skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who sometimes uses Nix to put together devShells for small projects at work, I admit there are times I might be inclined to point someone to the flake as a workaround for a versioning issue. But I would still consider it a bug in my app to be broken with a newer version of a library than what I have pinned. I believe many developers must feel similarly!

At the end of the day, when it comes to development environments, Nix should be a way to help provide a reproducible fast track for building and/or running the software, not a preemptive dismissal of all other possible downstream users and distros! If your software has a Nix flake but no build instructions, it's missing documentation. That's probably okay for solo open-source projects that are small and indifferent to building a userbase, but I hope maintainers and companies will readily recognize that as they grow they'll have to fill that gap at some point.
A concrete example: In many countries, most taxpayers don't have to file taxes. Those countries have taken many steps over the decades to make the tax bureaucracy more efficient. The US could try to do the same, but the existing institutions make it difficult.

Another example: Many countries have a system of administrative courts. If someone challenges a decision made by a public official, the case goes there. The process is reasonably cost-effective and predictable, as the judge usually considers only whether the decision was made according to the correct processes. Determining whether the decision was good is left to elected representatives. If a similar case goes to a civil court, the process tends to be more expensive and less predictable, as the judge is more likely to consider the substance of the argument.
Tell HN: Aruba removed “blackhole route” from its software
The latest versions of Aruba's switching/routing OS removes the term "blackhole route" (among others) for being "racially insensitive" and "evoking bias against specific groups of people" according to the release notes. The term blackhole route is clearly named after the astronomical phenomenon. I was left speechless by this unnecessary and over the top gesture. Are there other examples of this going on?
Is it necessary to learn the notes on the fretboard?

I grew up playing piano, so the keyboard is my reference. Years later, learning the fretboard has been less about learning which string/fret combination sounds a given note, but instead, given a certain chord:

1. where is the root of that chord, and with that as my anchor...

2. where is the 3rd, 5th, and 7th of that chord? Only once I can easily find those three intervals...

3. where is the 9th, 11th, and 13th. Finally, the sharps/flats of all of the above.

When it comes to organizing all of this across the fretboard, I've found the heptatonic approach to the fretboard to make the most sense and the most economical. YMMV.
Didn’t lifeproof make these for devices before they got acquired?
Anywhere I've worked, junior engineers have put together ridiculous memorandums, especially when they're on the way out. That does not mean that the opinions of the author align with the company's.
I do this too for the same reason, but also for the next person that looks at my code to give the joy of laughter.
> Lots of people are smart enough to learn and understand the bits of knowledge they need to accurately self-diagnose and understand tradeoffs of treatment options, then use a medical professional as a consultant to fill in the gaps and validate mental models.

This is incredibly dangerous, lots of people are smart enough that they can research questions about their condition/care to discuss with their medical professional but should absolutely not be self-diagnosing. It is very reasonable to ask "I read about X what do you think" but you (and even physicians cannot do this for themselves by the way) should not be self-diagnosing anything.

This is like saying lots of doctors are smart enough to learn and understand the bits of knowledge they need to accurately train LLMs and put them in charge of [life threatening system].

> But also, there's nothing magical about the medical guild initiation process.

You're right, it's not magical. It's just 10+ years of medical training.
How do you forcefully eject an ineffective "CEO" of a nonprofit from their position when they have failed their duties and violated their org's charter/mission while giving themself unjustified pay-raises and bonuses? Is there any gov process we can invoke to hold them accountable?
A colleague once coined the term "horizontal abstractions" (referring to a lot of the java "enterprise" pomp and ceremony) referring to much the same effect (there's no pyramid of abstractions - just more layers of similar complexity).
Wondering what happens if someone shares a chat and then clears all chat history or maybe delete the account? Does the shared chat still accessible?
it seems to me that you can hardcode the answers to the riddles and exactly match symptoms with illnesses then sort them by likelyhood and provide again hardcoded tests (proposals for) to gather further data.

It also seems capable of anonymizing a large chunk of medical data that we would not want to share normally. Who knows, perhaps it could even be a means of payment.
The mistake was the existence of "social media" in the first place. The internet was supposed to connect all of our computers, and let anyone serve content. Internet "providers" selling "Internet Access" instead of connectivity made sense in the days of dialup, but that entrenched directionality removed most of the power of the internet from the hands of the people, turning us from internet Citizens to "users" or "consumers".

