skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't apple been spending a lot of money on lawyers trying to stop people virtualising OSX?
I think they wanted their own deploy timelines.
So maye much be spyed also, by the company and pastyme that he useth. (Heinrich Bullinger, 1541, translated to English by Bishop Myles Coverdale).

Though surely the idea goes back to antiquity and someone like Seneca would have something to say about it (but not in English)!
> One of those additional complexities worth mentioning is the velocity of a satellite relative to the observer on Earth. Due to Doppler effect this changes the frequency of the signal as seen by the receiver. To correctly acquire the signal the device has to tune in on both the time offset and the appropriate frequency.

Does anyone know of a diagram that shows this?
Here's the list. The article has more than a sentence or paragraph to explain each.

1. Take one small step.
2. Change your mental maps.
3. Struggle is good. Scary is good.
4. Instant judgment is bad.
5. Remember the end of your life.
6. Be playful.
7. Be useful to others.
8. Perfectionism = procrastination
9. Sleep, exercise, eat, chill out. Repeat.
10. Write it all down.
11. You can't get it all from reading.

It looks really good to apply in almost any context. Even step 5 is one I use for both personal decisions and (a smaller timescale) for software development thinking of time in reverse pretending being in the future what would be a good result and path to get there.

If being referenced while doing self-help, it could identify which step(s) are troublesome and needs better execution.
Whats special about this particular cosine similarity search? There are loads of these! Like every other day on HN since
chatGPT was released. Several PDF chatbots. There are various overfunded vector search companies. Some are open source. And then there is elastic search etc.
I’ve always been intrigued by how the Romans had a much richer vocabulary for discussing social status. They talked of dignitas, auctoritas, and potestas. While those words are the linguistic roots for dignity, authority, and potence, that’s not really what they were and none of them has a direct translation into English. They are better understood as components of a Roman’s social status.

Another interesting concept is how status, particularly male status, is often highly context dependent. For example a competent guide will almost certainly be the highest status person for a group lost in the wilderness even if that group has members who are very wealthy or famous, but once they’re back in civilization he’ll have considerably lower relative status.

Like it or not, the overwhelming factor in female status is physical attractiveness. No doubt there are occasional exceptions, but as a general rule it’s undeniable.
"No, the spainards came and fucked all the Mayans and turned them into Mexicans"

-- Frank Reynolds
It may be neither sarcasm nor troll. I see it as an
honest question that deserves a reasoned answer. Here's my initial take:

If a public organization dedicates land to a park, they usually provide some facilities (trash cans, benches, water fountains, bathrooms, parking lots, even soccer/football fields. How much is provided varies on the organization budget and willingness to provide. You can vote for/against but you can also attend meetings and argue pro/con on such amenities. The presence of the park may contribute or subtract from the land values of the surrounding area depending on how well maintained it is.

In the long run park land may be sold for its real-estate value. It is always valuable property.
Nice, can you also please comment on the resources required to run this and the speed of the output?
You can't be a Commie and a CEO.

These were Capitalists. A progressive capitalist, yes, but Right leaned economically. There's nothing Leftie on being a poshy Californian with the pockets full of bucks even if you don't give a shit on any religion or Conservativism.

The same way you can't call yourself a vegetarian when you eat a weekly BBQ in a Texan rancho.
Readers reply: what are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations?
Near field is a property of the space, not the speaker. Would suggest reading https://digistar.cl/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=547
You can’t fix a problem management won’t acknowledge and management will never acknowledge a problem they don’t know how to fix. It’s a vicious cycle.
Which is why many countries have a 18 year limit for driving, plus in my country there are people pushing for mandatory regular driving tests for old people.
rbsh is actually a cool idea. I just might adopt that.
No. You just mis expressed your point with a logical mistake.

You wanted to explain why I can't find evidence for the Eliza effect on HN, but you didn't realize that it contradicts your overall point of the effect.

I exploited the flaw to point out the contradiction in your thinking. Your ideas are not logically coherent your following a sort of bias here where you're trying to construct ideas to support your bias.
Ask HN: Is it possible to learn a subject that you hated or failed at college?
Suppose that you absolutely hated a subject in college because you couldn't relate in class. Maybe you even failed in that subject.

But later in life you learnt that subject on your own because you got involved in a project that made you learn the subject. Maybe you came across a very good book or course.

Has it happened with anyone?
I’d say it becomes much easier: if you fork a private repository, you need to go through multiple layers of warning to move it to public.

If you want a collaboration repository with forking disabled, public is the default.
This is one of those things that was true in like 2008 but is no longer true in 2023. Scaling a monolith is slightly more expensive in memory consumption but in practice it's irrelevant for most cases.

In this particular case it's worse due to how Rails works. Usually people deploy one Rails thread per core and that core is blocked by the thread.

