skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s no different on desktop OSes, but users have been more acclimated to it there since full blown access to everything has been the norm there longer than it hasn’t.

This is a problem with proprietary software markets in particular. You can largely escape this dilemma if you source your software from a free software distribution like a Linux distro, Conda, Pkgsrc, F-Droid, etc., because they have their own processes and standards for curating, vetting, categorizating and sometimes even patching software.

One of the reasons that desktop Linux has lagged with app sandboxing and binary attestation compared to macOS is that proprietary apps are marginal and few on most Linux desktops. Linux users are not choosing the bulk of their software from a giant pile of borderline malicious shitware like users of mobile apps generally are. (It's a good thing that Linux is catching up in this respect because some proprietary crap, like Discord, Google Chrome, VSCode, Steam, and Zoom, is extremely sticky for new users coming from proprietary operating systems where proprietary apps are the norm as well as strongly incentivized by powerful network effects. Vendors of such software have proven that they can't be trusted to follow reasonable conventions with DEB or RPM repositories, and Flatpak will suits untrustworthy vendors and other third parties better.)

> I can certainly see the argument that Apple isn’t going about handling this set of problems correctly, but ignoring it or pretending it doesn’t exist isn’t right either.

Apple is understandably prioritizing the realities of the ecosystems that the bulk of their existing users navigate, namely one of publishers selling software as commodities and services for financial profit. But it's not the only conceivable path forward because not all ecosystems of usable software are dominated by producers facing such incentives. You can answer the proprietary hellscape by stepping away from it instead of letting yourself be hampered by shit like this on your own machine.
Task singular, maybe. But I said tasks, plural, which implies compromise. Tell me, what tasks did I buy the Duet for and explain to me how a full PC will do them all better.
> Scale beats all else. The best performance improvements come from increasing scale, rather than incremental insights in novel architectures.

...until the next novel architecture is discovered, which won't happen without said AI research.
TBF, Elon has been running his other companies like he is running Twitter. Also, isn't it his prerogative to run his companies however he pleases as he is the CEO? If the shareholders are not happy with it, they can push him out.
The fact that he got into Northwestern is proof in itself that the “system” didn’t consider him to be a bad student. It actually seems like the system did a pretty good job of identifying sheer intellectual horsepower and potential despite the self-professed low GPA and standardized test scores.
Well, when it comes to lenses there is actually some old equipment that is still desirable. You can get lenses that are optically decent for very little money if you can live with manual focus or lack of modern coatings etc. I have several lenses from the 70s and 80s that I like a lot - though they’re a bit more work to use.

Then there’s lenses that provide interesting distortions or have interesting faults. Like old Soviet-era Helios lenses. In fact some old lens designs have been revived for modern cameras. Like the Petzval lenses (which I also own).

Good modern lenses are great. Optically fantastic, robust, easy to use etc. But that can be a bit … well, sterile and boring.

Which is why several of the vintage lenses I own have been used in movies. They make for a unique look. (There are companies that re-house lenses for use with modern movie cameras).

Note the scene with the emperor in the garden in the second Dune movie for instance.

There are lots of vintage lenses to lust after. And some of them can be quite expensive.

(Then there’s the whole medium format world. Where you can get digital backs and build cameras that cost more than your car)
Yes, I can make such a distinction - if what the LLM is producing is in the training data then it's not a "hallucination". Note that this is an entirely separate problem from whether the LLM is "correct". In other words, I'm treating the LLM as a Chronicler, summarizing and reproducing what others have previously written, rather than as a Historian trying to determine the underlying truth of what occurred.
Since the website gets to specify the payment processor link, I'm very curious to see how Chrome will protect people from malicious websites, how it handles the problem of signing people up to a payment processor, how it will handle informing people that a payment is about to happen, what processor will handle it, how to stop it before it happens, and etc.

The WIP spec (https://webmonetization.org/specification/) is pretty handwavy about all these issues (and, concerningly, is specifying important security mechanisms as SHOULDs rather than MUSTs, but that's a different discussion), which means it's going to be up to Google to decide how these things are dealt with.
Why it's so hard to pronounce Kamala [video]
I love the way you wrote this.

Can you give some examples fictional scenario where this would be put to use as you state it really well.

Thanks
Even better if Python adds a mainline pandas/numpy like C-based table structure, with a very small subset of the pandas/numpy functionality, that's also convertable to pandas/numpy/etc.
That would be an absolute dream for me
I have suddenly gained a new appreciation of the wave of spam of the Turkish Olympian.
Yup. That is _part_ of human nature.

That’s why power corrupts.
Gilead's R&D costs for Truvada as PrEP were literally almost zero. They paid none of the costs for actually conducting the trials.

Their only contribution was that they donated the actual pills used in the trials - in other words, the unit price of 30 pills per person for the duration of the trial.

