skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lions
I fell in love with the display of Playdate (https://play.date/), a handheld gaming device that very much inherits the ethos of the original Macintosh display. I'm not even a gamer and I hardly play games and yet I love that screen.
Google also has a significant stake and I believe is an early investor.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-to-use-...

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-partners-with-googl...
Not one of you are willing to admit that you collect people's contact info and then use it to spam them with completely unrelated product offerings/"news"/garbage for months/years after giving them the price-quote they asked for and the aggressive sales pitch they didn't ask for, only to later sell that same contact info to third parties as well regardless of if a sale was made? All the SaaS people here must be the exception I guess.
It’s not legal within the EU. So if you subscribe in the Netherlands, the provider can’t restrict you from using it in another EU country
Unfortunately the only answer is that we need to use less "disposable" plastic in the first place.
I guess I agree, but people seem to understand that corruption is bad. Many people don't seem concerned with conflict of interest. It's baffling to me.

I remember having discussions with people as long ago as the early 2000's about it. I don't remember the specific instance, but I remember thinking "am I the only one who cares about this??"
Evolution is an abstract concept, and abstract concepts cannot be “intelligent” (whatever that means). This is like saying that gravity or thermodynamics are “intelligent”.
I'm ok with hospitals not paying taxes. In fact it would be great if they got tax credits. Any taxes imposed on hospitals will just make health care cost more and not provide any benefit to society.
> Charities pay the same price for phone service, postage, salaries, rent etc. Yet we’d have a complex infrastructure for deciding if they should get a break on one line item, taxes. Sawing off that whole infrastructure would simplify things greatly.

I mean, they often don't pay the same prices. Recognized organizations often have a lower price option for many services. Landlords often charge below market rent to charities. Utilities often have a lower tariff for charities. Charities may not have to pay sales tax, so the goods they need are less expensive (yeah, that's another tax, but). Nonprofit Mail is printed material eligible to be mailed as USPS Marketing Mail® at significantly reduced nonprofit postage rates. [1]

Salaries sure, except there's a good amount of people who will work for less or free, if it's for a charity they find compelling.

Qualifying for the break on income taxes drives the discounts on all the other things.

[1] https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-Nonprofit-Mail
In a recent cybersecurity event, proprietary internal plugins and configurations used by Apple for their self-hosted Atlassian Confluence and Jira instances were leaked. This data breach exposed custom backend and frontend plugins designed for use with on-premise Atlassian Confluence and Jira systems, including authentication handlers integrated with Apple’s internal AppleConnect authentication system, as well as a custom Confluence UI theme for the HMTS (Hardware, Manufacturing, and Test Solutions) division, among other data. This analysis provides a detailed technical breakdown of the leaked files, the potential security implications, and recommendations for mitigating similar risks.

Contrary to initial publications, the leaked data does not include internal Apple tools, but instead, contains internal custom integrations to connect Apple proprietary authentication systems to Atlassian Jira and Confluence, for SSO authentication within the Apple corporate network. Based on information contained within the leaked data, the source code handles the authentication to retail-confluence.apple.com, a Confluence server which is not routable on the public internet.
HAL.dll was intended to solve the exact same problem as device trees. That's why there's custom HAL.dlls for weird x86 but not PC platforms like some of the SGI boxes. Stuff like sure, it's the same processor arch, but the interrupt controllers, system bus, etc are completely different and not introspectable via normal PC mechanisms.

The issue is that WoA kernels have moved away from heavily embracing hal.dll, instead inlining a lot of functions into the kernel that used to be hal.dll functions for perf reasons. If they kept the original architecture it would have been easy, but they've changed it fairly recently to be less portable.
I think it's lame.
Also for developers - please integrate system TTS (it's free), with configurable speed setting. Ideally I would love to have it start speaking right away, and at 1.5x speedup.

