skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My city has these kite-like predatory bird -resembling bird-scare things on some buildings. Hawk-shaped kite tied on a length of string to a building roof. When the wind picks up, it animates the kite to look like a predatory bird hovering. Very effective.
I've had almost the exact same list of problems on my Dell XPS 13 running Linux.
That looks like a pretty far distance to walk from the furthest parking spots to the stadium. Do these stadiums have some sort of "mass transit" system to move the people from their cars to the stadium?
Woman’s photo of son rejected from Sydney competition on suspicion of AI
What’s striking is it seems as much to undermine the competition by rejecting images the judges merely think _may_ be AI as it is to accept an AI image that pretends otherwise. In some sense it’s worse, since to submit an AI image is actually cheating, whereas here it was sufficient that the judges merely thought she might have cheated.

Either way, it renders the competition effectively worthless since now even honesty isn’t sufficient to underwrite the integrity of the competition.
Calling it whataboutism is disingenuous, they're specifically talking about hypocrisy.
Interesting - has the usage of 'mit' with 'kämpfen' changed over time? I haven't lived in Germany for over 25 years, but when I first learned German, we were told very directly not to use 'mit' in that way with 'kämpfen' (i.e. that 'kämpfen mit' always meant together not against one another), and I don't remember hearing any exceptions to that when I lived there. I did notice, though, that certain English grammatical constructions were creeping into German, particularly in spoken German among young people. Is this one of those cases, or were my German teachers overly pedantic about something that wasn't strictly true?
Then I wonder, what's the point?
Looking at the prototype photo, it seems trivial to open the hood and remove the whole thing in a minute or so. Unless the plan is to have it somewhere way down there, and not simply sitting on top of the positive terminal.

The video says "alarms sound the when authenticator is removed", but that's a gimmick. They should be entirely disconnecting the whole negative terminal (duh), not just the wire to the device, leaving the whole car without power until the positive terminal is freed.

And if anyone bothers to ask what the thief is doing, they have a 100% plausible reply "got a parasitic drain, so I've put a cheap relay and now this crap is failing on me".
I think there is a subtle hindsight bias here. Like if you asked someone yesterday "would grounding a chatbot on wikipedia make it do better?" I think many people would say that it sounds quite plausible. But if you ask instead "what are your top 10 ideas for making chatbots better at facts?" then it may not be so obvious.
I guess "joins" means created account..
But on modern cars, cigarette lighters are disabled when the ignition is turned off. So you can't use any device powered by the lighter to start the car.
The first sentence seems to imply that the main thing they want to do away with is the encoder–decoder arch, which they actually kept. (But BERT and GPT later did manage to simplify it.)
Almost sounds like you need a user completion script that queries your address book. (Implementation left as an exercise for the reader).
The creator, Carl Sassenrath, also wrote the pre-emptive multi-tasking Amiga OS. He was a fan of Lisp and Logo and wrote Amiga Logo after he left Commodore. Rebol is based on Logo and Lisp.
Please engage in Good Faith and try to not flamebait
This is also a little menacing: https://youtu.be/9bHV4KIIDtE?t=9

(I would freak out if the intro of Forbidden Forest started blaring from the speakers on startup)
Article ends with "And let’s not forget the monster 2020 success of Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, whose 40 billion yen domestic gross demolished Spirited Away’s record of the highest-grossing film of all time in Japan."

Nitpick:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Japan... - it shows Demon Slayer at ¥40,430,000,000 (2020) and Spirited Away at ¥31,680,000,0000 (2001). This is like comparing $220 million to $290 million so it's not exactly 'demolishing' IMO.
The point is relative risk, in particular the poster's friends are warning them about Aspartame, while drinking alcohol, which has significantly larger confirmed health risks. If they believe drinking alcohol is safe in the quantities that they do (and given that most health authorities now point out there is no safe level of alcohol to drink), then it's irrational to worry about Aspartame.
Some gems from the wiki:

“By the fourth day of the campaign, army observers noted that "each pack seems to have its own leader now—a big black-plumed bird which stands fully six feet high and keeps watch while his mates carry out their work of destruction [of the fields] and warns them of our approach".

“By 8 November, six days after the first engagement, 2,500 rounds of ammunition had been fired.The number of birds killed is uncertain: one account estimates that it was 50 birds, but other accounts range from 200 to 500, the latter figure being provided by the settlers. Meredith's official report noted that his men had suffered no casualties.”

After the withdrawal, Major Meredith had said:

“If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world ... They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks.“

And Ornithologist Dominic Serventy had commented that:

“The machine-gunners' dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month.”

TLDR;

Emus are badass warriors
> Just because a state’s population is lower doesn’t mean their needs are less important.

> Would you apply a similar standard to the LGBT community? They are approximately 7% of the population.

