical C++, so the model probably isn't as good as a model trained on all of github.
> I think that implies a belief in a total dominance power hierarchy

It doesn't. Not at all.

It just acknowledges the existence of an industry which spends ~300 billion dollars a year in the US alone. [0] Not exactly hidden.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272314/advertising-spend...

Emergent systems are cool to understand and all, but don't forget: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” - Adam Smith
I’m curious how incremental updates fit into this? I guess there are relatively structured possible updates like adding a row but one can imagine unstructured updates like updating some parameter that many formulas depend on or (not sure how much causal allows this) much more varied structures/dependencies such that one update may require calculating some small but hard to predict subset of cells. Maybe there’s no need if you can recalculate everything fast.

I’m also interested in how causal fits into the taxonomy here: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/an-opinionated-ma...
Yes, beside bringing in some money, having spent your life as a programmer will not make you a better person than if you had spent your career solving crossword puzzles.
Profile guided optimisation is a thing.
All of Europe (or at least the EU) has VAT.
I always wonder about those. Are they real? Or will insurance companies find exclusions or ways to mark things as out of network and the maximums don't apply?
Which, correct me if I'm wrong, is also a compiler extension.
More people live in New York than in the whole of Finland.
What language is it?
Two instances isn't worth consolidating because it's hard to know whether the similarities are real or coincidental. Check out the rule of three: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(computer_progra...
Even when the billionaires and gigacorporations own every physical asset on the planet, surely they can still let the little people ‘own’ some digital assets?

Isn’t the ideal to have us all continue our excessive mindless consumption within virtual spaces, maximum profit for minimum environmental cost?
As much as HN hates NFTs, they could really help solve this problem. Decentralized online digital ownership is a great use case.
Personally, I think the all-in USB-C was a brilliant one. A better-looking USB-C/A adapter would have made it bearable.

I wasn't missing HDMI at all.
Yes, however (neo)vim plugin installation still isn't as easy to work with as a one click package / language server install like in VSCode. I thought OniVim would bring that but it seems it is not anymore.
Google and Glance Are Looking to Monetize Your Lock Screen
A lot of conspiracies around that monument. I believe it says something about a "time capsule" buried there. I would really like to know about the contents. Apparently they forgot to mention the date it should be opened anyway, so...
Here is for instance data directly from Czech gov

https://www.mzcr.cz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IS_COVID19_Ti...

Page 5, new hospitalizations, 7 day numbers per 100K people in each group
June 2022
unvaxxed 1.4/100K
vaxxed unfinished 1.3/100K
vaxxed 2 doses 0.5/100K
vaxxed with booster 1.7/100K

To be fair most of these people are hospitalized for other reason than COVID regardless their vaccination as was always the case even when they were spreading propaganda about hospitalized unvaxxed. Numbers in ICU look better for vaxxed, but there are way too many factors to consider, you are more likely to have better life style as vaxxed risk group than unvaxxed risk group, which doesn't really say vaccination works.
multi-tasking decreases intelligence--there are a number of studies on this. One paper says up to 15% decrease in IQ.
My favorite pizza is pepperoni with pineapple and red beans.
>It seems many of us focused on STEM STEM STEM or COMPUTERS COMPUTERS COMPUTERS in education but perhaps are emotionally infantile to an extent. ... How many of us write programs, support infrastructure, design gadgets … for what? What is important ? Our job… buying gadgets… traveling..

Steve Jobs always wanted to hire people who had a liberal arts education. He knew there was more to making tech objects than stem.
left_toppings = ["beef"]
right_toppings = []
make_pizza([left_toppings,
right_toppings]) # this will be a very funny pizza

Holy cow I was not expecting a none pizza with left beef reference in code form
No doubt. But isn't that unrelated to what I said? I was just explaining my grandparent's comment.

