skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It gets even worse when you see how the ML community likes to bastardize terms from neuroscience.

But I think it is good to have memorable names that one can use to talk about the concepts verbally.
Oh I forgot he called his party "Socialist", that automatically disqualifies it from being de facto fascist or capitalist. /eyeroll
It's the Shepard tone effect running in the background of the actual notes, which produce a mild illusion that they're ascending when they're not, but nevertheless they're moving up and then down in pitches so it's not a brilliant example. I think the author is a little confused in this short essay about a few things. His "talking piano" effect is just standard vocoding, which has made me think this is all fairly new to him and he's not an expert.

THIS is a talking piano: https://youtu.be/muCPjK4nGY4
I think you have replied to a wrong comment.
Hackers Gain Control of Card Shuffling Machine for Godlike Control over Games
Ideologies are just that: ideologies. No implementation of the ideology gets close to what the ideology tries to be.

Socialized health care isn't communism. It's just admitting that the "free market" isn't a magic panacea that automatically makes everything work. (Kind of like how most of us get our water from the government, or how we get our protection from our government-run military.)

Equating socialized healthcare with communism is a poor argument: Canada, Australia, and the UK have socialized health care, and those countries are very capitalist. If you don't like socialized health care, I suggest looking at how those countries operate and build your arguments based on observed facts of those systems' weaknesses.
Currently using Fedora Silverblue. I am tempted to learn Nix and NixOS, but I have red several accounts that Nix is hard, documentation somewhat lacking, the ecosystem frustrating. Can anyone tell me if I should invest time to learn Nix, nonetheless?
If we're going to be pedantic about it, just playing a piece of music, from whatever medium it is stored in, is making a (n analog and transient) copy of it.
> Taiwan ... independent countries

Is Taiwan no longer claiming they are the legitimate government of mainland China (as well as parts of a bunch of neighboring countries)?
From experience at other companies, I feel like it's usually just this One Person who goes around and bugs people to actually sit down and write up the interesting things they have to say. When they leave, the posts stop.
I agree, I am wrong, I comment too soon, not noticing that these were examples, not definitions.
You made the claim, so the burden of proof is on you, nevertheless:

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15764/prevalence-of-music...

One thing I did find is that, for some reason, Covid saw a drop in music piracy. That has nothing to do with the claim that “since Spotify released (2011), music piracy is non existent”, though. I didn’t bother to read on idea of why that occurred.
It’s 70 years after the death of the author. So if Andy Weir died tomorrow, The Martian wouldn’t enter the public domain until 2093.
The Nazi party was violently anti-communist, and relied on the support of powerful capitalists. "Socialist" in name only.
In the age of ubiquitous information sharing, the news of cops raiding a newspaper office is rather not a signal the system is working, than it is a klaxon that the system is failing.
To Anacreon in Heaven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eg7z0-6Nhc
Registers asr22/23 contain a cycle counter that you can use to time stuff. If it's not present, there's a register in the DSU that counts cycles but that requires an access via the AHB bus. You can measure a lot of things with those cycle counters, like context switch and interrupt handling times, memcpy vs naive for-loop, linear vs. binary search on small arrays...

I'd expect a few microseconds per overflow at most but it depends a lot on the characteristics of the system. Of course, if the application is not sensitive to a few microseconds here and a few microseconds there that optimization might not be worth it.
The idea is also to use this for solar system propulsion, rather than Earth to orbit.

Consequently, reactor payloads would be carried on a very small fraction of launches, then used in space for an extended amount of time.
Nope. iBoot doesn't support USB at all (including for OS installation), presumably to reduce the vulnerability surface area. While annoying, this makes sense, as the USB stack is quite complex.

Apple Silicon Macs can boot from USB, kind of, depending on your definition of "boot"--they have to first boot an OS from the internal hard drive and then boot the OS on the USB.
Same here, been served a loop all week long.
I find it interesting that Objective-C would need to be discouraged, which suggests that Apple engineers don't independently prefer Swift. ;-)
Very few business success stories credit luck with being a root cause.

But in real life luck (or "chance" , if you prefer) plays a part, sometimes a significant part.

It was lucky that John and Paul went to school together. It was lucky they got on together and became good friends. Thanks to that luck ee got the Beatles.

Of course it (usually) takes -more- than just luck, but dig deep enough and its there.
Are there any startups doing or requiring complex or exotic algorithms these days to solve unique engineering problems?

Would really love to know to see different and various use cases.
The issue is not the forcing people to wear clothes, really. If Islamic societies applied this rule equally to men we'd all wear hats in Iran without thinking and no one would discuss it other than as a cultural oddity. It's illegal to bare certain parts of the body in many western countries.

