skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall the gaming industry is a peek into what many media industries want your life to be like. You have access to their IP only as long as they want to support it, no local copy to keep forever, always online, kernel-level permissions to detect cheating software, DLC dribbles and microtransactions and lootboxes everywhere. It's problematic and only getting worse and I've given up on games for the most part.

If aspects of culture can be memory-holed because people aren't allowed to retain copies (and I mean popular shows and movies, books, music, not just games), the only winning move is not to play.

Abandonware should be open-sourced, copyrights should be capped at around a decade, and corporations should stop competing with each other to be the biggest asshole.
I got Dark Patterned into prime a few years ago. I was a low volume purchaser anyway and only used prime video for a handful of shows, I never used the music service since access to it was just another flagrant lock-in. I left Prime in Aug.

I was surprised with the things I bought since then, despite the quoted delivery being wose, they all actually arrived next day anyway. And I did not miss prime video at all.

Since I'm not paying to make my eyeballs available you're not even going to make the ad money off me. The ads are just punishing the people still giving them money for prime.
> I find it really difficult to cleanly do this before I have something that's 100% complete

That's what a DVCS like git makes easy to do, it's really worth learning.
> Thinking of Israel as colonialism is denying the right to exist as a nation of millions of people.

No. Just like thinking apartheid South Africa as racist didn't deny it the right to exist as a nation. South Africa still exists as a nation, as any online map shows. It just don't exist as an apartheid regime anymore. Israel can do the same.
likely part of the challenge. has some kind of ids/ips that reports all ports as open.
I have a home made one running on a battery for 8 months. 10Ah, but it only updates every 8 hours.
> Consoles ship at a hardware loss

First, it might not be true (because all console contains is a PCB and several chips). Second, if you sell something cheaper than you could it doesn't mean you get some kind of privilege and exception from the law.
3D Pose Estimation of Two Interacting Hands from a Monocular Event Camera
The French railway ticket website, sncf-connect.com is in Flutter.

Largest e-commerce service in France.
>There's a certain set of healthy recommendations

But they are all very general and very vague.
Eat right.
Exercise.
Avoiding smoking and alcohol, unless it's red wine.
Be wealthy
Drink Coffee.

Sorry just when I see people suggesting healthy lifestyle under this and other articles for things like heart disease mRNA treatments, it generally betrays that they view being sick as a personal failing.

1 in 2 people will contract cancer according to the NHS. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/cancer/

The biggest factor with cancer is age.
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
Author here. This is finally being given as a talk by me tomorrow at 37C3. I've wanted to give this as a talk for many years at CCC, but CCC's long hiatus got in the way. This will be my first time at CCC.

If anyone attending 37C3 wants to talk more about this, or anything else, or about open source firmware/owner control in general, don't hesitate to get in touch with me in person or online.

I don't have access to my usual email when traveling for security reasons, so use my travel email: https://www.devever.net/~hl/contact

I'll also set up a DECT phone at the event (4526/HUGO).

Comments and questions welcome!
100% yes.

And a new page per day (paper is cheap), with the date always on top outer corner of the page. Never share a page across dates.

Thoughts, however bizarre, around the topics are very useful. Elaborate where possible. Names, keywords and classifications will be useful later, so do consider the future as you write.
Finding and Fixing an AudioWorkletProcessor Performance Pitfall
Absolutely unfair.
At a certain point you'd have to think to yourself, I have "niche situations" every week, maybe I actually do need to have my own car. And that's not the "niche situation" OC was describing.
K.

Curiously, the study found a small drop in hospital deaths at private equity hospitals. This, the researchers said, may be due to social and demographic factors — private equity patients were younger and less disadvantaged than those at peer hospitals not owned by private equity.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/what-happens-when-private-equit...

Also:

https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/practicemana...

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-12-26/...