If that's the case when Service A calls Service B, Service A is blocking a core and waiting until Service B completes. That's effectively doubling resource consumption during that call. You have one server waiting on another server to do work it could have done itself.
And stop signs that have been altered in some way. For example, rural stop signs that are peppered with holes from pot shots must still be recognized. Snowy stop signs with the bottom half obscured by accumulated drift. Signs with a non-red sticker reading “WAR” placed below the word “STOP”.

And that’s not even getting into cases where you conditionally act like there’s a stop sign. The city of Houghton,MI has major streets along the side of a hill, and minor streets going up and down the hill. Every winter, sand is put down for traction, and every spring it is cleaned away. If there’s a late-season snowstorm after the spring cleaning, cars going downhill on the minor streets physically cannot stop, so everybody on the major streets looks uphill before crossing.

Short of location-dependent fine-tuned models, I’m not sure how machine learning could replicate the logic of “if snowy in late spring, grant right-of-way to cars headed downhill”.
GitHub wasn't always owned by Microsoft.

Please note I am not attempting to address the reputability of GitHub pre-acquisition. That is a separate matter.
So you're saying it only replaces 99% of their value and not 100%?

Of course this won't be the way it works. In some places it will replace vast swathes of human workers. In other places it won't replace so many. The questions are how quickly and will these people be able to find the ways to provide for their needs without destabilizing society.
You're comparing "read a binary flip" to "process millions of pixels into a high level understanding of the world and make a complicated decision"
This is an amazing prescient quote of the current state of employee monitoring, and its 500 years old.
Starshield?
I'm glad this post is showing up here. We need to take care of our moderators and community managers - wherever they might be in the world. It's a hard job, both practically and emotionally, and we tend to undervalue workers in (1) non-technical positions (2) in the global south. Meta needs to concede and workers inside Meta need to push for it to do the right thing.
I can just imagine their internal mod training materials:

Problematic: "user64738's answer is an obvious duplicate of [URL], his answer is stupid, and he is stupid."

Consider changing to: "user64738's answer is an obvious duplicate of [URL], *their* answer is stupid, and *they* are stupid."

Real life is becoming satire. I can't wait to read business books 40 years from now. "In the beginning of the 21st century, corporations erased trillions of dollars of shareholder value. But don't forget: While they were incinerating money and laying off workers, they all changed their internal technical processes to rename 'master' to 'main' and changed their codes of conduct to stop misgendering people."
> doing all of this since the 90s at least on desktop computers

it wasn’t a very nice experience. Why would I want to watch anything in 240p win stead of 4k? Same for web, despite the bloat UX on most websites is miles ahead of what was common back in ~2000
Yes. Writing was consistently my worst subject in school. It's what I do professionally now. I just kept showing up.
I've had to explain to leadership that certain employees don't even need access to the actual codebase to potentially cause harm via a competitor.

The real solution to this is to have a business model that is about more than just some source code in a repository, or "things one person could undo". Concerns like years-long relationships with customers (aka trust), platform-style lock-in patterns, etc. How many times have various parts of AAA game studio or Microsoft codebases been compromised? I am still waiting for that hacker edition of HL3 and my free copy of windows that doesn't suck.

I actually spent a few minutes walking through a hypothetical where 100% of our latest code is lifted and taken to our biggest competitor. I think it would probably cause them more harm than good. Complexity is a hell of a thing. Just having a point-in-time snapshot doesn't really give you an advantage over someone who has been at it continuously for years. Perhaps we can strike a consulting contract with whoever steals our code...

I am not against reasonable measures (i.e. MFA, GH Enterprise, VPNs), but I won't go into paranoid-tier (Citrix-style desktops) over stuff like this ever again. Code is a cheap commodity in 2023. Enshrining your repository as if it is the actual vehicle of business value is indicative of poor leadership. Customers, relationships, execution, etc. are way more challenging and important.
Cool video. That machine is incredible.
We already have flying trains
Talk about the most eye unfriendly format to give a wall of text!
Europe’s new success stories are built on high luxury, not high tech
Sure there is: Zelle.

Most major banks are apart of the Zelle program and you can send your contacts funds easily and quickly. I get notification of family sending me funds pretty much immediate with confirmation of deposit within a few minutes even for a few thousand.
I'm not sure why in the "Easy Fixes" it doesn't say the thing that is mentioned in the next point "stop putting sensitive data into private repositories". That should _also_ go in "Easy Fixes" IMHO, use environment variables, vaults, etc to not store your keys into your code.
Acquiring cancer to lose weight.
Desmos: Cicada
It started off as a funny idea and people gladly threw money at him because he’s so good.

