skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the delays end up with Boeing extracting more money from NASA, it is obviously NASA who is inexperienced and mismanaged, while Boeing looks rather clever.

If outside contractors and suppliers are causing delays while you pay them, the poor manager is you.
God bless Unix with composable tools via stdin/stdout.

Once you run a script batching nearly all your jobs, good luck trying to guess the user it's doing.
A plus if you run tools like ii/jj or similar with bitlbee as your chat client. If you can bind vi/vim to it by using a file as the input, vi has the 'ab' (abbrevebiate) ex command (use nvi if you like unicode, in some systems it's called nvi2) which can autoexpand abbreviated input.
Such as:

ab obsd openbsd

ab nbsd netbsd

ab fbsd freebsd

ab hnews news.ycombinator.com

ab kbd keyboard

ab spc space

ab cmd command

and so on.
No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship
Very nice! It's a shame that Calibre doesn't have pics of the book spines to work with on something like this.
"The problem is cultural: a growing population do not know what the Web is."

I'd love to know where this idea started, because I'm not convinced it's actually based on any kind of real data. If it is, I don't think it's accurate for the past 5+ years.

Knowledge of the web is probably flat. And apps and smartphones have peaked in the West. Those are my anecdotes to add, since that seems to be what we're doing.

This line of thinking could lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy the more it's spread, too.
Mother of Learning is practically D&D porn. Also I love the magic system. If we ever get deep dive VR games, I want to be in the MoL world.
Bridging Modalities – Adventures in Training Multimodal AI Models
I came for the programming language discussion, but I want hear more from the author about their contentedness with being a solo developer for life.
Exactly, I had an interview at some company last year that had AI in their name and got a million invested in them. I read their website and saw nothing that really showcased AI it seemed like just something you could code with basic filtering. The interview felt like I was consulting them on what to do next and I probably should of been paid.
The cash to pay workers and rent must come from somewhere. Either an investor cash infusion (VC) or some exotic shell dance of market survival until everyone gets reliably paid.

Consider it is the art of keeping money flowing that allows companies to survive. While employees owning stock is in no way rare, employees managing cash reserves (especially in the first three year viability phase) is a different matter.

Someone else owning the company you're paid to work for is the convenience tax for keeping business alive.

Try doing anything with anyone involving money and responsibilities and you will throw your rosey glasses away and get back to making your own value even if commoditized by another!
Few iOS apps are based on electron, I would think.
Squiggleconf 2024
Every use case and expectations are different IMO. And yes if it's a file system , you can always grab a way to keep a snapshot. Too early for this project to deliver everything at one go.
Fuck Apple.

That is all.
Unrelated question about "San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents"

Is this sentence clear for a native speaker of English?

I read the article and as far as I understand there is software that makes it that rents are high and SF wants to ban it.

Now when I carefully parse the words it makes sense (~ "SF seeks to ban some software, and this software is criticized for making rents high")

Was the title clear and understandable to you after a single pass?
The Fifth Circuit Shuts Down Geofence Warrants – and Maybe a Lot More
I think well-written and engineered Python can do this (given the scripting/easy to call other languages bit), but there are still going to be bits where you're going to be fighting uphill (whether that's because the area is actively pushing against their preferred option, or where a scripting tool is inappropriate).
To make awk work for non trivial manipulations you have use cat, awk, | and >
in several sequences.

This is not by any means elegant. What happens when there is a line that needs some error checking and handled a little differently? Or just a bad line? Once you realise that error tracing, and fixing is just not possible for non trivial stuff you are better off now skipping the entire ceremony and simply use Perl.

As matter of fact, Larry Wall invented Perl while trying to the very same things you mention with C and awk. Then you realise you are dealing with so many adhoc things, without dependency checks, error handling and then you actually need a fully blown programming language to do this sort of work.
What makes you think that?

The rise of private equity is what immediately came to my mind here, religion never crossed it. I am not in favor of what private equity is doing to the country. The reply seems to assert that I am thus a self-hating jew, which was hurtful of them to say about me.

If anything, connecting the private equity efforts described in GP, to semitism, is what is anti-semetic. Our private equity overlords hail from many religions and backgrounds, and their creed is greed.
HTTP/1.0 from Scratch
Worm is absolutely not aimed at teens, and it's not milked. If anything I think it could have been longer.

It does absolutely ruin the believability of any other superhero world. Invincible, for example, is ruined for me. That's how good Worm is. It just takes a loooong time to get there fully.
Eh, poetry, pipenv, conda, setup.py, GCC and all dev tools to possibly compile some C shite you didn't know you needed? It's a complete shit show still...
>There are villages around where I grew up, a good number of adults have one kidney only.

