skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true, the Amish lifestyle alone debunks most of the telling above as heavily skewed. Implying certain society values and a way of thinking as natural or god-given, while in fact it only summarizes, whats currently pretty famous as western lifestyle.

> Maybe I am naive, but do Amish typically worry about money and about materialistic things?

Imho everyone worries about materialistic things to a certain degree, as a potatoe for example is very materialistic thing and we cannot eat virtual goods (yet). The potatoe example can also be used illustrate another aspect - all materialistic things will decay over time, thus naturally ppl would not hoard tons of goods beside what they need for themselves or for trading for other goods (which will also decay, so it makes no sense to overly hoard traded goods either).

This did not change much throughout history. Also there was only one outstanding exception to that naturalistic equilibrium - land. Even old bronze age societies already fought for fertile land as thats the very base to sustain life and furthermore it provides access to other resources like ore and such, that we learned to process into other goods. So history tells us - yes thats possible, also the Amish kinda still live in that tradition.

What really changed that almost-equilibrium was the invention of the modern money with the bank system. The big difference now is, that this virtual good "money" does not decay naturally (given the economy is stable). Instead the system even boost itself by constantly creating more money de-valuating itself. Most of us love to see the numbers increasing, because we tend to believe we can buy more things from that. But later we realize that goods just get a higher price tag instead (inflation), which furthr boost the money hunger.

Here we are - the big hoarding tendency in western societies has a lot to do with our money system.
Show HN: Oliphaunt – A macOS client app for Mastodon
I wrote a macOS client app for Mastodon. I would love to have some feedback, ideally on GitHub or on TestFlight or here I suppose. It requires macOS 14 Sonoma.

Here is the TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QLqIRNwe

GitHub Feedback: https://github.com/anosidium/Oliphaunt-Feedback-And-Support
Apple rejoices, I guess. This brings their vision of getting rid of the notch closer to reality.
Yep, exactly. And I should mention the show _does_ take some liberties with the plot vis a vis skimming over a lot of the setup of the stories. Try to imagine the amount of time the kids and adults would have to take to set up certain activities they do that we never see. I can scarcely imagine my daughters having the patience to go through with that much setup before actually getting to play.

But it’s all in service of telling a fun, unique story, so it gets a pass.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38866109
I wish flatpak had proper integration into the host system's CLI (like snap does quite well). flatpak run org.blub.foo is unergonomic.
And it's unbelievably bad in Unreal as well. They do so much shady hooks and memory management / GC under the hood that Unreal C++ is effectively more like Java or C# at this point. They would save devs a ton of headache if they just went all the way like Unity. C++ has its uses - but those are definitely not it.
> Low-effort clickbait? Or an innocent misunderstanding by someone who thinks DACs have to be expensive?

Probably the latter. Things like Arduino and cheap ESP modules from china have made electronics vastly more accessible than they were previously. Given that, it makes sense that somebody wouldn't really understand _how_ a DAC works but would understand what one does, what it's used for and that the datasheet for $currentModule says there is none present.
Dealing with such things is exactly why a contractor is supposed to charge more per hour.

I expect a basic rule like "Hire an accountant if you don't want to figure out all this stuff." to be contracting 101.
Goodhart's law would seem to apply:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

Nevertheless, scoring so well on this benchmark is an accomplishment, though I'm not in a position to evaluate how significant it is.
great find, this is much better than the article
Starcraft is mostly fine since the place where the changes really matter was multiplayer and those games are ephemeral.

Awhile back I was playing through darkest dungeon and they did two rebalances that changed how most characters work. I had spent time leveling up characters and building teams only to have the game change out from under me. It was annoying even if the final rebalance was better since I made decisions that were based on obsolete information.
iOS’ webkit-only requirement, whatever else one might think of that rule, is the only reason anyone still cares about or builds for any browser engines other than Blink. The rule has (by accident) been more beneficial to Firefox than harmful, overall—it’s the single thing keeping more than one browser engine on the test list, even for smaller development shops and teams.

[edit] nb this would not be the case if Firefox’s usage share were still large enough to “defend itself”, as it were. It’s purely due to circumstance.
Django+Postgres.

So far I haven’t needed anything fancy like Htmx, but interested in looking into it in the future.

I’ve tried playing with things like Elixir or Go, but I know Python and am instantly productive in it. If I want to do something to play with a new stack, I will. But I want something done, then Python is the fastest way for me to get something useable.
What is it about being made of lava that makes Hawaii now a garden paradise?
Nah, this will only be good enough for sensor-level power (like 5W from a whole window). Only useful in very limited circumstances. It's not going to replace normal solar power.
That's happening precisely because Boing didn't suffer any consequences after the last scandal.
It's the same hyperbolic nonsense we've seen from hundreds of other confident "researchers" over the past 50 years. Eliasmith has a book called "How to Build a Brain", Hawkins built an entire company, Numenta, around a theory that hasn't created anything remotely useful or interesting in almost 2 decades and has pivoted to creating tools for current ML zeitgeist methods.

