skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, that feels like living in an imperfect world and trying to make it better. To improve something, you generally need to be part of it and its imperfections.

Right, but that's the hypocrisy, no? He's being rude about people who use github, or post an article on HN, but surely most of those guys are doing just the above. When is it OK to use non-free software and when not? Maybe there's a dividing line you can draw about "platforms".
You can get geographic extremes just with Norway.

Oslo to Kirkenes (which is further east than Istanbul).
As an English person my first instinct is to add "sorry" to virtually any user-facing text!
It is not any easier, because we still have a monopoly running the show, only it's not called Microsoft anymore.

If anyone threatens Google position, they can literally throw money at the problem, invent some overcomplicated standard, implement it in Blink, and have the competition chase them. It doesn't need to go through W3C either, if it works in Chrome, all web developers will adopt it and any smaller engine will necessarily have to support it or risk losing whatever little market share they have left.

Having control of the internet now is of greater strategic importance than it was 20-30 years ago when Microsoft was king of the hill.
My definition of perfect competition is not iffy. It is a well established term in economics. It's not a statement of value or opinion, it's a term that is already defined and its definition isn't up for debate. I appreciate your interest in the discipline of economics and there is a wealth of free knowledge available on the Internet, including the entire text of Wealth of Nations, about economic theory which you may find it interesting to read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
Are Spirit employees allowed to file records in CMES?!
I didn’t understand why people kept saying there were so many nazis on Twitter. I thought that maybe people had less tolerance for spicy replies and such.

Then Elon turned off the app access and I had to use the official app. There they were! White supremacists, algorithmically injected straight into my feed.
> - Community Notes (huge feature).

Twitter’s Community Notes may sound nice in theory, but with the current botched implementation it’s just another vector to spread misinformation, now labeled as “context” and made harder to disregard.

Of course, Birdwatch existed since before Musk, so I don’t blame him for inventing it, only for pushing ahead with it.

What Musk could’ve done is apply the same algorithm (that Twitter now uses to choose which community note to show) to sorting replies. Of course, that would defeat the point of blueticks paying 8 bucks to get on top of replies, and Musk wouldn’t be able to keep the lights on now that the big advertisers left.
> I know they would be easily scammed by shady apps that don't have to pass through the App Store's review process.

My entire family uses F-Droid on ungoogled Androids. They have much less chances to be scammed/exploited because F-Droid is community-run and is explicit about anti-features in the store UI. There just isn't any malware/scam on F-Droid to be scammed with, because the community decides what apps to add and the community server builds them.

Pretending There Is No Alternative ® to Apple monopolistic practices is misleading to say the least.
One of the worst - I don't know if it's still there - was a Gmail message something like "Hooray! Your inbox is empty."

Well that's great if you worship Inbox Zero. But what about me?

Maybe I'm anxiously waiting for news on a family member's illness and hospitalization.

Maybe I'm waiting for my lawyer to get back to me on an important case.

It's not hard to imagine any number of circumstances where I would not say "hooray!" when I see my inbox is empty.
Sure, you should write a comment using these examples. I prefer the more recognizable ones.
"S Korea is banning dog meat"

Why is that a good thing, when the normal meat factories are bad as always? Because dogs have more rights to be treated nice, because they are considered cute, unlike pigs who are way more intelligent?
I live in a city where people redline V10 Lambourghinis at 3am showing off to their friends. I hate it.

I'm with you.

My point is that banning all loud or modified exhausts isn't the right answer. There are false equivalences.

The upset is justified, I'm saying the extreme reaction to ban all modifications to exhausts is an overreaction.
Developer tutorial on Git leads to Express.js pull request spam
Clearly the engineers do know that something happened to the user- they are thinking about the circumstances that would have triggered the error message as they wrote the message
“Can websites please stop the trend of giving error messages that are like "OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!" And just give me a fucking error code so I can try and fix it”

— <https://twitter.com/cherrikissu/status/972524442600558594?la...>
Is Jane Fonda still alive?
>> to push for full understanding.

The point of the GP is that that full understanding can't happen in a human brain, but reductionism may be a lever good enough for that human brain to use.

>> do we need to emulate the full process?

Probably not, but let's assume 'yes'. It seems likely that it would possible to optimize the emulation to a point where it becomes practical. We do something similar today with weather simulations; it's not possible to emulate each molecule in the air, and yet meteorological models manage to account for an insane amount of processes and--short term--produce accurate predictions.

