skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"[...] it looks like the original story was written by German writer Heinrich Böll in “Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral” (“Anecdote concerning the Lowering of Productivity”) and published in 1963."

Source: https://www.sloww.co/tourist-fisherman/#
Yes, it's much harder to invest time, health, money and effort to properly raise kids who do wonders rather than to abuse and to raise fuckups. What is the point you are trying to make, that it's not worth trying?
Hearing aids are generally calibrated for an individual’s specific frequency loss (usually done by a medical professional). We’re already seeing devices that simply amplify all frequencies, and while I’m no doctor, I can imagine boosting all frequencies for prolonged periods of time could lead to additional hearing loss.
Leaked documents showed Nintendo hired private investigators to follow and track the movements of 3DS hackers and to have a lawyer confront them at their house to get them to stop. Why would that person want to work for them?
Whoa, it's fairy tale time. The idea that successful companies pay attention to in order to address what from an economic perspective are negative externalities is a complete fiction. Every single industry- energy, food, real estate, entertainment, finance, tech, clothing- exists, and the economics work- because the "costs" to nature are not accounted for. That's what an externality is.
Yet the gun violence in america is off the charts compared to other western nations. Just today there was yet another mass shooting in texas. Seems the dead people there weren't helped by guns after all.
Looks like a lot of spam.
The music is likely fair use since limited time period and not main use.

But fair use is complicated and there is no way it could be determined by algorithm. YouTube can’t trust the uploader. It doesn’t scale to decide by person. Fallback to DMCA process would be too expensive. Plus, fair use is only US. Easier to just deny copyright material.
> NiMH was far superior to lead acid, superior to nicad, and much cheaper than lithium ion.

Except on a couple accounts - Memory and Lifetime.

NiMH batteries have almost as bad as a memory effect as NiCD, and have a low lifetime cycle count compared to lead acid. I dont think you could put NiMH batteries in a production car, at any point, without designing the battery pack to be cheaply and easily replaced. NiMH batteries are far more of a consumable than even Lithium batteries are. There are also real limits on how much current an NiMH battery can deliver in a given period of time.

NiCD batteries because of the memory effect an inability to deal well with high current applications, made them unsuitable for a mass market electric car.
Tbh I'd expect the trend of upgrading phones to start to slow down as well as they become "good enough" but there are still pretty big gains being made in cameras.

Laptops are just good enough now. If you took the 3 year old M1 internals, and stuck them in the new case and told me it was the 2024 model, I'd not notice anything was off.
Gun violence does not scale with number of guns however, which you seem to be implying.
You are not allowed to look at my copyrighted display of Christmas lights on the outside of my house without first paying my stated price.
Interesting, I'm in the US but can't see the Youtube version.
What do you mean "almost no games using ray traced global illumination"? The games mentioned above and many others are using ray-traced shadows, reflections, and sometimes one bounce of (diffuse) light. Not full path tracing, of course, but these techniques are still considered "ray-traced global illumination".
Seems like a lot of banking and other secure business is moving to mobile first or mobile only, presumably as it's likely the only secure device the user has.
Eventually I hope the compute required to run these systems become local, but yes I do find Bard's "personality" to be a little more controlled and cleaner than chatGPTs. However, chatGPT 3.5 usually gives better responses (e.g. specific book recommendations I ask it).
this is 'the parable of the mexican fisherman' it's the kind of story that is in every book like 7 habits of effective people or 4 hour work week or probably books by Malcolm Gladwell or ones like him
This situation is concerning because Nintendo successfully pressured Skyline, a Switch emulator for Android, to shut down. This could have serious implications for the future of Yuzu or Ryujinx.

It also highlights the flaws in the DMCA system, as companies can abuse it to stifle innovation and competition without proper checks and balances.
Sometime you can get to the future too soon.

Even if Motorola had invested vast sums into development, I'm not sure it would have prevented the company from being broken up as it was in the 2000's.

Because only now, 30 years on from that time are electric cars coming into their own - and they're not really mass market yet - mostly still for now anyhow, just a thing for people of means. I think that'll change, but we are not there yet.
So the solution to comply is to intentionally add Sesame to the manufacturing process has the most effective way to meet the regulation. This means that products that previously may have had occasionally low PPM levels of sesame now have a much greater amount intentionally added in larger but known quantities
Amazon is bad UI though. The information they present is inconsistent, the descriptions barely make sense, it's hard to compare products. It's byzantine.
Apart from this study, the disease isn’t linked to diets directly, but the result of diets if that makes sense. Obesity is a major factor. Being sedentary is another. Once you become pre diabetic it seems diet becomes a larger factor for more obvious reasons, but the path to get there in the first place doesn’t seem to require a specific diet. You could become obese eating anything and still wind up having very high risk for developing type 2 diabetes.