This unknown researcher is exactly the same. Write books and papers for years while creating literally nothing of actual value or usefulness in the real world. But what else would you do in his situation? You have to publish or die in academia. Publish the 1,000th iteration of some subset of LLM architecture? Or create grandiose claims about "implementing human thought" in the hopes that some people will be impressed?
Firefox was my browser of choice for many years, then I switched to Chrome since it just plain seemed like the better browser at the time.

Now that Chrome has a dominant market share, it seems to be getting worse and worse as Google uses that market share to push their agenda around telemetry and ads.

It still feels like Chrome has the better dev team overall but has some major conflicts of interest with the greater Google agenda. Mozilla have also made some questionable decisions leading to less focus on core browser development and their upper management seems pretty suspect in their own ways.

Safari and Edge feel like a tier below, they both work but I wouldn't want either as my daily driver. The rest of the web browsers are much more niche. Kinda feel like I don't have a great browser option given all that...
I remember these quite well. Their Achilles' heel was durability, a recurring problem with any smartphone design that has moving parts.

I think that if people kept buying these in significant enough numbers, manufacturers would still be making them.
Yes, it's essentially Amazon. But what can we (or anyone) do about it?

Not sure what the situation is today but, early on, we had to give up 70% of the list price if we wanted Amazon to sell our digital books. It's just mind-boggling.

And that's on top of the suboptimal user experience, because you can't sell a PDF via Amazon, and the Kindle toolchain is just awful. We have our publishing pipeline automated (DocBook to print-PDF, on-screen PDF, and EPUB); for a while we had bad Kindle/Mobi as well, but I don't think even that is possible today.

So, it's not only that Amazon gets a huge chunk of the money, you also have to accept the inferior quality of that particular distribution channel.
Boing is working really hard to write that old marketing limerick [1] for a new era:

> If it's Boeing, I ain't going.

[1] https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/23039-if-it-aint-boeing-i...
It's also very poorly interconnected. Going Stockholm-Hamburg is one flight. Or 4-ish trains with uncertain interconnections and some busses in between IIRC
“ feature gaps between platforms, making their feature set a union of features”

This fundamentally doesn’t work for UI/UX. You have to pick a paradigm and implementation details at some point and the high level UX design of Windows UI dejure and Mac are just different, in ways that cannot be factored out of a framework without leaky abstractions.

Your choices are: the Qt/Tk/Swing approach write once, a solid if dated UX that is themeable but not truly native anywhere, the web app (or its QML/Flutter/FX equiv), wxwidgets etal which sort of tried to be native everywhere last century and looks and works that way, or at least two parallel independent native UI implementations which is a gargantuan more effort.

Or go whole hog with FLTK or your own custom thing. a11y? WTF is that?

“ Instead they typically take a least common denominator approach, limiting apps written with them to only the most common basic features.”

I wouldn’t call wxwidgets basic, but it is a mess. It can’t be any other way. If it could someone would have made it in the last 30 years.

Just because you use Cocoa/AppKit rather than drawing on a canvas does not magically make your app feel like a Mac app.

Literally 100s of side projects have started down this path. People eventually learn you can’t abstract everything away, at least not the labor intensive part.
LWN is a better source (follow the links in this article for background): https://lwn.net/Articles/932201/
Contact your local sawmill and ask if they have a lot of questions for cnc-milled parts, like window trims or the like. My friendly mill owner suggested this, he would do it himself but he can't find any competent people to start this.
It's not just about web requests: Small things like the select that reflects various font choices correctly, consistently styling form elements as deeply as the site does, the live updating rich formatting inside the main input (shockingly annoying to deal with, even with React), the per-word fade-in effects for text with memoization and other state-dependent optimizations since Chrome chokes on too many spans, handling accessibility for all of these little pieces...

There'd be a lot of "just a little bit of vanilla Javascript and CSS" sprinkled all over that'd all need to have state managed in a manual way that wouldn't be a meaningful improvement over React.

Like I said, I'm working on something where seemingly minute UI/UX details matter to the target user. So I can't just say "CSS and Vanilla JS don't support that without pulling teeth, it's a small thing, so I'm going to ignore it". Sometimes that's going to be a valid strategy and sometimes it's not.
Oh, thank you! I didn't realize that LRU Maintainer Thread was more than an expiration reaper. When it was first being introduced that was its first responsibility as lazy expiration removal by size eviction meant dead entries wasted capacity. It was all work in progress when I had read about it [1] and talked to dormando, so it got fuzzy. The compat code [2, 3] might have also thrown me off if I only looked at the setting and not the usage. Its a neat variant to all of these ideas.

