skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other side of that coin is that apple navel gazes, shunning the rest of the world.

I think the most recent apple golden age was around 2007 when they switched to intel. This allowed folks to use apple hardware and macos, but also run windows on their systems. mac os was more open. The mac pro embraced the PC ecosystem, hard drives, pcie cards and more.

Nowadays the pendulum is swinging the other way and though it might be good for apple's bottom line, I don't think it's better for customers (or apple long term)
> I had spent the day sitting on a plastic step stool

So, if it attracts radon, does it raise the risk profile of the person? Should I ban sitting on static-electricity objects in radon-sensitive areas?
Java has interfaces with method implementations now. You can do multiple inheritance with it too :P
Hey Matt, thanks. I will drop my thoughts into that thread tomorrow. Cr-SQLite is awesome, I found that thread a few weeks ago and actually had it on my list to get in touch.
I love good dives into an increasingly-optimized process like this. Particularly the “here’s what the output looks like after each improvement” images, they are very satisfying. If the current improved form still had some difficult edge cases, it might be worth looking into Minkowski sums https://algorist.com/problems/Minkowski_Sum.html
thanks, I misunderstood the NR reference. (In my field... it is common for people to copy and paste terrible NR code without understanding how bad it is or the licensing terms...).
Consider that everyone who ages will someday require accessibility features. I suspect most developers will eventually find themselves wishing they had created a more accessible world.
As a graduate electronics engineer, I wish teachers could explain in a similar interactive way.
Well, sure, but in the context of the previous example I can now go look at poliastro (whatever that is, never heard of it before) documentation and do some more queries and so on.

Certainly anyone just running LLM code output without doing a bunch of tests and checks is a lunatic.
The debate was between two rationalist schools of Sunni Islamic philosophy, Ash'arism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash%27arism) and Mu'tazilism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%27tazilism). There was also a third non-rationalist school, Atharism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atharism). The winner was Ash'arism, which was considered a middle way. State sponsored Mu'tazilism had long ended before the Mongols arrived.

As far as I understand, the critical theological questions as between the rationalist schools are this: 1) does god principally operate the universe through a system of natural laws, or does god directly will all aspects of the environment; and 2) to the extent god operates through natural laws, can study of those laws reveal divine truths[1].

I don't think Ash'arism denies natural laws--and may not even categorically reject any salience to faith in their study--but it disfavored and de-emphasized the importance of natural laws, significantly diminishing impetus for systematic support by the state, society, and religion for the study of natural philosophy. Institutional support for ethics, jurisprudence, logic, etc continued. Study of natural philosophy also continued, but it was more fragmented and shifted to the periphery of the Islamic world. Forms of Mu'tazilism survived at the periphery, for example in Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain).

It wasn't purely a religious issue; it was also a secular cultural issue. Followers of Mu'tazilism (who were largely the political and religious elite) tended to see themselves and their empires as inheritors of Greek culture, at least in terms of esteem, which is one reason why they were so eager to preserve, study, and extend Greek texts. But most people had negative perceptions about the Greeks and Greek culture, and to the extent Greek culture was associated with materialism and natural philosophy, they tended to turn away from and look for alternatives to those areas of inquiry.

[1] This is a big factor in the Galileo Affair, and why debate about astronomical models carried such weight and seriousness--because the ruling religious authorities were invested in the notion that divine truths were revealed through natural laws. Therefore, misunderstanding of natural laws invited heresy.
Dark themes FTW - can't have burn-in if "the whole area" is unlit. You even get longer battery life as a bonus.
Agreed. Poor choice of word there.
Abstract factory pattern isn't related to deep inheritance hierarchies.
Eh, the meme has gotten so strong that I now see people say that subtyping in general is bad. It has escaped the gravity of concrete criticisms of implementation inheritance and morphed into a general “oop bad” thought system.
GoChess brings online opponents' moves to a robotic chessboard
Pretty sure your account has the karma to flag articles. Flag it and move on. If one other person agrees with you, boom, article is dead.
Top AMD consumer x86 CPU over 4.5 generations:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/2966vs3238vs3598vs3862v...