PrEP has been pure, risk-free profit for Gilead.
But would there be risk of burning in the atmosphere?
I don't love the name.

It was hard to put my finger on why that is. It doesn't smell of marketing (a whiff, maybe), I don't think it's dishonest, it strikes me as a sincere way of trying to explain why the users/authors feel like they need to do anything other than just give the software away.

It's that there's an inevitable comparison baked in to the choice of name: we have open source, and fair source. Fair source is meaningfully less open, but open source is at least equally fair, one can argue that it's more so, but not less. It doesn't really hit at the reason for having these licenses in the first place, and it does have a sort of aura of "see! We're trying, we're doing our best over here", which is accurate, but also, off-putting.

I have a suggestion, not that I expect it to matter: first, drop the [adjective] source pattern completely. You don't need a category of software licenses, you need a software license — and you really, truly, do not need the headache of trying to decide which non-free licenses get to live under the 'fair' umbrella.

Call it the Head Start License. That's what it does: it gives the authors a head start. I consider that fair! As I was saying at the beginning of the post, my objection isn't nearly so simple as "you say it's fair and that's wrong".

If pushed on what "kind of" license that is, you can call it eventually-open source. There's no 'spin' there, because it's literally true: it is, eventually, open source software. Plus you can put your foot down, because the essence of what the license is now lives in the name: "eventually, in this context, means two years. We consider less than two years also eventually open, more than that is, at best, eventually eventually-open source software." That probably sounds funny but it would work, with the right memetic buy in: no, we've established this, your six-year license is not eventually open source, eventually means two years, here, check out this website I'm linking to.

I hope I've made it clear that while I dislike the choice, I don't find it distasteful. Others are going to find it distasteful. I'm not going to speak on behalf of those people, but mind share is critical with an idea like this, and you're going to be doing battle with "if it isn't free it isn't fair". Good slogan actually, you don't have to agree with it (I don't) to recognize that.

Anyway, good luck with the project. I commend you for not succumbing to the temptation to try and slice a bit of salami off the open source definition, although as I write that out, I'm realizing some of my dislike here is in fact that 'fair source' tries to borrow some of the emotional valence of free software, and that's the thing, you don't need to do that: eventually-open source becomes open source, eventually, it's a binding commitment, you just need people to show some patience, because you have a living to earn in the meantime. You wrote it, so you get a head start. Seems fair.

If it was my bikeshed, well, that's the colour I'd paint it.
Or you just accept that country names in English can change - and Turkey / Türkiye would not be the first to do so.

> Both the "ü" and the "iy" are very uncommon (and thus hard to pronounce) sounds for most of the world.

Then what about Liechtenstein? Kyrgyzstan? Côte d’Ivoire? Colombia-not-columbia? The list goes on.
My take on the press release is that they're announcing a collaboration between two companies.

Lithoz uses photopolymerization to 3-D print a variety of ceramics, and is in the business of selling 3-D printers.

Glassomer makes the "ink" - they've got a few patents on silica + binder dating back to 2016.

All of this is similar to many things that have been done in the scientific literature (e.g. Nature Materials volume 20, pages 1506–1511 (2021)). They've put it into production and made it purchasable.

I'm not up on state-of-the-art, so I'm not sure if this has any features that differentiate it from competitors. I'm not seeing any surprises.
Assuming the theme you mean is hobbyist machining, then https://www.youtube.com/@Blondihacks
Two cats is the right number of cats to have, at least for us. Two are much happier than one, and more than two is hard to deal with.
I've had some apps refuse to run until I acknowledged their signer in the Security & Privacy section of System Preferences even though the quarantine bit was not set, unfortunately.
Agreed. But this type of dialog rarely has three choices.
> Among 5338 participants who were initially HIV-negative, 55 incident HIV infections were observed...

Wait what? Those 55 got infected during the trial. What was the incentive to get exposed?
It’s exactly something I dreamed of as a kid.
> Probability I will become a crime victim by travelling through that area

Still not that. P(you’re the victim) = crime count/potential victim count.

Population density may not be the right number for the denominator, but you need something in there.
Well, why did you ask what games have exclusivity contracts with Valve?

My point was, Epic creates these exclusivity contracts for games they fund. I think it's a net positive for there to be more art in the world, even if you have to wait a few months to buy them from your favorite storefront.

Valve doesn't fund the development of third party games. They do create some games in house (fewer than they used to sadly) but just like in Epic's case these are exclusive to Steam.
"When we receive a request from a government agency that is legally valid and binding and requires us to produce documents without redacting confidential customer information, Google may produce documents that contain confidential information pursuant to the terms of your agreement(s) with Google."

But when Google is asked to prouduce its _own_ information as part of antitrust litigation they destroy it and get threatened with sanctions.

