skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good reminder that no app is truly ever "closed source" after all there is still the compiled machine code. People used to hand code in this language.

Though I'm personally glad we no longer have to :) it's still way more difficult and compilers can really obfuscate the code (if it isn't already by design)
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Why is that cynical? One of first things POTUS Bush #2 said in the wake of 9-11 was (effectively), "Keep shopping."

It's a fiat currency based system that persists simply on the belief that it's too big to stop (i.e., fail). Just keep your head stuff in the sand, keep pushing forward and pretend there's no cliff ahead.
Technically, it's the opposite - all measurable physical things are only measurably digital (i.e. measurable in discrete units). But for all practical purposes, that threshold is low enough that it doesn't really matter for current signals transport standards.
Why not start a new account? See:

https://www.businessfirstonline.co.uk/advice/how-to-open-a-n...
I hate advocating for new laws but we need something to fix this imbalance that really screws over the worker more than anyone else. I recently left a company due to investors wanting to sell the company and a statement in the original RSU documents stating that I forfeit my shares upon leaving at the price the CEO sets really screwed me. The CEO decided my 4 years of shares were worth 2 cents a piece.
Whether it is signal of interest or not, if above the sampling rate it will be aliased down into lower frequencies. So all energy above the sampling rate should be removed to avoid this disturbance.
That is just not even close to a fair analogy.
People are really, really, bad (in general) at correctly managing these things, whereas companies are really good at it.

The sad truth is that for the financial health of much of the population, credit cards should be forbidden entirely, but that would cause too much howling because you can't just "forbid them for poor people" even though those are who are taken advantage of the most.
As opposed to "We landed, and it was a soft landing. No more risks remaining"?

Doh.
C'mon Microsoft.

Grasp the Nettle. Rebrand it to "Microsoft Linux". You know you want to. Do the complete 180.
Classic movie scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=60&v=l3jQhV2CFzY

BTW, War is still touring. I saw them in concert a few weeks ago. And yes, they played "Low rider", last song, place went nuts. There were rumors that George Lopez owned the rights to the song, as part of his TV show, so the band couldn't perform it anymore.
> Who prevents nasty C/C++ packages from being published? To my knowledge, anyone can just publish a C/C++ library.

Distros have system package managers that are checked by the distro maintainers. And by definition you trust the maintainers of your distro.

Somehow it feels like Rust does not go really well with distros (because it pushes for static linking).

> Your concerns appear to boil down to 'bad software exists'.

I was reacting to someone generalizing on C/C++ code, saying that "people dramatically overestimate it". I feel like it's nice to have some memory safety brought by Rust, but I find it a bit hypocritical to criticize the security of C/C++ code if Rust projects tend to statically link random code from hundreds of dependencies nobody ever reads. Because that's a big security issue IMO.

Sure, you can do it right with Rust. But you can also write good code with C/C++.
I get it. I'm generally in favor of not changing too much, so I can sit down at other systems and use them, or get a new one and not have to spend 2 weeks tweaking and tuning stuff. I figure I'll get used to it eventually. Some things take longer than others, and some things just require acceptance. Deciding that doing things the Apple-way will be easier than fighting against it. I gave in long ago and things got easier. When on Windows or Linux, I try to have the same mindset of doing it the way they intend. I went so far as to read documentation and watch videos to try and figured how the hell Gnome expects people to manage windows without a minimize option, as the add-ons for that seemed very hacky. I don't think I'll ever get used to throwing something in a new desktop instead of minimizing it, but I was working with someone from Red Hat who seemed to do it without even thinking about it, as if it was normal... which I guess it is on Gnome.

lol, yeah, the screenshot keyboard shortcut is crazy (3 fingers). It took me a while to get the muscle memory down, but once I did I liked the flexibility of it way more than Windows (at least at the time which just had print screen, while Apple could do the whole screen, a selection, or a window).

I suppose these days spotlight can open the screenshot utility, although I never think to do that since I've got it down. It's worth going in there at least once, as you can change some settings, like not showing that little thumbnail, automatically saving to the clipboard instead of a file... stuff like that, depending on your needs.

I had the benefit of using OS X since version 10.2, so each year when stuff came out I could just learn those things. If I was starting now it would take me forever to find all the random little stuff and where various settings are hidden away. I don't even know where I'd go to try and learn it all. I'd probably be frustrated as well.
macOS's hidden trackpad setting: three-finger drag/highlight
yep sorry I meant the polar opposite of how that post read! There's hardly anything remotely near Dublin that's in the sub 600 range was my point.
Why? Just use TypeScript at that point. The whole point of those languages is the notation as a tool for better thought.
Or maybe it’ll come out of the executive golf budget.