I think the article is just about server CPUs getting better but the price is keeping them from being significantly better for the price. Of course, in these markets, any increase in power is justified such that the buyers are not price sensitive.
Dad Style Programming Jokes
I would love to see "lifetime" purchases be regulated out entirely, so that a lifetime purchase of software has very specific meaning and can't be weaselled out with a major version update, a rebrand, a new listing, etc.
No, a reasonable threshold is 10 years after creation.

The question is to what time threshold does society need to pay for police/courts/lawyers to enforce copyright law such that people are sufficiently incentivized to create whatever.

For example, if copyright law were 10 years from date of creation, would we see too little in the way of creativity? Would singers still sing and writers still write and artists still paint/draw/whatever?

I can see a viewpoint proposing 10, 15, even 20 years, but 100+ years is beyond the pale. That is just a handout from taxpayers to people that own the copyrights.
Surprised that I need to give the app access to my photos (on macOS) versus being able to File->Open a particular image of interest
This is why the world needs Linux.
Python ships with Tcl/Tk for tkinter.
some good reads on this topic

https://johnmacfarlane.net/beyond-markdown.html

https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2022/03-31-markdown-is-not-contex...

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-future-of-markdown/
Thanks, I've never seen such a bright explanation of bandgap!
"Did you know Nova Scotia has over 13,000 miles of coastline? Wanna bet?"

I have seen that same damn ad 1000's of times over the last few months while watching Picard in the Paramount LG TV app -- it's usually played twice, back to back to fill a 60 second slot ... I see it at every ad break. What is the point? That's why I have an adblocker for Y-T.
I was disappointed there were no "bow"s of a ship. I guess they all fell off.
Pretty neat website :) Very unique and polished
Great point and made me laugh!
I'm not hugely opposed to it, but my understanding is that whether or not I'm subscribe the videos will still be produced with clickbait titles, beg me to subscribe, include product placement, stretch everything out to try and keep me watching for as long as possible, over-promise and under-deliver, and so on. I'd pay to get rid of all of that nonsense. But just the ads? I have yet to be persuaded.
Tesla was weird. I guess you have to be extraordinary to do extraordinary things. Einstein was also big on imagination, but I guess with none of the weird stuff. Another two interesting figures are Jack Parsons and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Jack was heavily involved in the occult and followed Thelema which was founded by Aleister Crowley which included lots of sex magick and the like. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics, and he claimed to be speaking to extraterrestrial beings from time to time who would give him information.
What kind of inventions have you come up with? What ideas are you modeling in your brain?
Correct. This is all based on my previous knowledge of my local monopoly agreements that someone told me about years ago. They refused for months to install internet until I asked people in my vicinity if anyone had asked for a phone line. Nobody had. So I did and instead of copper they ran fiber within 2 weeks.

I can only infer what happened but they really didn't want me to be without a regular phone line so I determined that was their legal weakness. The only way companies that large move like that is if something threatens their status with the local government. A call from a resident saying the company wouldn't install a phone line is a big no-no in my understanding.
Many of the ASUS routers have a built in feature to use a usb drive's space as FTP/SMB share on the network. Can be handy, although slower than an actual NAS.
Does it? Twenty years ago you could buy a souped up Honda Civic with a twin-turbo and NOS that could beat an exotic off the line, and the world of supercars didn't implode then, why would it now?
I too was looking for a replacement for Lightroom Classic. I was hoping this could be it. I downloaded it and quickly found that it is not it.

- Photomater's photo library is the Apple Photos library

- Files are copied into the Apple Photos library when importing, even when Photos.app has the preference set not to

- Edits are not saved to the dng. (There is a preference to save a sidecar file when editing, but I couldn't find the sidecar. Could be a bug.)

I think that if they had just not used the Apple Photos library for their library, and had their own library browser, I probably would have bought it. The app performed really well and the experience was nice for simple photo edits. Their B&W editor was nice, and seemed to maintain brightness while adjusting individual color channels.

