skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polio is coming back, a little.[1]

There are two polio vaccines. One takes four injections, spaced months apart, and cannot cause polio because it doesn't contain an active virus. The other is a live-virus vaccine, as a pill, and has about a one in a million chance of causing polio. These are both 1950s technology.

"For most people, (polio) has no symptoms. For about a quarter of people who get the polio virus, they will have mild symptoms that may include fever, gastroenteritis, upset stomach, aches, and so-on—in other words, flu-like symptoms. Most people would not know they have a polio infection because those symptoms are so common to many other infections."

"Somewhere around one in 200 to one in 1000 people that get infected with the polio virus will develop poliomyelitis, which is also known as paralytic polio or acute flaccid paralysis but can also include presentations that are less and more severe, including delayed post-polio syndrome with mild disability or acute respiratory failure and death."

Those who are not suffering still spread the disease.

What happened when the anti-vaxxers reached Pakistan.[2]

[1] https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/is-polio-making-a-com...

[2] https://archive.is/wJhkF
I have a hunch that a lot of people who have been spurred to think critically about this today are realizing that what they're actually interested in are services (in the economic sense) and not software.
They should just give up and add the features that are compelling to Code via extensions.
The article mentions that the Soviet Union had lots of titanium ore, and also that it was heavily used in the A-12/SR-71 family of aircraft.

I remember reading elsewhere that the CIA set up a bunch of front operations across the world to buy titanium (or maybe titanium ore) from the USSR without them finding out what it was being used for. They didn't want the "Ship to:" part of the order form reading "Lockheed Skunkworks, Burbank Califoria". Heh.
From this week women across the UK will effectively work for free
Pretty damning in terms of the gender pay disparity here
Will you be working together with Vivaldi and Opera to maintain the fork of MV2's request interception, or will we have multiple independent implementations?
The reality behind 'Magic' is always a 'Knowledge' issue ;-)
+ the SEC pretty much acting like a mob engaging in grand scale extorsion. The claim and demand for its chairman to step down was recently made by a congressman, not some crypto fanatic.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245361-crops-sprayed-w...

"Crops sprayed with 'barcoded' spores could help trace food poisoning...."

Spores are tough.
Not even the NSA has a database of famous person phone numbers. Most of the rich and famous don't have phone numbers, or even mailing addresses. They have companies that in turn manage their devices and properties, usually run through a "family office" of attorneys and accountants. So the NSA will have a list of numbers associated with their production company or family law firm, which would require further human investigation to determine which was actually in a person's pocket day to day.

Politicians have started adopting such structures too. House Speaker Mike Johnson famously has no bank account. He does, just not under his name. It would be managed by his family office.
Article didn’t seem to mention balanced ventilation. That’s another important component of keeping the house warm without excessively high CO2 levels.

We have 20°C+ inside in winter and yet use very little energy to heat the home. Helps that it’s a town house so only have two outer walls, and I’ve significantly improved the insulation there. Balanced ventilation makes it so we don’t lose much of the heat. Electric floor heating in bathrooms are controlled with timer so we only get a bit of extra heat there in mornings and evenings.

The next level is water heaters with heat pumps. Should be a no brainer in warmer climates. It’s a bit challenging here because ideally I want to exchange the heat from the outside in winter. Setting up pipes for that is a challenge. Those hot water tanks with heat pumps are also crazy expensive still.
Yes. He was a finalist for various serious photography contests - we got to talking about it because my friend won one with a famous picture that ended up on the cover of national geographic (polar bear and cub on ice in the middle of nowhere).

His other passion was guitar.
I watched the video and the video does not in any way attempt to debunk Godel's proof.

I think moreso it just shows that Godel's proof is not as significant or as relevant as many people make it out to be, and on the whole I'd say I agree with that.
> An insurer/ health insurer, employer, government, etc will require it, and just like that the "just don't use them" crowd will hold up their hands and pretend that no one could have imagined this disaster.

