skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And yet you can literally pick up a phone, dial some numbers, and reach everyone else who has a phone number.

And yet you can literally pick up a [product engineered to a phone company’s specifications], dial some numbers [assigned by a phone company] and reach everyone else who [also agreed to the phone company’s TOS] [as long as you and them have paid a large monthly fee].

This isn’t freedom. Companies still decide how you can use their services.
In contrast. A third party created a bogus profile of a global brand and began releasing unfavorable content as though they were the brand. The global brand leveraged their relationship with Google to shutdown the profile (which could be labeled as satirical). Google went on to provide the private account and contact info of the third party posting. It was discovered the third-party was a subcontractor/vendor to the global brand. The global brand shut down all work with the party and had them black-balled in their industry.

The Irish gov't wasn't spending enough ad dollars for Google to care.
Well, it could always be worse - it could be Facebook's recommendation algorithm! I literally block right wing/extremist content on my feed every single day, my blocked list must be hundreds if not thousands of items long, and it just doesn't get a hint, there's more of that stuff every single day. I suspect that Facebook just doesn't care because according to their stats it drives engagement, even if it's negative user experience(because of course I can't stop myself commenting how fucking stupid someone posting flat earth content is, so someone at facebook goes "look he commented on that post, that means he likes it!").
The board level electronics assembly is mostly an solved problem that can be automated perfectly fine, but when you get to through-hole almost nobody does it, because (a) the THT capable pick and place machines are uncummon and thus somewhat expensive (b) it often requires more expensive parts that are compatible with such machines (better geometry tolerances, surfaces for the machine to pick them...) and finally (c) the NRE costs of getting that to work.

That said, then there are niches where the automated THT assembly apparently makes sense and all the NRE costs seem to be offset by lower per-unit costs of the PCB material itself. Prime example is mid-range to high-end home AV equipment (Japanese branded if not made in Japan outright), where the large mostly empty single-sided FR-2 boards with truly ridiculous amounts of obviously machine populated wire-links and discrete THT radial components are particularly striking.
Python was based off Perl, so yes it does have a lot in common with Perl.
We're really delving into sophistry now?

Hume argued the fine lines between logical vs analytical derivatives and while he had a firm stance, others didn't and still don't agree wholly.

Let's take his claim that reason does not stir emotions enough to cause moral actions. That's great and arguable, but why then would he immediately move to, reason can only excite our emotions if it informs us about the world.
That's a blatant and obvious contradiction.

His thinking leads to scenarios like his example of willful murder. According to him, the sole reason it's bad is our personal disapproval of it.
> Obviously nothing is forcing Google to deal with this in any way

Really? I mean, they're getting paid by a scammer who uses provably fake and deceptive content to prey on its victims; they have been alerted to the situation, they claim they reviewed it, and that they think it's fine. What could go wrong?
you can make gif's with it
Despite its recent controversy, it's still worth the investment. The initial cold start can put people off, but you have to build an audience the hard way, and there's no shortcuts to doing that. I use it to link out to blog posts. I don't do the microblogging thing, and prefer to use it as a linkdump for my blogposts.
This is common tactics in some parts of the world, for example Japan (I know for sure) and China (not so sure). In Japan you can sue for defamation and win a case even if the other party's speech is entirely true. This is why most Japanese Youtubers and other forms of media often refer to companies as "Company A" "Company B" so on and so forth.
The scams are a risk for some lawyer in some country suing YouTube. They bring in a lot of money now so YouTube is not interesting in policing them, but they are a risk that they will suddenly go away for legal reasons. which is why I don't understand why YouTube doesn't police them now - between the potential loss in court and the big companies staying away there is a lot of risk to YouTube.

Note too that if YouTube would police scam ads better they would have a better message to various countries that laws and legal action is not needed at all. Right now I'm shocked the EU hasn't put in place harsh laws about ads - if YouTube would police their own ads they could have a slightly less harsh policy in place and thus make it not worth while for the EU to pass the harsh law they don't like.
Why not both?

-Every corporation in the world.
It is a different thing. Non determinism is different to undefined behaviour.

Undefined behaviour can cause miscompiles which can break the expected logic of a program. In the worse case, maybe the compiler optimises away your password validation because it has decided that the failure branch is undefined behaviour.

Non determinism can lead to logic bugs, but it can't magically introduce new logic into the program like UB can as part of optimising
Have you tried the 0.2 version they released yesterday? Curious if you’re seeing significant improvements
They are not "legally closed", they are controlled. A closed border permits no crossings, which is clearly not the state of reality.
I constantly get served a Mr Beast related scam ad that promises a gift of 1000$ (I'm not even american!) along with fake mobile games that take gameplay footage from AAA games (Usually Demon's souls remake for some reason...). In all of my attempts to report them from being scams, i usually get an automated response within an hour telling that the ad is legitimate.

