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It's an interesting question because I am not sure that "good writing"
can be separated from content subject matter.

George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" is a the standard
reading advice in this context [0].

However, in many ways it is outdated, though it still resonates
because we all dislike gaseous bloviators. The quality is inseparable;e
from the message.

So consider this [1] reply to a commenter yesterday.

Giving the strongest interpretation and assuming the commenter
was writing in good faith, s/he experienced what is by
all reasonable standards "a good essay" as awful, seemingly
because they bitterly disagree with the message.

Therefore, I don't think one can ordinarily experience prose in
isolation as "good", even if technically faultless. The message is
part of the reading experience.

The contrary also applies. I'll be down-voted to hell for saying it [2]
but I personally find Paul Graham (who writes here frequently)
as rather anodyne in style. The topics he chooses are interesting
however little is ventured in colour.

[0] https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39737184

[2] which might prove my point that acceptability of message trumps all
other qualities in the experience of reading.
Has macOS been this bad in updating, or is this something of recent times?

14.2 was also a disaster for me.
It's surprisingly readable if I zoom into the images. On 100% it's too small for me, but a modern computer or smartphone screen is probably not the use case.
Nothing like this was provided to Ukraine.
In Economics Do We Know What We're Doing? Nobel Prize winner grows disenchanted
Ask HN: Fastest cross-platform GUI stack/strategy
I want to build a cross-platform native app that starts up as fast as possible and responds as fast as possible, and has minimal memory use.

Something that when the rest of someone's computer is slowing down, this can stay responsive.

Not everyone has the fastest hardware or much ram; people like to have 100s of tabs open; and CPU's overheat and throttle, especially laptops.
I'm a dev at an electricity related company and and I was amazed to learn utilities buy power for both wildly high and wildly low prices but bill the customer a constant per-unit rate. Wonder how much they will save paying n residences (inverters and cars) vs their upstream providers. And if utilities purchased 1000 units from exporting residences to meet a shortfall, how much did importing customers collectively pay for those 1000 units in their bill.

Tangent, utilities prefer people working from office where their electricity consumption can be billed at commercial rates.
Most people don't have the money to have a choice.
For a contrarian take on mycoremediation here is a quote from noted mycologist Alan Rockefeller:

"Mycoremediation barely works, most times I think it is better to save the time and energy and let nature do the remediation. Particularly with regards to mycofiltration, eating oil and heavy metal removal. If you do nothing at all, natural bacteria and fungi in the environment will do the remediation - so maybe just mix in some substrate, turn the soil and let nature do the rest.

Regarding mycofiltration, doesn't really work and even if it did, wouldn't take long for the mycelium to go anarobic and die. One idea I heard is to just dump a truck load of wood chips in the stream, and let nature do the rest. At least that way you are not wasting energy making spawn. No idea if this works at all.

You can eat oil with oyster mushrooms, but it has to be at really low concentrations, and you probably burn more oil than you eat making the spawn. Natural bacterias eat oil too and they are everywhere.

Regarding Paul, he is a great salesman and ambassador, and he has gotten a lot of people into mushrooms. For that he deserves to be held in high regard. He is pretty cool in person. I do think he probably oversells his products, and that medicinal mushrooms shouldn't be sold as medicine until they are proven to work. Turkey tails have been proven to work (but not very much), and the rest of them are pretty much untested in large clinical trials. Mushrooms do make excellent placebos.

If you ask professional mycologists about Stamets or mycoremediation or medicinal mushrooms, they typically change the subject pretty quick, if they are feeling polite.

There are a ton of people doing mycoremediation trials, but almost no one scaling it up to solve real world problems. Every idealistic first year college mycology student wants to save the world with mushrooms, but by the time they get a PhD they are thinking very differently.

Tradd Cotter and Peter Mccoy are doing a lot of work with mycoremediation, but I notice that they are mostly making their money writing books and giving workshops/lectures rather than actually doing it. But they probably answer their emails and would be excellent people to talk to about details and new ideas."
Except that Boeing employs so many engineers that no other company can apply a "didn't work at Boeing" filter. Even ignoring the fact that most companies are aware that Boeing's failures aren't a result of the engineers (they're management failure).
Another reason we are glad we didn't impose iLok on our customers.
Republished from Finance & Development (no paywall): https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Sym...

Also: https://archive.ph/1F2Iy
Not enforceable on the platforms I used to check for a family member this weekend (Google, Flighthub, and directly on two airlines sites). But they do all specify the model in "flight details" which was usually a pop-up.

But I'm sure it must be on someone's backlog
> It is possible, so I just don't understand what the complaint is.

And it is also possible to write in assembly, will you?

> The complaint was that they had to use a third party or community one

And isn't that fair? People want support? Official support? Is that wrong? And yes community modules especially since they might not be from the same group lack consistency, documentation and often doesn't get updated as regularly. The magic is the vendor is the only 1 that can properly coordinate updates.

