skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've cut open brains and it's synapses all the way down. Of course we don't understand it but there's nothing else. A problem of kind is just a large enough problem of scale.
Interesting how no one suggested prose yet: https://prose.sh/

I use it for my personal blog, it supports custom domains and it's uses public key authentication.
I find it hilarious how certain people on HN are so pro-corpo. You get a feeling like Apple is part of their family, not a monopolistic giant just needing one excuse to permaban you from their services.
Indeed. These may be even more important...

https://github.com/tc39/test262
> business-hostile behavior

trying to regulate monopolies is business-hostile?
maybe sometimes its needed to hurt a monopolist business in order to .. enable competition..
There was a paper which studied the neurological basis of music.

One of the function of the brain is to predict the future. Neurons and brain systems are rewarded for correct predictions and punished for incorrect ones.

The main theory of the paper was that music is pleasant because it's repetitive nature and simple patterns makes it easy for the brain to predict, thus there is a lot of reward to extract from it. They focused on modern trance music and ethnic african drumming, both which feature very long very repetitive sequences, which reward the brain so much that they can induce a trance like state.

Not any random combination of physical objects is a musical instrument (yes, avantgarde music exists, ...) The sax is built the way it is because it generates a sound spectrum with harmonic relations between the frequencies (integer ratios, ...). Those who originally built the sax didn't use math to design it, but it so happens that the result respects certain mathematical ratios, because those ratios are highly predictable and pleasant to the brain.
At some point, the tech companies are gonna run out of globe.

But hey, maybe they can disband the government and elect another.
Move code into Database functions (2015)
It is still not clear to me what happened. One issue is that there was no big company behind asio and some companies were looking for a more general framework.

Still for what I have seen, sender/receiver only deal with composing async operations, the proposal so far still lack an actual network executor, so it is far from being ready.

This is a shame I think, because while asio might not have been perfect it means that in 2024 C++ still lacks a network library.
But unless you're a dualist, you have to admit that our biological brain is a massive bundle of cells from which consciousness somehow arises. It must be those mushy tangled cells, there's nothing else there. It probably is a problem of scale along with a philosophical problem around consciousness likely not quite being what we intuitively imagine it to be. (e.g. visual consciousness seems continuous but we know from saccades that it can't be)
Thank you very much! (If needed I have a lot more references/recommendations haha)
Is there something like this for epubs or pdfs with a truly high-quality TTS?

All apps that I know of use iOS internal TTS (sounds awful, not as good as Siri). Then is also Voice Dream Reader and even with the paid premium voices it is still not pleasant to listen to. Siri-grade TTS or Elevenlabs would be pleasant enough, though.
Besides the actually answer - because they want to - I don't think it would even work, because of the dependencies. (SerenetyOS is also written from scratch.) But since Kling used to work on the webkit team - you can bet that they don't work in a vacuum and reinvent the wheel, but just reimplement in a way they think is best. Also, they are not doing it for you, but for them.
It's not like that kind of research is value-less though. It's still important to do that kind of thing, firstly for practical purposes such map is useful, and secondly it can help with building a more fundamental theory. (The same is true of the "particle zoo" before the Standard Model was developed in Physics). I don't think stopping doing it means you'll get the big breakthrough any faster, in fact it'll slow things down.
Ah right, I totally misread segmentation as fragmentation, sorry.

IMHO a more flexible segmentation system (exposed as base-pointer plus offset) wouldn't actually be bad if properly supported by high level languages. You could treat the base pointer as 'private knowledge' inside a system and only hand out the offset as a 'public handle'. To access a specific address you need both the private base pointer and public offset handle, and the base pointer could also move around without invalidating the offset handles in the wild.

Of course all this can be done purely in software too already.
Are you sure they are lazy? Maybe they are overworked, exhausted and constantly pressured by management to output new features? Did you ever work as a front end developer?
No. I'm tired of machines trying to be friendly and cute with me. Be short, curt, and polite. Like a Star Trek original series computer. We're not friends, and you're not my equal, you're a damn program. Act like it.
They drunk too much coffee apparently.
You haven't been looking hard enough if you believe Reddit is still the same it was pre-API bullshit.

Fake comments, more pliable moderators, dead subreddits are everywhere now.
CPUs? AMDs support running a TPM implementation on the PSP which is on-die. Intel has a TPM implementation running on the PCH, and on low-power mobile parts that's on-package with the CPU. ARM SoCs frequently provide a TPM implementation running in Trustzone, which is also on CPU. Some of the latest Ryzen parts implement Pluton, Microsoft's security core, which is typically used to provide a TPM without also doing a bunch of other stuff.
I think, error messages should put way more focus on what can be done to make it work - rather than on what went wrong.

The user wants to achieve something, and the general job of the software is to help the user achieve their goal.

