skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A small amount of beam makes a tremendous difference in hull stability.

Anyone who's had experience with rowing shells will be quite aware of this. Beginner's / open-water vs. flat-water shells differ in width by only a few centimetres, but the difference in handling is profound. Both are unstable to the absolute novice, but even a fairly experienced rower from a wider shell will find the handling of a narrower one much more precarious.

(Both are also inherently unstable with CoG well above midpoint, but the dynamic stabilisation provided by the rower or crew is much more critical for the narrower, and faster, shells.)
Not sure I mentioned the US, and I certainly didn't give an opinion on US support for Israel, a subject which has in many people's view become impossible to discuss openly. I believe you refer to the Trump election outcome with regards to claims of cessation of support for foreign conflicts. I do not follow US politics to any depth but my uninformed impression was that he perhaps wants to dethrone or progressively de-fund the defense industry who have historically backed various political or business rivals. Probably this is a part truth.

But yes, the US is certainly in a difficult position with its socioeconomic trajectory, and the current election is a powder keg.

A somewhat popular meme in the expat community in China has long been that the US and China are just converging on the same future from different paths. Those who have lived for extended periods in both places can see the truths behind this suggestion.

It has been said that "Our true nationality is mankind", but I think it better to state "Our true nationality is Eukaryote". We should care more about the environment and other species' outcomes, not obsess over monkey-squabbles.
I heard someone describe it as "The System of Theseus" that it's not an object but a set of things that lead to usefulness.
Love the product, as a casual user of light photo editing it’s allowed me to get rid of Adobe.

I hope they integrate this as a free first class citizen into iOS and MacOS
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I was going to a dentist. They sold or got bought by PE. They renovated the office...fancy everything. Dentists change periodically (hence why I think it's PE, they hire college grads).

Total shift in how often I get xrays, how pushy they are with fluoride or night guard.

Billing errors also pop up...
C17 is the best version to target. It is a bugfix version of C11, so the feature set is older and more widely available than the date suggests. C11 includes atomics which are necessary for multicore programming.
Or separate diagnosis from treatment. I'd like to go to one dentist who gets paid a flat fee to look at my mouth and identify problems, and then choose another dentist who can fix the problem. That way no dentist has the incentive to lie.
You really do seem to be very loose with facts and claims.

Eg you make claims about "all" which are obviously and trivially false.

It's not a good look, and not good for your future IMHO.
Here's the source article: https://www.axios.com/2024/10/30/election-gen-z-voting-lies

>Half of Gen Z voters — and 1 in 4 U.S. voters overall — have lied to people close to them about who they're voting for, according to the latest Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll.

>Voters 18-27 who came of age during the hyper-polarized Trump era appear to be among the most sensitive to perceived pressure and judgment from friends or loved ones.
In the presented statistics, it's not so much about party as it is about age.
Which tracks with my experience that young people are much more conflict averse.

Also, interesting that men are twice as likely to lie as women. Which goes against accepted logic that women would be more likely to conform socially.
If tech moguls have shown us one thing, it is that money beyond one's wildest dreams is still not enough to be happy.
This is only going to get more common as dental offices become owned by private equity firms, unfortunately.
Because the code, when written, is usually obvious enough.

Something like:

query = query.orderBy(field: "username", Ordering.DESC)

Doesn't need an explanation, but when working in a language I don't know well, I might not remember whether I'm supposed to call orderBy on the query or on the ORM module and pass query as the argument, whether the kwarg is called "field" or "column", whether it wants a string or something like `User.name` as the column expression, how to specify the ordering and so on.
Emagic's Logic is the pro software example. But they've killed others, like Chalice and RAYZ (purchased from Silicon Grail) were killed before Apple released Motion, and Nothing Real was purchased for Shake which was killed 6 years later.
FingerWorks! I had their iGesture Pad.

Although maybe they were on their last legs before the acquisition, and it led to multitouch being everywhere, so great outcome anyway.
ha! nice!

