skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. In acquiring NeXT, Apple bought leadership and culture. And we can argue forever if Apple’s engineers could have shipped the first OSX release earlier or in a better state, had they instead acquired Be. But I doubt it. Because - again - they bought themselves a high-performance culture, which they might not have gotten from Be. Porting BeOS to Apple hardware / existing software would have likely required an equally Herculean effort.

Oh and they got Steve Jobs of course who made quick work of pushing out the old Apple leadership. And good that he did.
How is it turning out as to be expected? He's being prosecuted and faces a very severe sentence if convicted.
How did OpenAI train ChatGPT to be so (cloyingly) wholesome?
For anyone who's interacted at all with ChatGPT you will notice it always has a very wholesome message. Here someone asked it to write about rotten milk:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/ztpqsw/didnt_expect_to_cry_at_a_poem_about_rotten_milk/

and it ends on the note "friendships, love and trust can too, be forgot / So let us be careful, in all that we do / To not let the milk of life turn rotten too."

This is the end of a poem about rotten milk.

How did OpenAI train ChatGPT to be so cloyingly wholesome in all its responses, always bringing it back to a positive message?
I'm not going to say your complaints are invalid, but you're setting a very high bar, one that no mainstream OS clears today. I've had similar and much worse problems on all the big three platforms.
Not much violates bodily autonomy as badly as military conscription.

The tough thing about principle arguments is that they're like trains, not taxis. You're stuck with them until their conclusions. You don't just get to choose where you want them to go.
Some are really portable - I used to travel with a crown graphic, which folds down small and light. You can do tilt shift with - it’s only in one axis but that’s plenty, as the camera is light enough you can rotate it.

The heavy bit was all the dark slides and film.
The bored nurse death doesn't result in emotional trauma for some random kid that finds your rotting corpse.
It is, unfortunately. Some of it is how many other cookies you have and some of it is just not being Chrome on Windows or Safari on macOS. You get used to it...
> "why would you ever use this and not Linux?"

That seems to be a legitimate question, not a dart nor a criticism by any means.
> It's probably terrible on unsupported hardware. Having used Linux-compatible hardware for a while now though, neither of these are an issue.

Even on supported hardware there are often tons of snags. You either get a ‘blessed’ device (XPS, some Lenovos, System76, Framework) or trouble lurks. And note that many many more devices are considered ‘supported’!

> ...because Spotify migrated it's shortcuts to the more technically-correct MPRIS implementation. If you want shortcuts, set them globally and Spotify will respect it.

And yet most of the other shortcuts work fine. I also don’t want global player control, because it always ends up activating on the program I don’t want it to.

I also don’t want to have to configure shortcuts manually. They should work out of the box.

Imagine how laughable it would be if Davinci or Darktable or Krita asked you to set all shortcuts yourself.

> Good thing all of those programs are natively packaged for most distros, then.

And yet they nearly always have rough edges the other platforms don’t seem to have. See my Dropbox problem. Or Discord running on such an old Electron that it creates problems with Wayland. No, Webcord isn’t a solution as it is missing a bunch of features and in maintenance mode.

> but it makes me sad listening to software developers level outdated complaints against the ecosystem

I’m getting so irate because they’re not outdated problems. You’re plugging your ears and going
‘la la la la’ thinking that if you don’t acknowledge the problems a lot of others are having, they don’t exist.
I'm still trying to make my way through the preprint :-)

EDIT: According to https://ml-jku.github.io/hopfield-layers/#update , attention is the update rule for an (iterative) "dense associate memory," even though in practice it seems that one update works really, really well for attention if you train it with SGD.
>Conclusions: For adults with no known gait disorder who average approximately 5000 steps/day, exchanging about 22%-34% of their daily steps with higher energy, low efficiency walking in Teabag style—requiring around 12-19 min—could increase daily EE by 100 kcal.

I love science.
> 'Reality has a well-known liberal bias'

In related news, Facebook just prompted me after not logging in for years if I wanted to change my gender to one of around 50+ choices. What an odd reality we live in...
You do know you're welcome to simply not use Wikipedia. You can even use it and not donate anything. Their "begging" is "tolerated" because it's their site and they are entitled to post anything they like on it.
Sure - if you give a 3rd party application API access using your account, they can see whatever your friends have made available to you.

This is as if my friends sued Facebook because I gave you my password and you used it to snoop on them.
Most programming language package maintainers are hobbists new in their career with no idea what they are doing when it comes to security, or worse, actively malicious.

See the dozens of serious supply chain attacks or massive security oversights in recent years. The overwhelming majority of code in open source is not reviewed by anyone.
To be completely honest? WordPress. It will cost you around $70 to buy a theme that looks 80% of the way there and all you have to do is change the placeholder images and text. And the same goes for plugins, for this kind of a "basic" project every single plugin you need is going to be free.

