skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I’m not suggesting selinux itself is the solution for Apple. I’m just saying faced with the same problem, and accepting that they have different usability constraints on them (sysadmins vs potentially novice computer users), another group found a solution. Why can’t Apple - they have the money to buy the engineering resource to bottom this out.
I wonder if this problem was made worse by Japan's interest rate changes recently.
We currently live in a society that valorizes meritocracy and equal opportunity and also providing for one's descendants. It supposes that you're you should have equal opportunity to enjoy a middle class or greater lifestyle if you're not a total mess, and that your success is something you can provide to your children as a leg up.

Not every society struggles/struggled so poignantly with the contradiction between those things as we now do, but we do, and that's where the modern criticism of nepotism originates.

Teaching your children your trade by inviting them into your workshop or boardroom is sensible, but it inevitably means that there's less room in that workshop or boardroom for the scrappy, bright outsider whose supposed to have a fair chance.

There's not really one right answer under that kind of tension, so there's no surprise when criticism is levied in either direction.
I use Linux, I would not switch to Android, but I agree the Linux userland should take sandboxing much more seriously. Things like Firejail show it can be done without much friction for the user.

The current model, where executables can access any user file or resource, needs to go. We haven't learned anything from e.g. compromised pip packages that stole ssh keys.
These things have been done in Labview, and it's hard to get anywhere. It's also been done in sound/music generation programs, with Max [max] as a (the?) granddaddy. While you can get things done, it quickly becomes messy too.

Does it look good? I don't think so.

[max] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_(software)
"Be your own bank." Sure, then hire your own security guards.
Who's Your Daddy? (2005)
It boggles my mind how long it's taken for mainstream science to consider keto and carnivore diets. Everywhere, we're seeing that it's blood sugar that is the key factor in health.

Meanwhile, over on r/ketoscience, we're seeing tonnes of evidence in the health benefits and major milestones in cancer treatment (among other diseases). But few are talking about it.

Then there's this gem. There is a valid GoogleDrive link without paywall. I've simply reproduced the post's title:

Incredible new science paper from Miki Ben-Dor, Ran Barkai, and Raphael Sirtoli has 25 scientific points for why humans are truly carnivores. "The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene" - Got the full text paper too - 30 pages long! https://www.reddit.com/r/zerocarb/comments/lz9wj8/incredible...

(Did you notice the Zero Carb subreddit? Wink wink nudge nudge)
Yea all of that is stuff I do not want to bother with. At all. “It’s nice if you take on maintenance burden of a bunch of additional moving parts” is the opposite of what I want. If you have to support a diverse set of languages / runtimes / environments and you deploy using containers, maybe it makes sense, but that seems like a use of the complexity budget I’d rather spend on… something else
> Just go into any crypto sub on Reddit. Any.

How is https://old.reddit.com/r/grincoin toxic?
Not all crypto are about number go up. Or about enriching its creators...
Uncomfortable Truths: The Real Needs of Users We Can't Ignore
It’s time for the Democratic Party to rethink its strategy. Too often, we focus on morally commendable narratives that sound great on paper but overlook the immediate, pressing issues of our constituents. This approach might feel virtuous, but is it really effective?

Let’s consider this from a product perspective. When launching a successful product, the core focus is on solving the actual needs of the customers. Some focus on delivering practical features that resonate with users, while others lean on appealing ideals and add functionality later. Now, which approach is likely to win in the marketplace?

The current election cycle is a wake-up call. Many voters are not just looking for feel-good policies; they’re grappling with real-life worries like monthly bills, gas prices, and mortgage payments. For those struggling with day-to-day survival, concepts like ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) might feel like luxuries they can’t afford to care about right now. These issues are undoubtedly important, but they don’t put food on the table or money in the bank.

If Democrats truly want to connect with voters and make a meaningful impact, we need to face the real challenges our constituents deal with every day. Instead of simply pushing narratives that sound good, let’s deliver solutions that meet their needs directly.
Tariffs are always good for someone. Just not most people.

Is it good for anyone who wants to manufacture chips in China. Obviously, yes it is good for them. But it is not good, in the short term, for people who want to buy chips in China.

But it might be bad for everyone in China, because someone above implied that they actually don't have the knowledge to make these chips. Not sure how true that is? But assuming it is true, that would hurt everyone in China.
I think the job market feels much like 2004 as well. Agree with the author on the incumbents being up for disruption in the same manner. Surprising to see that Microsoft has managed to stay somewhat relevant... clearly they had a huge advantage but compared to Cisco, Oracle and IBM they haven't really bought their way into relevance IMO.
i wonder if they will replace it with generative content in a few years
> I'd assume residuals are lower / non-existent on the much-bemoaned formulaic Netflix fodder movies? Hence why they keep getting stuffed in services.

