skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse, judges are writing decisions and evaluating cases based on this.

The problem is that we’re going to have people litigating court cases and stupid bureaucratic nonsense within companies by lobbing nonsense that nobody has read at each other. Everyone will wink and nod, but these organizations and institutions will be exponentially more clueless.

As technologists, it’s easy to shrug. What do you do when a judge takes your kid away after using an LLM to read and interpret bullshit generated case notes that a CPS worker generated with another LLM?
I wasn't talking specifically about this paper. If there's some merit to this line of inquiry, and it yields something revolutionary, I think the Chinese government would be foolish not to turn it into leverage. Especially given the recent adversarial climate in trade relations and access to advanced equipment
I can't participate in the Eucharist at home. Also, you are still assuming that sickness and suffering are inherently bad. There are worse things for your soul than sickness and death. Sickness and suffering in general heal your soul, and death means you have repented as much as you can and you are returning to your Lord. There is nothing to fear. Suffering and sickness shouldn't be avoided out of fear.
>1 vial of antivenom requires 20 milkings. Worst case, a treatment requires 10 vials.

That really takes me back to my World of Warcraft days.
FrameOS Nim Rewrite
Indeed, `git lfs fetch` is giving:

`This repository is over its data quota. Account responsible for LFS bandwidth should purchase more data packs to restore access.`

TIL that there is the ability to upgrade LFS access on github.com
I'd never heard of Dillo before, but this is really cool! Huge props for taking this over. This truly illustrates the promise of open source.
> Lawyers being lawyers have immediately reached to "make it illegal" and setting up protections for their trade like they always done.

The legal field does not have a strong cartel at the moment.

In 1940 and in 1970, the population of lawyers was about .13-.16% of people in the US. Currently, it's 3x higher at .39%... after 3 years of declining numbers.

The market is saturated. Large numbers of lawyers can't find enough work, or have moved to other fields.

Edit: Link to report: https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/year-end/2023year-en...
I'm not associated with System76 but if you currently use Ubuntu as your desktop check out Pop OS. It does a great job of smoothing some of the rough edges and has great support for Nvidia cards. After years of using Ubuntu exclusively, I switched to Pop OS about 4 years ago and never looked back. Note that my comment comes from using it as a desktop on my custom-built PC, not a laptop.
You'll move along much faster in understanding people from diverse cultures if you don't start by imposing your own country's uniquely absurd cultural biases on widely used phrases that probably have nothing to do with them.
No, seriously, I had an uncle that smoked 3 cigarettes a day and lived into his 90s. I've started smoking a pack a day and I'll live well past 100, right?

I wish we, as humans, understood odds better. All health advice is about stacking the deck in your favor, but outliers always exist. I'd be more critical, except I'm sure there's some area where I apply a similar ignorance of the basics.
Coincidentally I saw the latest Steam hardware survey results[0] just about an hour ago which says that Windows is dropping and macOS and Linux are both gaining:

Windows -0.16%
macOS +0.10%
Linux +0.06%

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
> I love the intent of these kinds of papers, but at this point in time (2024 now!), surely there are resources for definitive studies, identifying every possible confounding variable.

Hard to believe this isn’t a joke
Yes. One of my favorites and regularly shows up on lists of the best non-fiction of the 20th century. Great combo of history and science, compelling, and a great background for the movie Oppenheimer. I couldn’t take the Labatut book seriously after reading “Making of the Atomic Bomb”. The true story is a lot more interesting than his fantasies.
Bandwidth has been restricted on this URL. Archives are available at:

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It often makes sense to offer a cheaper ticket e.g. I can go to Brighton via London, which is faster and easier, or I can change at Reading and Gatwick, which is harder and slower, but the trains are less busy, so it makes sense to encourage people not to go via London.

The "via" restrictions are usually dropped if there are problems on the lines allowing people who are delayed to find other routes, but this can lead to problems in one area causing overcrowding problems in another.
probably the share of devs grows as more people are mobile only XD
I remember they started doing it this was because there was concerns about companies with insider information being unfairly advantaged in the bidding stages.
all of it is my guess
I reference this paper in almost every science-communication talk I give as an ecologist.

It was not a new result by any means, we've had a whole range of other studies showing the same over the last three decades [1]. But it was still a very important study, simply for the sheer amount of data they collated: analysing 170 species trends across four decades across Europe is quite a feat!

Taken together, it really drives home the message that modern agricultural practices are shredding the environment, but also that there is a lot of nuance behind biodiversity declines that we need to look into further, and that offer hope for improvement.

[1] e.g. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270919000480, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-45854-0, https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12585,https://doi.org/10.1111/c..., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2011.05.006, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2004.00375.x
> It always feels like these articles never mention the "real" reasons people work out and stay motivated. It makes you super attractive!

I think this dismisses a large portion (possibly the majority) of people who exercise. There are major mental health benefits, it provides structure, it’s fun, etc.

