skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That study was specifically on Australian firemen IIRC. Firemen are exposed to more of those particular chemicals because of their widespread use in flame retardant sprays.
WebAuthn: The Future of Web Authentication
That's irrelevant, automated blocking is a different discussion. This is about if it matters that the content hit your server or client and then was deleted because you had the user blocked, or if it's better to have a centralized system where the blocked users messages never make it to your client.

From the users perspective I can't really see any difference here.
I’ve probably been burntout for a while. Haven’t had a vacation in a long time, haven’t been making the progress I want to be etc

At the same time chalking it all up to “burnout” seems dishonest. I’ve not been doing a good job —- I lack general discipline, have been on and off abusing drugs, been too alone and existential.

I don’t think an abrupt break is going to fix these things so I stay put, trying to fix underlying issues or make enough progress to be actually mindless on a vacation someday.
Half of the "alternatives" there are dead (website is offline) and the rest is not free. Those are hardly alternatives, more like band-aid solutions.
I agree that switching creates waste, not switching creates other waste. If they wanted to minimize waste, they should have released lighting and usb-c iphones years ago and slowly phased out the lighting. Maybe even just update lightning to support USBC speeds. But alas we are stuck with this local optimum when there was a better global optimum that we missed for profit.
Looks impressive. I wonder if the Linux support is (will be?) good.
This is one case where it’s not just being hip though. Publishing in Nature Science Cell is pretty much a minimum requirement if you want to get tenure track in any top university. I’m out of academia by a few years so not sure if eLife/PLOS Biology is starting to make inroads as acceptable top tier or not. You’re also betting your long term reputation on the reputability of the journal. The best bet is that more of the top scientists commit to only publishing in fully open journals and bury NSC.
I recorded a spoken comment in response to this article, then fed it through GPT-4 to clean it up and organize it:

The article "Our Alien Stalkers" proposes that aliens aim to prevent civilizations from expanding, similar to the United States Monroe Doctrine, and that their only objective is to maintain control. While this theory is intriguing, it seems more plausible that if one alien civilization could arrive, so could others with varying levels of aggression and objectives.

A more coherent strategy for extraterrestrial control would involve targeting the top of Earth's power hierarchy, like governments and large corporations. By offering access to advanced technology, aliens could control these entities and maintain influence over the rest of the population. This idea is supported by anecdotal and conspiratorial evidence of technology transfers or crash retrievals.

By distributing advanced technology to multiple competing power structures on Earth, aliens could play all sides of existing conflicts and further reinforce the narrative that governments and corporations hold power. However, this perspective raises the question: do governments and corporations truly have power, or are they merely pawns in the hands of an alien civilization using advanced technology and human greed to maintain control? The UFO disclosure narrative only strengthens this dynamic, presenting aliens as a priest class with ultimate control over Earth's power structures.

In response to the article "Our Alien Stalkers," I'd like to suggest that if aliens were to infiltrate our society, they could potentially offer powerful people irresistible advances in technology, energy, and weaponry in exchange for certain concessions. This Faustian bargain would likely be difficult for power-hungry individuals to refuse. In doing so, the aliens would cleverly exploit human psychology and existing power structures to gain control over our planet.

The dominant UFO narrative often centers around government and corporate elites hiding secrets, inadvertently reinforcing the power dynamic between these entities and the general population. An alternative explanation could be that our governments and corporations are merely pawns, controlled by their own greed and the more advanced alien civilizations. This idea is unpalatable for many, as humans are generally egocentric and struggle with the notion that they might not be at the top of the universal hierarchy.

The concept of humans being a small fish in a vast cosmic pond is a difficult pill to swallow, much like the realization of a small-town bully who discovers they're not as powerful as they once believed. This alternate narrative offers an interesting perspective to consider, as it challenges the human-centric viewpoint and our assumptions about the power dynamics on Earth.
After using a Linux phone (specifically, the PinePhone) as my daily driver for the past 19 months, I must say that the overall experience has been quite poor. While basic functions like calling and texting are functional, the device falls short in many other areas. For instance, web browsing can be challenging - although most websites do load properly, opening the keyboard has made multiple website completely unusable or behaving strange.

Additionally, while I have experimented with apps for different platforms like Matrix and Mastodon, many of these are still works in progress, and compiling them can be a time-consuming process.It's worth mentioning that even the most optimized apps for Linux phones can still crash from time to time. Additionally, many apps that might work perfectly fine on a Linux desktop are simply not designed to be used on a phone, making them unusable in practice.

