skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is true at all. For several different reasons:

First, "the right approach" to building a software program is wildly unspecified: it could refer to the UI/UX aspects and/or the internal design, and these both have dramatic impacts on long term evolution.

Second: the "right approach" for "making music" in the early days covered things as distinct as MIDI sequencers, trackers and early ProTools. It was far from obvious whether all 3 would continue to exist or some hybrid would become dominant (that's actually what happened - early ProTools did not do MIDI; the eventually archetype for DAWs turned out to be a blend of ProTools and MIDI sequencers, and trackers were discarded).

Third: As I alluded to in my comment here about user groups, the right approach is going to differ for different workflows and use cases. FL Studio is not used by many audio mastering engineers; ProTools is not the choice of beat producers.

Fourth: the goalposts keep moving with increasing compute power. The current idea of infinitely elastic audio that has become common among the most popular DAWs would have been unachievable in the early 2000s. Network bandwidth may have a similar impact.

Fifth: the right approach (especially visible today) for some people who are generally "in DAW space" isn't a DAW at all, but hardware designs that bypass most of the functionality associated with traditional DAW design. The Elektron and similar h/w sequencers of the last 5 years are in some senses closer to plugins than they are to DAWs.

Sixth: plugins - the ones associated with compositional elements (you could say sequencers but it goes beyond that) - have long been where the innovation has been taking place. These have evolved quite differently and more diversely than the DAWs that host them. For many users, plugins are the real workhorses and the DAWs are just the scaffolding around that. It would be hard to take a look at compositional plugins and conclude that the "right approach" emerged early.
Passkeys, Crypto, and Signing AI Content
I've got a reply to talos that explicates it in part but basically the rate of autism in this study is ~2:1 where as the rate in the general population is more like 1:100. This obviously isn't a random population so it's sketchy start with. On top of that there's basically no way to get this sort of population without putting out fliers to the effect of "we're looking for people with autistic children for a study on causes of autism" which is gonna select for people that think autism is problem and are looking for something to blame.
https://archive.ph/p3CIO
Patroni is a thing and working on removing the dependency on a DCS. Works like a charm at work.
So how do you explain Unity and Reddit and Twitter and Wizards of the Coast all belly flopping their PR this year? I'm sure they care, in some abstract sense, about PR (well, not Musk). I just think they're out of touch and incompetent at dealing with it. Some of them are even on the record saying it will blow over and the benefits of not caring are worth the cost, like the Reddit CEO. Clearly the costs of bad PR aren't high enough.
If youre interested in a TypeScript fork of this that also supports deletion, see here: https://github.com/shortwave/trie

There are also a couple of bug fixes in there, for example: https://github.com/shortwave/trie/commit/1e7045d89cc20011251...
Suppose a study linking cigarettes to cancer, and an asbestos miner objects that he never smoked a single cigarette. The study isn't saying that aspartame is the only cause of autism; your anecdata would refute that claim but that's not what they're saying.

The study does suggest that the effect is caused by one of the metabolites of aspartame, methanol. Methanol doesn't only come from aspartame in diet soda (and for that matter, aspartame isn't only found in diet soda, any chance your parents used aspartame to sweeten their coffee or tea?) The paper points out that methanol may also come from processed fruit and vegetable juices. (It's also found in liquor, particularly moonshine, but the paper doesn't mention this.)
Its truly part and parcel of living in an industrialized world.
While I don't drink 'soda' (diet or otherwise), the article findings of so prevalent odds strikes me exactly as fearmongering.
My experience was that salespeople bugged managers who bugged me to use cosmos because or course I want to use Microsoft's take on Mongo.

It wasnt just that. They also advised managers to enforce the use of teams for security reasons - which is a bit like advising that you install windows for open source reasons.

And while SQL server worked fine, postgres and mariadb were initially "unapproved" for security reasons and dog slow once they were (& support couldnt help for some reason).

In business terms Microsoft seems to be basically be a rebranded Oracle - playing an elaborate game of vendor lock in using every trick available while trying to maintain a thin veneer of deniability, circumventing the need to compete on the quality of their software.

Now if youll excuse me I have an unwieldy YAML github actions mess to unwind so we can move to a different CI platform. I wonder why they let it get so bad.
gpt4 is slowest IMHO, I use claude2 for most of my non coding needs it's more creative and writes better IMHO, gpt4 is better at tasks, technical, and code.

Claude 2 is very fast too...

but they're also offering more than just LLMs but also image models, sometimes it takes 190 seconds or more on playgroundai.com and 40 seconds on leonardo.ai, and about same on tensor.art.

I'm trying to get an ai Etsy store off the ground and faster gen times would be greatly appreciated.
I've seen 1.5 chars/token used as a rule of thumb for estimating token counts in Chinese text.
Yes. So far back. Under the influence of the opposition, they only managed to complete such feats as building the fastest mainframe in Europe in 1952, and gave the designer of the computer that crunched the math behind the first crewed spaceflight the highest award possible, The Hero of Socialist Labour.

