skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a combination of exploitation and lack of humility that marks recent tech. On the one hand, a lot of newer tech treats you like some kind of tech peasant: no sideloading, endless dialogs that have no option to say "no", arbitration clauses, no ability to fix your own devices, little or no customer support, etc. On the other hand you have proclamations about what the future will look like that turn out to be terribly wrong: blockchain, metaverse, VR, self-driving truck convoys, etc.

After such an atrocious track record of tech leaders being completely wrong about what "the next big thing" is, why should anyone trust these people and why are they so certain they're "accelerating" in the right direction?

Edit: I miss the era when tech companies treated their users as customers, not as marks to be manipulated for the purpose of profit maximization.
I just came from a CERN event, HEP seems to still be all about C++, Fortran, Python, Java, and some Go due to Kubernetes.

No Rust or Julia in their radar.
No mention of Cloudflare’s own large portfolio of software patents.

Wonder when they’ll start enforcing their patent on CNAME flattening, for example:

https://patents.justia.com/patent/11159479

Edit; clarity
I just don't agree that it's an anti-user platform. I have my own opinions on this, but really just talk to some apple users they're all happy with their platform

Why do you have to change it? As a user if you don't like walled gardens or restrictions just buy another phone? why do you insist on shitting up my walled garden just go use android!
What I'm talking about is very much modern vs historical.

To take a trivial example, most of us would like to draw a straight line from Darwin writing The Origin of the Species to the current acceptance of his theory of evolution. We have no particular desire to follow how Darwin's work inspired Francis Galton to study heredity. Unfortunately Galton discovered regression to the mean when he did. Further experiments undermined Darwin's theories as it uncovered evidence for "natural types". The result was that a half-century after Darwin's great book, many scientists doubted Darwin's theories.

But then R. A. Fischer managed to explain the mess with population genetics based on Mendel's theories. "Natural types" disappeared from the literature, and Darwin was back. Today Galton is likely to be remembered as a dilletante who invented the idea of eugenics. And Fischer as a genius in statistics. We retrofit a story with heroes (Darwin and Fischer) and villains (Galton). We skip over the bad parts, and focus on the good.

In the process we forget that Darwin also took it for granted that blacks must be inferior to whites. And that Fischer was also a supporter of eugenics. And that Galton set out to confirm Darwin, then accepted the data that he encountered.

We want a story, not a mess. But history is full of messes. Arranging the right ideas in the right ways involved a whole lot of trial and error that wasn't obvious at the time. While some of us enjoy learning about the history, it actually isn't very helpful for scientists. Because there is little point in learning every wrong idea that people used to hold, only to immediately learn that you can forget it again because it was wrong.

But while that exercise does not help us learn what is currently known, maybe it can help give us more humility about what it is we think we know today?
I don't think nuclear weapons are the kind of existential risk that AI doomsters imagine for AI.
>but whats the underlying value of regular money

That I can spend it.
> And now people ask "why do I have to pay more for your service on apple vs android". And now you're in a fun PR battle.

Why do you pay more for coffee on a square in Paris than in an alleyway a few hundred meters from there? Because it’s a place people want to be.

> This makes competition vs big boys even harder. How can I compete vs netflix if any streaming service I make who doesn't have netflix's negotiation power has to pay 30% of every payment. I can't get close to netflix's price.

It would be of little help because you need scale to compete with Netflix, but if anything, I would think the DMA helps with that. https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/legislation_en, article 6.12:

“12. The gatekeeper shall apply fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory general conditions of access for business users to its software application stores, online search engines and online social networking services listed in the designation decision pursuant to Article 3(9).”

I think that means they could still give quantity discounts, but at least, you’d know you would get the same discounts Netflix gets, _if_ you manage to grow to their size. That’s not a promise you had before.
This is a kind of person that people just generally need in their friend group for life.
My wife and I were religious when we were dating and engaged. We did not have sex before marriage with each other. We are coming up on 20 years of marriage in December. I would estimate that we have sex between 1-4 times/week. There are some times that we go 1.5 weeks between, but it's rare and just kind of happens. But we talk about frequency and what kind of life we want to live directly. Having less sex is a choice for most, but not all, of people. You can choose to continue to have an active sex life. As an example, I prefer to go to bed early, she prefers to go to bed late. As a result, we often tend to have sex on weekend mornings (our kids are older and sleep in). That works for us. We probably have 50% night time sex and 50% morning sex.

I will also say, through lots of communication our sex is light years better now at 20 years of marriage than when we were first married. Our emotional connection is incredibly strong, and we have 20 years of communication to make the physical sex better as well. I am much happier sexually in my 40s with my committed spouse than I was as a teenager having sex (before I was religious) with different partners (the "variety" that the article mentions). Don't lose hope people. You can make a great life after marriage that is deep and rewarding sexually. Marriage can be wonderful if you value the right things in a partner and find that partner.
Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD
This site is written in Lisp, I believe (a dialect called Arc).

