skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This long list of "Killed by Google" products says you are right: https://killedbygoogle.com/
What’s with the outrage? Do you own a Finale license? I’m sorry if you do, this does suck for people who still want to use Finale, but “stealing back” seems like hyperbole. The product (along with their income stream related to it) is shutting down permanently. It died, and no amount of commentary is going to bring it back.

Assuming you have a vested interest in the outcome here, what do you actually want to have happen to Finale that’s realistic for MakeMusic? What would you have done if it was your business? Have you ever had a business and had to plan the shut down a product people had paid for? Please actually consider those questions carefully.

Sometimes businesses lose. You can’t force a business to make a profit or to sell something they don’t want to sell or can no longer make. There’s no good way to shut down a product. And there’s no product ever that has ceased that didn’t have buyers right before they stopped taking money.

It’s a fact that it could be worse, and I already explained why, because often it actually is worse, especially with tech companies.

And yes, I hope the devs at MakeMusic are okay. I don’t understand why internet commenters wouldn’t, especially if they’re Finale fans.
Box86 is so good, I run x86-64 steam games ( servers ) on free Oracle instance ( ARM64 ) with it.
This concept has been around for ages. I remember way back in a previous life as a Java dev having a framework where you could annotate methods with permission requirements, and the framework would add runtime instrumentation to ensure the proper context was created in the current thread and had the proper permissions to invoke that method any time it was called.
It has long been commercialized too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Austin_Weird

There’s also “Keep Portland Weird” and “Keep Weed Weird.”

The fact that the word is working in politics right now is just silly but the way it’s getting under the orange man’s skin is entertaining.
Add a perspective of IQ of separated monozygotic twins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188692....

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UPD and this one https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-6129-9_...
i thought there already was a ruby kernel.

are you the original developer or a new maintainer of iruby?
Indeed, heavy metals in chocolate is a real issue

a more recent CR test here: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/a-third-o...

and one from Bryan Johnson (anti-aging tech millionaire): https://youtu.be/RzWWOQMLttE
I think better of them for trying to get the fake shit off of their platforms. This backstepping is what bugs me. Facebook got a lot of garbage off there. There’s still plenty left, but I think did a decent job of flushing a bunch of misinformation bots into waste disposal where they belong. Take a look at x.com where for $9 a month you can launch a bot that posts / retweets garbage 24/7 and no matter how many times it’s reported for racism/terrorism/etc it will stay up for a while, when it gets killed they just make a new bot. Go look at the blue “verified” badges on any political news story and look at the drivel spouted by these $9 hucksters. A lot of people think free speech only applies to them, free speech means a platform can also exercise their free speech and shutdown the messages they don’t like. Those accounts are free to spread their lies and fake news on other platforms.
There seems to be some misquoting of the content of the new Citizenship Test (Einbürgerungstest), possibly out of confusing with a local edict in one of the federal states (Saxony-Anhalt) last year. The new federal test does not require affirmation of any belief about the State of Israel; only "knowledge" of the basic issues of laws regarding Antisemitism in Germany, and of Jewish life and hstory in Germany in general.

Here's a list of the actual questions, from a recent article in Die Welt:

1. Vor wie vielen Jahren gab es erstmals eine jüdische Gemeinde auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Deutschlands?
a) vor etwa 300 Jahren
b) vor etwa 700 Jahren
c) vor etwa 1150 Jahren
d) vor etwa 1700 Jahren*

2. Wer darf bei den rund 40 jüdischen Makkabi-Sportvereinen Mitglied werden?
a) nur Deutsche
b) nur Israelis
c) nur religiöse Menschen
d) alle Menschen\*

3. Welche Städte haben die größten jüdischen Gemeinden in Deutschland?
a) Berlin und München\*
b) Hamburg und Essen
c) Nürnberg und Stuttgart
d) Worms und Speyer

