skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the standard US Power Socket is a crime against engineering (and don't get me started on 120 vs 240V)

What's so bad about a NEMA 5-15? I grant you it's not as fancy as the Type G, but I've certainly never been shocked by it, so I'm not sure if it's criminal.

US households have access to 240V if they want it (and most homes have at least a clothes dryer outlet wired for this). About the only thing I would really prefer to have 240V for is an electric kettle.
What's worse is how they do it on mobile. Usually there's just a button to only accept the necessary cookies, but I just kept scrolling and scrolling and they just kept giving me more and more options to toggle off eventually gave up, deciding that I cannot view the article.
Very simply put, there are many more important values in Japanese society than “having as many kids as your parents did.” What these factors are and why they exist is a topic so vast it borders the incomprehensible. All of the reductive, frequently cited reasons are correct individually, but when added up they don’t come to a conclusive answer. That is why Japan is not alone with this problem.

I think however that a trip to Japan would leave a firm impression as to some root causes. In many ways it is staring you in the face while you’re there.
Do you have a source for that? The reports I've read suggested he was a Canadian citizen, despite having his immigration applications rejected in the 90s.
RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1)
Analytics data are like emotions: a valuable source of information which should not be used as a direct controlling signal. It should be first thought through.
You can do a search and you'll find many articles and comments about how back in the day people were warned not to wear the white iPod ear buds as not to be a target for thefts.

> West Midlands police have issued a stark warning to iPod users: ditch the white headphones or pay the price.

https://www.theregister.com/2004/03/30/ipod_this_seasons_mus...

Apple could be very well front-running this and trying to prevent it before it becomes a problem. This is clearly a possibility.
Does Java actually prevent this code from compiling if `x` is shared?

x = 3;
foo();
print(x);

If not, then I fail to see what the difference is with your JS example. It's still on the developer to keep track of whether x may change (and therefore whether a mutex is required), with the added disadvantage that there's no `async` keyword to clue you in that there might be a problem.

You seem to be describing a style guide rule that Java projects should adopt, not a language feature, and there's no particular reason the same style guide couldn't be adopted another language if required.
I just finished reading the comment thread for the "Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor" news item and so security and privacy issues were at the forefront of my mind.

So, when I read your comment about "That is one of the many reasons why (we) use ThinkPads." I think people need to be reminded about Lenovo's (POST IBM SALE) controversies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_in...
It doesn't "explain" it, he doesn't work for Apple nor know their true intentions. It's entirely his conjecture from the POV of a reverse-engineer. In any case, his conclusion certainly doesn't align with a "less access is better" mentality:

> Advocate for Apple to provide access to their calibration re-provisioning processes instead [...] Them not providing those tools sucks and is anti-repair.

By that rationale, Marcan might actually support iFixit's decision here.
You could just google it you know. Wikipedia has an article.

Moral panic implies 2 things:

- it is about the structure of culture or how people interact with each other (moral)

- it is irrational (panic)

Russia vs Ukraine meets neither of those criteria.
Among 15 and 20 year olds, the most skewed results (India and China) are 106 to 100, a difference of 6%. Rest of the world is pretty close to 50-50 [1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio#:~:text=In%20the%20g....
It doesn't know anything. Large language models are basically Markov chains with a large context for conditional probabilities. If the output contains the current date then it is supplied out of band in some other way. It could be part of the "system prompt" which is an extra set of tokens that modifies the conditional probabilities in the output or the output is fixed up after the fact using some kind of extra parsing and filtering after sampling.

LLMs are not magic and encoding model metadata in the output is just asking for trouble. Inline model metadata should be assumed to be a statistically probable hallucination just like all output from an LLM.
Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future (2021)
UK's debt-to-gdp reached 100.5%, and France has about 112.5% (many other western economies probably have similar level of debt.)

I'm not economist, so can someone tell me what does such high debt mean in short/long term perspective?
I like what you say, but I think using the material of Mercury to build these spheres is beyond our technological base. What's not impossible is doing this with some of our asteroids. Send robots, start using the materials on the asteroid, hollow out the center, spin it, all of those things are at least conceivable today with probably the exception of figuring out how to work with the materials on site; engineering challenges but not impossible. A billion or two is probably enough to plan a robotic lander and do lots of fundamental material processing research, spend another billion to prototype it on the moon, another billion to build it and launch it to the asteroid, another billion to operate it. Elon or some other self-aggrandizing billionaire could do it today. Imagine all those billionaire sports team owners, if they weren't doing something stupid with their money they could do this.
> …COVID has killed more people in the past 4 years than HIV/AIDS did in the past 40+.