Moldova?
I actually agree with them here. Under the original definition the Russians used when they invented the word no you can't be "racist" against a majority. You can be bigoted but racist means something more along the lines of maintaining civilization in the form it's in and excluding people who either don't fit in well or aren't typically involved.
Could you define "best"?

I think it depends on your requirements. There are many tools available. Here are some I suggest.

* Excalidraw https://excalidraw.com/ + additional libraries for cloud entities

* Diagrams.net, formerly draw.io

* Lucidchart
Even the most ardent of Go-haters have to be fair and admit it makes cross-compilation really nice.

GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build && scp executable user@host:direc/tory/

Out of the box, no toolchains to manage.
US Independent Bookstores Map
The animation looks awesome! Looks like the author used matplotlib (as they mention in a comment on the website): https://github.com/vankessel/sandbox/blob/master/graph/inter...

In the past, I have used manim to make mathematical animations: https://www.manim.community/ Manim is more flexible but that comes with some overhead of complexity and learning. Example of some animations using manim:

- List of videos using manim: https://www.manim.community/awesome/

- A blog post I made: https://azeemba.com/posts/degenerate-matter.html
nope, GHA is still clunky.

self-hosting GHA Runners (plural!) is ... hard (not impossible, and quite doable with enough investment, especially if one takes the dive into the murky waters of k8s), but it's not officially supported. (what's supported is here's a tarball we support these distros ... have fun.)

programming in YAML is still bad, composability is still an afterthought, etc.
Looking at the channel listings, there really is a huge amount of foreign language content in LA in a wide number of languages. Today is has to be more than it was in the 1990s because ATSC can fit multiple channels in the bandwidth taken by NTSC.

I'd contrast that to the Syracuse and Binghamton markets which I can both get most of the stations reliably where there are no foreign language channels but quite a few that show reruns of shows like Columbo, Farscape, That 70's show and such as well as news from the BBC and Japan.

This station is crazy powerful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSYT

and I can receive it indoors with rabbit ears in an old house which is full of little nails that interfere with radio. (Usually I use a small outdoor antenna, though it is hard to watch broadcast TV now that there is FAST.) People on the other side of Lake Erie in Canada watch for it DX when tropospheric conditions are favorable, on some of those days our repeater opens up an I can talk to them.
The environment is good, the problem is that the acquired knowledge then stays under wraps and is used to accumulate power for the host organisation, instead of advancing the knowledge of everyone.
Kinematics of kestrel wing and tail morphing during hovering flights
I've been curious about PopOS for awhile and so glad to see the development of their own desktop environment.

>And I'm the type who always remaps his Caps Lock key to Escape, but there's no place to do that yet, and the Gnome-Tweaks app won't work, either. Some of this is probably the distribution itself, some of it is

If System76 devs are reading this, please prioritize key remapping! I have years of macOS shortcuts burned into my cerebral cortex, it's a no-go for me to try and learn Linux ones, especially considering I use a Mac daily for work. Would be nice if this could even be a separate theme, so I could just download a file with macOS key bindings and edit it. A 1-1 GUI -> file config would be icing!
Donating to small indie artists is philanthropic and should warrant “feels”.

Patreon does not use the word donate, but they do consider contributions to by “donations” even under recommended tax policy if the artist happens to be a non profit, not that we need to consider taxes to be relevant to feels.

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/207099326-Is-m....
I'm not sure how to address this. I sent a link that says "sure some people make 100k+" and your dad was one of them. The link ALSO said "most people make half of that" and your anecdote doesn't refute anything.

Your dad had a a trade skill, and obtained a clearance. Congrats, he is an outlier. Nothing I said was false or misleading.
When did context, facts and transparency become "mental gymnastics"?
A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong
How odd. I have a choice of dozens in the uk. If I remember back in the day you pups chose a subsidised isp (or even free) which worked by adding adverts into you web browsing. Some people were happy with that.

Personally I pay more so that I have support via IRC, have an unfiltered view of the internet, have static IPs, no over subscribing bandwidth. not everyone cares about that so are happy to pay less to get less

Why is there so little choice in your area?
Getting Out of a Rut and What I've Learned
Any DoB > 18 years should more than suffice.

The practice suggested of offering a DoB at the earliest date accepted by the system (a practice I've long since adopted ... amongst other things, 100+ y.o. individuals tend to have weak appeal to advertisers) will also suffice.

I've also felt that, as with several other online issues, the matter of age-gating is probably best handled at the ISP level. Most people have a fairly strong relationship with their ISP (whether willingly or happily is another matter), and a combination of site-specific self-ratings (which would also fall under consumer-protection/fraud regulation) and an ISP toggle to enable or disable +18 / NSFW / sexual content, or other categories on an account-wide basis would enable a household or business to set such filters with a minimum of hassle.

