skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> such as options to choose an alternative default contactless payment method other than Apple's—could introduce new threats, like malware or malicious code used to scam users, that Apple can't promise to protect against.

What's so wild about this is when large companies DO lose your data, the best they offer is an apology and a message saying : "We take privacy very seriously"

The companies are not being asked to take on extra risk. They're being asked to reduce the gatekeeping.

> Some critics of the DMA, including ITIF, have urged countries to "carefully consider the full implications before copying the EU’s digital regulatory system," warning of potentially burdensome restrictions possibly hampering innovation and distorting competition.

Because more competition always leads to less innovation ? /s

The arguments against this are ridiculous. Especially coming from companies who like to "Move fast and break things". I guess they forgot the "once it doesn't hurt our monopolozation".

I love living in the EU.
I kinda agree given the developing situation.
I’ve had an idea for a language like this for a while now that wouldn’t exactly “type check” in the sense that the unification finishes but that the “type checking” would be continuously running in the background as you’re programming. This co-data approach seems interesting toward that goal
Well, I’ll never fly with 737 MAX, that’s for sure.
There Are No Dangerous Thoughts, Thinking Itself Is Dangerous
"By your fruits ye shall know them." One could venture that most people care far less about a government's fidelity to any particular abstract written standard than they do about whether the government does an acceptable job keeping things running.
Competition in my grocery store seems high. There are multiple options for almost every product category, including a store brand right there on the shelf next to each other with price (including per unit measure) plainly listed. I wish more product categories had the price transparency of grocery stores.

I'm not a fan of this type of packaging trickery, but there's no reason we shouldn't expect that. The best defense is to be a smart shopper.
Say your UI had a one "pixel" wide vertical line. At some point, resolution becomes high enough that you need to draw it two device pixels wide. What do you do at scales in-between?

Do apps start drawing their lines wider if the default font size goes up? When? Is it consistent system wide?
The app is explicitly not available for desktop:

"Will there be a desktop version of myGovID?

No, a desktop version or browser-based version of myGovID will not be supported. To use myGovID, you will need your own compatible smart device."

https://www.abr.gov.au/media-centre/featured-news/business-s...

And given I'm overseas, I also do not have the option of using something other than an electronic device. To be honest, I don't even know if I could if I were living in Australia.

In the real world, Apple/Android devices are in a completely separate category from gaming consoles.
High levels of air pollution reduce team performance
> How is that unreasonable?

Because then you let people committing literal war crimes murder you while doing little to nothing to stop it (IIRC, using human shields is a war crime).
Well, I tried to learn some Python, but I failed. As for Go, perhaps you are right. A good friend of mine, some elder hacker, switched to Go and suggests it to me, but I just have no time for learning one more language to get same job done. I think I'm getting old and concervative. I feel my brain is no longer as sharp and productive as it used to be some 20 or 30 years ago. It takes me much more time to comprehend new ideas and practices. Also, when I code in C, I experience warm nostalgic feeling of my youth, I feel invisible strings of ties with all those great minds like Ritchie, Thompson and Kernigan. ;)
>No, we can't do this via Zoom.

I think an important side note you bring up here is that remote work ISN'T really feasible in many cases, and being in person creates a huge difference in results.
How is it harder for non-English speakers? Knowing the kana pronunciation for Sinzyuku is way harder than knowing the English pronunciation of Shinjuku for most outside of JP. Also, JP schools already teach English from grade 1 onward so if anything, seeing the English transliteration aligns way better and enforces what they are already being taught. Not to mention katakana spellings and pronunciation which further confuse their learning of English. Previously you effectively had three different representations of foreign words with different spellings, this cuts it down to two which significantly decreases the cognitive overload
My Macbook doesn't (always) drag smoothly across monitors. And I don't think anyone really complains about it?
TL:DR: LLM training is highly susceptible to GIGO.

(GIGO is what one gets when feeding LLM with "G"arbage "I"n, "G"arbage "O"ut.)

This is the current problem about making a vaccine signature fitting like a glove ... as tight as possible ... when populating the anti-malware (i.e. IDS/IPS/NDS/XNS) search pattern engine for use by Aho-Corasick-variant algorithms (such as Parallel-Failureless Aho Corasick).

However, LLM as a binary code-based detector for malware detection has a very limited benefit (it is there but only as a backend topical add-on after all other conditionals have been identified).

LLM lacks qualifying conditionals surrounding a premise data, and I have my doubts of using LLM for medical diagnosis as well: until we start having LLM denote the much-needed weighted combo-conditionals by "percentages".
Author here. The main difference is the target use case. I'm far from being a Pure Data expert, but it seems more aimed towards music/media generation.