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/when-private-equity-take...
I upgraded my MBP after keeping MBP 2013 for 10 years and had to go through the shamanic dance of booting Sonoma into the safe mode, changing preferences and rebooting again to get macfuse working and I would still prefer it to dealing with NFS.
The $8/month seems completely fair IMO. really good sync is hard to pull off. I ran my own hodgepodge sync service for over a decade out of a home server for exactly these kinds of notes, and it’s really easy for issues/conflicts/general jankiness to crop up.

Plus you constantly run into issues with compatibility between the sync app(s) and the Mac/PC/iOS apps you use to edit the files.

Nothing prevents me from running that exact same setup for Obsidian for free. But I’d much rather pay $8/month and not have to deal with server backups and maintenance, compatibility, or all of the other issues.
I agree, good luck convincing the FCC.
The woodworking stock photo is… funny lol
Record keeping, for better or worse, is essential.

Memories fade. Ink fades but rarely corrupts.
The main problem with paper is that it's not searchable, so I've been using [0] since 2018. Each invocation just appends a timestamped line of text. I have a crontab that pops up a box every hour and I type in what I'm working on. Sometimes I'll add extra notes if I'm working through a particularly thorny problem. It's always right there on the terminal.

I'd say it's saved my ass at least a dozen times over the years, where I hit a problem that I've seen before but can't quite remember how to solve it. I also page through it quarterly to get a good summary of what I've worked on for that quarterly 1:1 with the boss.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/mfischr/f1ee2967ec0181b934639c30f4e6...
A Locals' Guide to Rome's Crowd-Free Ancient Sites
Fair enough! Thank you for sharing!
>If you say so.

Nope, it's objective reality.

>I own an UltraProteus with almost 500 filters and an extensive mod matrix. Pretty sure it can mangle a sample quite a lot.

Which is neither here, nor there. I didn't say you can't change the sample "quite a lot", I said you can change it much less than if it was as a synthesis patch on a synth.

Any fx or filter available to the sample is also available to the synth. The reverse is not true.

As a simple example for an extremely basic thing you can't do: you can't change the sample's inherent attack. The ASDR envelope on the sampler works on top of the raw sample's attack, so you can't, for example, change a slow attack to a fast one.
https://archive.ph/XUb1S
A paper on the Microsoft Research site, with a technique for implementing high-definition TV, now obsolete with the adoption of ATSC. It had a discussion of how sampling works, that I thought was interesting.
I can't speak for general IT stuff but software in the UK is paid on-par with the non-US Western world (better in London), and significantly better than other white-collar jobs.
Unified diffs make GPT-4 Turbo less lazy
Apple cracked down on traditional gaming on iOS, and as an unforseen side effect, yes, "mobile gaming" means suggestive gambling apps that are eating the world.
It pains me that in my home server setup, I have solar panels that produce DC, then an inverter converts that to AC for the wall outlet, then my UPS converts that to DC to charge its battery, which converts it back to AC to plug my servers into, then the server PSU converts it to DC to power the components. All that switching has to waste a lot of energy (DC->AC->DC->AC->DC).
Prices are a heuristic people use for making choices more simply, because the number of ways an object can be defined is more numerous than the billions of atoms its made of. Further, for an item to be produced at scale and over time in the market, the profit must exceed the costs.

Now, if you are able to see the value in something despite not having a firm monetization strategy, that just puts you in the same mental frame as the greatest entrepreneurs in the world. Jeff Bezos said something about how you should do what matters and find the profit later, it was written on the wall somewhere. SpaceX still might not be profitable (not sure), but the promise of 100kt of payload to LOE with recoverable lower and upper stages? Its worth the weight!
12 MB isn’t necessarily that much. Here is a 96 MB SVG file: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koppen-Geiger_Map_...

Here are genome sequence files that are several hundred MB compressed (the decompressed format is text): https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/refseq/

Finally here is an almost 2 TB XML file: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm

These aren’t the most typical use cases, but it’s nice if an editor can at least handle > 32-bit files (larger than 2 or 4 GB).
Thomas Picketty agrees:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/05/01/Piketty-C...

