skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not everything that's "in quotes" is from someone in particular or a quote at all really. it's not personal. i'm more interested in how those things get mixed up with all other 'rationales' for not paying, not streaming, not participating in that economy.

'buying an album/merch/etc would pay more anyway' sometimes gets used as a reason to pirate. along with 'artists get a pittance from spotify/streaming and aren't really satisfied with it', casting some kind of shade on that whole streaming thing - is it bad? is it not good? if it's not good, why even use it? - and also getting tangled with 'that's why...if it's pennies, whatever, just pirate it'. or sure, 'buy it later instead', if that ever happens. all that amasses to people skipping streaming, stiffing already unfavored artists (that won't get their merch bought later).

it may be a slight difference, but streaming is not just about 'convenience', it is about artists getting paid regardless of whether they'll get their album or whatever bought later or not. even if it's contentious for artists, it's not just "OK", but the sole acceptable solution at the very bottom of 'how much are you willing to pay (nothing) while still compensating artists in literally any way (that's not nothing)'

i'd go as far as to say that 'buy merch' (specifically in context of piracy and streaming workarounds) is kind of bad advice cause it gets taken as 'oh so I can skip streaming/continue pirating then? great' and taken up as excuse for piracy.
especially when combined with pointing out how artists are dissatisfied with streaming. 'oh, they don't really like it anyway? how about i just don't do that at all then.'
and of course, leaves the rest of artists that won't get favored like that in the dust. what solution do they get? where's the "stream the rest, even if you don't buy it, cause that's still something"? so the 'do they not deserve to be paid' thing actually still kinda arises here huh.
here being, in a comment section about piracy, about an app that's kinda like 'i can't believe it's not piracy!' (just doing it two-fold, circumventing both spotify and youtube at the same time. so actually, twice the piracy, perhaps.)

it's kinda like, 'streaming doesn't pay much and artists don't like it'. well great. that surely would leave an impression that'd incentivize streaming (and paying). it doesn't actually follow from it that 'you should still stream anyway'.
This is a good idea. Some sort of special handling for archive links might work too.
Fair argument but teslas breaking down in extreme weather was not in my bing card this year.
That is NOT what the Buddha taught. It is expressly the opposite.

Promoting these types of wrong understandings really distract people from further learning.

This turns people away from further investigations that might help them.

People that might be aided in their suffering by learning more about buddhism, read some weirdness posted about "buddha can earth bend, whoooo, I learned about buddhism from watching Avatar, I'm a bender", and are completely turned away.

Read and meditate further before promoting something that is incorrect.
This is the key.
Yeah, they mention the cost of technical debt, but they don't talk about the returns from the technical debt. How much value was created by going into technical debt? Unless we know that, we have no way of determining if it is a bad thing or not.
If that is the case we need to overhaul the EU parliament.
The article definitely doesn't do the work needed to establish that we should care about the headline numbers at all. It states an estimate of how much it would cost to fix things detected by this automated system, but there's no credible estimate of how important/impactful the detected issues are.
To me the purest form of technical debt is code which may not be bad, but where you made compromises in the architecture to solve short term problems, limiting the extensibility of the code later on.

The debt is paid with hours of your life, later on when you have to refactor it
Forward two steps and the knight falls off his horse.
Would it?

Suppose I write some GPLv3 code. You incorporate that code into a program called shim-gpl3 and release the result under the GPLv3. You also release a binary. Microsoft signs that binary and releases the signature but does not redistribute the binary. Microsoft says that they don’t think that the signature is a copyrightable work but that, to the extent that it is, it is permissively licensed (CC0, MIT, whatever). A Linux distribution builds an installer that contains, shim-gpl3 and Microsoft’s signature. The recipient of the distribution asks the distributor for source to the GPL v3 parts of their distro.

