skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if this qualifies as an "app", but I wrote this little powershell script to test for an active internet connection. Beeps when connected. I use it almost every day, because my cable modem takes a variable length of time to boot up, and I got tired of checking manually

$connected = $false
while($true)
{
if (-not $connected)
{
$connected = Test-Connection www.google.com -Quiet
}
else
{
Write-Host "Connected"
[console]::beep(1000, 500)
}
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
}
There's also places like Bermuda that were uninhabited by humans before modern settlement.

What the people did after settling is another question, though...
As someone who just lost the love of my life to complications of metastatic melanoma, I’d encourage you to tune out the naysayers and nonsense around these treatments.

Melanoma in particular heads to the brain often and is difficult to treat. 10-15 years ago, it was a death sentence. Today, 60-70% of qualified patients will survive 5 years or more thanks to immunotherapy. A chunk of the 30-40% are folks who have difficulty tolerating the therapy, have poor response, or other complications. In my wife’s case, complications from brain surgery delayed treatment and the combo of mets and immunotherapy response created a bad situation.

Today, about 50% of melanoma tumors have a BRAF mutation, and a medication that can delay growth and buy patients time to get better in order to get treatment. In my wife’s case, that wasn’t an option.

COVID demonstrated that these vaccines bend the death curve, reduce severity and offer positive immune response. If that were available early this year, the chances are my wife would be alive, finishing her second course of immunotherapy.
Protrcting privacy worked out so well with these cookie banners, I cant imagine what could go wrong with this…
And while the connection of Emmanuel Goldstein was already mentioned, I always assumed Paul Cook was referencing the Sex Pistol's drummer
We asked our network representative and they said we could not automatically dispute these transactions, so because of this we have to add overdraft fees to our product which otherwise never allows your balance to go negative.
In Mount & Blade you don't make nearly as many decisions or utilize raw mechanical skill, it is mostly strategy and preparation. Mechanical challenge is part of what makes fighting games, fighting games.

>Compare this with the simplicity of Mount & Blade Warband which achieves greater depth, in 3D, with a very simple and intuitive control scheme.

Most of M&BW depth is outside of the combat system (whereas fighting games are generally only comprised of a combat system) thus making them hard to compare directly. Simplicity is a not a good first principle for developing a successful fighting game combat systems historically. Simple = Less Skill Expression
> I'm not sure that makes it a trap, but no I would not trust anyone's view of the consequences of their own drug use.

And I wouldn't trust about anyone else's view. It's either a feeling (when you have to rely on the "drug user", how they feel about it) or it is hard facts. Outsiders opinions are worthless.
It's not impossible to do, but impossible to hide, and not feasible to do anyway. The technical complexity is massively higher than just using your browser history, which means there would have to be a huge team that does it, and therefore no secrecy. Also for the same reason it would be massively more expensive than existing data collection, but the ads would sell for the same price,.so it's not economically viable.
Hospitals in at least 4 states diverting patients from emergency rooms after ransomware attack - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/28/ardent...

Moreover, it is untenable to maintain a small island of "secure software" for "important things" in a vast ocean of careless and vulnerable code. Inevitably, the island gets infected, and not even air-gaps can save it, as stuxnet showed.
The approvals themselves are much less efficient, than they aught to be.

In so many cases, the changes trigger a review of the whole process - rather than the changes.
A history of bitcoin capturing orders of magnitude more value over basically any 4 year period, yea, the records pretty good for an emerging money.
If your computer's strong enough, install several models with ollama. Learn to prompt, fine-tune them.

https://ollama.ai/library
We have gotten rid of the deadliest byproducts.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/501284/volume-of-nitroge...
Rate of NOx have plummeted since the 1979 Nitrogen Oxide Protocol. If we focus on byproducts which cause Acid Rain and not just generic 'carbon', a lot of progress has been made since Nixon founded the EPA in 1970, mostly in the early years
It’s maybe not entirely fair to compare crypto to gambling, but I do think it’s worth placing the rise of questionable crypto use cases in context with the increasing acceptance and legalization of gambling, especially online gambling. I remember when I was a kid growing up in the northeast, Atlantic City was still _a thing_ because gambling was not really legal anywhere else. That seems to have changed in the last decade or so and now online gambling and casinos are apparently an acceptable industry to have everywhere. What happened to change this?
Said nobody in developing countries... ever.
I'm unfamiliar with anything in this line of research -- the Covid mRNA vaccines haven't provided longer-term immunity, but that's not at all due to the mRNA, but due to the nature of coronaviruses, how quickly they mutate and how many different mechanisms they have for cell entry. "Traditional" vaccines were actually performing worse for Covid19.

