skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately a lot of fraternal societies have disbanded and a lot of community organizing falls to women. Men and women community organize differently and traditionally men have had great luck in formal settings. For me, in our church (I know you're not religious), I lead our men's group (chapter of a larger organization), and there's a bunch of men who are the last people you'd expect to organize community but they're all doing it happily. But we're very hierarchical (even if jokingly so) and very formal (meetings, Roberts rules, elected positions, ceremonies). It's goofy, but I fundamentally believe men do well in this.

Unfortunately, I think it would be hard to form a men's group these days especially for secular people. But I encourage you anyway because otherwise it puts all the pressure on the women.

I have had several moms express gratitude to my guys for doing the work we do in the community because we also do things that the women would just never organize themselves. Which is fine... Everyone should play to their strengths.
Some of the main benefits of shipping every day, is:

1. Develop a system where you can turn codepaths on and off with a toggle.
2. Become better at architecture. Learning to split a task into smaller chunks that are easier to reason about, both overall and individually.
3. Learn to do multi phase increment.
4. Develop an automatic deploy/rollback system.

All are good practices, and essential if you need HA. It also gets the velocity into your daily work, so if you need to deploy extra logging, a bugfix ect, you can do it in minuts and not hours/days/weeks.

Can you do all of that and ship on a weekly basis? Absolutely, I just haven't met anyone that do that.
> Buy that used cheap rtx3090 at your own risk... ;)

Which is why this is completely unreasonable.
Speaking of non-political side of him: was not he wrong about "innate grammar" necessary to understand langage? LLM do not have such circuitry, yet they somehow work well...
Not the OP but I think Google search has started losing its organic nature in the sense that the top results are slowly and steadily consolidating into a handful of social network domains (other big techs mostly).

A related point is also that the web itself is losing its diversity. Whatever happened to the small dude's wordpress blog, why are they no longer turning up in the search results as much as reddit, quora, etc? What happened to the IRC, news letters, bulletin boards and forums (phpBB), etc? No doubt some of these sites are also thriving on the backend somewhere but Google's step-motherly treatment towards them in the results is surely hurting the web's diversity.
It will run WAITS, but the disk images that are available are not top notch: http://sky-visions.com/dec/waits/ Bruce Baumgart is the keeper of the SAIL backup archives. I'm poking him occasionally to do something about this. I'd say an image with e.g. TeX would be imperative.

Rich and I added support for III and DD displays, so you can edit with E in style.
If you accept that we're all made of stardust, with a little sprinkling of ISM, it should make you feel more connected to the universe, not less. :)
The orders in question aren’t search warrants and don’t require probable cause.

70,000+ Apple user accounts are surveilled in this manner every year.
He is factually wrong and has been rekted by his own community notes
> I have been fighting switching to the SaaS version

I felt that way on principle for a long time, but honestly, on reflection, 1P is probably subscription that is most justifiable. I want to outsource online security to people that know what they are doing. I want that to be a viable business for a long time into the future. And I want their funding model to be such that their interests are aligned with those of their paying users (me).

People can get so irrational when it comes to the cost of software. The same person who'd pay hundreds of dollars for a cleaner, or a gym membership, will swear up and down that 70 bucks a year for an online bodyguard is highway robbery.
What actually happened was Apple removed support for kernel extensions that these firewall apps used.

The user-mode replacement APIs allowed by sandboxed apps had a whitelist for Apple's apps, so you couldn't install some App Store firewall app that would then disable the App Store and screw everything up.

After the outrage, in a point release a few months later, they silently emptied out the whitelist, resolving the issue.

They never issued any kind of statement.
Magically appeared now, thanks!
Privacy is the entire point of this discussion?

Homomorphic encryption is mostly a fantasy at this point.
I think I see what tripped you up in my comment. I said

> if it costs me nothing, then the love it represents is nothing.

You could read this as meaning that every action has to be super costly or else the love isn't there. I admit that it's poorly phrased and it's not what I meant.