The best way to avoid a repeat of this history is to run your AI locally, and retain control.
The law says that nobody shall circumvent a technical protection measure that has the effect of controlling access to a copyrighted work.
They are a right wing group of policy grifters and they would have been making similar arguments even if SF was running billion dollar surpluses and had 0 homeless, no crime, etc. in fact, then and their likes have indeed been making similar arguments for decades.

The problem is that their arguments are now getting purchase because SF is indeed facing problems. Since this grift site doesn’t actually prescribe any solutions it’s hard to say how right or wrong they are, but there’s definitely a need for SF, and more broadly expensive cities across the U.S., to take a hard look at how they’re operating.

The fact that we are allowing the US’s great cities to crumble because people are forced to move to suburbs in the middle of the desert since housing is so expensive is an absolute tragedy for everyone.
Don’t all these platforms have a way to DM people? Or does tiktok not have that?
I built this with AWS Lambda. Relevant info if someone else wanted to try my approach to build such a service: https://mattslifebytes.com/2023/04/14/from-rebuilds-to-reloa...
> I didn't see a RAID-less reporter.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2208553#c24 says "no hardware RAID", which was the original context of the claims about RAID versus no RAID.

Also reportedly https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... fixes it, with the hypothesis being sometimes instead of livelocking, they return an incorrect mapping to be written out.
One technique that is straightforward to understand is that folks have done "time-slide" analyses for many years - i.e. offsetting one detector's data in time - to understand what the "baseline" rate of correlations is in data streams where there is no possible physical origin.

Naturally, much more statistical analysis has been done to ground the claims of "detection"; beyond detailed academic publications, LIGO and others have been producing layperson-accessible science summaries for years/decades that address these and other questions.
How can you guys ever trust Brave again after the whole affiliate link injection nonsense?
It gives me flashbacks of bad OCR jobs and trying to copy sensible text out of the resultant messy PDF.
4. Let people flee to other cities, vote based on identity/emotion and then be genuinely surprised why it's doing downhill the same way.
> Which is of course complete fucking bullshit, especially since it means that an alternative store can never exist without being violating the DMCA.

I doubt it'll happen, but it would be pretty funny for someone in the EU to try to apply the Digital Markets Act on Nintendo to force them to open the Switch to alternative app stores as revenge for all of these anti-emulation cases. Instead of losing no money at all on people playing 15 year old games, they'd be forced to compete with alternative stores or leave a lucrative market entirely (which would mean everyone would just emulate their crap).

For that to happen, they'll need to sell 12 million more Switches inside the EU, stay a gatekeeper for three years, and after that they'll have to piss off some rich person pretty badly, but I can see it happen.
i would guess any one that hasn't been demolished yet can be termed a success, but it probably depends on your definition of 'success'.

i think of all the 'slums' that Robert Moses and other folks demolished throughout history. they could have used a little investment instead of disinvestment/neglect, but even as is, they were successes in most folks' views -- including and especially the people that lived in those neighborhoods and buildings -- but Moses and others had the power.

does public housing provide housing to people? yes. does that make it a success? i would say 'yes' -- maybe a qualified yes.

is it still a success if there is crime and no heat and etc.? still maybe a 'yes', since the other option is probably homelessness and jail and near-total loss of dignity, but again, goes back to one's definition of success.

shoot, this lefty-ish video (11 min) says it's currently illegal for the US to build more (federal?) public housing -- tf?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0KqSNHXqg

but i kind of see 'successful public housing' as 'successful [insert federal program here]' -- if a program was grandfathered in a long time ago, it might be able to stick around for a while, but even then it will continue to be under relentless attack until it is gone -- think Social Security or public education or, as the video points out, public housing.

and creating new 'successful' public programs of any kind today is probably completely off the table -- unless it's really just a facade for grift -- a way to filter a few billion/trillion to private enterprise -- think Department of Homeland Security.

even where there is massive public support for a federal program -- think Medicare for All (free/taxpayer/public-funded health care) -- maybe 70% of the population wants it, depending on which polling firms/questions are asked -- and there is little to no chance of it becoming reality because the US is a low-democracy country.

but change is always possible if the population decides to fight back. i heard an anecdote, i think from 'Poverty, By America' (Matthew Desmond), about a convergence of protests in DC where a group of Maga protesters and a group of Civil Rights protesters happened to see each other and ended up shaking hands in solidarity with each other over either the expensive cost of housing or cost of living or something. that makes sense to me. we're not there yet, but it always seems like a possibility that is lurking around the corner.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/poverty-by-america-matthew-desm...
My strong preference is to just show up and wait for serendipity to come calling. It works fairly well on day trips. My bride has a stronger preference for planning things out, but we usually have fun with a happy balance.