Google just doesn't care.
It is a general issue of Bluetooth. And the solution are improved codecs for HFP. Seems like people are skeptical if BLE Audio and L3C can make a big change.

Let us see. Ah hear. Pipewire seems to support it already on Linux.
As true as that is, the Euro has about a 20% market shares of countries' forex reserves, quite literally making it a major reserve currency.
EmacsConf joins Free Software Foundation fiscal sponsorship program
I don't think lack of tech bros manning high cost corporate square footage is what is causing the homeless, crime, and addiction problems in West Coast cities. It seems more like bad policies to me. The time window to blame everything on covid is passing quickly
The other annoying thing OS X does is launch iTunes when Bluetooth headphones are connected. This steals audio from whatever the Bluetooth device was already doing, at least for me. iTunes can't be removed or disabled, apparently.
There's even a new version of the Mistral 7b out there today that should be a lot better, v 0.2.

The finetunes of 0.1 are already extremely impressive at general tasks.

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2-GGU...
Apple's laptops are decently priced. I’m sure they can afford a 3.5mm jack.

My guess is they’ll ditch it if/when they make a water proof laptop. No ports at all, induction charging only. Johny Ives's dream after retirement.
Except they want their cut whether or not you use their service.
Trying or arbitrating a large number of cases individually is far more expensive than litigating a class action suit. But only if the people pushing the arbitration hold firm, rather than agreeing to the initial settlement offering.
Can you not read threads on Twitter without being logged in anymore?
Chemists create organic molecules in a rainbow of colors
Do you feel bad for people who had relatives use the service without them knowing, making them party even though they did not consent?
Am I just flying weird routes, or are newer planes already super smooth?

I fly a ton and have only experienced bad turbulence a handful of times in the last 5 years.

It's actually astounding to me how little turbulence there seems to be now.

Maybe I'm just getting lucky?
Second "Code of Life" Cracked by AI
Neither suggestion in your links work. macOS still automatically switches to my AirPods mic when I connect them.
Currently rebuilding a solver for stochastic dynamic programming problems in Rust, which I previously built in C and serves no particular purpose, other than showing my company how some engineering ingenuity can lead to 100x reduced runtimes and costs, if you allow for some deviations from standard processes. Why use a custom cloud HPC setup for multiple 100k a year if a browser does the trick?
I presently live in New York but I lived in Seattle in 2020. Open air drug use and homelessness in general is unquestionably a bigger problem in Seattle, despite NYC lacking some of the more progressive policies west coast cities have become so famous for. Anyone who's lived in both the east and west coast can attest to the difference, it's so stark that I find it funny people are still asking if broad coastal politics _might_ have something to do with it.
> Good to know for interviews. I was asked to explain idempotency a handful of times, weird as that is.

Do you now reply "I've been asked this before, so your question has no effect"?
Section 230 was explicitly about allowing service providers to act in an editorial capacity, allowing them to remove content that they deemed offensive. The alternative was what happened in two court cases: moderate things and be liable for anything that slips through or moderate nothing and don't be liable for anything but the service fills with spam and other unwanted content and becomes unusable/not family friendly.

It was never about a platform being treated as a mere carrier, it was the exact opposite: allowing them to moderate without huge liability fears.
> You have to pay taxes.

You can vote not to though.

The argument of getting something for the taxes you pay is made because people can vote away taxes.

But yes, it's a troubling argument, because once people start thinking that way they feel like they're owed something. Large swaths of the elderly and the infirm may not be paying taxes but are absolutely owed things that often cost money just because they're a fellow citizen and a member of our society.
Would a code analyzer have detected this bug?

(E.g. Valgrind, Flexelint, cppcheck, clang static analyzer, etc.)

If yes, then why aren't code analyzers used on all OpenBSD code submissions, given their stance on having correct code & security focused.
This looks like a really good use case for LLMs. When you're small and starting out in person, record everything the dev team does -- meetings, whiteboads, pairing sessions, etc. (yeah, creepy, but I'm in brainstorming mode) and then as you start to scale beyond the ability to "ask someone who knows" trail up an LLM to serve as the 24x7 lore master.
Sending network packets. Like, I send you a big array of bytes and you write it to a small buffer and therefore I overwrite unintended data.
I imagine the OP means that Google and other giants already have the lobbying power, funds, and other resources to navigate around political blockades, while start-ups will naturally not have the money, personnel, connections etc. to do the same.
An alternative take is that they changed their terms of service so that if/when this happens again they'd have more control over the fallout. I think they're totally expecting to get railed for the last one and are preparing for it, but this doesn't mean they can't prepare for the future as well. I imagine other providers will also revise their TOS.
Doritos Nacho Cheese-flavored booze has just become a reality
Agreed, particularly in agriculture and other rural scenarios it's very common that there is effectively one seller/purchaser for entire classes of goods. But there is barely any government oversight authority to watch over these or where any affected party can raise grievances.
Perhaps such products are in the works, but I would love a private company LLM that slurps all messages, docs, meetings, and becomes an oracle that can be relied upon. Perhaps it could even infer tacit knowledge even when it's not explicit in any docs, since it could abstract principles and concepts from the maze of data.
Mistral is doing the exact opposite and everyone is talking about it.

