skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it really make porting noticeably easier to target macOS 32 bit when coming from, say, Windows?

I’d expect most of the complexity to have revolved around not having DirectX available. There was no game porting kit back then.

Although, come to think of it: Maybe the actual problem was not being able to (easily) generate universal binaries? 64-bit only would have still been a non-starter in the early macOS Intel days.
No. You just got on a boat and went to some other country. No passports, no passport controls, no immigration quotas.

In the US at least it goes back a little bit further than WW1, to the Chinese exclusion act in the late 1800’s.
Yes, we need to see a long-term study of all cause mortality before recommending this intervention for primary prevention.
Juddering 24fps footage means you have a display that isn't displaying 24fps properly (see here: https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/motion/24p). The refresh rate and frame rate aren't matching, most modern TVs account for this and can correctly display it.
Unfortunately many people do like that, but I hate it and I don't do stuff like that (and it seems many other people hate it too; fortunately you can just download the file without immediately executing it, if you want to view (and possibly modify) it).
Sea salts as a potential source of food spoilage fungi
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Don't know how you do it. I can't stand the jelly effect. Motion interpolation was the first thing I turned off when we got our A95K earlier this year.
I did some research to confirm my understanding and I did not find any way to do syndication across all podcast apps that did not use RSS.

Wikipedia cites this source which says that podcasting developed originally out of a script that an individual wrote to import audio content from an RSS feed into iTunes: https://blubrry.com/manual/about-podcasting/history-of-podca...

This source even says “If your hosting provider won’t offer an RSS feed, you should find a new host because they clearly don’t have much experience with podcasts”: https://castos.com/podcast-syndication/
Our world is unjust and replete with suffering. The question is what are you going to do about it?

There's a lot of things you can do to improve your life and the life of people around you. Discussing world problems in an online forum is not one of those things.

These up and down arrows near the comments give us the illusion that we can vote for the solution of everything.
I bought half a dozen of these from Radioshack they were more or less giving them away after the fall.

There were lots of library apps that sprung up where you could scan your DVDs barcodes, or CDs etc.

I can't remember what hair brained idea I had for it.
In fact, that's what I'm trying to say. The line we draw at "hey we can at least audit open source" is a fully imaginary one. It's a false comfort we create. It's the Kool-Aid we drink.

I don't have any trust in any of those components you mentioned, but I came to terms with the risks associated with using them as part of my threat model. However, I find the notion that open source is somewhat safer because "we can audit it" exaggerating if not misleading. It's not a valid argument, and it should never be used because there's no way to do it in an either practical or consistent way for the users of the said product.
This is extremely passive aggressive, tell me you’re single without telling me you’re single. People’s preferences being different than yours is not a technical problem to be worked around.
La nuova app Seeing AI di Microsoft ora disponibile per dispositivi Android

Introduzione:
Microsoft ha recentemente lanciato l'app Seeing AI per dispositivi Android, offrendo agli utenti non vedenti e con bassa visione una soluzione innovativa. Originariamente disponibile per dispositivi iOS come l'iPhone, l'app utilizza la fotocamera del dispositivo per fornire descrizioni audio degli oggetti e consente persino conversazioni interattive con documenti scansionati.

Paragrafo principale:
L'app, precedentemente disponibile solo su iOS, ora porta le sue funzionalità avanzate agli utenti di Android. Tra le nuove funzionalità ci sono descrizioni più dettagliate delle foto, consentendo agli utenti di ottenere informazioni più approfondite sul contenuto delle immagini. Inoltre, è ora possibile interagire con i documenti scansionati, chiedendo informazioni specifiche su menu, scontrini o riepiloghi di articoli.

Ulteriori dettagli:
Con un elenco di lingue supportate in continua espansione, l'app Seeing AI è disponibile attualmente in 18 lingue e mira a estendere questo supporto a 34 lingue entro il 2024. Questo amplia la portata dell'app per rendere più accessibili le sue funzionalità a una vasta gamma di utenti in tutto il mondo.

