skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DDT doesn't run the risk of "running away" out of control the way biological/bacterial/viral interventions do. This is my first time hearing about screwworm and 1) wow what a nasty looking infection, and 2) boy am I glad it looks like the eradication campaign is going well! And yes the screwworm program does seem really similar to this, so especially thrilled it seems to be going well!
Racism bit is amusingly missing from the article and the comments. But that’s not surprising, is it?
Network effects cannot be underestimated.
This is a great article. For more background on this growing industry, I recommend a recent academic study on the use of surveillance technology at the Los Angeles Police Department. The book documents the LAPD's use of data brokerage firms that collect and aggregate info from public records and private sources (e.g., Palantir), as well as automatic license plate readers (ALPR’s) which record vehicles are they move around the city, and Suspicious Activity Reports from police and civilians, which include reports of mundane activities such as using binoculars, drawing diagrams, or taking pictures or "video footage with no apparent aesthetic value." All this data ultimately gets parked in Fusion Center facilities built after 9/11 where federal, state and local law enforcement agencies collaborate to collect, aggregate, analyze and share information. As the author observes, "The use of data in law enforcement is not new. For almost a century, police have been gathering data, e.g., records of citations, collisions, warrants, incarcerations, sex offender and gang registries, etc. What is new and important about the current age of big data is the role in public policing of private capitalist firms who provide database systems with huge volumes of information about people, not just those in the criminal justice system."

Sarah Brayne (2020) "Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing," Oxford University Press

https://www.amazon.com/Predict-Surveil-Discretion-Future-Pol...
A dual-mode ARM-x86 core would be an interesting CPU that they certainly have the skill to create. Thanks to the protected mode descriptor model, imagine having ARM64, ARM32, x86-32, and x86-64 code segments all coexisting in the same system, with no emulation nor virtualisation. There wouldn't be any overhead, because all instructions regardless of ISA get translated to uops anyway. They could add a RISC-V front-end too, just for completeness sake.
Like Berghain has trouble filling the place. They keep the line artificially long to preserve a veneer of exclusivity. You don’t have to be a Berliner to know that trick, most clubs pull the same thing whenever possible.
It's an absolute pain to actually apply for unemployment. It's not a reliable gambit. I can't even do it right now for NY; their website is down every weekend for "maintenance" (total bs that such a thing exists) when they want people to "certify" for unemployment.
This interpretation is, roughly speaking, the polar opposite of Kant’s moral philosophy. He has very precise, concrete, views on right and wrong, views that he is able to persuasively substantiate because he starts from such a basic, skeptical position.

Put another way: Kant’s observation about the basic unknowability of things in themselves doesn’t somehow imply that we have to throw up our hands and accept moral relativity. The bulk of his moral philosophy is dedicated to explaining the necessary connection between our phenomenological existence and our moral duties.
It's resilient due to the wide prior adoption. For example, I rarely see Threads or Mastodon embeds in new articles, it's still mostly Twitter. Changing that will take years.
Ah, so he did. It's still outside the 30 day limit. Just not as far outside as I originally thought.
Best application I can think of is a mid-level robot prototype. Small enough that you don't need a lot of computing horsepower, but also need lots of high speed I/O for cameras, LiDAR, etc. This is a small niche since most robots that need that kind of I/O also need much more computational horsepower.
Thanks for this.

The first thing I'm reading is some statement about how they don't actually want to locate these things on your property, but nearby, which makes me think (a) either "I wouldn't want this thing on my property" or (b) it's "not practical and/or safe to locate this thing on my property" (a being a subset of b).

And then "solid hydrogen" is mentioned and I'm thinking ... huh? Glad I wasn't alone.

So nobody on Earth would ever confuse me with a chemist, but (at least) I think I have some of the basics down.