You're mixing up rights and voting. The LGBT community doesn't get to pass or veto any laws.

A person has rights. A state is not a person. Corporations are not people, my friend. I don't believe in the concept of state's rights, so I don't accept the analogy. A state is just an arbitrary set of lines on a map. It doesn't have needs.

In the case of voting, I think the majority should decide rather than the minority, otherwise it's not really democratic. If the 7% LGBT community ruled the country, that would also be a tyranny, not a democracy.
You might have been disappointed with the towing capacity…

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/ford-f150-lightning-elect...
GM seemed to have had this right in the late 80s and early 90s with VATS: my Camaro had a resistor integrated into the key, and if the ECM sensed the wrong resistance, it wouldn't start or run the ignition. I think there were a large number of possible values, and it would lock you out for a while if it detected a couple of failed attempts. It also seemed pretty good at preventing theft, and can't possibly be more complicated or expensive than the silly fobs everything comes with.
Bankrupting J&J would achieve none of the things you say you want. It would just mean the first to sue gets everything and everyone else gets nothing. The assets get stripped and sold off to the next company who can just continue to do the same thing.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter to the end user whether it is due to the OS maker or the hardware manufacturer.

That distinction would only matter if the comparison was limited to Windows laptops only, because that would establish a baseline that is the same for every single option. Some people want nothing to do with any OS outside of Windows, and that't their choice, nothing wrong with that. Once Windows-only limitation is gone, that distinction becomes kinda pointless.
>> If you don't have comprehensive integration tests it's less risky just to not upgrade unless you really need to.

Exactly. Most of us do not have sqlite-level (https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html) testing so we just do the best we can with the resources we have.

This tends to make most "enterprise" shops risk-averse and the motto becomes "if it's not broke, don't fix it".
there are absolutely tons of better versions than this - although gutenberg is interesting, most of the content is ridiculously obsolete
> And browsers would give a huge red alert for self-signed certs but say nothing about plaintext HTTP

This is largely because putting a huge red alert in front of plaintext HTTP pages would provoke a huge backlash from anti-HTTPS factions on the Internet.

HTTP pages should have a big red alert on them, and browsers are very slowly but surely moving in a direction of being HTTPS by default and HTTPS-only in the limited instances where it's possible. Arguably even in that world, a site claiming that the connection is secure and then offering a bad certificate is more worrying than a site that never claims the connection is secure in the first place. But ideally, eventually, we hope that the vast majority of the web is using certificates, and that visiting an HTTP-only page should be a rare event, possibly with some kind of warning in front of it.

Browsers have at the very least gotten rid of the SSL green padlock and have de-emphasized certificate origin in their presentation, and HTTP-only pages at least get labeled as insecure in modern browsers. That's a step in the right direction. But yeah, it's tough to treat HTTP-only pages the way they should be treated because a bunch of Internet users who dismiss MITM attacks will cry murder if browsers do so.

And of course absent a bunch of infrastructure and pinning capabilities and authentication mechanisms that don't exist for browsers, under current usage self-signed certificates don't really prove anything about the security of your connection.
I don't know what exactly blurry jpeg means to you but we have every reason to believe we operate on shortcuts of reality, not reality. Nearly all your brain does with sense data is warp it to confirm to internal predictions in numerous ways.

Memories are always part fabrications. You can't return to previous mental states (you only think you do) and we have no real clue what really informs decisions
i.e preferences shape choices just as much as choices shape preferences.

Your brain will happily fabricate rationals you sincerely believe for decision that couldn't possibly be true i.e split brain experiments
With plan9-extensions gcc flag:

struct Thing { int i; };

In an implementation c file:

struct _Thing
{
struct Thing;
int b;
};

struct Thing *new_thing()
{
struct _Thing *thing = malloc..
thing->i = 0;
thing->b = 1;
return thing;
Even in US cities, stadia often lack massive surface parking lots. Giants stadium and Fenway are examples that do have some (very expensive) parking but are also on top of transit.
The goal here isn't to convince them, but to get them to go away. The message is "If you want to convince me to drop diet coke, you have to be prepared to discuss your alcohol consumption."

It's not an academic conversation, nor is it meant to be one.
So I take it you hate all unix shell commands.
But arguably, there's also a pretty large world that wants enterprise type of solutions (for some use cases) without being actual enterprises.

Or am I the only one?
Aren’t you off by three orders of magnitude? 2GHz translates to 0.5ns per cycle. Or perhaps you meant to write ms.
When shrapnel and bullets are flying and your nerves are completely shot, your voice wavering and you're croaking from smoke inhalation, do you really want to entrust your life to voice recognition? Come on dude, you're being absurd. We're talking about military hardware, not tech gadgets for your home.
I had hear of this myth in the early 2000s. To me, it seemed impossible that circumcision would somehow prevent HIV infection, but whatever, I thought it was good news.