We need a basic income.
True. But the following phrase is set off by both a period and a set of parentheses. I think it’s pretty clear the author’s intent is for there to be a complete sentence about the behavior of HN users and then a complete thought saying that was unfortunate. (Then a parenthetical about the moderator behavior.)
I meant that the simplistic view that Israel is a colonial state is misguided and distorting the discussion. When the partition happened jewish populations were also forced into exile by Arab states yet this is never even discussed alongside the Nakba:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-refugees-from-ar...

That doesn’t excuse what Israel does in Gaza or the West Bank, but it is not a simple evil Israel vs. oppressed Palestinians situation that it is made out to be, and this is not a colonial state vs. indigenous population struggle either, both sides have valid claims and are mostly indigenous to the land being fought over.

The narrative that this is a colonial struggle is extremely dangerous (what is the proposed solution, to remove an entire nation state?) and it will not lead to a solution since it is a complete non-starter for Israel.

Labelling what is happening - which is horrific enough as it is - a genocide is also a vast exaggeration at best and really inaccurate, and it is a very powerful propaganda tool being used to dehumanize Israelis as a whole (if it is genocide they are acting inhumanely and anything done to them should be ignored or dismissed like the reaction to Oct 7 shows).
Do you mean polygon, or did I miss something relating to a polynomial solution?
Frankly I think you're answering your own question when you say "the Fed tends to err on the side of triggering a recession." Yea that's the point, maybe it would be less offensive to say they view their job as creating as mild of a recession as possible to bring down inflation.

In response to your direct request, here's Powell talking about a "soft or softish" landing specifically calling it a recession that is not severe. https://youtu.be/Ue1aDKboQcQ?si=HRcPcJFT22kYxYQT

I find the whole back patting themselves on a "soft landing" a total joke and offensive to the American tax payers. They create so much pain, especially to those without net worth, in the name of stalling inflation when inflation is directly caused by money supply. They created the problem not with 0 interest rates but by literally injecting cash into the economy, they lied about it's effect on inflation and then they could have sat on their hands and inflation would have evened out without destroying everyone's bank accounts. They really don't need play God on the economy, it creates more problems than it solves
Wow, what a cool use of this feature! Thanks! :)
In some sense, don't we all make the past from scratch? [stares into middle distance]
I’ve been heading in this direction, and Quarto continues to be the end point, on the road from pandoc.
Uber open sourcing a bunch of periphery services while having benefited from a huge amount of existing open source libraries to build said service is not even slightly the same thing.

There is absolutely nothing here about open sourcing the bits of code that make them the real money. The business logic implementations, that's what I'd be interested in seeing. That's what we're talking about.

Most of these companies open source because they're great strategies for recruitment anyway. Ie, they get something out of open sourcing these periphery services.
I was amused that this approach was dismissed without analysis as impractical. Sure it was impractical in living memory when CPUs and memory were many many orders of magnitude slower.
Life is not a video game. The US and Saudi Arabia already spent 7 years trying to level Yemen to stop them from firing cruise missiles everywhere in the region, and failed. The US didn't managed to stop Iraq from launching ballistic missiles until over a year after the decision to invade was made, and now look at Iraq right now, various militias are still firing missiles at US military bases and getting away with it.

Yemen is just a proxy of Iran, ultimately, and the US has already lost multiple proxy wars against Iran. Invading Iran itself is not a workable proposition, either.
for a small window of time, there was an alternative... https://creolabs.com/ but this is gone now.
What part of it seems like a criticism to you?
Whaaaat? It’s been a while since I lived in california (Monterey and later the Bay Area) but I found California to have some of the best pizza anywhere…

Pesto and potato pizza in the Castro was amazing.
> Israel’s government agreed to give Intel a $3.2 billion grant for a new $25 billion chip plant it plans to build in southern Israel

I don't buy Intel processors since 2012, at least. They just gave me another reason to keep it that way for the foreseeable future. I don't want my computer running on silicon from sands used to bury the bodies of bombed children.
>Everything in our economy could work just fine without a lot of growth except finance

