skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the data is very "scientific", e.g: slack was officially launched in 2014 and got immediate traction. Yes there were 4 years of development but it wasn't even the product they wanted to sell.
Even that is a strong correlation though, and a simplified one at that. Context matters even for sun exposure, if solar radiation was a direct cause of cancer you should reliably see consistent skin cancer rates among people with similar complexion and exposure rates.

I've seen some really compelling research looking into diet changes that may impact risk of skin cancer, specifically an increase in saturated fats helping to reduce risk. The idea is that saturated fats are envloved in the process of your body turning UV into vitamin D. With more saturated fats in your system the UV has effectively has a job and is processed by the body.

My point is simply that the body is complex, cancer generally develops over years, and trying to narrow down a common link strong enough to claim causation is tricky if not impossible.
> Final plug is of course PICO8.

Cannot not mention a Tic80. It is a FOSS alternative to PICO8.

Main differences are: 16:9 aspect ratio, no cpu limits and many languages to tinker with: lua, js, moonscript, ruby, squirrel, wren, fennel, janet, wasm, ... and just recently - a Python support was added.

https://tic80.com

https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80
yaml & json are more portable, with codecs available in many stdlibs. You can decode directly into language types in most cases

CUE is the future I hope for
The EU has more lax regulations on SAR than the FCC does (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_absorption_rate#Mobil...).

It may be unnecessarily low, but it's certainly not a mark of shame for EU citizens specifically.
I will die on the hill that the blobs were the best emoji and Google should have never gotten rid of them.
I forgot Stride: https://www.stride3d.net

It was not completely open source, but it is now (if I didn't read it wrong).
Sometimes, but not always. There are PLENTY of "highly" rational people who do similarly as they utilize reasoning at the "close enough" level as is the cultural (and culturally enforced) norm in their country/era. And if you protest based on a more strict approach, expect to be dismissed ("debunked") via culturally ingrained, rhetorically persuasive memes.

Avoiding all errors in cognition is often extremely difficult, ain't nobody got time for that sort of "pedantry".
Wasn't lifetime profitable
I have very little respect to people at Microsoft when it comes to technical side of things. Whenever I have to deal with their "creations" it's like they were motivated by malice, or part of their frontal cortex gone missing.

> The most obvious reason would be to use the executable itself to back the memory which the comment you replied to already hinted at.

Imagine that I've already read that, and I still see no reason to do that. So what? The code of the program will go missing? -- What's the big deal? Kill the process. User wanted to remove it anyways... Let the user decide what to do: system shouldn't second guess me.
Agreed, instead of addressing any of the problems that push people to buy big gas guzzlers, they leverage those problems to divide the population. If you look, you will see these wedge issues everywhere. We won't get anywhere at addressing any pressing issues in our society if we let the medias keep dividing us.
>The same way any linux distro does?
>Define a separate directory for program installations, that user processes cannot write to.

What about /usr/local/bin? Isn't that specifically for putting non package manager binaries into?
Came here to say the same! I hear employment practices in the animation industry have a poor record but still...
> while providing a good alternative to hotels.

This was true for a couple of years before Airbnb renters realized they could bait-and-switch customers with fees at checkout.

I will never forget making it to the checkout for an Airbnb in Memphis, seeing a $200 "service fee" (for one night!), going back, then checking the reviews and seeing that there wasn't a functioning toilet.

> Uber, well, do I even need to discuss that one?

Getting shoehorned into the back of a Kia Rio is NOT "amazing service" relative to a Crown Vic with a privacy divider.
Ironically? Fact it's a superset means it has more states and can't be as optimized as JSON.

To compound the misery YAML is whitespace indented with some extra bonkers rules. So even your JSON subset in YAML needs to obey it.

Mix of flow and block makes both modes worse. However it also makes a lot of sense.
A file exists for those who have the access rights, and does not for everyone else.

In that case, the file exists only for the process which has already opened it.
As a gamer, games in Unity run like smoldering hot garbage on my brand new AMD AM5 build so hopefully this gets people off of it. Valve needs to hurry up and get Source 2 out there.
No worries, there are some screenshots and descriptions on the PH post if you wanted to avoid an account altogether. The platform is geared towards businesses who need security by default - hence the required accounts.

If there's anything you had hoped to see though let me know!
On "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" this weekend they described Mozilla as "a security research firm". Which, in the context it was given (the Mozilla Foundation report on car privacy) isn't wrong. But it can also be confusing for people / judges who may be thinking "Wait? I thought that was a search engine?"
> kill Unity as an option for F2P games

Will it though? That $0.20 fee seems like a red herring (and not such a big deal unless most of your users are in US, Western Europe etc.) and hardly anyone will pay that much. Why would they?

