skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” [Terry Pratchett]
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058633
>software engineers/developers are not in any way engaged in what might be considered genuine scientific research and development

Have you forgotten the D in R&D? Software engineers are building the product. That’s development.

What do you mean by “genuine scientific research”? I suppose you think ML researchers aren’t doing “genuine science” because they wear hoodies instead of lab coats?
Fascinating stuff, thanks! A recent workshop with recorded talks on such cells https://www.jcvi.org/events/minimal-cell-workshop

I am wondering if other researchers can procure or produce these cells or these are rather a know-how of JCVI?
Right after Reiser got convicted, ext4 came out and replaced reiserfs in the recommendation list. I always thought that this was a strange coincidence.
> Why would we need to hear the same thing from thousands of small businesses

That's how lawmakers prioritize work.

It seems some kind of lobbying organization for early stage companies might be needed - maybe some think tank funded by a couple early stage focused VCs
If personal responsibility requires a roughly even power balance, does that mean we have almost no personal responsibility today?

Between large corporations and large governments, most areas of our daily life are impacted in some way. I prefer to think that I can take personal responsibility in spite of an authority attempting to take that away from me "for my own good."
Various religious types think they'll live on in heaven. I'm not sure that stuff correlates much with learning to drive.
Every year my grand parents have to take a photo of themselves holding a recent newspaper with date clearly visible to whoever is managing their pension.

After the internet and apps plaged the world, now they have to download an app then tilt node and wink to the camera to prove that they are alive. ("If you cannot use a phone, ask your children")

I have mixed feeling about this, it's hard to say this is not degenerating, and no one's happy with doing this, but seems like there's no better idea that scales.
Head of California high speed rail agency to step down
I’m not familiar with Delve. Care to elaborate?
Does that mean she cannot receive major medical care while in prison?
> Our government appears to feel deeply entitled, but is insular and defensive, not strident and bold.

Hm, you justified well, perhaps the current lot aren't quite as bad as the recent few governments from the same party.

> Otherwise the most dominant country in the world simply exports its law through foreign business expansions.

I think they do, at least a bit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_effect

That said, I have for a while now felt that the internet messes with the pre-telecommunications concept of Westphalian sovereignty. No idea how that is going to end up.

> And I hate to break it to people but US law is not a strict subset of best practice.

As a Brit living in Germany, I absolutely agree. That was one of several reasons why I chose Berlin rather than the Bay, post-Brexit.
I like your reasoning and think you got a point.

We only see the tip of the iceberg without really knowing what’s going on behind the scenes.

Some sort of marketing is always involved.
A transmission line accumulates noise at it increases in length. Eventually the signal to noise ratio is too high. In old school analogue comms, the solution is to decode the signal to the digital domain before it reaches that point, which allows us to drop the noise. Then the data is reencoded back to a clean analogue signal again.

In digital logic, this process happens at every gate. Hence the reliability of digital logic.

Analogue logic doesn't do this. So analogue logic is only useful if the noise introduced at each step is lower than the error from your source data was already (at whatever point in the computation you have reached). If there is a way round this, I don't know it.
Ask HN: Recommendations for Bavaria/Swiss Alps
I know this isn’t a travel forum but this community has surprised me so much with awesome insights through the years.

Curious if anyone has reccomendations on things to do/see in Munich/Bavaria/Lauterbrunnen areas.
any use of interfaces? No way, man. Any use of reflect? Sure.
in context of music/video streaming (maybe even youtube and spotify specifically), if there's no malware in video and audio itself of ads that would be getting blocked, that isn't really "blocking malware". juuust a little disingenuous there.

even with ads blocked "for malware protection", malware could end up being promoted within content, or just encountered somewhere, and there's more actual malware protection (some is built in to OS). so...it's not about "blocking malware" with blocking ads altogether, is it. especially when a bunch of ads are non-interactive and not even about software but stuff like food and other things. it's more about not seeing ads at all.

and sometimes, ad blocking just isn't an "anti-malware" solution in itself. like, if you wouldn't be able to navigate app catalogues and kinda sus out what could be malware or just steer away from untrustworthy apps altogether, ad block isn't gonna help you much there. "native" ads (promotional content) throw an even bigger wrench into that.
I’m an ex-atheist so it’s complicated. If I’m taking off my religion hat, I would say yes. It enhances national unity and in-group loyalty, and the risk of antagonizing Pakistan seems to be of no real consequence. And it’s not like BD has any lack of people.