Or at least make it not destroy the text selection when it ends generating a response. I always select and speak the answer, but various LLM UIs are careless about how they update the DOM with respect to text selection stability.
And of course no one ever says this. It's always presented as a "if you do it the right way, and do it enough, then it just works", which is definitely bullshit and even starts to trigger my cult response.

After a month and a half of intensive study that made no difference whatsoever, I'm pretty much done. The marginal benefits don't at all seem worth the extreme effort.

Now I just write instead. It's far more relaxing.
https://archive.is/xRfRu
The game engine side of Roblox has always been Lua, and they have their own GUI classes//paradigm for making UI with the game engine.

What someone did was port react/redux to Roblox to run on top of the game engine UI primitives + Lua instead of html/css/js. Basically, they ported a more ergonomic way to develop and handle UI to Roblox because the primitives suck (I remember when we used to have to made UI out of 3D game objects and do a bunch of math to map them to the viewport and sync them every frame because Robloxs official stance was they didn't want to recreate flash - can you imagine?! video games without 2D UI elements!).

My first exposure to programming was Roblox over a decade ago, and kids were doing some pretty cool things even back then. If you're just a consumer of the games, then yeah it's a silly place where you're exposed to slurs//internet culture at large. But if you're actually developing things with the engine, even silly stupid things, it's a wonderful playground for math and programming concepts.
Full paper at https://www.cureus.com/articles/141805-zinc-supplementation-... and not this summary.

Key limitations: They only used 5 papers

> There were limitations to this study. A small number of studies were assessed, only five were chosen for mortality analysis with a total sample size of 1,474 patients, and two were chosen for symptomology with a sample size of 391 patients. The design of the studies chosen limits the conclusions made in this study regarding mortality as three of the studies are retrospective studies and only two are randomized control trials for mortality. Both papers that assessed symptomology were randomized control trials. Between studies, zinc formulations were different, and in some cases, zinc was given in combination with other drugs.

3 of those studies were retrospectives, 2 were randomized studies. One of those randomized studies was halted for "futility" at zinc treatment.

I'm suspicious about the conclusions.
If smaller/early stage shops adopt SSO and other sensible practices early on, it makes scaling easier and cheaper in the long run.

I’ve gone through a few “migrations to SSO” after years of non-SSO with customers in the past and it’s a fucking expensive nightmare.
You can pretty closely simulate a non-profit with a for-profit enterprise with a bit of "clever accounting" as long as you're not taking profits out.

Once they come out, they get taxed, as salary or distributions.

What the for-profit ALSO gets taxed on is "income" but if you manufacture expenses you can keep your income low or non-existent (this is what companies do when they transfer their IP to a tax haven and then charge themselves for it).
I haven't looked at the topic since we created the fork, and I'm surprised people weren't still arguing about it. There were a lot of vary passionate people in the beginning, but very few of them actually contributed and most of them left pretty quickly.
I doubt that it will deter accusatory responses, and you may get a few yourself! But it's helpful to disambiguate intent and I personally appreciate it.
> literally 50x

This is literally not the case. The pricing is nowhere near 50x - in fact if you negotiate the rates are only marginally higher than the tier below it.

FWIW - the sentiment I get here is that the gripe isn't necessarily the pricing (you notice how no one has quoted specific increases?) but that they have to pick up the phone to talk to someone for what they believe to be such a small feature.

> There are many 100 person scale ups that are pre-profit for who the hassle of managing separate accounts for X SaaS tools for 100+ people

So you're telling me that a company is complaining that they have to pay extra money for features that reduce their administrative burden and limit their risk, thereby costing them less money? Explain that one to me...

> There are many 100 person scale ups that are pre-profit

Also, put yourself in the seat of the owner of a software provider, would you rather win the sales opportunities of 10,000s of businesses that aren't pre-profit or the hundreds of businesses that match your criteria? I know who I'd be marketing to...
Recently my township in southern york county pa made recycling a lot more costly and thus MANY are no longer are recycling. Society embraced the plastics industries (like the tobacco industry of the past.. smoking is healthy) drum banging that recycling is good, yet and of course years later we hear their drum banging was driven by money and greed ... such changed society into you must recycle to past few years we are hearing nothing is recycled. Thus I do not recycle (MANY others here no longer do too) because its costly now and as well was anything really being recycled (what to believe?).