I don't know it's worth spending your own time trying to create something custom or mess around with website builders because in the end it will cost a lot more than that $70 for a premium theme.

That said, it will be a few hours (2 or 3 maybe?) to set everything up.

But that's just my opinion.
Flowchart says, "Did any user ask for this?"

Even with an entire top-down team dedicated to serving the user and not corporate interests (which would be all but impossible, except in the world of open source), you'll always have a few stray users asking for features that not everybody wants, and there will be perpetual arguments about which features would benefit most users.

At the end of the day, the problem isn't that software is user-hostile, or written for engineers or corporate surveillance, but that nobody will ever agree 100% on what features should go into any piece of software.
Usually restful services are behind a loadbalancer/reverse proxy. This proxy could also handle things like security, logging, cache invalidation (the service behind the proxy) and service registration (other downstream services).

Marking APIs as immutable/up or down (for rollback) state migrations etc. Is really important from a platform perspective, so it also makes sense for APIs to have a cache hook as well.

The proxy can then manage the platform state wrt change propagation.
Semantic Web 3.0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
Also a happy NNW user. I'd been using Feedbin, which is also good, but since I'm a Mac and iOS user, I switched to using NNW with iCloud syncing, which has been working great. It's so nice to have fully-native apps!
What great wisdom. Thanks for sharing.
The code for the site is here: https://github.com/hooopo/hackernews-insight

Sadly no in depth write up.
With great pleasure I contributed to this fantastic project! Simple and functional!
If someone have pleasure, can try also the p2p - sfu - c2c versions of mirotalk: https://github.com/miroslavpejic85
A happy weekend to everyone and a merry Christmas!
Using "bad faith" like this destroys any and all meaning in the phrase. It also directly violates the hacker news guide lines.
Free-for-all in terms of toolkit and application mix, yes, but that's actually the "lesser" problem of the Linux desktop. Ideally we would have all-native applications, but not even macOS can really manage that.

The X11 and Wayland compatibility layers are very different than XQuartz macOS or the Wayland-based WSL GUI are, they are much more tightly integrated into Haiku. While you are still going to notice some seams here and there, overall the experience is much more like a "full port" than most other OSes have on this point.

More to the point, all ported applications are still running on top of Haiku's kernel, Haiku's window manager / display server, Haiku's media services, Haiku's init system, Haiku's package manager, etc. On Linux, all those things come from separate projects, and some of them can even be swapped out within a Linux distribution, never mind between distributions. Not so on Haiku.
I disagree. I flew out to a professional society meeting a few months ago (i.e. high triple digits number of people converging on the convention center) and the airport taxi stand was packed. The line was moving very quickly. I'd estimate probably ten passengers being picked up every minute, but well over 100 people in line, which meant there was still a decent wait. The ride share pickup area was almost completely empty, with maybe one car stopping every two to three minutes. People were willing to wait 20 minutes in the cold, squeeze into a cab with two to three strangers, and put up with the extra stops/dropoffs because the of the price difference (Uber was charging something like 2.5x the airport taxi flat rate that night).

If algorithmic pricing is a "feature" that incentivizes more drivers to get on the street, why were the airport taxis operating on a fixed pricing model moving so many more people in a surge situation?

Uber/Lyft want to call surge pricing a "feature" but the reality is that (like many other companies in this tech bubble) they have been so irresponsible with staff bloat and overhead that switching to a premium pricing model whenever the opportunity arises is the only way they can keep the balance sheet near even.
Seriously curious -- what "career" growth do people imagine? Apart from learning new things (which that employee can still do), what would he be looking for? Managing people? More power? Different position on a business card?
That's not the case in many places (including prestigious universities - and due to their research orientation, perhaps it happens more, the more prestigious it is).

It is virtually impossible to get into a teaching position post-doctorate in the US if you have not been teaching as a doctoral candidate. I have taught in Unis where there was an entire team of doctoral candidates (and a couple master's candidates) teaching a big chunk of the classes offered to undergrads - not as assistants, just as the listed "professor".

I have also followed open courses online where the "Prof" gives two or three classes in the semester, and the "assistant" teaches the rest.

As far as I know and have experienced, what you are describing is less true every year.
I don't want to not kill you.

I don't want to safely dispose of this industrial waste because that is too expensive and time consuming.

I don't want to feed my children.

I don't want to drive the speed limit.

I don't want to pay for that.

I don't want limit my amplifier's output to 1500 watts on the amateur radio bands. (edit: 500 watts on HF in France!)

I don't want to provide the good or service I have been paid for and I don't want to return the money.

I don't want to add to this list anymore....
It's not exactly for that reason. The insurance companies don't want to be liable for a future similar incident, so they are pushing future liability onto hotels that don't do a million things to guard against the last incident from recurring. Then, the hotels put these checks in place, so the insurers won't push liablity costs onto them.