The was during the most intense period of “anti-cybernetic” sentiment.

The biggest negative factor affecting Russian computer science was the fact that the US has been at economic war with them for essentially the last century. There has almost never been a time when Russia didn’t have heavy sanctions against is.

For example, when Toshiba sold CNC machines to Russia in 1987, the US threatened to ban their access to the US market entirely.
Arrested or convicted? Though to be arrested in many eyes means guilty.
Either way, we won't know for a long time. I say we just lean our shoulders into this whole thing and watch the chronic illness rates climb with shrugged hands and turned heads because of just how dern complix all this stuff is that all of the beautiful minds in the world are hard at work on.
As usual, it will not be open source. But be sure to see Lecun et al. on tour promoting their "open source approach"....cant make this up!
On the same line, watt for watt, pen and paper demolishes anything Apple has to offer. Now and forever.

One single, isolated metric is not the way to compare things
bit of a cheap shot considering Apple doesn't offer cloud services...
Very disappointed. Was expecting a warty towels reference.
A correlational study based on self-reported data that only finds an effect in half of their studied population and doesn’t correct for multiple comparisons. Pure noise.
Not really in my experience? People aren’t very picky about the app they use, and many people I know (me included) will keep profiles on 2-3.

Totally possible this is only a thing here? (Canada, Toronto / Montréal) I have a feeling it’s pretty common though.
Some folks in this thread who are saying it wasn’t the iPhone… then how come Palm, Motorola, and Nokia also had their phone business eliminated or greatly reduced? Was RIM the one company that the meteor did not hit and instead died of a pandemic?
Honey, everything is an "intentional, manufactured factory". Or do you just wake up every morning and say to yourself "let me type some random code and see what kind of software comes out"??
How can you write this article only interviewing a bunch of startups? Tim Exile is a very interesting and visionary dude, but without serious contributions from Ableton or Apple on the DAW side this article feels a bit listless - none of these others are real players in the space.
NATO could send Serbia back to the Stone Age with their pinky finger. If anything, a second military conflict in Eastern Europe might further increase support and military budget in NATO countries.
> Nobody decides to go kill their neighbor because they read a post online.

Yes, they absolutely do. Whatsapp had to restrict forwarding in India because entire villages were being forwarded rhetoric and standing up en-masse to massacre their neighbors.

You need to understand that there is a not insignificant proportion of the population that will literally do whatever the television (or a convincing written socmed post) tells them.
Russian trade volume was 57% NATO members before the war, and close to 80 if you count Western allies.
Diabetic mothers are significantly more likely than non-diabetic mothers to give birth to children with autism. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4181720/
This only really confirms what we already know. Business consultants are useless.
The Soviet Union also poisoned their citizens.
This concept exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
They understood and accepted the risks in that case - as an acceptable trade-off, which is different from the introduction of chemicals or compounds that aren’t well understood.
A don't-miss interactive visualization, and a tour de force of hand-written JavaScript and WebGL:

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

Previous discussion, thanks to todsacerdoti: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533
How flip-flops are implemented in the Intel 8086 processor
> Stalin himself never engaged in this rabid criticism of cybernetics, with the head of the Soviet Department of Sciences, Iurii Zhdanov, recalling that "he never opposed cybernetics" and made every effort "to advance computer technology" in order to give the USSR the technological advantage.

You just proved the point.
He's clearly a complicated figure but he was a big inspiration when I was transitioning into a tech career. I'll be sending him good thoughts. <3
Azure has multiple tiers of almost everything.

A couple of examples:

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-sku-ti...

- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-servic...
Some people love so much they dismiss critical issues? Apple got fined for extending the life of old phones without notifying the users, where do you think this issue sits in relation?
Do you have more details on this? I have never heard of it.
I am the OP and also not like when titles are editorialized. This is how it is
as in Leading items - LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 21, 2023

"The European Cyber Resilience Act: an overview of proposed European legislation that could create liability for free-software developers."

Which one do you think is the most informative?
Sounds like a marketing choice
YIL a Pi 4B can run from a directly connected USB/NVME SSD. I've been using USB/SATA SSDs and all I have tried require a powered hub. Do note that I don't just just boot it up and proclaim "It boots - ship it"[1] I thrash it with various disk benchmarks and stress tests to be absolutely certain the SSD does not disconnect due to insufficient power.

[1] I suppose this is the H/W equivalent of the S/W engineer's proclamation "It compiles - ship it!" And I guess this dates me since S/W is pushed rather than shipped these days.
Works on Linux too! https://www.reaper.fm/download.php
First of all, these are not the same thing. Manipulating people and being manipulated aren't mutually exclusive.