Now it looks more and more like a concerted push by certain religious groups to get men circumcised.

And the people responsible for this will go unpunished, as usual.
Soda is made of water too
Wework never begged me for money though.
Comparing a pharmaceutical company to Charles Manson or Pol Pot is… frankly insane.
Vectorising the power profiles makes this a no brainier. I’ve done it, and I have no brain.
100% of the direct monetary cost of QE is borne by the American people.
It seems to ignore that some of us are working at VC-backed companies working in a niche with actual customers and cash flow. It's not sexy generative AI, though.
"not washing their hands" being the key part. it isn't dangerous to handle diver weights or clean up a shooting range. if the traces aren't cleaned off your hands before touching the face/eyes, eating, smoking cigarettes, etc, the lead will get into the body and cause problems.
This was not meant to be used that way: https://www.troyhunt.com/building-password-purgatory-with-cl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRlc_vKUTB4

Should be far-enough removed that it isn't a problem...
Yes but the original founders did that. Zuckerberg took it from them and immediately lied about data sharing, there's a reason why the founders left in disgust
Before blogging and the internet, we had long form trash talk. Marx was roasting people in his letters. Maybe we should bring that back.
It’s not insane at all. How did you come to that conclusion?

* Mutex lock+unlock: 10ns

* Chan send buffered: 21ns

* Try send (select with default): 3.5ns

Missing from here is context switches.

In either case, the overhead is proportional to how fast each iteration is. I have channels of byte slices of 64k and the channel ops don’t even make a dent compared to other ops, like IO.

You should absolutely use channels if it’s the right tool for the job.

Fwiw, I wouldn’t use channels for “generators” like in the article. I believe they are trying to proof-of-concept a language feature they want. I have no particular opinion about that.
IMO it's in some parts a marketing problem others have already discussed quite well, and in other parts, almost every update (and I slowed them down by moving to the ESR channel, because the breakneck speed of the main releases was getting old) surprises me in some new, almost always user-hostile, way. I don't know who's at the helm of Firefox but good lord do they despise their users (and especially the power users that almost certainly make up the vast majority of their remaining marketshare - I don't know too many "normies" (if you will) who know or care what Firefox has been up to lately - actually, a lot of folks don't even know (or remember) what Firefox is). Rather than doubling down on being the resistance to Google's creepware and internet monoculture, Firefox seems to like to spend its development bandwidth finding new ways to advertise Mozilla's latest acquisition, creating new time-limited themes, redesigning parts of the UI that weren't broken to begin with, or really anything but fronting a real opposition to Google.

If qutebrowser didn't devour all my RAM I'd have stayed moved over to it on one of my past 5 attempts to move from FF to QB. Instead, my options are FF (or maybe I'll move to LibreWolf, hm), or... Ungoogled Chromium I guess.
WhatsApp is a company Meta bought, not brought to the world AFAIK.
You mean like http://www.lambdashell.com/ ?
Except that was all done before meta bought it.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-tho...
Per the article it took them 5h to find it, after they got a vessel to the site. Not days.

They seem to have gone right to it just about immediately.
They exist as collection of scripts to install precompiled (or to be compiled) packages, maintained by 3rd party developers as means of convenience, they’re not to be blindly installed as system packages (which I agree is what often people would do)
It offers certain autonomy to users on top of stable system to build/preinstall packages when they deem it necessary.
It’s always advised to check what’s happening with AUR scripts & updates, in archwiki with well noted warnings.

These things don’t sit well with script kiddie style of doing things!
It varies per university. Looks like for UMich it is 56%. https://orsp.umich.edu/develop-proposal/budget-and-cost-reso...

I believe Stanford is 60%. My university is 54%.

Here is an explanation for the justification of this: https://spo.berkeley.edu/guide/fa.html

It does certainly feel excessive as an academic. I've never seen actual tracking of where the F&A money goes in terms of a quantifiable breakdown, e.g., what fraction goes to university accounting for doing their needed work for supporting a sponsored project, what amount goes toward electricity, etc. Universities always seem to be negotiating with the Federal government to raise the rate. When I was at an institution with a 45% rate, though, it let me stretch my grants a lot further by allowing me to fund more students.
A lot of farmers drive new top-of-the-line F-150's. But they're used the same way suburbanites use them. They're not for work, they're for show. They're not used for anything that could possibly scratch the vehicle.

But any farmer driving a new top-of-the-line F-150 also has a beat-up old work truck, which is the eventual fate of their "go to market" truck.
The more politics I see, the more its just grifting.
As I understand it, the "solder smoke" produced during hand-soldering does not actually contain metallic solder itself, except maybe in trace amounts. It primarily consists of vaporized organic compounds from the rosin flux core of the solder wire.

