skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A rather weak argument when you consider what kind of mechanisms (like a digital clock with working seven-segment display) people have been programming / put together in Conway's Game of Life; to me this does not suggest in any way or manner that GoL could ever be my favored platform to simulate a digital clock (or anything more complex than a glider for that matter). Likewise vacuum cleaners and toothbrushes have likely been made hosts for playing doom, and people accomplish all kinds of stuff like quines and working software in brainf*ck. None of these feats are indicative of the respective platform being suitable or the right tool for a sizable number of programmers.
Same thing will happen on macOS with SharePoint/OneDrive. Found that out the hard way last week.
> Netflix will only send you "high quality" streams on certain browsers [...] that support Encrypted Media Extensions.

They won't send you anything at all unless you have EME, coupled to a supported DRM engine. Getting >1080p requires a "more secure" DRM engine (e.g. Widevine L1, PlayReady SL3000)
Where are the people from the Indian subcontinent. The people who we know are a large plurality working at Google in the image set?
Much like autism, every time one of these articles comes up, half the population of HackerNews says they have it.

Where do we get this idea that there's a "normal", and everything outside of that requires some special diagnosis?
A masterful comment, well done good sir/madam.

For the young'uns, "Shirley" is a reference to a cultural phenomenon in the early 80's through early 90's around a line that would go something like this: "Surely it's an operating system file. Yes of course, but don't call me Shirley!" It was started by a popular movie, but became widespread throughout the culture.

Alternatively, it could have been a speech to text accident and I'm reading way too much into it. I choose to disregard that possibility. Shirley you understand.
To maintain customer loyalty and minimize backlash
You get a pass; the title was being overly gratuitous.
If people like me are in the audience, they might be worse than useless.
Those who saved blobs for iOS 16.3.1 can run VMs on their jailbroken Apple Silicon iPad.

https://x.com/utmapp/status/1708907045314035986

Apple removed Hypervisor support from XNU in iOS 16.4. Here is a diff of iOS 16.3.1 and iOS 16.4. What this means is that even if a jailbreak/TrollStore comes out for iOS 16.6.1/17.0, there will not be UTM virtualization support, even on M1/M2 iPads.

MacOS app to save blobs: https://github.com/airsquared/blobsaver
Bringing in Qt, and PIPS (P.I.P.S. Is POSIX on Symbian OS), in a Eclipse based IDE (Carbide), helped make the development experience much better, but then came Elop and ruined everything, with management's board help.
One of the many satisfying things about local volunteering is that 100% of your investment goes to the cause, and you get a first person view on what tools or materials the team/club/class could use if you're thinking of donating more than just your time.
My ~/bin directory is not directly version controlled. It primarily consists of symlinks, often stripping file extensions from shell scripts (e.g., ~/bin/foobar links to ~/src/foobar.sh) I have just enough python scripts and go binaries to make me think it's worth separating src and bin.

~/src is a git repo. One script evolved into its own project and became a submodule within ~/src.

For configuration files like ~/.foobar_rc and directories such as ~/.vim/, they again are not directly version controlled but are symlinked into ~/etc which is. I don't see any reason that ~/.foobar_rc couldn't be a hardlink, but it's not in my setup.

I used to maintain a single repository at ~ that included ~/src and ~/etc as submodules, with a build script for setting up links. Always being within a git repository became cumbersome, so I moved the build tools into their respective directories (~/src and ~/etc) and now clone and build each repository manually.

Lastly, since private repos aren't (weren't?) free, those submodule repos are really just branches of the same repo that share no common ancestors.
It's small compared to the size of the card, sure, but not small for typical modern lithography techniques.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40761536
It still is a slow language that does not offer anything over competitors that are an order of magnitude faster to justify its performance characteristics.
> There might be ways to reduce the emissions of cows in the future (different feeds, gut biome interventions, bioengineering), but right now these are science fiction.

I thought there's already research showing that seaweed in the cow's diet drastically reduces methane emissions.
You may be overthinking / part imagining it: self-calibration is hard.

And in any case experience is as useful as raw ability in getting things done.

I'm now ancient (late 50s) and recently had to step away from my start-up as CTO since we sold the IPR, but instead I am doing a part-time PhD (just had my first paper published) and may become a fractional CTO for a friend's business. For the last I won't be racing the tech staff on coding speed or code performance, but I think that decades of delivering such stuff can help them do it and get credit for it.
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I don't think this is controversial but HGVs tend to have even more stringent traffic laws, ones that cars don't have to follow. In my country HGVs have lower speed limits than cars, for example. I don't think this is controversial but it would be strange for cars to follow rules that only apply to HGVs.
What are you specifically denying ?
1) the increase in temperature on the planet
2) the danger from increase temperature?
3) the human origin of temperature increase?

