skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also super cute!

I also suggest http://reddit.com/r/unixporn: it's very popular and inspiring. The name is ironic, it's SFW themes.

But after reading the comments on your links, I don't understand if there's a hate for theming in general, or just for cute themes?

Is it a reference to what "bronies" are? (old guys who have a fetish on My Little Poney)
Seeing the list of countries participating in the operation, $80k actually matters in many. And that's the amount seized, which may vary a lot from the amount they actually made over time.

> The countries participating in this year’s operation were: Argentina, Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Korea, Romania, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam. Hong Kong also participated.
helped me put together a three-page document that I was sure wouldn’t be sufficient for the Japanese immigration authorities.

This struck me as a case of bureaucracies operating the same way everywhere (though I could be wrong).

The magic key to documents submitted to governments: don't say anything that requires denial.

So less is often more and it is critical to use the right words and not their apparent synonyms even when the synonyms mean pretty much the same thing.

I.e. if you plan to paint your shed green, don't mention that in your building department application. It doesn't help and can only hurt.
It’s not a company that puts him in the asylum, it’s the government. Give a guy like this an interesting target and he’ll do exactly what he’s been doing his entire life; breaking it
Well, not all states have drugs laws that are absurd. At least one decent thing about California, Oregon, and Washington is some sensibility about legalizing or at least not prosecuting non-dangerous drugs. But, sad to say the ultra religious/conservative states are still stuck in legacy reasoning and it will take generations to change minds. And yes, alcohol is much worse than marijuana, shrooms, LSD.
I can't speak for your father of course, but I do think he likely had a valid concern that he may not have effectively communicated that all of this time with the computer was directly at the expense of time spent with the family. He may have felt hurt that you seemed to prefer the company of a machine to his and the rest of your family. He and you may also have very different conceptions of what a successful/happy life might look like. I'm not saying he's right, but from the outside I can imagine why he might not have felt supportive and also why you might feel resentful for the lack of support.

Have you directly asked him why he wasn't supportive? Have you been open to his perspective or just assume that you're right and he's wrong? It's easy for us programmer types to try and simulate the mind states of others to avoid difficult conversations (speaking for myself of course).
Proper isolation is required to do anything. Every system has invariants that need to be enforced. The consequences of those breaking may vary in severity, but they will break, and someone will have to go in and fix it.
> risk of someone taking those people out

Or just burnout, changing jobs or them leaving tech alltogether. I'd argue that many companies are already incapable of keeping their tech stack running as intended due to knowledge deficits.
> Why the double standard for Turkiye? It's just pure racism.

It’s Türkiye, not Turkiye: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states/turkiye

I don’t appreciate being called racist.
There is a long history of blanket pardons, isn't there?
Port forwarding doesn’t help when your public facing ip could change at anytime
You might not learn to draw, but you learn a skill that's honestly more marketable for tomorrow society.

I wasn't really going to be impressed with someone doing prompt engineering. It might actually be faster to just manipulate pixels.
I like that kind of stuff and will gladly sit through it again and again until it’s ingrained in my brain. Some people love to learn. Teach me something or lose my attention.

You are right though that there’s a huge difference between doing something as a hobby vs as a job. If you don’t have a passion for it, it will feel like every other job. No matter what you are doing. However, hard work and discipline are good traits to start early so I’m still in the camp of “Go and work and make money instead of go into debt to learn”.

>” There is no alternative for learning to the structured environment provided by a good university.”

We can agree to disagree. I found the R&D lab of some of the companies I worked for far surpassed what my peers were doing in their labs.
It's not consciously-imperceptible levels, it's just not a particularly salient sensation. I notice the headache, then I notice the smell, and my brain helpfully informs me "hey, you've been smelling that for, like, the past 30 seconds". If the air's really cold, sometimes I don't smell anything until I warm up the air I'm breathing – but that's not imperceptible levels, that's just my nose not working in the cold. If I'm paying attention to what I'm smelling, I can stop breathing before I get a lungful, and that usually avoids any negative effects. But there are a lot of smells in a city, and I haven't developed reflexes for marijuana like I have for tobacco.

When I'm exposed to higher concentrations, either I get a stronger headache, or the headache goes away and I get light-headed. I haven't died yet, so I don't think it's a medical emergency of any kind.

I don't even know if it's because of the marijuana. Perhaps the breeze is concentrating a load of (e.g.) carbon monoxide in certain places, and it just happens to also concentrate marijuana scent… but I think it's probably the marijuana. https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/current/research-news/thre... has some possible explanations:

> The chemicals that activate the smell signals in our brain (called odorants) can sometimes irritate our sinuses. Smoke, perfume and chlorine are some of the most common odorants that cause irritation.