To provide the same API for such a broad set of underlying technology, you necessarily have to shoehorn a few things to make them fit. That doesn't make the API bad. It's awesome that applications don't have to do this on their own!
Given that all the LibreOffice clones on the Microsoft Store use their own brand name, they then will be allowed to stay.
Mine is Arkham Horror LCG, one of the best coop games ever made. The complexity of the game is astonishing and the replayability is incredible. There are so many characters to play, builds to create, scenarios and variants. I could probably play this game for ten years and not be done yet!
It's a search/completion interface built around fuzzy finders and regex, with previews for results. It looks similar to ido, Helm, Ivy, Vertico, etc., in the Emacs world.
Here is my personal collection of more than 24h of voiceless electronic beats.
I know is used for coding by two dev friends and myself:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/36bPEqDdU1jZiQ9Ix6cM1c?si=...

Enjoy :)
> "Had we started out with two pizza types that have different crust/sauce/cheese, we never would have made this refactor. Instead of our code being architected around the concept of how pizzas are made in the abstract, its architecture is tightly coupled to the specific needs of these two pizzas that we happened to be dealing with. The chance that we will be putting this code back the way it was is extremely high."

Maybe.

But maybe you're falling prey to the other programmer trap - catering for conceivable situations that are just never going to happen, and making your codebase unnecessarily accommodating as a result. This is another great source of complexity, and quite often the source of unnecessary abstractions (which add to cognitive load) too.

In my experience it's better to cope with half-and-half pizza toppings when they arise, rather than coding as if they're already needed. Because when they are needed, you'll probably find the requirement is actually to put them on a 3-tier wedding cake, or a car.
Your idea probably is not worth paying for to put it blunt. So you got to come up with a thing people would pay for, for it and it alone.
China has already threatened to shoot SpaceX's starlink out of the sky because it poses a NatSec risk to them by puncturing their Great Firewall.

While GPS is hugely important - no debate there -, there are quickly growing alternative uses for satellites. Also, satellites are already used a lot more in business than people realize [2]. Walmart, for example, used to own the largest fleet of satellites in order to connect their stores to HQ before communication was ubiquitous. It built it out in the 80s.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/china-military-scientists-anti-star...

[2] (scroll to 1987) https://corporate.walmart.com/about/history
So, Ukrainian?
A good run-down of the different algorithms: https://ruder.io/optimizing-gradient-descent/
I think people favour adaptive learning rate options like Adam in practice since they generally do seem to perform well, and are often less sensitive to initial conditions and the exact hyper-parameters used. There will always be people who like to test N optimizers with parameter sweeps to squeeze a tiny bit of extra performance out, but for the rest of us the default Adam or AdamW options and good, unobjectionable choices :)
Did you check di.fm ? They have so many channels. There's one called "oldschool acid"[0] if that's what you're looking for.

[0] https://www.di.fm/oldschoolacid
LeCun's 2022 paper on autonomous machine intelligence does not cite prior work
I recommend f1rstpers0n's hour-long drum and bass mixes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CvASgVAiAo
I see thanks. How do they compare with the much cheaper phillips sonicare toothbrushes is the question.
The title of the article is "LeCun's 2022 paper on autonomous machine intelligence rehashes but does not cite essential work of 1990-2015" but had to be shortened to fit the character limit of Hacker News titles.
Windows is full of hacks to allow that "I can run applications from 30 years ago" to happen.
Yes. You're describing a market that's obviously ripe for innovation.

Otherwise are you suggesting it would actually be impossible for any other company than Apple to do the best job here?

If that isn't the case, and absent that market, then is there any reason to believe Apple is itself currently doing the best job?
How does that help when the google drive link on your NFT goes offline?
USA deciding I can't gamble away my money on line is in the best case socialism and in the worst case dictatorship. All in the name of protecting people from the dangers of gambling if I'm not mistaken, similar to COPPA crap for websites.

Really, this kind of argument is utterly ridiculous, and beneath HN.

If you are utterly clueless about what socialism is then why advertise it like that instead of reading up a bit?
Absolutely with you here. One of my biggest theories for UAP where there’s no human eyeball, or independent visible spectrum photographic equivalents… is good old fashioned “glitch”. In the era of intercordinated multi spectrum AWACS systems I don’t see it as impossible that an errant target in one system could trigger automatic focus/gain controls in other systems even on other vessels or vehicles that could make it look like they too see “something”

It’s not a good explanation for all the weird UAP stories but when I hear about a carrier and patrol aircraft sharing a weird radar signal they all track together as it moves impossibly fast… well I start to question the system that connects them all into an integrated system.

