skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who does most reading on an IPad, and was already somewhat reluctant to update: I'm never updating to iOS 16. This along with some other changes have convinced me totally (see, for example, some of the changes listed by
dmitriid)
That’s weird. Didn’t Chrome plan to freeze that already years ago? Did they walk back?
There are cases where people do want to live but are counseled into suicide.
This was really fun to read without know what "obsidian" is and I can happily report that by the time I got to the end I still had no idea what it is.

A ha, found it on another website:

> Obsidian is a Markdown-based note-taking and knowledge base app.

https://help.obsidian.md/How+to/Format+your+notes
> It isn't just that they don't want to "look dumb", but they genuinely don't want to bother a senior engineer. So, paradoxically, the low-effort nature of Slack has actually created barriers to communication in this case.

This doesn't sound new at all. It adequately describes my experience as a junior long ago, back when you had to walk into the senior's private office and interrupt what they were doing.
When a for-profit company pays for your {healthcare, education, prisons} the quality of that service will never be top priority. Profit will. Always.

One only needs to look at how high profits are in those sectors in the USA compared to other OECD countries, and then look at the quality of those services compared to other OECD countries.

Spolier: Americans pay the most, and get the worst.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/us-health...
life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience.

well done.

may an audience manifest around your knowledge of knowledge.
Authorities Helped Erase the Historic Black Cemetery
Not everything has to be a manipulation tactic. I think he was just thinking about how he would respond.
In this view, the pause was most hostile action taken by Jobs towards the person asking the question.

For people who answer like this: what goes through your mind during the pause? Are you counting in your head? Are you planning out your answer? Are you playing the question in your head?
> If you covered all information, no information is left.

JPEG compression causes ringing artifacts that can extend out past the pixels you're trying to redact, up to the next block boundary. This is a problem if what you're trying to redact is already a JPEG, rather than a pristine uncompressed image.
Seems like the implants (hardware design and any software) need to be the equivalent of open source (in the GNU sense).

Failing that, hardware designs, and the software - along with all necessary instructions - at least have to be put in escrow in the event that the company goes under. That would not immediately help, but at least there would be a fighting chance... As in this case to still be able to have someone fix/use the software to calibrate the implant.

This should be standard regulation for approving such implants.

And this can and should be paired with the other suggestions here such as mandatory insurance, etc.

Edited for clarity
Well, at least we can minimize the period when the keys are not ours. If we keep the coins only for a few days on the exchange, it is unlikely that the exchange falters just during that time. But if we keep it for years, it is likely we will lose it eventually.
Marvell's Next $1B Business Is Security – Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
The opposite is also true: when I wasn’t on mute, I was in a meeting and I was talking to my spouse about work-related stuff.
This was a fresh take a decade ago, when altmetrics were all the rage. If this was going to happen, it would have happened by now. The arxiv and the web have existed for decades, "academic Twitter" has been a thing for a decade, and legacy journals are still as powerful as ever.

So-called "high-impact" journals perform a gatekeeping, credentialing, and attention-focusing function that is valued by the institutions of academia. What you and most people on HN probably see as a bug is a feature to them. It is part of why I left, to be honest.
Is privatization a better alternative then? In the US, private hospitals spent years cutting staff so they were entirely unable to deal with Covid numbers.
And FYI if you use Mac, it's built into the OS.
I worked once with a Turkish guy who immigrated to the US. He's a great guy, smart, organized and well spoken. He started his own business in the US a few years after our joint work.

He confided in me once that as a college student in Turkey he had a gig job in Germany over a summer. He said he was treated in such a way that he would never go back.
Where are all the mobile browsers? They usually make up about 50% of traffic.

I've got a feeling you are sourcing this from a website that has a very specific use and a small userbase. It's nice, but it's wrong?
Do you think the government is going to sit atop of a giant pile of patents like a fire-breathing dragon protecting its hoard?

That's what private companies currently do, and by relinquishing them to the government, the public has some say in what happens to them.
If someone makes a lot of comments that others react to, and those comments are pulled, then everyone loses the context of all the subsequent threads. In pulling your comment, you silence everyone who responded to you. It gives uneven power to the person removing their comments.

I'd say this would be a bad thing to allow, and would break more than it fixes.
I have a modest proposal.

We ensure that there are thousands more of them, promote them, and ensure that they are rewarded for denying health care to as many people as possible (after collecting money from the victims).

We'd need to do a bit of branding on the whole thing, of course. We would first want to ensure that they are not medical professionals making these decisions. "Adjusters" has a nice ring to it.