> When [the trigeminal] pathway is stimulated it causes inflammation because it detects a threat that only the immune system can sort out. This, too, can lead to a headache. Chemical smells such as formaldehyde, certain cleaning products and cigarette smoke are all known to act directly on the trigeminal pathway.

Some cannabinoids are known to act on the trigeminal pathway, and I don't usually get headaches from smoke, so it might be that… but I haven't run any experiments, so who knows?
It's a mechanical method of action rather that chemical (think targeted receptors/activation sites). An oversimplication would be to liken it to barbed wire.

As for you next question, they call out the need to investigate making it selective for bacteria vs human cells. So it seems it has no selectivity at present and will kill other things. And, as I understand it, changing it from being 100% effective to being selective will introduce evolutionary pressure for resistence bateria strains.

So this might be neat for materials and creating a sterile environment rather than chasing in vivo applications.

Edit: autocorrect wronged a word
My partner works for the federal government and her Edge browser has the MSN bullshit too. I tried to explain my frustration with it. I don’t think she knew what I was talking about. This is one of my MS pet peeves that really gets me rambling angrily lol
Ma Bell prevented anyone from using their entire communications network unless you bought phones from them.

Apple lets anyone who buys their devices use any messaging service they want, with no OS-level restrictions on the capability of those messaging services (that is, a third-party app can effectively take the place of iMessage with no loss of device or app functionality).

Apple happens to provide a first-party messaging service which any user is able to completely ignore in favor of one of its many competitors, and many, many do (see literally every place other than the United States).

I don’t see how Ma Bell and iMessage are in any way analogous whatsoever.
Yes, this seems like a constitutional test. If you need this pardon to stand up, you'd better get the certificate from the WH pardon lawyer with your name on it.
The transmission mechanism is not actually via raising interest rates in any real sense, it's by draining money from the economy - selling assets for money, and then retiring that money. This leaves economic actors with lower money balances than they wish to hold at the given level of nominal spending (price level × real activity) which in turn incents them to spend less in all kinds of ways. Which then leads to lower expectations of the future price level (as well as future real activity), which works to reel in the inflationary spiral.

Interest rates play little to no role in this specifically, and actually they are a lot more complicated because policy interest rates are set according to a liquidity effect (more money = lower rates) but natural or market rates move according to the Fisher effect (more money = more nominal spending in the future, thus higher interest rates!). Setting policy interest rates for any length of time thus always involves trying to achieve stability in an inerently unstable fashion, akin to balancing an inverted pendulum. It's not worth worrying too much about those.
Imagine these lodged in your intestines.
> The argument I've heard is that many with simple possession on their record may have actually pleaded down from a different crime, and that needs to be taken into consideration.

How is this related to nationality or residence?
mmm not really, he's fucked due to weapons grade autism.
The indecision by authorities as to whether or not he should be prosecuted reminds me of "infomaster" back in the 90s. The Feds basically let him get away with hacking because they didn't think he was mentally competent. There's a book about him called "At Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion".
> The DEA needs to reschedule it.

The DEA needs to have this authority rescinded. They clearly cannot be trusted with it, and they have no impetus to remove historically misclassified drugs off the list, as it would reduce their overall budget.

It's the federal version of the Siebert strategy and it's completely injust.
Bluesky releases public web interface for non-logged in users
Unethical pardons on the last day in office is a Presidential tradition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich
No but "because 27 pages of boring and annoying backstory which are logically consistent but result in an outcome you don't like for seemingly arbitrary reasons" is potentially a good justification even if it sucks and is boring and tl;dr.

You wouldn't argue that a mathematical proof is more than 2 pages long and therefore doesn't count, right?
Tencent Sheds $46B in Market Cap After China Proposes Online-Gaming Curbs
You can just use a power connection and not a data connection then. Easy enough to buy a cable or adapter. I do that when I have two phones plugged in.
The Christmas spirit reveals a fundamental principle of human psychology: expectations matter
Z80 has a mirror register set that can be swapped immediately. That makes task switching faster.
You can also use Rufus. It has options to customize Windows 11 and one of them is to disable the hardware module requirement (TPM).

https://rufus.ie
i like the onclick rotating doodle art more.
I dont see why that would be true. The liklihood of adaption depends on the details of the method. Not everything is easily adapted out of.

Humans have been shooting each other with guns, and before that bows and arrows for a long time, and yet evolution hasn't provided us with fire-arm resitance yet.
tried fasting?
Yes we are! (I put links in my profile because I'm worried if link here or mention the name I'll be flag killed again.)
My keyboard doesn't have the special u
> when you forward port 1024-65535 to your Nintendo Switch, as Nintendo says you need to do in its documentation,

Nintendo is a shit company that treats their customer base like bitches yet gets a tremendous steady amount of good will solely due to nostalgia. I'm the last to want to defend the challenges that NAT brings, but blaming it due to some rando corporation's asshattery is silly. Luckily, or not, their documentation is wrong, you almost never have to blanket port forward all UDP ports for the Switch.