Enlighten us with motivation why you think a ton of studies on each of this items is wrong.
Renga 1.26 – An XMPP client for HaikuOS
Sure but most people aren't in to resistance training. They're in to high fructose corn syrup, processed foods, and sedentary lifestyles. I wondered which product generates higher returns: protein powders or statins? Actually according to Google the former is USD$28B and the latter is only USD$20B at the moment. I'd expect the latter to grow and the former to shrink.
what language was the system build with? thats super cool!
1929 :-) https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
I do tend to think I live a bit more in the present because of aphantasia. However, I also do have an experiential memory. It's not great, and largely not visual, and to the degree there are any visual elements they're pretty useless, like burnt fragments of a Polaroid. I think you're kinda having a hard time imagining this condition.
I see vivid images of pretty much everything except faces. Faces are blurry (but then I can't recognize people's faces in the street and instead rely heavily on contextual clues, what they were, etc...)
Yes! You are right and my gears were grinding the whole time reading that article because right of the bat they make some gross and incorrect assumptions.

A box plot isn't trying to show the same thing a histogram is, it's like saying we should stop using Venn diagrams because they confuse people when trying to show the exact amount of overlap, so pie charts are better...

It's silly.
It depends on what the elements are mixed with in high concentrations and which separation pathways need to be used.
In a less balanced both-sides view Ruby as a social construct is an outlier, monkey patching being (rightly so IMHO) regarded as a more-than-questionable practice in most other mainstream PL communities. I mean, yeah, GOTO can be used for good and for evil, and so can GOSUB 200.
> Picture a world where you can walk around New York City and everything you need is falling out of windows onto you.

A funny way of criticizing something. Great commentary.
Sleep is the key. Repeated lack of sleep has an extreme impact on cognition and memory retrieval.

A few things that have helped me:

#1 sleep in a completely dark room. A specialist MD shared this insight with me and it changed my life. I also use an eye mask and white noise machine.

#2 use a call recording tool on your internal meetings that can summarize notes. Being able to go back “in time” to a call often has enabled me to reload the entire interaction just watching a few min of the call.

#3 rely on your team. As a leader you get the benefit of the doubt that you are covering a lot, so I’ve made a ritual of just asking people to restate our last interaction and where they are at now with any updates. Again, simple thing but helps trigger my memory

Good luck!
I support your general thrust in spirit, but I think "monopoly" isn't a helpful frame here. Consumers have a glut of options in streaming services: Prime, Max, AppleTV, Hulu, even YouTube (contrast with one of the classic monopolies, AT&T, which for many was the only game in town, unless you consider "write a letter to your friend instead" to be a valid substitution good).

I feel the correct frame is the general category of "market power" (including, but not limited to, the "anti-competitive practices" that forms the basis of current regulatory policy).

In the case of streaming, the closest analogue to monopolization is vertical integration: the custom-produced content which is only accessible on a particular streaming platform (sometimes including no releases on physical media).

On the one hand, Netflix could be considered to have a monopoly over the distribution of "Squid Game" (and Prime over "The Boys", Apple over "Silo", etc), meaning they can raise prices, not for the product itself, but for the "club goods" distribution platform, which the consumer may not be interested in otherwise.

On the other hand, entertainment/culture are not the same kind of "inelastic demand" necessity as telephone service in the past, or internet service now. And when we look at actual outcomes, I'd say quality for vertically-integrated productions are better on average than older business models; and while prices are going up, I wouldn't call them ridiculous price-gouging either (in addition to competing with each other, the streaming services are also competing with piracy and password-sharing).

Anyway, I think it's absolutely the case that enshittification isn't inevitable, and we should be wary of succumbing to learned helplessness in the face of capital consolidation. I would claim it's a "natural expected process" of the shareholder corporation, and the perverse incentives of short-term profits and stock prices, even when it comes at the expense of long-term brand equity. But solving that general problem is probably out of scope for "the bitrate is too damn low and the subscription fees are too damn high".

I'd love to see more regulation in the space, but realistically it'd be tricky (I don't expect any Doctorow-approved abolition of DRM, or mandatory interoperability, anytime soon). One could perhaps establish streaming-quality standards, where a company couldn't advertise "4K" unless it hit some threshold. But when it comes to the issue of streaming quality in particular, I suspect the tragic reality is that the majority of users simply won't notice or care.
There are lots of apps to plan and track one's investments. Maybe there should be an app to track one's donations too.

If I could see a history of what was the ROI (in terms of money spent on actual programs) of my monthly donations, and also easily reallocate those donations to other charities, I'd certainly check up on that app every once in a while.
I think that's a fair take, it really does depend on which platform(s) you're developing for too.