I have a lifetime Apollo Pro Ultra license and there’s literally no way in the app for me to tip him more, but I totally would if there was.
I like to think myself as a pragmatic practitioner of security, and even I would say this isn't "popular-security nonsense". The "cost-benefit analysis" here equals: don't bloody do that, _obviously_.

If your system relies on secrets being present in repos, it is a poorly designed system. There is no scenario where this is necessary, other than one not wanting to put in the effort to inject secrets sensibly.

Yes, "the alternatives come with their own risks", but those risks are where the "cost-benefit analysis" equals "not worth the effort".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WN86qywLVY

And it seems to me you could take a look at how literally any other language manages their name. Rust is alone in this drama-fest, as they tend to be.
We wanted flying trains?
Mach was designed to make clean separation between operating systems and hardware. Notice how easily Apple moves between hardware? The unsung hero is Mach and the design patterns that NeXT/Apple framework built on top of it.
The premise of cult classic USSR movie Guest From Future [1] is that a boy walks for a kefir with the bottles for exchange and then gets into time travel adventure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guest_from_the_Future

Some products like sourcream and milk were sold into buyers' containers. Which reduced amount of thrash significantly, compared to the "predictable availability" of today's world.
It's a viable strategy.
“ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by Sam Altman’s OpenAI and released in November 2022, is a stupendously scaled-up autocomplete. Really, that’s all that it is.”

Stopped reading after this part. To be so intentionally misleading and dismissive of truly miraculous work by the LLM community and the OpenAI team is not for me.
Most free and open source development tools work better on Linux.

This is not due to some kind of discrimination against Windows, but because open systems with standardized APIs are easier to use and build tools for.

Windows will continue to be the lesser platform for developers because it is closed source, full of ads and telemetry, and ultimately less free (as in user freedom) than Linux:

https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57
This looks great, but it looks like it'll be a bit of a hassle to generate the layer yourself. If KiCAD gets a "generate heating layer pattern" feature, this would become trivial.

Then again, I don't know how much I want to bother with masks and placing things myself, given how cheap JLCPCB's assembly service is.
> The only thing I'd like to see added to the framework is the ability for nested virtualization (which is now available in the M2 chips, but isn't built into M1 chips).

Is there an example of this working in any context? Until then I don't see how it can be considered available.

EDIT - Confirmed below it does work in Linux on metal - Props to the Asahi team!
Adobe Photoshop has just introduced their "generative fill" tool in the new beta version. It requires an internet connection and it goes out to the web and uses AI to fill photo regions with whatever text request the user inputs. While in a way it does nothing that could not have been done before with PS, it now can do in seconds - and by someone like me with very limited PS expertise - what previously may have taken hours and required considerable PS skill. We've come a long way since the predictions of 1984 (and not just as regards Orwell).
I like this a lot and use it myself. Always have a tough time convincing developers though, because they don't like "all that terminal stuff" :/
Sure; the book Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology is quite approachable and goes in depth on treatment and effects of various disorders including ADHD. It’s not perfect but nothing is. The https://ldnresearchtrust.org is probably the best source for LDN information.

Sarah Wilson of ‘I quit sugar’ fame talks about her experiences in quitting sugar. She repeatedly acknowledges that while quitting sugar is beneficial for most people it is of particular benefit to a small percentage of the population that are most likely to have ADHD. Her N of 1 experimentation is really good and highly aplicable to those similarity impacted by sugar in a way that more general research is not.

The 2% of undiagnosed hEDS is probably most easily found by looking at comorbidities (https://ohtwist.com/about-eds/comorbidities) which occur within families on an autosomal dominant basis. Due to the perceived rarity of hEDS people with the more common milder form are often classified as Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD) but follow up research has found no real difference between hEDS and HSD, just a perceived difference in severity. There is a ton of research coming out about how people with Long Covid are much more likely to have HSD/hEDS at a rate that makes no sense unless the general population prevalence is at 2%.
When I have an expectation of privacy, say in a fenced backyard, I don't expect to be seen. It doesn't matter if it's a human or a robot commanded by a human that does the looking, it's still a violation of privacy.

It's not really "private" if the backyard has a one way glass pane on one wall. Github should not be calling repos private if they're not.
I wonder, how do Azure DevOps and AWS CodeCommit compare in this regard?
Large? This is the simple, fast midtier compiler. Without much optimizations.

Looks similar to the PHP compiler.
on non Apple hardware
> For example, what you eat is shaped far more by what you see than by what you search for.

The linked study is co-authored by the disgraced researcher/fraudster Brian Wansink. I guess this was one of the studies that didn’t get retracted, but I still wouldn’t put a lot of faith in anything with his name on it.
Both the introduction and the “Status” chapter of Keith Johnstone’s Impro book will interest you greatly.
I get it, but that’s definitely a larger first world problem affecting the people of many countries, I presume including Canada.

