skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - We all secretly believe that deep down, everyone experiences thought like we do.

I wouldn't say that. What I would rather say is that everyone starts with the expectation that they share thought with others.

There is overwhelming empirical evidence that people can tell when others think like them. Not everybody treats this indicator the same way. Some are fascinated when others think differently. Some get uncomfortable when they can't tell what another is thinking or feeling.

I'm sure not everyone understands why there can be others that don't think like them. To a simple mind, it might just seem like there's something wrong with them or that they have unaligned goals/interests; you actually can see that assumption from certain neurotypicals. (I don't know if it's truly specific to neurotypicals.)

However, it is possible not to believe, even secretly, that everyone experiences thought the same; I certainly don't. I try my best to understand exactly how thought can differ between each person, of course, but in the process of doing that research, it does become abundantly clear just how much I don't know, and just how differently others think than how I do.
Or recursion :)
Apple obviously didn't originate the mobile OS, I can't help thinking these board level political, commercial and legal big-man shenanigans are of historical interest but not hugely relevant to guiding obvious technical paths other than in the stories some of them like to tell amongst themselves.
Don't the HN guidelines have something about "assuming good faith"? I can't be arsed to check now because obviously the comment above is not in good faith.

/s
Open Web Advocacy's Review of Apple's DMA Compliance Proposal
Postgres Schema Changes and Locking
So sort of memories of sickness
You recognized it. Tamarian does exactly that.

There's a subclass of 成语 the sense of which you can't even guess at unless you know the story:

- 塞翁失马 (Sai Weng Shi Ma) - Old man loses horse; a 5-fold story of riches-to-rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches = life is unpredictable

- 自相矛盾 (Zi Xiang Mao Dun) - Resemble spear and shield = unstoppable force meets indestructible object

The latter is so common that 矛盾 (Mao Dun) is the dictionary entry for "contradiction" in Chinese and Japanese.

Because 矛盾 is so common, the story 自相矛盾 (=etymology) gets taught only later to native speakers. Similarly, consider the surprising etymology of word "rob", deriving from "robe" [1].

Consider also:
- "Seven at One Blow" [2] = bamboozle

This proverb everyone knows, yet nobody uses it. It only cumbersomely embeds in a sentence; "bamboozle" is briefer.
But 成语 do easily embed in Chinese or any phrase does in Tamarian.

1: https://www.etymonline.com/word/robe
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_Little_Tailor
> Honestly, it might sound weird, but macOS feels like the offline Windows experience of old to me. In fact, the operating system tends to stay classy and out of my way as far as possible.

It does sound weird to be hoenst, as this has not been my experience at all. My Macs have never felt like my own, and the obtrusiveness has been of a different form.

But reading through, my experience with Win10/11 has been slightly different as well. I haven't come back the next morning to find it 'broken', so I do wonder if it's about use cases and regional settings too - after all, isn't there a reduced jank in the European zones?
This is a myth.

V compiles itself in <1s, can translate entire DOOM, has a working kernel/OS (Vinix), 10k+ PRs, 600+ contributors etc.

While the bad track record you mention is about junk like git/libc dependencies and system("curl") (doesn't happen).

Can you list actual lies?
That was literally given to him/Apple, with Xerox's permission. Being given something is never theft.
(The entire "pretense" [even that] of it ever having been your computer while running a Microsoft OS is just coming off. We have reached the point were it either does not pay or does not matter to keep the "pretense" on.-

And this, in a "paid" OS. One, on top of everything, where - other than money - you are paying with compute and ever increasing disk space for "updates" to cover the vendor's incompetence incorporating bug fixes on the fly ...

In no other area of human industry is this model tolerared: Would you buy a car only to gradually receive better (correct) tires aftermarket?)
IIR, ELIZA-type AI was considered very good for mental health uses.