Anyone who makes over $200k is already using Pro and your per install fee is unlikely to be above $0.05 or so, maybe you van even get it down to $0.03 or $0.02. Which still might be a significant hit for some but that alone is unlikely to kill Unity in the F2P mobile market.

Also considering how much some of these game developers are willing pay for Ads $0.05 can’t be a very significant amount for them.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t really like this whole pay per install thing or where Unity has been heading over the past 4-5 years in general but I don’t think these new fees will be such a huge hit for 90%+ or all their clients.
Tempo rubato! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo_rubato
If you expect a model to match up with 100% of anything then then why even attempt anything at all?

Mostly correct, most of the time, is good enough for many use cases. Wait until you find out how the code that runs your car works...
I understand/understood the inherent inefficiency. My entire point was that if solar/wind makes up majority of you power generation capacity there will be certain periods of time when significantly more power will be generated than there is demand for.

> totally, totally ignoring the fact that it will cost more energy to do the carbon capture and store said captured carbon, than the mechanical work we get out of it

Which is fine if you essentially have free energy during those periods.

Don’t get me wrong, it would only make any sense if carbon capture processes improve significantly but I don’t see how the laws of thermodynamics are an issue if you have an excess of energy you can’t use for anything else (of course other forms of storage might still much cheaper, you can make more aluminum during those times do even less sensible things that carbon capture like mining bitcoin etc.)
> Wait wasn't capitalism supposed to bring us less work hours and less overall working years ?

No, that was labor unions and the government. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1052968060/how-the-40-hour-wo...

The market has no rational incentive to pay people the same for less work or to keep paying superfluous workers as automation evolves.

At the end of that article, an economist is quoted as speculating that the rise in productivity would decimate the hours we need to work, but that makes no sense when you think about it. If I can get yesteryear's daily productivity in a minute, why would I, holding yesteryear's productivity as a constant, decide that I and my employees should only for 1 minute? Why not just work for a day and reap in the TONS of extra productivity, especially considering competitors might be doing that? The only way it works is if the government forced everyone to.
I imagine if there were a Mother Nature it would be proud of us, we’re quite creative and unusual.

I’m not sure what it would think about iPhone 12 regulations. I suspect it would consider that a bit of a niche detail.
> Han civilization

Sorry. I’m not sure how did I manage to write that, it was supposed to be “civilizations have [thrived]”.

> Earth has never been as inhospitable to human life as it's expected to be since any known civilization started,

That debatable and very hard to quantify. Also it really depends on the region, e.g. Europe was probably quite worse than now during the “little ice age” or the 600s (coincidentally the Arabian peninsula seems to have thrived during that period due to higher humidity).

Climate change was the reason many ancient civilizations collapsed, it seems to have been a pretty regular occurrence and we were only be to break out of that circle in the late middle ages/1500s.
Well, I probably have to add, that my point of view comes from old school german engeneering (through my dad). His approach to building something vs. mine as a software dev are quite different ..

And the accidents that I know of, are where the security mechanism have been tampered with. A proper designed and certified german machine is hard to get injured by if followed protocol (and the reasons are past accidents and suing the manufactor).
This is exactly what linux does too, inodes just let users delete/move the file on disk while the executable is running.
I think the super weird part is that it's not great?
I understand this is most likely very impressive technologically but musically it is disjointed, inconsistent and fake sounding.
Most of the "music" examples have weird phrasing and confusing harmonic rhythm.

Kudos to stability.ai for achieving this as I am sure it took a lot of effort and this is a huge leap forward in terms of generation of audio by generative AI.

However as a musician (BMus and MMus at 2 different conservatoires) I think it's important to say that the job risk being experienced by creative writers will not be extending to musicians... yet.
What do you mean, "smart enough to decompile assembly"?

That's not exactly rocket science. Anyone can do that, there's tools for that.
“Living wage”, “grievance”, and “contract” are so-called “union words” according to this training.

My mouth is agape.

These are words and phrases I openly use with colleagues in exactly the setting the video implies and I’m an non-unionised office worker.

Maybe that means I’m itching for a union? /s
It's a pretty rare company that wants unions. If you are running a business, you don't want to be forced into paying above-market wages, or to have disciplinary measures blocked for certain classes of employees [1], or to effectively pay protection money to a new set of bosses in an outside organization. It's really just losses all the way down. That any company would resist this should not be shocking.

Obviously, a typical guy working in a warehouse would be smart to vote for unionization, because why wouldn't he want more money and a lower probability of being fired? The chance of the place completely shuttering in the future is, for him, the big risk. (This is why public employee unions are the big survivors--the shuttering never happens.)

But I'll tell you, actually working with unions will put a stink on the whole concept. It seems like most people have a "unions=good" presumption and derive all their other views from that.

