skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. "Fact-checking" can never be more than assertions of a particular bias. I am surprised that this project has received so few critical comments along these lines here.

The idea that "specificity," such as what scientific research aims for, can be better evaluated for truthfulness or approach what "truly matters," as this project purports, is dubious. E.g., why would a notion that is more limited in scope matter more than something more vast (to use the word that it cites as an example)? In addition to its dystopian idea of a "source of truth," it completely dismisses "vague" language in the name of "science" or "factuality," which is utterly the opposite of science, which I thought was to understand ourselves and nature with as few presuppositions as possible.
My experience with ARM64 Windows (in a VM on a Mac) was that Intel binaries run just fine, including some truly ancient VB6 stuff. Maybe there are performance issues with high-end games, I dunno, but for general use it seemed perfect. I was running Visual Studio back when it would give you warning messages that ARM wasn't supported, but it still worked.

Native code is strictly required for drivers, so I'd imagine the support isn't great for USB audio devices that use custom drivers for fancy features.
I'd note that the smallest instruction sequence doesn't necessarily correspond to the smallest executable file, since you might be able to combine some instruction data with header data to make the file smaller.

For instance, when I tried to make the smallest x86-64 Hello World program (https://tmpout.sh/3/22.html), I ended up lengthening it from 11 to 15 instructions, while shortening the ultimate file from 86 to 77 bytes.
Website that gives you unbiased summaries of the key news
Does Europe really need to have the VAT? Usually here (Canada) you give it if you want to tell the business selling you something not to charge you sale tax. If you dont, you just claim the sales taxes at the end or the fiscal year instead.
1.18k implies +/- 5, whereas 1180 implies exactly 1180. Maybe the count isn't precise, or is changing?
> It's entirely open source

Not very reassuring in the context of the xz backdoor and sketchiness of this particular author. I think it's better to avoid it, regardless of whether the author is actually malicious. Giving the vibe of being somehow official and having this fake "company" is rightly criticized. That's not the behavior of the developer whose code I would want to run.

> of course the dev could tear up years of work and go rogue at any moment, like any other solo open source project dev

Given the sketchiness I'd say it's much more likely than with average dev.
Unfortunate name collision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphic_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5l_Wessel
We've seen 1000s of releases in the last year, and not had a single complaint about rejections. In general, Shorebird provides the tech, intended to help you comply with your obligations to these stores. There can be good actors and bad actors with any tech, but we're here to help the good actors, and using Shorebird to violate app stores is explicitly against our TOS.

The stores both have explicit language about updates being generally prohibited unless they use an interpreter or a VM, so long as they don't "significantly change" the functionality of the app. e.g. Apple's agreement:
https://developer.apple.com/support/terms/apple-developer-pr...
or Google's guidelines:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

Which we reference from our FAQs:
https://docs.shorebird.dev/faq#does-shorebird-comply-with-pl...
https://docs.shorebird.dev/faq#does-shorebird-comply-with-ap...

Apps written with a WebView obviously can self-update. Others (as you mention) have offered updater-related products for many years, including Microsoft:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/distribution/ina...
Large games ship their lua scripts down when you log in, etc. YouTube, Facebook, TikTok are all known to self-update. Self-updating seems to be pretty well established practice.
They do, but indirectly. They pay Red Hat (RHEL) or SuSE or another commercial vendor for support. That vendor then hires programmers who contribute patches back to the Linux kernel and user space apps. For critical projects, they hire core team members.
A few years ago I read a blog post [0] on using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles, I loved the idea and it inspired me to create xdot, a minimalist dotfiles manager [1] which I have been using ever since.

[0]: https://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-t...

[1]: https://github.com/malobre/xdot
Is this the part where — in order to avoid being downloaded or flagged — everyone continues to pretend that Musk really is a "free speech absolutist", instead of acknowledging a clear and distinct pattern of what he enforces, and against whom?
Most of the AI generated "art" I've seen I'd classify as more craft than actual art. Art is supposed to express something and communicate and so far I haven't seen any AI art that really moves me or says anything insightful about experience or existence.

