skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, G+ the product was fine. Some very good things came out of it (video Hangouts, Google Photos). The push to force it down everyone's throat marked a turning point in my perception of Google and resulted in a bunch of harmful changes and loss of trust. Shutting it down eventually made sense - the brand had zero cachet and no significant population was using it. As an IC or manager within Google, there wasn't much you could do for your career by working on G+. It was a dead end product by the time it was shut down.
WebP Huffman Table – A Vulnerability to Hack the World – CVE-2023-4863 [video]
Another (more gruesome) example from a real case:

>A list of Brian Walshe’s Google searches, according to prosecutors

>Brian Walshe is accused of murdering his wife, Ana Walshe, and dismembering her body. She was last seen Jan. 1.

"Dec. 27

“What’s the best state to divorce for a man”

Jan. 1

4:55 a.m.: “How long before a body starts to smell”

4:58 a.m.: “How to stop a body from decomposing”

5:20 a.m.: “How to embalm a body”

5:47 a.m.: “10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to”

6:25 a.m.: “How long for someone to be missing to inherit”

6:34 a.m.: “Can you throw away body parts”

9:29 a.m.: “What does formaldehyde do”

9:34 a.m.: “How long does DNA last”

9:59 a.m.: “Can identification be made on partial remains”

11:34 a.m.: “Dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body”

11:44 a.m.: “How to clean blood from wooden floor”

11:56 a.m.: “Luminol to detect blood”

1:08 p.m.: “What happens when you put body parts in ammonia”

1:21 p.m.: “Is it better to throw crime scene clothes away or wash them “

Jan. 2

12:45 p.m.: “Hacksaw best tool to dismember”

1:10 p.m.: “Can you be charged with murder without a body”

1:14 p.m.: “Can you identify a body with broken teeth”

Jan. 3

1:02 p.m.: “What happens to hair on a dead body”

1:14 p.m.: “What is the rate of decomposition of a body found in a plastic bag compared to on a surface in the woods”

1:20 p.m.: “Can baking soda make a body smell good”"

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2023/01/18/brian-walshe-go...
cmd + (or whatever the equivalent is for your platform) seems to permanently increase the font size.
Is the sole evidence used?

Context, context, context.
Thanks. That's not much of a reason. These domain names are not fooling anyone. Just looking at them one can see they are faked up, not normal at all. Plus there is no corresponding DNS lookup. And not all traffic is browsers. Will have to edit this out and recompile tor daemon.
The thing I miss the most is every device having an answer for “what makes this thing interesting or unique”. No longer is that true or as relevant really.
> I think the main approach to prevent antibiotic resistance is coming up with a way to prevent bacteria ever coming across a low dose of the antibiotic (...)

That's not the only way. We have more ways:

* use low dose of antibiotic to kill enough bacteria to let the immune system to deal with the rest. Then ensure the subject is cured until all bacteria are killed so that none escape. Low dose might be needed because most antibiotics are actually pretty harmful and the harm is managed with low dose.

* use more than one antibiotic in combination with the idea there is very little chance bacteria will gain resistance to both of them at the same time.

* use the antibiotic only as a last resort. This is especially useful for bacterias that are not very harmful normally, but might become harmful for certain subjects (for example, immunosuppressed). If a bacteria with resistance escapes, the resistance might not be very useful advantage in outside environment where people do not need any help to fight off infection or when infection can be more routinely treated with another antibiotic.

Again, these are our current strategie
Believe it or not, I actually know someone who was federally charged for possession of marijuana in the last few years.

He worked as a mover and moved someone onto a military base (in a decriminalized state). He forgot he had his weed in his jacket pocket when they got searched entering the base. Didn't get jail, but did get probation and a record of it.
The Google Play Store Ruling Is Bad News for Longtime Android Phone Users
Searching for a Ron Burgundy meme is evidence of what, exactly?