When we travel to a destination for more than a day trip, we like to pick a base, and venture out from there.
Smell 9 times as far with the smell-o-scope
This will almost certainly be activated most often after being dropped into a toilet.
Okay, so how is my access controlled if I circumvent the measure? And how does that not apply equally well to me just being told in a "technical" way not to access something?
So I take it the new show depicts Cleopatra as a respectable and honorable monarch? Rehabilitating royal reputations seems like a strangely right-wing take for a modern netflix show. Why would they even do this? Wouldn't the traditional telling of Cleopatra as a seducer of powerful men who tragically snakes herself in the end get more people interested? I think that's the version of Cleopatra that has captured public attention for so long.
This is a fantastic resource for those who'd like to check out how the coastline has changed over the years, as well as check out some interesting points of interest — like the pictures that spawned the Streisand Effect, the ranch near Big Sur that Linus Pauling used to own, etc. If you go back far enough, some of the photos of Vandenberg AFB are censored to avoid the ire of the then-Air Force (now Space Force).

https://www.californiacoastline.org/

When I worked at PG&E, some in corporate security did not like that site at all: you can quite clearly see various physical security improvements made to Diablo Canyon Power Plant over the years. A bit silly given that anyone can rent a boat or plane and take pictures of the site (or just go through archives of local media outlets), but there it is.
> As a result, it is unlawful to make a digital copy ("rip") of a DVD you own for playback on your video iPod.

Strictly speaking, this is true. It is not unlawful to plug a DVD player into your iPod and play the DVD back digitally though. That's basically what Dolphin is doing - it runs unmodified disc images, copy protection and all. They've even abstained from using code or insights gained from the Wii's source code leak. The emulator should be clean, outside of any legal complaints about "damages".

You're correct to highlight that it's still an ambiguous area, but in a post-Bleem! world it's hard for Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony to find the legal willpower to stop these people. They'll settle for easy wins like harassing Valve's legal staff with scary looking letters instead.

> If you want a further example, look into Apple v Psystar

There's more recent precedent with Corellium. Their commercial product is allowed to create iOS VMs on unofficial hardware. Running their code is considered fair use, the most valid legal claim Apple had for shutting them down was their violation of icon and wallpaper trademarks.
That would be neat. I’d even take it if you could feature flag the schema for customers.
Unlike search/random chatbots the bar to beat in medicine (UpToDate) is much higher, when that happens I agree (in terms of diagnosis and management).
> I hope Google Maps can do this. I get frustrated that it keep giving shortest distance with lots of turns.

Google Maps has been doing this for a longest time. They take freeways and signals into account, on top of the real-time traffic. Google Maps will often show multiple route options, some shortest distance, some fastest time, and nowadays "greenest" option (based on the car you picked). If you're not happy with Google Maps' initial pick of the route, you can also try alternate routes once in the navigation.
most games are available on amazon. popular games like rayman raving rabids for wii, motorstorm for ps3, and underground 2 for ps2 are still available new. more niche games like frequency for ps2 and older gen games like crash warped for ps1 are still available refurbished. pretty much any console game from the last 25 years that didn't totally flop is available in good condition from a major retailer. the rest are around at boutiques and on the used market.

we get public domain in 70 years just like everything else, and i can't think of an argument for any game being more of a public good than works of other types like lolita, the search for animal chin, or paul's boutique.
GPT-4

I like running "can my dog eat avocado?" through smaller models to see what happens.
Bullet Time SFX Using Nothing but Web Tech (2015)
>Unlike sugar, sugar substitutes have no nutritional value, said Francesco Branca, WHO director for nutrition and food safety.

What an unhinged statement. Yes, we all know that SOME sugar is needed to stay alive, but added sugar in a diet is completely useless. This statement misleads the reader into believing food with pure sugar has a 'nutritional value', which it doesn't. Really confused with the direction WHO is taking on this.
how could you jointly edit a dialogue/file?
OK, that has fellow open-source project The Battle for Wesnoth beat by 4 years.
> People downvoting this may not be aware that Bannon was absolutely a nutcase and caused constant shitstorms on this project.

