skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was a crisis, which is highly questionable, isn’t the simple answer to offer generous tax incentives for families that have 4+ children while staying off of public assistance?
It’s a romantic idea but unfortunately the global financial system is basically a Ponzi scheme that relies on growing populations.
“Asynchronous Rails” – Samuel Williams (RubyConf AU 2023) [video]
Australia is also still remote. It is literally far away from mostly things. Compare Canada, similar in size/resources/people/politics but geographically much closer to centers of power. Canada has more to fear.
Any power on the Pacific is going to lick its chops at the natural resources it could exploit if it just has this barely populated continent. So the Japanese during WW II and the Chinese today. Another area in similar distress is Siberia but they do have the protection of a nuclear armed bear.
> I'm going to miss the thread-safety non-GIL python offered.

The old method — which is the GIL, or non-non-GIL — provides no thread safety to Python code. It only protects C code

> Can we get an in-python fork() mechanic ... please?

You probably want Multiple Subinterpreters: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/84692
>I thought you will find it useful.

That seems unlikely. It come across more as a passive complaint about the comment. A sort of “Why are you bothering me with this?”. I doubt you believe the other person wasn’t aware of blocking abilities, as you provided no actual assistance in that direction either.
Time Wasters: What and Why to Avoid
Well, I don't think it's actually a force of nature. It's a result of human decision.
Ah, got me there!
The ARRL antenna book is also worth your while: https://www.arrl.org/arrl-antenna-book
Japan isn’t naturally controlling its population, there’s no agency behind its declining birth rate, unlike somewhere like China where the one child policy was a purposeful government population control. The Japan population is not tied in any way to Japan’s resource limitations.

On top of that, it is harder to make babies now than ever, given declining fertility rates.
Yet somehow millions of people do, and I'm not aware of a single banking app breach caused by a zero-day device flaw.

This advice to not use a 2023 phone is just plain silly. I'm not saying it's 100% locked down, but neither is going to a bank branch and talking to someone in person.
HFTs turn off their algorithms when the market gets particularly volatile and the liquidity vanishes at the moment it's actually needed.
We, the taxpayers, pay for it.

If we cannot afford it, we don't have any business running a prison.

On a more selfish note, I don't want (let's call it like it is) slave labor to dilute the value of my labor.
Who and for which crimes?
I don't think there's a limit to things you can be outraged about if you set your mind to it.
No. DC energy also flows around the wire. And I mean around, entirely outside of the conductor, not in the skin or anything like that. In particular it's not the electrons that carry the energy, though they can receive it from the fields and depose inside the conductor (like in a light bulb).

Wires, or conductors in general, are so useful because they allow us to manipulate the EM fields and channel the energy very efficiently.

It's an very common misconception coming from circuit models.

(the movement of electrons, and thus the deposition of the energy via "resistance", may indeed be limited to just the surface of the conductor; this is what that calculator shows)
Crafting Great Tasting Low Alcohol Beers with AI
I like it but the constant repetition is really grating. I know its probably some fancy duolingo style idea about proven science but its really grating to have to confirm that yes I know where canada is every second click - only one in maybe twenty or thirty is interesting or difficult and having to spend ages to get to that point is annoying. Especially before I saw the option to turn off tiny islands so I just pressed on greenland every time it wanted monserrat because its not worth trying with the overlapping circles in carribean.
> "Journalists" are as biased as they come.

So, you got any other account posting behind a pseudonym, being more unbiased than a journalist posting to Twitter/X using their professional name and attached to their organization? At least with the journalist, you gain some insight into what their biases might be.

> They'll sing any tune prescribed by the hand that feeds them.

You say that as though every dev working professionally on HN is 100% of the time working on projects they want to work on, writing the features they want to add, and releasing on a schedule that ensures the code is at a quality that fully reflects their talent.
Yeah I think the degrowthers and others underestimate some of the ugly political decisions & societal preference that will ensue in such a world.

Paying some taxes to social security / medicare / etc works out OK when those go to cover 0.5 to 1 dependent per worker. When that 1 workers income needs to support 1.5 .. 2+ things will get ugly.
Four pounds of butter isn't that much if you do any cooking, or if you cook in butter instead of oil, etc.

I have ten pounds of butter, none of it Costco (the local gas station sometimes goes nuts on sale). Reminds me of:

> The Costcos don’t want you to know this but the butters at the gas station are cheaper you can take them home I have 458 pounds of butter.
The journalist thing is a fig leaf. He had a clear political agenda and happily did the bidding of the Russians (and others) in an attempt to score political points.

Calling yourself a journalist is not a get out of jail free card.

Meanwhile Australia relies on the US for it's security. It has basically no hope of defending its land mass with its existing defense force and has no interest in funding one that could.