As I understand it, the residuals are for things beyond the original contract. So if you have a broadcast show, that gets paid out. Then it goes to syndication - residuals get paid. Then it goes to streaming - residuals get paid.

However, with an in house production by a streaming service... from the Fortune link ( and http://web.archive.org/web/20231001022043/https://fortune.co... if you have trouble with the link)

> So shows originally produced for broadcast television aren’t an issue. When “Friends,” which was originally an NBC sitcom, generates $1 billion dollars on streaming platforms, the five leads each earn 2%, or $20 million apiece. But a show like “Stranger Things” – produced and owned by Netflix – never goes to a secondary market as long as it is aired only on Netflix, so the stars earn only their original pay.

> The problem, then, comes from the fact that the existing residual model, per the expiring SAG-AFTRA contract, doesn’t take streaming into account.

> In the streaming era, all new shows produced by streaming platforms are concurrently reruns and original runs. Actors want 2% of streaming revenue generated by the show or film to replace this line of income.
That is a good thing to consider, but I'm not sure that sure that "ABC" is "liberal" to an opposite degree to the way Fox is "conservative".
Huge milestone. I still love this app. Would hope to see this story bring some devs to the project to make it even better.
I think the kind of application here matters a lot, specifically whether you're trying to make a change to a web app or if you're hacking on library code.

In ruby, for example, I can pretty trivially clone any open source gem and run the specs in < 5 minutes. Patching something and opening a PR in under an hour is definitely standard.

On the other hand, getting a development environment running for a company's proprietary web app is often a hassle. Mostly though this isn't because of the language or dependencies, it's because of:

- Getting all the dependent services up and running (postgres version X, redis Y, whatever else) with appropriate seed data.
- Getting access to development secrets

My company (infield.ai) upgrades legacy apps, so we deal with setting up a lot of these. We run them in individual siloed remote developer environments using devcontainers. It works OK once we've configured the service containers.
> If it’s worth it, it’ll happen.

Nope. That would require both rationality (extremely unlikely) and perfect information (impossible)

The reality is that it's somewhat more likely to happen if everybody involved thinks it's a good idea, and one reason (but only one) they might think that is because they believe "it's worth it" whatever their understanding of that is. But never certain, and equally, never impossible. Messy.
This is just a link to the actual article here:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/10/1105034/weeds-cl...
Wrong gut feeling then. It complains about Kagi not focusing on what their unique proposition is, and then about the t-shirts. That can all be true, at the same time as their core product is still also great.
Thanks! Yes getting Web Audio to play nice with iOS was tricky and it's still not perfect. I checked out Ambiph and it's fantastic! I love the clean UI and all of the customization options for soothing ambience. Well done.
Who We Are Now
They are, and the glut of A.I. products will only make it worse.

Look at the election, this is not a country of intelligent people.

If you think the upcoming programmers aren't outsourcing all their work to chatgpt, I got a bridge to sell you.
Sticky paper on bumpers reveals scale of bee deaths due to car collisions
First generation and control of skyrmions at room temperature in a 2D material
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41679215
Can one install QNX as the main OS on a desktop? Or can I boot into the QNX desktop from a thumb drive?
> However, my main point is that people claiming that they are certain of a particular fundamental limitation are mistaken.

No, they are correct. The architecture, by design and construction, is limited. This is simple math.
Using sprite sheets to create an immersive video portfolio site
Beautifully executed. The animated run feature on the online demo is exciting to watch.
https://archive.ph/raLk5
I have recently discovered a combo of white-noise + music, but I must tell you crackling fire noise makes me too relaxed, making me feel I need a quick nap! Rainfall sound works better for me :-)

Haven't come across myNosie before, will check it out, thank you for sharing!
That's separate and somewhat irrelevant to the practical understanding that things do fall down to earth when dropped.
"Gelsinger continued, “Finally, I supply them with some of our advanced equipment. ...."

can someone explain that to me, how a CEO of Intel is -"I"- supply TSMC with advanced equipment??? I mean, is Intel his personal kitchen or storage room? Does he bring that equipment in person to them? ...

just for clarification: Its not I, its WE. That company is not yours, in case you forgot it.
Shareholders and investors should pay attention to that. Just think of why the company value has been minimized over the last years.

It's all his fault. Ask him and he will answer "WE...". He should be fired.

(I cant stand such egoists and narcists who take the credits of other's work and present it as "I did it" - WHAT HAVE YOU "I did it"?!!!! )
TSMC certainly "stole" the European chip industry. They had an IP transfer agreement with Philips.