It's still not good to inhale (chronic exposure can cause asthma and other respiratory issues) but it's not really an issue of leaded vs. lead-free.

And for what it's worth, I've always anecdotally heard that solder paste is what you really want to be worried about, rather than solder wire, because it's much easier for small amounts to get smeared onto objects/surfaces and contaminate them.
Probably not, but not because of this article. There've been a number of studies that show that artificial sweeteners have a similar effect on building up insulin resistance as actual sugars. We'll have to wait another 20 years for the evidence to overwhelm the moneyed interest.
All those hours hunting for the reasons why something suddenly stopped working every two or three weeks need to be paid. So maintenance cost for Linux servers would either skyrocket or no updates would ever be done for years. There are very good reasons why rolling releases in infrastructure are basically a no-go.
Brazil gov central blockchain freezes/reduces balances; a game based on reality
> Well pick whatever social program you want to implement and imagine it as cluster munitions

All the numbers thrown around about the lend lease program are military accounting and do not impose almost any actual costs to the US tax payer, basically just the cost of shipping which is minuscule compared to the Military budget let alone Entitlements. Therefore, the comparison of essentially military funny-money and actual Entitlement increases is just hyper-partisan nonsense.
>Satoshi Kon probably wasn't as consistent as Miyazaki.

Well, aside from a few small projects, he only made four movies and one show, and in my estimation they're all excellent. Paranoia Agent I would say is deliberately uneven, being assembled from various unused ideas from past projects, and is quite effective in that way.
Publishing Book with Emacs and OrgMode
And some woods are poisonous (rosewood for example) to begin with.
I hope next time my friends or family point me to something I do that's potentially harmful I won't justify it by pointing to something that they're doing that's harmful.
I would never watch Princess Mononoke without the English dub.
There’s a pretty big gap between alcohol which we highly regulate and keep away from minors due to the pretty obvious harm, and aspartame which is pretty commonly cited as the “most studied food additive”. [0]

One is really clearly signalled as “bad for you”, even if it is extremely common. The other one is basically seen as an inert implementation detail. I can totally see why people put more fear behind the evil they didn’t even know existed vs the evil they choose to ignore.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/aspartame-....
I've heard the process inside organizations of getting approval to do a new social media thing can be involved. It's interesting to see one of those discussions out in public.
The Wikipedia Twitter page has a lot of followers, but engagement is very low, and most of the tweets are random topics.

What advantages does a mastodon feed provide?

In my opinion, if Wikipedia is seeking more social media engagement, they should focus on the big platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube.
I'd download it, but my 3D printer doesn't have the print volume to make it. :(
...and their own server...
There are so many might-have-beens it's almost insane. The one I drooled over in my youth was the Heathkit H11, a DEC LSI-11/23 packaged as a Heathkit. Since my high school had an 11/34, it would have been a good fit, but common sense prevailed and my dad got an Apple II instead (as all his coworkers had them as well).

In practice, there was enough in common between BASIC-PLUS and Applesoft that you could mostly treat the Apple's BASIC as a subset.
Well, they're running their own mastodon instance at wikimedia.social.
Instead of trying to catch me making a language error on exactly what criminal intent is... Why don't you think about this like a human....
You are at home with your wife and kids. A large man wearing all black with his face covered has broken your door lock and forced the door open. He is now making his way up your stairs where all your family is.
Should you be able to legally shoot this man?
If not, what is your plan for protecting your family members from this person?
WHO did recommend to stop consuming non-sugar sweeters (all types not just aspartame, and based on multiple factors, not just this research)[1][2]

[1] https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-advises-not-to-...

[2] https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240073616
The entire article is worth a read: https://www.wsj.com/articles/europeans-poorer-inflation-econ...
More than that, in this case. They're hosting an entire instance.
So you don't have any evidence (solid or otherwise) that backs up your claim about the F-35 requiring a "complete overhaul" after each flight. Do we even know where the maintenance costs go to?

I also fail to see how the Russians are in a better position to build a stealth plane (cheaply or otherwise) when historically they've always been behind the US in that regard.

Anyway, opinions aside, big claims should be backed up with evidence and I'm not seeing anything that supports the idea that the F-35 needs that level of maintenance.
This is an interface that can be implemented in terms of goroutines and channels, but can also be implemented with a lower-overhead scheduler tweak. The article shows how it could be implemented using goroutines and channels, and then reports the result of that implementation versus an optimized version that avoids synchronization overhead and scheduler latency which is unnecessary with this pattern.

Currently, you could use goroutines and channels to implement a nice way to provide general iteration support for user-defined data structures, but because of the overhead, people most often opt for clunkier solutions. This change would give us the best of both worlds.
I remember back in the day these were used by the A86 assembler to identify code assembled with the unregistered version of the software.
“Oh? And, when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you – where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?”

— A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt, 1960