I think this is a source of confusion because people develop it even though they became overweight on relatively healthy food. Or, at the very least, what they consider to be healthy food.

As for this study it seems to indicate to me that certain foods are much easier to get obese with, so they’re linked to the disease.

When you consider carbohydrate quality, a major difference between high and low quality sources is that the higher quality ones are harder to eat more of. That by default is a great protection from obesity. Foods which are harder to eat are almost always better for us if we struggle with portioning.

Take raw carrots for example. You would struggle to become obese by eating raw carrots. On the other hand, you can casually drink like 4 carrots worth of calories in a few minutes via soda. And not feel full at all.
Rural satellite internet is slow and they will throttle your bandwidth when you go over. It would not be enjoyable or reliable imho. However, your results with an ISP may be better.

You may want to look into doing a cellular hotspot, or starlink if available.
I've done a share of C metaprogramming with the preprocessor myself, and have dealt a lot with other peoples' C metaprogramming.

I've also seen people use pages of algrebra as a substitute for a couple lines of calculus.

I struggled for years with a soldering iron, always frustrated by bad solder joints. Then, I discovered a Weller thermostat controlled iron, and get a perfect joint every time.

Not everyone knows there are better ways to do things.
Not a story you’d hear in a poor fishing village I’d imagine.
I'm curious about this "silting up" described by the article. Was it preventable? Did it happen due to lack of maintenance?
I've been watching this project for a long time. It was supposed to be released with Redis 7[1]. But I guess this is not true anymore. And there is no public roadmap saying when it will be production ready.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/redis-labs-unveils-redis-datab...
This would be an issue if the 3rd takedown immediately triggered an un-copyrighting event, but it could be done in other ways. E.g.: "It shall be a defense to a claim of copyright infringement that an author of the claimed work has sent 3 or more invalid DMCA notices in the past"
> the closing error of the levelling is small, only a few decimetres

I guess "millimeters" in the article is in error. Decimeters is much more believable.
7 Habits is a great book everyone should read
They can :) You answer, I answer.

Climate watches. @_@
5G Rollout Disappointments
I like git, I like RSS, I like only having to do markdown. I don't like paying for something that I'll have to keep paying for (mysubdomain.git.ht) if i want to keep my presence (like on a domain I already own but migrated to something else after i get sick of markdown in a couple of years).

Another thing:

> This application will be able to read and write your public and *secret* gists.
Also remember that time Microsoft said confidently that Windows 10 was the last version of Windows?

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...

"Microsoft could opt for Windows 11 or Windows 12 in future, but if people upgrade to Windows 10 and the regular updates do the trick then everyone will just settle for just "Windows" without even worrying about the version number."

Windows 11 is fetid garbage. There is no improvement worth subjecting myself to it and never will be far as I can see. I will never install or use it. LTSC for now and the forseeable future for my use cases. Updates are only done if I deem them additive and not routine. Security is not my biggest red line anyway. Updates are a choice not an inevitability and retaining choice is my right as a user as well as my responsibility to exercise wisely. Forcing compliance is a bad way to get me to do things. TPM, UEFI, Attestation systems of any kind are used as I see fit only and how I deem acceptable.

I rue the slow march away from customization, self-administration, interoperability and the long walk toward closed systems with trusted components required to work and perform basic things. That approval of the gatekeepers. I will stay my own gatekeeper, thanks. Netflix can suck it, i'll torrent it instead if it won't work without golden keys.

All that stuff is really only the foundation for the long game of future-proofing revenue streams for content makers anyway. A means to exercise control over it and you using it.
Link to paper: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/neural_appearance_model...
Thanks for sharing - looks handy for games
Killed and 7 wounded in Texas mall shooting
I'm looking for one right now xD Using BBB and Yelp xD
My mother has NPD. That disorder is very hard on the children.

I am grateful to my wife, and for my son. We are doing things better for sure.
>Energy doesn't come from nowhere. It comes either from the sun, from nuclear fuel, or from fossil fuels being burned. If it's not one of those three, we have a nobel prize winner.

You hooked me with the Nobel Prize line. Where do I pick it up?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_internal_heat_budget...
I like people, and eating meat, and lots of other things...but I and just about all of us are burning through the infrastructure that makes humans possible. And when humans aren't possible, there won't be any more humans. That's reality.

The physical systems on which we depend for survival do not care about what we want. Our only hope for maintaining a human population is to recognize that.
Ok, so instead of Microsoft turning my PC into an Xbox, it's banks asking Microsoft to turn my PC into a credit card reader. This is not materially different.

We already know how this works on Android. Attestation requirements and DRM tend to creep beyond their initial scope if implementing them is easy. And those requirements will include not having owner-level control over your machine[0]. If you root Android, you basically forefeit access to all banking apps, most gaming apps, and a whole bunch of things that you wouldn't even think should require secure attestation.