I'll never respect marketing like this because it's standing on the shoulders of thousands of others peoples work.
To be fair, they advertise special features in the airpod microphones (beamforming, “inward facing”, “voice enhancement algorithms”, etc).
> AT&T recently laid a new fiber line that runs right under our driveway. They put fliers in all the local mailboxes advertising fiber. But if you go on their site and put in any of the addresses on our street, oops, fiber isn't available.

When ATT ran fiber on my street, it took about 3-4 months before you could order. IIRC, they ran the bulk fiber before all the rest of the outside equipment was installed. It'd be nice if they didn't do fliers until they're ready to take orders though.
Easiest way to change input device is to hold option and click the audio icon in the menubar.
Yup. Sound right.

The time spent re-ripping my CD collection to FLAC, my DVD collection to MKV, etc, has been well spent. I can rapidly enough transcode from that to "Whatever I happen to need for where I'm listening to it," and our vehicles have quite the range of local music and audiobook content for road trips that doesn't rely on streaming anything.

You can get CDs for (usually) very little on eBay, same for DVDs, and I don't have to worry about the pissing matches between a corporate conglomerate that views me as "a wallet with eyeballs" and another one that views me as "eyeballs with a wallet" getting in the way.

Meanwhile, vinyl sales continue to skyrocket, and more and more people are interested in records, growing collections, refurbishing old equipment (both to produce and play records), etc. I expect these are rather heavily correlated, because in 50 years from now, nobody is going to be able to play any of the streaming "content" that flows around. "This is my grandparents favorite Spotify playlist" won't be a thing, but you can certainly go cruising through old photo albums, old record collections, etc.

I remain optimistic that we're in the starting phases of a rejection of the online [handwaves at everything digital consumer tech], and it's going to be aided greatly by stuff exactly like this. Profits and corporate pissing matches over "actually doing something people want to pay money for."

Google and Disney both seem to be demonstrating that once people lose trust in you, it's basically impossible to get it back. Nobody trusts a new Google product will last more than a year or two, which leads to it getting killed off for lack of use, and Disney/Pixar seem to have forgotten that the purpose of the entertainment industry is to "entertain the people who might want to see your movie." Other studios are doing fine, so there's clearly a demand, but Disney has been dropping an impressive string of box office bombs lately, because a lot of people no longer trust them.
Latency is still valuable. For example YouTube (which IIRC uses ffmpeg) often takes hours to do transcodes. This is likely somewhat due to scheduling but assuming that they can get the same result doing 4x threads for 1/4 of the time they would prefer that as each job finishes faster. The only real question is at what efficiency cost the latency benefit stops being worth it.
This has never happened for me, with AirPods at least. However, sometimes when I press the media keys (play/pause, forward, backwards) iTunes opens. Maybe your headphones are automatically activating the play button?
Combining ClickHouse and AWS SageMaker for Machine Learning
What's the difference
Correct. If it's really worth reading it'll show up somewhere else too.
Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal
Knew a guy a decade ago that got hit with one of these. Paid them like 10k if I recall.
Indeed. I think it is even tempting to suggest video gaming may be in trouble, after a multi decade long technology advancement enabled cambrian explosion of possibilities, now it has settled into the narrowest field ever seen.

The last time it was remotely like this was the brown first person shooter phase circa 2005, but yet another walkfest with super high production values is no more interesting. If you happen to be into that stuff it is a golden age, but that is like saying the Marvel era of cinematic domination was a great thing.

The question really becomes if games were ever interesting to the mass market as games at all, or merely proxies for technological experimentation or storytelling, both of which can be done by other means.
ToothFairy for macOS is what I've been using to handle this. It has an advanced setting for headphones that "Improve sound quality by disabling audio input from device". It's always good to have multiple tools out there to solve problems like this.
Objective-C?

Plus everything that needs to directly interface with the above languages. So many Python libraries that are one "funny integer" away from a nightmare debugging session.
Phones are a literal hellhole to utilize compared to desktop, which is why I very literally do not buy any smartphone other than the low end 2017 one I still own. Even "sideloading" is fairly trash on itself, just let me pick any appstore whatsoever and install out of the box, no need to "sideload".
HN Post about the spotted article(s) 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38436516

And wow, the new interim CEO:
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Bhargava is the founder of the company behind the 5-Hour Energy Drink product.
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For great sci-fi, definitely review The Hugo Awards (and previous awards) https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/ and the Arthur C Clarke awards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke_Award . I found many great authors and series there.

