skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the biden laptop story was temporarily banned for less than 24hrs as it violated various twitter rules for hacked content and nudity. The “Twitter Files” (cue x-files theme) show us this - it was certainly not banned because users reported it as fake news using a tool like this.
Analysis of Mobile Device Operating Systems and Tap-to-Pay Practices
MadPot, a threat intelligence tool Amazon uses to protect from cybercrime
No official UEFI support at this time.
This is actually a genius idea. The thing is: it probably already exists, just not packaged nicely yet.
His father did, and was involved in his son's business deals.
more commonly rendered as "we're fucked" or, when the interlocutor is lucky, "you're fucked".
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. People sympathetic to the enemy has been one of the primary security threats on both sides in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

During WW2 the Danish resistance killed more Danish informants than German occupation forces.
DOD must have plenty of assurance that Musk isn't a significant part of the equation. The dude brings so much risk with him.
Like own a social network that could allow anti-mao speech but has taken covert steps not-to and have a Chinese car factory that makes up a large percent of his auto profits?
I'm kinda shocked that they allow such a leveraged person have contracts like this where other countries have levers they can turn.
Laymen need people who can synthesize the works of academics/researchers.

If someone like Chomsky wasn't talking about "faciness" and the ethics of ChatGPT, would anyone really bring that up? In an academic setting or otherwise.

This again also discredits his work as an academic for coining and bringing to light topics like CFGs.

Or in another similar vein: Bill Nye helps to distill scientific concepts for children (and adults too). There is something to be said for him helping to engage some students more in science, AND for whatever interpretation and analysis of Creationism vs. Evolution he did at that debate with Ken Ham, for the lay people. To a degree, it doesn't matter if he got every one of his points 100% logically sound, it can be a springboard that hopefully gives theists some food for thought on why Evolution is the best we empirically have and that the Bible isn't a primary source for citing.

So I again ask who you would rather speak to me about these topics, or am I supposed to just dig through thousands of scholarly articles and hope the ones I discuss and cite have the "correct" opinion and rhetorical skils?
Wild guess:

Someone had a romantic photo taken with this tree, and someone else was determined to cut down the tree as a sign of the end of the relationship.
Transplant of Pig Heart into Patient with End-Stage Cardiovascular Disease
Show HN: DIY Entitled Opinions podcast archive
Incredibly fun and powerful to string along a series of simple tools: parsing a podcast xml, downloading and reencoding the files with ffmpeg, transcribed with whisper-cpp, simple html written by concatenating strings in python, scp'd into a nearly-free speech-host.

How it's made: https://github.com/tobyshooters/entitled-opinions
That’s the expected British understatement, it’s just how the police communicates there.
Yes, it does. The government, indirectly or directly can indefinitely owe any entity money, or even print money on demand if really necessary and ultimately, Musk is just a person.
You make a sensible point but scribes having been illiterate is surprising. Do you have a source about this where I could read more?
I agree! nav supports this workflow in search mode as well, and I could easily support fuzzy searching rather than exact match if that would be valuable.
The UK LLM Opportunity: Air Street at the House of Lords
It's demoralizing to get rejection letter after rejection letter (or sometimes just nothing at all), but keep at it.

Until you have one, consider it your job to:

- Prepare applications and cover letters

- Network (attend programming meetups, attend recruitment events, cold message people on LinkedIn)

- Stay engaged with the act of programming. Write code and think about programming for at least a couple hours per weekday. Leetcode at a bare minimum, but do something that interests you.

Don't forget to spend quality time with friends and family if you're able to live at home.

If you have bills to pay, then it may be time to look at other short-term jobs to fill the gap. Coffee shops, restaurants, warehouses, whatever it takes to pay the bills.