Or is it okay to inexplicably twist that into a crime somehow because it's used to persecute the "right" people in this instance?
Having grown up in Missouri, you could have knocked me over with a feather when that happened. They what?!
Pretty sure the people getting pardoned like it.
Really shows the importance of having a compelling UI and a coherent ability to describe what your product is, both of which were sorely lacking in Google Wave.
What I don't get, is why you actually care. On Substack, you read the authors you like, and don't read the ones you don't.

Do you know that quote? "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"? That applies here.
> Again, electric vehicles only work as storage if people can charge their cars at work, drive home, and then tap that storage over night.

They're storing the energy that they themselves use. You're not using it for your house, you're charging during sunlight and then driving home or to a restaurant after dark. It allows close to the entire demand for electric vehicles to be served from renewable generation.

> They're going to be used during the day and charged at night.

A supercharger adds 200 miles of range in 15 minutes. You go into the shop, plug into the charger in the parking lot and when you come back out in 15 minutes you don't have to charge again until tomorrow.

> What happens if someone's car is discharged over night right before a trip to Grandma's and now they don't have enough range?

They'll plug it in and charge it. Charging your car at night isn't going to be illegal, but it will cost more, so people will prefer not to, and then 95% of the charging will happen during the day.

Notice also that "overnight" is not synonymous with "darkness" -- if the sun comes up at 6AM and you leave for work at 8AM, you've had two hours of sunlight to charge your car while it was parked in your garage, and there are computers that can automate this.

> If you've got 50GW deficit over a week of cloud cover you need 4,200 GWh of storage to offset that.

Or 50GW of peaker plants, or 40GW of peaker plants and 20% of that amount of storage.

> And energy demand is much higher than 120 GW.

These are just example numbers for a hypothetical grid with 100GW of average demand.

> It's enough to satisfy 70% of the demand at 8PM.

In California, in October. Not in Texas in July.

> And since nuclear is just as cheap to run at 100% capacity all day long, it's better to scrap the bulk of your renewables because the nuclear plants make them redundant.

Nuclear is base load. It can make sense to build as much of it as there is base load demand, i.e. the minimum demand during any part of the day. But what do you want to do about the higher demand periods? Build extra nuclear plants that only operate 4 hours a day? Use battery storage with nuclear, even though that's way more expensive than battery storage with renewables?

> This depends on geography. On the west coast, it's the opposite: wind produces the least energy during winter.

The west coast has mild winters and thus less heating demand.
I think the thing you said about priors is repeating a talking point about prosecution or sentencing disparities that isn't particularly relevant in the context of an arrest.

I have no idea what you mean about multiple charges.
It’s a concession to not seem weak on illegal immigration. If illegal immigrants were pardoned that would be ammo for the Republicans in election season.
Cannabis laws applied to all Americans.
Hey there!

Maybe you'll like my next note-taking app[1]. It has a block editor based on Qt C++ so it's very performant. It supports Markdown out of the box, will have advanced media support like Kanban, images, columns, etc.

[1] https://www.get-plume.com/
I think there's a direct comparison to be made with the choice to devote one's "prime years" to building a startup. It's a meaningful project that materially impacts the world in a way that one has a decent degree of control over. And it can be fun, even in the same moments it is deeply difficult!
Growing food year round for your entire family is quite literally impossible unless you have acres of land.
I'd argue the opposite. Rclone's parallelization options are unmatched.
Analyzing 30 years of US federal research misconduct
It seems to me that it would be in YouTube's best interest to provide me with accurate recommendations. The more content they can get me to watch, the more ads I view, which is how they get paid. It would seem that more accurate recommendations would encourage more view time and more add engagement.
I hope you find some time to rest soon.
This is the first time it closed automatically, because the sea level crossed the "3 meter above average"-threshold.

The other closes were "optional", mostly to check how it performed during a real storm.
Anselm's Ontological Argument: A Guide for the Perplexed
I once implemented a pre-emptive kernel and OS on a very crude hardware, the Hewlett-Packard Graphing Calculator HP48GX, running a Saturn CPU (4Bits with 64bits registers, a weird beast).

