skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I'd be happy with only security patches. The lack of them after 12-18 months (I don't buy my phones on release day, usually about 6 months after) is what drove me away from Android. I'm on year 3 with my iPhone and don't see myself going back unless Apple really drops the ball or turns evil.
Even better are the programs which will stick cache files inside something like ~/.config/appx/mycache . Like a little middle finger from the developer to waste space in my backups.
Semi-related tangent: During the early 1990's I developed a star chart and ephemeris for the (momentarily) fashionable Windows Mobile platform called "Pocket Stars" that calculated one's geographical position from three or more sextant observations, mainly as backup for offshore sailors should their GPS system fail. For reasons I still can't fathom, a contractor for the Israeli military purchased many copies, apparently so their tanks and troops could remain oriented after all other electronic systems failed. My 15 minutes of Dr. Strangelove entanglement.
For anyone thinking about going (highly recommended, it's a great museum) the Concorde is currently elsewhere for maintenance. It's supposed to be back early next year.
I 100% believe the story about how he was goaded into doing this, rather than beating the sorry of jerk that think that's hilarious.

Romero was impulsive and a bit naive (go read his IRC logs from the day!), and this is the shirt of stuff I can see someone who acts like an overstimulated 14yo doing.
Yeah, Fandom just has better SEO unfortunately.
Here is a study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

And, since LLMs are so bad at math currently, we may find that, by improving their math ability with gobs of synthetic data, we get improvements in general reasoning.
I remember reading of a theory that kind of said that in any large enough random set, over long periods of time, you can identify clusters which will have consistent and predictable behaviors, but only within the bounds of the cluster and for a set period of time, eventually drifting to something else.

I thought there was mathematical backing of this observation.

Which means it could all be just random, but we happen to exist at such a small scale within it all, and for such a short period, that we're able to find laws applicable to our pocket and our time period that appear to be true and can predict behavior.

Thought it was interesting.
Yep. My fintech serves people with bad financial history. If you’re my customer, your credit score is low and you’ve got an active loan. Simply being my customer is PII. We should be guarding IP addresses as PII.
> Hospitals are even more understaffed now than they were before the pandemic

BLS doesn't agree with you[0]. After a big drop with Covid, when a bunch of older hospital workers decided it would be a good time to retire, the employment number matched pre-Covid figures by late 2022, and exceeds it now.

> anti-vaccine hysteria has gone mainstream

Rates of typical childhood vaccination (like MMR, DTaP, etc.) dipped only a little, from 95% pre-pandemic to 93% in 2023[1], so there's no evidence to suggest that anti-vaccine hysteria is "mainstream". And I would wager that the 2% difference can be largely attributed to, again, the poor public health policy choices surrounding Covid.

[0]: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES6562200001?amp%253bdata_t...

[1]: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/headed-...
Sony's network has been compromised something like a half dozen times over the last decade or so. They can't seem to secure their systems. Bad behavior aside, it's probably not a good idea to give them any sensitive information.
Nickel Hydrogen Batteries by NASA
> Steam allows you to share games with friends (or family I can’t remember). You and your friend just can’t play the same game at the same time, which is the same way it would be if you shared a disc anyways.

Steam doesn’t allow you to share specific games, only your entire library (excluding any games that the seller has made unsharable.)
Holy crap, I played the game multiple times and had no idea those were even clickable until I saw this comment.
Took me a while to figure this out but you need to put all the characters you want in the black text box at the bottom and hit submit. After you do that, you’ll have the option of building those characters.
> It was a completely novel concept in terms of rule.

The Bill of Rights was largely inspired by the Magna Carta...
Pythagorean ideas—- well, it has been some of the most enriching philosophy I’ve ever encountered. It’s a rabbit hole, for sure.
Google is banned in China while Apple is not (because they bend their own rules to get that sweet Chinese cash).
I'm assuming you're talking about those mail order CD things that promised ~10 CD's for a penny, plus shipping and handling. This also confirmed your subscription to a service which sold you two CDs per month at full retail price plus shipping for at least a year unless you explicitly refused each one. I don't think you even got to choose which CDs you got.

Malware wasn't the point. They sent off unsold stocks of old CDs, made you "buy" new releases which would count for Billboard and the such, and charged you a ton for doing it.
Perhaps 'trustworthy' refers to 'can cite reliable references for all assertions', non-hallucinogenic?
You have already invested 1.5 years into it and it seems like you're making a cool product. Just continue and focus on creating a great product and deal with the other things later. Chances are no one will bother to contact you unless you become one of the big companies. By then, you will have enough resources to handle it. It is a shame that software patent is hindering innovation instead of promoting it.
A vector attack vector.
I would caveat and say that conversion of 1% of all viewers is very unlikely. I would guess it's probably between 1-3% of the channels "fans" who wouldn't otherwise buy the book. If you have 100k+ viewers that leads to enough buyers to support you. If you have a lot more you're going to make a lot money.