I guess it could be called a decrepit spiral of associative risk management.
Do you have more information on this approach? Sounds very interesting. I've read and toyed a little with things like Lean and I'm interested in that field but the barrier seems a bit high (without pre-existing knowledge) to just "input" a theorem and toy with it.
Sounds like we need a Ministry of Truth to make sure we aren't exposed to wrongthink.
In Switzerland we literally have ads hanging in trams for assisted suicide like for the organisation called Exit.

Some people are not too happy about it being advertised like that in public [1] since it really is only for people that are suffering or at the end of their life.

However assisted suicide is considered a "basic" right and that will not change.

[1] https://www.20min.ch/story/exit-wirbt-im-berner-tram-fuer-fr...
Whether the government of France has the right to draft you is completely up to the government of France to decide, and they can change their mind at any time. At best you can be comforted in knowing that your bodily autonomy is being voted on in a general election so that a law is passed.

That's all it takes.
I understand that assisted suicide is inaccurate, but assisted dying sounds like a too broadly applicable euphemism. We might say we assist criminals on death row with dying, for instance. However, a euphemism is necessary in these circumstances because the obvious non-euphemistic way of expressing it is "killing the patient' or maybe the more gentle "consensual execution."
Halfway through this, I was thinking, "Man, this guy really sounds like JPII. Wonder if he knows..."
Since the article says it's using a different company's product, I wonder if it's just a matter asking them to design a unique casing and slapping the Tesla name on it, for a little license fee. So most of the profits would go to the original manufacturer.

Somewhat similar to this famous guy who would license his name to building projects: Trump.
Arbitrary in the sense of non-essential things that governments spend other people’s money on.

The fact that most people don’t agree is why tax is taken by force.
Thats the point. It's not user data, and the data cannot be manipulated on the user side without excessive hardware, software, and troubleshooting skills.

Taking that scientific data and making it available in report format for those which need it that way, when the underlying data changes at a minimum once per day, is the more important aspect.

The API is currently returning queries in about 0.1 to 0.2s. They are handled async right the way through. It's fast, efficient, and the end result whilst very early in the piece is looking nice. Early user engagement has been overwhelmingly positive.
[x] Set as Urgent

Having a verb helps.

Here'a blog post with more examples, and tips for checkboxes.

https://blog.uidrafter.com/guidelines-for-checkboxes
I've spoken to some of the developers. There's a community of admiration and integrity that is really solid. You get the strong feeling that they enjoy each other and that's what drives them. It was obvious to me why it was still going after talking to a few people.
Reinforcement learning combined with real humans adjusting the model's output. It's not just a bunch of text they gathered being mashed together by AI. There's an extremely strong human touch to this model.
With Enpass App you don’t have to worry about it being hacked, because your data isn’t on their servers.
> People should be able to go as they wish, it's bodily autonomy.

Your right to "go how you wish" ends when it impacts others. For example, if you jump off a building there's a good chance you could kill a person you land on.

Then there's emotional trama. If you feed yourself to the lions at the zoo, you've harmed the onlookers and likely given people/children PTSD.
> The Star Wars sequel series (episodes 7, 8, 9) come to mind. I think the majority of complaints came about because they dared to do something new to Star Wars.

(Warning, Star Wars rant follows)

Interesting to hear this direction of criticism.

My personal impression from watching The Force Awakens was the opposite: It felt like the movies where at the same time obligated to continue the story of the original trilogy (due to them being sequels) but at the same time not allowed to introduce any substantial new ideas.

That led to a very strange kind of "rhyming" history which really strained my suspension of disbelief:

Even though the Empire had been defeated and the Death Star blown up (twice), 20 years later somehow nothing noteworthy has happened except that a new Empire has sprung up - which looks and behaves exactly like the old one, has its own copies of Darth Vader and Darth Sidious and somehow can't think of anything better than building a third Death Star - which is promptly blown up again!

Same on the side of the good guys as well: Last time we saw them they were celebrating victory with flying colours, having freed the galaxy from the grip of evil, ready to usher in an exciting era of a nascent new galactic republic.

But sure, let's skip all that and fast-forward to a point where the good guys somehow ended up again as the scrappy underdogs, fighting against an overwhelming enemy. Nevermind even explaining what went wrong.

If the heroes do everything right, archive full victory - and still end up in the exact same place as they had started, I can't help but feel dreadful.

I'm sure the restrictions here didn't really have to do with canon: They were sequels, so strictly speaking there was no canon to respect, and the Extended Universe canon that did exist actually was a lot more daring and interesting than what the movie attempted. So my guess here is that the restrictive approach came from the producers who didn't want to risk their investment by trying out anything new.
If all software were free as in speech.
>Many popular group video call solutions are end-to-end encrypted these days, so there isn't any re-encoding happening.