4. Wie heißt das jüdische Gebetshaus?
a) Basilika
b) Moschee
c) Synagoge\*
d) Kirche

Thema Existenzrecht Israel

5. Auf welcher rechtlichen Grundlage wurde der Staat Israel gegründet?
a) eine Resolution der Vereinten Nationen\*
b) ein Beschluss des Zionistenkongresses
c) ein Vorschlag der Bundesregierung
d) ein Vorschlag der UdSSR

6. Woraus begründet sich Deutschlands besondere Verantwortung für Israel?
a) aus der Mitgliedschaft in der Europäischen Union (EU)
b) aus den nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen\*
c) aus dem Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
d) aus der christlichen Tradition

Thema Antisemitismus

7. Was ist ein Beispiel für antisemitisches Verhalten?
a) ein jüdisches Fest besuchen
b) die israelische Regierung kritisieren
c) den Holocaust leugnen\*
d) gegen Juden Fußball spielen

8. Woran erinnern die sogenannten Stolpersteine in Deutschland?
a) an berühmte deutsche Politikerinnen und Politiker
b) an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus\*
c) an Verkehrstote
d) an bekannte jüdische Musiker

9. Wie kann jemand, der den Holocaust leugnet, bestraft werden?
a) Kürzung sozialer Leistungen
b) bis zu 100 Sozialstunden
c) gar nicht, Holocaustleugnung ist erlaubt
d) mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu fünf Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe\*

10. Welche Handlung mit Bezug auf den Staat Israel ist in Deutschland verboten?
a) die Politik Israels öffentlich kritisieren
b) das Aufhängen einer israelischen Flagge auf dem Privatgrundstück
c) eine Diskussion über die Politik Israels
d) der öffentliche Aufruf zur Vernichtung Israels\*

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article250754984/Ein...
What does this have to do with Finale?
> Facebook, Instagram, etc. moderating content isn't a free speech issue.

When it's at the demand from the white house, it becomes a free speech issue because it's the executive branch that essentially controls what these big bulletin boards are allowed to publish. Furthermore, nothing is for free, so what perks did these big bulletin boards got in return? maybe that administration decided not to proceed with an antitrust lawsuit as long as they complied, we don't know...
I don't think weird ever rose to the level of bad-words or slurs though it's too normal of a word that doesn't single out people the same way actually policed words did.
Understandable. I don't think there's a good way around this though. Even if you run valgrind on a C++ repo that hasn't seen much valgrind use, you'll get a lot of output. But that output is because the memory management is usually broken in every larger C++ repo which isn't developed by a small team of experts.
The mirror in the example with the washing machine is amazing. Obviously the model doesn’t understand that it’s a mirror so renders it as if it were a window with volume behind the wall. But it does it so realistically that it produces the same effect as a mirror when viewed from different angles. This feels like something out of a sci-fi detective movie.
This is a lot more fun than I would have expected. Nicely done!
Those examples are local, not global. And are affected by global climate too, i.e. things are changing too fast already for wild life adaptation, it is a process that is accelerating and nothing will be safe from its effects.
Qt is C++, while GTK is pure C. These are very different languages, and exposing a C interface for C++ code as rich and complicated as Qt is not easy.
Just announced expansion in Kansas https://fiber.google.com/blog/2024/08/gfiber-is-on-way-lawre...
NB: altar v. alter: <https://grammarist.com/spelling/altar-alter/>.
The long march has stalled, soon the lizards will break ranks and flee.
The author has a known ideological axe to grind, read his tweets
https://hackaday.io/
If Buttondown.email ever wanted to sell merch, a Buttondown button-down shirt is perfect
I agree with what he's saying, but I think he has one thing wrong. Video chat is a feature that Signal has had for a while now and is also E2EE.
There goes the share price…
The charts don't really show that though, because the first 4 are 30 year series and the "2023" in the legend is a hint that Humanity has some seriously long charts behind us. These charts tell us, at most, that we're in a century-long uptrend. I wouldn't be surprised if we were in uncharted territory, but you'd need more data than they display.

The wildfire graph is a long way from normal, but wildfires are ultimately a manageable thing. We're going to have an easier time dealing with wildfires now than we would in earlier eras. Tragedy for the people involved in one, obviously, but mass suffering is an annual event.
You left out why sugar is the cheapest part.