Second, these people spend their entire life mastering the art of manipulating large populations into consumerism and induced demand. Humans have limited bandwidth, and it wouldn't be most people's specific domain knowledge to spot the mechanisms and the resist them.

And, calling back to point one, even if you know the mechanisms of propaganda, you are not immune to propaganda.
A room full of educated professionals workshopping ways to manufacture the consent of the masses five days a week pretty much ensures that the average individual doesn't stand a chance at winning a battle of agency that they weren't told they were fighting.
Do you think a world where it is illegal for a victim to tell other people that someone victimized them is a just world?
Cellphones are not exactly nondetectable.
Someone on reddit asked me: ‘If so many people fail to beat the s&p 500, is there a point in trying?’
Wow that is some serious horsepower.
> This is another skill that like knowing when to say no

Logging out of IM when busy is a simpler skill :-)
South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children
Had to truncate the title slightly because it was too long.
More studied than water, gasoline, oxygen, estrogen, ibuprofen, ammonia, silicone, and CO2?
That's the past. We can make different choices going forward. Not all new chemicals propel civilization forward. Aspartame for instance. And why do we need to "go fast"? Most of the problems we are trying to use technology to solve right now are precisely because because we've gone "too fast".
Plastic bag found at the bottom of world’s deepest ocean trench
I mourn for my hobby, but it's worth it to be sidelined in favor of software produced by responsible parties.

In other words, this will create even more barriers to entry that will further entrench giant companies who have the necessary armies of lawyers and security engineers.
You are aware that Milošević and Tuđman both agreed to carve up Bosnia, right? And there was Varivode, "Operation Storm" where the Krajina Serbs who didn't flee quick enough were raped and pillaged, and a whole bunch of other cases. Milošević, the JNA, Srpska, or the Serb "volunteer guard" may have been the worst but there are plenty of contenders for second place. Not to mention the Bosnian mujahideen.
DAWs will need to refocus on managing recordings of live performances -- young kids are starting guitar bands again, and in a few years I think we will enter yet another period where electronic sounds are out of fashion.

I'd also like to see more music creation nuts & bolts built into DAWs, like integrated lyrics, a quick way to shuffle pieces of a song like "bridge" and "verse", visualizations of key center shifts, chord builders and so on. A lot of that stuff is out there but it's definitely an afterthought.
I sailed to the Indies [...] where I discovered a great many islands, inhabited by numberless people; and of all I have taken possession [...] without opposition

Sure, whatever.

Christ what an a***e.
> You are misstating their position

I'd say you are doing it to both his an mine.

> Big emphasis on IF

I don't see any conditional in that post AT ALL. The paragraph starts with the explicit invitation and also states the (false and, let's be clear, if targeted at most other ethnicities/nations, immediately recognized as profoundly racist) "reason": "I just hope NATO ... actually go all the way and occupies the country. That's the only way to neuter Serbia for a generation of two ..."

Put as a thought example Native Americans in these sentences and consider how it was "better" for them to be eliminated, and how a text of anonymous self-claimed "Native American" saying that sentence targeted at their own people would appear today.
Not yet. It's at a very early stage.
Does the term "seeding" have two meanings? I understood it to mean dropping particles into clouds to trigger rain. The article uses it to mean using particles to induce cloud formation.
Not so much Office monopoly, as Active Directory monopoly.
Quite the contrary. Keeping foods poison free is quite an effort.
I listened to the single track they've released so far (it's up on Apple Music) and it's very pleasant to listen to - kind of like when a band releases an acoustic version of one of their tracks.
> NATO could send Serbia back to the Stone Age with their pinky finger.

Yes, nuclear genocide is indeed quick, but not super viable. Even the limited air strikes in 1999 took months, and pretending it wouldn't all be a diplomatic and military distraction is just silly.
>If someone smears your name on billboards you're allowed to sue

Sure, but you're not going to get anywhere with your suit unless it's defamation. "Smearing" your name with something you actually did is (and or should be) protected speech. The article does not describe the confidential plaintiff winning a defamation lawsuit and forcing the material to be taken down from its source. And there would need to be no new "right to be forgotten" for that, that's just bog standard century old defamation law. All search engines and regular sites for that matter, anything that hosts 3rd party generated content, has (and is required to have by law) contacts and processes in place for taking down actual illegal material. The entire debate around this new thing is getting stuff you merely don't like but is entirely true hidden away.