While there is a solution for running Android apps on the phone (Waydroid), it too can be unreliable at times and has been known to cause the phone to hang. Furthermore, there are numerous software-related issues, such as crashes after updates, voice-related problems (e.g. microphone or speaker not working), modem connectivity issues requiring a reboot, and the device failing to turn on the screen until a hard reboot is performed (it thinks it's being held up to the ear like during a call). Lastly, battery life is a real issue. It's worth noting that I'm running the Phosh interface on Arch Linux.
There is not much of an option with step functions, outputs/inputs can be max 256KB so especially if you go into or out of a map/parallel state you can‘t do much more than pass references to the data and not the data itself.
PGP has a kind of authentication called MDC which is kind of a MAC. Changes to ciphertext are detected.

The metadata leakage is not good from a privacy standpoint, but brings about much more important security benefits that are mentioned in the post. Using Gopass will hide metadata.
> It works pretty well on email.

As someone who has been running mail servers for 20 years, no, it does not. I'm sure other mail admins will agree.
Are they goong to break the most important Google app for me? This is .. exciting.

My calendar events are not tasks. The reminders for them are not tasks either. So this is worrying for me.
And Truman Capote said that regarding a novel which Kerouac worked on for nearly a decade. The scroll for On The Road was the performance of the piece which he had been rehearsing for all those years and had worked everything out before he sat down at the typewriter. Everything but the final form was known which he wanted to be more natural and less refined. The idea that he just sat down and wrote it is folklore, it is fairly impressive in how cohesive it is, especially in style/voice. Capote is not a great appeal to authority regarding literary merit, he was well known for his professional jealousy and inflammatory comments.
So do other intelligence services, but that doesn't mean regular citizens are allowed to so this as well.

(and whether secret services are "allowed" to do so, is a seperate question)
5G mmWave is best used in dense - ie. not so often in North America - urban areas. I's going to work great in busy metro stations, shopping streets/malls, concerts. Not in suburbia.
I get the impression that attitudes are starting to shift back to anticipation, but I suspect that many people are still leery due to the disruptive changes brought by KDE 4, Gnome 3, and Python 3 (to name three projects that immediately come to my mind). Of course, those weren't the only products affected and open source software wasn't the only thing affected. The years around 2010 felt a bit like the early 1990's, with the distinct difference that disruptive change in the early 1990's brought with it quality of life improvements that were more often well received.

Now that software is starting to mature again (at least in my mind, and at least with open source projects), changes are more welcome. Watching updates is more interesting because the bullet points look interesting from a utility standpoint rather than a drama standpoint.
USB-C is so frustrating. I have different cables to charge headphones, keyboard, switch, iPad. Cos they don’t “just work”.

And I’ve had more lightening cables break in the last 2 years than I have had lightening cables in the last 7 years.
China and the upcoming strife from within – perspective from the ground
8: Zero COVID DESTROYED this place. People realize it was not to prevent death but to monitor people. People have removed all those things from their phones even though they are required to keep them there even though they aren't checked. The police can't check them all and the police don't even bother.
As far as I am aware, they don't necessarily even do the final editing themselves; at least with the APS journals, they outsource the final typesetting to another company.
Not unreasonable maybe, assuming of course that the taxpayers nation's public will additionally pay their dues for all research ever funded in other nations on which the present research built.

On a balance I think it simplifies a lot if most that information is just shared generously and openly. The funders can often get a head start on gains from technical applications anyway, though better access to the researchers and infrastructure built up for the purpose.

Some economically strong nations have a habit of recruiting researchers away from their original setting around the point in time when it becomes obvious that their work is valuable though. Maybe that shouldn't always be happening without restrictions?
Almost all drugs show higher potency when administered intravenously...
>Dependable Drew, an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on

I used to be the same as a student - always trying to fix all those broken people around me, somehow attracting mostly mentally-ill friends, visiting too many in psychiatric wards. I thought I was doing good, but I was just letting myself get dragged down. I haven't fixed a single one of their problems, I just had my energy pulled out of me. Looks like OP put himself into a similar position to mine... I learned the hard way that I am the captain of my own ship, others' ships will happily pull mine down to the bottom of the ocean. I have a responsibility towards my own ship and walked away.
I'm pretty sure you can't reliably distinguish LLM text from real person text.
Silcon valley was brilliant, although they blended the stories of several companys fatal errors into one company, turning it into a Hans in Luck
I like your point but let's dive another layer down the rabbithole.

Why do researchers need to buy prestige in the first place? Academic research should be done for the sake of advancement of knowledge and of course the people doing it should make a good living out of it. How does buying prestige come into play here? (just asking)
GP's USB wall sockets will be obsolete in short order, not because of Apple, but because the USB Power Delivery standards are still rapidly evolving. The latest version can even power high energy devices like workstation laptops and displays.

