skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cynic. I plan to prove you wrong.

Day 1: Trees in backyard are fine. Sent a triumphant note to Odyssey7.
Is the purchase of physical media actually license?

Clearly there are restrictions to what you can do with it (duplication, public performance, and so forth), but those restrictions are defined by copyright law. The notable exception is software, but it could be argued that licenses were a product of the need to duplicate software (e.g. install it to a hard drive). That said, modern software licenses do go far beyond that.

Then again, I may be misinterpreting the meaning of license. I have always views them as modifications to the rights granted by copyright law.
What if we didn't get into a semantic argument about the word 'art'?
Thankfully, folks have archived a lot of Apple's old developer documentation: https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/ is an invaluable resource, as is the mirror of the (late-1990s?) Apple developer website at https://dev.os9.ca/. On the hardware side of things, Designing Cards and Drivers for the Macintosh Family and Guide to Macintosh Family Hardware in conjunction with the 68030 user's manual, tell you basically everything you need to know. For software, Inside Macintosh is your bible.

Unfortunately all of Apple's documentation is written in such a way that to understand one section, you have to already understand most of the other sections, and you often find yourself having to cross-reference between sections to get the whole picture of what's going on. I've really struggled to make sense of the network driver especially - every time I think I've got it, I find some issue, dig a bit deeper, then realise that I missed something that is only vaguely mentioned in the docs and doesn't make sense until you know what you're looking for.

I should clarify, the SE/30's expansion slot is not NuBus in a physical sense - it's just a direct connection to the processor, plus a few control lines. It's just that the slot provides facilities to allow cards to behave like NuBus from a software perspective, which lets your drivers use all the same OS infrastructure for discovering hardware, dispatching interrupts, installing drivers etc.
A friendly reminder to all that Threema had some serious flaws in their cryptography model, and their response was lackluster, to put it nicely.

https://breakingthe3ma.app/

> In our work, we present seven attacks against the cryptographic protocols used by Threema, in three distinct threat models. All the attacks are accompanied by proof-of-concept implementations that demonstrate their feasibility in practice.
This is your first comment in 11 months and 1 of only 4 over 10 years. What is great about it? What do you like?
Interesting, this applies to people in employment. When I read the word poor, I was thinking of people experiencing homelessness who usually are unemployed. But there are lots of working poor too.
Amazing. Keep me posted!
Why can't you do both? I own several DVD sets of TV shows I like because I want to support what little physical media is being released these days. I don't subscribe to any streaming service whatsoever, so I can use that money to only support what I want.
I Teach the Humanities, and I Still Don't Know What Their Value Is
Social Media Use and Adolescent Mental Health (2019)
> Calculations with an indoor air transmission model showed that if an infected individual with this emission rate entered a room, a susceptible person would inhale an infectious dose within 6 to 37 min in a room with normal ventilation.

If this model were accurate, the R would be way higher. So it seems likely that this model misses important aspects.
Please correct with your intended interpretation.
Biggest project to restore hair cells and ultimately hearing is probably this one:
https://hearinghealthfoundation.org/hearing-restoration-proj...

It was shown in a couple of papers that we can restore hair cells in mammals. Damaged hair cells are the root cause for the majority of people with hearing loss & tinnitus. The most promising path seems to use so called supporting cells in the inner ear and convert them into hair cells. Researchers are getting closer and closer every year. I think we are now at a point where it's not a question of if but rather when.

Here is a quote from one of the leading scientist in the field:

What is needed to help make HRP goals happen?
Frankly, funding to keep our research moving forward. A postdoctoral fellow with five to six years of training starts out on a modest salary of about $45,000, plus $12,000 in benefits. So that’s $57,000 before they even pick up a test tube in the lab. Each person will typically use between $15,000- $20,000 a year in supplies and chemicals. Simply maintaining a single cage of mice for one year costs $210, and my lab can use between 300-500 cages of mice for our experiments! HHF and its donors have been extremely generous in their support, however with additional funding the output from the consortium could be significantly greater and accelerate the pace to a cure.

Link: https://hearinghealthfoundation.org/spotlight/groves

Overall the field of hearing restoration still only receives tiny amounts of funding (<200 Mio). The research is in a vacuum phase. It's not proven out enough for Big Pharma to come. Relying on small government grants makes it difficult to get the research to a stage where it's attractive enough for Big Pharma.