The problem (as I see it) is that the distributor cannot comply. This is as intended! The media, as is, runs on an effectively TiVo-ized machine, and neither the distributor nor the end-user can build it from source such that the result works if modifications are applied.
The question is, do bowls of oatmeal provide the maximal utility? Or, to frame this a different way, "Just because you're unique, doesn't mean you're useful".
Exactly this. Relatives have been trying to choose "fancy-looking" chess sets for me as a gift, and I always hated them. I don't want fancy pieces, I want the standard ones that don't give me cognitive overhead :-).

"Tournament chessboards" are my favourites, obviously.
At this point Apple should release an phone which has an M2 chip and runs full blown OSX but with a phone sized form factor. Then just port a phone app and have some touch enabled features for developers to design a UX for phone sized screens.

Maybe call it the MacPhone Pro and have the same level of security/customizability/install your own store as a full Mac.

That way Apple can keep the iPhone/iOS branding as the OS for customers that just want a phone that works, is fully iOS wall gardened and don't want to tinker/potentially see blue screens.

Then let the market decide. Perhaps the MacPhone would actually be more popular.
I personally love low-security social networks. I consider HN to qualify (as you just need a username and password, no email verification).

Small social networks can get away with it b/c they aren't big enough targets for abusers.
the parent, bowsamic, is incorrect.

This is not what Buddhism teaches.
> LLMs translate textual descriptions and are part of GenAI compute.

You are talking about embeddings. This is a different things. It's when model generates binary presentation (embedding) of the prompt given. Then this embedding is used to condition generator's output.

LLM is usually a text model which can predict next words, in its basic form. After tuning it can do more, like answer the question, follow instructions.

So, models used by generators aren't exactly LLMs. With one exception that I know: ChatGPT processes prompt before sending it to DALLE-3 generator. Which then makes embedding off it.
>The second relies on DBX not being updated, for which the remedy is "don't do that".

Not updating DBX is the default state. Updating it is what requires effort.

How many devices actually have up-to-date DBX? I know I mentioned LVFS in my first comment, but I have to wonder how many Linux devices with SB enabled actually use it. The ones that don't will not have updated their DBX since they were manufactured.

>The idea is that your main data partition is encrypted with a key held in a secure enclave [...]

You're missing the point. An attacker that can write to the ESP is root on the live system right now. It can exfiltrate the contents of `/` right now. Or if it can't exfiltrate right now, it can install an OS service to do that on future boots.
That's ridiculous, nobody swims up a waterfall

(but actually, thanks for the illustration... my dad was in the military but apparently long enough ago that I entirely missed this)

Edit: oh! You used a capital O rather than a little one! That makes loads of difference... the "hand" placement in o7 is way over the forehead, while O7 (or is it 07? either way) is much closer to a proper salute! Perhaps the military culture hasn't entirely worn off after all...
That's one way to bring the number of installs per app below Apple's arbitrary threshold so perhaps app devs and publishers will start doing that regardless. Good luck picking out the legit one among the clones. Apple may have a point about this being a security issue but only due to their hostile implementation.

Beautiful.
As the main author of the Merkle Search Tree paper, I'm really glad to see the design become more known and start to be used. I did not go on and build a practical system that made use of the structure, although I originally came up with the data structure while thinking about how to build decentralized social networks and data stores for collaborative applications. Thankfully, the design itself is generic and can be adpted to many use cases, and it's great to see that people have gone as far as to build independant implementations in Go and Rust. I'd be curious to see how it performs in practice, in systems that have a real-world use, and not in the simplistic synthetic benchmark scenario of the paper. Hopefully it holds up to the promise :)
Yeah exactly right. If the growth > 0 you can continue borrowing and keep interest rates low.
Hmm, the article body says:

the accumulated technical debt of software has grown to approximately $1.52 trillion

