skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course… what’s to stop Valve letting Epic spend all this money on lawyers getting the market set up, and then simply making Steam, with its immense market share, developer support, and positive consumer sentiment, the Steam of iOS?

AFAIK the only reason anyone uses Epic Games Store is for Fortnite. Can Epic really count on that to carry them? It’s been a lasting fad for sure, but all fads end.
Does this support multimodal language models (E.g.: LLaVA)?
Apple will make it easier to move to Android by fall 2025
there is no low risk with bitcoin, especially if you are using leverage. bitcoin can blow your leverage to pieces and be back to where it was beforehand before you can even register what is happening.

the only investment strategy that works with bitcoin is to but it as a risky asset and go long. That's it, no secret sauce, no monitoring trends, buy it, leave it for minimum 3 to 5 years and then sell it.
If I use a piece of software, I tend to learn the shortcuts, and set things up to make my life easier. I don't start reprogramming excel though.

That, to me, is the point being made.

Fwiw my microwave has about 20 buttons, I only know how to change power, time and start.
Got it, I will fix it next week.
The update to the story is that the officials penalized Seavey "for ‘not sufficiently’ gutting moose": https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/iditarod/2024/03/06/i...

In better news, the injured dog seems to be recovering after surgery: https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/iditarod/2024/03/07/i...
Part of the reason seems to be that a significant chunk of them have apparently forgotten that antitrust laws and enforcement are hard requirements for capitalism to actually work and deliver on any of its touted benefits.

Unregulated free market capitalism that so many people seem to root for (knowingly or unknowingly) is just a degenerate version of the system that invariably results in cartels, price-fixing, rent seeking, thought policing, human exploitation and suffering, which is really just a different version of the "communist" boogeyman that they fear for the same reasons.
CSS has its own easing function customization shorthand notation. So you could just use that.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/easing-func...
We should be thankful that somebody stuck out their neck and paid the price to challenge the world’s richest corporation this way, regardless of Epic’s motivations.

Like Google in its past “don’t do evil” life, Apple still strongly believes that they are the good guys by default, simply by existing. That kind of culture can make a corporation oblivious to the influence they’re actually having.
NEXT Life Sciences' Plan A male contraception passes clinical test
WWII: Failed novelist becomes a spy for Germany, makes up a fake spy network
Also https://github.com/sfermigier/awesome-foss-alternatives (made by me).
The extension in the Chrome Web Store (CWS) never changed hands. I just reverse-forked a GitHub repo, which was of no consequences to those who installed the extension from the CWS. I was asked to transfer the CWS entry, I refused. This can't be compared to an extension changing hands or going rogue in the CWS.
Show HN: cunoFS – mount S3/AZ/GCP storage *without* FUSE, 60x faster than s3fs
Hello HN! We’re Dan and Vaughan, based in Cambridge, UK. We recently launched cunoFS, a filesystem for fast, POSIX object storage access. Yes, we’ve heard that “Object Storage is just not suitable for POSIX workloads” or that “workloads should be rewritten to natively support S3”. But what if it could be? And often much faster than S3-native apps? We’ve worked hard to make this possible, without the shortcomings of other approaches.

Summary here:

- Run (unmodified) applications with S3/AZ/GCP or “S3 compatible” storage, for example:

ls s3:// az:// gs://
ffmpeg -i s3://bkt/vid.mov -c copy s3://bkt/vid.mp4
rsync --inplace -Wav $(pwd) az://myaz/bucket

auto fd = open("az://myaz/bucket/file.mp4", O_RDWR);
read(fd, buf, 1024);

- POSIX-compliant: supports symlinks, hardlinks (emulated), UIDs & GIDs, permissions, random writes, etc.

- No additional server or gateway needed. Each object is a file, each file is an object directly accessible
on native S3/AZ/GCP. No scrambling of data into a funky backend format.

- Bypass FUSE and maximise performance with our ultra-fast syscall interception engine (Dynasaur [2]), or
optionally run as a FUSE filesystem

- Super fast - for many benchmarks it beats EFS, FSx Lustre or even attached EBS

- Benchmarked at 50+ Gbps per EC2 node ⇔ AWS S3, scaling to 10+ Tbps [1]

- 60x faster than s3fs in small file benchmark (copying Linux kernel source files)

- PyTorch dataset reads boosted up to 13x (with accelerator package installed)

- Supports virtual mount points, FUSE mount points, and direct URI access.

Pricing: cunoFS is free for personal use. You need to register for a free license after 14 days. For commercial use, we offer a 30-day free eval license.

Check out our docs [3], or download now from our website [4].