Flyde on the other hand is aimed to be used in the application layer of modern web development.
> we should just admit we are a failed state and disband

What??? That sounds like the newly-hired dev who says, "I want to rewrite the entire code base, because this time we'll do it right!" Yeah, sure ....
> It's going to be fun when companies pick Windows instead of Linux […] work within some regulatory bounds

You can get FuSa (functional safety) certified Linux; to my knowledge this just does not exist for Windows. There may be other situations where the choice does exist, but considering Windows and Linux widely equivalent in this context is not possible.

> maybe even cause risk to human life

Neither Windows nor Linux are, to my knowledge, certified for SoL (safety-of-life) applications. And to no surprise considering this is close to (but not quite) a mathematical proof your system can't hang/crash/starve, which is pretty much impossible for anything beyond an RTOS with current tooling.
Good luck with that, cause there are bugs, as the article also points out.

Previous release miscompiled Python [1]

Current release miscompiles bison [2]

It's also the type of compiler that defaults to -ffast-math to look good in benchmarks (well, all vendor compilers do). That breaks many packages that rely on signalling NaNs, or use e.g. Kahan summation for stable math with IEEE floats.

It's caught in the Spack package manager because it's probably one of the few package managers that lets users pick their own compiler for a full software stack.

[1] https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/38724 and https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/106424

[2] https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/37172#issuecomment-181...
Also a big fan of unit pricing, though it is almost useless on toilet paper (rolls? sheets? square inches? what about ply?). Grams would probably make more sense.
This is why the world (and people like yourself) should pressure Egypt to take in civilian refugees.

Here's the thing - Israel is totally justified in utterly destroying Hamas and returning the hostages they hold. If Hamas wants to add their own civilians to the hostages they're holding, then the world should team up to destroy them, just like we did with ISIS, which like Hamas is a jihadist Islamic supremacist group. They don't get to rape and murder and then hide behind civilians to prevent people from stopping them from simply repeating this.
If it is essential to their business, people can and will try to convince themselves and other people of just about anything, regardless of how ridiculous the arguments are.
Can you elaborate on why you think the EU is asking a lot?

I think we are in this phase where we realise that we are increasingly dependent on infrastructure and that we need to regulate it in order for it to be in line with the societal values.

This has happened several times before: Roads, train tracks, phone communications, etc. And it will probably continue on happening in the future.

In the same time we are also deregulating. As a consequence Postnord (postal service operating in Denmark and Sweden) has been relieved from obligations and regulations as we don't send too many letters more - they are more free to price themselves and can act in the market.
At a company I worked at the CEO out of the blue called for an all hands, all offices meeting with a few days notice. Everybody who wasn't in the main office had to connect via video link. This had as far as anyone could remember never happened before. There was no agenda and no hints as to what the meeting was about. Even senior managers knew nothing. So obviously rumours started flying, people get nervous, and everybody started looking over their CVs and contingency plans.

Meeting day comes and the CEO proudly announces that the company is getting a brand new logo...
Nice work, congrats!

I do love visual programming and I use n8n a lot for my side projects. I really like its "delayed debug" features, so that I can analyse each step of the flow weeks later than it happened (i.e, I can see why a webhook failed long ago and even replay it step by step).

One missing feature that I've been working on is a "export workflow to code" feature. This way, once you are finished working on a workflow, you could run it everywhere without the need of installing the full IDE.

Again, nice work!
I loved my Klicky when it worked. But when it didn't work, it would fling the klicky head off into the room somewhere while docking. If I only ever printed PLA, it was mostly reliable. But if temps got any hotter, it was practically guaranteed to warp.

I printed everything in ASA for it. And I re-adjusted it so many time. I thought it would eventually stop warping up and down, but it never did.

I think the Tap does indeed make it so one of my axes is noisier, but I don't have to worry about docking, there's no offset for the nozzle, and I don't have to have the z-calibration step for the klicky probe.

I expect them to eventually come up with a better Tap and I'll upgrade then, but I'm happen until that point.

I print almost exclusively PLA, so I need the cooling. ASA would be fine, I'm sure.
OCHA (UN org) were not impressed:
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/...

Like lambs to slaughter.
There he is: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=corn-dog

Let's tar and feather the scoundrel.
Looks interesting! However, the tutorials link on the website footer 404s for me.
The difference is you are choosing between "learning postgres and have that tool your entire life" and "learning some vendors proprietary extensions so you can stop using it when they shut down"

The only way the personal math makes sense to me is that "learning sqlite" is like half a day of work, "learning postgres" can be significantly more, but its like saying you should just use hammer in the cloud instead of learning how to use screwdriver and other useful tools.
> Like, if Israel doesn't want the Gaza strip/west bank, then why hasn't there been a two state solution?