Which includes all taxpayers, since all those government employees are paid with the "growth" in the form of underfunded defined benefit pension and retiree healthcare. Or the people counting on their 401k numbers to go up.
Thanks. Inherent reliability issues with Plex aside, Prologue is iOS-exclusive.
Pizza hut (in Canada) is one of the only pizza places I'll order from because they don't use uber and have their own drivers. I'm sure this is inevitable though.
Make is declarative. You tell it how to make an A from a B and a B from a C or a D and it then works out that it needs to do "CBA" or "DBA" depending on whether it finds a D or a C in the filesystem.

The more possible variations you have to cater for the worse build scripts get.

If you try not to redo work that you did 5 minutes ago that's still valid then build scripts become even more complicated whereas the makefile doesn't change at all.

Other tools do declarative even more than make does but as they get easier to understand they tend to lose abilities.
Wouldn’t they always hunt whatever is easiest? Why would they play on hard mode? It’s not like they see it as a sport where there’s more to be had by setting up rules to make it “sporting”. Don’t they just want as much food as they can get as easily and low risk as possible?
> Make's core purpose is to execute commands, isn't it? How was it not designed to execute commands?

Some people on HN believe that if you use make primarily as a task runner that you're doing it wrong and should use something else. I don't agree.

Most users are using multiple aspects of make: as a task runner and as something that handles the dependency graph when building something digital.

As a web developer, I used npm scripts, grunt, gulp, etc. to manage web builds but now I only use make and have gotten off the merry-go-round of web build tools.
That is true. But I wish there was more evidence presented for it. Crying wolf does more harm than good.
A Deep Dive into the Mill Scala Build Tool [video]
I prefer task over just, while I am not a huge fan of YAML, we now use it everywhere so it just makes sense to not learn yet another DSL for Just and just use YAML.
"a copy of windows" is what you pay for (well, what you pay for a license to use). And there isn't a scarcity of copies of windows.
Ruby 3.3 has made major improvements to the debugging experience: https://railsatscale.com/2023-12-19-irb-for-ruby-3-3/
Right. There's also the fact that the FDA will accept much worse side effects for a cancer treatment than they would for (e.g.) an athlete's foot treatment.

For a bad cancer like some melanomas, just about anything that doesn't kill the patient outright is gonna be on the table.
I don’t want to sift through garbage and spyware on my phone, so I’ve always been a bit, “why is this a problem” about this whole situation, but recently had the thought, “I sure would like to not have to but the Civ VI expansions through both Steam and the App Store.”

It makes me wonder, if Apple and/or Google partnered with Valve if that would be enough good will, or if nobody will be happy until every device is a market for lemons.
Livestock predation is a common threat around the world. Are ranchers in Colorado uniquely unequipped to adopt any of the solutions used by ranchers elsewhere?
It’ll never happen in the US. Neither political party with power will break away from the corporate interests that determine what laws and regulations will pass.

The last candidate who ran on small donors and wore a proud badge of being anti-corporate interests lost twice. Politicians are figuring out how much money can be made by both acquiring legislative influence and power and accepting donations to steer their platforms, as well as passing legislation and policy that helps siphon public funds into private companies that said politicians have a financial stake in.

Changing private equity power requires benevolence, and there’s very little of that left amongst those with political power in the US.
Yeah but you also fall for fake documentaries about how HPV vaccine is dangerous.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/atr/competition-and-monopol...

Your interpretation on tying is not well aligned with usual legal interpretation. Unless the App Store is considered not to be a separate product (which had been Apple's argument for a long time on App Store and Safari by designating them as "system services of iOS"), this is clearly tying. The question is if Apple's current practice is illegal tying or not. Whether the customer wants it or not is not important here; you can give them freely to gain market dominance then reap profits later on whenever the competitors are all gone.
Whilst i agree with all of this, I like paper, and to set time aside (with coffee) to review batches of notes.
What makes sense to me is to think about something that DOESN'T roll.