But you have the put in years of costumer engagement and marketing throufh through tiktok and other platforms and that in and of itself is a full time job that you have to do in addition to writing books.
Here's the irony.

In science and therefore reality as we know it nothing can be proven to be true. Things can only be falsified in science.

This occurs because if we make 10 million observations that verify a hypothesis we still haven't proven anything to be true because there always exists the possibility that a subsequent observation falsifies the entire hypothesis.

While we can't prove anything in reality is real, we can prove things to be true in mathematics. Proof is the domain of math and logic not science.

Therein lies the irony. We don't know if anything is real in science
and therefore reality as we know it but we can verifiably know whether things are real in the universe of math.

It really puts the question in perspective: what does it even mean to be real?
> > Hospitals are even more understaffed now than they were before the pandemic

> BLS doesn't agree with you[0]. After a big drop with Covid, when a bunch of older hospital workers decided it would be a good time to retire, the employment number matched pre-Covid figures by late 2022, and exceeds it now.

If demand is higher for care, they could have more total employment and still be more understaffed.
Dell Precision 5680 would be a good choice, if it cannot be Razer.
Not true in my experience. If I search for a topic rather than an app name, Apple gives me relevant results all the way down and generally of decent quality. Google starts showing me fake flashlight apps by the fifth result or so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkey_Belser
QFT is too successful that experimentalists stuck for half a century with no meaningful surprise. But theoreticians got to maintain a publication streak if trying to stay in academy. Thus string theory becomes the perfect field. Most ones doing it seem to know it is a goose chase but no one dare to admit it publicly as your colleagues stripped of funding would tear you to pieces.

I feel we really should sort these papers into a category "physics in imaginary universe", so other people do not get confused.
US is the exceptional market that not welcoming Chinese devices. Xiaomi is sold on other developed/developing countries.
JSPs are implemented by transpiling them into servlets, so JSPs without the servlets doesn't really save anything (assuming you want to re-use what's out there).
As shameful as it is, I really believed you at first. I had to remind myself that I could go to Canada and charge my devices with the right power plug type without changing anything on my devices.

Friendly FYI to travelers: make sure you check the outlet voltages[1] and socket types[2] before you go to foreign countries! Your power adaptors / charging bricks should have tiny text listing the voltages they can handle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets
But that's exactly what they're doing! Note the "Serving Size: 1 piece (0.49g)"

https://commonplacefacts.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/img_070...
Ah, by “join syntax” do you mean like this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70803859 ?
I used to make fun/hate the guy, but nowadays I can tell her really cares about games, he just bit more then he could chew and was too inexperienced to properly deal with it.

The bit about being non-confrontational (and this being a hindrance during the Ion Storm days) also hits home. I would have spiraled out of control myself in that position I'm sure.
I think it would be a mistake to assume we support this lawsuit. I am sure on the face of it (ie, seeing one side of the argument) many of us do. But, there will be another side, and there will be other (amicus?) sides to this.

News is important. Too important to allow The Moonies to own a newspaper and publish fantasy lies, Too important to platform Tucker Carlson, on some memetic 1st amendment basis. Oh, sure, mature adults can discriminate and choose. Thats chaos theory writ large. "do what you want shall be the whole of the law" is a Crowley excuse to have lots of sex, do drugs, and sponge off society at large.

Not to mention jurisdictional issues. They're complaining about the BBC in a US court.

It's an interesting read of course. I'm glad it was posted here. But, I think its too early to say which side of this has merit, What a US court will do, what "people" think about this. Ask again in a few weeks.
I've never done MDMA but I have had similar experiences to what is described. I'm more open minded and willing to try things outside of my comfort zone. But your description of being physically unattractive or whatever is definitely true in my world. I found that when people were on drugs at events I was at that they got even more callous.

It was quite unpleasant to be surrounded by these people who clearly would only associate with others who fit whatever beauty norms they justified. I'm not someone who doesn't take care of themselves either but I am not blessed genetically either.
Just nitpick.
Short non-neutral article about the suit that's at least not legalese: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230113-robert-f-kenn...
Ask HN: Have you seen anything original produced by generative AI?
I was watching this youtube video, "The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core," and while it's mostly just confirming my biases, it makes a strong claim that I've on the fence about: that these models can only interpolate between points included in its training set, can only mix what has already been done, unable to create anything original.

Now I'm amenable to the view that "original" art is only ever a mixture of what's already been done, but are there alternative perspectives on originality? Is originality a prerequisite to AGI? Are there any proposed frameworks for measuring whether a system is interpolating points within its training set, or, what is the opposite of interpolation?
> You're opting to a lower security level by wanting something that can be synced.