What I should have said is that if it costs you nothing, then it doesn't in itself indicate love. It costs me nothing to say "I love you" on its own, and you wouldn't believe me if I just walked up to you in the street and said that. But your mom has spent thousands of hours and liters of blood, sweat and tears caring for you, so when she says "I love you," you have all that to back those words up. It's the cost she paid before that imbues the words with value: high cost, deep love.

Hopefully that makes more sense.
> religious people can very easily talk about all sorts of things

Sure, buddy.
> ... and this ADHD-ish attitude ...

How did "ADHD" enter the conversation out of the blue? If you're thinking this is how "ADHD-ish" experience is, I recommend you to check out /r/ADHD_programmers where people actually with ADD struggle to figure out how to ship consistently, let alone every day!
Waiting patiently for the first Nuvia/Oryon/SDXE tablet or 2-in-1, with detachable non-bluetooth keyboard

The Snapdragon Elite devices launched so far have been laptops.
That's part of it, but not all: it depends on the buyer. People buying big trucks as a fashion statement are definitely doing it for this reason, but there's people who genuinely need trucks, and they're all bitching and complaining about 1) trucks costing $50k-100k because they're basically luxury vehicles and they don't make cheap, utilitarian versions any more, and also because all those fashion-statement buyers have driven up demand, and 2) that there aren't any small pickups available now, since many of them need a truck, but not a big truck. Some people have even taken to importing 25+ year old Japanese "kei" trucks (very very small utility trucks used in Japan) as "historic" vehicles and using those, but it seems some states are now trying to clamp down on this.
Also F11 and, not least, J11.
>surely regular pattern of getting in-out of heliosphere be noticeable?

Why do you say that? What would you look for?
Kagi's Orion browser is based on Safari but allows FF and Chrome extensions. uBO works although the Youtube ad blocking is not quite as good as FF.
I know this isn’t really the point, but Adobe CC hasn’t really improved all that much from Adobe CS, which was purely local and perfectly capable. A better analogy might be found in comparing Encyclopedia Brittanica to Wikipedia. The latter is far from perfect, but an astounding expansion of accessible human knowledge that represents a full, worldwide paradigm shift in how such information is maintained, distributed, and accessed.

On the same token, those of us who are sufficiently motivated can maintain and utilize a local copy of Wikipedia…frequently for training LLMs at this point, so I guess the snake has come around, and we’ve settled into a full-on ouroboros of digital media hype. ;-)
At 3 trillion Dollars of market cap they are a capitalistic hellscape and do everything in their power to benefit their own interests, which are not yours.
>Not sure why Taiwan is that much of a wedge, or Ukraine for that matter. Ukraine used to be under effective Russian control anyways up to fairly recent times and Putin being pissed off about the change that's partly behind the war. Naturally now the stakes are higher given the price of the war on all sides. Re: Taiwan China is determined to get it one way or another and it's going to be hard for the US to keep resisting that.

I could understand Ukraine being more of an issue for Europe rather than the US but Taiwan? Without them the hottest sector in the US collapses. In fact, how much of the US current meteoric rise is due to tech vs the rest of the economy? Probably a decent chunk. Taiwan is holding some of the most important "cards" in the world.

>Support of Israel goes back to JFK.

Well you could make the argument that the US has been wrong since JFK and it is finally catching up to them. Its not the first time they have supported a state that is in direct contrast to its stated ideals.

>The US under Obama has tried to reduce its involvement in the region which indirectly led to the civil war in Syria, to Iraq aligning with Iran, and other movements. Bin Laden was from the region and so is/was ISIS/ISIL. It feels like the US "disconnecting" from the region would be a destabilizing move felt everywhere and other parties like China or Russia would fill in the vacuum.

Like it or not that has been the stated path of the US for two administrations now and will likely continue into the next one regardless of who is elected.
Anyone have a practical case for this? Not complaining just wondering.
I backup using Arq to a local NAS and to OneDrive because I got free storage there as part of an Office 365 sub.

