skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've now read it.

But my question to the person saying it's problematic to defend vaccine studies and attack food results is: isn't it possible that you feel the research procedures used in one are superior to those used in another?

For example: vaccine safety study looks at 200,000 people and randomly assigns them to use or not use the vaccine. Coffee/red wine study looks at 30 people and surveys them about how they felt last week after drinking coffee/red wine. Looking at these two, I think it's fair to put more trust in the vaccine study.
This goes far beyond there not being enough replication studies, the problem is that when replication studies are done the results don't reproduce because the results were bogus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
it’s time to do a barrel roll
Life expectancy is an about 84 years, death rate is about twice the birth rate, so population will decrease by 6 million in about 5 years. Population will go from 124M to ~118M by 2028 based on my elementary analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan
I love their stance on adblockers and privacy. It's exactly how I feel and I refuse to have them in my home or on my devices. I also love how they go the extra mile to show people how to implement common adblocking techniques.
For anyone wondering "what's the big deal" it's worth remembering the NSA has a bad track record of keeping their own hacking tools secure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Brokers

It infuriates me the NSA actively works to undermine American security. Their brief is to protect us, not plant backdoors and then lose the keys.
Why does it matter whether it's automatic?
I bet that's not something you ever thought you'd have to say :-)
Congrats to the GraalVM team on all their hard work
Impaired memory and learning in mice after ingestion of aspartame
Government tends to do what only government can do (e.g. issue passports, driving licenses, file taxes, etc.), and things where natural monopolies exist (water supply, trains, roads).

What exactly would you privatise? (read: hand over obscene profits to a rent-seeking private entity).
I’m pretty much ignoring anything he says given so much is said and never done.
I'm not an expert, but I'd suspect that people were more likely to buy Nike because they cut Woods loose. Lots of press there.
Probably silicon is a good enough approximation

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=density+of+silicon
I did not mention BEE at all - I fundamentally agree with it. I am talking about the day-to-day approach that is taken with politics in Africa.
I use it because the Tesla infotainment system is garbage and quite limited compared to Carplay/Android Auto. And I need to look away and at my phone to use proper apps like Waze, Apple Maps, Overcast, etc.

The onboard Spotify app, for example, doesn't do HD audio and doesn't load playlists completely. Tesla, rather than giving customers what they want, would prefer they deal with their limited inhouse system.

$12/15k for FSD never made sense to me. Tesla is moving to subscriptions where development comes at $200/mo and customers don't have to assume all the risk.
I am actually curious what is the solution you're talking about, unless you mean hardcore immigration that's most of the west using as a stopgap. I have no problem with it, but don't think it actually resolves the problem long-term.
> There's nothing to stop you from setting up synchronization constructs like mutexes in a cooperatively-scheduled application.

Right, but assumptions of mutual exclusion are still implicit, and so you must carefully analyse them any time you add a scheduling point. I.e. code may implicitly rely on mutual exclusion in cooperative scheduling but not in preemptive scheduling.

> Are you saying that there's a mechanism in Loom that somehow forces you to mark mutual exclusion which is absent from cooperatively-scheduled languages?

It's not a mechanism in virtual threads but in Java threads in general. Yes, to mark mutual exclusion you must employ some synchronisation construct explicitly, and that is not the case for cooperative scheduling where mutual exclusion is implicit, and that's what makes cooperative scheduling less composable.
It got better, with containers.
Google soups up Gmail and other apps with Bard AI updates
Aren't Search Ads based on a second-price auction? How can Google just raise the price? Or is it lying about the auction?

The only thing I can imagine is raising the minimum bid, but this would also result in less ads being shown (may still be overall beneficial but not a simple price increase).
Unless you want to touch USB (WebUSB sometimes work, sometimes don't) or Bluetooth - Good luck on iOS where Apple is not supporting BLE interface on purpose, but on Windows and Android situation is not much better. Even ChromeOS can't run Web Bluetooth properly. Supported on paper, does not work anyway.
In the US, we have this passionate fantasy about Woodward and Bernstein and the Post and the Pulitzer and the movie and Redford and Hoffman and the Academy Award, about how the Press played the part of the "fourth estate" as the Founders intended, and rooted out a corrupt politician, and forced him to resign. It's all bullshit. The people who broke into the Watergate Hotel were CIA, Woodward was formerly CIA, and "Deepthroat" was a Deputy Director of the FBI. It was all a deep state plot to get rid of Nixon. Any time the deep state wants to get rid of a politician, the "press" does its "job" by exposing things. When the deep state likes a politician, the "press" ALSO does its "job" by covering things up. Look absolutely no further than Hunter Biden. The hypocrisy is utterly astounding, even to someone who is deeply cynical at this point. The rest of the US needs to wake up to the fact that the press is just another branch of the deep state, and stop pretending that there's ANYTHING useful being fed to us through ANY of the large media corporations.
Right.