Subsidies.
> or lower the price of chocolate.

In the US, I can't even really buy chocolate anymore. About 3 or 4 years ago, it suddenly changed flavor... now it tastes like brown-colored wax to me. It was sudden and noticeable, and if I looked through old posts I could narrow it down to a particular month. This was across the board for all things Nestle and Hershey. Maybe if I got some snobby Eurochocolate, but I wouldn't know where. And sometimes I just like (or want to like) the candy bars I'd get as a kid. It's not the only food that's undergone one of these "now with 10% less sawdust" scenarios, Kraft mac'n'cheese comes to mind.
This smells very "clean code" to me:

- main.ts file contains multiple small functions

- tests test the same thing twice: once with a unit test, and once with an integration test

But those are minor pet peeves. My main one is: what is this, exactly? Neither the project itself nor the proposed combination of tools and directory structures show that this is somehow better or more sustainable than any other approach.
Three months into the current hurricane season, fatalities stand at 88 and losses just under $9 billion.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Atlantic_hurricane_season>
Did many founders in the previous years before the SBF/FTX Incident work in cryptocurrency fields?

I ask because that's where the VC money and hype was back then and yet to me it didn't seem as if YC founders were playing that game. I may have the wrong impression of the past. To me AI appears more "real" than crypto but that might be because it's the current thing.
>I wonder if this is coming up just before the election because of the Harris campaign suggesting capital gains tax on unrealised gains for people who have over $100m in assets?

say what? If that's the case, then we can expect many wealthy individuals with significant influence to speak out, such as Jeff Bezos with his ownership of The Washington Post.
Good thing we came to terms with that in 1789.
Green Lights and Red Lines: Responding to Iran's Election Hacking
Not cheap, but may be small compared to nuclear plant construction.
Your feverish set of comments here tell me that gaming has a lot of work to do pushing moral busybodies (CCP censors included!) out and bringing back places for people that just want to make and play games.
I think the difference is that at Amazon service teams owned their service and code. At Google you had 10ks of engineers who never produced really any client impacting or customer facing code, so there was no need for blast radius protection or management, nor stringent testing. At Amazon even internal teams were often serving 100k end users and had expectations.
> but there are a lot of people in power who do. And use ignorance of it against you.

How can someone use a word against you that you don't understand the meaning or history of? if I make up a word, and starting using it in some discreet and secret way, what have I achieved? if my word is derived from an older word with a forgotten meaning, what still have I achieved? finding connections between things doesn't necessarily give those connections meaning except in your own interpretation.
While I agree their comp is abysmal, if Intel fails America is completely screwed. TSMC will never place leading edge in America and Beijing has the most advanced fabs in the world, which they’re already largely blocked from using, in rocket artillery range. None of our software roles mean anything if we don’t have hardware to run it on.
Please can we rollback everything to scenario #1 already? I'm starting to think that #2 and #3 are actively counter-productive and the pendulum is going to swing back too hard.
I read a large part of this article. While it appears to be really serious notably by the vocabulary used, like other articles trying to "debunk" genetic intelligence it pushes too hard its narrative.

In particular, two semantic tricks are used. First, the fact that current genetic markers aren't a good prediction for IQ heritability is used as an argument against it. The other likely explanation that our understanding of those markers is widely incomplete is not explored.

Second, is the more common "IQ isn't intelligence" trick. Sure, the measure doesn't encompass everything that is making intelligence, but it is still a somewhat interesting proxy as there is a high correlation between intelligence and IQ.
If you're aiming for the eternal, a message board full of computer geeks may not be the best place to find it.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2h0cbvsw8
Check your browser extensions and add-ons.

The title and body text have a 15.52:1 contrast ratio with the background, which is acceptable by all accessibility standards.

The subtitle and background have a 5.32:1 contrast ratio with the background. This would be considered acceptable by most accessibility standards, though I would like it around 9:1.
Since LLMs came out, I’ve mostly been using ChatGPT to write AWS SDK based Python scripts and infrastructure as code.