I'd be curious to read more about long-term immunity issues if you have some links?
Wmata violated First Amendment by rejecting Metrobus ads, lawsuit says
Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach
GM's Cruise laying off 900 employees, or 24% of its workforce
Anyone using Mikrotik these days? Been Mikro-curious for awhile and always see them thrown around as a Unifi alternative. Yet to hear of any firsthand implementations though.

[0] https://mikrotik.com/
If they really want to do this without any privacy invasion ulterior motives, then someone needs to push an anonymous credentials scheme. Have the government give people age verification keys. A person uses their key to verify their age on a website, but the website won't know who they are, and the government won't know they accessed said website(outside any other means of tracking internet traffic).
i recall a little while ago, voices raised about discord being used for things it wasnt made for. Community watch seems to be in play
I use TP link access points with my own cloud controller (running in docker container on my LAN) and a separate wired router. I don’t think there’s any concern with access points “phoning home” in this configuration.
I disagree with the framing "You are a bad person" (although I think I understand the sentiment), because it implies they can't change (or understand the error). It seems better to leave it at "You did something very harmful, destructive for society".
I'm not. This is not the 'cheap Chinese' box. This is the 'absolute worst possible quality car that stays together long enough to ship to Russia and get sold before it falls apart after the first rough ride' box.

Tesla's QC issues make them look like bespoke works of art compared to what I saw of some of the newest Ladas. It's one thing when you're missing parts or badly glued windshields. It's a whole other thing when the welds holding the frame of your car together have the structural integrity of butter on Venus.
Different vaccine
The short answer is, we sequence their genomes, identify mutations that change a protein sequence and are highly expressed, then run those all through suites of algorithms that predict how well they'll be presented to the immune system. (mostly neural networks trained on far-too-sparse experimental data). This prediction is the hard part right now - we still don't understand enough about how the immune system identifies and interacts with these altered peptides to do really accurate predictions of which ones will be most effective. Throw in that these tumors are actively suppressing the immune system in various ways, and it's complicated! There is lots of research going on, though, and lots of promising early results, like this one
> I think long form essays are better done as a video, actually. If I'm going to absorb 4 hours of content, then 4 hours is a lot of time to dedicate. A video playing while I do the laundry is a lot more doable than trying to read at the same time.

Yeah, but the difference is that it takes me 15 minutes tops to read the essay, versus 4 hours for that video. Give me text any day of the week - I don't want to spend hours listening to someone talk when I can absorb the same communication 10x faster in text form.
Which is what I was getting at. Get people to someplace where mass transit can run 24/7 quickly, then let mass transit take over.
What you're describing is a deeper problem not only with "AI" but with
the entire cloud-centric side of the tech world. Homomorphic
encryption might save the day for delocalised computing but we're some
years away from that being a reality. Meanwhile de-clouding,
"repatriation" to on-prem and hybrid private cloud cooperatives within
a trusted group are how we get there. Another good reason is simply to
stem the enormous wealth transfer to big-data from individuals and
smaller companies.

I'm glad to see that fantasies about omniscient AI taking over the
world are giving way to a better grasp of the more mundane realities;
AI just accelerating the already obscene power imbalances present in
our world. Keep your private stuff private.
Does anyone know what geometric means in this context?
> How do you expect Israel to defend itself against an enemy that lives next door?

I wonder why the "enemy" lives so close? How did they come there?
Plants do it all the time; the basic plant strategies for colonizing new territory are floating on the wind, floating on the water, and fruit.
There seem to be no current 1.0 discussions yet on the GitHub prpject, seems possible it's a mistake at the Deno end.
From clues in the article I assumed these layoffs were in Marketing and HR. They consolidated HR and marketing leadership under the COO and a VP. Did you see evidence that the layoffs were in engineering?
> Your average glass bottle or can is 12 oz.

True, at least in my part of the US. Though larger cans seem to be a growing trend. And "on tap" beer is very often served in other sizes.

OTOH, 5% ABV seems to be anything but the norm.
Except that I don't think the bodycam companies are hiring the same caliber of engineers that Apple and Google are.

If they're like most other device companies, they're hiring the cheapest programmers they can find to write something quick and dirty, and not doing anything close to the level of review and testing that Apple/Google do.
When people ask me why I don't use Ubiquiti products, and I tell them that I don't trust companies with closed/proprietary offerings with something as critical as this, I get a lot of skepticism and even eye-roll. Open source isn't a silver bullet, but if I were self-hosting my own "cloud" controls I wouldn't be worried about something like this.
Some info is here https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavywei... , but the actual details will be presented at the Chaos Communication Congress at the end of December.
I agree with most of your points, but why not encrypt sensitive information yourself before it gets uploaded/shared on your dropbox account?

Sure, it's not end to end encryption but it prevents the company from using the encrypted data as a training corpus.Are shared folders and files created by co-workers and family not tech savvy enough to know about encryption?
From the article, "In fact, government ministers voted against it. Instead, the bill is backed by the Conservatives, Bloc and NDP with a smattering of votes from backbench Liberal MPs."