But unless they bought cutting edge tech after 2021, chances are whatever got put in the wall sockets is low-power USB-A and destined for obsolescence in a handful of years.
I believe that trying to follow everything is going to difficult. And trying to check-in few times a day is a time drain for casual readers. So, I created weekly newsletter:

https://gptweekly.beehiiv.com/

The focus is going to be on top 5 news + 10 news and interesting reads (including open source projects) + 3 learning links. The focus of the newsletter are casual readers who want to stay ahead of the curve.

Next week's edition goes out on Monday and it'll cover the linked news and more.
If you’re gonna say you have to pay for reviews, it might be a bad precedent that might establish “professional reviewers” whose main job becomes this. Already reviewing papers is become a stupidly important criteria in green card applications and you see a huge deluge of postdocs emailing editors requesting papers to review (though the top journals will never give a manuscript to a postdoc).
The general problem with USB-C is that the connectors support multiple different protocols, cables are allowed to not be of sufficient quality for all use-cases (the worst example is probably high-bitrate cases like cables for computer monitors) including high power charging. Similarly, the devices on either end needn’t support all the potential protocols/uses. Furthermore, many USB-C devices that are sold are low quality and can damage devices that are plugged into them by failing to follow the specification (eg delivering too much power). So, if you’re a consumer and you have two devices with USB-C ports, and a cable with USB-C on both ends, connecting the two together might either work fine, work with poor performance (without telling you this), not work, or damage your device. And there isn’t really a good way to tell this will happen.

Lightning isn’t that much better though. You can get lightning to USB-C cables so you can plug into various bad devices and have other USB-C problems, though you likely won’t try to plug into a monitor for example.

There’s maybe an argument to be made about the ports too. I think it would be harder to clean dust/fluff out of a USB-C port and maybe they could be more fragile too because of the spike in the middle of the port.

It still seems to me like Apple probably also like that they have a lot more control over lightning. And they already have USB-C on iPads and computers so they clearly don’t think it is totally terrible. But there are a lot more iPhones in the world than other Apple devices and I can imagine eg Apple having to spend a load of money on customer support, etc, due to the USB-C issues, or getting blamed when things go wrong because of the cable or device on the other end.

I think it would be better if the possibility of connecting two devices with a cable implied that they would work together, but I’m not sure how that could be done without either more ports or more expensive cables/charging bricks. And I don’t know why a USB-like organisation would have more success at ensuring things follow the standards than USB currently have.
Last time I tried Plex for photos it was pretty terrible.

Clearly not their focus. I still use it for audiobooks and live tv, but I migrated photos to photoprism which is great.

Also check out photo structure. The author posts here sometimes. Both are great apps.
Uncouple Russian modules and burn them ?
Vulnerabilities are by definition dangerous. In some cases critically dangerous.

It is reasonable, common sense even, that vulnerabilities should not be publicised without a vetting process.
Despite my comment I'm not in favor of deliberately exposing private medical records of anyone, politicians or otherwise. My point is that the fixed and blinkered view of politicians won't change until they're personally affected or harmed.
> Aren't we talking about blocking and muting known user handles?

This is the same as blocking known spam domains and IP blocks in email. They just switch to a new one. Which is best dealt with at the remote end since the server has a better chance of being able to identify new accounts which are related to blocked ones - Instagram even suggests this for you when you block someone: "...and any future accounts they may create". Having to do this in A's client is much more difficult because it lacks the information that would be useful.

> What happens if B does the same before A had a chance to block them?

A fair point.
That's a problem with your UE (phone), what model is it?
absolutely, technology changes but people don't. It is precisely because of technology that we aren't changing, that is its entire point.
That’s a good explanation. I’m from Blairgowrie originally.

I thought it odd to include Northumbria in one list, but leave it (or England) off the other. But then including a historic county along with countries is odd anyway. I assumed they meant northern England because the parts within Scotland wouldn’t need to be called out again within a list.
Well, I suppose what's trivial for me might be advanced for you :)
It would be more profitable than burning coal, were externalities priced in to fossil fuel energy generation as they are with nuclear energy.

With nuclear, every kWh generated incorporates the cost of decommissioning, storage, truly baroque safety compliance, and all the rest.

With coal, every kWh incorporates the cost of… coal. What’s the plan for the radioactive ash? Dump it. Somewhere. Wherever. What’s the plan for the atmosphere? Screw it. What’s the plan for decommissioning? File for bankruptcy and let the state deal with it.
These scientists have more balls than app store developers.
Theorem Proving in Lean 4
I burned out last year, luckily I had the funds to quit without anything lined up and been semi-retired ever since. I'd like to work again but modern software jobs ask for too much. Why should I dedicate so much of my life and brainpower to 24/7 oncall and managing development? No amount of money is worth the stress.
eheh that exactly what I did after reading the story, I added stress on empathy and whatnot, and yeah. the topics and plots it produces are solid, and explore the human side of the story well enough
I just realised I rarely plug a cable into my phone at all these days. Genuinely I think the last time I did was in a hire car that only had cable CarPlay. At my desk I got a wireless charger as well as my bed side. Data is over the cloud now etc