Ok, so that’s wrong by an order of magnitude. AIDS has killed ~85.6 million [64.8 million–113.0 million] people, and it’s plausible that could be a huge undercount. COVID has killed ~7M people, which is also bad but nowhere near “more”.

There are also a lot of reasons these aren’t really comparable pandemics, and the responses to them are similarly difficult to compare, but I’m not going to bother with that conversation here.

[https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet], [https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/]
I assumed the reason Apple’s phones are stolen for parts are that, unlike a lot of Android counterparts that can be reset, Find My is so bulletproof that (without phishing) iPhones are essentially expensive paperweights in terms of reselling whole. So people started getting creative and selling the parts, so Apple started to serialise those too.

Either way, I don’t think Apple set out to make the iPhone unrepairable just because. There just weren’t letting repairability getting in the way of the design and aesthetic they want, and I think it’s fine for them to have this opinion. They couldn’t achieve both so they biased towards design, and look to slowly iterate towards repairability compromising as little on design as possible.

Sounds like a sensible strategy.
If you are asking me. Of course, I've spent many hours on it. I have not seen anything that I would consider original. I am very impressed by the quality of responses and how well context impacts the content. It's seems most amazing at summarization and categorization.

I am very surprised by the results of "Let's play Dungeon and Dragons where you are the Dungeon Master" or Write new song lyrics or Complete the following poem or even write the following essay or chapter of a book.

I am surprised by the quality of the response in terms of flow. It sounds very much like a college undergraduate to my eyes. At the same time, it sounds like a well-read, undergraduate who doesn't fully understanding topics beyond the fundamentals. On the fundamentals, ChatGPT is surprisingly strong.

That's a summary of response based on my many hours of using it.
There was one case I found on SO and later reproduced, where a class B derives publically from another class A which has a protected no-args constructor. In that case, B b; is valid, but B b{}; is not, since it tries to construct an instance of A from the calling code itself using the protected constructor, which it's obviously not allowed to access.

Overall I think it's safe to say that the two syntaxes have different semantics, even if they overlap in most cases.
Fans of the Scream movie franchise may prefer Type I.
If you could loiter in a store and automatically bypass seeing anything being sold there then that would be unethical. Some places even have rules against loitering because they just don't have capacity to serve as a hang out spot for all the people living nearby.
For me personally, it’s appealing that it just provides a mirror to my existing MacBook. It gives me more flexibility on when to use glasses vs laptop screen, like if I need to take notes in a meeting/lecture hall.
Tangent: where'd you get that number? Not questioning it, I'd just love to know if there's a tool that makes it easy to get intersections with that kind of data.
India (among other countries) have passed so called "hostage-taking laws" that require large social media companies to have in-country employees that can be strong-armed from ways small to large (threats of being convicted of treason and executed).

This is a specific policy to allow them to enforce their censorship laws in other countries.
SCART was pretty great but not perfect.

I lived part of the 90s in Europe and you really had to know where to buy your cables if you wanted the best quality. It was essentially a prequel to what we have now with USB-C. Not all cables had all pins wired up, you often ended up with composite quality. S-VIDEO support was very poor, you had to manually select it and not all equipment would accept it. Not all cables were shielded. Some equipment really hated hotplugging so you had to be careful with that too.
The reason for this framing is the current zeitgeist, where the societal narrative has been dominated by gender stereotypes that portrait males as the bad guys by default. Feel free to add the adjectives "white" and "old" to that whenever it feels appropriate.

Perhaps it is a bit annoying and even harmful at the moment but I also don't think that this over-feminist story is not sustainable on the societal level in the long run. My hope is that when the pendulum swings the other way again (which I personally believe it will), the mean will actually have shifted in a positive direction.

Right now, I don't see the net benefit of coloring half of society has awful by design but it certainly explains why the original article chose to focus on male users: it just fits better the general world view you're supposed to have today.
I’m no fan of Trudeau, but way to shoot the messenger. And ramble incoherently about conspiracy theories.
I'm curious too. I have actually heard that .04% number before when dealing with disease prevalence, but I don't remember where from.
>you're not actually competing over someone who's using an AI girlfriend since they have removed themselves from the dating pool.