But that’s just outside speculation based on what they described, with the sorts of things they describe it would be really damn nice to see even redacted video or reconstructed sensor displays or something, it’s maddening trying to talk rationally about what is clearly some thing or things that is going on when we’re discussing second or third hand sources and trying to pick apart legit stuff from people making up things for reasons ranging from profit to mental health issues.
Awesome design; not really good background music (IMHO).
I settled with lofi cafe - works well for me as background music for coding and desinging.

https://www.lofi.cafe/
> quite resilient and smart

If "smart" can be the opposite of "dumb", I have seen that for the sake of "resilience" people take shelter in the "dumb" side (so "smart" and "resilient" live also in a counter-relation of hindrance, not just in the happy reciprocal support): so what causes resilience, encouraging the "dumb" phenomenon (akin to the "stupid" in Cipolla), is the highest threat to civilization and society.
I don't think the parking is gonna make much of a difference, as you can just park on the mainland and take one of the very frequent, cheap, and quick trains over the bridge.
I always just asked what people meant. Have been asking inconvenient questions (respectfully) since elementary school. People don’t mind.
HN hates NFTs because of 'self evident' statements like this, it's seen as little more than micro-hype statements to up the value of something seen as useless.

NFTs do not solve this problem, the content has been removed. If you feel they do, feel free to explain how it would have helped in this situation.
Is already build and not paid directly by the city https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSE
For anyone reading this and thinking of planning a trip to Venice in February, be aware that the Carnival often is in February and that's one of the busiest times...
Health is primarily a cultural thing. Lifestyle, diet etc.

US is stark example how over-the-top money shovelled into healthcare may give abysmal results if culture is lacking.

Migrants may be a burden. Denmark recently published a detailed origin-based statistics if migrants are, materially, a positive or negative.

Nobody counts few restaurants as multiculturalism. And once you have significant number of outsiders... Various tensions come up. For example how Russians act in the light of Ukraine-Russia war in ex-USSR. Over here, we also had interesting issues in dealing with pandemics based on ethnicity.
This queue analogy doesn't quite reflect the behavior of queues of development tasks versus queues of customers waiting to get a Bagel.

The Bagel queue is strictly FIFO - while work queues generally operate more like a priority queue. This means that a long queue of development tasks may not actually be all that damaging to the business as many of the the items may be low-priority items and the high-impact items may still have low cycle times.

Also the "specification rot" issue is not always a problem. The priority of a task may not be well known when it arrives in the queue - over time its priority becomes clearer (i.e. it's realised that the feature/task isn't actually very important) so unnecessary work can be saved.

Under-utilization is rarely a problem either. It's not like software engineers will just sit around doing nothing even if the official business-facing work queue is empty. There are always some implicit low-priority tasks which engineers will tackle even if the official business-facing work queue appears empty: refactoring, research, build-system improvements, source-code hygiene, etc.
As a person who doesn't like systemd a lot (yet doesn't hate it either), I find some of the criticisms well founded.

I've written them in the past, so I'll not re-iterate these walls of text, but all in all, systemd had to learn some things over and over just because it disregarded people's warnings about the problems some of these design patterns create.

Being a little agreeable and open to discourse is not a bad thing.

All in all, systemd makes different trade-offs w.r.t. design, and is not radically fast when compared to what's coming before that. Capability wise it made some things easier (not possible), and some things way more harder.

It's just another iteration. Hope he doesn't pulls another "De Icaza", and all goes well for him.

OTOH, I can't trust neither him, nor Microsoft, because I look actions rather than words.