Serious question how long until they drop the port full stop? Like what if they achieve serious wireless charging speeds

And actually does anyone know if that’s allowed with these new regulations? Like what if the iPhone 16 they drop it entirely???
>just Ericsson

Uh, Nokia? Samsung? Whatever Amazon and the startups are cooking?
I remember there used to be a huge number of these speakers where you would sit the phone or ipod on the connector/stand. And all of those got obsoleted by the switch to lightning, but I don't think I've seen a single design like that since the 30 pin connector was dropped. It's all bluetooth now. And with the more even split between iphones and android these days, no hardware maker would put a fixed lightning stand on a device now.
Burnout is just a form of depression packed into a term that seems more acceptable.
> So you mean I can take my Apple lightning cable

GP specifically said the chargers had standard USB ports - and they do. Either A (old) or C (new). You're talking about the cable which is a completely different thing (obvs.)
Yeah, but then you have: It seems like every week or two this year, another crisis presented itself, each manageable in isolation.

I've had this happen and it really grinds you down when you work full-out for months and, just when you think you've contained all the crises, the next one drops.
I said not right now, in the future as it was just announced last year.

Whatever, who knows how it will end up.
You mentioned the transformers, those brick ends. You can absolutely use those on any usb c device since the cable is not fixed to them.
hey the kid from third rock, aka the kid from inception is..looking kinda middle aged. I feel old now.
Don’t be afraid to really relax and do stuff that has no meaning or goal.
I could guess the ending from the title... As great a writer as Tolstoy is this one was a pretty obvious conclusion. We're all here temporarily anyway, amassing wealth on expense of health and well being is a fool's errand. Sure misery is frightening, but I find we sell our dignity too cheaply because of that fear. A life of servitude, selling nearly half our waking time in the prime of our time for fear of destitution strikes me as madness. Wouldn't it be preferable to die than to live with a leash, as golden as it may be painted? The comforts we can buy, of gadgets, big house, big car, fancy travel... As long as we report back and spend 90% of the year saying 'yes sir' to boss, client or market. What have we become? Well dressed, comfy serfs.
Me too. I think the closest is Xcode Additional Tools.
No, that's excessive. I always just unsolder and replace every component, but I thought that went without saying.
That's really cool! One thing I can think of, instead of setting the shortcut to run when your phone is plugged in, you can make an automation start when an app is opened/closed, so if you use this on the Reminders app, it should do the sync automatically.
I don't think this is the main reason. How many millions in licensing fee profit are they really earning? It seems like a drop in the bucket comparative to their total profit. And if that's the reason, why does the iPad have USB-C?
Coronation Notes
I'm about half a mile from a 5G tower and have been using a T-Mobile hotspot for about a month because the only telco that has run internet on my side of the street (in a town that literally has fiber 300 feet away) is AT&T, and then they only have DSL. This is in a Dallas suburb. AT&T? Nearly 90 bucks for 50Mbps down, 12 up. T-Mobile? 50 bucks 140 down, 50 up during peak times.
I'm more scared of LSD than ever before, after hearing about that you see "scanlines" for ever after using it. Anyone got this after?

https://www.insider.com/9-years-after-acid-trip-man-has-pers...
Lightning cables are USB 2.0. I think you'll find every USB-C cable supports the USB 2 feature set.
Terrence Tao once said he will not publish or edit for Elsevier. But he still said he will referee as scientists without tenure do not have that freedom.
thanks for the praise! Our community is super-awesome too!

Very experimental! No ETAs yet but we're considering a few strategies for the optimizing compiler
Nope, I don't have it.
'measuring influence' was established in the science community long, long before it ever became a social media thing.
Proof of ((p ∨ q) → r) ↔ (p → r) ∧ (q → r) with Lean (2019) [video]
As I found while replying to another comment, most of the largest towns even in Montana are already connected by rail, they just haven't had Amtrak service since the 70s after cuts. Just reinstating that would be a significant improvement, and most of the counties covered by the rail network in Southern Montana have banded together to try to bring passenger rail back again on that route.
People are likely not to find meaning in a critical view point if their salary depends on not finding it.

Not sure what to make of your objections. Yes regulation varies and it is not always timely or effective. So?

What I have tried to do is place the current debate of "AI risks" not in the popular yet deceitful and disorienting context of "what is, really, intelligence" and other such bull, but in the context of what can we as society allow people to do to other people using algorithms.

If we agree that this is the crux of the "AI" risk everything else is up for discussion.

The creeping "AI / human equivalence" ideology adopted by some tech bros is a throwback to very dark periods of dehumanization which had dire consequences. I hope people wake up to that threat and nip it in the bud.