It can still be downloaded here : https://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/apps/shell/

You don't need MMU or anything of the sort.

The only thing you need is programmable interrupts.

My implementation was using a 64Hz timer, that was also synchronized on the LCD screen "vsync" as it had to be serviced for kernel-level double buffering and different modes of simulated multiple grey levels.

It is much less difficult than it seems, save registers, save context, load context, load registers, return to the current process.

Optimizing the code is just a good knowledge of the CPU constraints and bit of juggling with registers. It was a simpler time, you could benchmark code by counting cycles, instruction by instruction. No cache, no branch predictors, no throttling.
Families often raise a concern about how they never knew member X to be a baddie (eg The Golden State Killer). This is not a compelling refutation. Whether anyone can be wrong or lying about anything, is equally weak.

The man said it. I have no doubt.
I'm repurposing an old laptop (an Asus X53SV with an i7, 8GB RAM, and 1TB HDD) for a simple server at home that I use for Plex/Jellyfin, Navidrome, and some self-hosted webapps, all using Docker. Can't handle transcoding media much, so I do that separately. Obviously it's an old laptop, a decade old at this point, but it handles everything I use it for.
Windows releases should have some regulatory review to determine if it is actually a valuable upgrade, that results in productivity gains, etc. It seems Windows it just forcing upgrades through monopolization of their desktop product at this point.
In the paragraphs that follow he goes on to explain how people twisted their god's intent while writing the bible, at least on this particular topic.
Safari's always been pretty secretly good - they just got a bad rep for not supporting PWA-related technologies for a while. Because Apple uses Webkit to render a bunch of their "native" UIs, they're often first to adopt native-like interactions or css features (or proposed them themselves), like backdrop-filter or CSS Scroll Snap. Because the web can have a pretty big impact on battery life on phones and laptops, they've also always had a pretty fast and energy efficient js engine.

I'm really doubtful Apple sees Safari as competition for their app store distribution. I don't think that matches reality of how most consumers use mobile devices and spend money.
The scientist in the article is quoted as saying that bacteria do not appear to develop resistance to this.
RCX is approaching abandonware status (last release 2y ago). Round Sync is worth a look.
I'll help you out here, since there still appears to be some difficulty.

I've replaced your word "it" to make the point as clear as possible.

>"And you chose to quote it, and to make the point that" [unexpected behavior] "is not the sort of thing we want on public roads"

Or to put it different terms, the sometimes unpredictable behavior resulting from RL may be a feature on the battlefield but a bug on public roadways.

I still stand by that point. And, yes, that means dcow also missed that point. There's nothing hypothetical about bringing about real-world case studies of autonomous behavior based on RL models. We've been through this so many times now that I'm coming to the conclusion you may be arguing in bad faith or you get incredibly distracted by certain terms that it inhibits reading comprehension.
He caught a lot of shit for it, but Eric Schmidt had a tendency to say unpopular things that were also true. When he said that "If you have something you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," The context of the conversation was online activity.

And in that context he's not wrong at all. For all the privacy and identity obfuscation tools we have, the Internet is one big paper trail where you should assume that someone is auditing everything you do, legally or illegally. There are too many computers in the loop serving your requests and responses for it to be reasonable to assume otherwise.
I really like Nextjs
This, uh, isn’t a database? I clicked through to the GitHub and see only a hard coded html file with the small handful of Tesco comparisons, and a single screenshot. Where is the database? What am I missing? Why is this interesting?
from my experience, heating has plenty of reliability deficit, probably getting way worse in recent years. fancy boilers with computers in them break way more often than they have any right to.
Nice but..I expected a run command on my Javascript block.
You only benefit from it if you re-fetch data from database every time you need it, and never cache.

If you ever fetch data once and use it locally many times, you are back to handling stale data.
>Your comment reads like you disapprove of this pardon

you are reading into what I said, since I said nothing like that.