Hydrogen isn't solid until you drop the temperature a whole hell of a lot or increase the pressure a whole hell of a lot. Now, I guess the upside is that "solid hydrogen" requires temps/pressures that render oxygen similarly frozen which[0] I guess reduces the probability that said "hydrogen battery" doesn't become a "crater surrounded by the fiery wreckage of the neighborhood where said hydrogen battery once was." But, gee, it better be one hell of a power storage source to offset the cost of cooling/pressurizing its storage.

I guess the more logical explanation is "an attempt to dress up what is likely a different use of/material-but-not-flashy-improvement upon an existing technology" which likely hasn't had the slightest bit of practical testing behind it. That sounds a little more cynical than I mean it to -- I mean I really do hope they have something that is as sexy as this thing is trying to sound but the best I could get out of reading that "skeptically" was:

"Put some (top of the line) solar panels on a building (for reasons unmentioned, we aren't using your roof) and store the power in these things just outside your neighborhood (for reasons unmentioned, we aren't small enough/safe enough/it's otherwise impractical to store these on your property/in your home) and they'll go in this sleek-looking 3D rendered thing that we haven't yet worked all the details out of yet[1]."

[0] ... according to the two second Google search that I did.

[1] The cynic in imagines a meeting "Let's see, our technology is something that's solid ... and it's chemical make-up includes something with Hydrogen" ... somewhere along the lines someone was like "F!ck it, let's just call it 'Solid Hydrogen' and see if anyone bites".
Typically yes... Alternative mechanisms include using solar panels to increase drag, and some companies are experimenting with devices that interact with the earths magnetic field to produce electromagnetic drag…

But reserving fuel for “decommissioning operations” is standard practice for satellite operators and the space industry in general.
Freedom of speech. Every other major social network actively suppresses speech. Especially conservative speech or anything that doesn't align with the ideology of the left.

And I don't even consider myself a conservative. I just like my information uncensored.
This whole post could be summed up as "I make up stories from people that don't exist to justify my selfish world view", and frankly these "people are saying" anecdotes with no facts backing them up don't work well on a site where people research things instead of taking them at face value. If you want that kind of echo chamber, may I recommend Facebook or something similar?

70% (approximately) of people on welfare already have a job. That's strange isn't it? Not going fishing. Not living the life working under the table. No, doing the hard jobs you expect to be done for next to nothing, for your comfort and convenience.
They clean your hotel rooms, wait on you at restaurants and check you out at your local Walmart that destroyed all the other work in their town, and then paid them so little they had to apply for help to feed their children. These vital jobs that people expected to be done even in the middle of a pandemic, well they don't pay enough to live off of anymore. Because the wealth only moves in one direction and has for decades.

Welfare the majority of the time is a hand up not a hand out, 50% of recipients are able to get off of it inside of a year, 70% inside of 2 years and if we should have a few people who game the system, oh well. It's a necessary evil to make sure women and children are not on the streets, to ensure that once you are down you are not out, because we are the most prosperous nation on earth and we can EASILY afford it, and part of the social contact entailed in being an American is you care for your fellow Americans. Unless you are someone who sits around ruminating about what an injustice it is that a portion of your income is used to keep children from being hungry and how very unfair that is to you.

I pay more than what I am asked in taxes, I contribute to charities at a rate that most people would be surprised by, and I can tell you this. Every charity in our country is a failure of our government. Every church that proselytizes via helping the poor does so because the system we built is not working for it's constituents, and myopic people want to spend a bunch of time fighting about who gets what of the very, very thin slice of the pie, instead of actually doing the hard work of reforming the bakery. If there is any truth to your anecdotes at all consider this; it might be more telling of you and the moral fibre of those you surround yourself with than people at large.
As another poster said heavy drug use, but also fetish sex.

I've been to parties that have had signs on the bathroom banning acts that would make a vanilla person blush.
It’s not really a situation where you can look for alternatives. Either the friends/celebrities/politicians/comedians/brands/etc you like are there or not. It’s gotten significantly worse, but Twitter is still the only place you can go to search for something that’s happening in realtime. Other alternatives have been able to create small niches, but X is the only one with a global scale.