What i do rather is buy a few Fuji waters and reuse them throughout a month. OVerall when i was recycling or whatever i was doing i would drink 6 small bottles of water a day and put them in the recycle bin. Im definitely now using a ton less plastic.
Oh, I wasn't thinking orchards. I thought OP was talking about row crops which can't feasibly be irrigated with hoses.
If you know you are way over priced, anyone shopping for the best price will never choose you - therefore they aren't a "real potential customer".
> Then you've got the "Bullet Cluster"[2] - where two colliding galaxies have had their observable and dark matter masses apparently separated. MOND can't explain this one without a lot of tweaking

The bullet cluster is so over-played as a refutation of MOND. "A lot of tweaking" basically reduces to adding sterile neutrinos, as one possible solution. All galactic clusters have issues in both MOND and LCDM, the bullet cluster was nothing new when it was discovered, it was just visually dramatic because they could image the gravitational lensing.

> but it's pretty trivial for DM: electromagnetically interacting matter is "sticky" where as gravity only matter isn't.

Actually LCDM can't explain the bullet cluster either:

https://tritonstation.com/2024/02/06/clusters-of-galaxies-ru...

As always, MOND and LCDM appear to just trade off one set of issues for other equally problematic set of issues. Neither is favoured very strongly by the sum of evidence. Physicists have just gotten in the habit of ignoring all of the problems with LCDM and consider even trivial problems with MOND to be fatal.

> relativity is stupidly, reliably accurate under every single test we put it through, to absurd levels of precision

Those precise tests do not extend to galactic scales, which is exactly where the problems appear. It would be nice if our existing theory worked across all scales, but that doesn't mean it must.
Nikhil is the Hambini of the AI industry.
(Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, though not on .NET)

In defense of Java, the canonical JRE/JDK implementation has been OpenJDK for quite some time now, and there are many non-Oracle spins of it.

As for .NET, while it is currently good and I personally enjoy it, I'm a little wary on it too. Unlike with Java, where decision making is distributed in some fashion (as far as I can tell), Microsoft has retained nearly total control of .NET, and key parts of the ecosystem like the debugger are still under non-OSS licensing terms.
>That’s because most of them are still in progress.

What? You know AI has been around since before ChatGPT.
This has been the strategy of every political party to hold office in the UK for as long as I've been alive.

There is always some privacy-defeating 'online safety' bill going through the parliament. Every time it gets knocked down, but almost immediately returns with slightly different wording.
Nothing at all. Some people just prefer copyleft licenses and use hyperbole like "disrespectful" and "dangerous" to attack software with permissive licenses.
„…the letter then complaints some of its signees cannot use it for their work. "Work that could easily include productions for your very own Apple TV+ service," it states.“

Source: https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/04/19/video-editors-dem...

I wouldn’t exactly call that popular or successful.

Logic Pro is quite widely in use in some areas though.
> Don’t tax hospitals, but tax pharmaceutical companies?

Hospitals, to maintain their nonprofit status, have to provide charitable contributions. One way is when patients apply for payment reduction or discharge because they can not afford to pay. Patients need to apply for this so they have documentation to give the IRS.

> Don’t tax pharmaceutical companies, but tax the income of doctors?

How often do you ask a doctor to work for free? They still get paid by the hospital.

Yes, pharmaceutical companies, which as far as I know are private, also have something like this. This is preventing media coverage and Congress imposing max cap on prices on public assistance programs (prices private insurance will use for leverage) so they can keep charging what they want.

> I think the point of the article is that it’s really hard to make these judgments and doing way with the whole system entirely makes the most sense, which seems reasonable to me.