<fingers crossed> haven't had to restore, but have verified the backups.

The problem I had with Time Machine is that I wanted to configure what to backup and avoid some things like work vs personal etc.
Yes. We live in a lovely neighborhood. My daughter knows and talks to all our neighbors. She plays outside and can even walk to some neighbors kids houses and we increasingly let her.

However talking to other parents about what it was like when their kids were growing up... The streets were filled with kids. Now we have couples who don't have any...

I hope they do.

Luckily our neighbors are nice and have a kid and hopefully another.
There is a reason no one gives a shit. And it has nothing to do with publishers. If a paper actually contributed meaningfully to a field it everyone would know about it.

Ironically, institutions like Elsevier justify the existence of the numerous hack academics (not scientists) that exist nowadays. Most of whom have no leg to stand on complaining about Elsevier's rent seeking when they themselves would be infinitely more useful flipping burgers.
Asahi Linux supports nested virtualization on Apple Silicon M2, where the feature is present in the chip, but not exposed by macOS.
The terms of use for most AI models say that they are unreliable and can make mistakes. Everyone who uses an AI model for say, financial planning or engineering is supposed to pass on those details. It's literally written right under the text box and button where you put the input.

If you're allergic to peanuts, and they put a clear sign that says this contains peanuts, then you are responsible for eating the food with peanuts.

But when these middle man agents try to obscure the source, they leave out the part on unreliability or simply don't read it. In those cases, they're most likely responsible.

In some cases, I see it like informed consent, where the thing could kill you but you were going to die anyway and the odds are better with the dangerous thing.
Ok, I’ve always expected that a natural virus was accidentally released by a scientist from the virus lab. Not necessarily gain of function, but simply this is the place where all the weird Covid viruses are brought to when gathered from across the world. It’s the place which would have ALL the possible Covid viruses, from the least concerning to the one which escaped.

Every article countering that angle just feels light gaslighting.
I think NVIDIA has the highest hardware markup at the moment.
Too many products and services, too few pockets willing to buy them, therefore more and more ads to capture people attention and convince them to spend on this or that. Problem is: attention time is finite but products and their ads are not; every minute of ads for product X takes away people's attention from product Y in the same time frame, so it's just a matter of time before product Y makers decide to fight that with -you guessed it- more ads, then product X and others will do the same - rinse, repeat. We better find a new system or we're fucked, as the one we have now literally tries to cure itself using the same poison it's dying from.
I have no ideas on how to solve that problem, aside noticing that the trend is potentially catastrophic.
I’m not much of a gamer, but my kids are growing up and will soon want to play the real stuff. Is there any easy way to see whether a game requires anti-cheat to run? I’d hate to spend top dollar on a game only to find it’ll take over their entire computer and I’ll want to make a hard rule “no games with kernel level anti cheat in this house” or something like that.
>And even verbally supported Hamas best I can remember.

Did he say something controversial like "Gaza has a right to defend itself?"
Why not try this as an experimental filter then and see what sort of population pass?
I live in Aomori, I have been commuting every single day for the last 6 years, and I totally agree with you. There are three more points that make me mad:

- Stopping in the middle of the road whenever they feel like it. Just turn on the blinkers and boom, the road became a parking slot! And they don't care if it is a straight segment or the middle of a curve.

- Overtaking other cars on the left at an intersection. I don't know here, but in my home country that is illegal, because it is very dangerous. I have seen many near misses because of it.

- They don't turn on the lights as long as there is a tiny sliver of light in the sky. Every day I see people driving with the lights off after sunset, or during heavy rain or snow! Seriously, who drives with the lights off during a fucking blizzard with less than 10 meters of visibility?!?
Why does your gut tell you that? Perhaps you're using the worst examples of a side you don't like to inform your view?
Yes, it does, it’s pretty common.
What are you referring to specifically? I only noticed one bit that suggested that a loan payment is an expense, but:

1. It does not make clear what the payment is. If it is only to pay the interest portion of the loan, there is little question that it is an expense. That would be outside of the topic of principal repayment, though.