Philips at that time also sold off its crown jewels like ASML and ASMI. This was the time when CEOs bragged about restructuring companies with inane statements like "the company should look like a board of asparagus, not like a board of spaghetti". Journalists thought it was brilliant at the time (enjoy your dinner!).

China and Taiwan benefited from this reckless outsourcing. I'm actually in favor of stopping any European or U.S. high tech exports and further outsourcing.

But it should be on an economic level, not on the silly warmongering level.
For people who are unaware "Return of the Obra Dinn" and "Papers, Please" are both games by Lucas Pope and they are both considered absolute classics and have won multiple awards. Well worth checking out even if you don't consider yourself a typical game-enjoyer. They are not typical games.
The problem with GNOME is that it caters to a very narrow audience, yet it is the default in most Linux distributions.
> LoRA and full fine-tuning, with equal performance on the fine-tuning task, can have solutions with very different generalization behaviors outside the fine-tuning task distribution.

The ability for nnets to generalize is inherently tied to their trainable parameter count via mechanisms we don't understand but we know parameter count is the key. When you finetune with lora, you're updating maybe 5% of the parameters, I really don't think there is an illusion of equivalence in the field.
Meta: At first glance, the link color made me think of the default visited link color.
ZetaJS is a browser-based version (using LibreOffice WebAssembly) - that should work (tm) on all reasonably modern browsers, including iOS. But see compat matrix for details: https://webassembly.org/features/
I've been using Linux since Ubuntu 12.10-ish days, and I use vanilla GNOME on Fedora Workstation while knowing how to add extensions. Why are you discounting experiences like mine?
since the 90’s [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network]
My 2c as someone who worked on a similar product:

> it seems like it would be more effective to learn the skills you need rather than using this for a decade.

Think of it as a calculator. You do want to be able to do addition, but not neccessarily to manually add 4-digit numbers in your head.

> It takes 5+ seconds just to change one field to dark mode

Our current LLMs are way too slow for this. I am chuckling every time someone says "we don't need LLMs to be faster because people can't read faster". Imagine this using Groq with a future model with similar capability level, and taking 0.5 seconds to do this small change.

People need to remember we're at the very beginning of using AI for coding. Of course it's suboptimal for majority of cases. Unless you believe we're way past half the sigmoid curve on AI improvements (which I don't), consider that this is the worst the AI is ever going to be for coding.

A year ago people were incredulous when told that AI could code. A year before that people would laugh you out of the room. Now we're at the stage where it kinda works, barely, sometimes. I'm bullish on the future.
An article has never made me want to play a game more.
MIDI export seems to be the #1 request. I'll add it! Cheers.
> Monsanto claimed it was “highly unlikely” that glyphosate-resistant weeds would become a problem. There were, of course, those who correctly predicted that such a thing was inevitable

I've started noticing that this happens all the time, across all fields. Experts disagree, the expert with the most positive outlook is the one whose opinion wins out, and we find ourselves in trouble years/decades later.

I've adopted a "treat every expert as a lawyer" mindset now that has helped illuminate some of this for me. I prefer to listen to podcasts where people in the field talk to each other, rather than someone presenting the information to the layperson. There's a lot of jargon but you can very easily get a sense of (1) what issues does everyone agree on (2) what issues are they bickering on, and what their reasons are
That is not a GNOME problem. That is a distro problem. Users should petition their distro maintainers for change.
I just spent dug in to this and, wow, I was wrong!
Most all the negatives that occur with parenteral and oral routes appear to be absent in the intranasal form. And there is quite a lot of research to back that up.

Thank you for correcting me. And likely sending me down another rabbit hole.
You don’t. The bubbles only form once the skull is outside the body. When it gets out of the body, the gaps that used to be filled with water get filled with air.
There's been a bit of a backlash among younger generations against sex scenes in movies and shows, and while some people think it's because they're more prudish, I wonder if part of it may be because of easy access to porn. Watching two naked actors bounce around suggestively is less titillating than it used to be when you can pull up the real deal, on demand, from your pocket.
> If you find 4-5 apps doing basically the same thing (like communication or productivity tool), see if you can consolidate them into one.

If I could get all of my friends to switch to one communication app, that would be great, but that's only going to happen if they can get their friends to switch, and so on. Unfortunately, doing so requires them to install additional apps for communication, and no one can get everyone they talk to to switch, so they're just going to have more people on one app than another and in the end the problem gets worse.
It means what it already says for itself, and does not need correcting into incorrectness.

"no perceived loss" is a perfectly internally consistent and sensible concept and is actually orthogonal to whether it's actually lossless or lossy.

For instance an actually lossless block of data could be perceptually lossy if displayed the wrong way.

In fact, even actual lossless data is always actually lossy, and only ever "perceptually lossless", and there is no such thing as actually lossless, because anything digital is always only a lossy approximation of anything analog. There is loss both at the ADC and at the DAC stage.