I’ve never understood why people always argue that we have to allow bullshit fees and overcharging “or else” when there’s clearly plenty of examples of existing waste and inefficiency in every business. Large monopolistic businesses especially so.
So, you don't trust your government to do the right thing, and also fully expect banks to screw you. When you talk about living without a credit card, do you mean cash at physical shops ?

Feels like you're advocating for a very peculiar way of life.
Wow, I looked it up. I guesstimated it would have a cylinder diameter of 160m and depth of 20m and I was pretty close at ~22m x ~190m given (its an irregular polyhedron). Its an underground lake.

I guess its a question of scale, I was referring to small rivers that meander through city suburbs and are part of the stormwater network and may have a few overflows on occasion, rather than a city of Madrid which has a population about 60% of my entire country.

In New Zealand stormwater to my knowledge is not treated.

If anyone else is interested: https://www.canaldeisabelsegunda.es/en/-/tanques-de-tormenta...
Would a runtime binary checksum have helped to complicate such modification? This isn’t sop for mobile apps? Do iOS or Android SDK’s provide such facilities? Presumably associated with the official release process and enforced on their respective non-jailbroken platforms?

Basic questions, admittedly. Just noticed that the final solution was to simply modify a few bytes of the binary, which seemed preventable.
They can claim admin-to-kernel is not a security boundary all they want, so long as driver signing and Windows side secure boot is supported, it is a security boundary.

They do this quite a bit like with powershell exec policy or many uac bypasses. According to msrc policy, only non-admin user accounts where the user does not know the admin password have a security boundary between them and the kernel. But in reality they offer many security features users rely on and most users don't have a choice but to admin their pc in some capacity
Can you share some complex application you have worked on that doesn't use a framework or end-up inventing one internally like VSCode for example?

I did web not just before React but before jQuery and MooTools. So it is funny you ask I should explore outside "React cargo cult".
Based on is a bit loose -- it is indeed more precise to say that Datalog programs are often evaluated by database systems by translating rules into the relational algebra and running those queries until fixpoint. I can add that as an aside.

Datalog /happens/ to be a subset of Prolog syntactically, but their semantics are very different. An analogy is how LL parsers and LR parsers can both parse context free grammars, but their properties are different -- LL parsers parse from "top down" and thus will not halt on left-recursive grammars (just like Prolog) while LR parsers parse from "bottom up" and can support left-recursive grammars, at the cost of increased space.

Note that the demand transformation / magic set optimization, which is a common optimization, closes the gap between Datalog and Prolog semantically. In particular, it gives Datalog the best of both worlds: (1) increased speed, because it is not computing all possible facts, just the ones "reachable" from the query (like Prolog) and also (2) termination guarantee because all programs in the base Datalog language terminate.
i recently searched for swift in google trends, and to my surprise it seems that the language is slowly declining in hype.

Is this something you've observed around you ? Are people moving away from swift to other techs, and not coming back ? i've been living in an ios-native bubble for the past 4 years so i can't really tell.
That whole section made me squarely. It feels like it is written by someone who doesn't know Java.
Yep, after it told me that was wrong I just assumed it's been in tens of movies and gave up..

There exist dbs of what songs are in what movies, it should probably accept any of them as alt answers IMO.
Personally, I find 3-finger drag to be a dream. I have spent many hours happily using a MacBook this way, and can’t imagine how I’d want it to change.
I remember playing something like this in the 80s by Joe Dever of Lone Wolf fame... Scarlet Sorcerer and Emerald Emperor I think?
But you don’t have to use them
Microsoft tried "precision touchpad" and I think there was some uptake. But you never see it advertised anymore, so maybe it didn't drive many sales?
Kind of a specialized purpose, but I'm working on a gpt that takes an image prompt, creates the image using dalle3, generates an etsy title, tags, and description, and trying to figure out last mile bits which will be: upload as a digital download on etsy, and upload to printify/printful then you can push that to etsy...

I'd also like a way to take a printify listing, and create duplicates for variations, like design 1 on a unisex tee, unisex hoodie, toddler tee, kids tee, and baby onesie - its very tedious to do this now...

Some of this I can do via python or php and api's, but current workflow is Dalle-3 on bing -> canva for fixes (bg removal and upscaling) -> {printify -> etsy}|{etsy} ...with some gpt back and forth for title, tags, description.