[1] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/97

[2] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/9723c0ea8ec1237b...

[3] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/9723c0ea8ec1237b...
All large corporations become sort of bean-counting corner-cutting company after maybe a couple of decades. It is the game of modern Capitalism. They not only learned but learned well and early.
What's not clear from the article is how likely this failure mode actually is to occur, even if the pilots happen to forget to disable the anti-ice.

The fact that this issue is present in the existing 737 Max variants, and none appear to have actually experienced a structural failure, suggests the probability is low.

It is easy for a bunch of keyboard warriors here on HN to insist that only zero risk is acceptable. In the real world, everything is a continuum and without knowing quantifiably where on the risk continuum this issue is, any discussion is meaningless.
I bought a thinkpad that came with Win11 and haven't had many problems with it, although I dont use it much. I didn't like it auto-syncing to the cloud, but I can see that being a feature for many. I completely agree with the removal of ownership. My biggest gripe is having to disable the "rage-bait" news headlines it constantly tries to sneak into the browser and start menu. After I disabled those, I looked into my outlook email (hardly ever use it) and lo-and-behold, it's filled with rage-bait news headline emails. I was mocking it to myself, like "Hey user! Here's a new $tragedy you can be upset with. Aren't you glad that me and the helpful marketing folks over at MSFT supply you with these continuous updates of rage, tragedy, and gloom covering the world?"
For sure, was disappointed with the original article for only linking generic keywords back to their own site. At least the CES one is from the horse's mouth.
So you bought an ongoing experience instead of a one-time experience.

Seems like the objects enable experiences. However, due to hedonic adaptation, you might get less value out of those daily experiences over time.

- collectible? one-time novelty object but possible ongoing "look at my things" experience

- tech item? possibly ongoing experiences

- status symbol? ongoing experience getting admiration of people that care about such things

- sharp reliable chisel? ongoing experience every time you partake in your creative hobby

- travel itinerary? one-time period of experiences but ongoing photographs, stories and memories

It's not clear cut at all, in my opinion, the delineation between experiences and things.
Not really something that requires little skill, but bug hunting is a decent income (if you burn through enough).

Otherwise, making services and seeing what sticks. There are millions of these that go unnoticed but are still going by on API fees. Or they just go nowhere :P
I wouldn't be horribly surprised by a Boeing breakup, honestly. Even BDS might splinter down into smaller units.

The real question in a Boeing breakup, IMHO, would be what happens with BGS, because the org as a whole does an insane amount of hide-the-salami with repair/return/rebuild.
Google Just Disabled Third Party Cookies for 30M Chrome Users

Fixed it for you. There's a huge difference. Especially considering secure httponly cookies are the recommended way to store session cookies and such.
> but now that just seems like a cultural hangup that arose from people not being familiar with video calling.

Eye contact is about as old as humankind. So maybe in 300,000 years we can check if we get over it with video calls.

It is not that communication is not possible without it. It just removes an additional layer.

Eye contact conveys all kind of useful meta data. Depending on the circumstances and other verbal and non-verbal cues it can mean "I'm listening to you", "oh, maybe let's push more on this topic", "have you also caught that?", "perhaps it would be wiser to not talk about that", "i'm specifically addressing you" or "can you help me out here?". And these are just the ones immediately applicable in business settings. Let's not even talk about all the ways it can be used during flirting.

And it works on a subconscious level. I regularly DM role playing games, both online and in-person. The lack of eye contact is a serious impediment in online games. One can use eye contact, or the lack of it to judge engagement. One can signal with eye contact turns or who an NPC is talking to. It can also be used to help less talkative players seize amazing role playing moments.

Can we get by without it? Sure. We can communicate anything using a 1-bit communication channel using morse code. It is a bit like dancing in shackles. Can be done, just leaves something extra on the table.
Oooh, I really like pdf.to! Are you getting paying customers?
I wholeheartedly concur with the gist of this sentiment.

An example from my own life.

I’m an avid coffee drinker, and consume 2 doppio espressos a day.

I’m often asked why I don’t just buy an espresso machine and save some money.

To which I respond:
- I look forward to the small interactions when I order coffee
- I build a sense of community where I live/work
- I enjoy the opportunity to tip and give back( albeit in a very small way)
- I’m buying something I like everyday, and this leads to a sense of fulfillment
- I don’t accumulate anything that I need to lug around/maintain
if current values of source-code-struct fields are in registers, there are two options, that the calling function and struct is so small and so compiler optimized that there is no memory allocation for the struct, or there is an allocation and it's just dirty and not updated. Which means update it and call, or spill and call.