When I scroll through the latest highly rated work on Midjourney, for example, I'm reminded mostly of tacky poster shop stuff.
No. In almost no circumstances will it be worthwhile to switch either direction. While people on HN love to nit-pick on the margins, the core functionality for both is 95% overlapped.
I will believe this when the Java community agrees on an autoformatter.
Where Is User Authorization Data Stored?
The parent comment didn’t say force to date, it’s more like don’t allow filtering by race. Many gay apps explicitly don’t have this feature already.
Imagine the patience required, first to wait years until the roots are established, then painstakingly unearth them.
Damn you, Chinese Indian-Ustrial complex !
Yeah, I kinda figured you didn't want an actual answer; just an argument.

If you ever want to learn something, as I suggested, go ahead and contact someone who's studied this sort of thing. They're very often willing to help. And usually tremendously patient with the sort of person who equates arguing on the internet with validation of their preconceived points of view.

It's OK. There's nothing to be afraid of. They wont get any magic Jesus cooties on you and turn you into a Bible-thumper.
> the Mozilla endpoints to Cloudflare DNS

Oh, I did not know that Mozilla had an endpoint on Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 service, but there it is!

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/c09764753ea40725eb...

https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query

Does Mozilla publish their terms somewhere? I'm curious how their endpoint is any different.
That's what branches are for. I have two personal machines and two work machines, all of which have diverging configs, which I push to two remotes (one work specific), and I merge changes between them.

This is how Git was designed to be used.
The Vietnamese plucked your bird rather well if memory serves.
Still happens all the time.
Legal insurance does not cover immigration a lot of the time
It’s getting hard to use and recommend Firefox
That last paragraph is literally the same basic sentence about "little steps" written three times in slightly different ways.

Did you get this quote from an AI written SEOspam site?
Looks great! Seems like GNU Stow inspired many devs, especially around the dotfiles use case
"the headquarters or branch of the Court" happens when someone attacks the Supreme Court, especially as what happened in January 8 when they destroyed the place trying on a coup attempt.
There is of course the old rec.humour.funny posting, that was far earlier a humorous journal article from the 1970s, that demonstrates with Biblical references and basic chemistry and physics that Heaven is a lot hotter than Hell.
Impressed that Google was able to follow Apple - only 14 years later.

(I know I know)
"If your users aren't targeted by active attackers" is doing a lot of work there, right? Because you can get that same level of security without an "end-to-end encryption library" --- just encrypt rows, and store the keys in localStorage, or (ick) by deriving keys from passwords, the way this seems to. All the cryptography can live on the server, and the keys can be pushed out to the client. Now you need an active attacker in order to mass-exfiltrate the database, which is what you're going for, right?

But again my real point is just that you've misnamed it. This isn't E2EE. The whole reason we have the term "E2EE" is to capture not trusting the server to manage cryptographic secrecy.
Actual Reason Semiconductors Are Different from Conductors and Insulators [video]
Databricks (who also participated in OLMo, it's probably the same codebase) trained on AMD before, see 2023 post https://www.databricks.com/blog/amd-mi250. It was probably seamless, as any issues were fixed by Databricks in 2023.
Could you please help me understand what is this? I dont have a Google account to try it out. What is logistics as software? Did you mean software for logistics?
Thanks for the info! Appreciate it
I think that's an eastern Europe vs western Europe issue. In my experience as a tourist in both, people in eastern European countries (like Czechia and also Hungary) had much better English skills than people in (mainly former West) Germany. Even since the fall of the wall, eastern Europeans seem to have eagerly learned western ways and that includes English, whereas western Germans were already western, but didn't need to know English for that. East Germany is still quite different from west Germany (except Berlin, which is unique).
That's a 30 mm cannon.
Excellent book even if one is not interested in anything in any way related to rocketry. I wish there was a corresponding, detailed account from the Soviet side, but as far as I know none exists. “Ignition!” does cover the Soviet program, but only very sporadically, to the effect of “they skipped most of this expensive foolishness, and went straight to hydrazine and kerosene”. Well, apparently not - pentaborane was tried in the engines as well.
what about hosting? how would you recommend doing that
When you start hiring people because of who they are, and not what they can do, it won't be long before that shows in the results you get. DEI has effectively replaced competence with identity politics.
This[1] links to http://www. workmanlayout.com/blog/ which is a 404. (space inserted to avoid auto link generation).