If you put your proposal to Australians you'd basically have no hope of getting a majority that agreed.
Literally all of your concerns are 100% solved by adding a log bot to the channels you care about, both on IRC and Discord.

I’m beyond sick of the helplessness performative shtick around Discord. This is an ancient problem with obvious solutions. Do better.
> step one in population control is shutting down immigration

Yes, overconsume so much, that it heats the entire planet. Live in an area where is isn't as bad as elsewhere.

Build walls around borders to keep those suckers threatened with loss of livelihood to keep them our of our utopia.

Bad news, buddy.

Once those hundreds of millions/billions start moving, no walls are gonna stop them.

https://i.imgur.com/LaEFQmV.png

The relevant overpopulation is the overpopulation of rich people (curable by removal of wealth).
You don't understand the threat model of OP: it's not a case of "general internet port scanner getting into my network" it's a case of "guy I've pissed off in this video game DDossing my residential internet connection or using that information to dox me". For the latter no level of security on my own network is going to prevent the bad outcome, but effectively having a proxy through a 3rd party does (and discord does go to extra lengths to avoid webRTC from leaking IP info)
There is a story thread which is a tad obscure which is spoilable.
That may be your perception. On the other hand, there are posters in your airports saying that if an Australian uses prostitution overseas, he will be arrested when he comes back.
If they really run that train every single day year round, and it almost always sells out, it can't just be people going south and back, or the winter trains would be empty.

I think it's just a common trip and the train is cheap/convenient enough.
I should have been more clear, but it seems the message got to you correctly.

I can't read the 4th amendment and this article and not come to a conflict. It seems obvious to me that it is unreasonable to expect a person (with the average IQ being 94-98) to understand what data on their phone is public or private.

It's obvious because we have millions of teenagers believing they have privacy on their phones to a point where they break incredibly consequential laws to store sexualized imagery there.

What the average citizen believes is private is where the goal posts should be.

So a potential solution is to poll America asking the following question:

Donald Trump and Joe Biden would both like to download all the data on your phone to share with the world via press conference. Do you accept? If 50% of people so no, it is unreasonable.

Disclaimer: I worked on Geolocation products with the top 3 aggregators and have extensive experience with Palantir.
Only half of all people being status-driven in their average purchases of visible accessories seems like a very low Bayesian prior to me in general. I think actually the meme is wrong because most people spending money on an Android phone in the US also basing it on a different form of status, kinda like "I don't own a TV" status. Most of the rest are probably making their choice based on pure cost basis (which can go either way based on resell / used market being better on iPhone).

I would believe that only a small fraction of people are making their phone purchase choice on an axis other than status or price (like you).
Speaking from a user point of view, I find arguments like this are often disingenuous (I'm not saying that yours is). "Tailoring for the user" normally actually means "tracking the user". Specifically, the passing of UTM parameters from my website session to my app session is something that normally has no benefit to me and I find it repugnant that developers feel entitled to do it.
Anyone can sue for anything, asking to not do things that create lawsuits is asking not to operate a business in the US.
I love the self-deprecating humor of the introduction, esp the ice cream bit. Well done.
And that steel reinforcement is why modern Portland cement concrete doesn't last as long. Eventually the steel rusts, which means it expands and cracks the concrete.

We also use a lot of asphalt concrete. Even less durable than Portland cement concrete, but really fast for making roads, and extremely recyclable. Just melt the asphalt, maybe add some new aggregates, and lay down a new road surface.
I never understood anything that was happening in that game.
it is enough for 1 person, and plenty of bags around :) also, 450km range when used with 2 more batteries (only 6kg)
80 times more efficient
It has Indonesia immediately to its north with a population of 275 million, it's not far away from potential trouble.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/ and other similar links.

There is vast amount of transparency available online, even in real time. Certainly who proposes what, which party groups vote for what etc.

Its not perfect but you original comment way of the mark.
> For those who don’t know, Hugging Face is an influential startup in the machine learning space that has played a significant role in popularizing the transformer architecture for machine learning

This is a crazy point of view
It depends. If someone breaks into your house with government encouragement, that’s a Fourth Amendment violation. If he breaks into your house because he’s a burglar, and then happens upon something he knows the government would want, and then sells that information to the government, it’s not a Fourth Amendment violation.
> They are estimating the payment will be around $35 per claimant.

Where did you see that exactly? I didn't find it in your linked document.
> how can the conductor conduct when one of the ends is just hanging in the air? AC magic I suppose

I struggled with these matters too. I wouldn't call it "AC magic", but "RF magic".

Notice that you need a different mental model to understand those circuits. In DC and low-freq AC, it's enough to think that voltages and currents manifest themselves instantaneously in a conductor. But that is a (useful) simplification. Roughly speaking, the energy supplied by the power source takes time to propagate over the wire [0].

Having that in mind, take a look at the animated gif in this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna. I believe it's gonna make more sense now.

