skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sure everyone is entitled to their vice, but should we provide healthcare to people that are consciously, actively destroying their own health? Should we treat lung cancer in smokers? Should we treat diseases in anti-vaccers?

I think you are right that some people do take it too far. But from what I've seen a lot of people who do end up chain smoking or overeating processed foods daily have other underlying health-conditions. For example with smoking a lot of ADHD sufferers who are undiagnosed might self medicate with nicotine as it is a stimulant. Some might also have working memory issues and struggle with self control.

Ultimately most individual choices have a societal aspect to them, a lot can be tackled by education, early diagnosis and choice architecture
Ah memories. This was rampant in the late 00's. Soldering a physical switch on the ethernet cable to cut the internet at the most tactical times...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5gE-ihY_EG0
FWIW, the original write-up from TALOS team in Cisco, which is dated a week earlier than this post (10th August 2022): https://blog.talosintelligence.com/recent-cyber-attack/

Disclaimer: I am a Cisco employee.
I first saw that idea mentioned in a (deleted) 2010 StackOverflow thread [1].

[1] http://archive.today/EeAw7
I have never found a job that maximises the fun parts of being a software developer. To my mind, anything but programming is what you're being paid to do - nobody wants to do that and it sucks. The programming itself is the art, the fun. You hope it makes up for your colleagues and possibly the incredibly unethical company you work for.

After I've written this I realise it sounds super depressing. I would honestly not mind if there was an answer to this :)
We're in 2023 so my question is : what happened to this since then ? It should be mainstream by now.
You do need an Apple account to use the App Store on macOS, unlike on Windows. With the App Store being the only place to download XCode, which in turn is required to use all the good stuff like Homebrew, the result for me and probably most people on HN is roughly the same.

Also, the macOS system preferences nag the user until iCloud is activated.
I guess this Economist article can be read in relation to this very recent quote made by Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party in the UK: "The NHS must reform to survive" [1], where "reform" of course that means more privatisation. If you look at it through that prism you can better understand how come some people have started talking about "productivity" when it comes to the health system.

The peace dividend dying off also doesn't help, you've got to get the a lot more money for the military from somewhere, so it's either from education or healthcare (or from both).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64279654
‘The Last of Us’ zombie fungus is real, and it’s found in health supplements
One reason is air corridors aren't so well defined as railways.
I believe most of these icons are embedded in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll file.

Also check out C:\WINDOWS\system32\moricons.dll for even older icons.
Just a note, HN edits out "why", "how" and the like from the start of submitted titles as they are usual indicators of a clickbite title.
Well that is extremely odd, would you agree?
I have zero compassion for attempts to push the ball down this spectrum. If you miss configured your server the answer isnt criminalizing more and more stuff. Its fixing your server config and access policy. Your configuration, your problem. There is nobody else to blame once you know its leaking.
One thing would be that humans are (usually) not able to reproduce the work of others to the same degree of accuracy and speed as ML models.
Been thinking about something like this but in the end I don't want trouble of additional device to take care of.

Tried couple of off-line music players for iOS, but was not really happy with the experience so far.

Is anyone using an offline mp3/flac player app for iOS (ideally both iPhone and iPad and supporting Apple Watch) where I can upload files (ideally from my NAS)? Paid app is fine, but subscription is not.
Fortunately more cities are starting to experiment with car-free zones, and they are making shared or subscription bikes (e-bikes often, at least in hilly places) more common. People in those areas report being much happier, and actual communities seem to begin to form as there are more people crossing each others' paths on a regular basis.
Disagree, unless we're including Rust's unsafe. Excluding that, you need to understand what the Rust compiler is able to prove is safe. In C++, you "just" need to prove to yourself that it's safe. It's a very different experience writing code.
I thought mean time between failure was a very common term, apologies.
If the current clinical trials find potential negative consequences, that hardly helps the people who already took the vaccines, many who were pressured against their will.

If skepticism is warranted, then it's wrong to be pressured to go through with a health procedure.
It's really scary and I struggle to understand what is wrong with just

const size_t SIZEOFUINT64 = sizeof (uint64_t);
and you can edit it back in if it's important for the title
TF is being abandoned for JAX in many cases, most of the new things I see coming up in ML are done in JAX an Pytorch stays strong. It doesn't help that the TF docs are a catastrophe.
Enterprise software isn't middling, it's usually only barely functional and falls just short of what it should do (i.e. it's shit). Everyone is just so pathologically used to it they think it can't be better. Probably due to the allergy to risk that you mentioned. Ironically risk is eliminated, but in doing so you've just ensured you have consistent problems that can never get better.
> Let’s call this the Corrupt Conspiracy Model of how Washington functions (or dysfunctions). It is a model that can be powerfully convincing, because it taps into the truth that people really are naturally flawed and self-interested creatures, demonstrably prone to corruption. From this viewpoint, Washington politics is all basically a con game led by a pack of greedy psychopaths.