Going to the main page of that site reveals some articles from the past few years, but also has online casino and crypto links disguised as posts. E.g.:

> is your premier source for crypto insights, covering the latest news, trends, and guides on blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and cybersecurity. Whether a beginner or a pro, you can find valuable information and tips to stay ahead in the Web 3.0 era.

Weird and shady.

I keep seeing all these people fancy keyboards and interesting looking layouts except that it takes them six to 10 attempts to type anything correctly. Don't really get the point, but having got curious about this "workman" layout and regretted trying to find out.

I was thinking of a pane layout manager ... Anything like that around?

[1]: https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/workman-layout-for-vim/
This is a very complicated issue, because enabling some censorship is harmful in itself.
> It's not like NATO did any major nation building in Afghanistan or Iraq, at least nowhere near close to post-WW2 Germany... so in that point he did keep his promise.

What? So he carried out nation building in 2 countries rather than 1 and that means he kept his 'no nation building' promise? What kind of logic is that?

> The entire world lost out as a result of that - there is a direct link from the failures in Afghanistan and Iraq to the Russian invasion into Ukraine.

I don't think most of the world cares one bit if europe burns or not. Heck if we had a vote, most of the world would vote for europe buring given europe's monstrous treatment of 'most of the world'.
Eventiveness, the Missing JavaScript Abstractions
I have just released a new javascript frontend framework of 5.5 independent libraries for highly interactive apps. The aim is 'vanilla' HTML, CSS and Javascript and great flexibility and excitement in use. It is the culmination of years of work iterating over different library and framework ideas to find the perfect abstractions. This is very much still a work in progress and I would love to hear your views. Please also contribute.Thanks.
> It is interesting partly for being based on a discussion between editor (John W Campbell) and author based on no more than a quote from a poem by Emerson. That's all it takes. A simple quote taken and examined.

What was the quote?

edit: it is in the linked paper, “If the stars should
appear one night in a thousand years, how would
men believe and adore, and preserve for many
generations the remembrance of the city of God!”
>I fail to see how this story is divisive

Because many would say that Greenwald is not an honest broker, and neither is Musk.
Didn't they recently announce that everything was open sourced? Would be cool if he took another look at it once all of the souce code is available (if not already).
I did get to the point where I could tailor a comment for upvotes and guard them from downvotes, at least to some degree... But that's not free speech or free thinking. And all that effort to an audience that is also under the same constraints only makes for a safe but somewhat walking-on-eggshells conversation, at least when it comes to controversial ideas like... space vs tabs and apple vs microsoft. lol

HN is great for what it is. Gathering 2 cents from everyone. I've only had a great time adding my positive 2 cents, and I continue to enjoy learning from everyone else's.
C-RAM is 20, but a bulkier, less mobile system. Raw barrel size isn’t the only consideration.
Some time ago I reviewed my usage and dependency on one of the most popular zsh plugin managers, boiled down everything that I needed into a single .zshrc, removed this thing and have never looked back.