P.S. Calling for partnerships/collaborations:
We’re thinking of opening up Dynasaur, our ultra-fast syscall interception engine [2]. It covers all binaries (dynamic, static and semi-static) and runs in unprivileged containers/serverless. It can virtualise Linux kernel functionality and dynamically augment it with something else, without needing special privileges. Applications include user mode networking, live process migration, memory offloading, virtualisation, analytics, user-mode kernel experimentation, and of course running other FUSE file systems faster, without the FUSE bit. Please let us know if you are interested.

Looking forward to your feedback!

[1] https://cuno.io/technology/

[2] https://cuno.io/technology-details/#The_problem_with_SHIMs

[3] https://cuno-cunofs.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/stable/

[4] https://cuno.io/download/
For most people I think it matters if you think probabilistic deterrence is a real thing or not. Think about it like this, do you vote, even if your vote has almost zero chance of changing the outcome by normal lights?
Bugs and glitches of high-level NES Tetris [video]
I think that was it. Timing is right. I saw a different angle though. From my perspective I couldn't see that it had broken apart into multiple pieces. I saw it to my north, moving slowly west to east across the sky.
how is it ironic? that's the exact goal

companies would rather not compete at all
JWST may have found some of the first stars in the universe
They've made it pretty clear through their actions so far that they don't intend to comply with the DMA. They have sought out every loophole and even misinterpretations of the act to avoid meaningful compliance. So much so that they single handedly made 'malicious compliance' a common phrase. Anyone's inconveniences in this matter are clearly of no concern to them.
What makes an orange? New study finds one gene, seven chemicals
A genetic quirk protects some people from NoroVirus
We already have this with endorsement marketing (or to use the current era lingo "influencers").

The solution has always been to do research prior to purchase and look for trends in negative reviews.

(One could also use their own AI to perform these tasks.)

Caveat emptor.
'Motonormativity': The bias that leads to dangerous driving
People might then discard the whole whitepaper as pushing Carbon, there are probably lots of other options that would be worthy of mention. Is Carbon an actual subset, because the syntax looks different to me in the Wikipedia page example?

I'd love to see a list of candidates and how they compare.
> It demonstrates that your criticism of the syntax of array languages boils down to “it’s different than the things I already know”

There's a lot of value in leveraging existing knowledge and experience. If something is different, it needs to justify the expense of overcoming that difference in terms of time and utility.

This is not just a 'tech' issue, it predates that. To pick the example of syntax, infix languages date back to at least John Backus' FORTRAN compiler in the 1950's. That team selected an infix syntax (at the cost of taking on implementation complexity) for the express purpose of aligning with what its expected user base was familiar with. In this case, it was an approximation of the infix notation universal to mathematics for centuries. Even now, infix is taught to kids as young as five or six, if not younger.

Any alternative syntax has to overcome heavily ingrained training in legacy syntax. It also has to overcome the fact that the existing legacy syntax is a more universal means of communication. The fact that something else is new, does not necessarily make it better or worth the investment. This is particularly the case when when there are many competing ways to spend time/energy the point is communicating ideas. (It strikes me as a little odd the tendency of our industry to so often pursue inventing novel languages to help improve communication.)

> Lisp is defined by much more than syntax. I certainly see many flaws in it (starting with the cons cell), which are total deal-breakers for me

This is a weird complaint, given that 1) linked data structures are almost universal in languages with pointers/references 2) all serious Lisps dating back to before Common Lisp offer alternative data structures 3) some Lisp's (Clojure comes to mind) essentially deprecate the cons cell in favor of these alternatives.
Happy International Women's Day
I've been reminded by my loved ones that it's International Women's
Day (and by pedants that it requires an apostrophe in the proper place
- apparently it's not International Womens' Day - and that makes a big
political difference :))

So here's an entertaining episode on "Fake women in tech" [0] from
a few weeks ago.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=22
The domain click target is too big, it's a div spanning the whole width of the card, so it's easy to accidentally open the domain root instead of the link, especially on mobile, which is something I would probably never intend. (On HN the domain link actually serves a purpose — letting you check prior submissions for the domain.) Making the click target an inline-block as wide as the domain text or simply getting rid of the domain link should be better.
The Japanese equivalent is the Iroha, a famous poem that's also a perfect pangram of kana syllables and used as the traditional sort order for Japan:

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

Plus as a poem it slaps:

Although its scent still lingers on

the form of a flower has scattered away

For whom will the glory
of this world remain unchanged?

Arriving today at the yonder side
of the deep mountains of
evanescent existence

We shall never allow ourselves to drift away

intoxicated, in the world of shallow dreams.
The problem though is that the purpose of research is to develop new information.

Building a house is an engineering and construction problem, more akin to a medical procedure, where you might want a tried and true method by an experienced practitioner.

Research is similar in that you want someone with skill and knowledge doing the work. But there's a tension because in the extreme case, you could just find someone doing the same study they've done forever well and reliabily getting the same result, but that wouldn't be accomplishing the goal of research.