In a more subjective note, I believe the methods and ways of thinking in biology need to shift from "let's understand everything" to "let's produce a forecast and maybe fix some stuff". Pharma companies are already in that track, but it could be that the general public and people in academia are still in the full-complete-very-detailed-understanding wagon.
It's great to see that there are good open source 3d anatomical models. As an avid dancer and calisthenics enthusiast I found such models very useful for learning anatomy and range of motion of a human body in general both for myself and for explaining/discussing to/with others. So far my go-to app was https://www.zygotebody.com/ but you never know when Alphabet will bury it.

edit: typo
Even from the factory they open in 2nd gear above a certain engine load. You don't understand how engines are designed.
Not OP, used embedded to add ebpf code compiled for a project, helps to only ship the binary.
Same thing for shipping swagger static html stuff to host an OpenAPI server.
Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin
I understand why they went with the combative “admit” phrasing in the title. Subtextually, this is a shot fired against unsavory opinions that claim a basis in strict genetic determinism.

However, that strict interpretation is an extreme fringe of belief. The interaction between “nature” and “nurture” is a fully mainstream concept, especially amongst scientists, and especially amongst biologists. What is this “New Biology” of which the book speaks? The article is arguing against something of a straw man.

Worse, this manner of challenging the notion of strict genetic determinism is fuel to the terminally polarized who will snap to the equal and opposite error of assuming genes don’t matter at all - an idea which underwrites a bunch of profoundly unscientific woo.
See comments like yours do that for me. I will see you in the 30 meetings needed for the new form on the contact page.
Rocky Linux, Reflections on Three Years of Growth
Yes, but TS users can stay on the "type-newbie" path, which is still a huge improvement over vanilla JS and doesn't take much effort. What I've had issues with is devs who came from the vanilla JS world and love it, so they go out of their way to avoid utilizing more complex types when they would add no-cost safety (aside from the initial minutes or hour spent learning the feature).
Apple’s been doing this for a while with their separate GPUs and Neural Engines, no?
From a purist perspective, you're right - the contract has been broken, and a major version should've been incremented.

However, Go has always been more of a pragmatic than a purist language. For example, they've analyzed tons of code and found that most of them had bugs caused by having `for` loop with a single variable being mutated. So they changed the `for` loop (in a technically backwards incompatible way) in order to make all those bugs disappear. In a way, they modified the formal contract to make it more aligned with the de-facto contract that users were expecting.

I personally think that kind of pragmatism beats purism any day. Maybe the fact that I've never personally been affected by Go backwards incompatibilities also plays a role... But I've yet to find a single person who has :)
Consider medical and pharmaceutical research being conducted at Universities. Stanford's President had to resign because the work done under his name was both very lucrative and very suspect. Theranos came out of Stanford as well.

A USC neuroscientist is now under suspicion of manipulating clinical trial data for a drug his company is developing. https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2023-11-24/usc-neurosc...

A food scientist at Cornell got canned for p-hacking. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/26/651849441/co...

And so on.
> capitalism is whatever I feel is bad about it
> bad actors define capitalism

Sure thing bud.
I think an appropriate apology should address the overall situation, not a particular event. Say you're loading some data over the network, and it's taking unusually long. You decide to display a message, "sorry that it's taking so long". But what if the user is not even in front of their computer? The intent and effort behind the apology seems wasted.

What if the user was on a fast, but metered connection, and the data loaded very quickly, but wasted half of their monthly data package? How do you intend to apologize if you didn't even bother to call the OS or ask the user if it's OK to start a huge download?

I feel like blanket apologizing in any, except the most clear-cut scenarios, is going to feel excessive in one way or another. If you're just writing an error message, focus your attention on making it more informative instead.
Depends if they have reference rooted in reality. ChatGPT 3.5 is often incorrect but very convincing.
Review: Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
> They have much less chances to be scammed/exploited because F-Droid is community-run and is explicit about anti-features in the store UI.

That, but also because it's a niche that has not been targeted by malevolence. Enjoy it while it last.
Agreed. The tooling around upgrades is painfully atrocious, and stuff like kubepug [1] should be part of the Kubernetes core.

[1] https://github.com/kubepug/kubepug
Conflict of interest in the paper, as this mainly is a PR piece from Onit:

"Onit Announces Generative AI-Powered Virtual Legal Operations Assistant for In-house Counsel"
> For one thing, Apple will only allow European customers to run alternative browser engines

This is idiotic beyond measure, but so Apple, trying to claw every inch of monopolistic abuse as long as they can get away with it. They should be punished with fines in billions for this. May be that will teach them a thing or two.
I feel like this is going to get me on a list since they're likely classified military data, but I've always wanted to see modern submarine charts (not cables). Mostly for the notation and aesthetics and whether it differs from nautical charts.
I would expect someone that has the title of data scientists to at least be a master in the universal data query language SQL.