(Yes, appropriate and supervised uses.)
Is there an example of a drug that hasn't gotten cheaper over time?
Assuming we're talking about the Mac, which "non approved software" can you not install? I have brew and ports installed and can install tons of stuff. I was even looking into macFUSE to enable NFS but didn't end up finishing the setup. It requires unlocking some parts of the OS and I didn't feel comfortable doing that right now.
> I only skimmed the article, but I don't think they mention the size of the image. 100ms is not that impressive when you consider that you need to be three times as fast for acceptable video frame rate.

You don't need three times as fast for acceptable video frame rates in a video editor, you need a system that allows you to cache "rendered" frames so when the user does an edit, it renders to this cache, then once done, the user can play it back in real-time.

This is essentially how all video editors handle edits on clips/video today. Some effects/edits can be applied in real-time, but the more advanced one (I'd say background removal being one of them) works with this type of caching system.
I know that a few years back before WSL was even a thing someone at Microsoft "leaked" that some departments were using macOS almost exclusively. I would be surprised if the decision makers who force all that crap into Edge actually dogfood the product. WSL, Azure and Windows Terminal are a different story though, which might explain why they hold up and aren't overloaded with bullshit.
Xerox the company gave it away seeing no commercial value in the invention.
So much hate yet I'm sure you can't even list 3 reasons to hate V.
It's not structured like C code would be, but some parts of the code itself read like older C++ with labeled break/continue, e.g. this function: https://github.com/jamespfennell/new-typesetting-system/blob...
the goal was to not have any dependencies.

mininext has a clean package.json

It is just 3 files of modest size that are understandable in an afternoon.

You can also copy and paste and vendor the hmr part.

Someone even forked mininext to create micronext.

My goal is to compete with php. So I added some quality of life features. But if people want to go turbo minimalistic I can respect that.

I just wouldn't add a dependency for hmr when it is so easy to do with a small snippet.
I love windows. I hate how they are degrading the experience too. Testing where the line in the sand is very short sighted.
I might not have complete aphantasia, when trying to imagine an apple I struggle to imagine it beyond a circular form with a rod pertruding from an indent at the top. No color, no texture. As soon as I try to add more detail the previously imagined details dissapear and I have to circle back and reimagine them. Like having a very limited amount of draw calls every frame.

But I don't feel like I am impacted in imagining simple algorithms. I also construct them of very simple forms and rearrange them in my mind. I also feel like it is a lot easier for me to imagine things „automatically“ due to it being memories or being a byproduct of thinking about something. But my mind struggles constructing these images at will.

Also taking a pen and drawing these things up can replace some of the missing imaginary power :)
Show HN: Cypress-Studio-like Chrome Extension that turns API calls into fixtures
I find that the slowest part of writing Cypress tests is creating fixtures to mock API calls. So I’ve created this Chrome Extension to bootstrap Cypress tests with API calls automatically stubbed.

Similar to Cypress Studio and existing Chrome extensions, it records all user actions during a session and creates a Cypress test file. But it also listens to all fetch/XHR calls made during the session and outputs a directory of fixtures, which are automatically used in the test file to stub API calls.

Alternatively, you can disable mocking and the generated test file will automatically alias and wait for API calls to return (reducing flakiness in e2e tests without arbitrary waits).

More details and a link to Chrome Web Store in the readme.

Still early stage but any feedback would be appreciated!
Another way to view it: slow builds is a poor man’s feature, that punishes you for bringing in too many deps.

The JS ecosystem (speaking as an omnivore using many languages) suffers two big problems:

1. Tooling is too fragmented and complex and poorly designed. This includes even the standard tools and formats like npm and package.json.

2. There’s a weak culture of API stability. Leave a project for 3 months and there are new config files, plugin formats, etc.

It’s improving slowly through standardization with things like ES modules. But it’s still a Wild West.
They are in Europe, and heavily criticized on HN everytime they regulate.

I love GDPR, yet so many complain about it for cookie banners, which are not even what the law requires: There Is No Cookie Banner Law (https://www.bitecode.dev/p/there-is-no-eu-cookie-banner-law)
> Do your Human Design profile and see how much it fits.