Not sure why businesses would continue to choose "cloud" computing when it means a so-called "tech" company is now in control of the businesses' confidential information. Perhaps the costs to these businesses of using their own computers instead of Google's is greater than the costs of their confidential information being disclosed to the government without their prior consent.
This is where I tell younger people thinking about getting into computer science or development that there is still a huge need for those skills. I think AI is a long way off from taking away problem solving skills. Most of us that have had the (dis)pleasure of needing to repeatedly change and build on our prompts to get close to what we're looking for will be familiar with this. Without the general problem solving skills we've developed, at best we're going to luck out and get just the right solution, but more than likely will at best have a solution that only gets partially towards what we actually need. Solutions will often be inefficient or subtly wrong in ways that still require knowledge in the technology/language being produced by the LLM. I even tell my teenage son that if he really does enjoy coding and wishes to pursue it as a career, that he should go for it. I shouldn't be, but I'm constantly astounded by the number of people that take output from a LLM without checking for validity.
In the grand hierarchy of college admissions committees ranking people, "getting into northwestern" means roughly "the 20,000th best student in his class year."
You reacted to my sentence: "But unfortunately, you cannot force a dev to get implied in the business aspect if they don't want to"

What you say is that you cannot force them, but you can replace them. So you just say my sentence is perfectly correct.

Not sure what you bring to the conversation. Sure, a manager can fire a dev to avoid the toxic scrum situation (that's pretty obvious). Identically, a dev can quit to avoid the toxic scrum situation. Or, even better, the dev can grow up as a person and as a professional and try to make things work by doing their job that involves understanding the business situation too.

The latter seems to me to be the most sane one, and firing seems to me to be pretty drastic.

My point is that the dev has some responsibility in the toxic situation and it's just being ignorant to not notice that.

And, yes, it's sad that some managers don't do their work well and decide it's easier for them to have a toxic situation than taking the risk of firing someone (which can be a long process and can easily backfire on them, especially if the dev in question is not mature enough to understand they are part of the problem). But why these managers would be more guilty than the devs who created the toxic situation in the first place? Somehow, it's like devs have the right to be bad but managers should all be expected to be perfect. Or that devs have the right to think "not worth it, I will not take more risk or spend more energy to fix a toxic situation, I'm just going to ignore it and it can be someone else problem" but the managers don't have that right.

Oh, and funnily enough, in other discussions, some people answered that it's the responsibility of the manager but not of the dev. The same people who were complaining to be micromanaged and were asking why the company is not trusting them to take responsibility for the good operation of the company. Or that they could easily do the manager's job. Or even said that managers are a useless job anyway.
You are right, my comment is only valid in California.
It might be: but as a creator of software one wants to make their users happy. We certainly do we at Sentry.

Even personally, years ago I relicensed all my GPL code to BSD/MIT because I wanted people to use my software. I’m not there to tell them that they are wrong about their license restrictions.
Off-topic: I really hate those linkedin influencers telling me what a "senior software engineer" is or is not, or how I should use TDD or not use TDD. I keep removing them from my feed, but there's an endless stream of them.
There are tons, but off the top of my head, Elden Ring and Bravely Default.
If you can do tasks on a Chromebook you can do those tasks (better) on a PC. By definition, a PC is a superset of a Chromebook. A Chromebook is literally designed to be cheap and limited. It succeeds at that. You pay less and the compromise is suffering. The worst part is it isn't that much less and the suffering is unnecessary.
> "A new study in 2020 estimated that the median cost of getting a new drug into the market was $985 million, and the average cost was $1.3 billion, which was much lower compared to previous studies, which have placed the average cost of drug development as $2.8 billion.[4]"

PrEP repurposed Truvada, an existing blockbuster drug that had already reaped immense profit for Gilead for use in HIV treatment by the time the trials for PrEP began. The trials for PrEP were funded by the government, not Gilead. Gilead, however, got to retain all profits earned from PrEP.
There isn't a fridge top in Canada without some of that stuff just laying there.
There is a big effort from people like Reid Hoffman to get rid of Lina Khan. Hopefully it fails.

Yeah, I suppose just shutting them down is a better idea. In that case, we also need to make sure they don’t pop up with a different name and do the same thing all over again
See also -> https://news.mit.edu/2022/mit-math-problem-solving-class-put...
AccA is my first app install (after F-droid I guess) for rooted phones.

It should be a standard feature of all phones to be able to control charge to maximise the useful life of the device if they're not going to make batteries removable.
Discussion at the time (75 points, 2 months ago, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40676634
> If Jack Dorsey doesn't walk around alone past midnight, he's not absorbing the same risk quotient either.