This mental model also helps to understand why a magnetic loop isn't simply a piece of short-circuited wire -- for a DC or low freq AC circuit, it is indeed a short-circuit; for an RF circuit, it is not. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor

[1] this mental model is not enough to fully understand any antenna. Many designs also depend on other phenomena, like the electromagnetic interactions between its components, and interactions with its surroundings. But I think that, equipped with this mental model, you'll be able to research further in case you feel interested.
Yep, and the other thing is that something like 90% of DNS is "I need to update a A record or a CNAME or a AAAA (rare)" and then waiting for caches to expire.

But that's only like 10% of DNS's surface area, there's tons of other things it can do and rarely does, but if you have to make that stuff work you can get deep in the weeds fast.
>If you have a public IP connected to the internet, you will be subjected to attacks and port scans either way.

Yes, and somehow it magically happened this way that during decades of having access to internet we were being DDoSed only when targeted by ppl from the game that had access to our IPs from TeamSpeak/Ventrilo, right?

Because what incentives attacker would have to DDoS random IPs?

>Configure your network and firewall correctly and ensure no ports are open instead of trusting the false sense of security given by some proprietary vendor who has your data.

Again, put effort, time to manage firewalls and security solutions.

I'm not even sure if this would work this way.

They purchase $5 (or who knows how much nowadays) stressers and DDoS your IP, so even your ISP feels it and you lose internet access.

My friend's village had no internet access for X hours.

And all of that for actually what? solving issue which could be easily avoided?
> These are smart people

They really are not. The current crop of UK politicians of all stripes are thick as they come - intellectual lightweights who can bullshit their way through a media appearance thanks only to an abject lack of shame. No one can look at people like Mark François, Liz Truss or Dianne Abbott (just to take three) and think “ah, there’s someone playing dumb for the camera”!

Unfortunately, the current crop of journalists are largely ineffective if not broadly enabling if this kind of behaviour, and politics is not a field anyone not already independently wealthy can afford to be in (a junior developer in the Bay Area can easily make more than the Prime Minister) so it does not seem likely to self-correct.
It is odd they don't mention that paper, but there is a caveat buried near the bottom in about prior studies showing it in higher insects and how fly brains are more primitive than butterflies. IIRC only about 2/3 to 3/4 of butterflies of the type tested retained the aversion response, and only if they were of a certain age - they needed to have certain cells developed in caterpillar form to be able to remember. It is possible that the species they studied simply does not retain memories or that they missed the development window or that the method they used would not detect memories - the butterfly study showed aversion behavior to smell, this one does not measure behavior at all - it's possible that some behavior was retained but they did not measure it, though I think the particular cells they studied in flies is the same one the butterfly studies relied upon existing to work.

Off the top of my head, monarch butterflies taking multiple generations to travel up and down the west coast to and from Mexico each year implies if not conscious memory as we think of it, some sort of genetic imprint of how and where to travel that is mind blowing to me.
How is Kafka causing heavy coupling? Serious question.
I just finished his book, “ The End of the World Is Just the Beginning.”

It was a pretty fascinating (though alarmist) thesis on how a number of countries are poised for “demographic collapse” due to aging and shrinking populations and what that will ultimately mean for globalization.
The p stands for impetus; i was already used for inertia, and m is in the same equation for mass, so p was the next best letter to use.
For the same reason the carbon footprint of every Elon rocket launch is being attributed to SpaceX even though some other entity "paid out of their ass" for many of them.

Because it takes two to tango. In both cases "all the credit" or "all the debit" goes to the manufacturer for making the product AND the customer for paying for it.
> So supplement IRC with a bunch of other services? Realising people didn't want to deal with this shit is why discord is so popular.

Supplementing services with other interoperable services is how most of the internet works, and still remains a valid and successful approach.

An IRC client with some bells and & some plugins that expand web-linked media would offer most of Discord's feature set.

Discord is popular because of network effects, virality, and marketing. But that kind of popularity is ephemeral and will disappear when Discord inevitably falls victim to enshittification like its many predecessors: https://pomf2.lain.la/f/7sl51lqf.png - at that point, few will remember Discord, and none will be able to recreate it (owing to its closed nature), but IRC will be still around.
There’s some confusion here, iMessage is end to end encrypted by default. That in no way protects the information on each users device.

If iCloud is enabled, then by default it gets unencrypted copies of these messages from the device unless “advanced data protection” is also enabled which ensures iMessage is encrypted but means losing your password also loses access to these backups. However, disabling iCloud sidesteps this issue and honestly if you want that kind of privacy then disabling iCloud is probably a good idea.

So if one users uses ADP and the other user disables iCloud then the conversion is protected.
Well, if LK-99 (not to make it about that again, but come on..) if LK-99 is real and works and is highly refined, we're talking about 5 mile runways of magnetic pulse projection into the stars. Rail systems would be far superior to rockets in getting to the stars and beyond. We could launch payload after payload to equal Musk's current system capacity in less time than it would take him to refuel one of his Falcons and set it up for launch.
Absolutely.