Assuming the above is true, in this formulation every country will be full of self-serving psychopaths who invade other countries. So we're back to the simple question: Shouldn't you evaluate polities based on whether they demonstrated goodwill and inclusion toward their own citizenry, and toward the people whose lands they were occupying? Based on those (granted, medieval) criteria, which world powers are currently oppressing and murdering foreign citizens? Also, which of those countries retain a functional democratic system that might allow people to stop an unjust war undertaken by their regime? For even if Russians wanted to stop the war, they could not; nor could they even protest without fear of arrest. As an American I can get out and protest as much as I like, and in some cases, effect (yes, effect) change, such as pushing and voting for my government to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. (granted; could've been handled better). Russians can't vote* against war, nor can "citizens" or what we would call slaves of the Chinese communist regime; so to what are they comparing America when judging our war footing? If we're not ready to go to war, the world is finished; there is no nice or safe place to go if America falls.
But what then?
Python is the only language everyone can agree on.
I'd love to code in Julia, and I'd happily use something like Rust. But realistically? Everyone does Python, and getting Python code out of critical path's is less effort than trying to get everyone to write Rust.

I mean, Apple is trying to force people to code ML in Swift and I don't think I have ever even seen anyone in this space who even knows what Swift is. I mean, they provided all this nice ML framework to run stuff on M1+, and all everyone was asking: "Yeah but how do we do this from PyTorch?"
Is this like Lunchclub? https://lunchclub.com/
> Is there a streaming service in existence that doesn't offer offline playback?

Youtube Music :^]
By bells and whistles, do you mean smart pointers that have been around for decades and destructors?

I have a codebase that I ported from C# to C++ and found a few bugs where the items were copied instead of moved. In C# this was completely invisible since I "trusted" the compiler to do it properly - it did it wrong according to my wishes but right compared to the language.

By contrast in C++ it was very visible when the ownership was shared and wrong. I would rather use C++ because of this rather than trusting the compiler to get it right.

The same was true on generics/templates for a function/parameter system I'd written. The C# compiler resolved to the wrong function every single time but in C++ it resolved correctly.

I suspect there are plenty of subtleties in "safe" languages that actually muddy concepts of owernship and/or needless copying and lifetimes.
By the time you've predicted a collision it's too late to react.

There's no advantage having a predictive tool over a binary "runway clear/not clear"
Here's a wild guess: it probably makes no economical sense in the current context
I agree with your last point, but most people have no practical need to learn high-level math. We struggle globally with even basic education rates, and programming definitely isn't for everyone.

What is needed are higher-level abstractions over ML principles that make ML more accessible for people who are interested in programming, but lack the math background to be productive. This doesn't necessarily mean that the lower-level details should be entirely hidden, but that the tools are friendly enough for beginners to easily pick up, and flexible enough for advanced users to tweak to their needs.
Have you actually been inside many warehouses or factories? I don't think I've ever seen one that was as clean or visually attractive as the areas that customers were meant to see. You're right that they're (usually) not filthy to the point that it impedes operations, but it's quite correct that customers don't care about how the warehouse looks like as long as the goods arrive on time. Same for restaurant kitchens, bakeries, metal workshops and a host of other production facilities. The only production facility I've ever seen that was "clean" was the assembly area of a medical instruments producer (it was a literal clean room with suits and everything), but even their warehouse did not look attractive. Their customers were quite happy though, the company was growing fast.

Most programmers imagine other industries to be better because they only see the customer facing parts, but that is like judging the state of a codebase by how nice the landing page is styled. Penny-pinching managers exist in all industries.
I've been using Vinyl for years and have no complaints: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.poupa.vinylmusicplayer/
They do not point to each other. M. Haddad's previous post point to The Verge. The post that I hyperlinked to came afterwards, and The Verge points to it. It does not point to anything.
One huge difference is scale and effort, which have much larger implications than whether something is “learning”. When a human learns a work of art, it is a single human that took weeks, months, or even years to accomplish a similar work. Only that single human is incremental to the market for that product. Furthermore, that human can improve upon or create an entirely new field or style of work.