This is what those opposed to carbon credits believe will happen: abuse and fraud

Very little will be achieved towards the goal of lowering or sequestering carbon.

Carbon pipelines are an excellent example of this: taking advantage of overly generous federal tax credits to achieve very little.
Wow, had to look it up and they haven't really put out an original game of note since Portal 2 in 2011. (Not counting CS:GO, as a remake, or DOTA2 since they bought it, but even counting those it would be 2013.)
Because it is very common to need to deal with fractions of a cent in intermediate calculations.
GitLab also releases very frequently, minimum once a month with a whole new release. Between releases usually two or three updates but occasionally more.
Type E and F's plug are shown in their combined version (the Schuko), which is the standard today. I have two old appliances (an egg cooker from the 1980s and a sauce machine from the early 1990s), which have the type F and type E plugs, respectively, i.e. not the combined form. Living in Denmark, the usual K to Schuko plug is using the E socket (i.e. "French ground"), which makes it hard for me to find a grounded socket for my egg cooker (which I believe is German). (Though, because this converter takes up a bit of space, on some appliances, I have removed the Schuko plug and replaced it with a type K plug to reduce space required. I have been thinking of doing the same for the egg cooker, but there is something quaint about an actual type F plug.)
Let's build a second James Webb and send it in the other direction for a massive parallax camera (parallax is the wrong word but my brain can't remember the right one)

I just wish I could live long enough to see the SGL

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2017_Phase_...
There will be so many villages left to ruin, so many practices lost to memory, it can be quite sad. Japan is again a rapidly changing society.
We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score
I find `gron` to be very helpful for generating jq query strings

https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
As a contractor he didn't qualify for whistleblower protections at the time.

He would just be in solitary confinement for the rest of his life, and there's a much better chance the leak to the public would have never been completed in the first.
The blasé attitude of the people building this technology is what makes it horrifying. Literally the FIRST major objections I heard to generative AI/deepfakes was the strong possibility if not guarantee of how it would be utilized by bad actors, be they interpersonal or political in nature. And over and over the tech sphere has downplayed and ignored this reality in favor of the ephemeral "progress" which also happens, by sheer coincidence I'm sure, to be their paths to success both professionally and financially. And on this progress marched until we've reached a place where it is now feasible that a high schooler could take the likeness of a girl he likes, shove it into an image generator, and make porn out of her without her consent or knowledge and be totally free to distribute that however he sees fit.

THAT is horrifying. It's horrifying both by the base actions at play and, far moreso IMO, that because someone in the tech space thought it was monetizable enough to warrant investment, it will happen. It did happen. That genie is now out if it's box and when confronted with the ethical dilemmas it seems most people in the engineering space are content to shrug their shoulders and go "shit happens."

That's horrifying. It's horrifying that all a technology has to do is demonstrate it's ability to make money, no matter how socially or culturally corrosive it might be, no matter how much harm it might do to individuals or even entire professions, no matter how unethical and just straight up creepy it is, doesn't matter. If it will make someone rich, it will be done, and it will be done with the best hardware and expertise money can buy, and that social order will be corroded, that culture will be corroded, those individuals will be harmed, that profession will be obliterated, and those checks will be cashed.

THAT'S horrifying.
oh so a working google assistant? :)
The big red bus was a lie in a crucial way: the £350M per week they were talking about (from our contributions to the EU) could not have been funded the way the bus slogan claimed.

Because the net contribution to the EU was (significantly!) less than £350M.

It wasn't a suggestion to spend more money on the NHS. It was a suggestion to spend the money they claimed we gave the EU every week.

So it was actually a lie on a bus.

The figure was closer to £250M (after the rebate), but when they were given the amicable opportunity to restate the original claim around the correct figure, they doubled down on the £350M lie.
Nah.

Now, I get that you're probably coming at this from "But hosting costs money and advertising is a way to recuperate the cost, so visiting the site but blocking ads is leeching bandwidth from the host without providing value back in the form of ad revenue".

But this doesn't hold up. All the cards are held by the content provider. If they -actually- have a problem with this, they have ways to stop it.

1. A server will always serve a request. That's it's job. So there's some unavoidable up-front cost to being a server on the internet.