> as though those people are doing by some kind of magic unavailable to them

Then why are you using Terraform? The APIs behind Terraform are also available to you so you can use that directly. There's no magic unavailable to you either. And you go beyond not using those APIs and build your own servers and data centers too.

I don't get why Terraform is a fair abstraction you're defending yet you're arguing against people wanting a higher level of abstraction.
Apple should really be investing in their own stuff here.
Sesh – Music Communities
Sesh, a modern CRM platform, addresses the challenge of engaging artists and fans in the music industry. It enables artists to decipher fan interests, select engaging content, and foster interactive sessions.
Thanks! Processing raw binary data directly would be inefficient for the language model, as it's not designed to interpret strings of zeros and ones but for understanding higher-level instructions (like code and natural language).
Obscure personal conspiracy theory: The CPU vendors, notably Intel, deliberately avoid adding the telemetry that would make it trivial for the OS to report a % spent in memory wait.

Users might realize how many of their cores and cycles are being effectively wasted by limits of the memory / cache hierarchy, and stop thinking of their workloads as “CPU bound”.
I Turned 72 Today
Basically anything that relies on Microsoft SSO, which is pretty much everything "enterprise".

It "works", but requires far too much manual intervention, with frequent authentication popups, as opposed to just using Chrome/Edge and be done with it.

I'm not ruling out that some of it is due to service misconfiguration by the auth team and service teams, but configuration errors or not, the end user result is the same, Chrome or Edge simply offer the path of least resistance.
I wish this effect would be lasting long enough for the next round of finding weapons of mass destruction or defending nation building overseas.
Do you have evidence LLMs can indeed generalize outside their training data distribution?

https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1721223737729581437/photo/...
I'm French so I'm biased but I always try to take Airbus and fidget nervously when it's a Boeing. I simply dont understand why they're still allowed to operate outside the US: with Comac coming soon and Airbus having a better safety record, why both with the americans ?
Seriously, does a blog need a 'stack'?
Take Ownership of Your Future Self (2020)
I wonder if they are trying to mitigate the inevitable backlash of students using it for homework; frame Bing AI as the "responsible mentor" model or something.
Not Keyesian or Austrian economicists.
No, the terms of the ticket will always permit swapping equipment.
Me three. Always seemed like an eventual winner. But what about responsibility for ultimate detox of a site ?
They don’t need to tweak them, the terms are already totally fucked, they are explicitly anticompetitive terms.
> the main argument against automating these tasks was that machines can’t think creatively. Now this argument gets weaker by the day.

Citation needed.
You should also check out Phrack Magazine (an online distributed ezine that is still active, albeit with years between issues - they also have a 2024 call for writers though!) at phrack.org

Another older print publication was Blacklisted! 411, very similar format to 2600. I attended some meetups from both of these back in the day.
I have actually used that Tibetan kneel once! I was exhausted and had to sit on the floor for a while and then I just fell asleep like that. It surprised me enough that I've tried to recreate it but it seems I can only do it when I'm really tired.

Maybe it's a matter of habit and I can learn to do it if I try often enough.
He lists his profession as a physiotherapist so probably crossed into the chiropractic side a bit, some of his personal photos are a little hippy-ish.

The article is also premised on one large appeal to nature (tribal people untainted by modern society do it therefore it is natural and therefore good). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
Still no difference. I would not update to 13.x.y until at least a month later. Defer all updates.
I recommend mistral because you can use it for AI development while Anthropic explicitly forbids use to develop AI.
Virtual environments of one type or other.

Or go the full hog and use a container like nix.
Yes, pre 14.4 (14.3.1 to be exact) but NOT early access of macos. The whole thread and Oracle's blogpost is about that it "suddenly broke but it was still working in a preview release of macos".

Java DOES work with an EA version of Java according to the bugtrackers.

Oracle's PM doesn't know what's going on and is mixing things up.
If there is no "hardcoded" safety, I guess there is always a way to "convince" a neural net to "workaround" any prompt modifications. Maybe it has to be at the core of the machine learning process, and even that...
Ask HN: What's the idea behind the WebNN API?
The WebNN API will make it possible to run AI models in the browser: https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/

The idea of having AI in browsers (see the "Application Use Cases") seems cool, but on the other hand, the idea of downloading & storing large models for each website/webapp seems terrible.

It seems to me that it would make more sense to have models built into browsers, and to have a web API that provides standardized ways to interact with the underlying models of each browser. From what I have understood from the WebNN spec, though, despite listing out all of the cool use-cases, the API doesn't seem intended to provide higher level functionality than loading, running & performing operations on a model.

Is my understanding of the API right, or is there something else that uses it to make these use-cases available in browsers?
> ...such as that the signal did not interrupt a non-async-signal-safe function.