What we have now is in between but probably closer to the latter approach, where funding agencies fund because it's likely to work in the sense of producing small p values, rather than because it generates new information.

The story of Karikó is sad to me in part because it is so common, but most don't have the privilege of a historical event to underscore the problems and turn it into a fairy tale ending.
I've been using KumoMTA for the past 3 months and it's one of the most well thought-out, stable and fast softwares I've ever used.

https://kumomta.com/
https://github.com/KumoCorp/kumomta
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Most billboards are designed to be visible on interstates and highways, where wearing VR goggles wouldn't be allowed.

As for "removing ads", why would an ad company like Meta do that when they could get paid more to dynamically replace static billboards with targeted advertising delivered through goggles?
UI has become the domain of marketing and branding.
TLS 1.3 with cert pinning and end-to-end encryption is making life hell for corporate compliance. Our Palo Alto firewalls are about as good as it gets but it's a constant battle to de-obfuscate traffic.

Google loves to mix traffic types (ad, telemetry, biz app) across protocols basically creating their own overlay which is a huge pain.

For Apple, we basically have to exempt the entire 17.0.0.0/8 as that is theirs and they pin everything.

Microsoft at least has several dynamic lists but I have my own list of their stuff that ISN'T on their lists (a few hundred IPs).

At this point I don't think there's any way to secure a network. You can't trust or verify much of the traffic.

Maybe using a synthetic NIC at the endpoint that is directly tied to the policy system is the only way forward.
National Science Foundation takes a step toward an "large telescope"
Five ways to trigger an IRS audit or notice
Isn't this a red herring though? If some spyware has ring0 level access on device, security properties of apps like Signal don't really matter since the spyware can trivially access them(?)
Slingshot Aerospace sets up UK base for global expansion – SpaceNews
> people care about far more things than profit

The "clueless" of The Gervais Principle.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
I always think it's like hiring a plumber to make money for you rather than actually replace your leaky pipe. At some point if everyone does that homeowners are making a lot of money but everyone has corroding plumbing.
Ardour charges for Windows builds and has for a long time. It's also the only open source DAW I consider remotely comparable to proprietary options.
I don't agree that this model of open source software has a positive impact on the quality and future of the open source core. Usually the open source part gets less and less usable and lacks more and more documentation. It also scares off external contributors.
https://wapo.st/43641rZ
With same APIs, so a bit like what you said.
So, why should we use it instead of KafkaJS?
It's quite a pleasant surprise to see other x-cmd users here. Indeed, x-cmd has proven its worth. I've successfully replaced my previous setup, including the oh-my-zsh theme and various version managers like pyenv and nvm, with x-cmd on my machine. It's streamlined my workflow considerably.
Layoffs rise to the highest for any February since 2009, Challenger says
RIP at 68; too soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gttNFh4vEA4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDLpihQUI64
It depends on what you see the objective of the human species to be
Lies.. European market is the second biggest one, accounting for 25% the company's revenue in 2023.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/
Apple Could Be the First Target of Europe's Tough New Tech Law
Still as long as you buy the hardware, you should not be prevented from running whatever you like on it.

A case of this is the Nintendo Switch, which does not even have a Web Browser (possibly due to Nintendo being scared to death of JIT exploits breaking their walled garden). Want to look up a game guide from the Internet, on a device perfectly able of doing so ? Fat chance, need another device for that!

You mentioned consoles supporting some streaming services - why should the manufacturer of the hardware be in business of deciding what streaming services you can use ?
My personal hate is when webpages rebind scrolling to zoom.

I haven't used a mouse in almost 15 years. It's a constant source of annoyance when I try to scroll something with a map with my trackpad and it goes crazy zooming in and out.
Also the rules sometimes show up saying you’ve violated them when you haven’t…

yes it’s longer than 8 characters

Yes I have one of your stupid special characters

Yes I’ve fulfilled all your other written rules

Oh… it also has to be LESS than 21 characters? Why did you not say that?
Challenges of Local-First LLMs
No search on desktop either. I also found this a very strange list, but it's short and probably limited to what the author uses for now. No Gimp, no Inkscape, no Blender. But Discord of all things is there, you're not even allowed to use third party-software like WeeChat to connect. Nothing open about that platform. And where's Mutt or Thunderbird?
Ordinary people using devices created by very clever folks, find them hard to use. Not surprising.

Maybe that does mean they suck. More accurately, they are mismatched with the skill level of some customers. Which is a flaw, surely, you want to make money, you gotta place the device somewhere on the bottom half of the bell curve, maximize the customer base. Go too far, you start losing the top tail. Complicated.
Apparently it’s still allowed in Australia for agricultural uses. That might change this year.

https://www.apvma.gov.au/resources/chemicals-news/chlorpyrif...
The Fear That Inspired the Creation of OpenAI
I find my 2012 Civic's digital speedometer more readable than mechanical needle.