Best bet at this point is probably when a former big tech executives would get hearing loss/tinnitus and then decides to put real money behind the problem. Bryan Johnson who created the Blueprint program has hearing loss but I guess he is not wealthy enough to make a difference.

EDIT (to put numbers into perspective):

The size of the problem:
Sensorineural hearing loss disables over 360 million people worldwide. Irrespective of its cause and severity, hearing loss can have a large impact on people’s health and well-being. The treatment of hearing loss is currently limited to the use of hearing aids or devices surgically implanted in the middle or inner ear. These devices often perform poorly in noisy environments and can be very costly. It has been estimated that the costs of untreated hearing loss are €213 billion in Europe alone each year.

The funding (EU):
An international consortium of 7 partners has been awarded a €5,8 million European Commission Horizon 2020 grant to develop and test a new drug to treat hearing loss caused by the loss of sensory hair cells.
"Hybrids are the most reliable cars and PHEVs the least reliable in CR’s most recent survey; Tesla's Model Y is newly recommended"
The worst part, no one takes your condition seriously. Glad to hear that you are well too.
I feel like an improvement would be to not allow impossible things like ocean waves background when you have snowy cabin video.
I loved Objective-C when I was developing on the NeXT. I haven't done with it much since then. I don't think it really got the credit it deserved. Templates would have been nice to have with it. Messages where so useful.
> Guess what, I was right.

Not sure if you are physically capable of assessing the evidence. Everything hinges on how one divides the two words in your user name ;)
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Generative AI doesn't create art, it just creates novelty. Art requires so much more than just what you see with your eyes.

The market for AI-generated stuff exists, and I think it's a fine toolkit for exploration, drafting, democratizing and speeding up the creative process.

But nobody will experience 'awe' because that is a human emotion which requires empathy, e.g. a connection between audience and creator.

Very few people in tech will understand this, and its going to be hilarious to me when the bottom falls out of this hypecycle after the novelty wears off.
AI can only strip meaning and value out of those parts of your life if you let it. If you made the meaning you derive from life very conditional upon factors outside your control, you were always sailing in rocky waters to begin with.
No need to throw out the legal system, just change the law. Currently, failure to adhere to norms can lock you out of the market entirely (thanks to companies like SafeRent). If the spectrum is homelessness -> rental -> homeownership, then the opposite should be true: successful and proactive stewardship of a property should entitle you to it, regardless of the current owner's claim (but especially in the case of practical absenteeism).

Note that half of this country was settled this way.

The alternative that is the current status quo is real estate corporations in New York and Delaware disrupting community fabric 200, 500, 1000 miles away in the name of quarterly profits. Legality is not the measure of morality.
If you don't use the heap, which is common in real-time control, Ada has real advantages. That's what Ada is for, after all.
I’LL SHOW YOU BUDDY
Proud pirate, I buy some games occasionally, do not have Netshits or any other streaming service and for sure not buying a stupid console to have to play to be able to play online. God forbid buying videos on an P$ story. The fact that these dumb console people get lured into paying monthly just to play games online shows they do not deserve better. I would be unthinkable to pay to play a game online on PC, with some eceptions like WOW.
> Big Basin is recovering, but it is a long way from recovery.

Define recovery. Do you mean recovery to the point that your Instagram pictures are as beautiful as before? Or do you mean that life is thriving and the forest is in its rebuilding phase?

> If there aren't any fires as severe as the CZU fire

How on earth can you get severe fires when the forests don't have as much fuel as they did before? The entire cycle is self-limiting.

> Can they sustain that if they get hit again and again?

Yes.
here you have it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38501264
I struggled with Metals sadly -- I guess my comment wasn't 100% fair to the ecosystem due to some details of the particular (somewhat legacy) scala code I was working with.
IDK when I hire, the first list (as might be directly relevant to the job) is checking a box, but the second list is what catches my attention.
> Isla ultimately scored in the 99th percentile of intelligence for age on the Stanford-Binet IQ tests. She was 2½ years old.

I would think that her abilities would put her well into the 99th percentile. This is like saying Bill Gates is in the 99th percentile for wealth.
You mean roads?
The tree census is not “someone walking around identifying trees”, it is a study. It takes a ton of organization, methodology, data collection and management. It’s an excellent example of why you need an actual study even to collect obvious data like “that’s a tree!”
It’s almost always only financial and rarely significant enough to be meaning to the company at hand, to which it often gets lowered even further on appeal more often than not
> but because customer support will find it harder to help people.