How would one do that? Is there a website for it, or something? I tried looking it up and it purportedly uses date and place of birth, but those hardly have anything to do with me, so I don't see how that calculation could be any more useful than, say, a star sign.

The concepts seem interesting for sure, just not sure how to find what applies to me.
This is false. I don’t use Apple Pay and I have lots of tickets and such. You don’t add them from within the Wallet app. The Apple Pay prompt is shown whenever you don’t have any passes or whatever in the wallet.

Try adding some passes and see.
How do you know if you have it?
I have aphantasia. I don't see / imagine imagery either awake or asleep. So I don't know that my dreaming experience is particularly different from my waking experience in this way.
You pretend to have a principle that the government should not interfere, but you carve out an exception whenever the principle bothers Apple. You'll always find something, I'm sure.
> The idea that if legislation is not perfectly crafted it’s bad is ridiculous.

I literally never said that. I said it was unclear and a “wait and see” strategy is completely valid given the uncertainty.

Not only do I not believe that the EU is somehow better at changing and adapting laws but I wasn’t making any of the arguments you seem to be replying to. Also I’d love to hear who you think are “non bad faith actors” w.r.t. the DMA.
This is the sort of thing we do in HFT to get single instruction calls and save nanos in places that get called many many thousands of times a second.
Boye likens Spanish judge's amnesty law dodge to delusions of psychotropic drugs
If somebody told me "image you are walking a winding path. To your right there is a wood, to your left there is a mountain".

The image I see in my mind is basically an empty paper, with an arrow pointing to the left labeled "mountain", an arrow to the right labeled "wood", and an arrow to the middle labeled "path". Maybe, maybe the mountain is represented with two lines /\ and the path is a winding line ~~~ but that is already pushing it.

These kind of "mind-travels" are sometimes done at end of yoga classes. For me, they are complete pointless, and I usually fall asleep.

I have also great problems identifying faces, don't know if there is a connection.

On the other hand, I can vividly imagine sounds, including voices and music.
It's hard to see how preserving phase information translates to immunity to distortion from air turbulence. Entanglement has physical binding properties akin to gravity or electrostatic attraction? The source article says this is still a work in progress:

https://source.wustl.edu/2024/05/quantum-physics-may-help-la...

Photons can "protect each other"? If this is true then is entanglement the source of dark energy/matter?
AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol
> Would you buy a car only to gradually receive better (correct) tires aftermarket?

Isn't that what Tesla did with "Full Self-Driving"? And people are buying Teslas like crazy
Its one optional line in a header that you don't even need to use if you don't want to. But sure, lets throw out the baby with the bathwater. The fact that JSON cannot have comments is a far more serious drawback than a single line at the top of the document.
Lmao, I'd love for this utopia, which has been completely achievable for decades now but you know...prevented by endlessly chasing profit and making the rich richer.

So many people are guilty of it on HN as well; as rich tech workers your hackles raise when I suggest things like making owning second homes illegal. We're all part of the problem.
Close your eyes. Do you see anything?
A probabilistic solution to the three-body problem (2021)
> WebGPU is at least one year away of becoming usable for cross browser deployment.

In Firefox it seems to be behind a feature flag and Safari seems to have it in it's "Technology Preview" (some sort of release candidate?), so seems closer that I at least though.
Ironic coming from a gullible person calling a legit open source project a scam.
Fortunately gcc does not miscompile like this: https://godbolt.org/z/PaeaohqGz
Why is v a scam? Genuinely curious, I don't know much about it besides it being a c++ competitor.
This is my opinion as well. Every MMO I’ve played since WoW felt like WoW-lite. If I wanted to spend a ton of my time playing a MMO why not play the OG instead of the copy-cats?
I am not talking about my own experience, though.