Now if I’m positing that human beings have intrinsic worth because god made them, and that we need to turn the other cheek and all that, then no, the process is deeply flawed and shouldn’t be happening.
The pipelines pass one item at a time unless you deliberately make them into collectors.
I’m curious about the palace in Singapore.
Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? (2021)
Yeah, it's pretty common. You can buy them for a reasonable amount and learn quite a bit: https://chemist2customer.com/freestyle-libre-2-sensor
On Amazon? That's not true - at least on Amazon UK it definitely isn't, just tried and it lets me write a review for a product I never bought without any problem.
> So instead you could just require that your crypto stuff takes an absurd amount of time, say 0.5 seconds / MiB?

To add to the other (correct) answer: it’s not a terrible idea, because constant time does not leak. However:

- You need to make sure the time is only a function of input data, otherwise you might leak info about internal code paths.

- If the operation cannot complete in time you may be leaking information, even if you only return a generic error.

These are not massive attack surfaces, but they do exist. As with regular programming, you want to reduce the risk of things that can go wrong by reducing the number of code paths. Only now, the cost of an error is much higher, and can go undetected. But no, other than the various and highly subtle side channels there’s no magic to rolling your own crypto, only a long track record of people who overestimated their abilities (or underestimated their adversaries). Oftentimes it’s due to optimizations in the CPU, memory, disks, language runtimes etc that are the culprits. These subsystems often cache, share, or soft-delete data that the programmer thought was exclusive or lifetime-bounded in a way that it wasn’t.

That’s why I like ECC or AES much more than say RSA or other bigint math heavy things. Bit operations are very predictable, and if they run in a loop of constant iterations even better. All else equal, I’d pick an ECC implementation (and not just because it’s faster and smaller). Almost all vulnerabilities have been implementation or parameter choices, not the foundational math. That said, say OpenSSL RSA has been battletested heavily and for a long time.
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Note that the current tax code implies that all software development requires amoritzation of salaries. This is as far as I can tell internationally quite unique. Usually you can write off all salaries as expenses.

I don't have a fully formed opinion on this aspect of the taxation, but it's pretty evident that this is out of the norm.
I'm doing something similar. Amazon is Russian propaganda stupid these days and I don't hate myself enough to use it much.
Google has many datacenters in Europe and I'm actually surprised they don't have one in UK yet.

Take a look: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/

Brexit or not, these things are sensitive to distance and infrastructure availability. There are certain hotspots, for example Egypt is one. Maybe the next one will be in Cairo, Istanbul or Sofia.
This is a much better article: basically these companies are paying for the tax cut Republicans gave the to the top bracket in 2017:

> In 2017, then-President, Donald Trump, signed the 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs act, which overhauled tax codes and reduced tax – for example, it reduced the top tax bracket from 39.6% to 37%. To make the bill pass strict budgetary rules, the Senate used a process called reconciliation: adding in tax code changes that delayed tax increases. These delayed increases “balanced out” the tax reduction.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-75
Crafting a Handheld Game Console with RP2040 – An Open Source PCB Design Journey
i never seem to finish all my food

i always get a
fnord doggie bag

from the waiter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urglg3WimHA
It was a weirdly undetailed video.
“A lad had a real idea..” over and over. As a kid, I found this old book that belonged to my father.

50 years later, I have bad habits that I cannot break, such as always using the spacebar with my left thumb - annoying when I injured it this year. (Fast typists are shift- and thumb-bidexterous I would assume.)
I was up early one day getting coffee, and saw that one of the book stores in my neighborhood had a line of about 30 people of all ages outside waiting for it to open.

I figured it was an event, and had nothing else to do, so I got in line, too. When the doors opened, they all scattered to different parts of the store. So, no author signing or music release. Just people who like books.
To be fair it would be more HN worthy if they managed to reverse engineer the DRM of Spotify to create a custom client without the Spotify library (which only works for Premium users)
Heh Heh Heh. On the same kind of note, about 20 years ago the defaults for PostgreSQL were to use something like 8MB (in total) of shared buffer memory, so it would work out of the box on very low memory systems.

What that directly caused was a reputation for being slow and pegging the cpu (as it shuffled everything through that buffer), because people would benchmark this default config vs other databases that had better defaults.

Once we fixed that "tiny shared buffers by default" problem, then low-and-behold PostgreSQL was reported to have decent performance. ;)
It's been rumored to be DPI and what's even worse it's being done by circumventing sanctions: https://theins.ru/en/politics/265749
Yeah I wouldn't be worried about the hardware at all. The only chips on there are two 8-bit shift registers and according to the datasheet at 5V they can run up to 3MHz. You're much more likely to run into the limits of the USB protocol than the SNES controller hardware.
I raised this to retro se and https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/28322/3722 notes a TiB of digital data likely was reached in the 1930s with punch cards.
That's Douglas Adams not Terry Pratchett.
There are a lot of guys who drank Bud Light and read Sports Illustrated who changed both habits for the same reasons. It's about the circulation change you'd expect if Mother Jones hired Bari Weiss as their managing editor.
This is why I always say the best software developers are the ones who work well with others and have a low KDR IRL.
In the big picture, the same answer as: "Why does a large-enough pile of oily rags slowly warm up, and eventually catch fire?".