I highly recommend anything by Adrian Tchaikovsky. His themes and ideas are deep and fascinating. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Adrian-Tchaikovsky/author/B002... (Children of Time Series, Dogs of War and City of Last Chances are great). Him and Dan Simmons are my favorite new(ish) authors. If you haven't read the Hyperion quadrilogy, it's my favorite sci-fi series ever.

I hate to be that guy, but I find Andy Weir's books to be very simple and 'light' sci-fi. Fun reads but usually suffers from the protagonist being a genius and smart aleck. No deep themes or characters. I never understood the crazy appeal after reading all of Asimov and Arthur C Clarke. Personally I want giant themes, huge space operas, complex characters and long storylines!
It is not a straw man. Considering how the post starts, the writer fully expected the platform to die. Also literally "twitter is dead" "twitter is dead to me" "twitter is quite dead" go inside a reasonable interpretation considering there's always loss.

Other parts can only be considered incorrect if you lose sight of the big picture! As I said, you can't put a price on Freedom Of Speech. And considering the platform is technically very operational, it is being protected.

Your other points like "subscriptions will NEVER pay for everything!" are only the kinds of things that do actually end up turning true to unique tech companies, which X absolutely is like now.

>> X does have pretty much everything it needs, and will only grow with time.

>So does it have everything it needs, or will it grow? Those don’t make sense at the same time.

Wrong. It has everything it needs to function, and will eventually grow. Like with anything, usually the prerequisite for growth is sustainability in a stable state.

If you're a free speech absolutist, and not a total idiot who doesn't see forest from the trees, Twitter for sure wasn't the platform for you, but X is pretty much the only one due to its popularity and successfully driven iniatives to protect it. Pointing out things like ElonJet (of whose handling was reasonable anyway due to security), or some Twitter's old behaviours not being handled yet due to international complications is not seeing the forest.
I wonder if that has more to do with the planes or with better monitoring of atmospheric conditions for planes to dodge it
Just find it humorous that in a programmer's forum everything can be wheeled back to microservices.
It really was an event for the magazine era. As they lost importance, and easily showing video became possible, it was on borrowed time.
So it’s ok when a megacorp like Microsoft does it, but if an individual developer does it then it’s a crime? When you fail to pay for Windows, it turns off various features, does it not? When you stop paying for your MMO, it stops letting you play the game, right? So if I am contracted to develop some accounting software and they fail to pay me, why shouldn’t it stop working?

This is why it would only be a contract dispute; they will argue that the contract did not state up front that if they failed to pay the developer that the software wouldn’t work. The MMO certainly has pages and pages of legalese that everyone knows lets the MMO’s developer get away with anything they want. The independent contractor needs explicit language in their contract to specify exactly what will happen if they aren’t paid on time. That should include late fees, but probably also software that refuses to work until someone fills out a credit card payment form.
No you don't. Writing an app to use google services is a choice. There's MicroG for silly apps that require google services, and there's also life without using silly apps that require google services.
I didn't know about the AVCTP, but I completely agree on the possible alternatives Bluetooth could use.

From what I've read in the last few days researching to write the post, it feels like Bluetooth was designed under some constraints 20 years ago, and it keeps using the same constraints.

For example, it's unreal to me that the bandwidth for a Bluetooth connection is around 3 Mbps when we've had 4G with 100 Mbps for over 10 years, let alone 5G at 20Gbps.

And yes, the codecs in the firmware is really bad, although very convenient for the companies selling devices I guess. There aren't enough incentives there for the change.
Do you have Apple Stores in your country? They're almost always packed. Could you imagine how insane it would be to do that? Would you no longer be able buy iPhones online? What you suggest is completely infeasible.
Yeah, same.

There have never been this many good games coming out in a year. There also is more Call of Duty and FIFA garbage than ever, but I haven't found it hard to simply ignore it?

I think The Game Awards is a good refutation of this argument. They showed off a ton of upcoming stuff, most of which wasn't just FIFA/CoD AAA shovelware. A good demonstration that you can advertise all the other stuff too.

I think the real argument is that E3 was industry captured, had become a mouthpiece for the giants, and it was time for it to go.
The Casualties of the Podcasting Bloodbath
C++ makes it very difficult to write safe interfaces. You can't expose references, nor spans, nor variants, no shared_ptrs to things that can't be thread-safely overwritten, nor any standard library containers nor a lot of other things. And even if you only use whatever few interfaces remain safe, the interfaces you create are unsafe by default too. As a result, these unsafe interfaces are everywhere.

I'd contend that using Rust for anything nontrivial results in MaybeUninit & co being common.
Yes, but there is a performance penalty compared to day to day operations with higher isolation levele