You have plenty of people both willing and unwilling to face this issue everywhere.

And you might be surprised by the types of people who share your attitude. They aren’t all as woke as you might think.
Apple’s Long-Awaited Next Big Thing Is Nearly Here at Last
In theory, separate teams can manage separate deployment schedules, etc more closely aligned with their feature work.
The Highest-Paying Jobs Are Being Posted with Widest Salary Ranges
Perhaps off-topic, but are there any estimates of how much power it takes to run one of these "supercomputer on wheels"? Is the compute energy a significant portion of the total energy for a given trip?
Show HN: ConvoStack – Open-source chat framework for langchain
So not your keys then. Thanks.
> when the user starts to reach the bottom

That’s too late to be sending the request if you want the premium feeling of no loading times while scrolling, especially if you also want to do rich thumbnails of media.
That was at the end of USSR. Gorbachyov was such a successful leader.

There were no such things happening in 1950-s, etc, up till late 1980-s.

Yet, the situation was much like "empty shelves, full fridges" all through the USSR time I remember.
This is one of many instances where developers should not make shallow assumptions without reading the documentation. GitHub is very clear about how private repos should be used.

Edit to add: would you store your bank password on a piece of paper you always leave sitting in your backyard? Think carefully about your metaphor.
I wonder if it'd get hot enough to print this on a separate board and just lay the working board on top.
A different birder and artist has a great quest to draw ten thousand birds. Amazing artist too: https://www.drawingtenthousandbirds.com/

Just under nine thousand to go. It really is a life long quest.
Split brain patients, maybe?

Edit: not agreeing or disagreeing, but that would be the most probable proof or sth
Agreed! This specifically is for adjuvant osimertinib for EGFR+ Stage IB–IIIA completely resected NSCLC.

The headline here is really strong -- and the actual abstract is much more sober: "5-year OS rate was 88% with osimertinib vs 78% with placebo" [Full abstract is here: https://meetings.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/219805 ]

P.S. Hi Chris! (I think I picked up a summer student from you last week!)
Flatpak isn’t ideal and it has lots of room for improvement but what is the better alternative?

I would say that at least Flatpak is on the right direction.
My initial attitude toward that section was similar. But in the spirit of doing a charitable interpretation - in every company there are those who want to do good and make a change. And there are those who just want to say No to everything. Just everything. Just no. There are always ten million reasons to not do anything new and just keep being the same. And the article is suggesting that if you spend more time with those who want to change things you will adopt their attitude by osmosis. Doesn't say anything whether any given change is a good one.

If you are an alcoholic, being around people who drink a lot is not helping you. I choose to interpret that paragraph to mean you shoild be around people with attitude you want to adopt.

More broadly I see articles main point to be adopting a systemic approach. Don't think hope or try to magically make yourself "a better person who doesn't do bad things ". Rather come up with systems and methods to enforce behaviour you want in yourself.
Thanks. I will revise them.
Yes, and I would add flatpak ensure security issues are never looked at. I believe if something in flatpak has a security problem, it will never be addressed.

Why, because it is in a flakpak and is separated from the OS, so the issue just sits there. This could end up being a problem for distros not using flatpak and for that matter the BSDs.
Their policy, if you scroll up from this link, is to scan only “aggregate metadata” and only if you opt in.

GitHub aggregates metadata and parses content patterns for the purposes of delivering generalized insights within the product. It uses data from public repositories, and also uses metadata and aggregate data from private repositories when a repository's owner has chosen to share the data with GitHub by enabling the dependency graph. If you enable the dependency graph for a private repository, then GitHub will perform read-only analysis of that specific private repository.

If you enable data use for a private repository, we will continue to treat your private data, source code, or trade secrets as confidential and private consistent with our Terms of Service. The information we learn only comes from aggregated data. For more information, see "Managing data use settings for your private repository."
Did you read the article? They’re not saying that GitHub is reading your repos, they’re saying that mistakes happen and you shouldn’t assume that private repos are secure.

Go out in your fenced yard and assume you won’t be seen, but if you forget to close the gate someone might come back there anyway
A Manifesto for the Radical Redefinition of Design in the Age of AI
> It’s a good piece of anti-design if it’s being used to communicate the right message, in the right place, for the right audience.

That's just good design.
You could have written the same thing to explain Microsoft bundling IE and crushing competing 3rd parties back in 1999.

Can you really blame Microsoft here? Microsoft is company which is trying to make money. One of the ways it does that is by building its own browser and locking users into its platform which it controls and in the way it wants.

EDIT: And sorry, I know you're not defending or excusing Reddit here. My comment is just about how we sometimes mistake "what a company obviously will do" for "what standard a company should be held to"