>actual risks associated with marijuana while they still believe in the reefer madness

Sure, back in those days, we didn't even know that cigarettes caused cancer, so
we can't judge them based on today's knowledge, but many traditional beliefs did have a folk wisdom "correlation might just be causation"... so how is THC induced psychosis an indictment of the reefer madness hypothesis?
1. Not in a cult, just like plugging my phone into my car and everything feeling natural and comfortable

2. Don't get it twisted, GM is locking down their system for a reason. And I'll give you one guess as to why - money.
Not sure why the meme was included but the rest looks like gathering information in preparation for a crime to me.
We are both not lawyers so we don’t know jack tbh
I don't have to. We've had a nationwide epidemic of deaths from regulated, labeled opiates, which is a fact that refutes your argument without requiring me to provide an alternative.
Thanks for the reply. No concern though, i was just too nerdy myself w/ computers and missed out on important teenager / young adult stuff. This time never comes back! Most dorks here wouldn't understand though.
I tried to follow the article but it's riddled with omissions and errors that are hard to fix when you are just started with Rust :(
Funny... you are actually right.

But there are also bacteria without cell walls.
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

There's so much nuance and individuality and cultural baggage around ADHD treatments, it's difficult to convey, and you've done so very well here. I'll see if I can incorporate some of that as I finish up the 100 posts.
They are not enforced the same way to all, though.
Or robocopy.
Personally, I have more issues with Windows than I do with Linux. Granted, I know how to troubleshoot either OS, but the implication Windows doesn't have issues is... confusing to me.

I am curious when your last experience with Linux was, and with what distro(s)? As you say, the general Linux experience has gotten better over the years, to the point where I think a non-tech-savvy user would have the same issues on Ubuntu as they do on Windows - which is to say issues they'd have on any OS, because they're not savvy :P

> I'll probably get downvoted for this, if not push-back

Nothing wrong with "push-back"; I'd hope you'd be happy to hear opposing views
Do guns next.
Has he never filed paper in a filing cabinet?

Our abstractions are out of date.

I managed my own file system by writing down tape counter numbers on the cardboard cover of the cassette tape.
This reminds me of an experience from two decades ago. https://0xfe.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-firewall-guy.html

It's not always the Firewall -- unless it is :-)
Biden administration unveils hydrogen tax credit plan to jump-start industry
It's obviously not by itself a crime, but it could obviously be part of a fact pattern indicating intention to commit a crime.

This aspect of law and criminality isn't new at all. "What, so a guy can't just meet his buddies at a nice Italian restaurant anymore?"
Yeah just teaching my 17 year old to torrent stuff. That was a learning curve and a half for her. So you don't know what File Explorer is?
Sure, but thousands of people now have one less obstacle to passing a background check for a job, etc. I agree with you about the scheduling, but this is more than a gesture, and will have a material impact on a lot of people, especially in DC.
240 million new potential sales of Windows licenses...
Thanks for the explanation. I think a common mistake is to not make the maintenance a part of someone's job description and actually pay them for this type of work. If keeping things running feels like a secondary objective, a distraction, it's quite hard to stay on top of things and be proactive, not reactive.
What David Flanagan Learned Fixing Kubernetes Clusters
At the discretion of both law enforcement officers and prosecutors.
Only use NewPipe for SoundCloud. Quite stable for that. For YouTube it's a waste of time, IMHO. Constantly breaking, IME. Command line utilties for interacting with YouTube I wrote for myself are much more stable and almost never break. (Maybe once every few years. And fixed the same day by me.)
I know almost nothing about this space but “lossy compression of millions of past tokens” feels a lot more like how actual human memory works than “perfect access to a small number of recent tokens”.
Much like The adoption of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer had no long term downsides and "fixed" the Ozone hole [1], this action is an unequivocal good and there are no long term downsides from my perspective.

[1]https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/rebuilding-ozone...
"Developers don’t have to hide pricing, either, so they can take up space to tell you how much money you’ll save if you buy in-app coins through their means versus through Google’s. This could clog up text space in an app already teeming with advertising."