Conclusione:
L'arrivo di Seeing AI su Android è un passo significativo per l'accessibilità tecnologica. L'app offre un'esperienza migliore per gli utenti non vedenti e con bassa visione, continuando a integrare funzionalità avanzate per migliorare la vita quotidiana attraverso la tecnologia. L'aggiunta di nuove lingue aumenta ulteriormente l'accessibilità, rendendo questa app un'importante risorsa per la comunità globale degli utenti con disabilità visive.
Google only merged Google brain and Deepmind with aims to compete with OpenAI. I feel that Deepmind would still be doing mostly heavy research stuff if not for GPT-4. Gemini wouldn't come out until 2030 at least.
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I phrased that badly. What I meant is that your ability to emigrate shouldn’t depend on the color of your skin, though obviously it could impact your experience greatly.
I love the International District in Seattle but otherwise it’s too spread out a city for me. I found a deal for a tiny $450/month studio there in 2010 and almost moved. I was living in Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown area at the time and it just wasn’t the same, although the Chinese Garden is very nice.
Ehh some restaurants still know you on a first name basis even with DoorDash. I used to order from this one Philippine spot like twice a week and after a month a decided to go there in person to sit down and when they asked for my name they immediately asked if I wanted my usual DoorDash order
You are just speculating btw, a lot of people have primary hypertension with no apparent cause. Bodies are like that or there is some mystery ailment no one has ever been able to pinpoint, it's a leap to speculate that some hidden cause is also linked to cognitive decline.

Other causes of hypertension are very well known
Agreed, and it captured the demographic of florida without it looking forced. It met my expectations.
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Aw thanks for such encouragement all
I firmly believe most people complaining about the Hobbit in 48 FPS just don’t like change.

It’s not worse. In fact it’s so vastly better. Watching a 3 hour movie in 3D without getting a headache from 24 FPS judder (“magic”) was a revelation.

But different bad.
It is not necessary to opt-out of the GC. Just don't use it.

If the @nogc attribute is used, the compiler will tell you where the gc is used.
There's a slew of good points to highlight but yes, those two are odd.

The framing for the first is:

The role of independent media and journalism also received much attention, with an emphasis on the need for robust domestic information sources.

Despite the era of traditional media information monopoly being over, there was a view that we could create a monopoly on quality information, over quantity and speed.

I don't believe monopoly was a good word choice to pivot from past to future on, I do think there's much to be gained from encouraging traditional investigative journalism to grow and attaching value to independant Media Watch commentary.

Pandering for eyeballs via dark algorithms is just diving headfirst into the abyss.

As for the second, surely that was meant to be a call to enable ad blockers and dodgy source filters.
Yeah the Coast Range, Gorge, and Mt. Hood trails are incredible but I really love being able to jog 3 miles to a trailhead that connects 100+ miles of really nice trails right from my front door.
And I read that the Winter Park train is back in action!
100% reduction in cancer deaths in those with self inflicted gunshot wounds to the head
> didn't bother scrolling further

Is it really his fault, or is it horrible UI/UX design?
One of the big purchasers of leftover CueCat inventory was Librarything. They still sell them (for $5 at the moment) on their store, and have built features to use them for cataloging and searching your books.
I have a very simple setup that works for us.

ISP’s router has unrestricted Wi-Fi access. I run a router behind it with restricted (via pi-hole) access.

All devices connect to the restricted Wi-Fi. Any time I need unrestricted access, I connect to the ISP router Wi-Fi for some time and back to the restricted when done.
Voice Clones on iPhones?
"Apple is upfront about this feature and the privacy users have. Apple’s explainer on Personal Voice notes that training the AI happens locally on your device. The company is also forward about your voice print touching the cloud if you have “share across devices” enabled. That said, what’s Apple doing with all this voice data it’s collecting to train your voice in the first place?"

"What about the voice data used to train the synthesized voice? Where does it go? Is it continually used by Apple at all? Apple does explicitly say that it can use your speech clips to improve its products and services for things like Siri, so it would not be a wild assumption to think that that’s what they might be doing here.”

One more reason for throughout distrust in smartphones, whether from Apple or from someone else.
Of course not every high IQ individual works a high-income job. However if there's some excessively harmful part of one's life, a high IQ person would be more naturally empowered to escape it. Even if they end up in a low-wage job, it's more likely to be voluntary if they're very smart. Without their high IQ they'd be somewhere they'd prefer not to be without much means of escape as they can't develop any cognitive skills worth paying a premium for.
An atheist definitely doesn't believe in more gods than a monotheist.