Your anger seems to be misplaced in this instance.
Oh ok. I also have a car, and a garage, and have no plans on not having those. It's convenient and allows for flexibility. I'm not advocating for banning cars or something. But we also do not have to make an either-or choice. The answer is we can have both! But today we need to do two things:

1. Not building car-only infrastructure. I.e. build sidewalks, bike lanes, busses, and trams/street cars. While I can afford a car, many can't or struggle to, or even if they can it is a poor financial choice. By giving people additional options we can increase entrepreneurship, reduce barriers to things like physically getting to a job, etc.

2. Reducing the need to use a car for things like buying a loaf of bread, short trips, going out to a restaurant, heading to a local sporting event, etc. There's no world in which you will forever be able to drive a large truck or SUV 15 miles to a grocery store to buy a few trivial items. We can do that now because we hit an energy jackpot with fossil fuels (which are necessary and useful), but economic physics dictate that this can't last. So instead of driving to do common tasks, you can instead just walk (exercise is good for you) and then walk back. If it's raining, umbrella. Etc. There are a lot of additional benefits here like obesity reduction which will save us money.

Today what we have is incredibly expensive infrastructure and transportation. We don't need to. We need more options.
Model Y is definitely not a luxury vehicle in the US. I'm not sure about in Canada, but in the US the Model Y AWD only costs about $15k more than a mid-tier AWD Honda CR-V or Toyota RAV 4 trim (I just recently priced out options for our next vehicle). You'll make up that difference over the first 5-10 years in gas and maintenance savings, and then tax incentives shave off another $7.5k or more depending on the state at low/mid income levels. In other words, it's at most marginally more expensive than a Civic or Corolla, and on par with compact SUVs. The same is more or less true in China. See tons of Teslas there.
I'm not following the news on this, but what metrics do these independent tests use and what aspects do they cover? Are they driver assistance features?
HN is once again absolutely disgusting on this. Zionism of the SV elites couldn't show itself more clearly, as if the last thread's article was not enough evidence.
It's quieter than it used to be. Lots of previously booming subreddits are seeing less activity, and it feels like posts get upvoted less than they used to as well. Also feel less... well, interest in using the site too. Just feels a lot more boring than it used to, and much less like a place I want to spend time in online.
You are probably not allowed to contribute to the open source private servers for Minecraft Earth and .ipa mods for people who still want to play?

https://github.com/Project-Earth-Team

ASA (which I worked on for Minecraft Earth) is also end of life in the next year, not sure how that will impact this.
Isn't that case easily handled by something like a large stateless VM and cloud storage, so EC2 + S3 ? Doesn't have to be local, the point is that it doesn't have to be distributed either, just one large instance that is only on when it's needed.
Assuming they have enough money, yes. Public charity drives for such cases are also pretty common.
I think some people need to figure out how those high speed video cameras work. It would affect their view of what is possible and not possible with electronics.

The ELI5 version is that it can watch everything and then keep the bits that happen just before the person hits the button.

That’s how they can catch things that explode or do something and you aren’t sure when it will happen. Like popcorn popping.

Siri is basically doing the same thing.

Siri also misfires. And that data can be sent in.
As others have alluded, alcohol is a vasodilator. Your blood vessels dilate so you end up with more blood flow to extremities and the surface of your skin. So you feel warmer, but you're actually cooling your body off faster. Vasoconstriction is your body trying to keep your core body temperature up, so drinking alcohol is weakening your body's defenses to the cold.
Yeah, I use Tailscale instead: https://github.com/SierraSoftworks/tailscale-udm
That is the most common argument, but they have been successfully doing it for more than 100 years. It is time to kill the argument, when you dig in you discover they are using some really weird definitions of self sustaining. (they don't count money that comes in from other sources even though everyone gets it all the time)
It's nice of Schmidhuber to point out the quality papers with theoretical advancements and actual validations that fix the intellectual problems with his weak musings.
Towards Application Capabilities
Like to evaluate if you like the output of the LLM? Or are you training LLM 2 to estimate how well LLM 1 did?
> Get your moles checked.

Tell that to my GP. Both my parents had melanoma, and they each had one additional type of skin cancer each. Their dermatologist is insistent that I get checked, but my GP doesn't think it's necessary, so my HMO won't pay for it.
Russian sedans for Jesus.
The paper just says "an estimated energy density of >1 kW/m^2"
You can even do Elastic-level full text search in Postgres with pg_bm25 (disclaimer: I am one of the makers of pg_bm25). Postgres truly rules, agree on the rec :)
The SPD has lost hundreds of officers and hasn't recouped them.