Because Hamas wants Israel destroyed, and a state actor doing that is a much bigger problem for Israel than a non-state actor.
This is only one side of managing the issue, the others are regulation for interop with actually simple, but good enough, stable in time protocols (noscript/basic (x)html for the web, but you have smtp and irc in the pipeline too), and legal of course.
> Why did 500 Israeli soldiers die in Gaza from your perspective?

Are saying you committed massacres and
bombed hospitals, UN schools, mosques, churches, and ambulances, as some sort of retaliation?

leveling the entire place, displacing a million, and killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians most of whom were women, children, medical staff and red cross members because...? enlighten me please
I thought there was an interview where he said that many years after Haskell had I/O. I believe you though as I haven't been enamored with Haskell for a long time. It's a cool language, but just doesn't click with me. I can see why it does for others though.
I think some people enjoy the aesthetics of good code, much like math. That’s a smart person thing
Looks cool, shades of Prograph, that's a good thing!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph
If the developer has to put that button on the site, they’ve already failed. They know it’s a poor design, and are trying to add features to point to that will absolve them, instead of fixing the core problem which wouldn’t force the user to look for a skip button. First time users of a site have no reason to look for a button like that, when the standard control of every other site for decades has been to scroll.

I also just went to the site. When I went to tap the jump link, a modal popped up and blocked me. I dismissed that and tapped the link and it jumped me down the page to yet another request to sign up for a newsletter I don’t want. Now the top 3rd of the page is a video that started to auto-play; I had to tap to dismiss that. When I scrolled into the recipe section I got yet another modal trying to get me to sign up for an account so I can save the recipe… as if bookmarks don’t exist. I dismissed that, and now I can see the recipe. There are 3 ads in the middle of the recipe that break it up, some with more auto-playing video, and the scroll keeps readjusting itself based on ads and BS popping in and out. The bottom of the page also has an ad banner to dismiss, a bookmark icon that bounces occasional (which is certainly just another attempt to get me to create an account), links to other recipes are sliding in and out depending on the direction I scroll, to try to get me to go other places on the site… and to top it off, the Pinterest flag blocks content, depending on where I scroll, while sometimes being blocked itself by the aforementioned recipe slide-in.

How can anyone defend all this? It’s horrible.
That's why I said "most honest judges", perfection is not of this world. I reckon that even just the fact that you're familiar with one specific set of people for being awkward, indicates that the overwhelming majority of other judges are not - otherwise the US 5th Circuit wouldn't even register, you'd just assume everyone does it.
I'm proud to have published a few pieces in DDJ back in the day, when Jon Erickson was at the helm. It was sad to see it fade away over the years. It definitely felt special to have your name appear in those pages, and writing for DDJ gave my young career a great boost.
Off topic: are there datasets for solar incidence over the oceans ?

There are plenty of accurate maps/widgets for ground based PV, but ocean data seems much rarer
Putting it in software terms: The administrative state is arguably the result of a lot of incremental hacks adopted to cope with decades of changing conditions — and the fact that political polarization (and our imbalance of power favoring small rural states) has made it impracticable to try to modify the "code" in a "proper" fashion. (Not least this is because it's the production version that would have to be modified, with little opportunity for beta testing.)

Sure, there's lots of code smell. But the code runs, more or less. Continuing to run the existing hacked version seems preferable to the alternative of giving up and shutting everything down.
The English channel is apparently busiest shipping lane in the world, so it’s not surprising that it looks so busy on these images.
Yes, you can still see the shipping lanes very clearly.
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-e...
I don't think I had, no. Thanks! I might try to turn one of my older printers into a franken-voron and see if I can make that work.

Edit: Just noticed that I'd already starred it on Github, so I guess I had, but had decided against it. I wonder if it was labeled as in-progress at that point?

Anyhow, seems like it's worth pursuing. Thanks!
He means utilizing GTK. In sweden its common to say "Utveckla mot xxx" Develop against, when talking about using a framework or library. I bet they say the same thing i Other germanic languages.
Although there may be commonality between some projects, every software project is different, and there is not a list of common good KPIs for “software”. Anyone who claims to have that list is lying to you. As a stranger on HN, I don’t know anything about your project and I cannot make specific recommendations on KPIs you should be using. Instead I would ask your self the following questions:

1. What am I trying to achieve, and how do I quantify it?

2. Do I have direct influence on what I’m trying to achieve? What can I control that influences my objectives?

3. What are my leading indicators to success? What are outcomes that occur, or do I expect to occur, before I am successful.

4. How much variability is there on the metrics I’m considering? If a metric goes down, how many interpretations can there be of that result?

5. How gameable are my metrics? If a metric increases in isolation, does that mean there is a good outcome?
This was a great read. One problem that I have, at least, is that I think the eu is not understanding the tech on this one and actually violating their own, all important, single market principle. With the apple all store, there actually was just one market and a set of standards and regulations that governed it. Now, there will be x many standards. The experience on the foo app will depend on what App Store it was purchased in.