But im so used to ORM these days anything more complex then a sql join is already going over my head if i didn't do a sql refresher. As far as i have skimmed the article it seems like a very good refresher for even a SWE. I will definitely put this tutorial on my todo list.
Apple's European revenue for the App Store is only 7% of its global App Store receipts. At some point apple will just leave the market.

The EU is a bit bonkers to think that it can get global tech companies to comply with increasingly tech-hostile regulations without any push back or red lines. At some point it just stops being worth the hassle.
I haven't seen this before, that's awesome!

But even there I feel like the cookie banner at least offers some benefit to me, whereas all the other modals asking to send me notifications, subscribe to stuff, register here, follow us there, are completely superfluous and we should push back against those first.
For even more bonus points, avoid talking about large grassy areas.

Many users will have no clue what a field is.
Yeah, the intro is a bit of a stretch, and the article would be better off without it. They should have included a video instead. The rest of the text is surprisingly informative, though.
Anchovy spawning causes temperature swings and turbulence in ocean layers
That article nicely highlights how much contempt Apple has for its developers.

I don't know how they got there, but small companies have certainly come a long way from being treated like partners.
Microwave Rules of Thumb
I use the following table (edit: table turned out ugly, sorry)

| domain knowledge | quantitative knowledge | technical knowledge |

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

data analyst | high | mid | low |

data engineer | low | mid | high |

data scientist | mid | high | mid |
Range over function is actually good. Now we can implement proper iterators for collections. In particular, it should be possible to have abstractions like clojure-style lazy sequences.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

Yes, there is a difference in the two examples you gave, although it would have been nice if you had been more specific about what you meant. What I notice is that the first option the apology comes from the company and the people in it, and intended to imply they see it as their responsibility to fix things. The second would imply that Alice is personally to blame for the cancellation and taking responsibility. Either are technically possible, although the latter seems very unlikely to ever happen.

What I fail to see is what this has to do with the error messages. The example given was "Sorry, you do not have permission to access this feature. Please contact your administrator for assistance", which falls under the first form. This seems appropriate for a message representing a team of people who wrote the program, as well as the administrator. It also is quite representative of the apology style seen in such messages.
> What is consciousness? The firing of a gazillion synapses you will never fully understand.

This doesn't fit with the other examples. Consciousness is not a problem of scale, but a problem of kind. We can see from simple models how you might make things more complex until they become something like GPT 4.

So too with human cells, we can see analogous engineering feats that make it possible to imagine that there could be a way to have a system that can produce a human from small beginnings. Again, simple systems show us how the complex might be possible.

But there are no simple building blocks that we can point to and say "yes, I can see how more of these would produce consciousness".
It depends on what you mean exactly by “tech companies”.

Physical PoP comes up as a requirement in many places. Even the famously remote-only GitLab, has offices throughout the globe.
I'm looking forward to Apple leaving Europe.

Good riddance.
> Btw. Ads in front of streaming content I just selected, to tell me about other streaming content on the same service I did NOT select should also be on the NO list.

I'm looking at you, Apple TV+.
If you disallow foreigners to buy up whatever little housing there is on the market you solve part of the issue though.
> Now, there are extensions out there that implement versioning – temporal_tables being the most popular I think – but none are supported for managed Postgres instances on e.g. Azure or AWS. This means that if we want system-versioned tables, we’re forced to make it ourselves.

This really provokes a wild geek rage inside me. Not that it is untrue, but that this is the state of things. It's that cloud providers are now often seen as the only responsible way to operate infrastructure, and in the process we hand over so much control of our tooling. We let ourselves be convinced that simplicity was worth a 10x premium, and admitted we were not grown up enough to handle the tools we had made for ourselves.

Sure, I know it is more complex than that. But I also feel sad about it.
> At some point apple will just leave the market.

maybe a good thing. yanis varoufakis said EU had become irrelevant in tech.

more investment can go to local tech instead of US monopolies.
My take is that environment will become lot more variable and we will just have to deal with it. Living in some areas will be worse than now and in others better. And we might need to move some things a bit, which is likely expensive but not life ending.
>It's not Dutch, it's German, so trying to translate it as if it were Dutch would give strange results

Anecdote: One of my coworkers once thought that Dutch means German. I guess it was because the words "dutch" and "deutsch" look so similar.
Well the example error message just did, didn't it?

I see no reason why one would not be able to anticipate unavoidable inconveniences in advance and write an automated apology for it.
Reductionism is useful because we need to find manageable pieces of the system so we can model it, and manipulate it. Without reductionism we wouldn't have modern medicine.