With machines, this process is replicated instantly and becomes pervasive, resulting in elimination of many humans performing the work. This can destroy the potential creativity that was possible from the replaced humans within that specific trade. The machine learning of today is stupid and simple with no creativity, only copies or amalgamations of existing works. The end result is the death of progress within that trade and potentially stagnation of the human race as it perfects the use of the tools (e.g. prompt engineers, glorified button pressers) and ceases to move things forward.
You'll cry but, to listen to your sorrow and offer friendly support, ChatGPT will be there for you !
Using Psychedelics for Grief | NYTimes on Prince Harry
Deriving any lessons or insights on the global state of health by looking at a single country doesn't work. Especially if said country is the US...
You say that accessing restricted government resources is prohibited, but even this restriction has caveats. Famously, (New York Times Co v. United States) the federal government could not stop newspapers publishing stories based on classified documents they had obtained.
Although for SQLite in particular, you can do streaming incremental backups with Litestream: https://litestream.io/
Why is it an issue for eBay to ban it when there's already a list of prohibited categories of items?

It's easy enough to download a copy of it if you're interested in banned items.
> I don't think any company/management in their right mind would constantly reject "good" ideas that ultimately result in more revenue.

This happens extremely frequently and is in fact entirely normal.
It is horrific, it practically institutionalises begging, with some good old paternalistic undertones for good measure.
They have to call the controller and explain what went wrong. They'll then have to chat to their chief pilot over tea and biscuits minus the tea and biscuits. If they're honest, I doubt anything will come of it, even if they were violating some other regulation.
I'm not saying don't point out inaccuracies, I'm saying there are less combative ways of doing that than 'here is a list of the named fallacies in your argument'.
What I meant was that we don't adopt a feature just because some other language has it, let alone from languages that don't have the same philosophy as we do of trying to have as few features as we can get away with. Records are overall more valuable than properties (due to various reasons, from serialization to interaction with collections). But once you have records with "withers" the question becomes how valuable is it to also have properties. It doesn't seem like it would be helpful enough to overcome the drawbacks.

BTW, C# didn't add properties as a "lesson." Properties in C# and JavaBeans have the same pedigree: RAD UI composer tools of the 90s [1]. They came to C# by way of VB. So really, Java would be adopting a VB solution, and there needs to be a good reason for that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development
Yes living below your means is a key to happiness. Too many people end up pushing what they can afford without planning for tougher times.

I think one of the biggest positive impacts on me was my parents deciding to raise me until 16 in a developing country. They had a middle class income, but my country of origin they could afford to put me in the best schools and pay for plenty of out of school activity. That changed my mindset of what was possible. By the time I came back to Europe, I went to a free school, but performed much better than my peers, I believe mostly due to my own expectations for my future.
Malware from where?

If you're legally buying music, not there.
All the apps for mauic playback, streaming, etc. come from the Google Play Store, and there are very few that someone who buys one of these would need anyway.

I'd venture many of these will spend most of their existence with wi-fi turned off, as it's a battery hog.
I'd add the 2008 financial crisis, and the war in Ukraine.
Normally I don't comment on typos, but RIAA instead of RAII is a pretty funny one.
Obligatory reminder of the human angle here: we need also a way for untrusted code to not be able to nag the user into granting them extra permissions.
Lightweight fuzzy and highlighted search with leeoniya/uFuzzy
The reason it's not mainstream is most probably that the energy ratio between production and the output is terrible.

Also, technically, all hydrocarbons are made from Carbon sucked from the air.
I see this issue as the same issue seen by the MPAA when looking at piracy.

The tech is there.

It won't ever leave.

If you cut off one head, three will replace it.

In my opinion: Copyright is a failure and the absolute best move, with the advantage AI has given to everyone, is to abolish copyright.
I share your enthusiasm. Much of my frustration with modern electronics and home appliances stems from the fact that I have to use shitty touch screens and touch buttons.
How large is your family?

I'm single and have private health insurance in Germany. I Pay around 5.5k Euros / year. The public option would be around 10k Euros a year (though this would include insurance for family members, the private option does not; private insurance is much better, covers more, and gets you better treatment).
At a guess, having seen this before:

- Paperwork
- Extra managers
- Lots of "stakeholder management"
Machines do not have rights. That is one distinction.
Looks neat (and like you've put a lot of time and effort into it!), but why use the letter 'b' instead of a flat symbol in the section
Diminished Chord Formulas (https://muted.io/chord-formulas-intervals/#diminished-chords)?
I played around with the https://muted.io/mini-music-machine/ a bit, again, very cool - there's some curious use of terminology (esp. interval to mean essentially mean duration/frequency, and the various options under that same dropdown aren't immediately obvious in meaning). Would be awesome if you could save/export whatever you'd created!
Is the record button supposed to work? It doesn't for me in latest Chrome on Windows, get this in console:

tone.14.8.42.min.js:1 Uncaught DOMException: Failed to execute 'connect' on 'AudioNode': cannot connect to an AudioNode belonging to a different audio context.
at De (https://muted.io/js/tone.14.8.42.min.js:1:14949)
at uu.connect (https://muted.io/js/tone.14.8.42.min.js:1:29482)
at Sd (https://muted.io/js/tone.14.8.42.min.js:17:36141)
at I.connect (https://muted.io/js/tone.14.8.42.min.js:17:35056)
at https://muted.io/mini-music-machine/:2403:12
at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
at recordStart (https://muted.io/mini-music-machine/:2402:11)
The fact that you can't see it doesn't mean others can't. The difference is blindingly obvious to me.