If it wasn’t trained on a specific newer API or Cloudformation/Terraform/CDK construct, with 4/4o, I just give it the link to the relevant documentation and tell it to use the links to help it create the right code.
Pony has caps built in: https://www.ponylang.io/
But picked up about 12B. Mojo. 12B. Mojo. 12B. 12B.
I am not. When I used Coherent OS, Linux was starting out and Linux people were spamming comp.os.coherent on USENET incessantly. The very few BSD people who posted were respectful of people on that group.

Seems over the years, times have not changed :(

And yes, a big thank you to Germany.
The Livebook UI is lovely. I'd like to see Jupyter get some love in this area.
> No frameworks, no bundlers, no required dependencies. Just web standards, patterns, a unix-style toolset, and some elbow grease.

> quick start

> Install Node.js >= 20
if they were muslim? without a doubt
Every cruise line contract I have agreed to excludes the cruise line from any liability regarding lost luggage. In most ports between when you drop off the luggage and it is put on the ship and from when the luggage leaves the ship until you pick it up the luggage is in the control of a 3rd party and not the cruise line. This is why all cruise ships will allow you to bring your luggage on and off yourself. They also all highly recommend you do so with anything valuable. If you want to be reimbursed for lost luggage that is what travel insurance is for and all cruise lines highly recommend you purchase travel insurance.

The author didn’t carry off a bag which he knew contained valuable and maybe irreplaceable items himself and it sounds like he didn’t insure the items. The situation sucks but it sounds like the author also needs to recognize his own culpability in the situation.
Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts
Companies can just not hire you for "culture fit" or something else based on leaked data about your health problems in order to keep their premium payouts low or just to avoid hiring certain types of people (fill in your blank here).
There's a John Oliver episode about the chocolate industry, you can check it out on YouTube.

Of course there's no logo saying the chocolate is made with child slavery, I hope you didn't mean to be snarky here.

There are initiatives to try to alleviate the problem, the only example I have in mind right now is Tony's Chocolonely (which explains the problem and their solution on their website) but I'm sure others could come up with other initiatives.

The trends from top companies of chocolate is that they try to do as little as possible to alleviate the problem of child slavery in chocolate production.
For me this was the important bit:

“Telegram is anti-moderation — that makes it right-wing coded.”

The transition of “free speech” from a liberal cause to a conservative one has defined the past decade in politics. Before social media became the dominant channel for political communication, the defense of free speech was mostly associated with organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, which protested book bans and argued for freedom of religious expression.”

This transformation has been pointed out many times yet I’m still amazed at it.
Yes, the dynamic you identified is why sham treatments have sold for millennia. Teasing out what works is tricky. For some (to include people I knew) covid was a death sentence, but the fatality rate was around one percent, wasn't it? You'd never fly on a plane that crashed in one out of one hundred flights, but still they aren't too bad as odds go. Even so, once the vaccine came out, the only people I knew who died of covid were those who did not take it. Merely the observation of one individual, but it seems to match the wider data that was found.

So given that information, what is one to do? I took the vaccine and take the newer versions now too along with a flu shot.
> Same as with private keys: Verified e2ee

Yikes
The article reports that one worker has 10 meetings a day with more than 30 people in them. Even if every single person, including the good ones, stayed, that's a company that's drowning in process and politics. In my experience it's not the 10x'ers that determine success, it's how many 0.1x'ers are hanging around, sucking productivity of everyone else.
Shareholders already have huge risk and have lost big on Intel. Leading edge is too cutthroat, if it goes to bankruptcy it will be too late to ever catchup. It’s probably already too late and we just don’t know that we’re living in a Chinese century.
He said it because they got criticized for something that cost them a lot of money. It’s all about how much it costs and takes away from the pockets of the board of directors and owners. For profit companies are amoral for the most part and their only obligation is to make money.
I love how the comments are split along the lines of, "wait, some people don't do this?" and "this is a maintenance nightmare!"