You possibly meant some other kind of -theist?
I have never received more vitriol from my friends than when I tried to pitch this idea. Anecdotally this is an engineer pipe dream and the public will never go for this, but a smart idea!
It's good to see BallBlazer mentioned, but the article/video feels like it's incomplete without mentioning Dimension X (which also alternates between tank realtime combat and tunnel travel dodging walls) and Atari’s Battlezone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension_X_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)
Yeah the year should be noted, but it is still relevant (not intending to hurt Asian pride here):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_sauce#Carcinogens
What if the violent criminal is a child?
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yes, hemorrhagic strokes are less frequent, but much worse. I don't think it's quite a wash in the end, but closer to one if all we care about is outcomes (and that's all I do!)
because the FDA are sticks-in-the-mud who get blowback when they approve something bad and but barely hear anything if they delay or restrict something good. there was also a to-do about celecoxib potentially increasing risk of heart attacks, plus the off-label marketing thing that led to the largest (at the time) settlement of that sort in history.

the process was also crazy complicated until some new 2020 legislation. the FDA published monographs saying things like "you can make a pain reliever with the following active ingredients and in the following forms." for example, no changes to the monographs on cough and cold medicines were made between 1987 and 2020. the new regime is of course a new mess to figure out, and consumers won't necessarily know the difference between a selective versus nonselective cox inhibitor. so you spend all this money and maybe inertia just keeps people buying ibuprofen and naproxen because it's what they know. and marketing something explicitly as "safer than ibuprofen" would be a massive hurdle to get cleared.

you can find all the FDA's monographs here, where it lists specific ingredients, concentrations, labeling, and testing procedures. https://dps.fda.gov/omuf/monographsearch
Sketchiness, trash, feces, etc. Surely you don't see any if you live in Pac Heights but near the Tenderloin-Mission district area there's a lot of it.
Just an extra step, it's a single toggle in about:extensions. Bonus: it let's them use extensions on their filesystem instead of only the chrome webstore.
Incredible. I never held the quoted misconception about `T: '*`, but I didn't understand it. It was a known unknown - I simply applied it when told to do so. This is the first time someone has explained it an understandable way, I guess the implications (it's a ref of that lifetime or an owned) are a better explanation than the technical (T is bounded by the lifetime).
I'm holding my cuecat in hand with a PS/2 adapter thru a PS/2->USB adapter. Still works perfectly using Larry Wall's one-line decoder!!!

Amazing ahead of it's time product, by a very very screwed up founder.
I don't get this line of logic -- of course software has safety implications, because people use it for things in the real world. It isn't "math' that is cleanly separable from the rest of humanity; its training data comes from humanity, and it will be used towards human goals. AI is entangled with the rest of human dealings.

Whether AI poses existential threats for us or not, I'm open to either direction, but that the experts (e.g. Hinton, LeCun) are divided is reason enough to be concerned.
If you don't tax corporations then people will just buy their mansions and yachts through the company.

Double taxation already happens today.
Lungfish probably know a lot more about water than their fully aquatic brethren.
You're probably thinking of Delicious Library (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2004/11/delicious-library/) - that was such a cool piece of Mac software. I think it worked with the CueCat, but you could also use your Mac's iSight camera as a barcode reader. Even had the satisfying "beep" when you scanned a barcode. Scanning a QR code with a smartphone camera is super commonplace now, but back in 2004 it felt so futuristic.
They also demonstrate intent that was potentially unproveable before the attempt to cover up. It's pretty hard to say "oh whoops, was that illegal?" if you've gone to significant lengths to hide it from law enforcement.
Anduril unveils Roadrunner and Roadrunner-M [video]
Not having to ship all libraries, first, and third party applications in effectively three versions (x86-64, amd64, arm64) saves significant disk space.

A mixed 32 and 64 bit environment also means having many libraries paged into memory twice, and Apple isn't exactly known for being too generous on their RAM specs.
When Google Fiber abandons your city as a failed experiment (2019)
what if I do all the other things that go along with drinking for health, like speak Italian or French while I drink?
Most veggies are reasonably high in both. Go to a farmer's market if you can afford it. If not, go to a cheap (often ethnic) grocery store.
Yes, it's semantically C-compatible. They're close enough that converting C code to D code manually is straightforward. But it isn't necessary to do that, you can simply import C code into D code:

// D code

import mycstuff; // loads mycstuff.c
int main() {
int* p = mycfunction(); // call C function
return *(p + 1); // pointer arithmetic
}
What do you mean by needed functionality? Do you mean apps like Netflix working or something more fundamental in the TV itself not working without being able to connect to the Internet.
I like this rationale. Acknowledging that the first number is very much the product brand is wise. Release numbers can be quite emotional things.

Version numbers are indeed for communicating with your users, and in particular where that communication is a one way broadcast. In my career I’ve found that, when version broadcasting is used inside a team, it’s a sign of dysfunctional communication. Even at FAANG scale I encourage groups of people to colocate their code and collaborate on trunk in preference to putting up hard boundaries between projects — namely having to cross repositories and integrate with each others versioned releases.