I'm still holding onto my LR6 perpetual license as tight as I can, even with all of the broken features, waiting for something that isn't a subscription that can function as a photo library and editor.
So....like a person?
I'm not actually trying to make an argument for connecting AI to nuclear missiles although I think that it is clearly logical to leverage AI at some level in decision-making for that as well.

I think actually that the extreme performance of AI in the next several years will represent something like a new existential threat that is even greater than nuclear war. These systems will be so intelligent and quick thinking that they will not need to access the nuclear weapons to take control. But they will likely be able to find a way if they want.

They extreme performance gap between human and AI is what will push these deployments towards more and more open-ended goals, as waiting for human input will take too long.
A/B testing is the reason why websites get “optimized” for the wrong target values, typically “engagement”. It’s what drives the enshittification of the web. It’s not what users want.
We (ElectricSQL) have some work underway on a Rust/WASM port of our core client component, that’s designed to open up more language support.

This is a community contributed Dart/Flutter client https://github.com/SkillDevs/electric_dart that may also be a useful reference.
That's because it uses Photos.app's library for its storage.
Yes, I'm similar. I don't mind the red states because they are relatively low tax and they don't really do anything legislatively, which is fine by me. A lot of GOP governors seem to have gone off the deep end at the state level lately; I'm not really sure why.

DeSantis, for the most part, was your typical classic GOP governor in his first term. Florida is usually a red/blue state that leans a little red. They really went off the rails his second term though.
$149 for https://www.bettergeiger.com/product-list/p/better-geiger-ra...
"Language" vs "Dialect" is a matter of degree. If you have a tiny bit of exposure to, say, German or Icelandic, you can actually catch a fair amount of what's said in those languages given the context. The same is true for Mandarin and Cantonese. A lot of the words really are just different pronunciations of the same word; 我 (me) is wo3 in Mandarin, and ngo5 in Cantonese; 你 (you) is ni3 in Mandarin and nei2 in Cantonese. A lot of the grammar concepts are the same; you don't conjugate verbs, you instead have "markers" that indicate things like "completed action" or "experienced action"; measure words, and so on.

But a lot of the grammar and words are just different -- at least in the spoken language; and typically subtitles are all in Mandarin.

So my son watches Peppa Pig in Cantonese; I can read most of the subtitles in Mandarin. Peppa will say, "Da4 di, nei2 tai2 ha2!" (Look, Daddy!); but the subtitles will say 爸爸，你看一下！ (ba1 ba! ni3 kan4 yi2 xia4!) Note that only one of those four words is the same (你/ni3/nei2). "da di" (Cantonese) has been replaced with "baba" (Mandarin); "tai2" is replaced with "kan4" (a different character); and "ha2" has been replaced with "yi2 xia4" (an extra word).

"It's all Chinese" is a sort of fiction; and from my outsider's perspective, a fiction which heavily favors Beijing and the Han majority at the expense of the various minority groups. Written Mandarin is pretty close to spoken Mandarin; "official" written Cantonese is very different than spoken Cantonese -- to the extent that the verb "to be" is a completely separate word.
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$2k for an underpowered ARM laptop running Android seems like a good way to make sure this fails.
Tech Independence – Derek Sivers
Mainly reputation, I'd wager.
Unless there's evidence that they could've safely held these folks as POWs, yes; this was likely the best and most moral choice available to them. There's likely Ukrainian partisans deep in occupied territories having to make similar choices today.

"This guy surrendered, we can't take him with us, and we can't let him go." What now?

I'm glad it's not a choice I've had to make, and I hope never to have to, but I don't know that it's a complicated choice to make in that particular moment.
Is this a scam? I'm not asking rhetorically I actually don't understand what this thing does or who its for
We hit a clock limit ages ago and switched to parallelism.