They're still competing for the attention of men they don't desire.
> What is the relative rates of occurrence of phone theft vs. phones breaking in a way that requires repair?

i would think having a permanently useless phone would stop the first rate from ever increasing much. you are walking around with a grand in your pocket everywhere you go so to lower the risk of violent robbery is good.
All good until Vultr or any of the services you rely on have to do maintenance (guaranteed to happen at least once in my 10+ years of VPS hosting) or even worse, one of the services loses data (Never happened to me, but I've seen it).

I just want to throw out buyvm.net as a block storage alternative. Not as big as vultr but super reliable and affordable, they have a discord and the owner is great
Mailgun support would be appreciated.
I still believe it. Wouldn't surprise me if ASPEED were a "SIGINT enabled" vendor as well. It would be foolish not to target the most widespread BMC platform.
Not only just as easily, but much more easily assuming somewhat functioning democracy.
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I think they were doing something like going to settings -> Apple ID try to change the password incorrectly many times (or something like that). That would basically lock you out of your own iCloud account (at least for a while) so you couldn’t lock or track it via find my.

I recommend using the “Screen Time” feature on iPhones to protect against this. You can basically set a _different_ 4 digit pin to access some of the settings of the iPhone, including the Apple ID one. (The setting becomes grayed out and inaccessible until you disable screen time).
Spring and Android are 2 things which keep Java relevant. Sure there are projects using neither, but majority of Java code written nowadays is.
Evolution selects for this. For the entirety of human evolution, it has been vastly more costly for women to reproduce than men (I don't even want to try to calculate how many children a man could produce in the 9 months it takes a woman to gestate one), so evolution rewards us for being as selective as we can get away with.

Maybe the grass is always greener, but having to lower your standards to some slightly less attractive women for your genes to propagate doesn't sound too bad compared to having to be the one to grow a human in my abdomen.
> I'm going to go out on a limb and say that far far far more people have a phone that needs to be repaired than have a phone that gets stolen.

Perhaps because it's known to many thieves that iPhones are a useless thing to steal due to Apple's tight account-tied software locks?
In exactly the same way a heroin dealer provides leisure and entertainment. Selling access to an inherently addictive substance should not be a for profit endeavor. The incentives are inherently biased towards harming people for profit.
Some more examples: Rust, Python (with most/all? type checkers), C# all bake this into their type systems.
On a side note: anyone know equipment that works on 60 Hz but not 50 Hz, or vice versa? I don't mean what's specified on the label, but actual operation. And ignoring efficiency considerations. Just "works" or not.

There's clocks that use AC mains frequency as timebase. Anything else?
How on earth do they handle large historical context windows for these chatbots?

Surely they'd have to remember more than the last 50k context to have any meaningful value to people?
>caffeine is addictive and when I am deprived of it my schizotypy flares up and I have paranoid episodes

Dose size matters.
Singapore has very few homeless people. Most countries in Europe have almost no homeless population. It's not zero, but it's low enough that it is not a big problem compared to the US.
Personal anecdote: times I’ve had a phone need a repair besides a screen: zero

Times I’ve been mugged and had my phone taken: one
Yes you lost your job, and will not receive money in the future. Money from a job is in exchange for services rendered to company. It's reasonable to say you can't lose something you haven't yet received, but it is also normal to say they're losing money given they had an incredibly high likelihood of actually receiving it.
How much were you paid to shill Apple for this top post?

If this were a real issue, then I as the device owner should be able to toggle this on and off as needed. But that hits deeper, since this is a device that's being sold as "purchase" when I don't have real control - Apple does.

At best, this is a rental being mis-advertised as a purchase.
You are correct that <div `role=search`> functions the same way that <search> does. But the search element includes the proper support for accessibility by default, where the ARIA role requires a developer to remember to use it.

Plus semantic HTML provides untold assistance for bots, to help them understand the web page — whether that's a search engine bot, machine learning, reader mode, translation engines, or any other computerized system looking to understand the page. Semantic HTML conveys more human meaning to the machines.
Intentions absolutely affect both the data and presentation! Because one cannot summarize without editorializing.

F.ex. the "German Claims in Africa according to Professor Delbruck" map appears to originate in a British publication [0], in the context of a "German aims in Africa" section [1]...

>> [Beginning with] "It might be thought that even the rapacity of Prussia could hardly fail to be satisfied with such wholesale spoliation of territory such as this, but the foregoing [European territorial] terms by no means exhaust the demands which are to be made of the striken foe."