Early in my career, I became the second person able to support and operate a system that was public facing and responsible for billions of dollars of activity that mattered to many individuals and stakeholders. The entire team retired over a period of six months, after giving the folks in charge a year or more notice. After about 12 weeks, I was the sole guy, training a 4-5 new people.

We’re all probably using a service like this. As demonstrated by Twitter, well engineered systems can persist, even without proper care and feeding, until they don’t.
I have no clear conception of what "the insect's perspective" is.
Dueling AIs: AI reviewing AI generated code
Came across these very interesting GitHub pull requests of an AI bot reviewing another AI bot’s generated code! No human involvement other than the initial requirements prompt in the PRs.

Is this the way of the future?

https://github.com/Or4cl3AI/GitBotAI-/pull/1

https://github.com/Or4cl3AI/GitBotAI-2.0/pull/2
Biden and Trump are not the empire.
I agree that there is intellectual dishonesty in this conversation, but I disagree that I'm the one who is being dishonest.

What exactly is there to subvert if everyone is included?
> But if they want to play this game, an interesting way to bait a Supreme Court case might be to request a CCPA delete for the NSAs “commercial” data.

Can state law compel a federal agency to do anything?
Your actions will signal X,Y,Z and qualify you for intrusive monitoring "because you are hiding something."

This is reality.
I think that the TH1520 in the Beagle-V and Lichee Pi 4A only has support for 5.10 kernel (curently) at least for access to most of the features of the SoC. If you do not mind loosing access to most features of the SoC, then you can run any kernel. An example what you would loose access to with any other kernel would be GUI support, and the ability for the VPU to encode/decode video. But there are many many more (For now, hopefully they will upstream support).

Plug "site:lore.kernel.org TH1520" into your search engine of choice to see what hardware is in the process of being upstreamed to the bleeding edge Linux kernel-next. Which is probably about a year away from being in a longterm suported Linux kernel.

ref: https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/sbc-bench/blob/master/Result...
Not everyone wants to uproot their life and leave their friends and family behind.
You're doing the 'exponential trends will continue to be exponential forever' thing.
Yeah, they should just kick the US out over Julian Assange, that'll teach them a good lesson they won't soon forget. Who needs the USA anyway, Australia will be fine without them.
I agree with your comment and I have this to say to those disagreeing: list me the biggest EU software companies and their sizes compared to the SV-behemots.

For a quick googling and the top 10 EU software companies generate 131 billion of revenues combined, which is ridiculously low.

SAP and Siemens AG together (the two biggest in the EU) have a market 1/10th (!!!) of the size of Microsoft.

Can we please get real?
> Nuclear, hydro wind and solar make up almost half the grid

Also don't forget that fossil fuels are used to transport the fossil fuels to your fossil fuel-burning car. The "EVs are just as bad" crowd act like everyone pumps and refines their own fuel in their back yard.
https://www.youtube.com/@stinkyox

https://toot.wales/@llamasoft_ox

(Watching other people raise sheep on TV is dangerous, because if my wife sees them she will want some of her own and next thing you know we'll be putting in fences and barns and I will have 5x as many chores and responsibilities and vet bills..)
Nym, a Better Alternative to Tor
Yes, there is a cryptocurrency involved, but that's self-contained, rewarding uptime and throughput (not useless number crunching), and a way to make the system balance out between users and infrastructure.
I'm not sure circuit theory states that energy flows within wires? Current, yes, but energy transfer is the product of current and voltage, and voltage of course exists only between wires.
It's not just the NSA buying this data right? So is it illegal when say a marketing agency buys the data? If not why should it become illegal for the government?
Thanks! Ordered
You _could_ use email as an Insta replacement as well. But the suggestion that they deliver the same service or experience is rather contrived.

But that’s really besides the point, because as you said, they’re all social media platforms, and it’s social media when somebody posts content on them to their large public audience, and it’s social media when I post to my small audience of friends. It’s the suggestion that one of those scenarios is social media and the other isn’t that’s completely illogical.
I’m not on-side with Brexit, but it’s not like the UK public have been given the chance to vote on dissolving the lords at this point.
California is full of public lands
https://4printablemap.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/nationa...

Non-public lands you will see on there are the coastline, the desert, and the Central Valley. If you drive the northern parts of highway 1, you’ll see many parts do seem very empty in between SF and LA. Compared to the development along the US east coast it is night and day. If you drive through the Central Valley, you’ll be enveloped in farmland. And the desert is the desert, nearly uninhabited. All of these places feel very sparsely populated.
AI has a degree of intelligence.

Preclude even that and you preclude some humans from the same.
This is a civil settlement, not a guilty finding.