skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of the 421 violent posts identified from September 2011 to September 2022

421 posts over a period of 11 years. That's less than one a week. From a subreddit with (at present) 1.1 million subscribers. Whoop-die-fucking-doo. Hacker News has more violent posts than that.

It's pretty clear from the very first sentence that this piece is hugely judgemental and coloured. This is not a scientific publication, it's a blog post, and not a very good blog post to boot. This seems part of some bigger pissing match and a scientific publication is being narcissist abused because "believe the science!" or some such.

I have no real knowledge or like or dislike of /r/NoFap or anyone else here, but this does not seem like a serious study or analysis or anything else.
A bit of a hot take, but video games need a change. they have stagnated as their profit have soared but like most things....profits are a lagging indicator and like Disney marvel.....were on the slide down.

this doesn't mean video game industry is dead....just that it needs to shed it's skin and remove the profit hungry leeches....

the big names will lose lots of money and will do all they can to consolidate anything left unscathed by their ineptitude and attempt acquisitions....it is time for a new dawn....break up the corpos....I look forward to a fresh empire of creators...
Wouldn’t a nofap subscriber specifically NOT consuming pornography? Or is zero what you meant by unhealthy?
Browsing their most recent 10Q[1], it looks like they took a substantial loss on their investment in EntertainmentOne[2]. Which they did with borrowed money, meaning they don't have that much equity to lose. If you look at it from a business line perspective, WotC made 2x the profits of the next biggest, on half the revenue.

My read: management bet the company on Film&TV in 2019, and lost so hard WoTC pays the price.

[1]:https://investor.hasbro.com/static-files/69afb88f-126e-4604-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_One#Sale_to_Hasb...
I looked at the docs, and it seems promising but I’d like to do something like: `garn add --dev git@2.3` and have git added at the given version as a dev tool. With config-as-code, is it possible?
I bet that's because different parts of their stack disagreed. Obviously a two factor setup should not be acceptable when one is already in place-- if the frontend thought it wasn't but the backend/auth services thought it was, it could explain that.
Does this mean that old x86 CPUs without AVX won't be able to run JVM anymore?
They are joking too
Ask HN: How to extract data from insulin pump?
Hi HN,

I need to export data from an insulin pump omnipod dash in order to import in the medical tracking website https://www.mydiabby.com/.

The standard procedure is to use the proprietary app to proceed. My friend has type 1 diabetes and she is trying to "close the loop" with open-source AAPS.

Is there someone that could point me to the right way of proceeding ?

I was thinking of using Wireshark to sniff the messages and recreate another app. Also if there are people interested, I will share the code if I succeed.

Thanks and stay healthy !
If the goal is full autonomy then people using their phones while the automobile is driving have no impact whatsoever on the accident when that goal is reached, if laws banning distraction suffice for you to solve problems then your goal is not full autonomy, in which case what's the point of any of it? When full autonomy is reached, I expect that 100% of accidents will occur when passengers are busy letting the car do the driving, so that correlation would be meaningless.
You’re likely mistaken about the value they’re contributing. Corporate America can be a heartless place, for sure, but you’d be surprised how hard it is to straight up fire underperforming white collar workers.
Faster chips which use less power to do the same amount of computation, same as ever.

CFETs are very much real world technology which are on the roadmaps for all leading edge fabs. They're the same as current gen FinFets and GAAFets a year or two from now in that they essentially just do the same thing as previous generations of chip tech except they do it better.
I think it’s interesting to equate Ukraine and Palestine, given that there are massive differences between the two.

For one thing, Ukraine hadn’t spent the last few decades shooting dozens or hundreds of rocket into Russia every day.

Putin’s war was precipitated by exactly nothing.

Israel’s war was precipitated by the worst terror attack Israel has ever seen, along with hostages taken back to what is clearly an enemy state (from their perspective).

