skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tough question here: what user value is being 3D adding? (Compared to gather town, for example). Is there proof users want this?

Is the hope that more people get used to 3D interaction modes and the fortnite/roblox generations expect their work environments to follow the patterns they have been used to?
How is this a "new narrative"?

Tesla has been lying about being a "tech" company to justify its obscene stock price for a decade. "Look we write software so it's okay that we are priced more than the entire rest of the industry combined"
Show HN: Scheduling my habits turned out to be better
i made this app in 6 weeks or less.
it is my first time fill-stack website i made.
i just wanted to know how much will some habits or activities take from my day, or if i have free time for something or it over lapes. but in the meanwhile, i didn't want to install a separate app for habit tracking and that kinda stuff.
I feel like domains are pretty cheap so it would be easy to separate your fetishes from your work life.
Comparing American generational accumulation to the olden European social quasi-caste system is a little disingenuous.
Analysis of the DHEat DoS Against SSH in Cloud Environments
Whenever I see ads, I ask myself why companies would spend so much money if it barely has any effect (given that ads have essentially no impact on me).

And then there's posts like this which remind me that there is a whole group of people out there who are so deeply affected they read entire stories and write entire novels after a few seconds.

It's a solid reminder how differently worldviews are shaped.
You made a new account, to say the word snowflake. Who is the snowflake again?
As a millennial, I don't really feel so much that I climbed the ladder as much as I held on for dear life as it was pulled up. And I didn't end up all that far up like a lot of people here. I think I'm basically doing ok and at peace with where I am now, but I can't imagine putting a kid through the things I had to go through; it all just feels so grim with the future they're facing.

Also, I'm not religious (though I did try for a bit) and I think that's a very important ingredient in fertility and certainly seems to be bringing it down as people drift away from religion. God is dead and we have killed him I suppose.
The anecdotes don't untangle it, but academics sure as hell have studied adopted kids for traits that match their biological parents. Even more over have studied twins with identical genetics who grew up in separate households.
Marc addresses that: “That’s going to make some “write every byte” code slower than it would otherwise be, but those applications should be fixed anyway if we care about efficiency.”
That Apple ad feels more like an Advernado ad -- "We can solve any problem that you think up,
and find any purchase that you require, the... iPad... is a full solution..." crushing everything.
I was also disappointed by this ad when I first saw it, but I wasn’t shocked. In fact I think it’s symbolic of the direction Apple took since the passing of Steve Jobs. Apple, even during its “beleaguered” mid-1990s era, was a champion of personal computing and was embraced by creative professionals. Heck, the original Macintosh and the LaserWriter helped kickstart the desktop publishing industry, especially once PageMaker and Photoshop were released. But Apple products were complementary to other creative tools, such as musical instruments and cameras. Remember the digital hub strategy Steve Jobs announced in the early 2000s?

Unfortunately, this ad, with its destruction of artists’ tools, is completely tone-deaf to the sentiments of the creative professionals who loyally used Apple products. However, I argue that Apple has largely stopped relying on this market once revenues from the iPhone and services started overtaking Mac revenues. Apple used to be a champion of personal computing, not only emphasizing ease-of-use over its competitors, but also investing in technologies that made it easier for regular users to get more out of their computers (e.g., HyperCard, AppleScript). Today Apple is a vendor of luxury-brand electronics. It’s coasting on two things: (1) the goodwill the brand built from the 1980s through the 2000s as “the computer for the rest of us,” and (2) offering a platform that is alternative to Microsoft Windows and all of its shenanigans, as well as some PC clone vendors who load their PCs with preinstalled crapware. Even with point #2, I find pro and education versions of Windows less annoying than their home counterparts, and vendors like Framework and even Microsoft don’t load their PCs with crapware.

I hold the opinion that Apple lost its soul in the 2010s when Apple became the iPhone company instead of the Mac company. This commercial would’ve never been produced under the watch of Steve Jobs (“Think different”) or even John Sculley (look up “The Power to Be Your Best.”).
Is Mattermost more flexible in this regard vs Slack?
I had no idea that was possible. If you'd asked me, I would have guessed that it wasn't.

Astonishing. Sorry it's not a permanent fix for you, but it's impressive as hell that they could do anything.
Jeez, you’re right. Didn’t catch that
Why would anyone use chatgpt if it spams you? The second it recommends me a product i'm issuing a chargeback.
What you’re saying is he’s selectively quoting evidence an thereby lying by omission. For most claims in medicine “studies” exist that show the exact opposite of those claims. Quick, tell me, is butter good or bad? How about eggs? Nicotine maybe? Drinking salt water in the morning? Etc etc.
Replicants can try to fake the appropriate emotional reaction — might even be programmed to fake it to themselves, such that even they don’t realize what they are — but there is always a split-second delay, which the trained operator can detect.