What format do you think an end2end encrypted video comes in over the wire?
Interesting that Starlink went from "we'll only operate in countries that have given us permission" to "we will operate in a manner that best pleases western governments" rather quickly. The earlier pledge of neutrality was based on the belief that Starlink is very vulnerable to attack and makes a good target should it be used as an arm of the "rules based international community" which is a self-anointed group.

In the case of Iran, that country probably doesn't have the ability to do much harm to Starlink, but it sends a message to countries who have the ability to Kessler the whole thing out of existence that Starlink will be used as a policy tool of the West.
Your comment glosses over that the API that allowed users to share other user's private data.
A great resource for optimization with decision diagrams is the website by Willem-Jan van Hoeve from Carnegie Mellon [1].

They go beyond binary (the M in MDD stands for multi-valued) and they derive primal heuristics and relaxations from cropped/merged diagrams of bounded size.

[1] https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/vanhoeve/mdd/
If you want to get technical then programming is also math, provably so.
Was interested in a source for this as well. The last two sections of the article on the Flynn Effect was the best primer on this claim I could find:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
WLED has sound reactive plugins for built-in effects. Looks like there's some new stuff in .14 for this as well -- but I haven't followed closely.

Or if you wanted to externalise it completely - it supports DDP/E1.31 -- you could generate the required effect externally - and just send the commands over the network. That should do 40 updates per second for 300 pixels. Ideally send it over ethernet - but you could probably pull it off over a good wifi network.
That's fine if you're talking about the right for individual doctors to not help someone with something, but if the default course of events would have been "someone helping someone do something", banning that help is, in your own words, forcing them. While I personally think suicide is a terrible answer for almost literally anything, I respect others don't feel the same way and might seek assisted suicide.

In fact it sounds like, and forgive me if I assume incorrectly, your argument is meant to be opposed to assisted suicide, but I would use the exact same argument in favor of it, all forms of recreational drugs, (ethically produced) porn, and other such things that harm no one except potentially the person making the decision. Obviously there's a lot of grey area there but we don't need to get super pedantic.
That might be true but the infotainment is a major factor in how people perceive the car.
Does that imply there will soon be Tesla steaks?
This is pretty good, I am surprised I never saw this project before. I was super impressed with the real-time activity widget on the homepage and just as impressed that they actually have a write-up on it assuming people will want to know.

I've yet to dive into this fully but I see a lot of potential for ideas and inspiration, so thanks for sharing.
Tesla doesn't have a marketing department so learning about Tesla's happens through Musk on Twitter. Imagine going to a dealership and the sales person proceeds to talk about Trump and how the election was stolen -- and then you realize it's actually the CEO!

It would turn me off. The experience wouldn't be very good. I would feel these people might not have the brain power to build the car correctly.
libc has a few interfaces with implicit global storage. This leads to lack of thread safety and other issues. A good library will let the caller provide storage for these cases, or provide the caller a handle with which to pass it later/free it.

A trivial example would be strtok vs strtok_r. There are some, like, say, asctime(), that operate against a global string buffer.

Sometimes interfaces "look like" they're returning a global buffer, for example readdir(), but that structure can hang off the DIR* struct ... Nonetheless there is readdir_r()
Sometimes it is, and you can see elsewhere I've given real answers to that question.

But sometimes my criticisms of Linux are because, well, they are a real and genuine motivation for why I gave up on desktop Linux and devoted even more time to Haiku. It's not as if my criticisms are anything new, there's pages upon pages where Linux users and developers say similar things. I "throw such darts" here to make it clear how Haiku stands in contrast.
The Facebook API used by the app was never open. Additionally, "Facebook required app developers to sign agreements promising to abide by privacy restrictions attached to user data they received through Facebook APIs"¹. The problem is that Facebook never did an adequate job of auditing or enforcing that.

Also, even if you somehow believe that users knowingly consented to share the amount of data that they did, they definitely did not consent to data traitor Aleksandr Kogan selling their personal knowledge graphs to Cambridge Analytica.

¹ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/facebooks-cambri...
It's one of the best examples of technical writing in the field. A good introduction to the basics of the language. Read it for culture.

Read something else for safe C writing in a modern environment. Books like Modern C and Effective C are good starts.
The idea that the "Lisp programmers" are somehow adverse to mathematics is historically untenable. Macsyma was written in Lisp. And Macsyma was one of - if not THE most important application for the Symbolic Lisp machines (the ancestor of all later Lisp machines). Many later systems (Maple, Mathematica, ...) were written by people who would consider themselves belonging to the Lisp crowd. For example all of those systems had automatic memory management with garbage collection, most had closures/lambdas, etc.
Netvibes, I've been using it continuously since at least 2008: https://www.netvibes.com