If the goal of the user is to book a flight - then the software throwing an error about the request form not being filled out correctly, basically constitutes a bureaucratic hurdle.

"You will not be allowed to book your flight, unless you ask for it in exactly the right way!"

Sadly, software often has to be bureaucratic about it's input - but that's not actually helpful to the user. So you could argue, when the software rejects the users request because of not meeting bureaucratic demands - the software is failing it's primary job: to help the user.

A perfect software would not have to show an error message ever - because it would be so good at guiding the user, that everyone would intuitively know how to do it correctly. But "Perfect" does not exist.

So any software will at some point inevitably fail to guide the user to their desired outcome and be forced to display an error message.

There's nothing inherently wrong with being apologetic in tone for failing to guide the user and putting such bureaucratic stumbling blocks in their way.

But the error message should be focused on helping the user. On making things work. It should not be condescending nor assigning blame. It should also be short and concise, and respect the user's time.

And that means that there's no space for polite verbiage and apologetic phrases.

So, apologetic tone is fine, if it can be done without increasing the length of the message.
North Korea appears as a territory of South Korea, not the opposite
C++23: More Small Changes
The US companies thinking the EU needs to bow down to them is what's bonkers.
The way they are using to route around the Go 1 compatibility promise is to gate these backwards incompatible changes on the value of the go directive in go.mod.
If it says 1.22 or later you get the new library behavior, otherwise you get the old one.
We'll see how well this ends up working in practice.
That is low bar for students.
As someone living there presently rooftop solar is massively subsidised and an obvious choice given our near year round sun. A standard install is approx. $5k AUD ($3.5k USD) and will produce 30kw/h or more on a sunny day, this means a summer energy bill is around $100 for the 3 months (those that locked in higher buyback rates can even make money off the provider in summer).

We just need better/cheaper storage solutions, as a $10k Tesla battery just doesn't stack up.
Damn it I laughed out loud at that and I hope my toddler is still asleep.

That was all in the snappiness of the wording, great little joke.
Usually in January, 2021 was in August and 2022 in May.
There is already lots of discussion about science communication in this thread, but I think what would also be extremely important is good communication after the scale has changed.

Should there be a decision to extend the scale, the fact that there was a change should be communicated as widely as possible: Make it an item in the evening news, put a footnote in every article that uses the term "category 6 hurricane" for a few months, etc. Explain exactly when the scale was changed, who made the decision and on what grounds.

Because if not, this will be an open flank for climate denialists: I think the "natural" tendency of most media outlets would be to just quote press releases or forecasts verbatim and use the new term as if it had always been there. To uninformed viewers, this would give the impression that either the scale always went to 6 and they just somehow never noticed or that the scale was open-ended and we're now getting the first cat6 hurricanes because of climate change.

Both assumptions are obviously wrong, and so a climate denialist will gleefully pull out their "research" that the scale has been changed as evidence of manipulation and conspiracy. I think this is something that should strongly be avoided.
You can't go wrong with docker swarm. I'd say upto 100 nodes should be no problem and a hundred node cluster is no joke.

Most companies don't reach there.

In general however, post Nomad licensing - there's a gap for an open source cluster orchestrator that is not k8s and isn't Nomad.
I doubt it’s going to be an awakening, unless Apple’s execs have taken to huffing paint on a musk scale, I would assume it’s more of a cynical ploy: while the EU doesn’t like companies ignoring the spirit of the laws it usually takes limited action until it’s refined the word to match, so they’re trying out ignoring the spirit in case it either works out or gives them more time, even if the odds are low.

That’s a high risk manoeuvre if the EU courts decide to make an example though.
> the alternative is equally bad

As others have pointed out, this isn't true for community curated FLOSS repositories like F-Droid.

But I want to point out that the french "pole expertise" for digital issues, PEReN, also wrote about this a while back: https://www.peren.gouv.fr/en/actualites/2022-02-18_eclairage...

TL;DR: the "trust relation" that users have with Apple's review department could just as well (and often better) be filled by third party app stores or even independent entities.
It's up to your firmware to enable any CPU or chipset provided TPM implementation. The CPU supporting it is unhelpful unless the firmware provides a mechanism to turn it on.
It is. Some shitty banks charge for SEPA Instant, but otherwise SEPA transfers themselves are fully free. Where aren't they?
Same as with every piece of information in the past. How do people react to information now? If the source seems to be trusted, or confirm existing biases and expectations, they will likely believe it.
My opinion: the Shed’s outer shell was very expensive to build, and it’s really gimmicky. It’s one of these things that architects do to try and stand out, but in terms of design, it’s just completely stupid.
They may go then and blow the whole thing up good insted of such half measures. Sufficiently rapid decompressions may not that reliable and predictable to carry out so I can control the plane afterward easy kind of feats.
It's very possible to have other goals than having a usable and marketable product, Andreas Kling and SerenityOS developpers have explicitly stated other goals on numerous occasions, and other positive side-effects have emerged from the project. These include having something to stay busy long term to stay away from drug use, having fun, learning, prove that things are possible, identifying and reporting mistakes in specifications that were caught thanks to the blank slate implementation approach.