Courts do indeed interpret existing laws. The question of whether current laws regarding human learning apply equally to machine learning is one of interpretation, precisely the sort of thing that is ultimately resolved by court decisions, including appeals potentially up to the supreme court, establishing precedents. Until that process takes place, your interpretation is just your interpretation, not the interpretation.
Arg, lost my dissertation...

Short answer : I don't really know. Antifa is way older than anonymous, but the intersection could have happened naturally, as both groups have the same "anarchist" ideology. That would mean that anarchism as a way to organize is somehow viable? Not sure.
Adobe targets a very wide market, so it's okay to "let them learn on cracked PS" (like Microsoft did, actually), but in OP's case their case is obviously very narrow and this model, sadly, won't work..
The further the legal boundaries are in the ard drug direction, the further they are from regulating the cigaret market which is currently (and rightfully) under attack in some countries (cf new zeland, russia..)
Thanks! I've had this bookmarked for years now, but haven't gotten around to checking it out. It's on my list to look into next time I get the ML itch. :)
You can still buy iPhone 13 Mini, like I did last year.
I'm not a Brexiter but I really dislike this trend of "everything is a Brexit" problem. Can we dismiss all US problems as a "Trump" problem because it suits our own narrative?

It's a shallow perspective on a complex problem and I'd encourage you to read something with more depth.
Similar. I took that as a starting point for the developer niche and I plan on turning it into something where developers can work on ideas together.

I built an even more rough version of that here - https://connectdome.com (but then I realized I was dealing with feature-bloat) so now I'm experimenting a little slower.
Mobile designs are horrible about being intuitive and discoverable, to the point that many apps have tutorials about where you can swipe or double-tap and what it does because there's no reasonable way to discern this from their UI. If that's what we base our desktop UIs on it's no wonder they become less usable.
Black and white thinking is not correlated with intelligence, just with being human (and perhaps breadth of experience).
It's for playing audio mate, not playing games.

Sure, loading a large FLAC library onto a microSD will initially take longer, but the thing only needs to be done once, and many audio enthusiastsnwill already have microSD cards with it on.
What I would like to see: client-side template ability to insert a chunk of DOM nodes into the page from a URL, without having to invoke Javascript.

You can insert an image, a video, a SVG, or even an iframe from a URL, but you can't insert a <div>.
True, but that only pushes the question of value down the line.

I'm curious about lenses because Java did have a serious problem that required a solution: working with "simple" data correctly was difficult. The chosen solution was ADTs, so we did buy into that. But the approach being explored for transforming records (https://github.com/openjdk/amber-docs/blob/master/eg-drafts/...) only works one level at a time rather than for an entire path. So I wonder how valuable it would be to have a solution for paths. If the answer is that it's mostly valuable for an approach we haven't bought into yet, then we might not need to consider it just yet.
> I suspect there are plenty of subtleties in "safe" languages that actually muddy concepts of owernship and/or needless copying and lifetimes.

True in my experience. However, not the case in Rust, which is actually much more explicit about ownership, copying and lifetimes than C++.
HN has a pretty strong majority of US readers, I think. And as I'm American, I recall that many other Americans have little idea what life is really like outside the country. (What goes on day to day, or how life works, in other countries is just not well understood.)

From the US-centric view, society (or rather, energy and automotive companies and their lobbying) has made the decision to put all the focus on cars, and to even put intentional negative spin against public transport.

It seems to be slowly changing in some states or a few cities within some states. And yes, it does seem to be very different depending on which way an area leans politically. The "red" (Republican) areas are vehemently against public transport and frame it as the government trying to take away people's rights to go where they want (in their own cars).

Unfortunately for the areas trying to put energy into public transport and non-car alternatives, there is a vast amount of corporate finance and influence that works against it at all levels of govenerment.
Exactly, we are using the IBM-compatible PC, not some Amiga-compatible computer.
I love how WinRAR is doing this (showing messages). :) But it's obviously not that expensive and is a widespread tool.
FYI your emails are being bounced:

connect to keeptalking.fm[198.185.159.144]:25:
Connection timed out
Why would you install as many apps as a smartphone?

Hell, for many people why would they even have wi-fi on?
That's a good point. There's absolutely no reason to feel bad about being privileged. You should be happy! Perhaps spread some of that happiness around, make the world a happier place. Everyone wins.