The point is: all these zsh kitchen sink projects try to be all-in-one-fits-everyone tools that unfortunately fail this way or another and sometimes are very opinionated. I have to admit they are good for starters and for those who want to delve into the guts of zsh (and shells in gerenal) in order to tailor your own config in the end. But not this one! This looks like hell from all perspectives.
Changing One's Personality
I'd like to try and read a modern English & prose (i.e. highly non-poetic, non stilted, if necessary non-direct) translation of Dante's Inferno sometime. (Poetry is incompatible with my brain, unless it's funny. I can't be the only one? Yes, school was hell sometimes. (No pun intended.)) Does anyone have any recommendations?
What are you exactly asking for? Sure it's not recommended but you can have NAT66 for IPv6, and DHCPv6 for IPv6. You can choose to configure your own IPv6 network in a way that's familiar to IPv4. Not exactly best practice but doable.
I am a huge fan of chezmoi, it takes time to wrap your head around it but once you are setup it's is great. I keep windows, Linux/FreeBSD severs and Linux desktops all synced up with chezmoi.

Previously I used xstow for 10 years which served me well and is less of a challenge to get started with compared to chezmoi.
I imagine that too. How would you map the root system of a tree. Can’t grow a tree in the lab.

(Someone’s gonna reply with a link where someone grew a tree in a lab but you know what I mean)
Have you read the Niven and Pournelle re-telling?
You can just go out on the Internet and buy a yak, or an ibis.

But not a giraffe.

Someone needs to fill this glaring void immediately. I understand there's regulations and stuff involved: that's ok. We can get creative.

Prosthetic enhanced goats should satisfy the early customers, at least for long enough to get the breeding program established. Then we can offer the early adopters favorable trade in rates and duck any accusations of fraud or shoddy merchandise.
AirTag relies on Bluetooth as well, right? It certainly doesn't have a cellular connection.
There's a computerphile video [0] that looks at one way people take 3d x-rays to look at plant roots (I haven't re-watched it yet so unsure if it's related to the article)

Edit: Look at about 6:50 in the video for a render of a root system.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrl__J4vYok
You and the commenter hit it on the head. Always N years away
> my attention is only partly on the road

I hope you don't hurt someone.
With a dish that can be oriented to always face the sun, there should never be any shadows
Great to see e2e openness. One of the only true OSS models out there, vs most of the models releasing the binaries (weights).
Surprised that they didn’t mention Mistral 7b in the comparisons.
As a chronic loser of keys and wallets, I recognize the user need here. However, this is a prime example of a piece of software that can only be trusted when an open-source implementation is provided.

Google and their customers don't have much to gain through a proprietary implementation. If anything, open-sourcing Find My Device Network would allow third party devices to join the network, enhancing its value to Google's customers. Google emphasizes ad nauseum that this system is extremely private and secure, so third party implementations shouldn't be cause for worry.

Governments and various potentially dangerous organizations stand to benefit greatly from a closed implementation for reasons that hardly need explaining.

Google makes a lot of lofty claims about E2EE and privacy considerations in that blog post, I'd just like to see them prove it.
Your first link is broken
Is that not related to Powershell's handling of history?
Author here

I do agree with your point, but unfortunately I was limited by what is available from the APIs: the upvotes for the comments were not provided. I couldn't find a proxy for it either. Thus, I couldn't include it in the analysis
It’s completely subjective, so it’s hard to have such a bet without further specification.

But I definitely feel like a sufficiently large Markov model could output sentences in response to input that would amaze/freak out at least some users. It would just be parroting its training data pretty much verbatim (at the level of short n-grams, at least), but due to the sheer amount of the data the exact source would be obscure and hence more easily attributed to the model ‘thinking’ for itself and being creative.

That’s all I was in fact saying — not that it would wow all of us all of the time.

Blake Lemoine was fired from Google for (/in relation to his) expressing that a language model was sentient. We all have different thresholds for thinking ‘oh my god this thing has to be conscious!’.
My initial comment was mostly a remark on approaching it as a new problem and suggesting small arms, not a statement that I thought the existing system was optimized for all situations.
> Well you would still see the effect of voting.

Yes I do. But I don't see any buttons to vote other's
posts. Presumably those are one of the few things that use JavaScript
on HN. I don't miss that. If I want to interact with another comment I
reply, which I think is the right thing to do, or just move on.