Maybe Ladybird is not usable right away, so what? It's getting impressively close to this point with barely 5 years of development, from scratch (and it goes much deeper than HTML, CSS and JS engine, they also re-implemented the whole networking stack, image/audio/video codecs, font...) and by a small team of mostly volunteers, but more importantly, it's a positive project not only for the developers, but also for their audience and for greater scale web standardization.

I hardly imagine a project such as the one you're describing getting as much traction as Ladybird / SerenityOS (in fact, there are many such of these, but I don't see nearly as much talk and interest for their development), the whole project isn't about the end product, it's explicitly about the process to get there.
It also makes you look less like a genius haha. Yeah maybe you're right. It wasn't the best choice in hindsight. But switching jobs is a relatively rare thing in Europe. You only can do that ever so often, so I'll have a bit of waiting to do
Apple are somewhat dependent on being able to use Ireland as a tax haven. It's also quite hard for a publicly traded company to abandon a multibillion dollar market out of spite alone without getting sued by shareholders.
They aren't going to move over; the reddit/twitter model of 'crosspollination' is fundamentally flawed - if trolls can just stroll over from their little trollzone at any time they will do so and every conversation will get derailed with politics/gender/whatever gets the most engagement; character assassination will be the dominant paradigm.

Silos are the answer. Open to all but topic focussed and with no cross-referencable userhistory. Or 100% anonymity with no userhistory i.e. futaba type message boards.
But CORS is strict by default. They must specially add headers to allow such requests.
Python could be 10x slower and still be very useful in a lot of applications.
> (What makes me sad is that it's now seemingly also replacing discussion boards, which sucks because it's not anonymously searchable at all, but that's a different complaint.)

An anonymously searchable alternative to Reddit's search function is PullPush, an archive site independent of Reddit.

It has full-text search and will even search through deleted and removed content.

Main site: https://pullpush.io

Frontends: https://search.pullpush.io, https://ihsoyct.github.io
"Apple's most valuable intangible asset isn't its patents or copyrights – it's an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple's shareholders."

-- https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#i...
He was probably their top guy too. Sort of like how Lucifer was the top angel in Heaven before his drug problems brought about his fall from Apple and since then he's been a true light bringer working tirelessly to give us awesome software as he recovers from addition.
As years have gone by, I've realised that the whole "don't reinvent the wheel" is fundamentally an anti-innovation and anti-intellectualist idiom.

Like yeah, the idea is that the wheel already works pretty well, so you wouldn't need a better one, but really now? First of all, how would we know that we've explored all the possible ways wheels can be? How do we know whether what we have is actually the most optimal way that wheels can exist? You won't know unless you try! You might fail, but I'd say that the learning opportunity is worth it.

Also, when it comes to people who criticise projects like Ladybird here for "reinventing the wheel", I feel that comparing software to wheels is a bit disingenuous. Because while manufacturing wheels does take skillful craftsmanship and such, most software is probably just a tad more complex than just the wheel. Call it a hunch.

So, the ethos that one shouldn't "waste effort in writing this stuff from scratch, but that off-the-shelf components should be used" is the kind of ethos that can be applied to a lot of things. And usually when that kind of ethos is adopted, it tends to lead to stuff like stagnation and lack of innovation. And we know this, because we have examples of entire countries doing this, which has usually lead to either reforming away from this sort of model, or the country just not existing anymore.

We should not let the web for example stagnate due to browser monoculture. We should have alternative implementations of stuff, actually.
> Apple to not come out unscathed.

Doesn't mean Apple won't still come out the relative winner.
That’s interesting, my experience with the iOS OCR has been pretty good, but I haven’t used it for anything like this. What are you using instead?
There's no way Apple can justify leaving 100 million in revenue on the table to their board. They will do whatever it takes to remain in the EU market.
> Apple's splash screen about the use of alternative stores, for example, is ridiculous. Apple has all the legal rights to do that,

Isn't the question whether the EU thinks they have the legal right to do that, and how the law can be changed so that they don't do that?

Anyway, the article points out that certain companies are exempted from those alleged "Apple rules" already ..
I guess I'm a data scientist then, that sounds better than business analyst.
I will never read the words "AT protocol" and not think AT commands sent to a modem.
The project initiator has written about this several times, for example:

https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/i-quit-my-job-to-focus-o...
I think they mean a Windows password. You enter it after the disk is already decrypted.
> Nearly everything in jQuery is 1 line of modern JS, no?