The point of this article is to attack the nonprofit competitors to their due paying members. They gloss over many details and as I posted elsewhere; they even defensive of the tax loopholes of their due paying members.
Notes on Tajikistan
lol what?

> Treat your customers as shit etc.

They aren't your customers unless they start paying you. That's the point.
Are you hiring? I've been a freelance written communication developer for 20 years.
The Ascent of Humanity
A buffer overflow in the XNU kernel
> Aerojet is the sub on this system. Surely they understand propulsion well and it is unfortunate that Boeing's name is taking the hit.

From what I can tell, Aerojet is hot garbage.

They tried to build a new engine for NASA during Constellation and their incompetence is one of the (many) reasons the program got cancelled.

They tried to build a new engine to compete with Blue Origin over the Vulcan 1st stage contract and lost. To a company which had never built an engine with a preburner before.

I know they've got a lot of heritage, but the only worthwhile engine they currently make (RL-10) is a variant of a decades old design. I'm entirely unsurprised that the service module they're responsible for isn't working well.
I remember creating an X-Face[0] using Atkinson Dithering for my SeaMonkey add-on MessageFaces[1]!

You can create one online here[2], but it doesn't seem to support Atkinson for whatever reason.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face

[1]: https://github.com/JohnDDuncanIII/messagefaces

[2]: https://www.dairiki.org/xface/
A mega-dose of micro-benchmarks, Part 1 – Setting the stage
Have you read this? What critical thoughts have you?
Is the kernel of this advice to start with a known problem which is already solved with a paid service, and then just sell that service more efficiently? That's how I'm interpreting the "skip the R&D phase" idea. In that case I think the question becomes "why is this a better strategy for a startup", since this framing implies going after well-established markets with (at first) an undifferentiated product. Both 'productize' and 'automate' sound like things that incumbents would be able to do more effectively than startups, and likely has already happened in most cases silently in the background.
I don’t have a subscription either yet I managed to read it directly via the posted link. Please do so as well before asking more questions, unless of course, you’re just grinding an axe and the details would get in the way.

> So someone is sending free textile shipments to Africa?

Trash clothes are bundled with good clothes because proper disposal would be more costly.

> How is the demand "artificial", is someone masquerading as buyers?

There are no ultimate buyers for the trash clothes. They are imported only because they are bundled into good clothes. The importer has no export-side employee vetting the shipment. And the importer has no homeland authority with the power to ensure that the importer doesn’t eventually offload the disposal costs onto the environment and future generations. The exporter knows this and happily takes advantage (along with a little help from government power and threats to revoke “free-market” incentives, ironically).

> So is it about environmental issues, is it about protectionism, both?

It’s about protectionism and environmentalism as a reaction to the use of power in service of greed to offload home-grown externalities onto desperate third-world countries. Or, if you choose not to read the article, it’s just about environmentalism and protectionism and their evil anti-market ways. Your choice.
Nor that there should be just one family of interconnected fields. We’ve got, what, two dozen or so?

Some affect each other, some don’t. You can create a graph from that, and you get one that’s dense in places but have some nearly disconnected regions. Why not a graph with actual disjoint subgraphs? We’d only be able to tell through gravity.
Results will vary by image; I'm not sure the single comparison in TFA is the best possible source for comparison.
I recall seeing a small documentary about some people living in a small island community who were using destructive distillation to convert the absolute fuckload of plastic waste washing up on their beaches into fuel for generators and such.

I’ll have to go find it again, it seemed like an interesting “local” solution to a genuinely hard problem (plastic waste).
It’s still used every day in low-DPI label printing where dithering and pixel alignment are very important.
Correct. MOND cannot explain why some galaxies don't fit it's predicted rotation curve.