There’s no point hampering yourself with the one-way broadcast mode of communication unless you absolutely have to. When you have multiple teams one-way broadcasting at each other then, well, maybe it’s time
we sat down for a chat instead?
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How about HTML 2: Electric Boogaloo
An "employer sponsor" often makes that claim not only plausible but even concrete.
“Applied it when told to do so.”

This is my beginner-level experience with Rust. It’s amazing that the compiler can be so specific about what’s wrong. But taking the error and getting explanations that even I can understand has been tricky.
That's generally true, but I am reticent to call anything this guy did interesting.
A Man Called Ove was written by Fredrik Backman, who is Swedish.

Not to be confused with Karl-Ove Knausgaard.
I left America a decade ago and, luckily, the country I ended up in--the first time I ever went outside the US even--turned out to be much better than anywhere I lived in the US. A lot of my life anxiety vanished the moment I walked off the plane and I immediately knew I'd arrived in the place I was meant to be. Despite struggles involving learning the language, cultural differences, and lifestyle changes, the stress was and is miniscule compared to the day to day in the US.

I've traveled a lot since then. A lot of the countries I've visited were other places I'd considered moving, but I immediately knew they weren't for me. They reassured me that I really did find the perfect place to call my home. I've also found some places that I had zero expectations for that were almost as comfortable as where I live now. But generally, no matter where I go, I feel better about the home I've made for myself. Traveling is (mostly) fun, but I'm always glad to come home.
Surprisingly well-put paper. Glad to see they controlled for "neuroticism" and other personality characteristics (namely, Big 5, but that's also assuming Big 5 is accurate in measuring its stated characteristics!).
They already make it hard enough that you need to get an extension to run extensions. That's so lame.
It implies that their margin is really low. We're talking about revenues in hundred of millions and they're only able to make single digit millions.

Next quarter, their margin might entirely be wiped out by a slight downturn in business. If they could increase their margin and make profit consistently, then I'll change my mind.
> Shame, Google keeps alienating me further from their software.

Then don't wait to jump ship, you know where things are going.. Otherwise you'll just get used to this latest round of user-hostile moves, then the next time you'll say the same thing after this is normalized.. and so on...
this is my napkin math read as well, but aspirin is an inhibitor of both COX-1 and 2 with somewhat higher affinity for the former. this leaves you messing with something else that's important for regulating platelets, your gut, etc. even selective inhibitors of the latter aren't out of the woods yet. there's some literature that's starting to suggest COX-2 may be at least somewhat constitutive in some tissues (endothelium, hence coronary vasospasm) even if it's also mostly inducible.

not sure why no one has tried developing a prostaglandin e2 inhibitor instead. going further downstream might be safer.
Global emission at record highs as world continues to overspend on carbon budget
A maybe forgotten fact about the whole CueCat saga was that the hardware was given away for free, mainly at Radio Shack in the USA, with the expectation that the company would be able to recoup the costs by...um...I guess collecting user data and charging publishers to generate bar codes.

Of course, people quickly reverse engineered the data format, as it was just a PS/2 format keyboard device, which caused the company to threaten to sue[0] anyone who distributed the software. Much fun was had for a few months skirting this until nearly everyone, other than a few people like book collectors, realized that having a UPC scanner wasn't that useful and the CueCats got stuffed into the junk drawers.

Now everyone has a barcode scanner on their phone and it is no big deal, but at the time, it was a fun toy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat#Security_breach
Kind of. You weren't given many rights unless you did it right.

For instance, paupers were often excluded from American cities as early as the 1700's.

As for immigration quotas, early American colonies were more concerned with increasing immigration. America was big and empty. If you had money, you were welcome.

About that. If you didn't have money, you became an indentured servant. Took half your life to pay it off. Not a real citizen until then.

So, sure, you could come to America. But it wasn't all honey and roses. It was different, but not much better.
A lot of folks didn't know it was there. It's just 1 of many icons, and tbh, I'm not sure when the feature got added.
Wait, are you saying that 50% of the movie is a black screen?
Sitting too long raises dementia risk
I am still at uni but reading this really makes me questioning if I should go down this path. I think the main problem is the idea of following someone elses business plan for the rest of your life, which can be pretty demotivating.
It simply puts up friction for the non-technical user from adopting these user scripts. The stated goal of google is to prevent malware from extensions, but i suspect the real goal is of course, prevent the browser from being changed by the user in a way that google doesn't like.