If I can say "create a pumpkin pie vector graphic in the shape of pacman for thanksgiving party decor" and have it push title, tags, picture (upscaled picture) to etsy on step 2...that saves me like 15 minutes or more per listing.
Isn’t the point of Google search to not have to do that?
I understand that it's allowed. I'm wondering why not simply eliminate them since from the article they are trying to eliminate junk fees.
Ha, jokes on them! They're getting excellent and smart replies.
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Radiation exposure at Chornobyl has not affected the genomes of local worms
> Do you feel the same way about the limited liability offered to investors in corporations?

I think you meant this a bit facetious, but yes I do feel similarly there. I don't expect investors to he held liable for internal decisions made by companies, but absolutely if an investor doesn't want the financial risk they shouldn't invest. I'd argue that we only have those liability protections to keep people investing, without that our monetary system crumbles.

> of course the government should do things that ensure corporations benefit society

That only seems necessary if society has become so large and outsourced that we can reasonably make impactful decisions as consumers. Consumers should be close enough to the companies that they invest in or work with to know generally what that company does. You obviously don't need to know all the details, but at least enough to know that you generally think they're on the up and up, and if not you just take your business elsewhere.

The necessity of government involvement, in my opinion, means that a society and the lives of it's citizens has gotten much to complex, and is ultimately then much too fragile.
Notation doesn't have to be obscure symbols, the power of the array languages goes well beyond their syntax.
Nice site but small usability complaint: on mobile web, the on screen keyboard blocks the suggestion dropdown, so I had to keep closing my keyboard to select a movie.
1 MB of L2 cache shared between all 8 cores is a bit light.

VisionFive 2 (etc) has 2 MB shared between 4 cores. It works well.

LicheePi 4A (etc) has 1 MB shared between 4 cores, which may or may not be one of the reasons it's slower than VF2 in real world use, despite its higher clock speed and OoO µarch.

As the Arm world found out a few years ago, a well done dual issue in-order like A55 (or U74) came come very close to OoO (A72) performance, but at much lower energy usage.

The distinguishing factor of these modern dual-issue is that they duplicate the ALUs into "early" and "late" ALUs, such that you can issue two dependent instruction together and the 1st one uses the early ALU and the 2nd uses the late ALU. You only get a stall if the dependency chain continues not only into the 3rd instruction (which can execute late), but also the 4th depends on the result of the 3rd. Put an independent instruction anywhere in there and the pressure is off.

This is much cheaper in area and energy than doing full on OoO, but gives a very significant performance boost over basic dual-issue e.g. A53.

It's interesting that Arm went to triple-issue in-order with the A510, but reverted back to dual-issue in the A520.
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Of course it will, just not on a very quick (and destructive) timeline. He loses a monopoly abusing company and its excess profits which fed inflated salary and stock compensation for him personally and is instead left with taking the equivalent of the S&P 500 return or trying his hand at actually being a good manager and growing a company from small to large again or investing in early stage private stuff and experiencing the huge risk of that. If he's actually a good manager/ entrepreneur he can still grow his wealth starting something new, if he's not then he, or his kids, or his grand kids will eventually put enough of the wealth into failed company ideas, up their nose, in their veins, down their throats, into bad real estate, etc. that they cease being billionaires and have to get real jobs. This is the classic way wealth was dissipated. It's non violent, slow, but effective. most importantly it doesn't ruin the calculus on whether someone should strive to be a great entrepreneur or just keep their head down because they can be sure the government will steal it if they succeed.
No. Musk is going to move the incorporation state of Tesla from Delaware to Texas--and when there will reinstate the pay package.
I suspect the banks were able to mount some form of "it actually costs us X" argument, which might even be understandable if you take into account mailing late notices, etc.

Easier to get them to swallow a limit than a complete removal (which could come later).
Stopping people from setting their own lower limits kind of goes against the spirit of Open Source.

That being said, as the source is available people can probably compile their own versions of the software with the patches reverted. Kind of a pain in the arse though.
APL notation makes more sense once you get that it was developed as an better notation for expressing math. [1]

Classical Math notation is full of weird Greek symbols and absolutely incomprehensible without any training. APL is way more regular and easier to grok as well as to type on computers.

With it's small set of special symbols, regular syntax and human-friendly infix notation APL is designed be very easy to learn.

It looks utterly alien to programmers that are used to the C-style syntax based languages, yes. but your JS or C# code looks as alien if not more alien to an non-programmer as does APL to you.