This makes sense with replicants who know they are replicants and are trying to avoid detection (I'm not sure why they would ever be 'programmed' to try to fake detection, the simpler explanation is that they know what the test is and are trying to avoid identification and death.) But it's different for Rachel. She thinks she is human and wouldn't be trying to game the test, yet it takes a long time for Deckard to assess her. So why is that? Either way...

...leading one to suspect that the Voight-Kampff test may not be measuring pure, unadulterated empathy in quite the way everyone seems to think it is....But in Ridley Scott’s preferred version of the film, the central theme falls apart, to be replaced with psychological horror’s equivalent of a jump scare: “Deckard himself is really a replicant, dude! What a mind fuck, huh?"

Those 2 statements contradict themselves, because Deckard himself being a replicant (who actually is never tested himself anyway) is an extension of blurring the lines between human and replicant, and what the Voight-Kampff test actually is testing (which already happens when Deckard tests Rachel.)

I feel like the idea of next-gen replicants like Rachel (and possibly Deckard) that blur the lines further is thematically consistent with the rest of the movie. I don't know what kind of social life Rachel has led, but if she has any friends or social interaction at all some sort of empathy would be needed to pass off as human. These kind of things are not explicit in the movie, which I think is mostly fine as the movie is more about the big picture of what makes us 'human', or what that even means ethically or experientially. The early replicants are basically psychotic so it's easy to have no ethical concerns about them even if they have agency and consciousness. But then what about succeeding versions that do come closer and closer to experiencing regular human existence?
Those aren't the ones you debug, so they won't be seen by OP. Those are the ones you don't need to debug because Nagle saves you.
I'm certainly open to speculative generative (, explanatory) modelling of human populations to see what distributions of variation can be reproduced (indeed, that's what i'm doing). I'm less open to the reverse process: starting with observational distributions and then just fitting whatever model suits one's prejudices.

There's a cost to the latter when we know, a priori, that the "scientists" prior belief about what models to use are the most significant factor determining the conclusions of the paper; and that we know that the data is vastly too weak to distinguish between priors.

Compare the same problem in finance: this sort of linear easy-predictability thinking was a major factor in the financial crash of 2008; and it's something now widely seen with great suspicion amongst the financial industry.. who are well aware that "crisis" and "saftey" are both consistent with observational data.

I would argue that we live in a world of "pseudo-scientific social science disasters", the entire industry of measuring people and classifying them is one big Science Crisis whose effects practitioners do not care about because they aren't the ones being fired and loosing all their money (or have rigged these measures to benefit themselves).

Against this backdrop of, what ought be, researchers "going bust", universities collapsing, and research paper stock prices near zero -- i'd claim "pseudoscience" is a polite word. Esp. when those who should be long bust are still publishing papers immune from their effects on society.
Clearly inspired a lot of people. IIRC, iCloud backups were managed by an internal system named BladeRunner. It also could have been the photo backups. It's been a very long time.
Because it won't feel like spam while it's happening - that's the entire point.
This is what killed perl
Visual Studio Code 1.89
People who [disagree with my analysis] just don’t want to learn anything new.

CSV is a well-discussed topic on HN. If you'd like to explore other points of view in regard to these issues, you could start with this fine recent thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39814334
Totally evokes the good memories I have of "Google Wave" as a way for folks to collaborate on rich documents. Super cool.
I don't agree what what he's writing but I think his style is great, academic writing style but still very readable.

I've been asking my kids (students) and my wife (employee) and they don't see this climate at our state university. I think it's worse in non-technical fields and at private universities.
Everyone wants a stable society, but only the naive think you can regulate your way to a truly stable society.
Liking the aesthetics of fitting in with the proles does not mean they could survive
Algol 68 may have been a failure because it was ahead of its time, which meant it was hard to write a compiler for it. For example, Algol 68 had closures (apparently Knuth snuck them in).
There is a lot of real world socioeconomic data on it. studies usually look at the population in terms of 20 or 25% segments. That doesn't mean it is true for the 1% or 0.1%. That said, there are lots of examples of people entering and leaving the top 1% too, so outcome isn't perfectly deterministic.
Creatives, a core Apple market, are reacting negatively to this ad. As I said in another comment on the matter, Apple should have shown some kind of "Apple Beam" or something similar shrink the items down to fit into an iPad. Then a voiceover could announce all that creative power is now in your hands.

I make my money by creating software, but I'm a musician and photographer outside of the office. Even I was wondering why Apple was showing all these things being destroyed. It looked like the crushing of the human spirit - which is not what you want to be selling. Yeah, I "got it" at the end, but why start the ad with such viscerally negative destruction? Those viewers are going to associate that disgust with Apple.
Yeah, I wasn't sure what word to use as they are not traditional dealerships. They do keep inventory on the lots though.
> This is only true if you think that people are deserving of a good life merely because they have a certain brain structure.