How much did Google pay for this article?
For the latter, I contend that millions die every week as the status quo, so I don't see events that might kill 10s or even a few hundred million as an real existential threat.
You don't need to be a credentialed lawyer to know if something doesn't pass the bullshit test.
It's ridiculous to fire someone because they make other people "uncomfortable."
market share
Thanks, that gave a good impression of SymbOS which is boggling my mind a bit.
I've been running a web server for the last year or so, and I still have the same IP from Comcast that I've had for years. When I was a teenager I also ran servers and had a stable IP for years. Ostensibly they say you're not allowed to run servers, but I'm guessing they'd only care if you're constantly using a significant chunk of your bandwidth.
Interesting and requires some more thought but initially it seems that the necessary low entropy of the conscious observer is left out.

> In other words, if an observer knew all information regarding a system, there would be only one microstate, and the system would be devoid of entropy. This illustrates that entropy describes the information a conscious agent knows about a system, rather than being an inherent property of systems.

Knowing all the information in the system would require a omniscient consciousness which implies extremely low entropy. So entropy has to also include the information of the conscious being analyzing the environment and I think this steps into Godel's Incompleteness theorem as the entity inside the system can never have full omniscience, (unless that is God, which is another matter). This is also similar to Maxwell's daemon, where the daemon can lower entropy if it can individually control each particle, but this doesn't violate the 2nd Law because it requires the daemon keep track of all the particles somehow (which is a way of saying the system already starts with low entropy).
> Native oxide is stripped off the wafer with a quick dilute HF dip and then they are extensively cleaned in Piranha solution (H2SO4:H2O2), RCA 1 (H2O:NH3:H2O2), RCA 2 (H2O:HCL:H2O2), followed by another dilute HF dip.

Fascinating project, but I'm not going to try this one at home
A conceptual form of circular analysis may taint many neuroscience studies
What is your definition of a file?

Does it include bundles of files?

What metadata does it include?

Can it exist in more than one place? When a file is opened, is the file what is in processor and cache/RAM or what gets serialized to some persistent media?

Metaphorically, is a file a sheet of paper or folded tan cardstock that holds many sheets of paper?

Is a file unitary or can it contain other files? Is a directory a file? Is a link? Is a device a file?
This might sound like nonsense to someone who actually understands neural networks, but I had a similar idea recently that perhaps we could use LLMs or diffusion models to generate the weights for a new network, e.g. if you think of a layer of a network as an image where each pixel represents the strength of a connection, then perhaps you could generate all the initial weights for a specialized network from a more general/powerful network. Curious if that’s been tried or if there are fundamental limitations that would prevent it.
Indeed I didn’t mean to imply they don’t also fix and tweak for legitimate editorial reasons
I highly recommend Unison (https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison)

It allows you to sync between 2 machines (bi-directional) over TCP or SSH.

Note that TCP way is not encrypted, you may use wireguard as transport layer encryption for that purpose...

You can use an external application to copy if file size is larger than an arbitrary number. (Eg: use rsync for files > 1gb)
How about we round up the MS board of directors and give them each one lash for every computer available sold the last 5 years which supports W10 but doesn't support W11? We could also gather their immediate families and lop off their hands and feet, but that'd be a bit cruel.
we've done it to ourselves, by embracing MASSIVE complexity at every turn to get the fancy new features.

i keep thinking about how we don't actually need 95% of the code running at my job to actually accomplish my company's goals. it's insane how we just kept going with the flow while features and maintenance effort exploded.

that said, anyone know how well the BSD's work as a desktop operating system? mostly worried about hardware i guess, since it's already an issue on linux from time to time. but man the linux ecosystem, while wonderful, suffers from massive complexity too, or at least it looks more and more like it the longer i use it.
I’ve done the comparison recently, the difference between the same brand from Whole Foods and Safeway for example is basically none, with Whole Foods selling it at a premium. However, the quality can vary if you buy a premium brand from Whole Foods vs the generic from Safeway.