On the web, we all thought that EME DRM was going to lock down web video and cascade into audio and text. This didn't come to pass primarily because DRM vendors charge money that free web video platforms don't have. If EME had made DRM ubiquitous, the best case would have been one distro vendor offering "blessed" kernel builds that can still "go online", and anyone wanting to be online with their own Linux kernel potentially violating DMCA 1201 or being limited to an increasingly shrinking "clearweb".

There's three types of companies here:

- People that absolutely need user-hostile attestation: banks, competitive multiplayer games, and streaming services

- People that would never demand attestation on principle: normal websites, blogs, web forums, the Fediverse, and YouTube[1]

- People who would implement attestation if it were available regardless of the impact on their user base: Facebook/Meta, Twitter, basically any social media network.

That third group is arguably the largest. They will tolerate unattested users, but they wish they didn't have to. Making attestation easier makes it way more likely for them to demand it.

[0] This could be made less onerous with per-partition boot policies, but only Apple Macs do this AFAIK.

[1] YouTube's stance on DRM is very very weird. Google has the capability to DRM all their content, but they don't. And they've used YouTube as a trojan horse to push open standards like VP8/9 and AV1. On the other hand, they do try to obfuscate video download in ways that the RIAA thinks is DRM.
But you do realize that in 7-12 years
[1] those paperclips will be lost in an extreme weather event?...

[1] theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/08/global-warming-must-not-exceed-15c-warns-landmark-un-report
I'm well familiar. But the word puts people off thanks to decades of propaganda.
This quote, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, was meant to be understood as HHOS.
Of course most of the money comes from subscription fees, and of course both the publisher and university monitor the number of paper downloads. While the actual numbers are not public, it's reasonable to assume that the subscription fee divided by the number of paper downloads covered by it is within an order of magnitude of the price of an individual paper.
The way I read it, they left the other functionality unchanged and injected their source code change into the .dll source, made the build process build both the hacked version and the unhacked version (for later) and put the hacked version into the installation package and deleted evidence of the hacked dll in the build and restored the unhacked dll to it's place so no one could tell what happened just by looking at the end results and doing a dump or binary diff on just that dll.

Similar to but not the same as the pirated xcode malware injection.
Have you heard of ReScript?

Their website: https://rescript-lang.org/
It’s a classic folklore story that seems to be present in many different cultures. (Found a Brazilian one: https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the...)

For a classic Western version, see Plutarch’s story:

‘What the favourite of the King of Epirus said to his master may be applied to all men in the ordinary situations of human life. When the king had recounted to him, in their proper order, all the conquests which he proposed to make, and had come to the last of them;
“And what does your Majesty propose to do then?” said the Favourite.
“I propose then,” said the King, “to enjoy myself with my friends, and endeavour to be good company over a bottle.”
“And what hinders your Majesty from doing so now?” replied the Favourite.’
So hard to read on my e-reader
I mean, compared to mountainous places, you probably spend a lot less time walking up and down hills. (just to state the obvious).
Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?
Idk about “sought after” but it often is useful to embrace and fully experience suffering when it comes for you. Grief is the obvious example.
Well, apparently the story was conceived by a German, in which case the social system would catch him, provide the health care he needs, and when recovered he'd be back on that beach...
It seems like there is some sort of "viral singularity" that is quite likely. Still a "paperclip maximizer" where paperclip is something unexpected. In a sense life, and humanity, are types of paperclip maximizers.
Here, try this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35835656.
Taken to the extreme, someone with physical access could replace the whole unit, to something which has the malware pre installed.

A switch that can’t be controlled via software is at least more secure than the alternatives. If you check the jumper before booting up you can still be 100% sure even if someone previously flashed stuff onto it. Remember, it is called secure boot, not secure flash, so fw get verified again during boot up.
I've noticed the same thing. So many proponents of AI don't validate their results.

I'm reminded of the Microsoft "make more robust" AI feature in VSCode. Their flagship example screenshot was flat out wrong.

The starting code is an html form with a clear bug. It has an onclick rather than onsubmit handler, which means pressing the enter key won't submit the form properly.

Their advertised fix doesn't address that issue. Instead it adds a CSS vendor prefix. First, manually adding vendor prefixes is almost never the right solution, just have one of the existing tools do that automatically. Second, this specific vendor prefix was only in use for a very short period of time years ago. So almost all users currently use browsers that don't need it, and almost all users of outdated browsers aren't helped by the prefixed version.

And this is a case where Microsoft would have had subject matter experts right down the hall from whomever wrote this announcement. It makes me even more skeptical of applications outside of tech.
Yeah, this is bad ass.
PayPal did a lot of research on trust indicators and determined they make no difference since you’re still going to trust plenty of mail without them.