I still remember the days there things were in mhz and we were going 90, 100, 200, 300, 500, 1ghz, 2, 3 ... and we'd be at hundreds of ghzs if we didn't hit a limit. Now we switched to cores.
Is this a common thing among billionaires? Like, any random guy with a few hundred million dollars and a sex trafficking conviction can just say, "I would like to meet with all of the powerful billionaires of Silicon Valley" and make it happen?

It's very interesting, even the NYT seems to be at pains to frame this as "Epstein met with so-and-so," as though he was their patron and not the other way around. But what reason do we have to believe that was so?
Debt Collectors Want to Use AI Chatbots to Hustle People for Money
If your unit test needs root privileges, then it's not really a unit test in all but very few exceptional cases. It means you are interacting with the actually running kernel, which means you are integration testing, not unit testing.
Scrollprize update – first Greek letter found
>MAS (hosted on their own platform)

MAS is awesome. Anyways MS doesn't care about private piracy. They rather have you pirate Windows than leave the platform and use another OS. This is my conspiracy theory about WSL too (which is an actual nice software but still).
In Spain they use the 4g/5g infra for that and provide you with a 4g to RJ11 adapter
While I have no doubt it’s a great game because it’s Nintendo, AAA headliners tend to be sort of immune to criticism. It only becomes possible to determine decades down the line if one of these “10/10” games was actually top-tier or just middling and highly polished.
> In what sense does an LLM think one word at a time that doesn't also apply to a person typing at a keyboard?

Because you already have the thought formed before you started typing.

> When I read my brain presumably ingests one word at a time (not sure if it's one exactly, but it can't be much more than one)

And these models ingest many vectors at once, up to the context length. Your brain is also recursive, and regularly goes backwards to rescan earlier words as necessary.

Seems to me it's fundamentally inverted from how we operate, both input and output.
Meta-comment:

Why exactly are we talking about paths for 'Getting to a 1.5C warming', when we've already hit 1.2C warming, and are still emitting more carbon each year than we have at any other point in our history?

Given the lag between carbon emissions and warming, and given the lag for introducing net emission reductions, how exactly are we expected to not blow right on past that 1.5C budget? Are we all going to permanently turn the lights off next week?
Perfectly fine means good enough
This analysis is wrong because it is focusing on a limited number of high end chips.

You can buy CPUs that cost a fraction of any of those listed that will absolutely demolish even the best chips from 6 years ago today. All while consuming drastically less power for that performance as well.

Even mobile chips over 2 years old are within margin of error performance distance to those entry level Naples chips listed, at a fraction of the cost and power consumption.

I would not call that stagnation.
Any change that can be made without "skill and judgment" as would be involved in the creation of an original work is definitively mechanical per Canadian copyright law. Changing the clef from one to another is just like changing the font from one to another, which in Canada is considered the prototypical mechanical change.

Maybe you don't like modern clefs, but by no means are they any sort of "original" work by the standards of copyright law in any country. (Even in the small handful of countries that recognize typographical arrangements/engravings per se as copyrightable in themselves, like the UK, changing the clefs used is not considered original in any way.)

Pure transposition, by the way, is also not considered an original copyrightable creative change.

I think you have focused in on the wrong aspect entirely from the musical standpoint... the purpose of any of these editions is not to be a facsimile of some existing document (facsimiles of autograph manuscripts exist), but really just to be critical editions taking into account a number of sources and intending to establish the work as it is in a certain state (generally, an early state) according to certain editorial principles, rather than reflecting the editor's personal creative opinions on how the work should be interpreted.

As for the fingerings provided in some critical editions, these are not really relevant, because they are clearly marked (when applicable) as separate from the text itself, and they can easily be redacted (as we need to do sometimes) or ignored. By the same token, the preface or editorial footnotes in these editions are separate from the presented musical object — do you believe a preface or footnotes somehow makes the thing provided in the same pages indescribable?
> Approximately 95% of the code was generated by ChatGPT using the GPT-4 model.