(That being said, yes, I agree that Elon is doing everything he can to ruin that)
Reacting to harm is not the same as suffering. As far as we know, suffering requires nerves and cognition that mosquitoes don't have (not even close).
It's better that the money goes to X than some hacker from the OG names community.
Judaism and Christianity both treat Sunday as the first day of the week, so that it is the same in Hebrew is unsurprising.
What about the propietary blobs?

I saw @jchw stating some good point but seems most in this thread here got their head in the sand.

too much trust in a product/service that may be secure on the surface, never means it's actually secure;

I ended up installing lineageOS rooted and firewalling everything and uninstalling useless services...that's better than having a system that is being advertised as state of the art security.

How dl you think google feels if their main OS market is being taken by a "secure" alternative like Graphene OS, unless they both struck a deal or are working together behind closed doors?

I got a suspicion that there's something the lead Dev of Graphene Os is unrevealing to us...hence they put him on desk job like a rookie cop who came across some sh*t that the public shouldn't know...

Meanwhile noone can fully confirm what's inside the OEM signed blobs that are on Graphene OS and other components. What more the heavy suggestion for never rooting; when over 200k apps on the playstore are riddled with malware/spyware?

Why would a billion dollar coorp let such clumsy mistake happen? I am starting to trust the fdroid store over Googleplay (despite being unable to have access to other apps) due to the fact:

Fdroid it's community baded/ the ppl make the app out of purely enjoyment versus montary need.

I have pxl4xl and ended up uninstalling Graphene OS something feels off about it.

No company CEO/Lead Dev just have a public dispute digitally and never explain why and the very next moment they are claimed to have had a mental breakdown.

and the fact that people are asking sincere questions and are being ridiculed for it, even raises more red-flags...

Think about it;

it's 2023, people gotta start thinking for themselves, nothing seems as it awlays is based on surface exposure.

I started only using software/tools by individuals or teams where the morale or principles is non-political and is in alignment with what makes sense no matter where you apply it.
Isn't this another form of cyber squatting? Highly coveted names encourage people to snap them up and hoard them with the hopes of reselling later. And they're almost certain sophisticated organized projects. Maybe not at the onset of social media, but now for sure. I've also heard that if you have a coveted name you're constantly fighting hacking attempts.
Maybe you would find it less unsettling - and I believe you would be better understanding Kant's ideas - if, instead of thinking about it as "an underlying reality ... which we can never know", you think of it as "something (or nothing!) underlying reality ... which we can never know". So, yes, Einstein and Newton made statements about reality. And, yes, all of reality is (theoretically) knowable to humans (including the nature of time). But maybe there's something beyond reality itself? (Or maybe not!) Newton proved that we can understand gravity. Einstein proved that we can understand electrodynamics. Kant proved that we cannot understand god(s) (including whether or not god(s) exist(s)), because god(s) is by definition beyond reality, beyond space / time, beyond the observable universe.
I don't think you are doing yourself a favor by referring potentially interested customers to discord. It makes the product seem amateurish. CI is critical and often sensitive.
>This might be true for very few very selective clubs like Berghain, certainly not true for all Berlin clubs.

Perhaps, but it seems that those "selective" clubs have given a bad reputation to all clubs.
You don’t have an ombudsman? Or something like that? Here in India we can even make them sing exact reason for rejecting credit card applications and if they just did it shoddily then they have to actually issue it. They just can’t say “internal policy” or shit like “discretion”.
Oh fun, can you please give specific examples to what sort of thing is now allowed on X but not on facebook, that keeps you on X?
Kind of amazing that doing “aaand it’s gone” with $500k that is provably legitimate is “an issue requiring a complaint to a specialized bureau” and not “a grand larceny charge from the DA.”
Sounds like you want a full UI, but GEF is quite good for making GDB pleasant to use.
"Have you ever had a book like this—one you’d read—come up in conversation, only to discover that you’d absorbed what amounts to a few sentences?"