So you have to disable signals prior to doing anything "non-async-signal-safe" and re-enable them thereafter? That's a pretty big "but"...
Some people think that I am crazy when I said that I would prefer to use Linux instead of the MacOS in a MacBook if this was an option for me. I constantly have network issues and UI issues that I can just recover after reboot the system. But the big problem is the MacOS experience, I really hate it.
Was safety a factor in those estimates or was the meeting mostly about the stock price?
Misleading clickbait title.

Should be "Open-Sora 1.0 is now open-source and available!"
Same here in India. A lot of people hate Uber but speaking for me personally it's been a godsend upgrade over the black yellow taxis we had here before.

I believe they are the #1 reason why foreigner tourists are scared of coming to India. The amount of scam and harrasment done by these old taxi drivers is just another level. The luxury and straightforwardness of app taxis is unparalleled to what we used to have before.
Windows has a mess of legacy UI that are never fully replaced.

They could have gone down the path of translating the windows UI APIs, though I think it's better that they left it as is. The bigger issue however, is that there are different systems depending on what it is you want to configure, and it's all ducktaped in an ancient registry that I'm just amazed only breaks as often as it does.

Not to mention that the thing Windows was supposed to always be better at, was driver support. On windows, you have to manually source them, and try as best to avoid all the bloatware that comes with. Windows itself might also decide to replace a driver with an older one (version, release date...). WiFi drivers didn't work last time I upgraded the mobo either.

As for Linux. Completely agree. Gnome is consistent, and gets out of the way often enough. There are some annoyances there too. I have my 90 y/o grandma use Linux/Gnome, because that's what Just Works these days.
Mac OS UX is just bad. I've been using it daily for a few years already, but I still struggle to perform basic tasks. And by "basic" I mean "How do I move a file?" or "How do I go one folder up?". Sure, I can read about this, but this shouldn't require me to read a manual.
Speaking only for myself, I am not a stochastic parrot. I have a rich and complex inner life. But maybe you are a p-zombie and you are right that it's tricky for you to prove to me that you're not. ;)

I don't necessarily think humans are so special (cf. my mention of other mammals) but biology is extraordinarily messy and complex.

Computer people tend to handwave the details with crude, reductive analogies (DNA is like source code! Neurons are like circuits!) but the reality is so much more overwhelming. Every single thing affects every other thing. Everything is probabilistic. There are multiple interacting chemical and electrical communication pathways. Neuroanatomy varies from individual to individual and in the same individual over time. The brain can radically adapt in response to trauma in a way that no computer model does.

Even at the level of individual neurons[0] (of which there are 2.25 billion in a dog's brain) there's an enormous amount of "processing" happening. This is not like a computer processing - but physical, biological processes occurring that integrate informational content.

I get it, everyone is very impressed with LLMs and I'm open to the possibility that some future model might achieve consciousness (to say nothing of sentience) but computer people in particular are way, way too credulous of this stuff and ignorant of what the messy, malfunctioning wetware in their head is actually doing.

[0] e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn2331
It's not a Scratch course, they just use Scratch in the first week of a programming course which uses C, Python, JavaScript, SQL.
Fair; the descriptions I've seen seem to focus on the galactic orbit more than the local neighbourhood as the cause of the oscillation; this makes more sense.
I didn’t realize you were joking until the second paragraph.
We noticed this yesterday trying to release a minor bug fix. As of this morning it appears to still be broken.

It's hard to see how it could be anything other than an issue on Docker's side - we are seeing a 500 after all. I need to unblock development ASAP so for now the workaround for us has been to migrate our container registry to Azure.
I use Firefox only, and use it for work to open outlook apps as well. I'm on Linux. Last week though I was traveling so my setup was my wife's macbook, with Firefox. Outlook would hang at the password login, but it worked fine on Safari. No idea why. I tried multiple times, tried emptying my cache and deleting internwt files, nothing... Anyone else ever had this issue?
It’s kinda insufferable that windows is the only system you can do a certain sector of high gpu power creative work on and Microsoft treats it like the dirtiest tackiest advertisement surface possible. Genuine distain and looking down on their users as pigs at the swill trough.

When really the audience they consider pigs now resides on iOS and Android not Windows.
> [A] search box is supposed to constantly poke around and index things, right?

Amusingly enough, that was Snowden’s approach, at least they way he tells it.
3D torcs? going 2D flat silicon to 3D structures like the brain?
I have a strong suspicion that the support amount is caused by Windows.

I went the same route a decade ago, and upgraded both my parents and in-laws to Macs, and the amount of "pc support" i have to do has dwindled almost to nothing.