So that's the total technical debt, not the cost (interest if you will) of that debt
Yup. I get the impression this was a forced landing, it put itself down on too steep a slope and caused a rotor strike. Helicopters do not like unbalanced rotors! And think of what happens if it fails at speed: The rotors are 4' across, so 2' from tip to hub. 2,400 rpm for the low end of flight speed. That's 40 rotations per second, the average speed of a rotor is therefore 40 rps * 2' * (2 * pi {path traced by the rotor}) / 2 {for the midpoint of the rotor} = 251 feet per second = 172 miles per hour. A rotor yeeted at 172 miles per hour will go quite a ways on Mars (especially since it's on a slope--it could be lobbed at an angle, not merely flat) and there's a very, very expensive spacecraft nearby. (And it must be nearby--Ingenuity can't talk to Earth. You can't back off to a safe distance and try it.)
What good is an architecture if you can't make compromises? I'm only half kidding
Ah the answer to everyone’s problems, endless legislation
That's nice. Plus it solves the manufacturing issue if you try to turn this into a physical set (the current knight design is very thinly connected).
Does that comparison show hand-coded SIMD in Fortran?

(That comparison no longer seems to show Lisp?)
"This initially hides substantial costs that organizations must later pay.”

_May_ need to pay if the bet pays off.

What about the savings from releasing fast and failing, rather than building the perfect, but wrong, solution?
Consumers (myself included) already made their decision by choosing an iOS.

I don’t want every other game dev/streaming service pushing me to install their own “store” like they do on the other platforms. That’s why I keep choosing Apple.
A Titanic Geopolitical Struggle Is Underway
> Because of the content and discovery features on Bandcamp, I've discovered several bands I'd never have heard of otherwise.

That's awesome. Bandcamp is my primary go-to for music, but I have to admit that I've never found much value in their discovery features, articles, etc. It's pretty great that Bandcamp can serve both of us what we need.
It's not that they don't value it. It's more like they aren't aware of the risks.
Having $0 in technical debt hasn't made me any money yet.
I presume it doesn't capture ripple direction very well.

Does the design only capture ripples travelling in the ecliptic?
I have not updated code in a while and the GitHub Action's last execution expired, so, the status information was not available.

I just did a new run of the test and the status information is now available.
I doubt this will go anywhere, but I still enjoyed reading it. The really clever part for me is the way it uses email to do most of the work. In particular:

> Q: What if I lose my secret Daft Social email address?

> A: If you already sent posts, you should find it in the sent emails folder.

Brilliant.
> still have to provide security updates

"Have to"? For how long?
The comment which started this was implying that parental rights (in scare quotes) fell to the rights of children. All of your arguments focus on community rights and democratic power overcoming parental rights, something which is beside the point. If it requires democratic power and doesn't apply universally (spatially and temporally), even within that particular jurisdiction, it can hardly be said to be merely the recognition of a child's fundamental right. And the article you linked says that the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that "[a] 17-year-old Connecticut girl with a highly curable cancer is not mentally competent to make her own medical decisions" (emphasis mine).

Also, your arguments about landmark cases in which state power overcame parental rights in rare situations would tend to demolish the idea that parental rights are some fringe legal and philosophical movement cooked up by anti-vaxxers, which is the implication which began this thread. Especially because the court recognizes the existence of parental rights even while ruling to override them. Additionally, the purported legitimacy of being forcibly vaccinated by the state would demolish any bodily autonomy argument which could be made to assert a child's right to vaccinate.

>Sure they can

A dodge. If there are theraputic vaccines (arguably a contradiction in terms), then they are legally distinguishible from non-theraputic ones. The original comment (about "parental rights") was clearly referring to this particular non-theraputic HPV vaccine and others like it. Let's stay on topic.

>A dodge. To be clear

I don't think it's at all illegitmate to presume that at least one Amish child in the history of Amish children has desired a vaccine and was told no by his or her parents. Throw in literally every other similarly-situated religious group and we're talking about a significant number of people.