The GP point still stands as well. If you have a firewall set to block inbound by default (typical) you have the same basic port-forwarding bootstrapping/configuration problem. Also, the reasons you would absolutely need whatismyipaddress.com or similar apply to both v4 and v6. If you're configuring your router anyway you can get the v4 address.
Oh goodness, this is the kind of thing I've been trying to find for years now: some method of making a computer from scratch, as in from raw materials.

Will have to look into your progress, thanks.
This seems like more of an issue for app developers than for users.
I use Intel NUC. It is small, quiet and you can choose some components as you like. For a homelab, be sure to have a CPU that supports virtualization (VT-x), so you can play with VMs. On top of that Proxmox.

Like someone already mentioned /r/homelab for more ideas.
This is awesome! I am indeed looking for something one way - so this looks great. Thanks for sharing.
Fire cleanses all.
Mostly because they asked.

We don't have to rehash the whole reasons here, Wikipedia already spilled endless pixels arguing both viewpoints, with the expected culture war arguments and colorful comparisons that keep those discussions spicy

Do whatever you want. Let's just not derail every thread when you see someone on the opposite side, we know how that ends
Missed me again boys! cracks knuckles/fires up edex-ui/runs top
A noodlie appendage to the internet?
So everything they learned from the Bolt experiment has not been carried over ???.
Yes, but it is still cheaper than nuclear, and has the benefit of increasing the productive capacity for installing even more solar and batteries.

The one-off work for nuclear here will do little to nothing to enable new nuclear builds. It's short-term dead money.

If we are truly at the limit of what we can deploy with solar and batteries right now, and we have spare money to spend, then perhaps this short extension is worth it, but it must be evaluated versus the alternatives such as floating offshore wind, enhanced geothermal, long-duration storage (100h), etc.

People are so excited about nuclear that they don't evaluate it rationally, on its own merits, versus alternatives. That is not a healthy way to help the climate. We must be very hard nosed about not only the short term impacts but also the long term effects of investing in industries.
Those are all corporate owned, no?
I'm not at all clear what you mean, here? You can look up the active occupations around the world right now. That is also something that was not invented by the US. Nor is it monopolized by western nations.

I'm open to the "glass houses" take where people should be careful leveling criticism. I have a hard time seeing how this puts any of the terrorist organizations in a position that they are putting on a good display.
It's ok we will produce polymer killing polymers
Is it just me, or does it feel like Apple is putting more effort behind WebKit as of late?

It’s slowly becoming closer to chromium in cutting edge feature support.
> Making the justice system actually prove its cases instead of leaning on trumped up nonsense like cannabis is a very good thing.

As a counterpoint this may make the justice system pursue larger charges going forward.

If a street level dealer was caught, and they offered a plea deal of possession to save time, trial, legal expenses, etc that person will now be pardoned.

If the DoJ doesn't like this outcome it could lead to them going after everyone for full charges and basically end plea deals.
Honest question, isn't there a bunch of stuff (including drug stuff) that the local cops don't pursue because it's the feds' job? Or is this just my small random assortment of U.S. crime drama viewing biasing my sample set?
I think your response reinforces my point. I understand existential threat to mean human extinction threat.

Humans can outlive the destruction and change of basically every environment on earth. We can live in swamps and blistering deserts.

What do you think existential threat means?
If you'd like to meet some likeminded people reasonably-nearby, feel invited to the Zurich Nix meetup [1] or the largest Haskell conference [2]!

[1]: https://www.meetup.com/nix-zurich/

[2]: https://zfoh.ch/zurihac2024/
> It sounds like it would be equivalent to humans evolving bulletproof skin.

You don’t need bulletproof skin if you can avoid being shot.
I remember stumbling upon your work long ago when I was working on a project to have "e-zines" that consumed a series of `article` class files and rendered them out into PDF and HTML as a series package.

I had come across latex2html, Dan Gildea's project, and found myself unpleasantly dissatisfied with how it worked. As I understand it, it's more a "half implementation of lots of packages" rather than what ar5iv seems to be, which is "enough of the core LaTeX engine producing HTML instead of DVI"? I'd love to know more about the nitty gritty of how the engine does its thing.

I'm curious: How has modern web tech (e.g. WebAssembly, Canvas, etc) helped or gotten in the way of getting good LaTeX rendering in the browser?
Absurd how people are defending this because of his autism. If the same crimes were committed by a neurotypical y’all would be screaming for blood. Being autistic doesn’t resolve you from responsibility and he had multiple opportunities to stop and change his ways.
Hold the U. Helps with other languages like Czech, Vietnamese, French, etc.
> in the beginning he pretty much guessed it

Ah, you've given me a thought I'm grateful for. Thanks!