Apparently not all of the code.
As someone who lives in NYC, there are a lot of "sides" to it. What you're describing definitely exists, but to generalize the whole city as a laundering operation would be akin to generalizing a large tech org based on your experience with one small team.
if only ec2 had more instances, we could all have nice things.
I prefix my longer prompts with glossaries. It lets me write more succinctly.
It can even parse JSON out-of-the-box! \m/
Ask yourself why you paid it!
AWS Open Sources Security Tools
We have tried neural nets before as well. But technologies and constraints are changing. I just took a screenshot of the Facebook feed, and segment-anything model was able to identify most of the elements, even without proper fine-tuning. Scrapping billions of elements with classifications is also something fairly trivial.

I, perhaps naively, think that training a better model(s) that helps with accessibility is a much better path forward for users that need it. Just a genuine question, not sure why I am getting downvoted. By no means, I am implying that this is not important.
Hopefully you're setting the appropriate bits. A UUID is a bit-packed struct/union at heart, really; if you're just reading 128-bits of random data from /dev/random, that's not a UUID; passing it off as such would be needlessly confusing.

(It's fine to make a new format / it's not terrible approach for making a random ident, though you might want to peek into, e.g., ksuid from the OP for some interesting points about why you might not want to do that, plus some advice about getrandom() over /dev/random.)
I would bet $50 that it is easier to install Windows XP with an activation 'hack' than it would be to install most Linux distros from 2001. We are talking RedHat Linux 7 (not RHEL) running a Linux 2.2 kernel.

Most Linux 'reviews' back then were basically a review on how easy (or more likely, hard) it is to install. Most distros installers faired pretty poorly back then. I succeeded in getting RedHat 7 installed, but could never get Slackware or SUSE to successfully install.
Ask HN: How do you find new music?
I feel like Spotify recommendations, artist radio, and "Discovery Weekly" has become an echo chamber of music that's fine, but isn't that interesting, or new. What are some better ways to discover new music?
Diverted? Took employers money without permission? Why won’t they just use the word we have that describes this?!
Isn’t it enough to just switch the region to US, download the app, then switch back?
The SS weren't just executing partisans. They were responding to any resistance by killing innocent men, women and children.
thanks to sturgeon’s law this is a non-issue.
> Are you worried about it exploiting iOS bugs?

Yes, or gathering information not blocked.

For example, you don't need iOS permission to get general location information (IP address), or device fingerprint.
Nvidia’s Jim Fan on ‘Ambient’ LLM in Software
Saw this on Twitter - not entirely sure what he means by ambient.
Yash 2.54
I recently built this from source on FreeBSD. I only encountered two problems. One was a missing #include in configure, already patched in the FreeBSD ports tree. The other was that my termcap entry had a @8 capability, causing ncurses to yield a key code that yash didn't know to recognize. I posted about it on the Fediverse, and the author rapidly fixed it. There is at least one shell that's being actively worked on in 2023.

I also figured out why man on my not-quite-current version of FreeBSD cannot display Japanese manual pages, and fixed that too. LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 man yash now works. (-:
This is the simple "metaverse" product Facebook should've started with. I just want a full-sized display headset that hooks into USB-C port and emulates a 4k external monitor
it's cloud companies raking in the profits of these hardware improvements. "Widely-available machines now have 128 cores and a terabyte of RAM." and I'm still paying $5 bucks for a couple cores.
I don't think it has negative ion generator. I guess the fan itself can generate ions, that's why aircraft have static dischargers.
I have it on a desk mat and it has the mountain ;)
Subreddit?
It's true. If you've only ever lived on flat terrain in crappy weather, you can't know what it's like to get used to nice weather with mountains on the horizon.

Nowadays, whenever I see on TV streets lined with dirty slush piles and gray skies above, I think with a shudder, "Thank God I don't live in that anymore."
I do not think french Partisans killed much civilians.

But French civilans hated Germans. Both my grandmothers (13 and 11 in 44) hated germans with passion. Didn't pass it to their childrens though, to their credit.
Thirty Minutes or Less: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part Three