>Yesterday I read a story of a comedian who was getting YouTube videos about his plagiarism taken down

Which sounds like horrible to me and exactly the problem! If he plagiarized, why should he be able to get those videos taken down?
Indeed. If you have a link, I'll bookmark it.
Another right that requires someone else to do something for you rather than refrain from doing something to you. I guess the whole “force is only justified against force” thing is not believed by most Canadians.
The alternative is to go live in the woods, because god knows how many other items in our houses give us a 1% higher chance to have an autistic child.
I guess we didn't need the writers to come back from their strike after all
I'm talking about things like murder, rape and violence, not talking behind someone's back

We DO self censor about illegal and """"immoral"""" things unconsciously and it's not about being honest, it's an entirely different thing
Interestingly enough, Jeff Kesselman was working on Java middleware for MMOs at Sun Microsystems before the Oracle acquisition. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Darkstar

There's definitely some value in using more productive languages for the backend services, as they're not as latency sensitive as rendering.
What is the correct parsing of the headline? At first I figured it was a regular garden-path sentence [1] but after multiple readings I still can't figure it out.

[1] A garden-path sentence is one where you find at the end that the expected parsing is wrong. e.g. "The old man the boat" or "The horse raced past the barn fell".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
> It's horrible you have to tell people not to poison others.

Please. This is quite an exagarated claim.

You make it sounds like mustache twirling villians going around and intentionally poisoning people.
Hard to take your comment seriously when you conveniently leave out aspartame's third metabolite, methanol.
That doesn't really follow. We manage to understand people speaking English in their own accents well enough, so if people were to just write a phonetic transcript of what they spoke, we should be able to understand that as well. A standardized spelling system probably does make the language a bit easier to read overall, but it isn't a necessity.
Bought this stuff for a flea infestation but couldn’t bring myself to use it. Reminded me too much of asbestos.
There were multiple advantages, but one is that 3G mobile broadband rolled out around 2007/2008, and it was unlimited on iPhone.

Before mobile broadband, there would not have been as much reason and application, but with mobile broadband, the entire game changed, and Apple smartly had ATT give it unlimited so people did not have to worry about using it.
It’s true that you can dump a project into a git repo, but the real problem is diffing. It would be pretty miserable trying to reconcile any significant changes or conflicts. What I think would be cool is a tool for auditioning and merging specific changes that’s backed by git somehow. I’m not really sure what it would look like though.
The drug laws in France are the same if not more conservative (they include denial for medical use of cannabis for instance).

Same for euthanasia. At least we have a strong abortion law thanks to Ms Veil and others that fought for it in the 70's.
The problem is that all of "release", "calls", "exhibit", and even "judge" could be verbs, making this rather difficult. Especially if the title of this news turns out to not be an action ([This PDF is] ...)

Even now it doesn't really make sense. This PDF is not an "evidence release", it is either evidence or a statement about released evidence. Unless that is a term of art in law?
Are you telling me the Romans knew about the ~15 point IQ decrease lead exposure causes in children?
Everything you wrote is correct, and I would just like to add that in all the wars during the 90s, all Serbia had to do in order to avoid war was to not attack other countries and support paramilitary groups inside other countries. They were not defending their territory, they were invading others. Same with this possible invasion that they might be preparing right now, all Serbia needs to do is not attack.

Trying to paint this as "all groups hate and massacre each other" is equating the motives of the attacker/invader/bully with the victim, and is just pure propaganda or invention of alternate reality in order to soothe one's guilty conscience. To draw a parallel with something more people might be able to more clearly visualise, Serbia is the armed robber that breaks into your house and starts stealing your stuff and beating you, your wife and your children. By the logic of the "all sides" propaganda here, you are engaging in "mutual hatred" if you try to defend yourself.
Ah yes, those poor dumb masses...from which you exclude yourself. I suppose it's pure selflessness that leads you -- someone who is clearly not average -- to advocate on behalf of all those rubes without free will.
I was mostly disappointed because I hoped that Nuvia would result in a product that was fairly open from the perspective of users. You can buy an Intel or AMD CPU, pair it with pretty much anything, and do whatever you want with it. You need to deal with awkward firmware messes and a frequently messy security ecosystem, but it mostly just works. You don’t need software blobs from Intel or (ignoring sometimes messy graphics) AMD.

Even Apple is fairly good in this regard.

Qualcomm, OTOH, does not have a good track record in this regard.
When you rely on “cloud”, this is just an inevitability.

It’s nothing new at this point. MS is such a huge org, they can tank the bad PR. Save on hosting, support, and bandwidth costs of MariaDB. Ultimately saving much more in $$$.

The only losers: the customers
If humans could live on laissez-faire capitalism, the US wouldn't have 11% of its population living below the poverty line.
> It is worth the cost of slower introduction of new materials to take the time to ensure that those materials are safe.

How can you ever prove something doesn't have any negative impacts? You're trying to prove a negative. Would you be willing to further delay a new medication that can help people today, but may have some averse effects for a subset of people far in the future? This is what we went through with the mRNA vaccines. We have to look at the tradeoffs. If banning aspartame means we may potentially prevent some cases of autism, but at the definite cost of large increases in obesity, would that be worth it?
It was a "mustache twirling villain" type though. Donald Rumsfeld was responsible for aspartame.