I'm talking about what I see in the world. The people who own Apple watches and iPhones who rarely even take the phone out of their pocket/bag any more. The folks whose light switches are never used or who are even getting them removed. The people who don't use things like kitchen timers any more. The disappearance of physical or local music/video collections.

I think these trends are observable and widespread.

Me? I don't go near any of them, myself.
Identifying Leap Years (2020)
i think in the website
https://daylighttablet.com/
they provided genuine review about the Daylight computer
I'm trying Fedora as my 3rd distro after pop os and mint right now, and scaling is a constant issue on 4k+1080 secondary, while on Windows it just works straight away after display drivers are installed
OnShape works well enough for most hobbyist uses of CAD, and runs fine on Linux. It’s quite a bit better than 360 IMO.
How so? A DB schema is not visual: it's something that lives inside a DBMS. Boxes with arrows is a way to represent it. Text is another one.
I don't since I use debian.
> History shows us

Does it?

Contrary to popular belief, it wasn’t slaves who built the pyramids. We know this because archaeologists have located the remains of a purpose-built village for the thousands of workers who built the famous Giza pyramids, nearly 4,500 years ago.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/were-the-egyptian-pyram...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt#Great...
Are you required to become a chartered civil engineer to build a house for your dog?

But the software developer who’se code handles personal information of 10 million million people should know that you don’t store them in plain text, which developers and business leaders at Virgin Media did not know, and if you click ‘forgot password’ they would send you a letter with you password In The Mail
Colorado law bans PFAS in consumer goods
It definitely makes a difference, there are some runelite plugins (both allowed and against the rules) which make pvp easier for those using them. I think almost all players think that the improvements to the game we get from plugins outside pvp are worth the negative aspects of their use in pvp.

There are also straight up bots people use sometimes in pvp which aren't possible for any human to fight. They can react to what you do instantly and perfectly, you can't really touch them. They're very rare though, the people who are capable of making them keep them expensive and uncommon.
Even heads of government are often not directly elected. Plenty of parliamentary democracies select their head of government based on which ever party got the most votes, and thus their leader becomes the head of government.

In Germany for example you don’t vote for the chancellor directly, you vote for local politicians and nation wide parties, and the winning party or coalition then decides who becomes the head of government. But at no point is there a direct vote to choose the chancellor.
It's a social filter:

- it brings the attention of people liking the tech

- it associates the tool with the values that come with the language and community

- it's a shortcut for explaining things you know most people will assume about the stack
Wayland is not trying to do enough. You can send pixels to a compositor - great. It turns out a desktop is more than just pixels sent to a compositor. It turns out X11 has a lot of stuff because there is a lot of stuff to do. It could be simplified somewhat, producing incompatible X12, but not simply thrown away along with all the accumulated knowledge. It's literally the Joel Spolsky "never rewrite Netscape" effect in action. Wayland has now spent nearly a decade reaccumulating a part of the same knowledge that was already known, but worse.
That is outrageous. It also cannot be blamed on Hindley Milner. While HM in theory has exponential worst case time, the constructs to trigger it for OCaml and Standard ML are far more complex, carefully constructed and never occur in practice.

OCaml does have +. for floats to make type checking easier, but Standard ML does not. Also, if Swift has operator overloading, why isn't it instantly clear that the RHS is an int, which can be assigned to a double?

This just looks like a performance bug in the type checker, and nothing that is inherent to HM.
Only if they spend a lot of time talking about how bad everyone else is, which seems to be common on hn.
Just another data point, but yes. I can dream quite vividly, exactly the way people describe visualizing things day to day.
> There were a whole range of specific actions that occurred that resulted in an investigation as it should.

One of the FBI lawyers involved plead guilty to a felony false statement charge. They were literally making up pretexts to spy on the Trump campaign. I think the issue here is when you talk about "legitimate" you mean that you are happy enough to see the FISA system used as an internal political club. There is no way that it is being used legitimately, we're in the opening stages of a process where every single incoming US president is going to have their communications examined by the incumbent's administration. Or at least when the party in power changes.