If the eu had taken a more ambitious route then I could see this actually working for apple, who operates, imo opinion, under the principle of balancing what is best for the customer against what the developer can tolerate. This has created the apple ecosystem as the only one that is profitable, precisely for the same reason the author argues the eu seeks to regulate businesses.

So by more ambitious I meant there needs to be a convention that governs technology along a framework akin to a technology user’s bill of rights. No stealing information, no antipatterns, cancel subscriptions with a single click, etc…
Love seeing news like these! AWESOME, and probably structurally more sound than traditional buildings (citation needed).

I'll skip the layer-height comments but the thought did make me giggle.
These last few years, the summer minimum has dropped below 4 million square km.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

1 million square km is pretty far from zero.
> The Ministry has no verifiable history of being wrong on the civilian casualty numbers

This is laughable. They claimed that Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 people that the Palestinians themselves bombed. You are either hopelessly biased and unserious or uninformed.
Regardless of how supposedly non-controversial each technical design decision is, you will find that the entire scope of them never is.

So you will always be working to bring people along to your design choices and help them understand the (relative) value, or risk forever languishing as the sole contributor.

You don't get buy-in with technology, you get buy-in with ideas.
Dr. Dobb's Journal

Byte Magazine

Wired before it got taken over by Wedding Bells Magazine, and overrun with consumer porn.

And to a much lesser extent, PC Magazine and PC World, which were read principally for the ads.

These are the organs that formed computer culture in the golden age of computers. But more than any of the others, DDJ.
It's a gut feeling but it's a very valid one. Its been measured and validated among so many metrics that it's pretty solid that performance any intellectual task will highly, highly be inline with IQ. In psychology it's one of the few quantitative metrics that so solidly predicts a lot of things.

What seems seems disingenuous to me is sometimes people can't hold and opinion without hard data. Do you really need raw data to know you shouldn't hire a person with an IQ of 45 to drive a bus?

No most people don't need data. I think what's going on here specifically is that a lot of people don't do well on leetcode and they know it and they don't like to think that it correlates with their general intelligence.

I'm truly sorry for making some people face that reality. I would say I'm not the best performer on leetcode myself. I can't deny that even without raw data it's pretty solid that IQ will correlate with leetcode performance. There are other correlative factors too like studying for leetcode specifically. And I don't need raw data to make either of those statements.
Also, changing that will require major cultural and infrastructure changes. Cities need to be gutted and rebuilt to the urban ideal of walkable space.

Socially, you will need to convince people to swap their 2000 sq ft on a 5000+ sq ft lot for a 1200 sq ft flat with no land, backyard, gardens, or privacy.

Urbanites must accept that many of us truly detest cities and want to live semi-independently. Urban and non-urban people can't be genuinely independent of each other, but we need to respect each other's choices of how we want to live.
Blackmagic sold their cameras with support for CinemaDNG advertised, and removed that support after the fact, leaving only BRAW that more or less locked you into Resolve.

This is a deal breaker for anyone using OSS processing pipeline, since 1) BRAW isn’t lossless, AFAIK and 2) it was impossible and to this day is problematic to convert BRAW to something raw development tools understand (DNG).

Luckily, I noticed that just before I bought a unit (!). Now I’m a happy owner of a Sigma fp, which not only is sold with CinemDNG support—shows that BM did have some choice, after all—but is also technically superior.

If I ever do something where their gear is required and someone leases it, sure, but I don’t see why I would give my personal money to BM after how they handled this.
When the camera pans. I find it unnerving. I don’t enjoy watching that pixelated panning. I blame it on the digital recordings.

It might probably look better if they recorded it on film but no producer seems to be addressing my whimsical preferences
What Is Schema Markup and How to Implement It
Sometimes they're weirdly incompetent, treat everyone like shit, and then act surprised when half of the company leaves.

Honestly that seems to be the norm in my, admittedly limited, experience.
Those tablets are sized for a dishwasher that holds about 4 times as many dishes, though.
Thanks!
Flyde is "just" a library behind the scenes, so you grab your .flyde file, and can run it with an npm package. For example:

```
import { loadFlow } from "@flyde/runtime";

const execute = await loadFlow("./celsius-to-fahrenheit.flyde");

const inputs = { celsius: 0 }; // "celcius" is a main input in the flow, therefore it must be provided when executing the flow
const { result } = execute(inputs); // execute returns a "result" promise, along with a cleanup function that can be used to cancel the execution.

const { fahrenheit } = await result; // each output in the flow is a property on the result object

console.log(fahrenheit)
```

(taken from https://www.flyde.dev/docs/integrate-flows/)

But your comment strengthens my feeling that making this more intuitive and discoverable and is indeed something I should prioritize