This is a big one. At a past job we actively discussed this and instead decided to use JS over things like datalist due to it potentially increasing the CS burden. Datalist specifically was tried, but the inconsistent results meant it had to go.

We eventually ceased support for all browsers but Chrome as well due to the inconsistencies.
Big brother potential aside, I could imagine a future in which everyone wears a body camera everywhere. A digital record of your entire life. Given increasingly good AI extraction, you can then have searchable transcripts of your conversations, query your life for the last time you saw movie X (interesting IP questions here), re-experience moments with grandma, whatever. There was a Black Mirror episode incorporating this concept.

4k video * lifetime is greater storage requirements than available to consumers today.
I also don't have to toil the earth for sustenance. I'm sure there are a lot of valuable aspects to a life of living off the earth with the effort of your two hands, and those things are lost when society grows so advanced that I can now sit in front of a computer and do mathematics instead of toiling the earth. But does that mean that producing an abundance of food is a bad thing?
I've definitely never seen a company prefer a candidate with zero experience in their stack over someone with experience. Slack is given to juniors and people who are adjacent to the desired stack plus have other desired skills, but if you apply to a completely alien stack, i can see your search taking a very long term. I think the only exception I've seen to this is a company that was doing microservices before it was a particularly common skill, so they'd take anyone who could prove they understood the concepts. Even still, most people they hired had an overlap with the desired stack. I just can't see a company with a common stack and a common architecture prefer to hire candidates outside of that stack.
I use it daily for Python and C programming, as well as Bash and cmd.exe shell scipting (plus assorted config file types).

I also use it to write literate documentation, including glossary terms, drawings, and code. These get stored in a repo along with HTML exports.

My general experience? It's the best software I've ever used. Hands down, bar none. It has the best documentation and the best documentation system. The community is fantastic. Literal greybeards to guide and inspire you, lots of new people to share excitement with, and plenty of interesting people the world over in-between. And, most important, is Freedom. The software respects me. I'll cherish that, and the lessons it has taught me, forever. I simply would not be who I am today without having learned from Emacs and it's community. Thank you!

I'm usually a singleton at work, although occasionally you meet someone else who uses Emacs.
Right though you may be, many companies favor hiring devs familiar with their language/stack.
I very much agree, but we have to fight by moving forward, not by rewinding back to olden days. The genie isn't going back into the bottle, but we can learn to live and love in a post-genie world instead.
Here's one with an imaginative domain name

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
We might see it come back. After Fukushima support for nuclear energy was 30%, but this has increased to 50-60%. Japan is importing large amounts of energy from overseas and electricity bills are high in an already tight economy.
Link to the discussion last time this was posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836889
Would you pay $200 a month to make friends in L.A.? You'll need to get in line
Lots. What kind of project are you looking to fund, what sort of return are you looking for?
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I feel like that analogy should be included anytime someone mentions that things further away from us are moving away faster than things not as far away.

My intuition of 'things far away moving away faster' causes me to conclude that things far away are therefore accelerating, because the more they move away the faster they move away, but my intuition is probably wrong as it doesn't line up with the raisin bread analogy.
Electricity flows like water in 'strange metals,' and physicists don't know why
Ask HN: December's Side Projects
I'm curious: what side projects have you been exploring lately? For me, it's been diving into coding experiments. Share your projects—I'm eager to hear and get inspired!
The correct way to think in CSS is to think in HTML, which has the functionality we need (like a checkbox etc) and CSS is an enhancement on top of it. Ditto JS.
> I don't think Amazon Prime or New York Times making it hard to cancel subscriptions is putting a dent in their brand image. Big companies can and will get away with it.

People should complain more and there should be more outrage. This is one of very effective way to keep the big companies in line. We are in a society that discourages complaining even if it is completely justified.
Consider an old man who hates the fact that you could find kitty pictures online as easily as we have been doing for the last 15 years. He thinks that a true authentic encounter with a kitty out in nature is the only real way to experience a kitty, and that you have throw that all away in favor of pictures.