I was only briefly looking at it while doing other things but I'll come back to this after work hours and check again
Because in the historical context, they were considered sacred.
Still haven't found another editor that lets you define a project with files from all over the filesystem rather than just from a folder. And no VS Code's multi-root projects do not cut it.
> anti-Chinese propaganda

Please tell me you're kidding. There is way, way more pro-Chinese propaganda online than anti-Chinese. So overt at this point that you'd have to be willfully blind not to notice.
I spent a lot of time in the early 2000 with Macromedia apps.. i miss Director
Provenrun, used in military aircraft, has 100% formal proof coverage on the microkernel.

We know how to approach this. You use a brutally simple microkernel such as SEL4 and do full proofs of correctness on it. There's a performance penalty for microkernels, maybe 20%, because there's more copying. There's a huge cost to making modifications, so modifications are rare.

The trouble with SEL4 is that it's not much more than a hypervisor. People tend to run Linux on top of it, which loses most of the security benefits.
The big thing Aperture nailed though was photo-management workflows - it was never that great as an image editor. I don't see anything in Pixelmator that moves the needle in an Aperture/Lightroom-type direction by integrating photo management, which was the innovation Aperture and Lightroom brought back at their roughly similar original launch dates. Pixelmator is much more a photoshop alternative IMO.

I'd put money on this acquisition being used to improve the image editing experience in photos.app on iOS/macOS, just like Dark Sky was acquired and then used to improve weather.app, rather than any return of Aperture.
Late to the list party but, "The First 15 lives of Harry August", by Claire North.

It's a wonderful exploration of reliving your life over and over and over again, but also finding out that there is a small number of others who do the same and communicate with each other across the centuries of past and future. She forms her character dialogue well too, which is always good.
I still haven't found an app that's as good as Aperture used to be with my workflow in term of UX/convenience etc...

Never understood the logic of getting rid of it. I know a few people who actually switched to mac because of Aperture
Some dentists/doctors/etc have integrity. They are becoming increasingly rare as private equity takes over family-owned practices.
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Seems this would naturally translate into a mixture of experts by using a "hard" attention function so that only a fixed amount of weight tokens get included in the calculation.
This is the same country that thinks it’s okay to dock tails on corgis, to remove foreskin on babies who aren’t lucky enough to be born in a west coast blue state, and pushes “ferberization” on hundreds of millions of children to remind them that their parents don’t want to take care of them if they cry when it’s inconvenient. I’m not even bringing up the literal scams of chiropractors or “naturopathic” doctors.

We are a disgusting, cruel people. Finland or Sweden would lock up (in cushy prison camps) the white coats for a fraction of what they get away with here in the USA
2005 Google Search

Edit: I recognize that I may very well be in the minority, but when I use search, I am looking for sources, not answers. Everything Google has done to get in the way between me and the people who have the information I want has been a net negative from my perspective.

The interjection of AI here is just doing more of that.
Ah, the wonders of the free market!

Fortunately, we saw a solution to the problem of dead customers just a day or two ago right here on HN! https://repaer.earth/
Well, the money they made in that country was the result of services they provided to the people of that country. The country already benefitted and to lay claim to the return they got for doing that is to say that they were slaves when providing such services. To put terms on the use of what's presumably theirs that they've earned is to say "you're not the owner of it, and you're not the owner of yourself either."

A wealth tax is "you did great in this country, and you brought wealth to the people here such that they paid you for what you've done, and that's great. If your continued relationship with this country is valuable to you, we are going to need a cut of that as long as you want to maintain that relationship but if it isn't worth it to you, youre free to end that relationship." Still, to me, the nation-state level of scumbag behavior, but at least nobody is being held hostage.
Another controversial one was Lala.com, if I recall right — they shut it down right away, but it had an avid user base.

I get why Apple wouldn't want to maintain two music services, so that engineering talent likely got absorbed into iTunes. It's yet another story where the competition was offering something really good / unique, drawing in customers interested in those differentiators, and it ended up disappointing a lot of people getting bought out.
> to build the great harmony that everyone under heaven can life peacefully together

Do the Taiwanese feel comforted by statements like that?
This might have something to do with the fact that young women skew so heavily democratic that there isn't any need to lie; it's already the default position for your social context.
It could also be that, for at least this election, a lot is a stake for women so they're more likely to be emboldened
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I presume this means that there are scenarios where Kernel doesn't exist. In scenarios where Kernel exists, it is global.

For example if running on an embedded system without a Kernel.