I don't think most users care
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Grandma isn't replacing her phone battery anytime soon. It wasn't that long ago, replacing a phone battery was as easy as replacing the batteries in my tv remote. Even grandma could do that.
LED shows use custom built drones, not commercial/recreational ones. You can’t program these, and you can build similar hardware for 1/5th of the cost.
> "Sorry, we could not calculate driving directions from "Wairiki, Fiji" to "Welagi, Fiji"

And how many potential users does this affect? Enough for Google to spend 10 seconds worrying about it?
I guess this speaks more to the extremes of how some people are and how it can be an effective tool for people out there on the edges of society with weird issues. I was never in this position and I don't know many people who would have such a severe reaction to hugs either. I have always been able to do platonic touch without much of a care even though I never experienced much of it growing up as a man in rural America.
Thats the good stuff! There's a lot of empowerment in nudity. Rewriting the script, moving away from it being an object of desire / reward.

I'm thinking JLaw on the beach in No Hard Feelings, or any episode of Naked Attraction. Demystifying sex opens up a fuller picture of life.
Yes they root the device and set operator coordinates to 0,0 so they are not picked up by aeroscope, etc
Is there actual evidence that Apple is bending the rules for them? If true, that would be quite a scoop!
This is only very recently true (and disregarding the "well off" part).

Women probably authored over 50% of books starting sometime in the 2010s. [1]

And dominate might still be too strong of a word to use, though it's likely true for some genres (ie. ~80% of books and sales in romance).

Going by the graphs on page 28 figure 2: Today, women are probably authors of around ~45% to ~60% of new books in the dataset (Goodreads/Bookstat(amazon)/US copyright) and still climbing .

[1] https://doi.org/10.3386/w30987
> News is important. Too important to allow The Moonies to own a newspaper and publish fantasy lies, Too important to platform Tucker Carlson, on some memetic 1st amendment basis.

Are you suggesting the Government stifle the speech of people you disagree with?
> I’m talking about the “Bill of Rights” which is a description of government limitations. It was a completely novel concept in terms of rule.

Are you referring to the English Bill of Rights of 1689, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, or the later US package of Constitutional amendments which takes its name from the first and provisions from both the first and the second?

Because if you are referring to the last of those, you are so very, very wrong!
“Bust Out 1” seems basically OK to me. Everyone hates stock buybacks, but they’re economically very similar to dividends, and seem like a reasonable way for a fading company to return cash to shareholders. Could BBB have survived if they spent $4B on a new initiative instead of returning it to shareholders? I doubt it.

“Bust Out 3” seems pretty sleazy, selling stock in a failed company to retail investors. But hey, that’s what they said about Hertz, so maybe there’s some universe where this could have worked out OK?

I agree “Bust Out 2” was just a scam. Ryan Cohen is a grifter.
The most straightforward evidence that mathematics is descriptive and not prescriptive is Einstein's General Relativity which illuminated that Newtonian mechanics was not prescriptive. Similarly General Relativity does not prescribe what happens at quantum scales.
Except personal preferences are mostly irrelevant from the momentum of society. Because of acting that way, an immediate disadvantage in America results. The Kardashians, Swift, Santos, Thomas (also every other Supreme Court Justice [1]), Kalanick, SBF, Trump, Bezos' yacht, Musk's Twitter strobe [2], Epstein [3], Harvard making more than the NSF while taking NSF money [4] (+corrupt professors and lawsuits for bonus points [5]), flat wages since 1980 [6], preferential exploitation of loyal workers [7], and 42 million on food stamps [8] say that machiavellian, narcissistic, psychopaths generally get rewarded in America.

[1] https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/16/lets-just-say-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0pH_XMUSA

[3] https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black...

[4] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/harvard-endowment-su...

[5] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/25/pierson-sulliva...

[6] https://finfacts.ie/cmsb/uploads/thumb/us_productivity_pay_g...

[7] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...

[8] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-...
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You could stop downloading it, for starters.

Or if you want to claim that you don't, perhaps you should try proving a negative and convince us of your innocence - before you support a standard of everyone being forced to do so.
Ah, right, I didn't consider that. Thanks.
If anyone doubts whether math is 'real' or not - maybe watching this clip of these 4 men might clarify it (pay attention to the language they use to discuss the architecture of the universe):

https://youtu.be/AmUI2qf9uyo?si=6B6qA249jZqCVV5j
Oh, I interpreted "in my property" as like, "under my mattress", not literally invested in the property. My bad.
That's a billion dollar question. If you have the right answer, there is a good chance you'd win a Nobel Prize.
These will be the missing websites in 50 years if the internet archive dies.
If you acknowledge that the company was doomed anyway in 2014 (which I don't think mgmt believed) then the proper solution would have been to find a buyer rather than 5 years of buybacks. And personally I don't think it was a foregone conclusion that the end would come 9 years later.
Define "original" technically generative AI is always doing something original it's just the novelty and "creativity" that's in to question. Those are likely in the human realm. Even the prompts we cater are themselves what hold the spark of creativity.
Is there any system that works for at least 10-20km without line of sight, supporting a video feed usable for guidance, without cell phone network coverage?