2. But once it gets the request, it might serve a response that executes client-side Javascript that detects that an ad-blocker is running. At this point the content provider has a decision. They could block the requester. For example, redirect to a "Disable your adblocker" page. Or even in extreme cases blacklist the IP the request came from (though practically this doesn't happen). Heck, if things devolved into an arms race around ad-blocking detection, you could probably detect this server-side with some mechanism around serving a request to a browser while at the same time issuing a request to an ad provider to see if they received a corresponding ad content request within a certain window and if not, you know the ad was effectively blocked.

Ultimately it's not an obligation to accept ads. It's the content provider's prerogative to decide to deny service to ad-blocking clients, but realistically most content providers want traffic even if it's not generating ad revenue because of those sweet engagement metrics. If they don't, they have the tools to stop serving those requests.
I arrived at these conclusions independently while visiting my family who still live there. I had no idea the concept was a thing, or that there was debunking.
EXT4 External SSD Drive / Accidentally Deleted Volune in Ubuntu 23.04
Hello,

I accidentally deleted the Volume in the Disks app in Ubuntu 23.04 of my ext4 encrypted external SSD.

I am in touch with a data recovery company, that despite me providing them with my encryption key; is still unable to retrieve my data.

Would attempting to recreate the Volume damage the drive? Is my data permanently loss?
Interesting. I was at one point diagnosed with "tension headaches" and prescribed a medication called Fioricet which is a combination of caffeine, acetaminophen, and a barbituate called butalbital. Incredibly effective. I'm sure the harm profile of coffee alone is lower so if it's totally eliminating headaches as a problem for you it's perhaps a better solution, but thought i'd throw that out there as it could be worth seeing a neurologist if the problem becomes unmanageable for you
It is true that https://jdk.java.net/21/ starts with:

> This page provides production-ready open-source builds of the Java Development Kit, version 21, an implementation of the Java SE 21 Platform under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.
There were no flashy GIFs in the above links.
Ask HN: After ChatGPT, why are voice assistants still so horrible?
I just spent 15 frustrating minutes talking to Google Assistant asking simple questions that can easily be found on, mild shock, Google, and all I got was "sorry, I didn't understand".

Same with Siri or even Alexa.

Google Assistant was launched in 2016. ChatGPT is much younger and is already running circles around them with the plugins.

Which evil force is making them so bad?
The only good thing that Bitcoin ever did was create a real world use case that breaks shitty software handling financial numbers.

Either the programmers have to do the right thing or tell their boss that they can never support Bitcoin.

Both options give me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside when I watch them in real time.
Yeah, that’s true in an ideal world. Unfortunately, we don’t live in one.
Not sure if C# can do that, but java’s implementation can return an arbitrary object based on the templates/parameters.
A lot who stay purely in Academia do it as well, presumably for the prestige.
Are you Professor Higgins?
Leak reveals next-gen Xbox could be a cloud-hybrid console
The central thesis of this comment is “all medical studies are equal”. They are not.
If the study is costly to produce, then it's even more important to replicate it, otherwise you'd wasting a large amount of money on a study with no real sense of whether it is flawed or not.
Having little experience with this, my question is, why not simply try to reproduce the ingame bug using Windows and throw it out if it can't be reproduced? Because at that point, I would categorize the bug itself as platform-specific.
Hmm I think you are not right. If you go to https://jdk.java.net/21/, the first sentence says that it is GPLv2 (+ Classpath exception, whatever that is).
For those curious the criteria are which were drawn from the The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) are:

1. Child Marriage

2. Corporal Punishment

- I. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE PROHIBITED IN SCHOOLS

- II. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE PROHIBITED IN THE HOME

- III. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE PROHIBITED IN ALTERNATIVE CARE SETTINGS

- IV. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE PROHIBITED IN PENAL INSTITUTIONS

3. Child Labor

- I. THE MINIMUM AGE FOR EMPLOYMENT IN THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR SHOULD BE 15 YEARS OLD

- II. THE MINIMUM AGE FOR HAZARDOUS EMPLOYMENT IN THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR SHOULD BE 18 YEARS OLD

4. Juvenile Justice

- I. THE MINIMUM AGE OF JUVENILE JURISDICTION SHOULD BE 14 YEARS OLD

- II. NO CHILD SHOULD BE PROSECUTED AS AN ADULT

- III. NO CHILD SHOULD BE SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE

The highest ranked states with a score of C are, New Jersey, Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa, Connecticut,Alaska, New York with every other state ranking lower.
That is so awesome! Thanks for sharing (both the story and the original upload).
If the replication studies were done at a reasonable rate there would be no incentive to produce bogus results because you'd be caught before you could go through an entire career as a "successful scientist."
I have a european name that is difficult to pronounce for americans (even me!), and I adopted the same approach. It's mildly annoying, because my name as pronounced by americans has a lot of connotations I don't necessarily love, but I know who folks mean

coffee shops are impossible though. I have a coffee shop name, because they are even more wildly out of pocket with what they hear my name is than the median conversation
Also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
A little off topic, but may be beneficial to uppercase all of "Aids" to "AIDS" to avoid ambiguity
Please note this is from 1984. This paper has made the meme rounds. There is a reason why a more recent publication is not cited, the strongest evidence for the implicit hypothesis is 40 years old.
> which is kind of interesting...as you would think that the security-minded people work on that tool.