We could build an entire industry out of this. And I think if we did all of that, many people's problems with euthanasia would be ameliorated.
Being counselled to suicide should be ineffective if they want to live, no? This isn’t a 30 hour police interrogation without food, water, or sleep. Options are presented, and in some cases living with the debilitating sickness is worse than suicide. I think if they want to live, it is likely they want to live if the debilitating illness wasn’t there, but given that fact they choose death.
> The metaverse isn’t working yet because it’s putting technological design before function.

I think a little of this is inevitable. You have to date the cruel mistress of physics a little to discern the bounds of what’s realistic before you can really get into function.

But more alarming/concerning to me is that we’ve become entrapped in a perverse local optimum in funding these efforts.

Too often of late it turns into putting some form of surveillance economy over function, prematurely stifling the cycles needed to iterate on function.
> This is not true of the developer. The developer might be able to demand more pay, but they are at the mercy of their upper management to relay that to the owners of the business, who might see more value in exploiting the worker for more profit for them selves.

A typical developer at Google makes $200k-$500k. That was enough for me, I didn't feel exploited, so don't come here and tell me that I should feel exploited, I'm sure that even Marx would agree with me that such a huge salary is fair.
So, for those like me who are interested but don't have the background, could you explain? As I understand logical positivism, I would have expected verificationism to be very closely related.
To me it would be the opposite; we all have our faults, so how do they manage the feats that they do?

There's no point idolizing people for their accomplishments in the "they must be perfect" kind of way.

Ie I look at John and see someone amazingly fit for their age (very close to mine - only a few years older, yet he appears younger); I'd like to learn more about his routines (running and judo?) to see how I might benefit from the same.
You are correct and it looks like I misunderstood my own countries system of government. Thank for the correction :)
This seems like a problem long-term support contracts and medical insurance should be able to make a non-issue. Obviously, if someone undergoes an experimental medical treatment, the company performing the test should bear the responsibility of paying to have it removed should they go out of business or when the trial ends. If for some reason the company is unable to pay for corrective medical treatments, they should be required to have insurance. I'm not sure what the current rules and regulations are when it comes to this sort of stuff, but it really feels like all that's needed is a minor tweak so people do the sorts of things they should have been doing all along: planning financially and medically for the entire lifetime of the implant using the ethical rules and financial instruments we've already invented for dealing with risk and responsibility.
I’m kinda confused.

1. Some apps are open source, why not just send a PR?

2. Most apps are actively developed, why not just send a report?

I’d understand this 20 years ago when updates weren’t frequent, or if software was rarely updated. But patching Firefox in your OS feels completely unnecessary.
Sic is not an abbreviation, placing a full stop/period inside the brackets after the word sic is erroneous.
I tried to read some, but it seemed so annoying and bro try hard that it was more confusing than I assume reading the original text is.

I asked ChatGPT to summarize one of the subjects and I find this much more readable and insightful.

https://imgur.com/S0R40Jh
I edited my post to change the qualifier from "that halts" to "that halts on a given input". Perhaps I should change it to say that you can build a FSM that simulates a machine with a bounded, finite tape. Obviously, such a machine is not a Turing machine because it does not have an infinite tape, the defining characteristic of a TM which allows it to handle arbitrarily-large problems.

To solve a problem without a TM solution already available, you can iteratively rebuild the FSM simulator to handle more and more simulated tape states. Assume the FSM simulates states for a TM with a tape of up to size K. If the FSM tries to write beyond the bounds, you make it transition to a terminal "Out of Bounds" state. To use the FSM on an arbitrary input, you run it until it halts. If it halts in the "Out of Bounds" state, you reconstruct the machine to simulate a larger tape (e.g., 2K or 2^K). Continue until the FSM halts on the input (if ever, this doesn't solve the halting problem).

Regarding the language a^ib^i, an analogous point would be that you can make an FSM that can decide the language up to an arbitrarily large I*.
A rare exception to Betteridge's Law. The article's answer is more yes than no.
Nice article, but there are many errors or typo that makes it hard to follow. (Is it a typo or do I not understand that part)
For example, his use of 'unsafe': why functions that don't take pointer are declared as unsafe? Also taking a pointer of an array shouldn't need unsafe. Is 4 > 8 ? Missing close ']'. And that's just the one I see.

I haven't tried compiling the code example, but I don't think they do.
Probably not but who they chose to license it too might not be in the patients best interest.
Another thing to note is that in modern computing environments there’s infinite distractions. We’re always one click away from YouTube.

Back then, the screen was a playground one could poke and prod—without distraction, with a singular focus. This is especially important for children. Now we’re competing with the nearest iThing.