If the right is truly fundamental, it's a right denied regardless of whether the child lawyered up and took it to the Supreme Court. The Amish community would be massacred Waco-style if there were even hints that this precious, fundamental right was being denied to children (if you may recall another child-protecting operation). That is, of course, assuming that anyone genuinely believed this right to exist. Which as a general matter they do not and never have.

The fringe movement is the one putting parental rights in scare quotes and treating children as adults (except when in the womb, never there).

So, in summary, people who put parental rights in scare quotes while asserting invented rights as a means to acquire access to children are indeed the reason for which civilization has developed the venerable age of consent law.
Yes, of course.

If you care about solving your specific problem, you want to avoid having to acquire new knowledge. That's risky. (And I don't just mean knowledge that's new to you, that you get from reading a book. I mean knowledge that's new to humanity as far as you can tell.)

Eventually, someone will have to acquire some new knowledge to drive humanity forward. Just like in war, someone will have to go and fight the opponent; but you still prefer to achieve your objectives without having to fight whenever possible.
The fee is payed by the app developer, not the third-party app store, and thus the app developer would have to be a nonprofit. Unless you want to relinquish control over your app to the third-party app store and make them the official “developer”. But third-party app stores also wouldn’t want to become liable for your app.
I imagine you'd use it in combination with uBlock Origin. The latter would prevent ads from being loaded in the first place, but when the site itself is presenting you with sponsored results, email signup overlays, and so on, you'd use a content filter like this to prevent them from rendering.

I know you can accomplish a lot of this kind of direct content filtering with uBlock Origin, but as far as I'm aware you have to configure e.g. CSS selectors per site.
They were extremely hard to find, and they weren't any cheaper. You still paid for Windows even if you didn't receive it (even if you didn't realize that at the time).

Of course you could build your own, but that was for hobbyists, not regular consumers.
There's probably enough for different audiences! I love LLM writing the same way I love Hitchhiker's Guide, liberally random and unfettered by traditions. Readers who value literary tradition and the old greats would probably have a different opinion.

As a (hobbyist, not money making) writer I treasure ChatGPT's ability to both generate new ideas and to discuss my stories with me. I would then rewrite those ideas in my own words (which I enjoy). It's a partnership IMO and I wish I could give ChatGPT shared credit without marking the work as "tainted" in the eyes of most.

I hope someday we can treat AI with the same respect, or more, that we give each other. Society's not there yet though.
So, don't invest in industries. The global economy is heading for a recession right now. Treasury bonds are good to buy before a recession triggers a bear market.
Capacitors are sometimes explained with a water analogy, as a rubber dam across a pipe. This stops DC (continuous flow of water) but AC (to-and-fro ebb and flow motion) passes through.

A Windkessel could be a shunt pipe with a flexible dam, and that's analogous to the flexible pipe, like the artery. Flexible pipes have a shunt capacitance and so they act as filter caps.

I was thinking about all this yesterday and it occured to me that, I suspect, when we put water capacitors in series (i.e. two or more rubber dams across the same pipe), it should also work to reduce the total capacitance, just like electronic capacitors.

If you think about it, the same pressure, if it has to work against two dams in series, will cause a small displacement of rubber, then if there is only one. Two thin rubber dams in series are like one thick one, and that has less capacitance due to being harder to displace. Capacitance is how much the rubber will stretch in the face of a given amount of pressure, thereby accommodating a volume of water.

Two successive dams will never have more capacity because they work to cancel each other. The second dam only stretches to absorb exactly the quantity of water displaced by the first dam; it doesn't provide additional capacity. And due to two dams being harder to stretch, the capacitance (volume pushed per pressure) is reduced.

I think I'm going to add this to my old Electronics StackExchange answer:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/68406/why-do...
Well, since the Salton Sea is otherwise useless, this is a step forward.
It already doesn’t do this. You can stay on the app store you are on, or switch to the app store for the country you are in.