And you're probably correct that Adobe has a larger share overall, but I would highly doubt that Illustrator or XD are being used more than Figma for UI design these days. Even less so, Photoshop, since it's a raster tool. Adobe was about ready to phase out XD when they were getting ready to purchase Figma.

Figma is free starting off, and their basic plans are extremely affordable compared to anything Adobe offers.
AverageDatabase
Yeah, that already happens in the current world with current corporations. You just don't notice because you're too busy consuming.

And I dont mean this in an angry environmentalist way. There are a lot of people who dont pay attention to their current food chain and don't know just how tightly most of the brands are controlled by a select group of companies.

So before jumping to future conspiracies, look at what you're in now:

https://capitaloneshopping.com/blog/11-companies-that-own-ev...

https://xtalks.com/food-industry-by-the-numbers-leading-food...

I eat some of the above foods, so I'm not some anticorporate person.
My main system is windows, so it's c:/CmdTools repo in PATH. I tried to learn `stow`-likes, but it's not worth it. I just clone/pull/push it in that fixed location. Mostly cmdbash scripts.

More complex (multi-file) tools are usually separate ts or python projects. Node has {npm,yarn} link, which puts a starter .cmd somewhere in PATH, out of box. Python scripts I usually run through .cmd "alias" files in c:/CmdTools, there's no `pip link` afaik.

I always have MSYS2 installed and here's my cmdbash prolog:

some.cmd:

:<<BATCH
@xbash %~dpf0 %*
@exit /b
BATCH

for i in {1..5}; do
echo "Hello from bash!"
done

xbash.exe is just msys's bash.exe that I copied to avoid collisions with WSL (which is a useless PR nonsense). Same with xgrep, xfind, xecho, xmkdir, xsort.

This setup carried me for years and turns out to be a very reasonable windows/unix integration. I like unix architecture, but can't stand linux desktop. This year I've got a project related to linux desktop, and I'm literally become so stressed using it sometimes that I have to take a break or vent loudly.
I personally think FOSS software is a fine thing, while not being overly fond of the GPL.

If you allegedly "give" me something for "free", but still assert the right to tell me what I can do with it afterward, it's not "free" in either sense of the word. It's not "free as in beer", nor is "free as in freedom".

Stallman's monomania on this subject became tedious and counterproductive decades ago.

Yes, he wrote some great software. So did dozens of others.
And thank goodness it’s disabled, or we could have another JBIG2 https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
One of the most exciting and significant space events of our time.
> Honda Civic is $24,000. Ford F-150 is $36,000. These are representative prices for popular budget choices. And that baseline F-150 isn't a behemoth. It's 209" long and 76" tall. That's just 10" longer and taller than, say, Tesla Model X.

Disingenuous as heck. I've literally never seen a modern non-commercial regular cab, standard bed F-150. Far more likely the people in question are driving massive SuperCrew cabs. And those SuperCrews start at $43,000 which means more like $50,000 for a realistic spec.

Regular Cab/6.5-Foot Bed: Length – 209.1 inches / Wheelbase – 122.8 inches
Regular Cab/8.0-Foot Bed: Length – 227.7 inches / Wheelbase – 141.5 inches
SuperCab/6.5-Foot Bed: Length – 231.7 inches / Wheelbase – 145.4 inches
SuperCab/8.0-Foot Bed: Length – 250.3 inches / Wheelbase – 164.1 inches
SuperCrew/5.5-Foot Bed: Length – 231.7 inches / Wheelbase – 145.4 inches
SuperCrew/6.5-Foot Bed: Length – 243.5 inches / Wheelbase – 157.2 inches

> And the average pickup is probably shrinking right now, not growing - for example, there are fewer and fewer models with 8" beds, and 5.5" is the new standard (instead of 6").

Nope, as you can see above bed may be shrinking, cab growing and growing.
The UI is slick and presents a lot of info in an easy to parse way, but something is going on with Sentry and FancyBackground.tsx that's causing my laptop fans to spin up while idling on the page.
A pain point, for me, is having to explicitly type private functions.

I like refactoring independent blocks out into functions, to separate the scopes and have readable summaries a la self-documenting code. Having to fish out and then explicitly enter some library's useful but complex type makes it unpleasant.

I'm starting to see a pattern here... Hmm, maybe private functions should be treated differently?
When the code interpreter is running you'll see an "Analyzing..." message, you can click on it to see the code it is executing and do a code review.

The code interpreter is running real code against the real files in the Linux environment OP posted, it's not hallucinating tokens at this point.
> humans are evil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
G'mic is a great tool. I use the QT-Plugin for Krita.

The only problem I have is that I don't use it very much and if I do, I'm just overwhelmed by all the effects and parameters. I'm sure there's great value there... But, if you don't know exactly what you're looking for? Well, be prepared to click around for ages finding something cool. I have no idea how to improve that, but I find it annoying.