I always think of the parents who buy their children the latest-and-greatest toys, only to find their child is more interested in the box. Or perhaps a stick and some bugs in the back yard.
> Apple’s using the compatibility system to patch other things/change behaviour for specific system apps. Shouldn’t that be done via, say, method swizzling by the app itself, instead of in the framework?

I can see internal discussions like in any other company, along the lines of: we don't have time or resources or budget to fix our app for the new version of the OS. The framework team does because they have to test and fix third party apps, they fix our app too. Then this becomes normal.
The alternative is the internet would be vastly more saturated with botnets and the accompanying fraudulent they are used for.

I totally get what you are saying though. But kids these day can have way more impact than the bad old days of C64 command line basic. It’s just at a different level of abstraction. And people who want to tinker with the bowels of a device can always run Linux or one of the many microcontrollers on the market. A $5 ESP32 can do way, way more cool shit than my old commodore computer.
Heh, ouch. Hopefully that is a lesson to me in phrase my questions more carefully.

However, I don't think that is quite enough to show that Jevons' paradox has been avoided - you'll find that with the savings from paying less for heating and your car you have a bit more money left over - what happened to it? Because it represents the energy that was freed up. It isn't enough to say "Well I spent less energy on heating and petrol so total energy consumption went down". Maybe you consumed the energy as a capital good, or maybe it just got shunted to someone else to use.

It is really difficult to convince an economy to use less energy without some sort of legal or physical barrier. We'll find that you haven't actually caused a reduction in energy overall once the dust settles - because you haven't done anything to reduce the amount of energy production so it isn't obvious why it would have dropped.
I've dubbed this "theoretical productivity"[1] and also fall into this trap. I keep thinking that just moving to a different app/system with X feature will make this 100x better for me. That goldilocks app/system doesn't exist and is always a moving target. Spending time on solving these problems mean I'm not thinking/writing/completing the things I really want to, hence the "theoretical" nature.

1: There's a good chance this is already a term with a different meaning. If that's the case I don't mean to rip it off, it's just what sounded good at the time.
It seems less like these apps were "buggy" and more like Apple broke backwards compatibility and internally applied some workarounds to make the most popular apps continue working without intervention, while developers of less popular apps were forced to deal with the compatibility breakage themselves.
> You will never know, even after a long conversation, whether the person was real or not!

If you can't tell, why does it matter?
Not everybody needs to run formal FMEA procedures on everything, but if you ship hardware without at least putting it in the fridge for a few hours next to the Jolt Cola and leftover kung pao shrimp, you are tempting fate.
OK, but members of the House are "representatives"; members of the Senate are "senators". So if you're going to regard mushbino's statement as referring to only one side, it has to be referring to the House.
> . I also moved to a city where I can walk or bike for daily tasks so I fill up my (more fuel-efficient) car's gas tank about a quarter as often.

That's not an efficiency gain though, which is to his point.
>A component behaving out of spec due to temperature excursions simply isn't that common nowadays.

You are right. People are commenting here as if the company didn't know what they were doing. I suspect there is more to the story then what has been shared in a tweet. My guess is that the deployment was done in a place with a temperature differential well outside the component specs/tests and so simply was not known/tested for.
I’m surprised to see a couple of Panic’s and Omnigroup’s apps on the list. I’ve always looked at those two companies as the favored children of Apple Development. The kind of folks that stay up late to be the first to release updated apps for the new OS.

Granted, this list is a couple of years old…
That sounds like a world in which everyone ends up worse off. Maybe it’s more equal, but I value standard of living and opportunity more than equal outcomes.
Verified...this is very nifty indeed! Thank you for sharing, now I can finally remove my AdBlock extension as it kept polluting my dev console with browser-polyfill errors ;)
>> "Fuck the poor."
> You said that, not me.

The only effective way to "vote" in the Bitcoin world is to mine. The only way to mine is to be wealthy, as I've established here. The only way to be wealthy is to not be poor. Otherwise, you're just sending a letter to the lords to maybe adjust how the system works. Just being a vendor that accepts Bitcoin is the same as just taking USD and hoping the Federal Reserve moves in your interests. You're exerting the same controls overall. In the end, some outside group you have little to no control over has influence in the Monopoly bucks you're trading in. Just in one case, its the miners/exchanges (global markets for BTC). In the other, the Federal Reserve/US Government/the global market for dollars.

Otherwise, making a lemonade stand or making a facebook post is the same as the right to vote in the United States.

If I'm wrong about how providing services in BTC is different in terms of providing services in USD as an example of exerting democratic forces in the currency feel free to share. I'm definitely down for more examination in the topic, but from what I see so far it doesn't seem like Bitcoin is democratic or disconnected from large capital interests than USD in the end.