> That's an easy stance to take

Do you mean it's simplistic? I don't find it "easy" to be left with a
low opinion of fellow posters.

> when there's no explanatory replies at all it's frustrating

Exactly, that's what I dislike. But let's talk about why that's
"frustrating".

> statements that are very commonly posted by others

I wouldn't say that characterises my comments. I always try to add
something original.

> it's not exactly the responsibility of passers by

We disagree here. Yes it kind of is. Nobody is compelled to vote.
It's much better to get a reply, even a negative one, than a vote
either up or down. The only reason it even matters is that I learned
downvoted posts become invisible, which seems like a form of
censorship, no?

> I don't think it's fair to measure how just, intellectual, or
morally correct the two sides of the disagreement are just by how
willing they are to expend energy arguing about it.

Now we're getting interesting. I strongly believe in the principles of
disputation - that is to say - conversations always have a deeper
"Socratic/Hegelian" purpose to learn and change, not to "win" or
"sway" some barometer. That's why I make the effort with people. I
suppose I consider it good manners to reciprocate, and in my mind I
equate voting but not commenting with laziness. Therefore I do make a
moral judgement about that I feel comfortable with.

> changes to their comment's score as indicative of the overall
community's opinion but that's rarely the case.

Sure. Though as I said, popularity contests are not what concern me.
It is the deleterious effects of oblique censorship that accrue from
casual, unreflective downvoting that seem like fault of HN.

The frustration comes from putting the effort and thought into a
comment, only to see it hidden from others by a minority that dislike
what is being said.

Like you I notice that after many days my most downvoted posts fly
back up to very high values. But that's irrelevant because my focus on
that subject has moved on and the opportunity was lost to interact
with others because a comment was hidden from them. The vanity of
"overall score" doesn't figure in my reasoning at all.
Forever with a limited amount of URLs
I really enjoyed the upbeat positive outlook of the article.

Unfortunately, as an ex poker pro, I find it hard to imagine that AI "lifts people up" in domains like games. Sandholm's bots pretty much destroyed poker.
I don't know, it wasn't generated by me, I just found it in the "explore" tab. I tried to generate something similar and this came out:
https://app.suno.ai/song/24dddb7b-5a10-45a2-8f52-94d627030c3...

I generated lyrics with chatgpt4 + some manual tweaking.
Ha ha, it came from Wikipedia so possibly.
Not yet! Is that important to you? Can i ask why?
Table-driven assemblers (and disassemblers) have been a thing for a long time, especially for more obscure/embedded architectures. Reverse-engineering/analysis tools likewise have traditionally done the same, but with additional semantic information for each instruction. A quick search for table-driven compilers reveals some mid-century papers.
This seems like a good policy to me. Though it makes me wonder why we would treat an image made with AI differently from an image that has been edited digitally via photoshop or other means.
The main thing stopping Chrome from being the only web browser people cared about supporting was that Safari was the only thing that worked on iphones, and if you have to support 2 browsers you might as well go to 3 or 4. The cost calculation for support is 1 <<< 2 < Many.

And that’s about to change - thanks EU. Safari is losing its protection, and soon enough the equivalent of “Have you tried turning it off and on again ?” is going to be “Have you tried installing Chrome ?”

I actually think this is going to be one of the keystones in the dam holding back utter domination of the Web by a company that makes its money exploiting your privacy. Hope I’m wrong.
So the relations must be stored somewhere. I'm guessing a join table that includes the table names of each record, ie a 'polymorphic' join table?
Well, it is already unflagged. I don't follow your logic here though, the owner of Twitter isn't an adequate source of judicial orders received by twitter? What's wrong with Greenwald? Are you implying they collided to report something that did not happen? Why would that make sense? If that was the case, that itself would be news, not something to just flag and ignore.
I’ve never had a budget for donations as an engineer. That money would go through some other part of the organization.

I have had discretionary budgets many many times. I could easily give part of that budget to open source maintainers but I’ve also never found one that made it easy to get an invoice.