What can you say to refute such an argument without also refuting your own foothold here?
"How to get fired from an unethical employer because you didn't create the manipulative designs they expected" and/or "how to surface whether your employer is garbage and you should start looking for a better place to work". :)
Are there folks who work on front ends and in design here who have been explicitly told to implement these?
You can do it safely by importing a ghost-cell crate. That particular pattern is not yet part of the Rust standard library because it comes in so many varieties, and it's not yet clear how to best support it in the language. But I assume it will get there at some point.
Part of it was probably a wider historical shift as well. Early in American history dueling was a problem too. Alexander Hamilton might have been a president if he hadn’t felt compelled to dual and lost.
interesting paper, which supports current gender segregation in chess is positive, as it encourages greater overall female participation in the game.
Socks are always an excellent gift idea… https://gwern.net/socks#christmas-advice
Likewise, a society forced to spend 2x or more the cost of a home-cooked meal on fast food is not going to be a healthy one. From a broad economic perspective, rentals that cost so much more than purchases (which are inaccessible in part because so many are only on the market as rentals) aren't sustainable.

>Thats what you paid for I presume?

I presume I paid for shelter, but also someone's luxury car or home renovation.
Are we really going to be 500k drones to shoot down 10k ones. Seems wasteful
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Discussion: Do you have a central ML codebase?
Do you have a central codebase with the ML models you use, or do you have multiple repos each with a different model? How do you use Huggingface or author's code bases?

At my company, we have a central codebase with different models. So each time we want to use a new model we refactor it from the open source repo and integrate it into our codebase: this includes changing the layers (e.g. Attention/MLP) to use our implementation rather than the custom author's implementation.

I am curious to see what others' workflow looks like, to see how I can make myself more productive.
Doesn't this hold true for everything? It all started with painting. Then photography came around and took some work to produce. Photography finally reached the masses with 1-hour photo shops. Then anyone with a phone could create them. Now AI can do it. It's the price of lowering the barrier to entry.
We can go through this same exercise with a number of technological improvements.
Construction has led to the demise of awe around buildings.
Mass production has killed our sense of awe around products.
Cheap abundant food has led to a decline in awe around fancy meals.
I'm not the person you're replying to but we test with NVDA, and we did have problems with some CSS-only solutions.
Why would this be considered anything to do with ethnicity?
It's disappointing to read that the charging and power electronics are troublesome, but I guess that's to be expected as a new kind of power train rolls out. Hopefully warranties cover most of that, but it does bring home the point that if you're on a tight budget, an EV may not be the best choice, and not just because of purchase price.
Piracy is a complex topic, no need to reduce it into black/white trivial one.

Say you grew up as poor (90% of the world easily) and buying 1 original music CD equals to a week of net salary of your hard working parents just routed to that. This was the situation of me and all my peers when I was growing up. There was simply not an option to buy it legally, unless you accepted to go few days in full hunger mode (which folks think is easy until you are actually there and would literally kill people for food, our mind is really interesting and often very rational place).

So you either pirate or have nothing. Nothing was stolen with creating a copy since those money would never go to copyright owners. Now imagine computer game would require 2 or 3 weeks of similar sacrifice. Again, my choldhood/teenage years. On top of the fact you sometimes can't even buy it legally unless you commit to serious travel.

Yeah, I could go on for a very long time, just my own experiences, not even involving the simple fact that in many places including my current one downloading is completely legal and laws are very much OK with that. If I ever wanted to support artists I would send them money directly, there is always a way if one is serious enough.

But rich western kids want to do visible poses on trivialized topics and 'statements' to their peers even though its long term in vain and zero sum game, not wonder about deeper stuff and actually act upon it (with respect to exceptions).
The coolest thing about art is that you don't get to decide what it is.
Green Hills Software? They're still around, and doing good things? That's impressive.
I always enjoy these write-ups on porting or developing on OpenBSD. They tend to frequently involve doing something, or doing something slightly incorrectly, and once tweaks are made the end result is usually more security or better quality code, and allowing the OpenBSD system to do what it was designed to do.
"Shot noise in a strange metal" (2023) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq6100 :

> Abstract: Strange-metal behavior has been observed in materials ranging from high-temperature superconductors to heavy fermion metals. In conventional metals, current is carried by quasiparticles; although it has been suggested that quasiparticles are absent in strange metals, direct experimental evidence is lacking. We measured shot noise to probe the granularity of the current-carrying excitations in nanowires of the heavy fermion strange metal YbRh2Si2. When compared with conventional metals, shot noise in these nanowires is strongly suppressed. This suppression cannot be attributed to either electron-phonon or electron-electron interactions in a Fermi liquid, which suggests that the current is not carried by well-defined quasiparticles in the strange-metal regime that we probed. Our work sets the stage for similar studies of other strange metals.