Sure, both are wars. But that’s roughly where the similarities end.
0.5nm, 0.25nm, 0.125nm ...
Your options are: (A) Vendor waits until all the facts are in place and the investigation is finished or (B) Vendor tells customers as early as practical so they can take their own mitigation steps.

You do not have the option of (C) Vendor should tell me about a breach they don't yet know about.
Hmmm, assuming there were an extra retro reflector on the moon, have we pointed a laser at enough of the moon to find it? At what rate would it acquire dust without wind?
Having returned from London an hour ago, I think Londoners are mostly decent and friendly people.
Its a reasonable question - what human made artifacts would survive for hundreds of millions of years? Would concrete and steel buildings still be intact after hundreds of millions of years of erosion and weathering? Would objects in a 5 story deep basement be intact? Would even something we placed on the moon be visible after a 500 million years of micrometeorite impacts?
I pasted my email to my MP there if you want a boiler plate - https://fev.al/posts/opposed-to-s210/
This works, but it requires a lot of complexity, consumer buy-in, the willingness to add extra charge cycles (and degradation) to vehicle batteries, etc.

It’s easier to add a bunch of grid-scale storage, but more expensive.

I think both solutions will scale alongside solar/wind adoption.
I don't think it's the specific number so much as the feelings of shame associated with it that's unhealthy.
Smartgrid has been in the works for decades. I saw it the subject of debate at conferences in 2004. There are fundimental issues, cultural issues. All those batteries in EVs are not an option. People with EVs simply do not want to discharge them back onto the grid. Firstly, they want to have their car fully charged if they need it unexpectedly. Secondly, they will not accept the diminished battery life associated with extra chrage/discharge cycles.

If we need distributed batteries, dont look to the lightweight and highly specialized batteries of EVs. Oldschool lead acid batteries are far cheaper, last longer, and are easily recycled. That is the way to build out a distributed battery grid.
> Firecracker spawns a MicroVM instead of a VM. MicroVMs are more lightweight.

Somehow that conveys little

Can you run a Minecraft server in a MicroVM?
If so, what are the drawbacks?
> the argument of an important academic article on ‘viral governance’ by Gregoire Mallard and Jin Sun

Great reference, I found it at: https://ens-paris-saclay.fr/sites/default/files/Laboratoires...

Reading it right now.
It is “important to remember” precisely because these days people are not remembering this and speak with a sense of inevitability about discovering life elsewhere, which sense of inevitability is totally unsupported. I may gently point out, your own post says “it is only a matter of time before science can connect the dots”, reflecting this (in my view) distorted sense. The abiogenesis research you cite is absolutely worthwhile, but it is not even clear if it is in the right direction and certainly far, far from successfully sparking the sustained chain reaction of life. To my eye, equally consistent (as some different research may suggest) is that a combinatorial needle must be threaded to the tune of p < 10^-23 per exoplanet, making it unlikely to happen again in our observable universe.

Edit: to cite just the one “combinatorial abiogenesis” reference, see for instance https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58060-0
Yep. I know most driving isn't long-distance in rental cars, but I was traveling a few weeks ago and offered an electric car instead of the hybrid I had reserved, but since I was going to be driving long distances through rural areas, I declined. Not interested in finding where the hell to charge the car, in general or close enough to the airport for it to still have an acceptable amount of charge left when I returned it, when I could just pull into any gas station and quickly refill a non-electric car.
Changing from 1 MB every ten minutes to 8 MB every ten minutes is nothing
I don't use Atlas but I do use self hosted MongoDB, and have been pretty happy with that product. I have the impression that a lot of the dirt slung at Mongo was about unreliability and data loss of the core product early on, which (knock on wood) hasn't been a problem for me on the small to medium scale use cases I've deployed it on. Seems reliability has taken a lot of positive strides over the years.
My comment is about the general idea (LLM transformers on a chip), not particular company, as I have no insight into the latter.

Such a chip (with support for LoRA finetuning) would likely be the enabler for the next-gen robotics.