Maybe something where there are two drones, and one flies high with line of sight to both the user and the low-flying drone so that it can act as a relay like a satellite would?

Or something that uses radio frequencies that bounce over the atmosphere, and if bandwidth is not enough uses an automated pilot plus the ability to send photos every few seconds so the user can tell it in which general direction it should fly?

Or something that uses Starlink/Iridium/etc. to relay data?
Unfortunately a lot of people keep buying them yearly
All stupid people think they are right. Give me one concrete AGPL case that justifies their aversion.

Anyway, it's their loss.
Another non-textbook: White Light by Rudy Rucker.
That's never going to happen. The Mozilla Foundation is a parasite subsisting off of Firefox's name and reputation. The end state is that they eventually kill the host. Google is postponing this to keep their anti-trust shield alive, but it's only a matter of time.
I forgot about it, and yeah, the Space Shuttle itself is pretty big and impressive. So this makes the size of the aircraft carrier even more amazing.
Google Search, Alphabet's main business, doesn't exist in China.
> The allieds invaded France.

And Italy. After fighting in North Africa, which tied up German resources and scrubs like, oh, one Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
I've worked remotely for most of my career, both as an IC and an EM, and across the board if it took someone 4 hours to respond to a crisis during their normal working hours it would be viewed as a serious failing. Of course if your company chooses to let remote employees get away with murder the end result will be remote employees getting away with murder! If you needed someone who was working in office and they were missing for four hours you obviously wouldn't just accept that as the way things are.
I really wish the tiny whoop scene would take off more to lower the barrier to entry.

It's for extremely small drones (65-85mm from diagonal motor posts) which are great for flying indoors or in small areas.

The main issues being:

1. It's still very much a "hobby" hobby. You can get some ready to fly kits, but even then it can wind up more technical than you expect.

2. They're spec'd for the niche market, meaning quite powerful and very short fly times, which is a shame. One of my favorite drones is the Potensic A 20. A durdly little thing that can fly easily for 10 minutes on brushed motors, but it's not really built to last (or god forbid crash). I'd KILL for a "A20+" which is just low power brushed motors and nicer controls. It's on my todo list to see if i can cobble something together whenever I have real life time again.

To be clear, it's still pretty easy to get into. I have the beta cestus as a decent rtf kit, although beta has some battery connectors that sorta lock you in (they are supposedly better than others though and you can convert things...but there's the hobby part again), and there's been other half decent ready to fly kits over the years.
`"what is so bad about" + this` uses 4 less characters, and that includes the spaces around the plus.
Good point. I wonder if there is data for that. Maybe the number of insurance claims?
I choose to believe this behavior somehow drives ad revenue to Microsoft and is not incompetence. Otherwise, why would they throw away the previously working behavior?
Because the Platonic soul (psuche) is different from consciousness. Actually, Philolaus (first Pythagorean to write a book) said that conscious feelings come from the combination of the mathematical soul with the body. So, Pythagorean soul can be viewed as the set of logical or conceptual forms— which constitute a person, yet can also be passed on from person to person. That’s a very different kind of reincarnation…!
> "While the 'Trusted News Initiative' publicly purports to be a self-appointed 'truth police' extirpating online 'misinformation,' in fact it has suppressed wholly accurate and legitimate reporting in furtherance of the economic self-interest of its members," the suit alleges.

In this case, the article gives no specific examples, and doesn't verify the claims - that accurate reporting has been suppressed is left as a mere allegation that the article's author doesn't feel worth confirming.

> Kennedy, 68, whose father Bobby was assassinated in 1968 while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, became a face of the anti-vaccine movement after promoting the medically discredited theory that vaccines cause autism.

But when it comes to what Kennedy got wrong, it manages to come up with specifics, and uses its authoritative voice to confirm Kennedy was indeed wrong - "the medically discredited theory", not "theory said to be discredited".

The trick is common: Leave statements you dislike as mere allegations (even if trivial to verify), the vaguer the better, but confirm and elaborate on statements you do like. That way you get a "he said but the facts are" article that pretends to be objective, but has pretty much decided for its readers who they should believe. It stands out in this article because its vaguer on the presumed subject, i.e. the lawsuit, but specific on Kennedy's background, which is tangential.
> return cash to shareholders

I think the highlight here is that the buybacks were funded by debt. They're not "returning" anything.
US Government shutdown bad for country’s credit, warns Moody’s
Can reality be completely described by mathematics, or is every model just an imperfect approximation?
A good starting point for questions like this is the SEP article: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/