A more interesting question is: "Why do people spend so much time thinking about no-practical-use-whatever* 'why' questions?"

*Yes, it is useful if you happen to be a professional paleobiologist or planetary scientist, or a journalist trying to get clicks.
That's why I said Moore's law limping along.. it has slowed significantly, and the original transistor doubling every 18~24 months is definitely dead, but transistor processes are still improving, slowly.

The trade off is always there, but more people are using their phones over their desktop computer these days.

That said, I do have serious concerns the greater impact to society in general when transistor technology hit a hard roadblock. Probably outside the scope of this discussion though.
I believe that when I investigated this a few years ago I tried it on a few things and found it consistent.

Right now, I take my HN front page and add <!DOCTYPE html> and <!doctype html>. Uppercase becomes 5678 bytes; lowercase 5675 bytes, three bytes smaller.
Embracing Simplicity: My Journey to the DuckDuckGo Browser
Since this is already hanging around for an entire tax year a lot of companies are 1/5th into that pain. If this does not get changed in the next few months it would not surprise me if this becomes the new norm. Which would also be quite interesting to see how that would play out. Some companies apparently have already been amortizing salaries for a while in anticipation of this (eg: Google). Given that this also greatly punishes outsourcing I would not be surprised if at least that aspect will remain even if some of the rest will be rolled back.
That's also different, as it's a known and deliberate process that -- I suspect -- has both a set expectation that the recipient will check in and an explicit reminder before payment is stopped.

It is reasonably easy for the pension provider in the case at hand to tell when someone dies. A bit too easy, some might say.
Why strive? Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's letter on the threat of AI [video]
No, the only cheese that is easily available in Japan is shredded Gouda.
What in this project is about piracy? It does not give you free access you cannot have without it.
Yeah, I never understood the appeal. macOS but you have to mess around with hardware and drivers. No thanks. The appeal
of macOS is that it just works with Mac hardware.
Congratulations! This is the best performing client I've ever used on MacOS, and with a decent GUI as well. YouTube Music is so slow and laggy as to be unusable on my powerful computer, the official Spotify client is just on the limit of being unusable because of extreme sluggishness.

If users could log in with their YouTube account as well, then us folks that pay for Premium could also support the artists we listen to, win-win.

Playlist management could be improved. It took me a while to figure out that you have to hold on a song to select it. It would be more reasonable to select a track and delete it with the delete key or from a right-click menu. Right now the "Remove from playlist" option does not work.
It happened by chance in a universe that is somewhat predisposed to it.
I’m sorry but I’m just not going to switch off my orientation lock and turn my phone sideways just for a website to “work fine”. It’s 2024. I expect better
they didn't claim it was legal, they claimed it was de facto legal.

It was not merely an adjustment to keep up with inflation, it was a whole social justice campaign to keep people from going to jail for stealing the proverbial loaf of bread. Basically look the other way, poor folk are just trying to survive. It all gets flipped in the open on mission st.

Even in the case that it's not just a ticketed offense (getting a ticket for robbing a pharmacy is wild to me) the cops could arrest somebody and see them back on the street a few days later, you'd stop doing your job too if your actions had no effect on the outcome.
Why do I not see the 990 Pro on this?
Components are not identical. The cpu is, but small things like the case is different and that can make a difference (cooling)
By hard work, I mean the core computational functionality is being done not only by a black box, but by a black box that is openly hostile to private user generated information- something that a home assistant encourages through knowing what a user's preferences are for music, schedule, and so on. This is a common term of art.

As for the issue of weather it's "lost on many", I can't speak for others, but I use proprietary LLMs for certain jobs- but I also understand the risk that I place on myself and others when I do so. On the other side, Voxos.ai's documentation's first section is entitled "Voxos [Beta Release] - Voice Your Desires"- voicing my desires would be to give them to a third party. It's a bad idea.

And instead of simply acknowledging the issues and saying "Yes, we have plans for local LLMs" or "We're looking at a mix of rule based and LLM based systems in the future" or even saying nothing, your response is a mix of ridicule and derision. It's very telling.
> entertain his ideas

Any of them or just a specific small subset?
I'm a bit surprised Amazon allowed this page to do affiliate marketing like this. I had a similar page but much more generalized to laptops and they told me my site had to have some other content: it couldn't just exist to promote the amazon products. If they've changed their stance on this then great!
Pratt or TDOP parsers are my favorite design when coding the parser directly in a host language, with parser combinators a close second (but it edges ahead depending on the host language).