Right now, there is a growing corpus of papers and demos that show what's possible, but these demos are often a talk-to-a-datacenter ordeal, which is not suitable for any serious production use: too high latency, too much dependency on the Internet.

With a low-latency, cost- and energy-efficient way to run finetuned LLMs locally (and keep finetuning based on the specific robot experience), we can actually make something useful in the real world.
Society hates (and fears) men that self organize.
Bitcoin made a unique imprint in the collective consciousness by painting a believable picture of a world where a decentralized currency is viable. It wasn’t just a white paper. It was a working protocol and an actual network. Think about what it was like to become aware of that and participate in it as an early adopter — to go from not being able to conceive of how such a system could work to participating in an actual working system. It was (and still is) a working peer-to-peer monetary transaction system. If you have Bitcoin, you have units of account in that monetary system. Whether the system is slow or not, it’s money.

I don’t think Bitcoin will be a cash-type unit of account. It’s like gold: it is divisible and fungible, but a pain to actually use as cash. Hundreds of years ago gold became a store of value used to back paper currencies.

Bitcoin has value in that owning Bitcoin means owning a unit of account in a tamper-proof, global, decentralized ledger. To the extent many many people think that the Bitcoin ledger is worth holding units in (and not a fork or alternative), the units of the ledger become valuable.

When people treat Bitcoin as a speculative investment, what they’re really doing is expecting even more people in the future to consider Bitcoin THE ledger to want to own units in, which would make the units in the ledger even more valuable. But the type of value they’re expecting to see more of is already there: a huge number of people think the Bitcoin ledger is the ledger to own units in, and comparatively very few care about owning units in the forks or alternatives.
I know you just, but the numbers being so small makes a full decrement all that more impressive; 3 -> 2 is equivalent to 6 -> 4, 9 -> 6, 12 -> 8, ...
Super cool technology, but when cloning entire VMs, one needs to be very careful to not accidentally leak crypto material.

The Minecraft example provided would leak the servers private key used to secure sessions [0] and enable practical MitM attacks. If you run server A, give me the copy Server B of it and Alice logs into B, I could log into Server A as Alice. Same thing if we both run copies of the same original VM.

[0] https://wiki.vg/Protocol_Encryption
As far as I know it was because of "reactionary" tweets, not GPL enforcement.
Tldr but wouldn't ask if it steel and concrete be found?

If dinosaur bones and trilobites can last hundreds of millions of years, steel and concrete should also.
Or yet another example of horrible naming from AWS.
> Black holes are ordinary objects, if they are anything at all.

No, they aren't. Their spacetime geometries are very, very different from those of ordinary objects.

> Take any normal object and give it the mass of a black hole

There is no such thing as "the mass of a black hole". What distinguishes a black hole from other objects is not its mass, but its spacetime geometry. That's particularly true for the holes studied by this paper, which are far smaller than the ones we actually see with our astronomical observations.

The rest of your post is simply wrong. A black hole is not made of normal matter; it's vacuum. I'm sorry, but you simply don't understand the physics of black holes. A good free online reference is Sean Carroll's lecture notes on GR:

https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9712019

It has an entire chapter on black holes.
I think the pun may have been lost on you.
I wonder if it is just a matter of timescales? Behaviorally modern human showed up, banged some rocks together, and then launched satellites into space ensuring that we’d never truly be isolated in an evolutionary blink of the eye.
I believe things like the Hoover Dam or a skyscraper with its glass, steel, aluminum, concrete and myriad human artifacts would leave behind a significant amount of artifacts which will be detectable even after millions years.
What I meant specifically is that the current state of a workflow is stored in a format that’s opaque to any component other than the workflow itself.

E.g. if I have a “shopping cart checkout” workflow and the user is not making progress, how can I can I tell which step of the workflow the user is stuck at?
It's not stable, it's that the consumption rate is low enough the star can live quite a while.
Ahh, that's pretty cool - thanks for that info!