Not only that, but the site and Y Combinator as a whole likely wouldn't exist without Lisp.

https://paulgraham.com/avg.html

(Wow! Over 20 years ago!)
Either replying here works, or profile has a fairly simple to solve contact if you really want to ask me those questions.

Tend to fairly regularly check comments from at least the last week to see if anybody responded.

Notably, while following the situation, and knowing a bit about the IoT world, not deeply involved in microcontrollers or IoT design. Mostly aerospace personally. Some experience with Wifi and Bluetooth development for Windows and Android, with a bit of Arduino, yet that's the perspective for discussion / questions.

Can refer you to a few NIST folks and some NIST mailing lists.
They won’t. The car maker has the Budget product and the Premium product. The car maker wants to justify a high price for the Premium product, so they put in all conceivable features, useful or not.
What you want is a Decent product. If they add it to the product line, it would cannibalize sales for the premium product, so they gain nothing.
For the same reason my wife’s Premium electric toothbrush has a color screen, shitty IOT bluetooth features and a terrible battery life.
That’s exactly true unfortunately we have people ignorant to those facts and claim “oh, all this rain and cold weather…so much for global warming”
Ignorance…
I appreciate you taking my very petty feedback! I totally agree that it's a clever change that will allow most people to avoid the problem.
My wife and I did a city wall wedding and invited nobody. We had doubts but conviction to do it. As the years go on we only become more confident about that choice.
Wasn't the goal of ShadCN UI to be easy to use, without the need for a custom ecosystem? Not to discourage but this seems to go against the goal of the package at first. AFAIK, we're supposed to "just" copy and past the components
Yeah, last I checked the “story” of capitalism and strong market economies is generally regarded as essentially having the emergence of the proto-nation-state (as in e.g. Spain under the “Catholic Monarchs”) as a prerequisite, as far as being something that can exist on an all-encompassing scale rather than in the margins, in tiny states navigating the “waters” between larger polities with other economic systems.

Stability and guarantees from a strong central state really grease the wheels of commerce.
Cryostasis Revival
Walmart, Energizer face lawsuit alleging they colluded to inflate battery prices
Agree that learning should not be considered as fun and easy experience. But I would rather watch that kinds of videos that Bachelorette (sorry)
I'm not sure if longing is the right word, and I think you may be confusing excitement and buzz around Serenity and Ladybird as longing for another free browser, when it is more accurately excitement and curiosity about a technically very impressive project.
Nile – Introducing Postgres Schema Visualizer
Microsoft is not bringing sudo to Windows Server 2025 after all
The atmosphere traps and retains more heat.
> Well then you're in luck, because there's a free app called Hidden Bar[1] on the Mac App Store that allows you to hide icons which you're not interested in.

Author here: I did try Hidden Bar yesterday before finding this workaround and I uninstalled it today. I want to see all of the 16 apps that I have. I don't want to hide any of them. By changing the whitespace mentioned in the blog post I now can see all of them.
I am aware of a few orgs that license interesting software R&D often with engineering support, sometimes with an equity component. Another variant is the R&D holding company that creates separate companies to commercially exploit the R&D in different parts of the public or private sector. Most such R&D orgs are very low-profile, they usually don't have an internet presence. Many use few or no patents these days, those economics don't make sense unless the business is largely owned by lawyers, which creates a different kind of company (much closer to patent trolls).

It is a bespoke kind of business, tailored to the specific technology and investment network of the people involved.
There are, and have been for years, free and easy ways to get Google (and others!) to visit your site after an update.
Given the effort Swift, Chapel, Haskell, OCaml, D are going through for adding ownership without Rust's approach, not everyone feels it is that easy for most folks.
It was the screen, but the piezo strain was applied at the mounting to the frame. They really aren't separate. I believe I worked on this design (though not directly on the piezo) and it was a pain. The easiest way to have a nice solid phone that doesn't rattle or come apart is to laminate it together. You can't do that, if the front surface needs to move relative to the back.

You need a large area (~10cm diameter) moving a reasonable distance (~100s um) to make a speaker work at acceptable volumes in the kHz frequency range.
This is interesting–it made me wonder if this had ever been considered on NYC's East River, which is a tidal estuary with strong currents. Turns out there's been a company working on it for a while, with free-moving turbines rather than something that spans the whole thing: https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/articles/tidal-testing-und...
This is interesting. So Oracle holding around 52000 patents pays around 23.000.000 USD a year in maintenance?
FYI Moeder Lambic is now as touristic as Delirium since every beer nerd tells people at Delirium to go there instead …
I just went through this this weekend - If you're running in Windows and want to use deepspeed, you have to still use Cuda 12.1 because deepspeed 13.1 is the latest that works with 12.1. There's no deepspeed for windows that works with 12.3.