At least with USD there's some loosely disconnected system from the people I vote for to the people actually appointed to the levers, in BTC its just the people who managed to buy the good mining hardware a few years ago or who manages to find a more efficient way to compute SHA hashes next year.
Do you have any evidence this article has factual errors or are you just slandering the author?
My searches routinely would require searches over GBs of data …
How to Kill Creativity (1998)
Half-serious take: My bet is on a deliberate attempt to throw off any attempts to match their writing style to their OG account via AI.
> at worst nonsensical (always_inline with noinline?!)

I think this is actually great support for their thesis. If you came across actual code that looked like that (and god knows it probably exists if it's legal), who fucking knows what the compiler would do?

My question is: why is it even legal to mark functions with both of these, in addition to the `inline` keyword? My guess is the C++ spec says something along the lines of "you can mark functions with as many attributes as you want .. something .. something .." ie compiler vendors get no choice but to (at best) emit a warning.
The Vercel $20 plan comes with a million edge function invocations. Are they really that expensive at scale vs all the maintenance you have to do for a traditional backend?
Domain registrars changing the price in the cart
Namecheap changes the price after adding it to the cart
> no one calls that “chucking” where I’m from at least

not disagreeing in substance, but a couple of quibbles: that absolutely does qualify as chucking--it's the way woodchucks chuck--but it does not qualify as chucking at someone; so as an underhand toss, it wasn't underhanded
Fast food price index across the US
"Crypto" is not a single entity! What hasn't figured this out yet is crypto markets, collectively — which were rewarding projects based on hype, not value provided to users. But there are some cases where people are building with real users in mind. Arweave and Uniswap come to mind.
And honestly there are way cooler “raw hardware” things out there now that you can tinker with. ESP32 or even an Arduino can run circles around a C64 as far things you can do… (at least I can think of… who knows what my life would be like growing up around $5 microcontrollers with easy to use IO and whatnot…)
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Sure, but you could create physical models, rotate those physical models on top of the video, and see if certain faces are a better match. Obviously it helps if there's more pixels and it doesn't need to be proof in a court of law to be useful in some way, or at the very least an interesting experiment. Maybe another algorithm could do the trick. It does seem like a lot of information about a face is leaked when you have multiple samples, a moving grid sampling different parts of the face, etc. I mean, just by watching certain pixels get extra dark when they pass over parts of the face you can figure out approximately where the eyes are. That's probably enough to narrow down a large pool of suspects to a small one.
Browsers still have weird behavior cases that aren't covered by feature detection. Here's an example from this year where I needed to change behavior based on the browser.

We have a single-page app with lots of dynamically created elements. We discovered a case where Chrome kept input focus on an element that was deleted and recreated, while Firefox didn't, resulting in different behavior if the user pressed Enter next after clicking on that element. (I don't know which of those is the bug, if either. We wanted the Firefox behavior so I hacked in a .blur() in the event handler for Chrome.)
> Please don't dismiss that these circumstances exist altogether and don't shift the "blame" exclusively on the people who already have their lives be needlessly hard, this isn't likely to encourage a positive outlook.

Au contraire, OP was blaming engineers with a "holier than thou" attitude. That exact attitude is the kind of thing that leads to the dysfunctional environments that you speak of.

Should SWE consider SRE at design time? Absolutely.
Should SRE consider SWE at design time? Absolutely.
Anyone organized enough to leverage such a system doesn’t need it!
Taken to a logical extreme, the underlying premise of this article is that MAID should only be available to the wealthy.

People with disabilities and/or grievous suffering from illness(es) tend to be depressed, especially when finances and supports are lacking.

If we restrict MAID to the wealthy without mental conditions, we end up prolonging the suffering of many people.
Author of the article: "I admit that I was intentionally going for misleading clickbait headline.... I'm not a macOS developer (I've only done a bit of iOS)" https://twitter.com/zhuowei/status/998384740787896320

What actually happens is this: Apple works in secret on the next version of macOS. Apple makes changes in the next version of macOS that break an app on the internal list of "do not break" apps. But Apple can't tell the app developer about this, because the changes in the next version of macOS are secret. So Apple goes ahead and patches the apps to maintain compatibility. In fact, Apple is so secretive that it may never tell the app developer that their app has been patched by the system frameworks, much to the frustration of the app developers themselves.
I beg your pardon?

Re-election rates for incumbents in the US Congress are very high [0]. In the House, they haven't dropped below 80% for at least 60 years. The Senate is slightly less stable, but still way above 60% ever since Reagan was elected.

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/reelection-ra...
There’s certainly been a technological improvement in which increasing numbers of people have access to the internet and smart phones, with an explosion of information, communication and entertainment.