2. If we assume there is a principal portion included in the payment, it is said only with respect to student loans. The product of a student loan retains no value – literally worthless the moment you drive it off the lot. As such, it is not unreasonable to consider the principal an expense. There truly is nothing left. A house, not so much. Unless the house has lost value (an atypical situation), you didn't give up anything.
Are you the chairman of the committee on who is allowed to make demands? Because it sounds like you're trying to demand that other people stop doing so.
Last time I had that on a laptop I was going to wipe soon afterward and didn’t want to fully set up, I clicked the “finish setting up” link and canceled out. Voila, red circle gone.
> My son is playing with other kids. I wander off. When I check back, all the kids are watching a screen. I say “what’s going on?” And some parent says “the kids were getting roudy, so I put on a show to calm them down”.

Ooof this is me on Sundays - the only day allowed screen time, but man yea, if our girls are by themselves then a screen for them and a screen for me and we're all happy.
Those are both still (major) incremental improvements to known tech, not cutting-edge research. Apple takes what other companies have already done and does it better.
The problem is that games often install rootkits and the hackers are good enough to exploit those for RCE - just look at Apex Legends, they recently had active tournaments canceled because someone took over streamers boxes during live play - absolutely bonkers.
Typing this from a Samsung with SD slot, need to chose your models wisely.
> makes me excited to develop for their platform in a way I haven't felt in a very, very, long time

AI will ultimately do all the 'development', and will replace all apps. The integrations are going to be a temporary measure. Only apps that will survive are the ones that control things that apple cannot control (ie. how Uber controls its fleet)
Well, Windows is also user-hostile and engages in control tactics.
In fact, by allowing people to generate photos for birthday wishes, apple is elevating the bottomline not lowering the topline. The person who wants to put in the effort and send a hand-drawn image would often not want to resort to a ready-made machine creation. OTOH, the simple "HBD Mom" sender would now send "Happy Birthday Mom <genmoji>" and an image...
> It would be cool if they took back the title of the tallest in the world, but at a minimum, it looks like there's a chance they'll take it from NY by every measure. I find that to be significant.

This is a good example of how we're failing as humanity. It continues to puzzle me how we seem to still be stuck at dick measuring contests. Not only that, but dick measuring contests that burn resources.
Here's some more detail concerning pedestrians crossing intersections that I mentioned earlier.

In America, it is literally against the law to enter an intersection unless you can completely cross it without stopping. That means if a pedestrian is crossing, you wait outside of the intersection for them to finish crossing first.

In Japan? With pedestrians crossing? You enter the intersection and hopefully you stop inches from the crosswalk in the middle of the intersection while you wait for the road to clear and then go through if there is space.

Yes, even professional drivers do it. It's fucking insane if you ask me. How much time do you save? Seconds? And you risk a higher chance of running someone over?

Japan is world renowned for their hospitality, but Japanese drivers are by far some of the biggest assholes I have ever seen in my life.
Yes they can, buy something else.
I think there is a significant ethical issue related to inviting others to build software on your platform, prove that software’s market value, and then you under-cutting them by creating your own version of it for free to increase sales.
Show HN: Curatio - Smart SMS Junk Blocker and Categorizer Powered by AI
I’ve been browsing with Private Relay since the day it became available. What’s this intolerable latency you’re talking about?
>I'm assuming it's either difficult or impossible to measure another star's heliopause. It would be fascinating to see the effects of a cold cloud interaction in "real" time!

I'm pretty sure we observe it routinely. There are tons of beautiful pictures of stars blowing away Nursery nebula. This is the heliopause of those Stars interacting with dense interstellar medium
> "But for all that I'd love to believe that that was because of the wonderful quality of our product, it realistically wasn't. It was ads."