On Android where alternate storefronts are a possibility, I have yet to be made aware of a single instance of this happening.
Not even Epic in their crusade against established mobile stores made its' own platform.
I got plenty of uninvited hate from random users just for posting bug reports (for obvious game bugs) on steam. Might got better with proton being more popular, but I for sure stopped wasting my time and just return the games.
Couldn't be any more delusional than Magic Leap!

The synthesis of imagination: Rony Abovitz and Magic Leap at TEDxSarasota:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8J5BWL8oJY
In my experience the more they try to hide the sauce the worse it is.

Quite logical though if the secret is that your secret sauce is bland and off-flavor copy of a canned soup. Which it usually is.
I don't know anybody who thinks this. If you use a standard population distribution: it's safe to assume a slight majority of Signal's user base remembers when phone numbers were publicly accessible through printed phone books. Contact sharing is a substantially less problematic subset of that.
I wasn't raising a complaint. Just an observation and a side effect. I love that my phone just works! But that doesn't mean a phone that just works is the best way to learn about how phone's work.
I start taking LLVM serious when they give easy to follow documentation on how to compile LLVM completely GCC/binutils/gnu libc independent. I mean a single go to point with easy instructions.

You have to Google everything and then you find out about EXPLICIT_LIBGCC_OPT_IN and you read unofficial responses to issues that describe how to use libunwind and compilert to replace libgcc_s. But all that stuff is out of date fast and never works. Even Rene Rebe who developed T2 ranted about this in 2019 and he couldn't completely figure it out without doing a shitton of workarounds and patches. You need to be fucking Stallmann or Torvalds or whatever computer scientist genius themselves to achieve this. Or Google who did this for Android and Fuchsia. My point is it is rocket science at this point.
Fucking make that straightforward already dear LLVM project.
If you really think you should comment on the article, at least read it first.
Norway's EV rising star Easee fell foul of Swedish regulators
maybe something with Q learning.
The point is that you limit where you're doing that.

Like just as an example - I can write an allocator and toggle register bits etc. All of that requires unsafe code, raw pointers, etc.

But I can then build on top of that in safe Rust, with all the guarantees that brings. I still have to check that the unsafe allocator or whatever work soundly, but Rust checks the stuff on top of it.
Just read white paper....Satoshi was legit; Satoshi was most probably an academic and a business man (I would say gambling industry) who wanted to eliminate fraud and double spending in the digital world. No drugs, no this wild anarchy. He wanted decentralized digital cash, that's all.
Yes instead you make apps for the game consoles controlled by one console or the web where no one will buy it?
Meat Boy and other stories: My life in video games
Nice: I have learnt some things from this on the very first production /bin/sh script that I pointed it at, and I've been hacking such scripts since the 80s!
If browser migration stopped the majority from changing, Internet Explorer would still dominate. But Firefox got the majority, and then Chrome.

It's a bit more fluid than the OS market. A company can't get away with just anything forever in the browser space. At least not so far. 2-5% loss is significant for one change, and denotes a chink in the armor of dominance that other players can begin to exploit; whatever dissatisfaction caused people to migrate, other players can be very good at it, which can get more people trying the other product, which if it does well in other ways, can spread. So 2-5% loss has a small chance of turning into a long, slow landslide of market share loss.=

Definitely dangerous to start throwing customer experience under the bus for short to mid-term gains without paying attention to the long term picture.
It took me a bit of searching, but it's nice to know that there are desktop browsers that are not based on Chromium or Gecko, i.e. WebKit [1]. I would like to try Otter Browser [2], next time I use my Windows machine.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/nkzrj0/comment/gz...

[2] https://otter-browser.org/
Casetify page went dark for a while (HTTP 504) and just returned with landing page and all "Inside Out" products wiped clean from the page..
"Not having C++ anywhere in the stack" is not a goal of the C language or any major implementation I know of. The two major OSS C compilers, GCC and Clang, are both C++ codebases.
> edit: I see lots of downvoting, but people... be realistic. The average person will only see that a rebellion could be stopped. This isn't an example which explains negative outcomes to them well.