The fact that the kernel is globally accessible to all objects is not a criticism of the language, you can't make up purity where it doesn't exist, as much as we may desire our programs are not ethereal math incantations that exist on Plato's world of ideals, and sometimes they depend on the Kernel which is the same for the whole process, (Duh).

I didn't even get into CPU defined functions like addition, and assignment. How would you argue that + is not a global function? If you want to argue that it can be overloaded, recall that we speak of the default function in a read only capacity.
The only acquisition? Emagic, the original maker of Logic was acquired some 20 years ago and now Logic is one of if not the flagship software product sold by Apple
You are correct. But only about 10 denaturalization happen each year. Ironically Trump promised to vastly increase denaturalizations. Don't know if it happened.
> Which goes against accepted logic that women would be more likely to conform socially.

Citation needed. Where is that coming from?
This narration, but the B-roll is slums, favelas, housing projects, and Hong Kong coffin cubes.
Oh man. I would dearly love to see scumbag dentists lose their ability to easily scam vulnerable people, often desperate and in pain.

That said - I'm sure they have tight regulations on who is allowed to X-ray teeth, and diverse ways to keep their own in line should they threaten the apple cart.

Ever heard of nano silver fluoride? ... Exactly. (Unless you saw the HN story on it here recently [0].)

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41474080
Or why is it not a simple shell call to Imagemagick?
Really? Even though the company is in Lithuania? It seems like they’d probably keep on working on Pixelmator or something closely related since any other teams would be a long way away.
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That reminds me of this 2020 study of dentists in Switzerland, previously discussed on HN in January 2023:

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34322194

Study: "Health Services as Credence Goods: a Field Experiment" -- https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/130/629/1346/57... (full study available on SciHub)

[Note: Credence goods are goods whose qualities cannot be ascertained by consumers even after purchase, or where an expert knows more about the quality a consumer needs than the consumer himself.]

> We present the results from a field experiment in the market for dental care: a test patient who does not need treatment is sent to 180 dentists to receive treatment recommendations.

> In the experiment, we vary the socio-economic status of the patient and whether a second opinion signal is sent. Furthermore, measures of market, practice and dentist characteristics are collected.

> We observe an overtreatment recommendation rate of 28% and a striking heterogeneity in treatment recommendations.

> Furthermore, we find significantly fewer overtreatment recommendations for patients with higher socio-economic status compared with lower socio-economic status for standard visits, suggesting a complex role for patients’ socio-economic status.

> Competition intensity, measured by dentist density, does not have a significant influence on overtreatment. Dentists with shorter waiting times are more likely to propose unnecessary treatment.
Love it!
this virtual world looks so goo and it is also changing really fast so seems like a very powerful model!
Maybe not what you’re looking for, but I put adguard home on a VPS (although later switched to a “real” dns software prior to benchmarking) and is
faster^1 than connecting directly to cloudflare from home.

[1] https://stonegray.ca/dns/#performance

Edit: for the curious, I use technetium as the server, nginx to proxy it (security stuff, prioritize traffic from my zerotier network, do DNS/DoT translation, etc) and docker/letsencrypt/watchtower/netdata for auto updating and status reporting, packaged as a single docker compose I can deploy easily.
If you are used to structural typed systems though this actually "feels" expected. Don't get me wrong, I know where you are coming from. But the realisation comes from nominal systems, which are different beasts. As long as it actually evaluates to the expectations in the head of the developers using it, then that's okay.

However, regularly it's not the case -- especially with people moving from nominal systems.

TS can't really be practically nominal when it has to be constrained by its compile target. So I guess it ultimately boils down to an anomaly/criticism born from the legacy of how web standards came about.
Oh you know what, I realized I wans't accurate. The 8-year MacBook I had _did_ have a failure at one point. They replaced the entire keyboard/trackpad for me for free when it did.
It seems you are questioning only the "...considering Zionism a self-destructive political ideology" final part of the final sentence, a necessarily concise summary of a whole person's lifetime views which is obviously skipping nuance.