It is important to acknowledge tho that it can never produce the whole story. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just not sufficient for a complete understanding.
EU obviously has many reasons to shift to renewables, but a huge amount of urgency was provided by the Russia/Ukraine war. There was both effort to shift supply to other countries, and reduce overall demand.

"A regulation on co-ordinated demand reduction measures for gas: This targets a 15% voluntary reduction in EU gas demand between 1 August 2022 and 31 March 2023, compared with its five-year average. The European Commission has adopted the European Gas Demand Reduction Plan with best practices and guidance for member states to help them reduce gas demand."

https://www.iea.org/reports/how-to-avoid-gas-shortages-in-th...

"In March 2022, the European Commission and International Energy Agency presented joint plans to reduce reliance on Russian energy, reduce Russian gas imports by two thirds within a year, and completely by 2030.[15][16]

In April 2022, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said "the era of Russian fossil fuels in Europe will come to an end".[17] On 18 May 2022, the European Union published plans to end its reliance on Russian oil, natural gas and coal by 2027."

"A fully open study from Zero Lab at Princeton University published in July 2022 and based on the GenX framework concluded that reliance on Russia gas could end by October 2022 under the three core scenarios they investigated – which ranged from high coal usage to accelerated renewables deployment.[63][64][needs update] All three cases would result in falling greenhouse gas emissions, relative to business as usual."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022–2023_Russia–European_Unio...
Watch out, you're only referring to MALE and FEMALE sex, that might trigger a few people here
No, this is made up bullshit, there's nothing more socially acceptable , it's just one is Apple the other isn't.
Are you talking about Drew or "those guys", whoever they are?

Let's focus on Drew. I've not seen him mention HN, which by the way doesn't require running non-free software, and he literally runs a free software competitor to GitHub. I've not seen him be rude to people using GitHub. He certainly strongly criticizes them.

I assume he uses GitHub to communicate with projects hosted there. If he does, I don't think he could be blamed for meeting people where they are. He is not arguing about this, he is arguing against hosting non free software on proprietary infrastructure and strengthen it instead of helping strengthen the free software ecosystem. Which he doesn't do. He doesn't host his projects on GitHub.

He could boycott GitHub to make an even stronger point, but I believe that isn't practical at this time when you are part of the open source community. And running a whole GitHub competitor is way more than most people do for this cause. Accepting to reluctantly use GitHub (or Discord, or whatever) and spreading the word against its use is not contradictory.

Hypocrisy would be telling people not to use proprietary infrastructure to manage your free software project, and then hosting on GitHub.

Specifically about podcasts because that's what people seem to take issue with here: podcasts are usually hosted somewhere else, in addition to Spotify. Historically, podcasts are handled with RSS feeds, there's nothing more standard and open than this. It would be wrong to force people to use Spotify to hear his podcast, but that's not the case. He also should accept to be hosted on Spotify. When you are spreading ideas, you should want to reach people who are not yet as aware as you are in your cause. If you stay outside the world you criticize, you don't reach people inside it. And more importantly, he didn't mention Spotify at all; in particular, he didn't say "please host me on Spotify". Podcast ≠ Spotify.

I see hypocrisy nowhere.

Activism is hard, you know. You often need to do compromises for you activism to be efficient. Nobody is perfect. Should you wait to be perfect before making something for your cause?
Global tech companies are a bit bonkers to think that they can get the voted political establishment to comply with increasingly human-hostile behaviours as well ;)
That would have been quite a feat of divination. Schroeder was chancellor until 2005 while Fukushima happened in 2011 (during Merkel's government, which actually had pushed the nuclear exit further into the future at first and then rolled back that decision after Fukushima).

The important event was Chernobyl in 1986, from then on it was pretty much clear that Germany would leave nuclear power behind (and this was the Green party's main agenda, and what made them 'big' during the 90's).
> They'll be under a lot of pressure to roll out what they do there elsewhere.

Japan is also in the process of making similar laws[1].

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Japan-to-crack-d...
Food is highly regulated by the state, at least in the US and EU (probably too highly regulated). It is also a market with numerous platforms which compete to offer quality guarantees - i.e. supermarkets. The difference with Apple is just that the platform is more tied in to the hardware.
There is E2EE! The spec defines it! It works! But Bitlocker doesn't use it (systemd-cryptenroll does), and as a result is vulnerable to this attack.
I believe the argument is not that any part of those fields is incognoscible - "too complex for a human brain to grasp", but instead that the whole field is massive - "the amount of assertions and relationships required to understand the whole process is bigger than what the human brain can hold". That it is a problem of quantity, not quality; that even experts will need to abstract away and statistical average many details on these fields.
Some useful SQL queries for me in this list of 100 queries, thanks!