[1] That is, if an employee would normally be fired for incompetence or misconduct, a strong union would typically prevent it.
There's also these:

- https://github.com/kitao/pyxel (Python)

- https://github.com/minigdx/tiny (Lua)
Increased security declared.

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/etias/

>The main reason for the approval of the ETIAS authorization is security. With the increased risk of travellers worldwide, the EU wants to ensure safe travel in its countries. The ETIAS will decrease security concerns substantially through its information and data-gathering systems. This means that the ETIAS will detect if a person is a threat in any way to the security of Schengen countries. This will lead to the person being denied entry and avoiding the threat of being present inside EU borders. It will basically deal with a problem before it is even there.

(follows a number of completely bogus "advantages" for the travellers, society and what not).
There’s nothing unique about the US system when it comes to addressing this particular question. The details of specific sentencing guidelines are just implementation details. The primary concerns addressed by any justice system that implements “punishments” are deterrence and revenge (though the rationale for confinement can be slightly different). Nearly every justice system in the world seeks to punish offenders, because justice dictates that’s what they deserve. If the public feel that the justice system is not inflicting the appropriate level of suffering onto offenders, then you see vigilantism and other forms of civil unrest. But there’s not some grand moral justification for this, it’s just human nature.
Would someone kindly recommend the best way to read Apple2 5.25 floppy disks and save disk images for emulation use?
Or Death Valley [1].

I've always been of the opinion that this is not just a technical challenge but also a people challenge. Living in an environment that requires pressurized compartments will lead to devastating outcomes if there is even one emotionally unstable or compromised person present. All of the previous biodome experiments on earth have failed for a myriad of technical and people issues. To your point I can't even imagine testing this on Mars.

What I could see would be robots setting up an environment for humans ahead of time, constantly measuring life-support status of every compartment and chaos-testing everything constantly to prove that anyone could live there even if they tried to mess it up and let that run for a decade while constantly making improvements. Clumsy-Temper-Tantrum-Robots that artificially consume vast amounts of O2

[1] - https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm
Had to look up Insomnia - hadn't heard of it before in the UK. Seems to be only in Ireland and across the English midlands. https://www.insomnia.ie/nearest-coffee-shop
Isn't the answer to this a minivan?
> So much for being "the world's best employer".

wut, you actually bought that until just now?
Apple's HFS used a B*-tree starting in 1985.
it is a trade off
Most users do not want a running program to corrupt / crash on them - even if they deleted the backing exe.
Thanks, what is best non-web way to get windows 95 look for a desktop app?
That sounds a fun project :) I tried a little peeling of a CD-R under a microscope, where can see the tracks, I should try and measure the pixel distance and convert to track width - https://www.anfractuosity.com/files/cd-r.JPG
They declined interviews with Swedens largest newspaper and their written response was "we have no evidence money laundering is happening on our platform". Safe so say a lot of Swedish people aren't happy with how they're handling this.
When the subject is Windows, and the question includes a “why,” the answer is always “for historical reasons.”
Not sure how that follows from this article.

A government having a regulatory limit on device emissions and a device failing that test is orthogonal to "phones cause cancer"
The truth is much more boring. Most devices don't get tested by governments, companies use certified labs to test their devices and then get the relevant certificates (CE markings etc) based on the paperwork from those certified labs. The surprising part here is that they decided to test the iPhone 12 at all, not that they haven't done it earlier.
It's impressive how incredibly bad the code must have been for that to happen
Of course it's hard to completely understand Python inside and out. There are probably only a few dozen people in the world who do, or a few hundred max. And that's because for the vast majority of people it's completely unnecessary. If you want to go deeper then you're welcome to, but a new programmer is just going to get bogged down in unnecessary details if you try to introduce new concepts when he's just starting out. It's like saying the average PC user should understand the inner workings of GUIs. Makes no sense.
Show HN: Switchboard SDK – An easy to use cross-platform audio graph SDK
Hi HN community, this is something I’ve been working on for more than the last year at Synervoz and I’m excited to share it.

We’ve worked on a number of audio projects and found that app developers often face the same challenges time and time again. The Switchboard SDK aims to solve those with an easy-to-use, cross-platform audio graph based SDK that can save a lot of time for many projects.
Nice article on Fanque and on Lennon too. I spotted a Blue Plaque in tribute to Fanque this summer near his birthplace on All Saints Green, a street in Norwich (which is in the East of England but emphatically not, per the article, "an east coast port"... )
Ironically of course, the standard of living for the average Australian hasn’t changed over the last 20 years. Growth means nothing to most Australians, because ultimately, the money doesn’t wind up in our pockets.

Politicians and rich people treat ever increasing GDP as some kind of admirable pursuit when in reality it’s making Australia far worse. We are not investing in infrastructure and any investments we do make are quickly skimmed and shipped overseas.