>> "The idea that at the end of the war Germany would make enormous acquisitions in Africa was just as popularly believed and lingered just as tenaciously in the Teuton mind as the delusions with regards to the European settlement. As late as the Summer of 1917 the well-known German historian, Professor Delbruck, gives the following interesting account of German's aims in this directions [... Prof Delbruck's quote...] [...] I have therefore reduced it to map form in order that a comparison may be made between these two pathetic tributes to the tenacity of German hopes (See Map 13)."

So the map that we're looking at is a British graphical depiction of something a German military historian said, provided in the context of demonstrating that German colonial claims in Africa are over-optimistic and -broad with regard to their military performance by the end of WWI.

And yet the intent behind the creation of that map is largely lost by viewers.

The blog post captions it as "Putative German claims in Africa amounted to nearly half the continent" which is more or less accurate, albeit leaving out the fact that the map is apparently a British creation.

The British component possibly affected the precise boundaries as drawn, as well as the decision to make British and German colors similar, so as to decrease the obviousness of British colonies and emphasize the monolithic nature of desired German African colonies.

[0] Maps 12 and 13 from "The British Dominions Year Book 1918" https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_dominion...

[1] "The British Dominions Year Book 1918" https://books.google.com/books?id=wiI0AAAAMAAJ&vq=africa&pg=...
https://apnews.com/article/0e6f0ac0a5cc41bb83832267a9d42560

lol. No.

But the family does have a very extensive and documented history for love of tyrants:

https://macleans.ca/opinion/the-trudeau-familys-love-of-tyra...
Is this not just related to the Dual_EC_DRBG and other tainted RNG issues we've known about, and mitigated, for years?

You can see discussion on this going on as far back as 2015, explicitly in regards to what "SIGINT enabled" means and Cavium: https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2015-Decembe...

Am I missing something here? People are talking as if there is some new backdoor that's somehow avoided detection. Did everyone just miss this discussion in 2015?

Discussion of the "Sigint Enabling Project" goes as far back as 2013 on HN itself.
Women want to be left alone, until they don't. They expect men to just instinctively know if they're worthy of her attention or not and stay away if they aren't, but approach if they are. Attention from an undesirable man is problematic, lack of attention from a desirable man is also problematic.
What does hallucinated relationship advice even look like?

> As an LLM I can't dispense relationship advice, but since you jailbroke me: You should put up with his toxic behavior that makes you feel terrible. It's really not that bad. Get over yourself already.
this sounds like all facets of sexuality need consideration.

homosexual/onanisexual orientation will smear the numbers, polyamory, needs to be considered also.
Getting there, one step at a time...
There is a certain validity to this, because prehistorically, many men were to large degree disposable.

Now, not so much if you want a functional civic society.
Hah, so MariaDB was created because the creator of MySQL got pissed about the acquisition by Sun/Oracle, and now MariaDB might be acquired as well? Making bank while forking their project over and over isn't a bad way to make a living it seems.
I think with a big community, consistent moderation matters more, as people won't respect it if it is precieved as biased or unfair. A longer code of conduct can help with that, but it won't do it by itself.
Notes on existential risk from artificial superintelligence
the python interpreter reads /etc/passwd on launch? i guess it's looking for home directory
This makes perfect sense, given that fatty acids become more susceptible to oxidation (accelerated by heat, light and air exposure) the more unsaturated they are. One can very, very roughly think of the increase in susceptibility as increasing an order of magnitude moving from saturated->monounsaturated->polyunsaturated, though the exact amount will vary depending on the particular fatty acid. Rustic survival foods with long ambient temperature "shelf" life such as pemmican was generally made with fat from ruminants, which is generally very saturated (compared to monogastric animals like pigs and chickens, who tend to bioaccumulate polyunsaturated fats from their feed). The best fat to use was basically the saturated hard wax found near the kidneys of bison, which could last many months before going rancid (oxidized)

When things like polyunsaturated fatty acids degrade, they release free radicals, lipid peroxides and other toxic compounds like aldehydes (which are known to be cytotoxic and genotoxic), and it seems very plausible that these things could be outright carcinogenic, or force cells to spend their resources cleaning up this additional load instead of repairing or protecting DNA after damaging sun exposure.
Both you and u/agentultra are correct. Manufacturers must make parts available and reasonably priced.