What does "deserve" have to do with anything? We're not in kindergarten, this is the real world. If she is capable of being a satisfactory astronaut, then give her the job. And if she is not, then don't give her the job. Whatever benefit it is you think the job bestows, whether that is a high salary or some level of prestige matters not at all.

This isn't hypothetical, we're starting to see this as a real problem in professions where the success of our country and government (and for everyone who lives within it) depends on our ability to ignore asinine "deserves" arguments.
Yes, I dislike the ad too, but I’m not offended by it or want to see it cancelled. It’s just a bad ad. No big deal.
> Blur, summarize, anonymize, convert to bitmap/PNG

The article is a summary. Everything else is defeated by moving subtle decorative elements around the page between copies.
Nice read. (Any chance you could add an RSS feed or similar?)
That is not what free will is (philosophically). Free will is the belief that we can choose our actions. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will]

In your statement, there is no choice - just a lack of predictability due to unknown starting states.
Postgres CAN read from parquet using parquet_fdw, and then you can import directly using "create table x as select" from the parquet foreign tables.

>Postgres can't read from S3, load from Parquet, or query parquet files.
It is heartbreaking, but they did not die in vain.

This may be the only time this quote has been used un-ironically, in good concious:

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make." -Lord Farquad
I can only speak for myself, but my guess is the vast majority didn't think twice about the ad. Beyond, it's mimicking a very popular trend on FB/TikTok/Instagram, of things getting crushed, that so many of us can't seem to get enough of since constantly shows in our feeds. And that it's implying all of these wonderful (physically large) tools and experiences are available on a very small portable device I can take with my anywhere. There are countless different ways they could have shown that, and imagine most all would have caused backlash by small vocal few. Is Technology (especially AI), etc destroying the arts and humanity, who knows, maybe? But I certainly don't think this video showcases that.
I read "The Minority Report" when I was too young to appreciate it, probably should do it again. What struck me the most about it was that the setting had odd political intrigue between the police and the military plotting to launch a coup against one another, which felt random to me. But it probably made sense in the social context of when it was written.
Does this come down to the fact that you don't like the topic of his book? As you have said elsewhere that you're not going to criticize someone for wanting to make money.
Just got a PO-33 and very psyched with it, though I've had some thoughts about whether you couldn't leverage the LCD a bit better to shift it from semi-serious to fully serious. E.g. right now in the sequencer it's impossible to know which specific instrument is playing. Anyway, it would have been really cool to have the OS be open and flashable and spend a little bit of time to make little papercuts like that better. I was looking into how hard it would be to put something like csound in a tiny board and make my own, but when I look at how minimal that single header file synth is, I'm left wondering if that's too much.
The comment about telnet had me wondering what openssh does, and it sets TCP_NODELAY on every connection, even for interactive sessions. (Confirmed by both reading the code and observing behaviour in 'strace').
It was a learning exercise. Just playing around with clojure, raylib and this new api. I know all these can also be done with C# with some pros & cons.

I wasn't advocating java for gamedev. Just pointing that, this new api is a nice addition. And I am glad that jvm ecosystem is improving.

To be fair, if I was starting a game project I wouldn't stay in Java/C# level. Depending on the project, something like C, C++, zig might be more practical. Ironically I believe they would be easier for iterating ideas and deploy into different platforms (mobile, wasm etc.).
Totally agree. When I grew up, I was friends with the son of the richest family in town. I was once invited to dinner with them and was totally shocked they had real conversations. My family had a stable income and house but my interactions with my dad were basically him ranting about somebody else or me. I don't recall any productive conversation I ever had with him. Even now in my 50s I still struggle to have conversations and constantly have to watch not to talk like my dad. On the other hand I also took on a lot of good traits of my parents like financial responsibility.

My sister always had a better relationship with her kids and they have way better social skills than me or my sisters.

Examples or mentors can have a huge influence on people, especially when they are young. Some are good, some are bad.
(Spoilers ahead)

I disagree with the assessment that Deckard possibly being a replicant takes away from the empathy premise of the movie.

After all, the empathy test itself was designed by humans; who applies it is irrelevant.

The central point of the film is that yes, the replicants can be more human than humans — and perhaps they are.

And that the fundamental cruelty isn't even treating replicants as disposable or slaves — the replicants themselves know their worth better than that, and it's the obstacle the main characters ultimately overcome.

The fundamental cruelty is the core premise that the replicants pay for their superhuman abilities with shortened lifespan - an irreversible choice that was made for them.

And at the height of their self-realization, everything that the replicants are is yanked away from them.

All of that will be gone — like tears in rain.

The movie raises the same question as Flowers for Algernon, and is ultimately a very human one.