But if the BIMI carrot gets people to properly adopt DMARC I’m all for it.
fwiw my personal take is if 100% remote actually worked for the mainstream companies, all of us would have been outsourced to Kenya or Pakistan at 1/10th the cost instead of taking leisurely dog walks between the zoom meetings in Austin, but this simple thought seems to not have crossed the advocates' minds.
Getting Started with Windows Malware Development
In the long run, the most obvious effect will be an abdication of responsibility by the organizations that employ it. By superficially removing the humans from the decision making process, they also remove said humans from personal and professional liability. We can already see this with examples like Palantir.
> I will admit also that about 92% of emulation, is so people can play games they did not pay for.

Where are you getting this figure? I've never really understood the close tie between emulation and piracy.

With the exception of the new switch emulators, most emulators are emulating gaming experiences that existed decade(s) ago. I don't know a single person who would download a gamecube emulator to pirate a game they've never played before, people use emulators to re-experience the games they played(and owned) a long time ago.
BlackBerry was doing this 20 years ago. That's how their push email service (BIS) worked.

And yes I still lament the loss of the blinking red LED, a victim of phone makers today treating devices as if they were a piece of jewelry as opposed to the utilitarian tools they really are.
Your experience soldering is a much better response. You present a concrete suggestion for use a weller thermostat controlled iron. But you did not present a concrete suggestion for an alternative to the C pre-processor.

You could do this with C++ templates, for instance. But the LESS and SWAP operations may or may not get inlined. With the C pre-processor you can be certain that the operations get inlined, since no other alternative interpretation is available to the compiler.
Khow Suey
The parent may be referring to Peter Attia's talk with Dr. Rick Johnson in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbSic4Oo8ME

Dr. Johnson doesn't mention what organ in the body performs the conversion, but he does mention that high serum sodium activates an enzyme which converts glucose to fructose.

Fructose, in high amounts, causes high uric acid, leading to inflammation, insulin resistance, and causes the body to switch from fat-burning to fat storage (bears and migrating birds will increase their fructose consumption before hibernating/migrating).

According to Dr. Johnson, if you eat some food and feel thirsty, that indicates that your body has already started converting glucose to fructose internally. Drinking enough liquid to keep the serum sodium from increasing will prevent this conversion.

from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3833672/ (Dr. Johnson is a co-authour of this article)
"... activation of aldose reductase in the liver with conversion of glucose to fructose"

Then I found this article, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijn/2011/392708/, which states that "The increase in dietary fructose intake stimulates salt absorption in the small intestine and kidney proximal tubule through coordinated activation of PAT1, NHE3, and Glut5. We propose that reducing dietary intake of fructose and salt, as well as maneuvers aimed at inhibiting fructose absorption in the intestine and kidney tubules, could have profound beneficial effect on controlling blood pressure in patients with metabolic syndrome."
He doesn’t die alone. His children and wife watch him die. Without him, they must toil endlessly to survive.
My home state. <3

Totally a terrible place to live. Don’t come here ;)
Once and for All, Scientists Have Revealed What's at the Center of Mars
Meeting in person seems like the issue. In the gaming space for people who have used the platform for a while, it isn't so weird. The games I play it's even fun to see people have ign be their discord tag. I can see this providing value to "the general public" but I don't see how it provides value to gamers... and that's the thing I guess Discord is trying hard to branch out of gaming.
Loved it. Thanks for finding this and to OP for sending you on its trail :-)
California Panel Calls for Billions in Reparations for Black Residents
You bought a physical box. It's yours forever, or to sell.

The box contains a copy of the software. But copyright law prevents you from making a copy of it, including the copy that your computer would need to make to run the software.

The copyright owner generally agrees to enter into a certain contract with whoever buys the box. Typically, the copyright owner specifies what the contract terms are, and it's usually non-negotiable. (The non-negotiability, making it a contract of adhesion, is the strongest argument against so-called "shrinkwrap" or "clickwrap" agreements. But that leaves the box owner with just a box, and no permission to use the software.)

You might be under the misunderstanding that contracts need to be signed to be effective. Nope. There are lots of ways to accept a contract offer, most often by "implied acceptance," where the parties just start doing what the contract says. In your case, that's probably by opening the box and sticking the physical media in your computer (or otherwise running the software). Similar to going to an amusement park whose ticket has a bunch of fine print on it, or working as an employee at a company for a while without ever quite getting around to signing the employment agreement they gave you.
A quick video: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-number-15-describes-the-s...

> distance “apart” refers to something called their “taxicab distance,” meaning you only squares between numbers in straight lines along paths made of right angles.

I'd only ever heard of this distance being referred to as the Manhattan distance.

https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/manhattanDistance.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry
Emerging Technology's Unfamiliarity with Commercial Law
This article feels vaguely AI-derived.