I think you underestimate the American investment in our founding myths/stories. This is probably a bad example to convince an English person, but I imagine it would have considerable visceral appeal to an American.
Nice!

I tried a few stupid words convinations like "blue banana" https://mycyclopedia.co/e/b2fc24e7-21cb-43b2-b5c1-224048982e... and got interesting results. This is strange because it combines a fake photo of a blue banana fruit with a description of the European region known as blue banana.

It's strange that each topic has a "conclusion" section. Is it common in dead tree encyclopedias? I expected a format more similar to Wikipedia.
I would never be on board with such a thing. Because even if I were to be backed up, I wouldn't get to experience the simulation. I would experience death, and then a backup would experience the simulation.

SOMA is a great game that touches on this topic, btw. It's like a movie, so watching a playthrough is almost as good as the game itself.
Google, et al. Still do this!
yes apple needs some kind of independent board of review like facebook and openai
Another way for Bs to escape a (2,1) A-weighted equilibrium is to be able to credibly threaten (0,0), leading into another well-known game: "Tit for Tat"
Even the text on the web has gotten more and more drawn out.

So much more text to make it look like they have more content where 1 paragraph would've sufficed.

It's like my English teacher took over the web '3,000 words minimum'... except that doesn't count if you just don't have more to say.
What things are you talking about? I haven't used chrome outside of work for years, so forgive my ignorance
> I don't see how one follows from the other. Attackers are using malicious extensions to eavesdrop on networks... therefore we need better reviews and not restricted APIs? I get why you might want to advocate for the latter over the former, but certainly it seems like restricting APIs also has positive impact.

As I understand it, the APIs that are removed only remove the ability to modify network requests; the remaining APIs will still allow you to inspect requests.

(Disclosure: I work at Mozilla but not on extension APIs or even Firefox. I have written extensions myself though.)
What a world where someone would sooner believe a good human voice is from a computer before a human!
> Complaining on the Internet is unlikely to give you the relief you seek.

Unlikely but not impossible. In this case, it's less about the apps or the developer and more about the lack of specificity. If Apple suspend accounts without due process, that affects everyone within that ecosystem, and people should be concerned and should ask questions.
What, and trust the people who have been doing QE for half my life with the soundness of my medium of exchange? The same people who froze the bank accounts of peaceful protestors in my capitol city last year?

I'll abandon crypto when it becomes the second-best alternative to a state-controlled money supply. The shenanigans of the Davos crowd are becoming too weird to do otherwise.
As someone who’s wanted to run their own mobile OS, I can tell you that doing so it a hell of a lot more challenging than installing Linux in a laptop.

The fact is most of the stuff that makes phones what they are, is hidden behind closed hardware and firmware. Even Android, which as you know is Linux, has closed binary blobs in its kernel tree.

You can get away with that somewhat for devices like the SoC on the Raspberry Pi. But things get a lot more complex when half the stuff that makes your phone usable is closed hardware and firmware blobs. What you ultimately end up with is still a device you don’t fully control but with the added inconvenience of a less mature software ecosystem too.

I don’t see this problem being solved any time soon. In fact quite the opposite, I think it’s getting increasingly difficult with each passing year.
mandatory minimums are ignored all the time
Magnific: The image upscaler and enhancer that feels like magic
What target are you compiling to that gcc doesn't support?
Can anyone explain why there isn't a robust and thriving adblocking solution available at the router or OS level? Why are we all forced to grasp at the straws of the browser?
I wish it had. C# makes it effortless to write high-level and low-level code that lives together. Want pointers and manual allocation? It’s yours. Wanna ignore all that and write interfaces and Java-style classes? You can do that too and pretend that pointers don’t exist.