Of course, the few sentences you can recall are not going to be the same for all readers; you can't say, that was the most important point for everyone. I mean, can you imagine the editor of say, Richard Rhodes' Making of the Atomic Bomb saying, no one will remember this bit about Lise Meitner's escape from Germany on an expired passport, you can cut that.

If you, as a reviewer, think that your review has really encapsulated everything anyone would get out of the book you're reviewing, you're either the greatest reviewer ever or an arrogant delusional dork.
Canon's Advanced Chip Machines to Cost a Fraction of ASML's Best
> not just young people's pass time

I said “predominantly” it’s for the young, not “just” for the young. As people age they tend to have greater demands on their time, they have on-average lower energy levels, they’re more likely to have injuries or mobility problems, they trend away from pursuing instant gratification, they trend towards earlier bedtimes and earlier waking, etc. Not everyone follows all of those trends to the same degree or at the same ages but the trends are real and they systematically whittle away at the older crowd participation rates in active/sensual pursuits. Any such pursuits in a rapidly aging society will wither commensurately.
Yes, but in the sense that I realize there is a chance we can be in a simulation and the sysadmin is the god.
The 8086 had the LOCK prefix. Intel was thinking of multiprocessing from the beginning.
I understand, and no worries! After I posted I thought about how that might be sensitive information, have a nice night :)
Remind me of

* Fabric: https://www.fabfile.org/

* Invoke: https://www.pyinvoke.org/faq.html
For me, I follow ~2.5k accounts. It's a nice mix of artists, frontend software devs, game devs, and comedy accounts that I've built up over 15 years.

I have yet to find another social media site that brings all of that together in a nice, "streaming" kind of way. Reddit (where I'm subscribed to ~1k subreddits) is _almost_ as good but visiting Reddit is only really interesting once or twice a day because of the nature of their algorithm. TikTok is honestly pretty close to having a mix of art and programming, but the video format isn't as information dense as text.

Twitter keeps me coming back somehow.
Yep, network effect.

The numerous competing platforms that want to replace it are all competing for users, which prevents a migration to a single alternative platform.

And that buys time for X to improve, which IMO it is. I may be wrong but I think long term it’s going to come out on top. At this point it’s getting tough to bet against Musk.
Because, among other things, ISPs had regional monopolies, and the strings were poorly thought out.
Twitter / X has a strong network effect and was tested to be strong enough to still have hundreds of millions of daily users still using it even after the changes 1 year later with nonsensical reports of it being completely shut down or collapsing since the acquisition.

Compared to what? Pebble (T2) [0] that tried (and failed) to challenge this alongside the string of other alternatives that have failed to over take Twitter / X's active user base.

Twitter's network effect is reason why these alternatives have mostly failed at being an alternative even after marketing as such.

Network effects really should not be under estimated.

[0] https://pebble.is
I use it regularly. It gives me a simple way to follow people I'm interested in. I noticed bots are also down from a few years ago where there were tons of fake vitalik spam bots. And I like supporting the idea of a paid social network that does revenue share. This was the dream of a lot of social media critics in the past but is now out of fashion for some reason.
If you’ve never used it it’s hard to explain. X has far more signal to noise compared to bluesky and mastodon, especially now that the censorship has been turned down. It’s been an asset in the Israel-Hamas conflict as OSInt on X has proven to be unrivaled, especially compared to American media. It pays creators as well, which is why many stay.

I have bsky accounts and plenty of invites, but it’s just a boring, joyless network full of the miserable people who left twitter sharing the same opinions back at each other, a feedback loop is how I’d describe it. I’m guessing that’s who it attracts, similar to how I assume places like Gab also attracted miserable people from the other side. I’d kinda describe that place as all the worst parts of 2020/21 twitter.