Was???
Arcosanti is a real-life first-try at building an arcology, https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Arcology, which is something that I was introduced to while reading Larry Niven.
I've never seen this on my machine. Been using FF exclusively for years.
I wouldn’t discount AMD just yet. They closed quite a big gap in the server cpu market against Intel, most probably due to better leadership and management. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are able to pull that trick a second time with GPUs. 2 years isn’t short but it isn’t that long either.

People have said AAPL was overvalued perennially as long as I remember yet their market performance seems to ignore these opinions.

On the other hand, a big part of it also comes down to the tool chain, and NVIDIA owns CUDA. Until OpenCL or other gpu platforms catch up, it seems like NVIDIA can continue to corner the gpu market at large.
Is anyone ever going to use that tld for anything non malicious, non prank, and instead something actually actually serious?
Bluesky, an alternative to Twitter supported by Jack Dorsey, has unveiled a significant update that grants users the ability to personalize their algorithms. Although the service is currently in closed beta, it has introduced the feature of "custom feeds," which permits individuals to subscribe to various algorithms and create their own for others to follow.
The new AOM is really buggy (c.f. the original), so "alive" probably only applies to AOE2. I'm not sure I'd call AOE4 "AOE" (yeah, it's branded as it, but so was "Age of Empires Online"), so the series basically died at AOE3. The other thing is the new DEs (which are relatively recent) and AOE4 are Windows-only (there were Mac releases for the originals, and the originals were much easier to get running under wine), so there is more incentive to look at other games (or reimplement the engine like https://openage.sft.mx/).
Unless.. you do a really good job, like heroku, vercel etc.

Also why is AWS so complicated? That’s where the money is: enterprises!
Flat earth conspiracy is not widespread and is not growing. It’s a thing that’s primarily on the internet. On the grand scheme of things there’s bigger things to worry about than what a tiny fraction of people think.
If corporations were at least like Mondragon Corporation, the US would be a lot farther.

I’m not sure what you mean by no corporations or why that is an implication.

China and other countries put corporations in their place all the time.
AT&T v BSDi had a large hand in that outcome of fates. It put the legality of BSD code in all its places into doubt for many years.

Ironically, just a few years later, SCO thought "hey that was a good idea" and did it to Linux too.
That is really painful.

But if those TLDs don't even bring them any money and they're not named after something in the Chagossian's own language, do they even own them in any meaningful sense?

Aside from the right to return to their homelands, these people should be given some actual royalties from .io domain purchases. And then maybe also a new TLD that is more meaningfully connected to them and less likely to be hijacked.
You are strawmanning the law whereas a judge interpreting it will steelman it.
I see what you're saying but.. it's one popup.
Maybe you can't, but I can live with that.
Those are cool.

Because I am unsafe, I started making them from aluminum cans with the top/bottom cut off. Some strips of duct tape along one of the edges balances it (and so defines your leading edge).

The right wrist action was needed but you could send them sailing across an auditorium to clatter against the far wall.
How the media is covering ChatGPT
Just buy the cheap car, rip out the head unit, and replace it with a CarPlay compatible one.

Assuming you’ll even be able to do that…

Could be a nice money-making opportunity.
We live in a right wing world right now with the USA as the center of right wing capitalism. Trying to blame individuals is a common tactic in the current status quo.
Agree but Intel has yet to show they can successfully make a high end GPU, and they're heavily invested in Arc at the moment.

Given Intel 4 is launching at the end of the year I would expect their focus will be on catching up wth AMD on CPUs and the next-gen Arc GPUs. Assuming everything goes well with their yields and they have extra foundry time (which they won't be using as part of IFS) will they have the institutional energy/capital/will to open a new software+hardware battle in a market the entrenched Nvidia will fight to the death for?

It seems extremely unlikely to me within 1-2 years.
Yeah wait till you need to do SOC2 and friends! Azure has tools to help you with this.
Also no details about what severity the vulnerability was assessed as. For all we know they got a $10 Play Store voucher because the security boundary is the VM, and SQL customers are already paying for the VM and the rest is convenience so they are considered to be hacking themselves here. Reading this was a waste of time.
I am a "tax return should fit on a postcard" type of guy so we have no argument there. However I don't think you will find many in the center or right political axis that thinks we don't want to streamline tax filing and make the whole thing more efficient.

The reason in the US that things aren't easier is endless lobbying. Literally every sector that makes a few million bucks hires a state lobbyist to ensure no one local fucks them.
Also, Bio-Dome (1996). A favorite of mine.
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Nope, it's still funny, we're keeping it.