> Why were we able to buy those ads? Because investors gave us a lot of money.

> And why do investors give companies a lot of money? On the expectation that they will pursue aggressive growth, not stop at small to middling scale.

This exactly describes the same lessons I learned working at Udacity around 2016-2018. We built–and then walked away from–a handful of moderately successful businesses that probably could've been run almost indefinitely at little marginal cost. Instead when we crossed 50k enrollments we pivoted–because 50k enrollments doesn't justify unicorn status.

(I don't think that was wrong; it's just that that's what the investors wanted.)
> You can even get VC money to build military defense hardware.

How do you create exponential growth when you are building military hardware?
You can reason with a human. You can’t with an AI.

And if you got rid of all your human tools because AI, how do you put a human back in the loop?
Nested virtualization would be needed if you want to test out a Windows VM with the various Hyper-V integrations like WSL2, credential guard, etc.
Two anthologies are:

Sunvault: stories of solarpunk and eco-speculation

Glass and gardens: solarpunk summers
Local models are also extremely energy consuming. I don't see local AI working for long, because Large models are going to get so incomparably smarter and eventually reach general intelligence
No. Innate grammar has always been about how humans aquire language, not how any possible system which understands human language must posses that innate grammar.
Makes total sense in hindsight, here's hoping this gets confirmed. It's also just generally a good way for young kids to develop. Kids learn a ton by figuring out "can I climb this log?"
I’m sure you will continue to think so until he permanently restricts your account for getting downvoted
The number of people who are willing and able to “vote with their wallet” for alternative OSes on iPad is insufficient for results.

The vast, vast majority of iPad users want iPadOS and nothing else.

Hope is not a strategy.
Lino is an example of a great technology that we had to "improve" (make cheaper) and replace with godawful plastic.
Dynamic linking has always been cool for writing plugins.

It is kind of ironic that languages that praise so much for going back to early linking models, have to resort for much heavier OS IPC for similar capabilities.
Elementary OS was actually nice last time I used it.

Looked like Mac but didn't copy every stylistic and UX choice from the 90ies that doesn't belong in the 2020ies, like space saving menus that makes haves your mouse traversing both monitors to reach them or the mental overload CMD-tab that makes me stop and think every time if I want to switch app or window.

I was talking about Unity. A system that had a working alt-tab bujilt in but was so insistent about us learning the Mac way that there was no way to toggle off broken window switching except hacking the configuration directly.
Running an older version of macOS, which supports older versions of Xcode and then using that to run older iOS simulators.
I think this is doable. Say we assign a win rate W(S) to each board state S, and let W(S, A) denote the win rate after taking action A from state S. Since the transition is probabilistic, we can write:

W(S, A) = P(good) * (1 - W(S_good)) + P(bad) * (1 - W(S_bad)) + (1 - P(good) - P(bad)) * (1 - W(S))

And obvisouly:

W(S) = max(W(S, A), foreach A in Actions)

max() is troublesome, but we can replace it with a >= sign:

W(S) >= (W(S, A), forall A in Actions)

And then we can expand W(S, A) and move W(S) in each of the inequalities to the left hand side. After all that we will have a bunch of linear inequalities which can be optimized with linear programming. I think the objective would just be:

<del>maximize</del> minimize W(empty_board)
The University of Washington is studying an AI application where a pair of headphones will isolate a single voice in a crowd when one simply looks at them. Amazing stuff…until you try it anywhere near your car, and then it starts playing the voice over your car stereo (presumably).
It's also curious how a variation of the CCR5 gene, CCR5-Δ32, which gives increased immunity to HIV, is thought to have been selected for by smallpox in Northern Europe. While giving increased immunity to HIV and smallpox, it makes the carriers more suspectible to serious versions of flavivirus infections (tick-borne encephalitis, West Nile virus). This might be a pretty bad thing in the age of climate change!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCR5#CCR5-%CE%9432