Good luck.
In some techno clubs they put a sticker to your camera lens, so you know that you aren't recorded
To be fair though, 1800 is a while ago, especially for wooden construction. But I've lived in a wooden house that was built in 1625 that probably was on it's fifth renovation by 1800. And it still stands today.
It definitely stopped installing! It was showing the "old" version in the App Store updates, and I was able to start the install again.
There was an absolutely excellent essay by James Duncan Davidson, creator of the Apache Ant build tool for Java, about why XML was its configuration language, and why it was perfect at first but grew to be a huge problem. To summarize from memory:

- Ant’s config needs were modest: configs were static strings, numbers, booleans, and lists

- XML parser existed, was well tested, was supported by lots of tools, so was a quicker and easy way to parse configs

- As Ant became successful, the configs grew more complex and started to need to be dynamic and have “control flow”

- Once control flow was needed XML was no longer the best choice for config parsing, but it was too late. (The correct answer is that a scripting language is what you want here.)

Edit: I posted this quote from his essay on HN back in 2020 [1]:

> Now, I never intended for the file format to become a scripting language—after all, my original view of Ant was that there was a declaration of some properties that described the project and that the tasks written in Java performed all the logic. The current maintainers of Ant generally share the same feelings. But when I fused XML and task reflection in Ant, I put together something that is 70-80% of a scripting environment. I just didn't recognize it at the time. To deny that people will use it as a scripting language is equivalent to asking them to pretend that sugar isn't sweet.

Edit 2: The reason you’re not seeing an “improved yaml” is because the improved version is just Python/Ruby/JS/PHP,…

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25385443
The pitch slider works in increments of 0.01 but for some reason we can’t set 1.0, it jumps from 0.99 to 1.01. Same with the speed slider, it goes from -1% to +1%, no 0% (or “Normal” as you call it when the page is refreshed).
I love this idea and will look into implementing it in the next few days! Thanks!
No, I was using the App Store "update"...
This wasn’t heart regeneration in ordinary mice, though - it was in genetically modified mice.

So if you want your heart to regenerate using this technology, you need to go back in time and edit your genes before you were born.
And adblockers are very limited in capability in safari/iOS.
Interactive Medieval Murder Maps in Late Medieval London, York, and Oxford
Even a 1 foot high wall is hard to sneakily move at night.

It's a marker on the ground of 'my territory' vs 'your territory'. If you catch someone the wrong side of it, they have no excuse of 'oh, I thought this was my land'.
Arg, I'd love one of these, but my project backlog has backlogs. As others have commented, I'd buy a fully assembled unit.
Japanese music industry takes legal action against 'leech sites'
They're supposed to last 30 years. So maybe it's too early to tell.
True or false, then: does Apple really need the European market to access the first world as a userbase?
Check out the “obsolescence statement” on the Raspberry Pi product pages. The 3B+ will remain in production until at least 2028 https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-... and the 4 until at least 2031 https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/...
It shows it’s biologically possible for mammalian cardiac cells to (a) do the job of the heart while (b) being regenerated. That’s not clinically relevant for humans. But it’s scientifically relevant for researchers (and those interested in the science of it).
I use the Kagi search engine as my default. If I find myself on a lomg webpage, I can prepend the URL with `!sum` and it will bring me to an LLM generated summary of the page. If I don't find the information I want in the ssummary, I can click "discuss this document" and ask the exact question I am looking to have answered.

I also use !q for information that I trust can be extracted from top search results by an LLM.
It's tyranny of the docile. The recent batch of user hostile practices adopted by Reddit and Twitter will become industry norms because they worked, too few people actually left those services. Network effects work more against us now than for us.
No, the automated workflow would be something like this:

- Run dependabot workflow (outputs: $pr_number)