"Defund the Police" has consequences.
You’re parsing this incorrectly mate. “In the last 8 years” means in any of the last 8 years, which is different than in the last 1000 years.
It would not bundle a HTML canvas renderer, only WebGPU rendering to a native window's client area.

HTML+CSS would be left out entirely.
Leaving the Cloud: Cloud Computing Isn't for Everyone
I've seen actual porn on Twitter. I don't have an instagram account many porn models put links to their IG profiles.
So basically fuck everyone…except Trudeau? This is why I can’t take the fuck Trudeau crowd seriously. He’s their go-to bogeyman for everything.
Problem is that gravity is generally thought to be non-renormalizable: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3555
Meson Projects in CLion
Do you think Ubiquiti has hundreds of people on staff to watch their forums to triage every issue within seconds of it being posted? I'm curious what level of support would be satisfactory to you, in this instance.
Freud definitely didn't discover the unconscious mind - that idea was in the air in the late 19th century, with many people writing about it. There's a great book about this—I think it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_the_Unconscio.... What Freud did do was create the most influential theory about it.

It's similar to how the idea of evolution was in the air before Darwin (whose grandfather even had written a book about it), but Darwin's theory became so influential that we now identify the idea of evolution with him.

I agree with your other points!
More than magicians, Penn Gillette was in the jacket scene. Anyone remember existing into his bbs from the late 1980s?
My personal favorite is spicy pork- basically, pork dry-marinated in a gochujang paste, then fried. The sauce it makes improves the rice a lot.
I think it's called dwaejigogi?
>Capability based security would be nice, but nobody is going to use it because it requires all software to be at least partly rewritten.

I can just imagine someone in 1910 saying "Circuit Breakers in Houses would be nice, but nobody is going to use them because they require all houses to be at least partly rewired".

Capability based security is the main feature of WASM. Going around it is like putting pennies in a fuse box, or wiring around circuit breakers. The circuit breaker prevents a load from consuming all available electrical resources (burning down the house as a side effect). Capability based security does the same thing for ensuring code doesn't have unlimited side effects.

If you need to run native code, just do so. Don't sabotage the only decent chance at finally fixing computer security since Multics to do so. Almost every consumer installable electrical load out there can plug into an outlet. The big heavy loads require an electrician to install them. If your code is the equivalent of an industrial load, you shouldn't be trying to cram it into WASM, the equivalent of a 15 amp 110 GFI circuit.
I use a Firewalla with TP-Link Omada AP’s, works great. Don’t really mind the mixed system aspect. Recommend!
Exactly the response I was expecting from you too, since I just said you were pretending not to know in order to troll, and that confirms it.

I don't owe you any examples, because you know very well but are pretending not to know what I'm referring to, you're not a serious person, you're intellectually dishonest, and you're trolling, so your bad faith arguments don't matter, and you don't deserve a response, troll.

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm pretty sure "deflationary environment" is synonymous with "depression".

It's a wonderful situation for people who have jobs. It's just that in a deflationary trap, the number of people who have jobs tends to dwindle until prices start to level out/rise.
Way before we had COVID bring out mRNA based vaccination to mass media, I learned about mRNA as a treatment for various cancers.

Moderna's research pipeline has been full of cancer medications, which seem to be very promising.
Nope, but it just makes sense as a quick and easy stopgap measure until I find time to figure out who to use, because it's easily compatible with my mac and pc, I already pay for a subscription so it saves money, it can run without putting all the files on every machine that I own, they aren't sending my info everywhere.

If anyone has suggestions on a reliable end-to-end encrypted solution with a lightweight cross platform sync software that doesn't force you to download all the files to your device (my Mac's HD is too small) and is generally fully featured. That won't take very much time to migrate with a trustworthy migration vendor. I'm willing to pay a premium price for it and I'm all ears.
Let’s say you have some photo editor using 3 GiB of memory and Chrome using 20 GiB of memory because a lot of tabs are open. Any given tab is < 1 GiB. What should you kill? Logically, you’d want to start killing Chrome tabs as they’re your best bet to recoup the most amount of memory even though no single process is the largest but “kill largest process” is going to kill the 1 GiB.

Another instance of this is a shell fork bomb - your memory is used up but each individual fork uses very little and killing the largest process won’t help.
Yup. The headline is "fake science", by and for moral scolds. The study doesn't even come close to demonstrating the headline claim.
The better solution is to use a separate encryption overlay like Cryptomator over whatever cloud storage you use. If you have confidentiality agreements with clients, you shouldn’t be using Dropbox without E2EE anyway, nor OneDrive.
First they give free money so house prices skyrocket. 10 years later they "fight" inflation that they caused by making credit scarce.

House prices are sticky and dont drop by 50%.

Also in general the inflation created through interest is not returned by central banks, so they make rich richer and poor poorer.