Granted, most "non-work pc usage" these days is done over a phone, and the support has also shifted to "phone app support", mostly apps that launch "refreshes" that confuses the hell out of the elderly since they apparently rely more on muscle memory than "understanding" what the app does :)
Worth pointing out the false dichotomy here. I sleep better on my side, but I fall asleep better on my back! So ideally I'd go to bed on my back and then have someone push me over to my side once I'm sleeping...
I'm using many commercial sites using Microsoft SSO. I don't think I've ever been aware of an issue with Firefox.

Name and shame I say.
Yahoo.eu Responds with a Wrong Certificate
The original comment claimed that Windows "just works" while Linux doesn't. Which can't be more false in 2024.
Google did exactly the same against Firefox. Both cases are an example of monopolistic behavior and should be addressed by authorities.
It could be a covert test by the US itself. This would explain the aggressive location and the negative findings. The media report could be used later to paint enemies or just to keep the acceptance of military expenditure up.
If you can afford a 13900k you most likely have a ludicrous amount of ram and a decent % of your HD is cached in RAM anyway.
> iCloud is actively difficult not to use.

Agreed, but if you turn it off it stays off, it doesn't pop up something every day.

> The sidebar with the Apple shares and news apps.

I kinda know it's there, but I can't remember when I last activated it by mistake *. But then I turn off all notifications except app icon badges so I don't use it at all otherwise.

> Core OS that features only work when paired with iPad/iPhone.

Which ones? Doing phone calls and texts from your laptop? I suppose that requires control of the OS on both sides to work well. I don't know what's available on the Android side.

If there are other features that work when paired with apple mobiles and don't work with Android, I don't know about them.

* Last time I've seen that bar I think it was my cat's butt on the F keys :) She taught me a lot of keyboard shortcuts.
Most PCs are operated for way longer than 3 years, but still are there any reports of dead CPUs that were operated in spec?
With millions of devices out there, you'd expect some to pop up, but I only ever hear of dead HDDs or defective RAM.
While it's true that async-signal-safe programming bears some similarities to multi-threaded programming, an interrupt really isn't the same as a thread. Also, there's a lot more you can do in a signal handler than just set a flag: you can longjmp or even make calls to regular functions.

For example, one kind of program organization that used to be more common in Unix but that remains legal involves keeping signals masked all the time except around certain blocking system calls, e.g. ppoll, that atomically unblock signals and wait. In such a program, a signal can arrive only inside the blocking system call and so the handler can call regular functions without the usual strictures of asynchronous signal safety. (Consider responding to SIGWINCH, which tells you about changing terminal size.)

Synchronous signals are also special in that they're, well, synchronous. That means that in the signal handler you can examine the target memory address or instruction pointer and take action specific to a given spot in your program --- e.g. longjmp to an error handler.

All of this is useful, safe, and legal under POSIX. The main problems with POSIX signals are that, 1) as this thread underscores, most people don't understand them, and 2) signal handlers are process global and hard to share. (Consider if you're running two VMs in a process and each wants to use a SIGSEGV GC safe point trick.)

(userfaultfd, sadly, requires more system calls than a synchronous signal handler to handle anomalous memory access.)

We should be enhancing POSIX signals to make them easier to share, not casting aspersions on them.
Depends on the purpose I imagine

If you stop nagging users to update their software it's going to make everybody's operational security even worse than before
Yeah the constant chrome notifications about logging in, customizing your theme, adjusting ad privacy settings to turn off their latest scam are getting just as bad.

I remember when you could launch chrome first time and it just worked right away no nagging
I think it is used to avoid doing null checks on every pointer access.
What MacBook do you have that you can't run Linux on it?
You can "do pretty much anything you want" as long as you carefully avoid doing anything non thread-safe (even indirectly) in both the main app and the handler itself? How reassuring!
IPC – Memory Mapped Files
About 80% of the “for your consideration” sites I get links to each year in awards season don’t work on Firefox, they outright refuse to use anything but Chrome, Edge, or Safari. No doubt something to do with the fun stuff they do to visually watermark the stream such that they can prosecute my ass if I share it anywhere. My guess is loads of enterprise-internal websites also just refuse to support more than one blessed browser.
That seems like a strange definition to me. It's clear that people are willing to pay higher prices for land with amenities nearby, so by definition the value of the land is increased.
I didn’t interact with the locals much, but you are correct that it was mostly alpacas and llamas that you would see being herded
Yeah I think it's exactly this.

A lot of people end up thinking it's about ergonomic chairs. An un-ergonomic chair will make things bad pretty quick, but supportive ergonomic chairs are part of the long term problem IMHO.

And deadlifts are not the only solution. I started out using just a backless stool and it helped a bit (can't slouch!), but what really sorted me out was using the "lumbar machine" at the gym for a couple of years. When Covid came along I couldn't go any more so I started doing "the plank" at home, that plus the "side plank" and some push ups have kept me going the last four years. And it's totally free and I can do them basically anywhere e.g. on holiday.