If you want to criticize a term for being nonsense misleading dishonest bullshit, then I guess "lossless" is that term, since it never existed and never can exist.
I think the author is overly optimistic about non-tech people.

Non-tech people don't realize Google is getting worse or Chrome is bloated. Non-tech people go to Best Buy because "my computer is slow", drop triple or quadruple digits on a new laptop and then move on.

The renaissance of the open, human internet is in full swing only among the small number of people who have an opinion about the open, human internet.
This looks cool!

I now almost exclusively get my HN feed through a simple script I wrote to get desc sorted posts by score or trend (score/time): https://github.com/faroukfaiz10/hackernews-homepage

The result looks something like this ({score/time} - {score} - {link} - {comments link}):

59 - 1478 - Passport Photos - https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42069646

16 - 790 - Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities - https://weiyen.net/articles/useful-macos-cmd-line-utilities- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057431

...
Usability is apple’s thing. My AirPods just work, every Bluetooth headset before just annoyed. Why can’t they achieve usability in this space? To be honest, redhat’s solution is pretty darned usable - in the context of an enterprise Linux box(1). it helps that they built that database of policy profiles but even creating my own policy is pretty straightforward (3 commands + whatever it takes to make my app exercise all its code paths)

(1) apples context is obviously different
This is a strawman.

I didn't say that ALL Republicans supported it in hive-mind lockstep. I said "this bill was championed and lauded by the Republicans".

You linked to a video where 6 of the 49 Republican senators hold a mini-conference complaining about how they don't agree with their party's leadership. That doesn't refute the statement that "this bill was championed and lauded by the Republicans" if most Republicans champion and laud the bill.

Once again, I'll repeat: This was only 8 months ago. We remember how the bill was expected to pass before Trump told them not to.

And Trump specifically said that the reason not to was that he wanted to the border to remain weak so that he could nail the Democrats on it.
I can totally understand why Microsoft is staying relevant.

They've successfully taken back business marketshare and marketshare in the post-cloud era.

Sure, they are dealing with companies who are using Linux instead of Windows Server and Macs instead of Windows desktops, Postgresql instead of SQL Server, but Microsoft has put all the developers on GitHub, Copilot, running their not-Windows-based apps on Azure, communidating with Microsoft Teams, etc.

They've made all the right bets lately and are focusing on the areas that provide the most value and interconnected usefulness to typical businesses. If Apple is the ultimate seamless hardware ecosystem, Microsoft is the ultimate seamless IT and software development ecosystem.
How do they work thermodynamically? It should make the room hotter, but I guess you don’t notice because the surface you are touching gets colder? Is it a closed loop heat exchanger or is it evaporative?
As an apple hardware enjoyer: you're so high on copium.

Apple's was actually super late to the nvme storage party, and they're not even remotely at the top wrt maximum write/read bandwidth compared to pcie Gen 5 m.2 ssds you can buy for ~$200-300/TB.

So yeah, Apple's ssds cost at least 3x (and perform measurably worse). And I might add: gen 5 is already what, 1 1/2 yrs old now?
Yes, I was. Thank you both for pointing this out.
This. I've found the same, being effective in Rust really requires that you change your way of thinking about your data structures (and code layout). Once I realized that, I was no longer fighting the borrow checker and I've been about to build complex code that more or less worked immediately. As I look back on it, I think what a pain it would have been to write and debug in C, although doing it in C would appear to be "easier".
> but the 2028 election

Ahh, to still have the kind of sweet, sweet naïveté that would lead me to believe there will be a 2028 election.
Provoke often just means just inciting a reaction. Intent is not included in all defections. If China reacts to this, then China has been provoked.
Was the upgrade worth it?
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Well... the "right answer" is going to be subjective. But I think parents providing for their children is going to win out 1000 times out of 1000. It's got human psychology and biology behind it.

If doing what is "right" means I have to hamstring my kid's chances, then I'm going to pass on "right" (or, more likely, re-orient my thinking to make it not "right") and help my kid.
I don't think that is the case. According to pre-election polling more than 50% of voters said the economy was their biggest concern and only 25% said immigration. And the Democrats were largely touting the status quo which cleary people do not want.
It'll be a shame if they shutter their gaming division. While they themselves haven't produced anything worthy of note, their catalog of games on iOS/Android is impressive. High quality licensed content (like Hades, Monument Valley, GTA, Sonic, Kentucky Route Zero, Oxenfree, Braid) with zero ads or microtransactions, all free with your Netflix subscription.
Colors of the Court – NBA Uniforms
I just started using Thunderbird on Android and it's pretty sweet

I think im going to give it a go on Desktop