I'm someone who's had a gut feeling about something in some random niche of science for several years. I've spent that time slowly gathering evidence from the literature to validate my hunch. It feels less like a "guess" and more like a high dimensional observation (of a form that's hard to cite or trace origins for) that first needs to be re-grounded in "real research".

Though maybe it DID feel like a guess to Schrödinger...! but if he didn't say it that way, I'd assume it's not quite so accurate a framing :) though it is an entertaining way to communicate it, and I appreciate that it lends a sense of serendipity and happenstance and luck, which is perhaps the most important thing to telegraph about how science happens... to take a swing at the false inevitability and certainty that has its hooks in our histories!
> and yet mindustry uses Java and made it work

I'm pretty sure the game I've spent the most hours playing over the last few years is written in java - Slay the spire.

Minecraft was originally Java too I think.
ChatGPT helped design a co-processor
Then your assumption would be wrong. There are of course regulations against it. Whether they're effectively enforced is another question (and a question that can be asked by all regulations).
Many comments on Reddit and such complain about the noise made by their NUC, and I hate my NUC8i3BEH because of the noise the cooling fan makes. I think some people are sensitive to constant sounds of constant frequency and some are not. I.e., for me it is not about decibels, but more about spikes in the sound spectrum at a certain frequency that persists as long as the computer is powered on.
It mentions the pardons in DC from 2022.

This pardon is for the entire United States, at least at the federal level. I don’t think kids sitting in a county jail for brining a joint to school in west Texas are going anywhere, though!
Tech companies like Google and Meta made cuts to DEI programs in 2023
I agree that the comparison is apple to orange (or apple to pine tree). I'm not a neuroscientist, but it's a hobby area that I read a lot of the research about the brain and the cells in the brain, etc. With each new study it seems that the iceberg just keeps getting bigger and neuroscientists still just understand a minority.

Some interesting examples:
1-Individual Purkinje cells, in isolation, learn to respond to input patterns. Meaning no synapses or other cells, the learning is happening within that cell.

2-Until relatively recently, the equipment to detect electrical activity wasn't sensitive enough so it wasn't known that dendrites have localized spiking. The collection of inputs to the dendrites are getting pre-processed either linearly or non-linearly (depending on region/function/type of cell/etc.) before being forwarded to the neurons nucleus.

3-Astrocytes have intra and inter calcium wave signaling. The intra cell signaling is localized within "proceses" (small extensions and/or compartments of the larger cell). This signaling has now been linked to sensory information processing as well as learning, meaning it's computational and separate from neuronal computation. The equipment to directly capture this activity doesn't exist so understanding is limited (studies have been based on knocking out certain capabilities and seeing the result vs direct sampling of the waves).

My opinion on comparisons:
1-A single cell in the brain is performing many more valuable computations than a single artificial neuron.

2-The brain probably also has many excess cells so a loss of a single cell doesn't have an impact. Which partially negates #1.

3-The way the brain process information could be more effective than an ANN for some functions, and it could be less effective for other functions. I think there are too many unknowns in this area to try to line it all up and compare.

> However, current visual recognition and image generation is already really good, and seems closer to parity with humans

I doubt that visual recognition is close to parity with humans. I think someone would have to define precisely what is included in "visual recognition" and what is not. It seems that "recognition" for humans means more (resolves more info about the object/context/environment) than what it means to an ANN.
The UX of entry level laptops is terrible. Windows 11 + vendor bloatware are poisoning the well, I completely get why people are going iPad-only
SQLite Jsonb Support Landed
The fact that my laptop right now has 10 different ipv6 addresses assigned to it when my ISP doesn't even support ipv6, (and two ipv4 addresses) says users need to understand more than copy and paste.
The title is misleading, he pulled off the hack using his smartphone, the hotel TV was just a monitor. Also giving a hacker a smartphone is as good as giving them a PC, not sure what the authorities were thinking.
Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: A Nand2Tetris Course Review
May I ask what you think of life in Japan as a foreigner? I’ve heard it can be very isolating.
The Fight over Apple's iMessage and Those Green Bubbles
"I still don't know why he tried to stand in my way all the time"

Maybe he did not try to stand in your way, but was simply worried:

"saying I was a zombie who wasn't part of the family anymore."
> It was the way the pilots described the unexpected behavior of the RL model.

And you chose to quote it, and to make the point that it is not the sort of thing we want on public roads - as if there's the slightest hint in the extensive testing of these cars that the apocalyptic scenario you chose to introduce to this discussion was anything but hypothetical and hyperbolic FUD.

And then you had the effrontery to chide dcow for responding to your claim, as if they were taking the discussion in this absurd direction. You've chosen to repeat yourself here, so I will say again that there is considerable irony in what you are doing - irony in the sense of statements being made that display a lack of self-awareness.