Well, hey, I'm the first to admit I never met the guy. I have also read that wikipedia page, which is probably not impartial or complete. My limited understanding is that he didn't want an Israeli state - "I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state". Later, he initially supported Israel (as did many fleeing Europe, including my own family), but never Israel-for-the-jews-to-the-exclusion-of-others. Later he was disgusted at the political leadership of this bent he saw emerging to dominate the political reality in the fledgling nation, which is what my GP comment referred to. He would without doubt be critical today, though it seems he wisely tried to stay out of politics where feasible. Probably I should have said "militant exclusionary Zionism" or some other phrase, but it seems everything is a loaded phrase these days in discussions touching on Israel.

Edit reply to child: I can see clearly that quote must be taken out of context quite often. Perhaps you should imagine if you had lived somewhere for generations and then a bunch of foreigners show up from Europe and start altering the status quo, how exactly you the residents might feel about it. It seems peaceful protest and strikes had been carried out in living memory but the results were violence. So you can see what sort of tinderbox that would be. I don't think deploying historic quotes out of context in an attempt to allocate blame and transfer that to a modern context is in any way shape or form constructive, valid, useful or intellectually honest.
Unless they aren't in a space where telling that truth is safe, be it from familial pressure, peer pressure, pressure from their significant other.

Same for the young men, honestly.
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What severe lack of investment in education gets you, folks.
It’s up there along with Procreate, another amazing product by an independent studio
And Siri and Shortcuts.
> there are some issues that should be dealbreakers for tech literate people. (in my own, possibly biased opinion at least)

I know you admit right after that your opinion is biased, but it's almost ludicrous to assert that all the programmers and engineers using Macs and iPhones by choice must just not be tech literate.

> In case of Macbooks, it's the fact that they refuse to provide an official GPU driver for Linux

MBPs are so much better than any other laptop that, with a few caveats[1], running Linux in a VM on a top-of-the-line MBP is a much nicer experience than using Linux natively on any other laptop. So while it'd be nice if there were more first-party support for Linux, it's certainly not a deal-breaker for "tech-literate" people. (Not to mention the fact that there are "tech-literate" people who use macOS and not Linux, so it wouldn't matter to them at all).

> general poor support for things outside the walled garden

macOS isn't a walled garden, so I don't know what you mean. You can download any software you want from anywhere you want and run it on your laptop, and Apple doesn't do anything to try to prevent this.

> The Asahi stuff is cool and all, but come on, is a 3.4 trillion dollar company really going to just stand there and watch some volunteers struggling to provide support for their undocumented hardware without doing anything substantial to help? That sounds straight up insulting to me, especially for such a premium product.

Now it's unclear whether your point is "I don't understand why people use Macs because there are objective drawbacks" or "I don't think people should use Macs because Apple does stuff that I find annoying". You're blending the two here but they are meaningfully separate points. I've discussed the practical point already above, but as for the stuff you subjectively find annoying: surely the only real answer is that lots of other people just subjectively don't care as much as you.

> For iphones, it's the fact that you are not allowed to run your own code on YOUR OWN DEVICE without paying the Apple troll toll and passing the honestly ridiculous Apple Store requirements.

I don't care about this at all. I've never wanted to run my own code on my own iOS device except when I was working on iOS apps and had an Apple developer account through work. I, like the vast majority of people, use my phone as a browsing/messaging/media consumption device, not as a general-purpose computer.

If Apple tried to prevent me from running my own code on my own MacBook, it would be a deal-breaker, but as I already said above, they don't.

In conclusion I think you've confused "tech-literate person" and "geek who wants to be able to tweak/configure everything". Indeed there is a large overlap between those sets, but they're not quite the same thing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41997107
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Isn't that figure 5 in the paper? It's for training not inference, but presumably if training is faster then inference would be too. Because they don't increase the dimension of the text tokens when scaling up, which reduces the compute needed for attention. But potentially limits how well the text token attention can keep track of things, because it's got less space for passing things along.
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> Beats still continues to make slightly cheaper headphones. FoundationDB is still there.

Final Cut Pro was bought from Macromedia. And Logic from Emagic. And off the top of my head Astarte (iDVD), FileMaker (FileMaker Pro and Bento, though that was originally spun out or Apple in the first place), SoundJam (iTunes), Siri (Siri).

All of these were mildly- to hugely-successful products.
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Where's the joke? I do in fact target somewhat oldish POSIX sh when writing shell scripts; I want to write a script once and not have to worry about where it will run, and sh is basically universal.