I played Eve for a good while (more than a decade) and the complexities was one of the appealing aspects, but unfortunately at one point the time between my sessions increased more and more, and I fell behind the learning and time curve, and dropped out.
Yep. Though to be fair AWS provides options for multi region availability.

What did not happen (yet) is complete AWS meltdown
Why would an authoritarian government give up a preassembled internal border checkpoint? Makes sense for them to keep it.
Except Binance didn't make out too bad in the end anyways. CZ still has billions of dollars and is looking at a pretty good sentence given the allegations. Monitorship does not entail unlimited government access to records, it mostly means a bunch of adult hall-monitors reading off compliance checklists, making sure they are being followed, then writing to the government every quarter about the remaining items on the checklists.

Yes, there's the SAR lookback, but no one reads those anyways and probably won't give the government much because criminals routinely use accounts registered with fake or stolen IDs. Binance still accepts customers from countries like Venezuela, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, etc that "respected" financial institutions wouldn't touch with a 39.5 foot pole. There are still people making $50,000 USDT -> cash transactions every day with Binance P2P.
Unfortunately, this is how Steve Yegge communicates both in writing and real life. As someone who worked at Sourcegraph, it's very difficult to tolerate.
Amazon sells it cheap compared to other regions-- it's economically incentivized for us-east-1 to take out half of the Internet.
In this case they're related because of supply chain attacks. If an attacker learns that you're using a small obscure package, they might be able to hack the developer's machine and insert a backdoor or bugdoor.
Most of the best work in this field has been summarized by John Kempf on his podcast and book.

Nutrient density is driven by two related systems - the photosynthetic efficiency (amount of sunlight converted into sugars) which can range from 10% up to 30% + and the soil microbiology. As photosynthesis improves more sugars are exuded into the soil - often to select for microbes that perform certain function- such as making magnesium or phosphorus into a plant available form.
This begins a flywheel in the soil. As microbes in a healthy soil die, larger proteins and amino acids are consumed by plants roots. Now plants have to spend less energy building these larger compounds and they become more efficient at producing the proteins and amino acids that make food healthy.

IMHO - after 10 years of farming vegetables - this can all be jumpstarted by testing plant leaves for nutrients via plant sap analysis and then providing folier sprays that help improve photosynthesis and address protein synthesis pathways.

On the consumer side…we aren’t that far off from a device that can scan a fruit and have your phone tell you how nutrient dense it is. Bio-nutrient food association and the gathering of open ag technology have been working on this for some time.
My reading of 40-142 seems to me that if you offer for work/work (i.e., payment in exchange for services) then you require this license. Nowhere do I see any restriction on an individual performing their own service. That's distinctly not work. Find me evidence or a news article of someone getting arrested or fined for working on their own EV in OK.

Also, you're citing multiple unrelated things to actual cars here. Sure, I agree, that remote access/updates can be used maliciously. No doubt.

In actual practice though, what car prevents you from changing brake pads yourself? What car has ACTUALLY been 'bricked for your safety' ? This is hysteria not backed by reality. You can do maintenance on your own car, and I don't see that going away any time soon. Sure, some companies (BMW seems to love to do this...) make it extremely hard to pull diagnostic codes, but there is nobody bricking your car for changing out the infotainment system.
Why do you think it would do that, if the import poses no risk to the inhabitants of the country?
Iirc Ethereum ASICs were also memory bandwidth bound. With KV caching transformers are just lots and lots of matrix vector multiplication and are bound by loading the huge weight matrices onto the cores.
You're right, I misread your comment slightly. I'm not sure we can say... if it's a conventional war then it's bound to be bad economically during war time, but there was a massive bounce for the US after WW2, could the same happen again?
The goal of capitalism is to fund capital equipment/assets that makes stuff better along some axis. This has the knock-on effect of creating massive wealth.
Kurzgesagt did a video on this recently https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JOiGEI9pQBs
Opposed to Bill S-210, a Canadian bill that may introduce internet censorship
> gravity propagates at the speed of light... And light is not fast enough to escape the black hole.