Suppose I start in Greenwich, walk - without rolling - down the prime meridian to the south pole, up the international date line to the north pole, and back down the prime meridian to Greenwich.

How many rotations do I go through? One. I get a full rotation because I've followed the earth's curvature all the way around the globe once, even though I'm walking straight without rolling.

So the answer is "how many rotations due to rolling" plus "one bonus rotation for passing around the curvature of the circle."
Government policies that prevent economic growth and ensure high unemployment rates do nothing to benefit the middle class. It's better to limit worker rights because that makes employers more likely to hire workers in the first place. This improves growth rates and economic mobility.
They are really bad and I would feel bad if I presented something like that to someone for a review (not just messages - most of those commits shouldn't exist at all). That said, the MR in question is marked as a draft, so anything goes at that point.

Also, Conventional Commits are mostly pointless. Linux-style commit message conventions are enough.
libtask can be directly compiled from the code on Russ's site[1]. I've a copy locally compiled up, as of about 6 months ago.

For libthread, I'd suggest trying Plan 9 from User Space[2,3]. It has been a while since I played with that, but it is included as part of it.

[1] https://swtch.com/libtask/
[2] https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/
[3] https://github.com/9fans/plan9port
A mobile app that interprets brain EEG signals (from Muse) to enable patients to notify their caregivers that they need help or are in pain.
I always assumed the 1969 movie “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” had something to do with the use of these names...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064100
That is not open source.

> Any Association grants you (“Licensee”) a license to use, modify, and redistribute the Software, but only (a) for Non-Commercial Use, or (b) for Commercial Use in Allowed Networks.

https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-ts/blob/main/LICENSE.md
Second link hasn't been working for awhile.
Nor from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks
Isn’t this a net good though? Most people benefit from cattle being as affordable as possible. If we charged ranchers to graze their livestock we’d see the cost passed onto consumers. This is a large reason we subsidize so much farming. It makes food affordable for all. This is a great social benefit for all.
From the article: “In the history of cryptology, women tend to be either systematically excluded or reduced to objects. The absence of women is both a reflection of the bias of society and historians, and a gap in the employment of women in computing fields.”

What are you are seeing in the article that suggests a “criticism” of the introduction of Alice?
Cormac McCarthy fans should recognize Alicia and Bobby.
"Invisible"? The sickly blue-gray background of the display makes it look like a giant reflective LCD like a cheap clock.
If it were “Bob and Alice and Mallory and Eve” you’d have a solid case.
Yes, 電車でGO!2 高速編 aka Densha de Go! 2 Kōsoku-hen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S62dSVmLPU0
Eh, 500 watts at 12 volts is 42 amps. Assuming half of those 8 pins are positive, the other negative thats 10 amps per pin.

You’d better not have any corrosion in that connector, or a loose wire if you want to be able to do that without fire risk. And you’ll get non-trivial resistive heating in many cases over time.

Doing the same at 48 volts is 10.5 amps total, 2.6 amps per pin. Hard to mess that up.
The way I think of this is: If instead of having a small circle rolling around a larger one, think of a circle with ANY non-zero radius rolling around one with a zero (or really really small) radius. You’ll always end up with at least one rotation, regardless of how small the other circle is. So +1 makes sense.
How do task and just compare to SCons?

Although SCons is Python (which is a pro or con depending upon your perspective), it has strong dependency management. Or is the argument that dependency management is part of build, not general project maintenance?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777017
I don't understand this conspiracy theory about multi billion dollar companies willing to sacrifice their productivity for tens of millions of dollars in real estate.

That makes no sense. There is no way Apple or Amazon or any FAANG-esque company gives two shits about real estate valuations when a 1% productivity boost is equal to 10x their entire RE portfolio.

Maybe soft layoffs make sense, but none of these companies have a problem laying off people or firing low performers. Why wouldn't they just lay off more.