I tried to get it working this weekend but it was a huge PITA so I switched to putting everything into WSL2 then in arch on there pytorch etc in containers so I could flip versions easily now that I know how SPECIFIC the versions are to one another.

I'm still working on that part, halfway into it my WSL2 completely broke and I had to reinstall windows. I'm scared to mount the vhdx right now. I did ALL of my work and ALL of my documentation is inside of the WSL2 archlinux and NOT on my windows machine. I have EVERYTHING I need to quickly put another server up (dotfiles, configs) sitting in a chezmoi git repo ON THE VM. That I only git committed one init like
5 mins into everything. THAT was a learning experience, now I have no idea if I should follow the "best practice" of keeping projects in wsl or having wsl reach out to windows, there's a performance drop. The 9p networking stopped working and no matter what I reinstalled, reset, removed features, reset windows, etc, it wouldn't start. But at least I have that WSL2 .vhdx image that will hopefully mount and start. And probably break WSL2 again. I even SPECIFICALLY took backups of the image as tarballs every hour in case I broke LINUX, not WSL.

If anyone has done sd containers in wsl2 already let me know. I've tried to use WSL for dev work (i use osx) like this 2-3 times in the last 4-5 years and I always run into some catastrophically broken thing that makes my WSL stop working. I hadn't used it in years so hoped it was super reliable by now. This is on 3 different desktops with completely different hardware, etc. I was terrified it would break this weekend and IT DID. At least I can be up in windows in 20 minutes thanks to chocolately and chezmoi. Wiped out my entire gaming desktop.

Sorry I'm venting now this was my entire weekend.

This repo is from a deepspeed contrib (iirc) and lists the reqs for deepspeed + windows that mention the version matches

https://github.com/S95Sedan/Deepspeed-Windows

> conda install pytorch==2.1.2 torchvision==0.16.2 torchaudio==2.1.2 pytorch-cuda=12.1 -c pytorch -c nvidia

It may sound weird to do any of this in Windows, or maybe not, but if it does just remember that it's a lot of gamers like me with 4090s who just want to learn ML stuff as a hobby. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing but thank god I know containers and linux like the back of my hand.
Can someone more familiar with iOS app development explain why people can’t just use developer mode on their iOS devices to run untrusted code? Can’t you bypass the App Store entirely with this method?
Thanks for this comment. For anyone interested in hearing more -- from road/track cyclists who can't use non-UCI compliant equipment -- I highly recommend searching Youtube for content featuring Dan Bigham. He owned the hour record briefly (about a year) until it was broken by Filippo Ganna (late 2022). They're two very different body types and because Dan is the aero & performance engineer working for INEOS (Ganna's pro team), he helped design and optimize the same frame (Pinarello Bolide) to work with a far different rider in a different position. As zh3 notes, the rider & their position has more to do with aero optimization than the frame, and it's interesting to hear someone like Dan talk about how the setup he used for his hour record attempt was so different from Ganna's.

Here are a few links to get started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOLlyKnMz3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QweOJXRcb0g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHc52cGz4AA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgpywSW6t0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKT9DsRtuCc
California's electric bicycle driver's license bill is here
Hey guys!

For about a year and a half I've been working on this "Continuum 93" project, a retro computer emulator with an underlying assembly architecture (inspired by the Z80 + other CPU's of that retro era).

It's a rather unique "machine" that aims to offer an interesting way of creating retro games with a multi-layer video architecture (480x270), a 16 MB RAM and a variable frequency CPU (meaning it scales to the host computer). You can write code in pure assembly, the emulator also features an interrupt-controlled compiler that takes .asm files and compiles them on the fly.

It comes equipped with a separate tool that allows step-by-step debugging, memory, register, stack and video views. That tool optionally connects to the emulator and allows debugging.

Here's a sort of "trailer" for it: https://youtu.be/UCmCEudSpeA

Also, I have some decent documentation for it, and it's gradually improving.

This project is meant to be spread to a lot of platforms / operating systems and handhelds. Right now it's working on PC-Windows, Raspberry Pi (any 64 bit version), Retro Pie 32 bit and Steam Deck.

Since I noticed a few folks already caught interest in it and are writing some programs for it, I dared to also drop by and let you know about it.

I welcome any interest in this, feedback and critique!

Project's itch page is here: https://enthusiastguy.itch.io/continuum93. You can download it for free if it piques your interest. :)

Cheers!
Enthusiast Guy
My main problem with the article is that it treats the complex relationship between men and women in a univariate way - looking only at sex and analyzing it with a marketplace/economics lens.

It's so extraordinarily more complex than that.

Men are not slavish automatons who only desire sex. We're complex organisms with multiple (sometimes conflicting) desires - love, companionship, meaning, importance, sex etc... sex is on that list, but its priority is very different for different men.