There isn't anything special about Trump here. He turned out not to be doing anything suspicious, or they'd be going after him for it (or have gone after people in his campaign). Ergo, any clean candidate is probably suspicious enough to warrant surveillance.
https://archive.md/aWHFT
Did you read the paper? According to the authors, mathematics isn't a "language" in this sense.
The LLM can verify e.g. transistors by looking at the curves in the datasheet.
Jai is a lot slower atm than at 2018, and feature-wise it is closer to C than to Swift with 2 different purposes.

Swift compiler time is spend mostly on LLVM stuff and it isn't much slower than other modern LLVM languages (Rust/Julia etc.) <ofc. this don't count this very specific complex type checks that are super slow>
In what way did X11 get worse and worse? It's one of the most stable protocols in use - outliving HTTP, IIRC. It didn't change - our expectations did. Sure, there are incremental improvements to be made, and incremental improvements that have been made, all of which are optional and therefore couldn't have made it worse.
Human Design seems like unscientific babbling to me. First of all the connection to astrology should already be a huge red flag and it mixes random stuff and magically we come up with four personality types (then later a fifth one is "discovered"). Shockingly these can be arranged into exactly twelve profiles.

It may be surprising to you but as someone who is well read in mentalism I can fairly confidently tell you that a 95% match is not hard to fabricate in readings. Admittedly is the area of mentalism I don't perform but I have read plenty of theory. Your HD reading was probably based on Barnum statements/cold reading. If you're interested to learn more about this I'd suggest "The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading" by Ian Rowland. For a more fun exercise, get a reading at a medieval fair or from some "medium" (please don't pay a lot) and compare it to your HD reading.
> where the hell are regulators?

We have killed them. If a government tries to do anything against a company that isn't a perfect 1:1 mapping to an explicit thing in the law that they are breaking, the company will sue back and win. And if they try to pass such a law, the biggest companies are powerful enough to get rid of them next term, so they don't even try.
Reading through this thread as an user of Windows from the EU most of the issues I see mentioned here are just non-existent, like OneDrive nagging that has never happened to me
When you read a word relating to something you've seen or regularly experienced, how is that processed by your mind?

For example if you were asked to draw and color a basketball, how would you approach the task without 'seeing' something in your mind?
Have you ever taken a hallucinogen?
YouTube has a vested interest to work best on Chrome.
I don't think he said the legislation was bad. It's accomplishing exactly what it set out to do.
That’s pretty similar, from the sound of it. The flattening analogy fits - it’s like trying to describe a multidimensional sculpture using only three letter words.

As to the big processor - I definitely do the same if no answer is immediately forthcoming - send it to the boys upstairs and wait for an answer, which usually comes while I’m in the middle of a conversation about something else entirely.

Puns, to an extent, although more often than not I just go off up and down an etymological tree, as the semantics behind so many words and concepts reveal further layers of interconnection and peculiar shreds of history. Physics is my play park, where I enjoy posing and chewing on gnarly problems, which often result in “inadequate data, please try again later”. Didn’t make me popular as an undergraduate as I asked all sorts of awkward questions about presuppositions and usually ended with a professor waving their arms and telling me to just accept it as so. “Dark matter” was what made me finally spit on the ground and decide to not pursue academia, as it’s just so blatantly wrong, and it hurts to see so many accept it as a hard done and dusted solution to something that is anything but solved - because our presuppositions are almost certainly wrong. Piles upon piles of monkeys supposing that they are the centre of the universe, with the perfect sensorium to know it.

Anyway. Like I say, I find it hard to see eye to eye with a majority of people, and I know I don’t make it any easier for myself.
This is also the game that make a big spectacle out of banning players who get caught using bots because it’s such a problem
Weird, all the Microsoft engineers I know all use Surfacebooks with WSL.

Is that different from the Microsoft engineers you're friends with?