Since JavaScript never actually requires line breaks, yes.

Otherwise, absolutely not. Modern web APIs remain highly statements-based, with little affordance for pipelining / cascading.
That's because HN is the private playground of the venture capital tech elite and those who are courting them.

Most of the people here would love to be Apple and to abuse the shit out of their users rights in order to make profit.

This is not Slashdot.
> and it's still basically impossible to make an application that works reliably on more than one machine because of how Python dependency management works (or rather doesn't)

This is complete bullshit.
Our neighbors love selling us energy.
This sounds like the beginning of a Horror movie, but also colors me hopeful for a future where people born with my mothers disease (SCA) will have some kind of cure to halt or revert the loss of brain tissue ?
I thing I understand what you mean: in theory rewriting a browser in ‘ship of Theseus’ way focusing on one thing at a time should be more manageable. But in practice the integration points between different parts are not standardized and you’ll have to deal with a huge C++ code base that takes hours to compile.
I live in the South West of Western Australia, in a bio-diversity hotspot.

I look South, and I see bush-land, a relatively small postage stamp sized block. I've counted about 23 separate species of orchids, and a huge variety of plants, and birds. One of the species of orchids is basically a sex-lure for wasps, and is absolutely fascinating.

I look North, East and West and I see farm-land as far as the eye can see (aside from another very small "reserve" to the NE). It's just paddocks for animals, and the diversity is "cattle" and "Sheep", and the various grasses which they eat. Very f absolutely fascinating.ew birds (not many trees), much less variety and diversity. And no orchids.

That's where food comes from, and it starts with a bulldozer, it relies on fossil-fuels (including the fertiliser) to keep producing. And we're still growing.

Banning ivory and protecting Rhino's is basically palliative care at this point.
The youngest nuclear power plants in Germany were opened in 1989 after at least six years of built time, with planning going back much further. The last East German opened just weeks before the wall came down and took 13 years to build and closed within the same month. On top of that, you simply can't run a nuclear power plant forever. Germany's nuclear power plants ran an average of 32 years, and I doubt that US power plants will run those 80 years they intend for some https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=228&t=21

To keep a 30 year old nuclear power plant safe you will sure see time of maintenance increasing, thus reducing its output. A 30 year old solar panel? Take it off your roof, recycle the old one, put a new one on and we can be sure it will be more efficient. Just this simplicity when replacing panels makes it a no-brainer.
Granted, the blades of wind turbines are still not being recycled, but they slowly get there.
I was really thinking of astronauts who have actually been to space; I wonder whether the experience disposes people to kookiness. I suspect that trainee/aspiring astronauts might suppress their kookiness.
I follow.
Genes are toolbox, is it?
Love Andreas Kling and the Serentiy OS project. Hate that he's only on Twitter. Mastodon seems like the perfect fit for his audience.
Isolating a single word out of context isn't something I would equate with a good faith comment. The comment author sounds like an unhinged lunatic driven to irrelevant knee jerk reactions.

The author, in the context of an article talking about how big companies can bypass various monopoly and privacy laws, wrote how: "companies really do get away with both literal and figurative murder".

That's a general statement about what companies can get away with. He didn't assign cookie violations to "literal murder". It's obvious that "figurative murder" is the kind he abscribes to the violations he talks about, like GDPR.

As in the very common figurative idiom "getting away with murder", which is about doing bad stuff/breaking the law, and not having any serious consequence. Or do you pretend to never have heard of it?

As for the general statement, it still stands. Companies have historically also gotten away with literal murder too, and it's a valid point to raise when talking about how companies can often violate laws with impunity.
In biology, being amenable to reductionist explanations is an evolvability trait. Repeating building blocks can be re-used, combined and repurposed with small changes. That's the fundamental reason why so much in biology does make some sense. On the other hand, we are of course biased towards understanding things that are easy to understand. Who knows how many things are overlooked because they're just too messy!
Exactly ! What's worse that we seem to have developed this all-in-or-none-at-all approach towards cloud services. Whatever happened to a hybrid approah of using the cloud only for things that you wanted ?
I was speaking with some friends at a Christmas party who work for the Navy - they’ve taken deliveries of planes from Boeing with the same sort of issues that start in the factory. They even went as far as to say the whole lot of planes should’ve been rejected but weren’t. Multiple things not built to spec.

The planes they worked on did not share an assembly line with the 737 but another Boeing model…
I implemented this using drizzle and PG not long ago

Check the repo here
https://github.com/grmkris/drizzle-pg-notify-audit-table
However she said that climate change is a "horrific situations that we find ourselves facing right now" and then will whizz off on her private jet.

It is like peak hypocrisy for people to watch something like that. Same for COP meetings full of private jets which are not even taken seriously anymore.