Let's see.
You're thinking of Snaps which are a Canonical thing, RedHat has been heavily into Flatpak.
Thanks! I was familiar with the LattePanda, but was looking for something more powerful. The UP Xtreme looks like it might fit the bill though. It's a shame the NUCs abandoned that form factor, and that the Pico-ITX standard never took off. I just want a SFF PC I can build myself. :)
Using intrinsics is much more sensible option than dropping to inline asm. Each CPU with SIMD or any kind of specialised instructions provides an intrinsics library for C.
I wonder, why doesn't Apple (and MS, Google, ...) throw all their weight into the ring and lobby for making selling exploits commerically a crime? It should be up there with counterfeighting money or selling nuclear secrets. NSO Group should be on sanction lists. Politicians should be ranting about how dangerous it is that foreign companies and countries can spy on US citizens (instead of what they are usually ranting about).

You could wake up one morning, and every billboard in Washington, every newspaper will have ads for this issue. Every representative would be followed around by lobbyists. And Apple could pay it from their coffee money.

Now, I get why we don't crack down harder on selling exploits. First, intelligence agencies love NOBUS (No one but us) exploits and believe something like this exists. Second, it is convenient because sometimes foreign intelligence agencies are used to spy where domesitc agencies are not allowed to; and third the US could probably do little (officially) against companies, say, in Israel.

But this is totally the kind of issue that you could escalate into a bipartisan national security thing. And it would be an incredible marketing, and security win if Apple could push any stricter legislation in that direction.
Looks quite dense to me. Contains cursed triggers:

Imposter syndrome is unintentionally spread via the attempts to contain it, similar to the case of trigger warnings, where anticipating the potentially traumatic effect of some material by issuing a trigger warning can itself be a trigger, triggered by the simple phrase “trigger.” We are paralyzed by an endless series of words and phrases that seek to depotentiate the trauma only to further the trauma, a progression that bears resemblance to the flashbacks and traumatic dreams that caused Freud to question the sovereignty of the pleasure principle. One is interpellated as an imposter––a diagnosis whose history is lost or repressed––that comes to be the opposite of what it was, that comes from nowhere and can never be resolved. The diagnosis is therefore a name, a description, and a curse. To speak it is to try to rid oneself of its effects, to pass it on to another who might neutralize it, stop it in its tracks.

Edit: interpellated: http://www.longwood.edu/staff/mcgeecw/notesoninterpellation....
~Don't~ Repeat Yourself
Wood burning ovens for heating in city area should not be allowed, that is just idiotic. The amount of deaths and health issues that is going to cause is really nasty.
NFTs don't let you include the movie itself as a payload, so they are just a token that gives the owner to a claim to a movie via some external system. In this case, there is no disagreement that the consumer purchased the movie, just a refusal to honor that purchase. An NFT that said you bought a movie is meaningless if the system streaming the movie to you to stops honoring it. It's no different than what is happening here.
Ask HN: Recommend CS topics for non-English, non-technical people?
The aim is not to make them masters in CS, but to give them enough knowledge in layperson's terms so that they are confident about computers and don't think it as magic.

For example, what happens when a user presses a key, how are simple characters displayed on screen, how are colours represented in a computer, how are images displayed, how is a string searched in a text file, how are entries in a spreadsheet column sorted, how computer does binary maths etc.

What topics do you recommend that will be more beneficial to a layperson who is non-technical and do not speak English?
If you suck at architecture, then yes, microservices won't solve that problem. But used properly, like with every other tool, this is one problem that can be solved this way.

The whole idea that you take a monolith and then explode it into 50 or even 100 pieces with all the added complexity that involves without thinking about it beforehand and aiming for specific goals is obviously broken and that's not what I'm advocating for. But when properly used you can design your services in such a way that those problems do not arise. Some eco-systems, notably Erlang have elevated this concept to first class status and from personal experience and looking at some companies that did it properly I can tell you that it works, and that it works very well.
Even without SpaceX you'd be wrong. However, with SpaceX, you're mega wrong. Falcon 9 had already completely changed the cost function to space. Starship, however, is very set to completely turn the industry upside down.
> Don’t try espresso then ;-)

OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH but espresso is so much more enjoyable than Kubernetes :)

> Also FAANG TC.

You mean FAANG expense account
But wouldn't rejecting DRY (in a way) follow another over-rated programming principle called KISS? /s

In all fairness, the best programming principle is: just like with software licenses, know what to use and when.
From my observations, Poettering is not a person who kindly answers his e-mails.