Also FWIW, audio settings might be easier with a display, just because of how many useful parameters there are.

Also, I like my CX-9's display for navigation maps.

But touchscreens for the driver are just a terrible idea.
> primary cause to negative road interactions is the friction between
various driving styles on the road

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an
idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

-- George Carlin
The more I read about kagi on hn the more it feels like organized shill campaign
The narrative behind this leak is funded and backed by right-wing transphobes. What's actually in the document is a nothingburger.
That's very often the path forward. The community usually doesn't invest a lot into those projects, so they rarely get forked into a community driven version. Some projects like that are also a minefield, because they mix code with different licenses in one repository.
There are two major other Cloud providers and then smaller ones - Linode, DigitalOcean, etc.

AWS is not really a monopoly but people just refuse to think out of the box when building out new infrastructures. I moved all my stuff to DigitalOcean - it's what a cloud should be like.

Not only is AWS a racket, but the constant pile-on of toys has turned it into a complete management nightmare that sucks your time in like a black hole.
“Sure but you can’t copy it out”
PostgreSQL Tuning and DBtune
How does DBtune simplify PostgreSQL parameter tuning and helps in achieving peak performance based on workload...
I assume "they" in the parent refers to the labels.

Almost certainly one of the things that allows streaming to be priced in a range that's palatable for consumers is that most artists make less money than ever. At $50/month, it presumably wouldn't fly. As it is, it's probably priced in about the range that a lot of people spent on physical media in pre-Napster days. (And streaming seems not to be a money printing press for at least some of the streaming services either.)

ADDED: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/music-industry-revenues-by-...

Paid streaming is somewhat lower than peak CD but about the same as peak vinyl (inflation adjusted). There are peaks and valleys but consumer music spend hasn't changed that much over time.
Except there's studies showing increasing turnover in academics and exiting being unrelated to research quality metrics.

There's also research showing pretty clear seniority effects on grant receipt.

You're raising a good point but my sense is it doesn't fit the data well.

There's also a really basic question of whether grants per se should matter at all in things like tenure decisions. You could make an argument that they're a means to an end, and using them for hiring decisions is sort of a tail wagging the dog phenomenon.
Where could I read the original 42 Dragon Ball mangas online in English? It seems like Manga Plus is just available on the mobile apps, and I'd like to read it on my computer, but not finding anything that looks legitimate.
Never mind 'happy mammoths' or 'slow reproductive cycle'.

Gut biome! We all live or die by it. The Mammoth biome is 40,000 years extinct. Won't live but a few days on life support unless that's addressed?
That makes it seem like YT's decision is market-driven, when the reality is it's been making losses since its inception, ads or no ads. Premium cost $9.99, then $12.99, now $14.99. Sounds like an operation that has no clue how to price for sustainability.
it's there (and on gitlab, where i prefer to work), but there are so many projects on there, that doesn't really help discovery.
"On its own", your argument is a tired dismissal made by people can not see beyond their most immediate own needs.
Akira Toriyama is responsible for two things that were formative for me as a teenager - Dragon Ball Z, and Chrono Trigger.

Dragon Ball Z formally introduced me to anime, something that would push me towards going to art school, finding my (first) wife, and encouraging me to learn Japanese.

Chrono Trigger was the first video game I truly loved. The art style was no small part of that. This, in part, made me enter the games industry as a level designer.

Rest in peace, Mr. Toriyama. Your life was well-lived.
Are you discounting the benefits of advances in agriculture? Such as producing more food on less land? (Granted, it would be better if more of the land were given back to Nature instead of suburban sprawl, but that’s a different problem and I digress)
That's how it works in Lille Flandre, which is depicted on this website. In Lille, in the North of France.

They're just all on the same level though.
You are being dishonest. It not like you stop buying bad tomatoes from one vendor and go to one of the hundreds others with zero incurred costs for transfer.

Apple is a world duopoly, the cost of devices is enormous and device is not the only thing that exists standalone. You likely have a lot of of purchased apps, media, uploaded data, proprietary hardware infrastructure which doesn't work with other vendors (like airpods etc.) and many many other ties to the Apple.

Saying that a person should just discard all that and simply move to the other vendor is a dumb proposition.
While I get where you're coming from, it's not unheard of cultures finding a local maxima that they are unwilling to leave. I guess it's hard to judge from the outside?
> It's still impressive---imagine writing 1000 words of English without reusing any function words like "the", "it", "of", "is".

How about:

> Gadsby is a [260-page] 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright which includes only four words that contain the letter E, the most common letter in English.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)