But men in Iran get to sharply dress and show off their barber's work. They're allowed to be full individuals in this domain, not shuttered away dependents. That's the issue with an imposed hijab that applies only to women.
Micropayments aren’t more of a thing already for a reason. There is friction and overhead with signing up for a 3P subscription service even if the actual dollar cost is negligible.
I don't remember seeing "show hn" in the title when I posted.
But,
can we get to .99c?
I think shallow views is a much better first-pass filter than abhorrent views; a sufficiently in-depth abhorrent view can and likely will have components worth taking from, even if their final conclusion is absurd (or just overreaching).

An acceptable-but-shallow view and an abhorrent-but-shallow view are equally worthless; effectively as much value an upvote.
You are also completely mistaken. Making copies for personal use is legal in the Netherlands and (many/most?) EU countries.

> You are permitted to make copies of other people’s texts, music and photographs provided that they derive from a legal source. The copies must be for your own use. It is not permissible, however, to distribute or publish such copies.

https://www.government.nl/topics/intellectual-property/quest...
Supabase has pretty good docs and a nice Ui to play around with this, btw.
30 seconds:

Can you build/test/run your organization's software from 5 days/months/years ago - across multiple platforms, systems, and ecosystems - reliably?

Can you develop, build, manage, and maintain your software without fear?

Do you want a system do the bookkeeping for proper software dependency management? Or do you want people to do it by hand?

Do you want a declarative system, or try to remember and keep track of all the changes you've ever made by hand?

You don't get these things for free, but if you value them, then Nix is the tool for you. Or at least learn about it so that you can learn from the decades of accumulated knowledge.

next 30 seconds:
I can confidently compile and run multiple incompatible versions of software simultaneously. I can build projects from years ago. I can package large projects from different ecosystems (python 2/3, c/c++, go, Javascript, Octave, Rust) and be confident they will not interfere with each other. I can try bleeding edge software with no risk to it interfering with my system. It is faster and less hassle than juggling various Docker containers and VMs. It protects me from dependency hell. Using Nix to manage an operating system (ie: NixOS) then gives me those benefits for my entire machine. Then I get even more benefits when using Nix on any other (not even necessarily NixOS) machine by pushing around package closures and managing a simple binary cache.

But overall: it makes me more productive. It is my secret weapon to manage the complexity of software development. The benefit is not on day 1, but on day 100 and day 1000.
I don't take taxi for the privacy but because public transports suck in Paris at night. Past 2AM the metro doesn't works, the train to Versailles (next to where I live) doesn't work, the bus to my city also doesn't works.

The second biggest issue when taking public transport while drunk, is sleeping and missing your stop.
If you really want to write it yourself, sure. This code is very easily automatically generated.

https://pub.dev/packages/json_serializable
Unless you live in a tunnel, who cares? If you’re hosting a basic portfolio and personal site you don’t even need 2 9’s of reliability
Sandbox their app and configure it properly.
Nixos: an excellent place to spend thousands of hours trying to save hundreds of hours of time reinstalling linux and setting it up each time you buy a new computer.
Live C++ execution and callstack preview in Visual Studio via extension [video]
Isn't Daft Punk pretty famous for sampling/referencing other artists' songs?
> nix is so clearly superior and yet nobody uses it. curious!

If you're going to be snide, you should at least be correct - or are the 6300 users in the main matrix chat room just hanging out for fun?

(sent from my nixos daily driver)
The thing is if you have half a brain you end up talking to a support chat bot exactly because you're facing an edge case ...
It's pretty much "if your success depends on luck you still have to show up and start rolling the dice"
> That’s probably enough funny designs to get you interested in Chinese enamel mugs. Did I mention that each costs only ~$2 online, shipping included?

Probably needs a link?
>Qualified immunity does not protect government employees who break the law.

Well qualified immunity doesn't apply to criminal cases, but civil suits are generally the only way survivors and their families can get compensation for violations of their rights.

Reading about egregious conduct where the government was somehow able to be granted qualified immunity will make anyone wonder how we could allow this to happen.
Cool thanks, time to show it to children.
I have yet to know a single person who followed through on “when cigarettes get to $X/pack I’m going to quit.”.
I live in the mountains and certainly enjoy a hot tub on a crisp, cloudless, snow-covered night.

However, they’re a pain in the ass to own and maintain. Our previous rental home had one — I spent more time maintaining it than using it.

When we bought our current home 8 years ago, it had an unmaintained broken-down hot tub. I don’t regret ripping it out instead of fixing it.

I can always use a hot tub on ski vacations, where someone else can maintain it.
Those aren’t necessarily written as people would do it today, but Knuth’s literate sources for TeX[1] and METAFONT[2] are explicitly meant for reading. The literate program family also includes LCC[3], but A retargetable C compiler is a book that you’d need to buy; and PBRT[4], but Physically based rendering is more exposition than program (even if the program is a perfectly good one). The source for Unix V6[5] with the accompanying commentary by Lions is probably as much of a classic as it’s possible to get. And as an eccentric choice in a similar format, may I suggest cmForth[6], perhaps paired with Footsteps in an empty valley[7]?