Jack Dorsey is a weird motherfucker and a real outlier for this example. He used to walk to the Twitter office every day and generally looks and dresses like someone well outside his economic strata. I would not be surprised to find “midnight solo perambulations through the tenderloin” among his hobbies.
But that's the point: the name hasn't actually changed. It has always been called "Türkiye" by the people living there. What has changed is that they now want everyone else to call them by that name...

> Côte d’Ivoire

Nobody except french speaking countries call it that. It's called "Ivory Coast" in English, for example
Operation Binder: Secrets of Computer Process Communication [video]
by preventing viral capsid assembly, as noted in the article.

Once bound to the P24 capsid protein, the drug also interferes with other stages of the virus’ lifecycle[1]:

>Lenacapavir is a multistage, selective inhibitor of HIV-1 capsid function that directly binds to the interface between capsid protein (p24) subunits in hexamers. Surface plasmon resonance sensorgrams showed dose-dependent and saturable binding of lenacapavir to cross-linked wild-type capsid hexamer with an equilibrium binding constant (KD) of 1.4 nM. Lenacapavir inhibits HIV-1 replication by interfering with multiple essential steps of the viral lifecycle, including capsid-mediated nuclear uptake of HIV-1 proviral DNA (by blocking nuclear import proteins binding to capsid), virus assembly and release (by interfering with Gag/Gag-Pol functioning, reducing production of capsid protein subunits), and capsid core formation (by disrupting the rate of capsid subunit association, leading to malformed capsids).

1. https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=e56...
Actually, there are two:
One in C at https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet.git/tree/src/service/dht
And one in Go at https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet-go.git/
You mean the Ivory Coast?
We also built our Stripe integration using only the testing tools they provide. The first real payment in production was completed by our product guy, but only as a sanity check. Maybe we got lucky, or maybe Stripe is just that easy to integrate with, but we haven't been surprised by any production behavior.
Not all kinds of scaling requires high up front capital costs. Some of us are interested in exploring fundamental contours of intelligence here, and there are lots of fascinating threads to pull on.

Nothing wrong with exploring motivations though as this article does. Maybe the job market trends they speak of will be true but I hope that's not a primary motivation. There's exploration to do!
Younger people are making hiring decisions. Young people today tend to be afraid of confrontations of any kind.
Did Gilead fund the R&D? There's a lot more to developing a new drug than just trials (though I think Gilead should have foot the bill for the trials too).
> I see this as a failure of our legislative branch, they are incapable of legislating effectively and people look to the courts to achieve their desired ends.

Uh, the US has a deeply dysfunctional system. It covers most aspects of governance, judiciary, legislative, electoral system, the fifth estate.

It’s entirely reasonable people are only concerned with outcomes, and not process.
Yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunarcrete
I would love that, as long as the cost includes that R&D and those engineers, the actual bits might be immaterial but the engineer salaries are part of the cost of the goods.

The problem is that we're being told that the cost of insulin is $270 per vial, or that Daraprim used to estimate its cost per dose at 90% of $13.50 and then Shkreli decided to raise it to $750.
https://archive.is/WEX1n
AccA app mentioned earlier in the thread. Requires root and seems to only be available on the F-droid app store.
You said it better than me.

As for lack of autofocus, I’ve actually done action shots with a Petzval and various vintage manual focus lenses. Yes, it is tricky and you will miss a lot, but when you nail focus the result is glorious.
From Wikipedia:

"Lenacapavir works by binding directly to the interface between HIV-1 viral capsid protein (p24) subunits in capsid hexamers, interfering with essential steps of viral replication, including capsid-mediated nuclear uptake of HIV-1 proviral DNA, virus assembly and release, production of capsid protein subunits, and capsid core formation[1]... It functions by binding to the hydrophobic pocket formed by two neighboring protein subunits in the capsid shell. This bond stabilizes the capsid structure and inhibits the functional disassembly of the capsid in infected cells.[2]"

In other words, it prevents the virus' protein shell (capsid) from being built properly, which in turn prevents the virus from properly opening ("uncoating") once it enters a host cell.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenacapavir

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_capsid_inhibition
PrEP is incredibly effective, and even better than condoms at preventing HIV. There's various reasons it requires regular testing:

- While very effective, it requires people to actually take it consistently, which is why the injectable form is better for some than the pill.

- PrEP is not without side effects for a small portion of its users. In some cases it can cause bone density loss, or kidney damage. These tests are intended to catch any issues before they cause any permanent damage.

- Since people are coming in to get tested for the aforementioned issues, they also run a full STI panel. This is great and it means those on PrEP (And those managing HIV) are tested more frequently than the general population, and are less likely to transmit an STI than those who don't come in for regular testing.
The usual arguments I hear for this is grandma or kid following these specific instructions and installing a malware. But how many attacks make use of these?
Can kids master the video games their parents loved?