I want to try a stagnant economy, as I’d rather everyone works 20 hours and have great lives than what we have now.
probably because they're run by the state
This is reasonable, but this does not necessarily preclude the file from being deleted from the directory.

If an open file is deleted, it's no longer enumerable in the file system. But its pages / blocks / whatever are still there on the disk, marked as used, and can back the page cache.

Once the file is closed, the filesystem notices that the blocks do not belong to a file accessible from outside, and garbage-collects the data blocks. It all closely resembles reference-counted GC.
Right, so with a 2% salt brine the chances are basically nil.
Most people would agree working for a company that makes weapons that kill people doesn't make you a murderer. But it's much more of a gray area when you order someone to murder and they do it. A lot of people don't distinguish between those two things.
That's strange. I do the same thing and Substack (and specifically Lenny's newsletter) accepts it okay.
If you’re a seasoned front-end developer working on audio, voice, or music projects and are a bit rusty with C++, this may be a big help. On our documentation site you can find code examples and there are complete sample apps on our Github too. Some technical info:

- The core of the SDK is written in C++

- High-level language bindings are provided for Swift/ObjC, Kotlin/Java and JavaScript

- Audio graphs can also be put together in JSON

- There are extensions for open-source and commercial audio libraries that provide additional audio nodes

- Platform specific audio engine classes handle the device-level audio I/O

Hope you like it, and would love to hear any questions/feedback/comments.
... Ultimately, Apple failed because of USB-C.
> > writes locally first and then syncs to remote

> Call me old fashioned, but why would anybody ever think doing it differently was a good idea?

Simplicity. Ignoring the issues of broken conectivity, going straight to the server to write and reading back from it, removes the need for both store/retreive and sync - you only have to think about store/retreive. There are unavoidable sync issues (two users load the same object, edit for a while, then save) that you have to deal with but they can be more simply dealt with because you can assume a small number rather than each user potentially having been offline for days and written a novel over many updates to an overlapping set of documents.

Also historically people just haven't had good offline options and many still don't. If you have to contend with users on more ancient browsers/devices (which many of us unfortunately do) then you have to support online working too so if you want to priorities that needs to come first (it supports all possible users) and offline after (as an improvement for those that have devices to support the tech and storage space your solution needs).

Locking issues, while not easy in an online client/server setup, are simpler than offline-first. And by simpler I mean actually possible to deal with - with offline first you instead have to deal with conflict resolution.
Bluesky Exploits
How is it different from just reading the Host header and serving a directory based on that?
I'm not saying that AI hasn't some utility, I'm stating that the hype is gonna push for building AI'd applications that didn't need AI.

Few of the examples you make don't need ML at all (such as routing emails, voice mail, generating test data or pulling notes from 10 websites).
Isn't collective punishment in boot camp primarily used as a tool to increase the group cohesion of the trainees? In that case, it doesn't really fit into the other use cases, and must be argued against individually.

I'm not sure about the actual utility, but in abstract, it fits quite well to my impression of how humans, especially in small, "hunter-gatherer band sized", groups, work. And the military has a special need to create cohesion in its military that goes beyond what would be even vaguely acceptable in any liberal democracy for the general population. Especially in the special case of a criminal: which government would be stupid enough to increase the group cohesion of a dangerous criminal's family (including this criminal)?
So what? Building an operating system necessarily requires making countless design decisions, trading some things for other things. Over the decades the best choices may even change as technology advances but you might be unable to change course because you have a huge number of installations and would cause a lot of issues.
A criminal gang based in Sweden is a Swedish criminal gang by definition.
https://www.newsweek.com/non-human-alien-bodies-found-ufo-cr...
Writing this from my macOS :)
The way that the criminals are abusing stuffs never ceases to amaze me. That's why we can't have nice thing.
I think OmniQuant is notable because it shifts the bend of the curve to 3-bit. While < 3-bit still ramps up, it's notable in that it's usable and doesn't go asymptotic: https://github.com/OpenGVLab/OmniQuant/blob/main/imgs/weight...

What EXL2 seems to bring to the table is that you can target an arbitrary quantize bit-weight (eg, if you're a bit short on VRAM, you don't need to go from 4->3 or 3->2, but can specify say 3.75bpw). You have some control w/ other schemes by setting group size, or with k-quants, but EXL2 is definitely allows you to be finer grained. I haven't gotten a chance to sit down with EXL2 yet, but if no one else does it, it's on my todo-list to be able to do 1:1 perplexity and standard benchmark evals on all the various new quantization methods, just as a matter of curiosity.
US FDA panel says popular decongestant used in cold medicines ineffective
You can get 10 heat pumps installed for 22 000 USD here. Maybe more as you'd probably get a discount on the work part of the install if you're doing that many at once.