- Automerge $pr_number
A US federal employee with a $5 wrench.
If you had to qualify it with "most", then it isn't universal. Moreover, I don't think morality is what applies only to your friends.
Leased solar systems sounds like a great sci-fi premise. Rent a few planets out...
Yes, all agreed. I've lived on a large lot in Canada where every year some trees were logged to give the rest breathing room. This wasn't done by someone who used a chainsaw for the first time, neither was it done with a small saw, that's a very clean cut. To add insult to injury they aimed the drop straight at the wall.
Really great visuals. Thanks for sharing!
Video: Vertical default/1440 x 1920 pixels at 30 fps is disappointing. Future VR headsets will have a much higher resolution.
A Halloween costume that changes the shape of the body and face should suffice. Let's all dress up as "V" from V for Vendetta. Some would say a persons gait can give them away so we can all walk or sashay like a runway model. The costume needs an RF blocking pocket for fondle slabs. I can picture this happening. Low tech, affordable, concept can be applied to any costume. Optional platform boots to balance peoples height.
Very interesting.
Could you expand on why you "think our basic social pattern is more catlike than doglike in many regards" ?
Miles4Migrants flew 43K refugees with donated air miles, but it's now at risk
Phoronix tested the Pi 5 with and without the official heatsink, and without it peaked at around 90C (same temp my Intel Mac Mini from 2018 likes to hover around) and never throttled during benchmarks. You don't need to downclock, undervolt, or turn anything off to run fanless.
Brine can be pumped into ponds and evaporated for salt. People holding water rights are usually lobbying and spreading disinformation.
The Raspberry Pi 5 will only be for sale to individuals until the end of this year (no industrial customers competing for inventory like the older models)
Few Critical Climate Technology Breakthroughs Is Desperately Needed (2020)
The A.I. Wars Have Three Factions, and They All Crave Power
They are using a perchlorate to increase safety?
IIRC the $15m is the per-unit costs (booster refurb, second stage production), the rest are the costs that can be divided up by increasing flight rate (launch pad operations, staff and other infrastructure).
I too would like more info.
I remember buying a Visual Basic 4 (Oreilly) book in the Barnes and Noble that was in that building
this explains so much.
Maybe this is the way they can nationalize spacex once Musk does his next stupid thing
Do something more productive than YouTube. Most of the "educational" content is more like Discovery channel on steroids - extremely long, filled with ads, and not particularly information dense. Imagine in that 15 minutes if you read a long-form article or read a book chapter, you would be so much more informed.

Or you spend that hour (or more) a day learning a new skill. You'd become pretty proficient in something new every couple of years at that rate.

Ditch YouTube
It seems that this is a problem across nations, not only the US. For example, young Norwegian doctors are also protesting against too much work. Last week, the national broadcaster NRK wrote about a physician who committed suicide: https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/xl/lege-maiken-schultz-tok-sitt...
The worst part about that is not having the symbol type to use in JSON, so you must quote every symbol (or make your language incompatible with standard JSON).
'I'm in part Bosnian, so American intervention has had a very real impact on my family's well being and even survival. So I'm at least ambivalent if not opposed to some of Chomsky's views on anti-imperialism, even though I respect his principled stance.' That does not matter. It doesnt make your opinion more valid.

'Calling this or other things "genocide denial" and similarly extreme terms is a common tactic in order to craft an ad-hominem attack to divert from anti-imperialist criticism.' It is very normal to judge based on other areas that someone said. He denied the Cambodian genocide and never changed his view since 50 years! What does it say about him? And why is it ad-hominem? Do you even know what does it mean?
Can we say the same statement with human instead of tree?
The wall is nearly 2000 years old.

It used to be 15 feet high and 10 feet wide. [1]

Nearly everything else that old has fallen down to the foundations. It turns out nature is good at knocking stuff down till it's about a foot high, and then just leaves the footings of all the walls.

Plenty of castles and stuff have 1 foot high walls now.

Also, people steal the stones to build other stuff. But it's more effort to steal stones already buried in the ground.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+high+was+hadrians+wall
Why is Russia's imperialism far far far worse?

What about the us invasion of Iraq is "better" than the Russia invasion of Ukraine?
Aaaaaaand we're back to inborn sense.
> If you must use average, then you should remove the top 5% from the average.