I am not convinced that APL is harder to learn that JS for non-programmers. I think existing programmer struggle way more with learning APL because it requires them to unlearn certain ideas.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358896.358899
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Weird that “the wealthy abuse the poor” is literally part of your complaint but you’re not focusing on them and instead the only group that could potentially rectify that without violent revolution.(please note: “could” is doing a lot of work in the previous sentence and I understand that many of those in government are there to ensure the right for the wealthy to continue this abuse).

Do you believe landlords would lower rents tomorrow if their tax was lower absent any other force incentivizing them to pass that profit back? I’m pretty sure there was a post on here a few days ago about how current rent pricing software used by many many people may be violating price fixing laws.

Do you think that without regulation banks would be better? That somehow the process of reigning in their avarice is causing it? When has that ever historically been true, as almost any era or un/deregulation coincides with massive wealth disparity.
Hmm. I don't use FaceBook or X.

The 'news' that appears on FaceBook or X isn't.
I don't think that's something the government can regulate away.
Perhaps I'm a bit harsh... but my suggestion to fortune 500 tech company remains. Implement integrity validation as well, otherwise all it takes is editing 2 bytes to bypass your ssl pinning.
Trian Issues White Paper on the Walt Disney Company
> It's a fiat currency based system that persists simply on the belief that it's too big to stop (i.e., fail). Just keep your head stuff in the sand, keep pushing forward and pretend there's no cliff ahead.

Any social contract operates on that principle.

Government only exists because most people believe in its legitimacy. Law only works because most people follow most of it. Property rights only exist because most people respect them most of the time. Contracts only work because most signatories follow them most of the time.

It's weird how fiat money is the one thing that gets singled out, here, when all the social agreements that actually make our society work are also artificial.
Show HN: I had Claude 3 Opus create a novel physics research paper from scratch [pdf]
I started by asking what Einstein did not know, but we know today. Then asking Claude to act as Einstein and come up with a novel theory, based on this output.
Then, iterating for several hours: outlining, writing chapters, improving, acting as a professor to review, acting on this feedback and adding citations. I know nothing about the math presented here.

Cost: ~$10
> The main reason I use Linux is because it's the only platform that actually respects me as user.

Well, maybe it does, but I can't get rid of the nagging feeling that it's respecting me in the same way a samurai warrior would bow at me, seconds before raising a sword and charging at me with its full might.
Man, that brings back memories… CGA graphics, PC speaker. Hard to believe that was engaging to me at the time.
Google had that and I used it constantly. Then they removed it of course. I can't remember if it included small blogs as well.
i avoid them like the plague because i hate owing money, but i'm not from the US and as far as i understand, having a credit card is really important for building a credit score there isn't it? would not holding a credit card not also make it harder to say, find places to rent?
We can certainly debate whether or not its a good idea for facebook to actually pay for the content they use to attract readers (and therefore advertisers).

However, the problem those laws are trying to solve are real problems, which have very real negative consequences for our society.

viz, The internet has nuked all previous media business models. It is no longer profitable to print news. The only way media companies can make a profit today is to engage in either right wing (Fox, Newsmax) or left-wing (MSNBC, Rachal Maddow) commentary.

Its hard to get this point across, because most people alive today don't even remember what news used to be like. Before a newspaper would publish an article, they would have extensive fact checkers rake the article over the coals, to ensure that no known falsehoods would be printed.

But when the internet came, all the money newspapers used to make from classified ads went to craigslist, and all the money they made from advertising went to google and facebook.

The result is that news is progressively less fact-checked, edited etc, which makes it less valuable, which makes people even less likely to pay for it... etc etc a vicious cycle which sucks money from good players and gives it to bad players.

Now children in florida are dying from Measles because the media tells them that vaccines are toxic. We have the absurdity of people claiming that masks are completely ineffective at stopping an airborne illness spread by coughing. People believing that you can cut taxes and increase spending, without blowing up the deficit.

Where do all these nutty ideas come from? They come from media companies who have found out that telling people what they want to hear is more profitable than what they need to hear.

So what, exactly, is your proposal to fix that problem? Its gotten far worse since the advent of LLMs--misinformation can be generated on an industrial, indeed, an internet scale. How can you make money giving people bitter-tasting medicine rather than sugar candy?
A great example of a very different approach to this is Runestone

https://github.com/simonbs/Runestone
Glad someone said it.

What that poster outlined was not being "backed into an economic corner". Rather it is how our system is built. If everyone stopped spending and started saving we'd be in a world of hurt.

I'll even go a step further and say that the entire world would get into trouble if consumer spending stops in the lead economies. So don't get me wrong, it doesn't have to be the US that provides the spend-y consumers, but somebody has to provide them.

It can be China.

It can be Europe.

Whatever. But somebody has to spend.