It would be also great for the effects to not be destructive. Like using it with filter layers. But unfortunately this seems not to be possible.
I think it depends on the region and just looking at salaries is too narrow. In the US, the salaries are high. I don't think the salaries will decrease. However, the number of jobs will. More companies will outsource to other countries. Developer salaries in those countries will increase.
I can give you some timeline advice. Every merger and aquisition I’ve ever seen takes at least 7 years before the old system is no longer referenced anymore. This timeline is going to depend a lot on the complexity of the system with regards to other system interactions. Getting rid of old systems is not easy.

You often can’t replace old systems without also changing the org chart.

Every task that involves someone outside you team will need the t-shirt size doubled for every group outside yours. Possibly triple if it’s a vendor (some are better than others). This can easy turn a 1 line fix into a month long project if you need to coordinate the change.

It is not uncommon to get 90% finished with a migration, only to find out some job needs to still happen in the old system. That old system will survive another 4years. If you’re lucky, you’ll find a way to rope it off so it can quietly do that one job, without effecting anything else.

It is not uncommon that some team starts trying to use the old system midway through the migration, usually because it’s there. This will seem fine, because “they can easily change to the new system”. This will inevitably add 6months to the project, because changing is never easy. If the organization is big enough, these adds will happen with enough frequency that the project is guaranteed to last forever.

Politics is not your friend. Any large system change is going to require other teams to do work. Managers will attempt to position themselves so that their team is not the one “responsible” for calendar slips that were likely unrealistic to begin with.

I’m sure I could think of some other things, but these were the thoughts that came quickly having lead large migrations away from legacy systems.

Good luck.
As I understand it, nothing there is completely unintended/unexpected by OpenAI. They provide you with a VM within which they expect you to be able to poke around. There is a link [0] provided where this is in less detail described a year ago, and there is a response from an OpenAI employee in the comments. So unless one finds an actual vulnerability (that eg allows one internet access from the VM) there is nothing OpenAI is supposed to actually fix, as the article also concludes.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KSroBnxCHodGmPPJ8/jailbreaki...
The tax code is a reading comprehension game.

The 400 section specifies tax deferral programs (ie. 401(k), there are other subsections)

The 500 section specifies tax exempt programs (ie. 501(c)(3), there are other subsections)

The offices within the IRS dedicated to those sections help you. As opposed to the adversarial relationship that low income tax credit people have. My point is that its not an accident or attempt to pull a fast one on the tax authority. The government is telling you what to do.
I’m getting bigger because I can but really going to OLED/HDR is a far bigger upgrade then either the size or the resolution bumps.
I imagine this is because the locks contain chips from NXP (PN532 chips), the name-brand MIFARE chips are made by NXP, and the lock picks (also PN532 chips!) are made by NXP.
I doubt if that was ever in the plan. But YIMBY groups are already supporting this because of that promise.
Yeah, I tend to think conversations about evil elide the distinction between two kinds of "harm". The first is like pride or the devil or idolatry, the second like "material harm". The purpose of intelligence is to predict the future and solve problems, of course, so too little of it leads to preventable mistakes. The two are related: love can direct the intelligence towards noble ends and guard against its overreach. But intelligence is needed to prevent an overreach of love and trust that would lead to loss and grief.
> He's got a future in marketing.

... of AI
Also

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Ah, okay, that makes more sense. Yeah, theyre right about that. Thanks!
I was negligent at preserving timestamps during previous backups, so the exact age is lost, but my oldest files are MS Works and Word Perfect documents from Windows 3.1 era in the early 90s. Aside from documents, I think the next oldest are mp3 files that I downloaded directly from the internet in '96 (pre-Napster days, back when you could just find websites that offered mp3 downloads directly). The quality is terrible due to aggressive compression so I should probably just delete most or all of them, but at this point they feel like artifacts. There's also a Weezer music video that came with Windows 98 (IIRC) that I still have.
In addition to how hosting the Olympics hurt Montreal financially, there was substantial tax revenue loss from the trend of corporate headquarters moving from Montreal to Toronto staring in the 1960s due to Francophone policies.
And to give prestigious jobs to family members.
I don't think the password authentication helps against cloning. You could start a transaction and stop after you get the password. Then you could clone the card. (The system could invalidate the ticket as soon as they get the UID, but that would be a reliability nightmare since a failure during the read would invalidate someone's ticket.)
> For your language issue, you could self-host the platform and only run purchases through Gumroad. This is how I do it

Good advice. Will have a look at this. Thanks!
So if one country's government decides to, let's say, kill all the Jews then no other country should interfere? Is that what you're proposing?

The level of strategic illiteracy on HN is breathtaking sometimes.