I work in security at a company with similar tools and unfortunately I think this is an incorrect assumption.

Security people aren’t necessarily good developers, and good developers aren’t necessarily good security people. And being “security minded” really isn’t good enough.

At the end of the day, the team building the product has the first and foremost priority of launching the product. This always means cutting corners, or not going as deep as might be necessary for certain issues like this, even if they are “security minded”. You really have to have a checks-and-balances on this by having a dedicated security team that has a priority of first and foremost not allowing security vulnerabilities to make it into launched products.

I’m not sure if GitLab has that or not, I’m just saying that wouldn’t make any assumptions about the security posture of a feature just because it’s a “security feature”. If anything I’d be more wary of them, because in my experience there actually can be an attitude of “my shit doesn’t stink” among people developing security products.
Twitter's just completely broken for me when logged out (no account, will not get one, unless it is to build a scraper that bypasses the login wall).

In particular, some public safety / emergency response accounts post safety-critical real-time updates. Visiting their pages when not logged in provides data that is years out-of-date.

I'm hoping this causes a rapid exodus and my one use case for twitter goes away.
real "to serve man" vibes
I don't think everyone agrees that this is a problem. Yes, a bunch of old people eating up resources and not contributing to the bottom line looks bad on paper, but Japan is a pretty rich, heavily mechanized society. I don't think the writing is on the wall for them just yet.
Discussing PostgreSQL: What changes in version 16
As long as it has 640KB of memory.
The semantic difference between "cruise control" and "auto pilot" seems minimal to me. Imagine you have never heard of the term "cruise control" and a car company used the term.
Usually they only care about Windows users, making all of this irrelevant. We're talking about a situation where they care about Linux users for whatever reason. They can either make it Linux-native (hard) or make sure it works in Proton (easy).
A self-reported, unaudited number published by the manufacturer claiming the product they are selling is safe is not data.

Tesla’s “vehicle safety report” consists of publishing three ratios of miles/accident every three months. That is it. They do not even publish the number of miles or the number of accidents used in their calculation. You would fail your elementary school science fair project if you made a report like that.

This is what a real safety report looks like: https://storage.googleapis.com/waymo-uploads/files/documents...

The differences are stark. The level of Tesla’s report is so far below the minimum standards of acceptable conduct that either everybody at Tesla safety is a utter moron or they have deliberately published a report that even a science-minded high schooler would be ashamed to submit in an attempt to deceive customers.

Oh, and there is a trillion dollar conflict of interest, the report is totally self-serving, they have no independent confirmation, they reject working with independent auditors, they hide information from third parties, and they demand the government redact information from public reports.

tl;dr That report is bogus self-serving lies.
Being honest is if not the best quality a company can have in 21st century.
Before I kagi this (not even google, just kagi!) shall we wager on whether there is or is not at least one, likely several such documents? Come on.
Plenty can be done about it. We can start by increasing the standards for experimental proof past words on a piece of paper.

Stream or record your experiment. If a 12 year old has the ability to stream his gaming life on twitch, scientists should be able to record what they are doing in more detail.

You could start a new journal with higher level of prestige that only publishes experiments that adhere to more modern methods of proof.
All new cars made to me Euro standards, there's still new cars made solely for US markets which don't have these features.
Snowden's past actions were never heroic, that is just spin manufactured by journalists with a vested interest in constructing a narrative.

He's been arrogantly self-serving from the start, and it's rather disappointing that some people still haven't grown out of their juvenile phase of blind hero worship.
I like this GUI.

Notes:

- I was missing file sizes on the models list, and even in the installer window there's only a percentage indicator. Blurring the window while installing also stops me from visually exploring the app while waiting for the install to finish (maybe just a lil' bit of blur is enough to show that the rest of the window is inactive?).

- Scrolling up should stop auto-scroll in the chat, I couldn't even reach the Stop generation button while it was generating. Maybe put that button in a static location.

- Maybe an uninstall button for models is appropriate.
> has been to ignore it

This is putting it very mildly.
They mean flawed to the point of being useless in a way that indicates incompetence or negligence or fraud. Not flawed like they had a typo or a negative result or didn't use MLA formatting in their citation.