However, the vast majority do, and the linked paper says that the ones they are describing are extremely rare.
The British Isles is also a somewhat controversial term with colonial implications, and it's not used by the government of Ireland[1]. "Britain and Ireland" would be a safer bet, as the map doesn't include any other islands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_British_Isles
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model now available in Amazon Bedrock
This was the article that inspired me to study the MacPaint format. I ended up writing first a Python program that can do Atkinson dithering of a modern image and then save it as a MacPaint file for display on a retro Mac. That code is a chapter in my upcoming book. I then added 9 more 1-bit dithering algorithms and turned it into a Swift/AppKit app so it's easy to use if you want to Atkinson dither your own images and transfer them over to your retro Macs:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/retro-dither-b-w-is-beautiful/...
In Android using Firefox the button to go to the next challenge doesn't seem to work.
>Just because it doesn't use any JavaScript doesn't automatically mean it's a good website.

So true.

All other things being equivalent, it can make the difference though, if only for the user.
It's not, thanks.
If that was a joke, it didn't age well.
It's cherry-picked, but it's a combination of commercial tasking and discretionary tasking. There isn't much to read into in terms of the distribution, it's just one person's best guess at where there's likely to be a lot of diverse types of ships.
+1 the homepage is a wall of blue links a-la mid-90s. Hard to parse visually.
No, not entirely! Dithering is still very important for print media and for displays. I’m talking about dithering from 16 or 32 bits per channel, e.g. floating point and/or HDR, down to 8 bits per channel.

The dithering techniques like Floyd Steinberg and Atkinson taking 8 or 4 bits per channel down to 1 bit per channel are definitely anachronistic, but not dithering where the goal is 8 bits per channel.

I’ve made very expensive mistakes printing poster-sized art without using dithering, and you can end up with visible color-banding in gradients in the print that aren’t visible on a display. This is why we still need and still have dithering. This is the reason that Photoshop quietly dithers by default when you convert from 16 or 32 bits per channel down to 8 bits per channel.
No mention of Views? The one thing I'd love to understand and is missing vs. Rails/Laraval is an integrated solution of solving the View part of MVC I think?

Looks like a really beautiful framework.

EDIT: Nevermind, it's in the docs, just not on the main landing page so feels a little more secondary. TLDR they recommend you use Edge/Pug/Nunjucks, htmx, vite for css bundling. Nice!

https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/views-and-templates/introdu...
> Systemd 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home

That's why ransomware runs on Windows. On linux, with SystemD [1], there is nothing to ransom. /s

[1] I run Slackware.
It's mainly midwest Americans that like to tone police. People from the east coast, especially northern east coast, read this as comfort literature.
> emotionally binding citizens to a self-understood identity

In the vocabulary of Kurt Vonnegut, creating a "granfalloon".

https://granfalloon.indiana.edu/what-the-heck/index.html
Beautiful from a conceptual arm's-length distance, and clearly a massive effort invested in this. But I find myself asking who this is meant for?

A lot of unavoidable, but still quite subjective compromises had to be made to project the very high-n space addressed by this infographic into 2 representational dimensions. A lot of stuff got mapped to the zero vector here.

On that note, when I drill into the details I see things that are initially puzzling, such as the lineage starting from cartesian geometry seeming to end abruptly at vector calculus, to be resumed (but without guiding connectors) both above as forecasting, and a panel or so rightward as Markov Chains and further on, the somewhat loose cluster of concepts headed by the word "Transformers."

And... what's with all the hunched-over shoegazers? Are they here to pay off a debt? Their multiplicity and contextual disjointedness with respect to their surroundings somehow gives off MidJourney vibes. First time I've ever felt a pang of sympathy for clip-art.

It looks like the authors were inspired by those mind-bendingly complex biological cycle charts published by Roche, but didn't want to attempt the extremely tedious (and necessary, IMO) bird's nest business of cross-linking causally influenced (but rep-space remote) systems with a spaghetti of directed connectors and data detailing that those charts made famous.
So everyone is "way overpriced" then? Parent describes everyone, not just someone.