There’s also threads I guess, but it just seems like a network of celebrities and brands trying to seem hip.
The Biden administration has decided to build the wall, as of fall 2023: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/us/border-wall-biden.html
I'm pretty sure when they introduced the mongoose to eat rats in Hawaii, it was knowable that this was an idiotic idea because they don't eat rats. :-P

But yes, introducing new species or new variants of a species is basically a big box labelled "unintended consequences."
A pretty detailed hypothesis showed up recently: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/3d-rendering-on-apple-s...
This depends highly on the country. Cash doesn't work so great in most of the EU anymore. In Spain and Greece for example, it's illegal to buy anything with more than 500 euro cash I believe.
I really hate this meme. A lot of things really were better in the past. Website user interfaces are a big example here. Conversely, some other things are much better now; cigarette smoking rates are a big example.
Correct (late reply). I actually need to share my key with my SO in case of the worst but only the database is uploaded anywhere.
Highly doubt there is any basis for a lawsuit. It's a private company, if they want to take away someone's handle, they are free to do that.

Pay-to-play public square—Musk's ultimate dream.
I'm a co-maintainer of this project. If anyone has questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
Elon has done just as much “censoring”, if not more. He’s just changed what he censors. Remember when he went on a personal banning spree? Or increasing censorship on the things the Turkish/Chinese government asked him to? Or where he banned people for “parodies”? Or blocking links, like those to Substack? Or shadow-banning people he personally was arguing with, such as Taibbi? Or how he now considers the word “cis” a slur that you can’t say? He even banned the guy who created this site (pg).

He censors. He just censors the things he doesn’t like. Can you give an example of anything you can say on Twitter that you can’t say on, say, Mastadon or even Facebook?
Not necessarily. cf. Tyranny of the Majority.

I can imagine the same group of people simultaneously demanding better public transport. A mob can want many different conflicting things at the same time.
From the moment python decided `if L:` was the way to check whether a list was empty, it was explicitness was never its goal.
Thank you for your kind words about Hyphen, catapart! And that is a very sweet little thing, the code. I like your bloody clever little code hack, that is pretty cool.

I modified it a little to fit:

return new Function(
...Object.keys(this.state), `
return (function ${
this.template.toString()
.replace(/^\s*function\s+/,'')
}())
`)(...Object.values(this.state));

I might consider including it. Would you like to make the PR? If you don't want to get involved more than that, I get it! No worries. But I mean this you do care about this, and this is your work. It's very clever!

My concern is it will fail in some cases that with(state)/eval works in, and require annoying edge-case patching to support cases we already support. For dubious security gains (I don't see the risk of eval here--if anyone can point so specifics I'd value learning!)

As to why I didn't choose it, I didn't see it (!!), but I also didn't think I should bother trying to get all properties and values because there are some that can slip through (say state contained some prototype chain and had properties up the chain, these will not be returned by keys). So I just went with with(state), because I know that's safe regarding that. with(state)/eval is simple, neat and elegant. Also I just like the aesthetics of the simpler shorter code. And I guess I like to live dangerously, hahahaha! So those reasons are why I chose it.

But your way is very clever! And it looks very clean the way you present it above.

I love to see these new, like, tight, idiomatic ways of using JavaScript to push the language. I love what you've done, it's really cool! :)

Also, it's good to hear about your experience with that. I encourage you to keep working on your library. I mean, a diversity of approaches is valuable. Even if it's just we're researching and learning and progressing toward something, through our collective effort, even if none of it is actually the destination. Although with multiple demands on your time, I'm sure it makes sense to pull back if you don't see it as worth it.

If you want to contribute more of your really clever ideas and experience to Hyphen that would be cool. Maybe not everything is a fit but we could certainly learn from you. Up to you!

Thanks for your cool comment on this. High value! Have a good day :)
Similar work: https://snakemake.github.io/