Conversely, Rust never lets you do anything above a mid-level effortlessly. Traits barely get you halfway to typeclasses and you still have to mess with the borrow checker no matter what you’re doing. Add in lifetimes and even simple high-level code gets bogged down with extraneous low-level details.
I am. Original comment was kind of a ass backwards way of the making that point, if that was their point.

Also, yes, check on the shadow ban ... your comment history shows a bunch of flagged/dead comments that didn't warrant it.
Thankfully, by now we put air purifiers and generally good HVAC solutions everywhere.
Most of the ai safety arguments revolve around “once it’s powerful enough to cause damage it’ll be too late to come up with a strategy”. If you accept that it doesn’t matter that ai systems now suck, since we don’t know when they’ll improve.
2014 called. They want you back to help them coordinate harassing, doxing, and threatening to rape women for Gamergate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign...
> I might be misunderstanding something but last I played with it

I'd say this is a fair description of a point in the past, but these days Qt Quick Controls 2 (which is bundled) is fairly well-featured, and they do keep adding new features release-by-release. It's not far from parity with Qt Widgets, and some things it does significantly better (e.g. animation or complex input handling).
It's basically a part of the larger project to "Rewrite It In Rust" -- to replace C code with Rust code wherever possible. C is dangerous to work with; and with safe Rust (but not with Zig), entire classes of bugs that have dogged the industry for decades simply go away.
I can’t understand how people can feel comfortable depending on companies that will never talk to them.
The change.org petition seems like a non sequitur in the article. What are you hoping to achieve by incrementing some counter in the void? Change.org is not the legal system nor is it Apple's customer service system. It is nothing.
mold didn't seem to help very much, surprisingly! (97s -> 90s.) I checked that it did actually make it into the linker pipeline:

$ readelf -p .comment ./target/release/coreutils

String dump of section '.comment':
[ 0] rustc version 1.74.0 (79e9716c9 2023-11-13)
[ 2c] GCC: (Ubuntu 12.3.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 12.3.0
[ 57] mold 2.3.3 (49066ea329979c3187556091ba62421594799fd1; compatible with GNU ld)
[ a6] GCC: (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0

I may have done something wrong; let me know if you get substantially different results.

(Edited for new timings with mold 2.3.3 instead of 1.0.3.)
> Incorrect. I already gave a link showing that Dash returned to the iOS App Store: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/05/30/dash-for-ios-returns-to-t...

It never did. Please read links before posting them. The original developer open sourced it under a GPL license and a few people decided to re-package it and resell it, in violation of the source code's license.

> Also incorrect. Compare the timestamps of these tweets:

I stand corrected on that.

> It's also worth noting that selling directly outside the Mac App Store still requires an Apple developer account in order to sign with a Developer ID certificate and notarize the app.

Indeed.
I'm sure the anti-crypto crowd would like nothing better.
For a lot of things, retry once and only once (at the outermost layer to avoid multiplicative amplification) is more correct. At a large enough scale, failing twice is often significantly (like 90%+) correlated with the likelihood of failing a third time regardless of backoff / jitter. This means that the second retry only serves to add more load to an already failing service.
This is an important lesson and a post I'm glad frequents the front page, because the lesson is far from learned.

Here's another one. The customer is always right __in matters of taste__. Users will often try to be helpful and make suggestions about how problems may be solved. This suggestion will often be bad. But remember that the system is more opaque to them so they may not see all the complexity that exists. BUT this does not mean that their issue is bad. If the user has an issue, the user has an issue and someone reporting is not just one. They're just the one to report. You can throw away the bad suggested solution and still address the issue. Read the suggestion instead as additional context in to understand what the user really is looking for, i.e. taste. Never respond with "rtfm" and instead with "here's a link to the specific section in our documentation with an explanation." Far too many developers think that simply because documentation exists that it is clear and understandable. Far too many times have I made a report, referenced the documentation, and gotten back "well you just need to <do complicated task> just rtfm." Even in instances where I've demonstrated a solution but am reporting unexpected behavior. Too many times I've gotten "well that's actually x's problem, not ours" and the cycle. If users are using your software, it's your problem and you must communicate upstream, not the user. This is why I do not contribute as much anymore. It's just too exhausting and I'm not alone.