5% is too arbitrary, just use the median.
Only if you hate yourself even more, because that stuff makes its way to groundwater.
Ursula Le Guin's translation is, IMO, truest to the spirit of the original text. I defended it a bit here:

https://blog.superb-owl.link/p/taoism-minus-the-nonsense
Ad 1. There's no paradox. Russia is a paper tiger that barely works. But it has nukes and enough conventional army to fuck up small countries in Eastern Europe. Hence they seek NATO membership. The war isn't about USA, the war is about deciding whether Russia can again occupy about 100 000 000 people living there. Chomsky arguing against west involvement is enabling Russia. This isn't rocket science. If Baltic States didn't join NATO they would be gone by now. Poland would be likely fighting a war as we speak.

Ad 2. I have a lot of people I respect tell me his linguistic ideas make some sense, but for me it's just wrong (see LLMs). It's not my specialty and it's his specialty so I usually resist the urge to speak about it. He doesn't seem to have any problems speaking about Eastern European politicis tho, without knowing much about it. I'd cry "colonialism" but that's cheap.
There are no "hard" countermeasures possible, not technological ones - you're fighting against the laws of physics here, which mandate that everything constantly radiates information about what it's doing, in every direction, at the speed of light. Advancement of surveillance is advancement in being able to discern that information. You can try and introduce noise, but you're still fighting uphill, against the whole fields of signal processing and information theory.

The only "countermeasures" we can have are "soft" ones - social, political and legal. Convince people to treat privacy as core value, and surveillance as repugnant. Make forms of surveillance illegal. Mandate by law to have surveillance capabilities in devices handicapped by design. But this, at best, only solves the problem for regular people and some of the time, while governments stay stable and sane - the possibility of deeper surveillance is still there, just the choice to perform it seems unattractive at a given moment.
Politicizing tiny issues is straight out of the News Corp. playbook, and I'm sure they took it from somewhere else. Make a mountain out of a molehill and instill fear into people to create a divide. It's getting exhausting trying to keep up with the supposed existential threats to our liberty that they bring up: masking during a pandemic of an airborne disease, CRT, the 3 trans kids in highschool sports, etc.
If by “closed up shop” you mean “was acquired by Bayer” you’d be spot on.

They still make all the glyphosphate roundup products, just under a new, kinder name now.

https://www.bayer.com/media/en-us/bayer-closes-monsanto-acqu...
What kind of salaries would justify this hell? If you're earning $400k working 100 hour weeks, its the same as earning $160k working 40 hour weeks. That's a totally standard albeit high US software engineer salary.
Must have been one of these https://www.savagechickens.com/2023/09/nobody-likes-my-movie...
I've used ChatGPT couple times to write quicker some boring math calculations to my JavaScript game engine that I've been working on recently.
Why prepay $6k for a lease? You've just obliterated the cashflow benefit of leasing.

Separately, the US seems in general very poor for basic consumer advocacy stuff? Like, fabricated culture war stories can make national news, but "person ripped off by business" doesn't enter politics at all?
I don't know anything but how about putting it in a hole ?
What would be the consequences of that ? (Sure there are plenty but I am too dumb to think of any)
This has been looked into and it's not a substantial part of the drop.
Guess because you have to try.

Almost everything in the world comes with warning labels.

Does that mean you just sit down and don't move?

There are dozens of branches of religions and philosophy and SCIENCE, that questions the ability of language to pass information, its 'fidelity'.

That doesn't mean you just sit at home and stair at the wall. Thought that is one very valid solution. Actually, just staring at a wall is the way some interpret as the best way to deal with the situation.
Why the scare quotes? There's no actual Hebrew text in that article.
I looked at these at RayBan the other day. They're pretty cool especially for the price, but requiring a Meta account and Meta app ruined it for me.
AI is getting better at hurricane forecasting
A right-click/View Source would allow you to reevaluate your initial impression due to the presence of elements introduced in HTML5 (released in 2008).