You can even temporarily switch, install a bunch of stuff, and switch back, but doing so is extremely onerous, as I think you need to cancel all your existing subscriptions and payment methods, as well as empty your balance (not sure of specifics, done it exactly once years ago).
I really want the switchto patch for high performance userspace threading. It'd potentially allow 1:1 threading to better compete with M:N, which would be very nice for systems languages like C++ and Rust.
Only if growth > “interest rate” - if productivity growth of tech plateaus or even slows then your ability to do anything in tech probably disappears.

This is the problem with pushing off all short term problems into the future indefinitely and ignoring them.
I ran the calculator and basically anything over 1 million installs and you start to incur what is effectively a progressive tax
I am Norwegian, and I use (running) shoes with ice spikes when conditions are icy, even though I'm just going to the store.

Currently I'm happy with Icebug shoes; https://icebug.com/no/shoe-finder?usage-area=running&terrain...
Discovering random threads to spam in doesn't help with discovery for users.
For a few people I know, it was thyroid related.
https://archive.is/2024.01.25-172136/https://www.nytimes.com...
Many users, myself included, choose iOS because it’s free of viruses and malware - that is the benefit of the review process. If you don’t want that, you can use Android.
When will this be released? What can we do in the interim?
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For us a big driver of technical debt is investment in long-lived industrial equipment (motors, controllers, sensors, etc.) Oftentimes the SW, especially drivers, don't keep up and keep us stuck on old platforms. It's gotten a ton better since the industry mostly moved from custom ISA,PCI,PCIe,... boards to Ethernet or USB.
First item on the to-do: add a CDN
Under US law the requirements for recognizing single brand aftermarkets are very particular, that’s why Epic failed to prove Apple held a monopoly over iOS software distribution.
Why not mailing lists at this point?
Youtube is somewhere between number 2 and 5 in traffic ranking in Japan. What are you on about?
That's cool and all, but I either can wait for that to happen or not happen (which is not a certainty), or I can just use macOS (or a flavor of Linux).

Sure, the EU will fix things like they've managed to do in the past with other internet-related stuff (e.g., cookie notices). And I will definitely re-evaluate this take once things change in terms of ads for Windows. But until that happens, I don't see "the EU will fix that" as a valid point in favor of Windows.
I don't think the bowls of oatmeal problem applies in the way you're thinking.

Parametricism isn't just creating variety as filler, as we see with games that use algorithmic generation as a crutch. Parametricism is about exploring a design space created by rules and constraints in context.

Love them or hate them, I think you can say that first, there is something that is a consistent style across Zaha Hadid's buildings, and that they're not just all minor variations on the same bowl of oatmeal.
Oh, God, these comments may be the trigger to my mid-life crisis.
Bumping you up for making progress ;)

From what I've seen generators are good for routine job. Like generating the background. I used it go generate illustrations to the texts. It works well. Short story just looks better when there is an image.
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Elle Cordova on X: "Fonts hanging out HTTPS://t.co/rXUzNNlQp7" / X
If they ever had to inherit someone elses code.

Code with detailed comments and include some whys, really care, and have had the nightmare of others leaving.

Although I knew one person who was notorious for just throwing their predecessors code out and re writing it. It is tough to interview to exclude that type.
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I don't see how this isn't effectively an app store in itself. If Apple can forbid an app from running on user devices, then they need to approve every app that is installed. More importantly, they are effectively blackmailing developers to pay them "per install," which is only enforceable through the notarization process.

That sounds an awful lot like an app store.

I agree, the EU will not like this. Too bad it'll take another 3-5 years to fix.
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Yep, there's often not a lug though, and they'll either be twisted and flapping about, or in the (same side of, if applicable) a single terminal; in the latter case I would think twisting is better than not, or better than separate straight crimps. Certainly not worse.

It was just an example of when it's done, I was never trying to say it's the absolute best, no other way.
We are in an absolute golden age of PC flight sims, especially with the immersion that we can get from VR, so when you say "all games" you mean "console games"