For instances where multi-level tiers of access would be required, the ISP should be able to provide that through two or more virtual service addresses (effectively VPNs which various devices are configured through). And a household or business should be able to define specific exceptions to any filtering rules to avoid the overclassification problem and put ultimate control in the subscriber's hands rather than the ISP's.
I agree with you. 3% of welders make good money. I never disagreed with this.
You're right, generalizations are difficult, and I can't give a second hand summary of how the younger me perceived Tim's posts. One thing I remember is that he didn't give off the dogmatic stubbornness or indifference to the reasoning of others that seems to be correlated with the difficulty in working with smart people.
generally, most laws are overlooked when the situation involves drugs. Cops can search you, your car, whatever on suspicion that drugs may be present.
It’s shockingly easy to find information about almost anyone within the first couple pages of google
That's hilarious! Could work but I'd need the keys correspondence shown on the pic while typing: if physical 'f' key (on a QWERTY keyboard) is now 'p', I need to see "p/[f]" at the physical location of key 'f'.

Then a nitpick:

> "For example, if you type only "the" all day, then when you press the letter 't' the letter 'h' will be on the home row."

'h' is already on the home row on most keyboards.
> reportedly claim that strangling is a standard part of sex.

That "standard sex" is stimulation of genitals. Strangling is not.
> I never liked this term. Why is the term "Open Source" used to refer to publicly available information?

I assume your line of thinking is that you associate "Open Source" with software freedom (warm fuzzy feelings) & dislike that being tainted by stalkers & military espionage. Leaving aside that OSINT pre-dates the software term, I think it's quite fitting given the context of the very capitalist-/corporate-friendly "Open Source" licensing trend subsuming the original corporate-unfriendly/copyleft "Free Software" movement. The former enables the military-industrial complex by taking advantage of publicly available data, the latter enables the corporate world by taking advantage of publicly available code.
Mars: Evidence detected of lake beneath planet's surface
Spotify had a nightmare of a time getting to that point.

Same with Floatplane, a streaming platform from LTT.

If you actually try to copy Spotify / Amazon you find out very quickly they have exclusive deals and their own account managers. You actually will not get approved for 5-6 months if you try to copy them, and even use their same exact UI and verbiage.

This is the part of the problem with Apple app store.
Ok, but shutting down the website because of legal/moral responsibility to protect customer info is very different than doing so because of the “real money involved”, which is what commenter dewey was responding to. You can choose to just take the fraud cost hit in the latter case.
You can't put a notice saying your prices are increasing due to Apple, it's against the App Store TOS :)
How Often Do LLMs Hallucinate When Producing Medical Summaries? (Spoiler: A Lot)
So... the sky is falling on Wired again?

Every article of theirs tells you it's the end of the world and you have no chance against those evil dirty hackers around the corner.
I would say that car crashes are bad, even though they already happen and the motivation behind AI is to reduce them by being less bad than a human.

I think it is a mistake to trust 1st party statistics on the quality of the AI, the lack of licence for level 5 suggests the US government is unsatisfied with the quality as well, but in principle this should be a benefit. When it actually works.

Copyright is an appalling mess, has been my whole life. But no, the economic threat to small copyright holders, individual artists and musicians, is already present by virtue of a globalised economy massively increasing competition combined with the fact the resulting artefacts can be trivially reproduced. What AI does here needs consideration, but I have yet to be convinced by an argument that what it does in this case is bad.

All these things will likely see a return to/increase in patronage, at least for those arts where the point is to show off your wealth/taste; the alternative being where people just want nice stuff, for which mass production has led to the same argument since Jaquard was finding his looms smashed by artisans who feared for their income.
I'm not a scientist at all, but I am often involved in hand-holding scientists when it comes to dealing with computers.

My impression so far is that science is plagued with deliberate and accidental fraud when it comes to data collection and cataloguing. Also, this is a spectrum, not two distinct things. I often see researchers simply unwilling to do the right thing to verify that the data collected are correct and meaningful as soon as "workable" results can be produced from the data. Some will go further and mess with the data to make results more "workable" though...

Second problem is understanding the data. Often times it happens that people who end up doing research don't quite understand the subject matter of the research. This is especially popular with medicine, where it's overwhelmingly common for eg. research into various imaging modalities to be done by computer scientists who couldn't find a liver cancer the size of a coconut in the sharpest textbook abdominal image.

My impression is also that by far these two problems outweigh the problems that could potentially be solved by adding AI into the mix. These are the systemic organization problems of perverse incentives and vicious practices, and no amount of AI is going to do anything about it... because it's about people. People's salaries, careers, friendships etc.
> In the age of subscriptions, being able to see all your recurring payments on a single page and cancellable with two tabs without questions asked, is a feature worth paying for.