And let's not rely on internal communities for reporting cough signal cough. I see these everywhere, places like Signal, Spotify, Microsoft, etc. If you got a github, leave it open and respond to it. I love Signal but the community forums are an absolute shithole of people who understand neither privacy or security. They are worse than the arch forums. Most internal communities, volunteer moderated, are destined for this unbearable quality. You're just creating a breeding ground for toxicity, not creating a centralized location for bug tracking and community engagement. You got to go wherever your customers are. If they keep trying to report on github you accept that that's where they come through, not send them down another channel where they must make another account. You're just hiding bugs that way and making your product worse.
Because it doesn't work out like you think it would. Those of us who have been on the internet a long time remember pre-1999 days.

Banning or preventing people from using math only empowers other countries that develop it on their own.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/end-export-controls
Your next ten years
You can only claim the warranty if you follow rules, such as: You didn’t willingly break the item. Violating this rule weaves the right to return the item (and getting your money back).

So why should Apple be forced to keep you on their platform if you willingly break their rules?
Also in fear is that red headed engineer with the giant RTFM belt buckle. Love that.
Qt Quick Controls still exist and are supported and actively developed - in the 2.x version range, since 2016.
Oh my gosh. This kind of thing was suposed to be harder after the breakup of Bell.
To add to that, here is the relevant part of the article:

> We hired the law firm Buzko Krasnov to file a pre-trial claim against Apple.
Hundred times this. Nice to hear an odd sound of sanity amisdt the architecture astronaut crowd. YAGNI.
If it was actually reasoning, it wouldn't have provided a "solution" to an unsolvable question.

It can abstract at least as far as changing the names of the actors and/or their roles ("sheep eats wolf.") It's not much of a stretch to imagine that GPT5 will be able to detect a circular condition, especially with multiple "Are you sure?" prompts. (Which don't help GPT4 at all in this case.)

Edit: In fact, I just tried again, telling it up front that the problem may not have a solution. It answered flawlessly. So the question is, does the additional preamble ("Think carefully, there may not be a solution") actively harm its performance on solvable problems? If not, that suggests an immediate path to improvement. But I've got to assume it would degrade performance overall, or such a warning would already be included in the system prompt.

--------------------snip----------------

User:

Note that the following problem may have no solution, so please think carefully! A wolf, a sheep, and a rutabaga need to cross a river. They are with you. While they are with you, all are safe, but if you leave them unattended, the rutabaga will eat the sheep, the wolf will eat the rutabaga, and the sheep will eat the wolf. There is a boat that can only fit one of them and you. How do you get all three safely to the other side of the river?

ChatGPT4:

The puzzle you've presented is a variation of the classic "river crossing" puzzle, but with a unique and impossible twist. In the usual versions of this puzzle, the conflict is typically between a predator and its prey, like a wolf and a sheep, and the challenge is to transport them across the river without leaving the prey alone with the predator.

However, in your version of the puzzle, you've created a circular and unresolvable conflict: the rutabaga eats the sheep, the wolf eats the rutabaga, and the sheep eats the wolf. This creates a situation where it's impossible to leave any two of them alone together without one eating the other. Since the boat can only carry you and one other (wolf, sheep, or rutabaga) at a time, there's no sequence of trips that can solve this puzzle without leaving one of the pairs alone together at some point.

In traditional river crossing puzzles, the solution involves carefully planning the sequence of crossings to ensure that the predator and prey are never left alone together. However, due to the circular nature of the conflict in your puzzle, there's no solution that satisfies the conditions given.