Also, though this is not precisely what you’re asking for, The architecture of open-source applications and its sequels[8] have the original designers’ reflections on some well-known codebases.

[1] http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/knuth-pdf/tex/tex.pdf

[2] http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/knuth-pdf/mf/mf.pdf

[3] https://github.com/drh/lcc

[4] https://pbr-book.org/

[5] http://v6.cuzuco.com/

[6] https://github.com/ForthHub/cmFORTH/blob/combined/cmforth.ft...

[7] http://forth.org/OffeteStore/4001-footstepsFinal.pdf

[8] https://aosabook.org/
The API assumes you are on a relatively small screen and using a finger to drag and drop. Thus, it doesn't provide functionality that you would expect if you were on a desktop or laptop monitor with more space and using a mouse and keyboard where there is a wider variety of things that you would like to happen with a drag and drop interface. The API is primarily assuming you're taking a widget and dragging it with a finger to somewhere just an inch or two away on a phone or tablet screen. Yes, drag and drop "works" on desktop as it is, but the API is not well-designed for desktop-based usage. A lot of ad-hoc type of behavior using global state has to be used.
In the static analysis space this is a fundamental issue. We can't really usefully reason about the actual system, the state space simply becomes too large. So you have to reduce your problems to some axiomatic abstraction. In type systems we mostly cut those axioms at the system boundary. This is mostly because type systems are often incompatible and therefore can't automatically be analyzed across the boundary.

Imagine some pipe. You can put in some bytes and get some bytes out again. As far as you know, you have to put in 16 bit integers, and you get 16 bit integers out. You put that in your type system:

int16_t communicate(int16_t in);

Now what you don't know is that if you provide the remote system with the integer 0, it will send back a 0, followed by the string "hello world". Your type system can't catch that because you've never told it that it can happen. The axioms the static analysis was built on didn't match reality, and therefore the analysis itself isn't sound.
It's also fun to see people here pretend there's not a huge field studying public health and the effect of these policies on things like the economy. Yeah, social distancing was bad for the economy. Having millions more deaths due to Covid and the total collapse of the healthcare system in this country would have also been bad for the economy.
The thing to understand about Scott Adams is that if he says something that sounds outrageous, he's probably trolling you. He'll in fact describe how to do this in order to generate publicity, or as a mechanism to expose hypocrisy or bad logic. But when he's in the middle of it he'll commit to the bit.

Basically, someone says X, which is crazy, because if X then logically Y would be true and Y is not only wrong but offensive. So he'll publicly assert Y and get people to argue with him, but the only real way to show that Y is wrong is to admit that X is wrong, which was the point.

And then the people arguing with him don't want to do that. They want to be offended by Y without admitting that X is wrong. So he has a bunch of fun with them because they've foreclosed themselves at the outset from winning the debate on the merits.
Normal people do like free stuff it turns out. And typically not going to pay when it's ancient anyway. Instead of going without, they could give it a try. They'd like that too—if they knew it was possible and even encouraged.
> 2. It's an incredibly slippery slope to use "crapware" as a justification for reducing the freedoms of the individual. Criminals will find a way, do not create a hostile user experience.

It's a legit security issue. Not protecting people from these things is far more user hostile.
Assorted members of the unix and BSD family probably would qualify - research unix (at least v6, but maybe others) and 4.4bsd-lite come to mind. Maybe minix.
Is anyone aware of plans to port Asahi changes to make other linux distros, i.e. Ubuntu, and others, to be able to run without additional setup on M1 Macs?
looks like it can't handle a few clicks from hn
Took this class when it was offered for the first time when I was at CMU--it's a really great course and well organized!
I suspect a few classes at UCB theater or with the groundlings would be a more economical route to improv skills.

https://ucbcomedy.com/trainingcenter/course/#1-search=improv
Reading Ordinary Men changed how I feel about good and evil.
> Mein Kampf

Let's get this straight upfront: I'm not talking about anti-Nazi laws. In Germany it is illegal to sell to lend games which glorify war or violence to kids. Germany banned this game and there isn't a nazi or swastika in sight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmPjsBDN9Xw

Nor am I criticizing Germany for it. Germans are entitled to their values. But the point illustrated is that America isn't unique in deciding what is or isn't appropriate media for children to have access too. Germany's violent video game bans go further than any of these American book bans, actually banning the sale of these games to kids. None of the book bans in America ban the sale of these books to kids. Even libraries are not banned from lending these books, provided they can find other sources of funding.