It's not abnormal for a man to evaluate a woman who appears to only offer sex and decide "nah, not worth it - not what I'm looking for". This may have absolutely nothing to do with how many partners she's had (or has) - and may have a lot more to do with a rational risk/reward analysis based upon whether she brings more than just sex to the table.

The term "incel" is derogatory and doesn't take the above into account. There's a lot of nuance. Involuntarily celibate? What does that even mean?

Does it mean "I would have sex with any female, under any circumstance, regardless of her character and attractiveness, but I am unable to"?

Or does it mean "I evaluate the whole person, and I haven't found anyone who's both interested in me and meets my criteria, but if I could I would"?

And at what point does the person who feels the latter decide to become voluntarily celebate because the whole thing is just too much of a hassle, too painful, and there's no upside? A phenomena that's rising, by all accounts, in both men and women.

I thought the article was interesting, but I'm personally more interested in discussions with a broader scope and more nuance.
> Apple's seeking to comply with the letter, rather than the spirit, of the law in order to maintain their ability to extract rents from the App Store.

Yes, because we can have a functional, productive society based on a legal system where the foundational principal is, “We’ll write laws so vague that we can just say they mean whatever we want them to mean after people and companies try to follow them”.
I don’t understand why I become the exclusive property of a specific corporation through the simple act of using a phone (which is something I am required to do in the modern day).
FPGAs are reimplementations, to me, not emulation. But I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to be a stickler on the definition of “emulation”.

Even the original hardware “emulates” a game if you want to get down to it.
I can't even understand your point here. People aren't developing for apple hardware to be nice to apple or help out the ecosystem, they're doing it for money. As long as Apple is creating a platform that people love, adopt and trust people will develop for it (while complaining the whole time no doubt)

By the amount of bitching on this issue, it really sounds like developers need Apple not the other way around. If this was really about user freedom and shit like that developers would just boycott the platform and move to android. This is just about money and developers wanting to have their cake (distribute their app in a high trust environment) and eat it too (put whatever stupid shit they want in their app with no checks or controls)
It's disingenuous to not explain the connection between these organizations. You're making it sound like they both happen to be named "Mozilla", when the reality is much more nuanced and interdependent, but in terms of their current funding and leadership, as well as their history.
When I was just starting in IT (~1999) it was already a joke that you could identify where different MSFT teams wrote elements of software (say, Outlook) when a common action was implemented two different ways (explained by Conway's Law as I know now).
N64 Rendering Hacks and Optimizations
I think it's more excitement about the idea that it is possible to write a web browser from scratch, than about this specific browser. This is just one of the most promising implementations of that idea.

I am very much team Firefox and think it is important to protect and promote it as much as possible. But I don't think the attention that people are giving to Ladybird would otherwise be dedicated to Firefox. Maybe when Ladybird gets more functional and stable they might become competitors but not right now.

IMO it is exactly because building a fully featured browser from scratch is considered basically impossible today, that we so desperately need Firefox to succeed.
People would "want" more things if they were possible. "We couldn't even dream of it, but now we have it." AI will embolden our desires.
For any Skiff users looking for an alternative, we welcome you: https://proton.me/blog/migrate-skiff-to-proton
To be honest a lot of things that are incredibly easy, incredibly intuitive — things of the "I could come up with this myself"-kind — can seem impenetrable when written down in mathematical notation.

If you want people to understand, you skip the mathematical notation and use pseudocode, or at least you start with an explaination and once people know what they are looking at you go into the math notation.

I understand that mathematical notation can be very practical for describing a certain class of problems concisely, but especially if you teach or explain things, consider that being concise is meaningless if people don't understand what you describe.

Sometimes my feeling is that this is on purpose. People not understanding what you are doing (but you come across soo smart), is a feature to many. Even better: The layperson cannot tell whether you are talking utter gibberish or using the most precise language on earth.

I, however, think you can recognize real smart people by the phenomenon that every room they are in seems to become smarter in total, because they lift people up in their wake of understanding things so deeply, they can just break them down into their very simple, managable parts and translate obscure domain-specific languages into something people can grasp.

I too can go into deep domain specific lanuages, be it in philosophy, electrical regulation, film theory, programming lingo, music theory, control theory etc. But what is the point of doing that without making the person opposite understand what you're waffling on about? Because either you will seem like a knowledgeable person that has a total lack of self-perception or like a brick that doesn't care what message reaches the person opposite as long as rhey can hear themselves talk.

That being said: Domain-specific language can be okay if it is used between people within that domain. But I have met many physicists or mathematicians who also think math notation sucks, so maybe there could be something better.
I completely agree. And my insight similar to yours is that the greatest math book that no one has written is one where the meaning of notation, variables and a clear assortment of theorems across all topics are well curated.