Gravity doesn't have to get out of the hole. The gravity you feel outside a black hole is due to the global spacetime geometry, not to any "force" coming out of the hole. If you want to attribute it ultimately to the presence of matter, it is the matter in your past light cone, which originally collapsed to form the hole, before it fell below the event horizon.

See this Usenet Physics FAQ article:

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/BlackHoles...
Someone has to burn down Targets to rebuild them!
Don't Be an Evolutionary Programmer
Note Percona Server for MongoDB is drop-in replacement for MongoDB and supports Data at Rest Encryption, on SSPL version

https://docs.percona.com/percona-server-for-mongodb/5.0/data...
Thank you. Responses like these make HN awesome.
> 2: Step 1 is extended to private actors.

This the part which I believe would be extremely difficult to do by mandate given the current US social and political climate, which is why I think there needs to be some form of market incentive for these private actors.

> I also don’t think there necessarily needs to be an incentive for businesses to invest in expensive card reader systems that phone home to a database and authenticate the QR displayed on the device.

Thankfully nothing needs to phone home anyway, and there is no accessible database. It's all PKI based - the device attests certain facts and the reader verifies these attestations. A reasonably effective system which (for example) corner liquor store owners are going to want needs to exist to perform validation, though.

> Instead, just change the law against selling liquor to kids saying that a good faith effort to validate the authenticity of state issued digital ID is a defense to prosecution under that law. In my state, at least, this is basically how it works now with physical ID cards.

This would be the kind of incentive that I think would help a lot - if! a "good faith" effort to verify a digital ID were easier than a physical one. If using the digital system helps protect liquor vendors from liability and/or police sting operations, that's a huge incentive to use the system.
> Light is “fast enough” it just redshifts to nothing. Gravity has no equivalent

This is wrong in two ways. First, light at the hole's horizon does not "redshift to nothing"; it just stays at the same radial coordinate because of the curvature of spacetime. The "redshift to nothing" view is an illusion, created by a bad choice of coordinates; that illusion was corrected in the late 1950s and early 1960s by the discovery of better coordinates.

Second, gravity does have an equivalent to light: gravitational radiation. Gravitational waves travel on null geodesics, just like light, and any gravitational waves at the hole's horizon would stay at the same radial coordinate just as light does.
This is from a study on politics and employment that found strong associations between left and right and certain jobs. Sorry, no link at hand.
> the sun's schwarzchild radius is more like inches than Angstroms.

No, it's not inches, it's about 3 kilometers.

But the holes at the center of stars that the paper is talking about have tiny masses, much, much smaller than those of the stars they are inside. Their schwarzschild radius could indeed be of the order of Angstroms.
Colorado's has been around for four years now. I've tried to use it once (giant fail) and I've never seen or heard of anyone else using it.
> ... I wouldn't bet on Tether collapsing at any specific time period ...

I think we are completely missing something in the discussion of stable coins such as Tether and USDC even if they are not equal: while the currency is fixed toward the dollar in the blockchain, they receive interest on the real money they have (whatever real balance it is). This could make them very profitable with time.
My philosophy on holding Bitcoin is: hold it until cryptocurrency has matured to the point where you are no longer interested in converting back into government-issued money. Once cryptocurrency has the type of optionality that government-issued money has, the “speculative investment” phase will be over and you’ll just have… money.
Intel has gone with ångstroms.
The function's event data and current state is all stored in table storage, so you could query that - I'd expect you'd need to query an event-store-based solution in a similar way?
Great start, now convict all the child molesters.
I unironically blame the consumer. I guess also some parents/game companies for exploitative practices on children. There's a mountain of games out there that aren't garbage but they keep shoveling money towards the games that are pretty much explicitly anti-user.
Doing everything from a terminal is cool and all and makes me feel like a hacker or something, but it's far easier to just click around tbh, and then have the option of using the terminal if I want to.
Sometimes this is the case but not always... It's nice to just work with objects in some languages... for some projects. That's engineering - picking trade offs :)