But when it comes to writing a larger parser with many production rules, I'd rather use a parser generator based around an Earley parser. You can split production rules and organize their post-processing into an AST a lot easier .. but providing good error statements is still a bit of a hassle.

I haven't found a parser generator that makes it painless to provide good error messages. Writing the parser directly in the host language has always been much easier in that regard.
Taxes just push the problem into poor people. If you want a fair solution we should have carbon/resource rationing. In fact, I'd prefer a solution in which the governments work hard (much harder than they are) to bootstrap the brave new world so everyone can benefit from a sustainable world.
I was joking, yes :)
i think as long as you say that they are amazon affiliate links its ok
hmm, I wonder how long it will be until someone makes a 'pensioner-bot' that passes for a deceased relative.
While Brotli tries to use all those transforms, I guess it is still not exhaustive enough to fully make use of them, given that Brotli (and many others) is asymmetric in design and compressors can be heavily tweaked without affecting decompression too much.
I assume you meant 80k instead of 90k?
Flutter, from experience, works really well on Android. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the web (see for example [1]).

I think that if these performance issues were to be solved, Flutter would see a bigger adoption. In any case IMHO Flutter >>>>> Electron

[1]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/56257
he does that in the sidebar
The first website ever, at CERN [1], is not very consistent about this. Some pages [2] do link "home", but don't use this term: in this particular case, a link to "the WWW project" is given in the first sentence. Some [3] do not.

[1] http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

[2] http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Status.html

[3] http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html
But most things most people do during the day is not general programming. it would benefit from having to use principles like this instead of using 'general programming' to do them in a way that's harder to understand, harder to debug etc.
Why would you need to? .. it relates to the act of washing white paint over something.

There's no logical reason for a negative list to be known as a 'blacklist' as far as I can tell?

Ultimately, I don't think adjusting language is more dull or drab that using the term blacklist.

But no one likes being corrected, and no one likes being told what to do. I get that .. but I honestly didn't mean to cause offence to you.
UBI could fix this.

A man values truth when it doesn't conflict with his paycheck.
You would have liked the Apple Power Mac towers during the PowerPC days

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5#/media/File%3AA...
People are saying about 70% of Spotify revenue goes to rights holders, whereas you're saying about 85% of Bandcamp's revenue goes to rights holders. It really doesn't seem like that much of a difference?

Maybe what you're saying is, you end up spending much more buying merchandise and labuns directly than you would spend on Spotify. (I'm not sure this would be true for everyone though)

Maybe then the solution could be to have a way to just pay more to Spotify (conditional on keeping the revenue split intact).

Something I don't like about Spotify though, is that I don't get to have any kind of say on how the revenue is split. I'd personally prefer if there was an egalitarian bias in payment, and the artists with less revenue would get a greater share of my subscription. But there's no way I can control that, that's the most frustrating to me personally, and I'd gladly switch to a system that pays more (since I currently have the means to).

In fact, I've proposed FunkWhale, the federated (libre-)music streaming platform, should get a subscription service like that, and that I should have some control over the revenue distribution (maybe there would be a minimum revenue split, and the rest I can 'choose my own algorithm', for example one that heavily favors less popular musicians). I agree that meanwhile the best I can do to support them would be paying them directly, and I've found a few have Liberapay (or Patreon) accounts as well.
App is very buggy on windows.
Internet killed Sports Illustrated long ago. When I was a teenager, Sports Illustrated was the only way to really learn about players and teams and sports. You didn’t care that the story about a team’s championship came a week after they won the game. The newspapers told you who won the day after, but SI told you why they won and how they won, with great pictures and top notch story tellers. In the age of the Internet, all the how/when/why was published within minutes of the game. Why wait a week to read in SI about a game you read about on ESPN.com 5 days ago and forgot about 4 days ago.
Oh looks like i missed it, thanks!
Interesting question. I guess it depends on the jurisdiction but also culture.

Given that openAi is SOC2, etc. compliant it might not be such a big deal
https://trust.openai.com/
If my coffee machine suddenly stopped working it would definitely have a detrimental effect on production. I can guarantee you that :)

But in general I would say routine janitorial maintenance issues don't have quite the same potential to affect production as Russian criminals reading the email of Microsoft's cybersecurity team.
I'm not sure yet, but my impression is that the "Single Source of Truth" was an append-only message-list, written periodically to write-only CD-ROM. This was difficult to query, so extracts were pulled down to an investigator's workstation, to be processed into spreadsheet format, that the prosecutors and auditors could consume.

That conversion to spreadsheet-format was also unreliable, and required human intervention. So the data presented to the court wasn't the raw Single Source of Truth, but rather had been through a dodgy extraction process, in which human error was possible, and which resulted in Excel spreadsheets with hacked macros for "fixing" errors.

Excel itself is not famous for it's reliability and trustworthiness as accounting software.
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