You want to call a function that is not expecting its arguments to be in registers, and you don't have unlimited registers on this hardware at this time, so I don't understand all the hand-wringing about either option. I guess what I'm saying is that this is all being treated like "because we assume optimization and we know how optimization works, we're entitled to have what's important in registers all the time so things will go faster, so this must be a bug and we have to fix it."

The actual solution is to inline the callee and rely on the compiler, switch to asm and hand guarantee, or create a new language that has register calling or data flow semantics that are different than what you have now. The conversation that's taking place here sounds to me like relying on undefined behaviors, something we used to do because we knew we could rely on them but you can't any more.
but like, thats enough for the camera to power itself. pretty cool no? we can deploy this tech without plugging it in.
I wish people did a search <project name> open source before naming their project
> But the older I get the more I’m on the side of this stuff isn’t necessary. It is detrimental to society and if someone wants to do drugs they should honestly reconsider their life and do something productive.

How would you feel if someone said this about an activity that you personally value and enjoy? Would you willingly give that activity up, just because some other people don't personally value it?

Why do you feel the need to control the activities of others, when those activities do not encumber your ability to live your life?
it's trained with a lora adaptor, so it's either an error or they also count the adaptor. they use a 16 param inner lora dimension however, so it's unlikely that that's the reason (too small)

an important point to keep in mind is that at inference, the lora adaptors are made to be merged into the base model so they don't affect inference speed. (you need to explicitly do it though, if you train your own adaptor)
I understand. It's just that most accidents have not just one cause but a whole chain of them. Something small happens that causes the pilots to be distracted trying to fix it, meanwhile ignoring the elephant in the room or forgetting a 'routine check'. The flight deck isn't always a relaxed place and this is when these things can get out of hand so easily.

This kind of mistake has been made so often and lives have been paid that I find it crazy that it's still being proposed.
I feel like we aren’t too far away from the worlds first school or venue mass shooting via drone.
On Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection, note that it’s actually two different things, and the default doesn’t shield you from most of these stat-collection sources. I wrote more about that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532931.

Firefox is still going to be chronically undercounted, but unfortunately I don’t think the difference is enough to materially affect the narrative. Maybe a true measurement would boost the US DAP figures as much as from 2.2% to 2.5% (maybe), but it’s very unlikely to be reaching even 3%, in my assessment.

(Notwithstanding this, https://radar.cloudflare.com/embed/TopBrowsersWidget?locatio... with its probably-more-reliable methodology does put Firefox at 4.5% for the USA, and https://radar.cloudflare.com/embed/TopBrowsersWidget at 4.1% for the world.)
FWIW Firefox is only slow on Windows. It's much faster on Linux.
Yes, the difference being fentyl is widely used in legal medical procedures, and the ease of street access largely happens as an offshoot of that legal market-

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/fentanyl-deadly-drug-deale...
I think a 1st order RC filter is simple enough that you could argue that "you don't need a DAC" and is what I expected.

But when I opened up the post and saw a 2nd order (probably) Sallen-key (or is this a MFB? I always get my topologies confused...) with a full-bore OpAmp and capacitors up the wazoo... erm... yeah, they're basically hand-building a DAC at this point.

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A lot of stuff is wishy-washy definitions anyway. What's the difference from an analog-comparator and a ADC anyway? An analog-comparator is just a 1-bit ADC after all.

So a lot of "what is a DAC" exactly is up to opinion around the edges. But if you've got op-amps and signal conditioning, you're getting pretty darn close to "proper DAC" except you know, not as good (ie: cheap, fast, or simple) as a proper professional solution.

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EDIT: Reread blogpost. It looks like the RC-filter is in fact, being used. The Espressif docs __suggest__ the OpAmp based 2nd-order filter, but the blogpost is strictly with the simple 1st order RC-filter.

So yeah, I'd say that RC-filter is "not a DAC", due to being too simple. (It functions as a DAC in this case, but we got to draw the line somewhere).
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It depends on which market, for example according to Cloudflare[0] Firefox is around 9% in France, and rather stable. Safari is only about twice that.

Just like for the Android/iOS situation, I think the US is an outlier that skews all global statistics because of their weight.

[0]https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage/fr?dateRange...
Is that to restart the diskette loader when switching from your 3.5" to 5.5" ?
that's why the huggingface llm arena exists
None of those substantiate an effect of similar magnitude to smoking, though. Those are all (pretty much by definition, since it's newly-published work) detections that just barely rise above the threshold needed to be confident enough to publish. Needless to say if we were living 10 years less[1] because of some unknown contaminant in our environment, we'd know.

As always, xkcd makes the point best: https://xkcd.com/882/

The world isn't falling apart. You're just digging around to find enough "maybes" to P-hack your way into believing it.

[1] About the right order of magnitude for smoking all by itself.