If you know, you know.
> theorize

"a theory is a well-substantiated explanation of the natural world that is based on the scientific method and uses facts, hypotheses, and laws"

Because it's not theorizing, it's wishful thinking. And for some reason it almost always leads to people telling other people how to live their lives based on the "thing that's bigger than our brain" (e.g. god, because that's what you're all trying to imply). That's why it's dangerous.
Meh, I find this very hard to care about. I suppose to some degree there was some overreaction around covid, but I feel like some portion of the country being actively conspiratorial saps any faith I had that there's some inherent selection algorithm out there in our nature that will elevate rational, calm, evidence-based ideas to the top.
I’d say mass media, especially in entertainment and news (but I repeat myself), is far more influential than intellectuals, except inasmuch as they are influenced by them. But let’s be real, Noam Chomsky doesn’t have a ton of clout in Hollywood. If anything, it’s more about money than about the intelligentsia. And if you’re talking about social-media influencers, please revisit my first point.
If materialism is increasing in Western society, then it’s because people increasingly value affluence as a measure of social standing. I think we agree on that. I think what you’re saying is: conspicuously paying more money for health insurance, or paying for more people, is a signal about affluence. What I’m saying is: only the rich don’t need health insurance. Only the rich don’t need college. Paying for those with a carbon tax reinforces Wikipedia’s definition (that environmentalism is directly opposed to materialism).
Thank you -that looks significantly less involved than setting up dokku.
That one has a lot of very nice postmortems about finished OSHW projects :) But I couldn't really find any ideas for not-yet-built projects there.

EDIT: And it seems that page is being spammed with ChatGPT project descriptions?

https://hackaday.io/project/197633-diy-powerful-bass-amplifi...

https://hackaday.io/project/197635-diy-stereo-amplifier-usin...

https://hackaday.io/project/197636-diy-temperature-sensor-th...

all have the same weirdly impersonal "Conclusion. Building a ..." block.
'Pick a time you presented an idea to your boss. Do you remember your excitement and motivation? Now, recall how you felt when your boss suggested "improvements" to your idea, or worse, a better way to do it. Sucks, right?'

That's not the right attitude. One should be receptive to improvements.
Simple != Easy

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

I'm not sure if the author succeeded or not, but at least the goal is clear.
The letter was a response to the House Judiciary Committee, it didn't from nowhere.
The use of "some" here in the headline seems dishonest and diminishing of what was done. Like, "some people were effected by the car crash".

Technically true, but effectively more narrative than journalism, especially since among that censored "some" was a lot of true information and experiences.
> But now food scientists in Switzerland have come up with a way to make chocolate using the entire cocoa fruit rather than just the beans - and without using sugar.

That's "without sugar" in the same way that PoE devices "don't need power". They use the sugar from the fruit rather than supplementing additional one, as is the usual procedure.
Would be useful to see test results on a game that relies more heavily on the graphics core than the CPU. Perhaps Divinity 2?
The existing authorized versions will continue to work forever. What more do you want from a product that ceases to exist? It’s going to EOL no matter what very quickly as OSes get incompatible upgrades. If you’re still using Finale a year from now hoping that it’s somehow going to continue, you’re only tricking yourself.
lol, I am going the other way around.

Since RISC-V ISA is worldwide royalty free and more than nice, I am writting basic rv64 assembly which I do interpret on x86_64 hardware with a linux kernel.

I did not push the envelop up to have a "compiler", because it is indeed while waiting for hardcore performant desktop, aka large, rv64 hardware implementations.
Content moderation. Stack overflow will turn into that of Yahoo Answers.

It was great, just like how Yahoo Answers was great. It’s now no longer needed as much.
Most homes have a 240V supply with a neutral wire (V1, V2, N). This allows for split phase 120V power (V1+N, V2+N). You can also get 240V (V1+V2).

It's common for EVs, clothes dryers, ovens, and hot water heaters to use 240V while most other appliances are 120V.
Prioritisation, Part 1 – Finding Goals
Provisioning cloud infrastructure the wrong way, but faster
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Not to mention 16 other dev dependency packages.