The fact that you can do that and not stare at a soup of minimized Javascript tells you a lot about htmx.

https://htmx.org/essays/right-click-view-source/
Wait are you serious? He absolutely has access to it and even if he doesn't he employees the personnel that do. Additionally, he has already been caught twice shutting it off to prevent attacks on Russia.
Yeah Blaster is one of the few worms I've ever (knowingly) been infected with. As you say, it was literally less than a minute or two between connecting an unpatched box and getting it.
Origins of Parkinson’s may lie in the gut. Researchers hope to prove it
>If the hypothesis that misfolded proteins start in the gut and travel to the brain is proved, it could lead to early detection and treatment of Parkinson’s
Thermonuclear war has been avoided by the decision of a single person several times.

https://youtu.be/ILgSesWMUEI?feature=shared

Having people who are willing to think critically about escalating conflicts, especially civilians who are not fighting in a war, is what we need more of.

If Russia launches a full scale invasion of the US, then Congress can declare war and it will be a completely different story.
Don’t you mean, “the early worm gets the Fremen?”

I could have my stories confused, but I swear there was a story about worms.
I decided to install solar myself, paid out of pocket, after having sales rep after sales rep knock on my door trying to sell me a leased or financed system. What they were offering for $60k over 30 years, I was able to do for $23k after incentives, and I fully own the system. The hardware itself is top of the line, and so will be less likely to need repair over the next few decades.

But if I do need it repaired, I can call up any good installer in the area (ones that make their money putting panels on roofs, not the ones that make their money selling loans and leases), and I'll still be ahead.
Boomerang – Vectara’s New and Improved Retrieval Model
One minute vacation (2008) [audio]
> There were some nasty things about Flash, but in retrospect mobile applications are so much worse.

Not really. Flash was terrible on phones that supported it. There were SDKs that turned Flash applications into native iOS ones, IIRC, but otherwise Flash was a dead end once mobile started to grow.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)
Why would this need a dedicated launch? Starlink satellites launch in a stack of up to sixty at a time.

Starshield probably just swaps one or two of these for an alternate configuration (i.e., same bus, different payload).
A photon from an electron-positron anihilation has frequency around 10^20 Hz, somewhat higher frequency than what we usually call x-rays. Some of them do get absorbed by the body, but enough pass through to be detected usefully.
See: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/21

748 single / 1507 multi
You have Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome instead of Sleep Apnea now. That it didn't show up on your sleep studies means they didn't score it properly. It means your body is ("correctly") waking up out of airway collapse before any oxygen desaturation can occur, which regrettably destroys sleep quality as bad or often worse than apnea does. This is particularly common in women, younger peopoe in general, and non-obese individuals.
Exactly! It's like ads on TV. It's like a catalog for the highest margin products. Also often for products that can hack us through instinctive reactions (appeal to status: cars/makeup, fear: insurance, etc)
It looks like the M2 socket will be connected with a flexible ribbon, so it is possible that it could be mounted below.
There was a time when you could SMB mount shares from servers at MS over the public internet (and e.g. do things like download alphas and betas that were not visible on the ftp server).
The flush tank of my toilet was leaking. I called a plumber, and the first thing he did was to scoop up more than 2 handful of salt solids from the flush tank and clean it well - I wasn't aware that our community uses untreated hard water for toilets. And I was shocked, as I wasn't aware this happened, at the amount of left over salt that had accumulated!

Salt is a by-product of desalination and, as I understand, not easy to dispose without affecting the ecology of the area where it is disposed (let's not forget that salting of fields was done as an act of warfare against the enemy to make their lands barren, and then there's the natural Dead Sea - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea - that exists and highlights what happens to marine life when water has too much salt content in it). Unless salt waste disposal is solved, desalination isn't going to become popular.
He's talking about off the shelf PCs, not Arm based SBCs with a wonky software stack.
"Doomed" in common parlance doesn't mean judgment has been passed; it just means that our unhappy future has become certain. "Damned" does mean that judgement has been passed - is that what you meant?
On the contrary, they knew exactly what the concentration camps were. It's is us today that have no idea. Ask anyone in the west how many people died in the holocaust and they will tell you 6 million. Half the number. We don't count the other half and celebrate the people who killed Russians and Poles: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/25/lapr-s25.html