After all, we have many examples of parents training their children from a very young age for stardom in a particular field — at the cost of depriving them of the choice. Like Tyrell, they think it's worth it; but is it right?

The other side is — given that the replicants are beings who burn twice as bright, the kind that can walk into Tyrell's office and greet the most powerful man with "Hello, fucker", the kind who get to see starships on fire on the shoulder of Orion — are they justified in feeling slighted?

And if Deckard is indeed a replicant — isn't he arguably the more boring one, being effectively just human?

And if the viewer were to discover they are a replicant - which kind would they rather be? And if they are human, then what's the point?

The famous monologue was semi-improvised by Rutger Hauer, and that speech alone adds more meaning to the movie than the author of the article allows themselves to see.

The speech is ultimately Roy's last and ultimate gift. Deckard may not see starships on fire at the shoulder of Orion, and yet those moments won't truly be gone, because he gets to live the carry on even as Roy burns out.

The scene gives an answer to the questions above: that however we were created, there is a meaning to the each life lived; and that ultimately we need each other for that meaning to exist.

For we need memories to be ourselves, and memories are need us to carry them.

The replicant/human distinction, in the end, loses significance.

The climactic moment isn't that Deckard is a replicant — it's that in the end, Roy spares Deckard's life to tell his story — and pass the torch.

It only makes sense for Deckard to be a replicant — something that Roy would know, and choose not to tell.

But whether Deckard is or isn't a replicant ultimately doesn't matter, because the film makes sense either way.

And that's the point in and of itself.
Income doesn't matter if your brand is seen as tarnished by a group of people. Many wealthy liberals may have hang ups about the Tesla/Elon association.
Not every time. Sometimes it's DNS.
Oh absolutely, LLMs are already causing a slaughter in applications where quality doesn't really matter to the company, like customer service. With minor improvements they're going to be a serious problem for any junior developer/lawyer/journalist/reviewer/artist/whatever, and if they ever fix the hallucinations issue it's game-changing.

On the other hand, it's still a big "if" whether a general hallucinations solution exists, and in the meantime we're paying a pretty high price for it, as the entire internet is being flooded with absolute garbage. We risk getting stuck in a situation where there is no way to get new senior people because nobody hired them as juniors because AI is cheaper and good enough, and senior people are getting less and less productive due to them being unable to use websites like StackOverflow as reference material. That's a pretty high price for a tiny gain, if you ask me.
It's quite clear that this blog post is in direct response to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40299364

Nothing wrong with that, but good for folks to know the context.
Fix the apps. Nobody expect magical perf if you do that when writing to files, even though the OS also has its own buffers. There is no reason to expect otherwise when writing to a socket and actually nagle already doesn't save you from syscall overhead.
I don't quite understand the relation of this comment to the GP's comment, but the world currently is not under world war 3. Any justification for things happening in ww2 is hard to use for current situation
Nothing in my comment was about survival in poverty. However, their ability to live within their means seems indicative that they have the discipline that they might be able do it. In fact, most people can survive in poverty - what other choice do they have?
As dismantling of dam begins on Klamath River, activists see 'new beginning'
how? is there a source to read?
As a followup to this comment, apparently while I was typing this comment the mayor of Chicago was down in the state capital giving the legislature a list of demands that included money for a new stadium. The state senate responded by bringing to the floor unrelated legislation that the mayor strongly opposed, skipped debate and held a vote. It passed unanimously. While the mayor was standing there. That's really not a good sign for the stadium plans.
> people can still display their care of an animal and demonstrate empathy

It's neat that the adaptation for Children of Men also did this, even though it's very much in the background.
> hands-on building things

My piping hot take is that you want an expert policy builder in a job building policy. So you want someone with a lot of hands-on experience building policy. A senior SWE would have a steep ramp to get qualified for her job, because they do not have hands-on experience building policy.

For example: do they have contacts in the relevant organizations? Do they even know what the relevant organizations are? Do relevant Congresspeople know them and listen when they have something to say? None of the relevant skillset involves being hands-on with e.g. Python or vector databases.
> "we have broken 86% of other governments' encryption" - is not a stat you'd share...by sharing how the program is successful, it would be a powerful indicator about what kinds of crimes criminals should focus on with the lowest risks.

They can not tell us that they are reading the encrypted communications of other governments but still tell us "We caught Joe Criminal on Wednesday who tried to blow up the moon, and Bill Evilguy on Friday who tried to poison the waterhole, and Amanda Terrorist on Sunday who tried to murder 10,000 kittens". Then they could hold public trials for those terrorists where even if we can't see all of the evidence we still know exactly who they are imprisoning/killing, when and how often.

If criminals come to realize that terrorist attacks are likely to get them killed or sent to rot in gitmo because of how successful our spy agencies are, and they decide to hold up liqueur stores instead how is that a bad thing?