This is a service the banking system should clearly provide natively though - there's no good reason Apple is the only one capable of this, nor any good reason why they're best placed for this (there's plenty of non-Apple subscriptions where this would be useful).

Your card provider is well aware of what recurring payments are currently authorized, and should be perfectly capable of providing tools to cancel those authorizations (and inform the merchant of this when doing so).

That that doesn't work is a failure on the part of financial firms (who could provide it) and regulators (who imo should oblige card providers to offer this, and oblige companies to treat cancellation notification like this as equivalent to written notice). Recurring payments are an increasingly fundamental part of consumer banking, but banks provide effectively zero tools for consumers to manage them.

The argument against is that some of these payments might have ongoing obligations you can't just cancel without consequence, and you'd be effectively just be refusing to pay your bills - but you could equally well have no balance available or something so the payment fails in existing cases anyway, so this seems like an entirely solveable issue (if a business that you _must_ pay receives a notification that you've cancelled the card billing authorization, they're going to need to get in touch with you about it just as if your monthly charge failed).
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Yeah, that seems right:

April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
What does that cost?
It's never too late to change tracks; I worked with a guy who spent 20 years doing Java, he shifted to consultancy building web applications. I also worked with a guy who spent 25 years of his career as a manager at a bank, but who said fuck it and went self-employed writing CSS and advocating for accessibility.

It's never too late for a change of career if you want it.
Weird how calling it Apple Intelligence is the same thinking as Jack Ma calling it "Alibaba Intelligence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulqRsqD0R64
> no incentive for me to work harder or more efficiently if there's no payoff

Yes? You should be noting if more work or productivity isn't compensated (at your firm or elsewhere). That isn't lowering productivity, it's allocating your time and energy efficiently.
Is it possible to archive executables from the Microsoft store the way you can with most apps? (Sorry I haven't used Windows for almost a decade now.)

It would be a shame to lose it, I'm sure some people use it.
Because very few developers want to take actual personal risk beyond letting some portion of their compensation ride in the form of lottery ticket like stock options. Most would rather earn enough to support themselves comfortably from their base salary. So much so that you have a very real risk of adverse selection if you try to find developers who are willing to take those kind of risks.
That likely suggests the people you know are working on a specific kind of project.
being pedantic doesn't mean you were misled.
>Chasing biologically-inspired rabbits, such as STDP and LIF (see paper above/wikipedia), does seem to be a waste of time

Unless physiological compatibility with a biological brain is considered an interesting endpoint? If you think about Neuralink for example, wouldn’t it be interesting if our brains could directly engage the model? Not just a translation layer but perceive it directly and natively though some kind of synaptic modem that converts analog exchanges of neurotransmitters to the synthetic network in the digital domain.
Ah neat, I didn't realize it was the bios maker that was behind that one, I thought it was the IBPhoenix product, it's been way too long since all that happened and I think it's all gotten jumbled in my memory.
> architects should be replaced by a competent employee who will do actual work

To me this sounds like "police should be replaced with citizens not breaking the law". It would be great, except it's impossible.
There is no reasoning with "privacy advocates" on this. Your argument is essentially "think of the children" to their ears and they're used to blocking it out categorically without thinking.

No amount of "checks and balances" and "valid scenarios" will convince them otherwise. They've decided that their arbitrary notion of privacy is some sort of "human right" and will drag us all to hell because of it. In the meantime, they refuse to participate with lawmakers to tread a middle-ground so the laws end up being utterly draconian (see the EU stuff happening in real time) against ordinary citizens.

Oh and don't even get me started on the kicker, whereby most of law-enforcement simply refuses to enforce and prosecute the bulk of uncomfortable crime they encounter (see the US and UK right now where they let criminals loose on their populace because they're afraid of the "optics").

I honestly don't know what kind of f-d up world we're leaving to our children. But they will judge us very harshly for it someday.
where does it say it's an email server?
Exception handling. If your web server throws a 500, you have a problem. If your autonomous vehicle throws a 500 and is now blocking a major intersection, everybody has a problem and you can't just hit refresh.
Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons
The grass is greener on the other side, so to speak, but instead of going to the other side you can also learn lawn care and fix your own.
It's not the metrics per se, it's the disconnect between what they actually represent and how they're used to misrepresent the current economic feeliings of the masses.

Take the last few months in the USA, we've been assured by the party in power that inflation is under control, etc. Yet, *no one* who goes to the super market on weekly basis has seen that and believes that. Eventually, such gaslighting leads to mistrust and pushback.

The smart thing would be to include anything practical consumers MUST purchase. To exclude food and gas might be great for academics, but for the everyone else is smells of BS.
The flash updater IS the OS.