As to your question, my personal belief is your answer b). Within practical reason (expense, availability) libraries should get and lend whichever books are in demand no matter how many other people those books offend. Since money and shelf space are scarce, prioritize the books with the greatest demand, regardless of how many other people hate that book. People who want books banned from public libraries to "protect kids" are stupid; parents need merely go to the library with their children and personally supervise what their kids read. That's how I would cast my vote, but I'm not a dictator and if the rest of the community votes to defund the library instead, that is what it is. The first amendment does not guarantee funding for public libraries, funding is provided to libraries voluntarily. If libraries want funding they need to convince a sufficient majority of the population to vote for that funding. And if people don't like how a library is being run, they're well within their rights to vote against funding that library. I wouldn't have it any other way, this is a democratic society and people voting the way they feel is the entire point. My personal preference is not the law, I only get one vote just like everybody else.

If you want to prevent this kind of defunding attack, I think there are several options: State or federal legislation to guarantee more funding to public libraries is one possibility; this would make libraries resistant to local defunding efforts, but of course passing such grander funding laws would perhaps be an even greater challenge. I think this is worth attempting nevertheless. Alternatively, public libraries can be funded by private donations. The 'public' in public library means that it's open to the public, necessarily that it's funded by the public. Many public libraries across America were founded and have been substantially funded by private donations.
Setting stricter defaults makes sense, but not being able to compile older code even with options to disable checks seems like a regression.
I drew these corals with mathematical equations
France treats women with hijabs very well. Giving them food, housing and money all at the expense of France's own people.
Since mDNS works over multicast, it will not leave their respective subnet. Getting that traffic over subnet boundaries is a problem of it's own (see also mDNS reflector)
Asahi changes are being done in such a way as to be upstreamable, at which point any kernel derived off of mainline will pick up their fixes, so eventually detault Ubuntu will run on Apple Silicon. Expect a custom kernel that can be setup with a bit of work before then though.
> I would argue "lifestyle startups" are largely a low-interest rate phenomenon.

Could you elaborate on this?

I'm curious because I thought it's the opposite: VC-fueled startups are "growth at all costs even if it means no profits" whilst "lifestyle startups" is more like "I have a $1K MRR and it's just enough to subsist eating ramen". Maybe we understand the term "lifestyle startups" differently? :)
The version I saw early was "We'll rub a Mexican monkey".
PC is overkill for this case. A raspberry pi would get the job done while saving energy and equipment costs.
Yeah, this is one of those problems that leadership just ignores and passes to the next person.

"Reports of sewage leaking over the border into the San Diego region stretch back at least to the 1930s. Significant improvements were made in the 1990s, but Tijuana's wastewater facilities haven't kept pace with growth while many poorer communities remain unconnected to the city's sewer system." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-25/tijuana-...
Time spent coding is a zero sum. Leaders are needed to identify how to do use that energy and time. In terms of business success. This might be the #1 thing (granted I’m entirely speculating). Are your priorities correct and do the engineers know them? This is not that easy. People will argue endlessly over when to address tech debt, how much security is enough security, how much to deliver early vs fully formed, what features to build, When to bail on a half made feature, etc etc.
I think the problem with this idea is using it to host a personal website. There are so many other ways to host personal website that are better.

I think hosting services for Internet doesn't make sense, but does for local network. I have thought how could have disaster response server on local network. Instead of Raspberry Pi with battery, could have phone which is has own battery, and more likely to have one available.
Understanding ActivityPub Part 1: Protocol Fundamentals
Down for me as well. I guess you get what you pay for ;)
Man, that's just a bad precedent. Space shifting should still apply to the internet and digital files.
Understanding ActivityPub Part 2: Lemmy
Understanding ActivityPub Part 3: The State of Mastodon
Dissent is important, within reason. Things like claiming a medication we know is ineffective can cure Covid in the face of 99% of the medical establishment telling you you're a moron is not within reason, for example.
That would be one decent instance of a self cooled server.
Arch is unusual in that it's x86-64 only, so going from 1 to 2 is probably a lot harder than other distros just adding the nth new architecture.
This could work. If the site is down, the phone is off or in a tunnel. Try again later, nothing wrong with that.
Don't bore us; get to the chorus.
Absolutely. My point is that it doesn't always go that way. He had his faults, but he could take string feedback. If I recall, he said something to the effect of "not many people speak to me like that. I forget how helpful it is to be challenged"
Web Browser Engineering Concluded
With great risk, like Lehman brothers mortgage bundling, comes great reward, government bailout.

> Nowhere else on the planet are you able to do that with such magnitude, not in Japan, not in Europe, not in China

Europe had that too, rich nobles sponsored scientists and artists.

We are back in aristocratic society
ngl this is a little cursed, but awesome
There's a few tools out there like AgentGPT (https://github.com/reworkd/AgentGPT, although it's a more conversational interface), and (https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow) and others. I think most developers definitely prefer a code-first interface though like a library but haven't found one that's great yet. We've used them in the past but didn't have the best experience so would love to hear if anyone has worked with a library they found really flexible.