If the only reason people work out is for aesthetics then everybody would just be a bodybuilder. But there’s a huge swath of sport and modalities people pursue instead.
Clean-room implementations are not required to avoid infringing when you make your own version of something else. They just make it easier to successfully defend if you are sued for infringement.

If your code does not copy any copyrightable expression from mine it is not a derivative work, so if I sue you (legitimately, not because I just hope a lawsuit will intimidate you into agreeing to my demands) it means I've found things in your work that I think are copies of copyrightable things from my work.

If you haven't done a clean-room implementation your defense is probably going to rely on finding those things in other works besides mine and using one or more of these arguments: (1) these things are widely used and known and your copied yours from somewhere other than my work, (2) the ones in my work are just copies from those other works so I don't have any copyright on them for you to infringe, and (3) there are so few reasonably ways to do these things that everyone who writes them comes up with nearly identical solutions and that's why yours are similar to mine.

If you have done a clean-room implementation and kept good records to prove that, your defense is that you never saw any of my copyrightable expression so cannot possibly have copied.
If it’s FUD, then why is the license on this MIT and not GPLv2?
If you think about how difficult invading Ukraine has been for Russia, add in 100 miles of water for the most inexperienced navy in the world and it would likely be a blood bath.

I've always wondered if sinking a super carrier (group?) off your coastline is a great idea. They all carry a massive nuclear reactor onboard, I'm assuming the US has some pretty good technologies to mitigate these new Chinese carrier destroyer missiles, but all in all it seems like a disaster for everyone, especially the Chinese.
Being attractive isn’t just about members of the opposite sex wanting to bone you.

It’s about having a head start in the pecking order game for any room you walk into, work or social or otherwise. It’s about people moving out of your way on the sidewalk instead of the other way around. It’s about people showing respect and going the extra mile at the airline counter or the retail store.

There are a lot of subtle benefits that people probably don’t want to readily acknowledge
For macOS users, there's also native app Hex Fiend (open source) which also has a pattern language.

https://hexfiend.com

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2072899

And if you don't mind paying, there's also "Synalyze It", which allows you to build the pattern language via the GUI:

https://www.synalysis.net
If you spend time reading the article, you can agree or disagree with his choices, but he provides several reasons for why he chose to rewrite in Rust over after the initial project was written in C:

"At that moment, I decided to switch to Rust (my first project in this language), which represented several advantages:

- Restart the project from the beginning, using lessons learned from previous mistakes

- Be a bit more innovative than just writing a Linux-like kernel in C. After all, just use Linux at that point

- Use the safety of the Rust language to leverage some difficulty of kernel programming. Using Rust’s typing system allows to shift some responsibility over memory safety from the programmer to the compiler."

Unfortunately, your comment doesn't add anything to the conversation and distracts from the interesting project being presented.
>For millennia, systems of justice—including the one Chief Justice Roberts heads—have been based in no small part on human judgment rather than ironclad objective rules. In a criminal context this leads to leniency as often as harshness.

And that's the entire problem.

A priori certainty of legal outcomes isn't a problem to be "fixed", it's a basic requirement of any reliable legal system.

If purely mechanical solutions lead to bad outcomes, that's a good thing! It means those solutions can be acknowledged as bad and removed or reworked. If instead you arbitrarily make the pain go away because it's convenient you're stuck with a bad solution.
I've always wondered about setting up a Cost-Benefit Cache. Elixir's built in cache made me think of it first because it would simplify the implementation, but it could really be done in any language.

The idea being that you track a few stats for each cache item:

a. Time to retrieve the cached data from original source

b. Frequency of requests for the data from the cache

c. Size of the data to be stored

Size of the data to be stored is the "cost" since it takes up space in the cache that could be occupied by other data.

Retrieval time and frequency of requests would be the benefit since it should reflect the amount of time saved (a 5 second query called 4 times / minute would save 20 seconds per minute of execution time).

(a * b) / c = Priority.

Lowest priority gets evicted first as cache size reaches it's limit.

The idea behind doing this is that you could run just about any data that could potentially be cached through the system and it would only be stored if the priority was higher than the lowest priority item currently in the cache. This should also deal with spikes or sudden slowness automatically if a part of the application is suddenly hammered.
> and why is that? because Safari is a subpar experience.

I think that's an oversimplification and mostly wrong. People don't uniformly use one reason for things. Some are too lazy to change a default, are used to one browser, genuinely like it, use it reluctantly because the big company developer is doing its best to hobble the competition (hey, here's a challenge, guess which one I'm talking about), or simply think Google (Chrome) is the internet. Based on usage alone compared to Google Chrome every other browser offers a subpar experience right? I don't agree with that. To take the most obvious example, the fact that Firefox allows me full control over the adblocking experience is the single biggest quality of life improvement over Chrome in using the internet.

> You can try to justify it all you want

I didn't "justify" anything. What works for me doesn't have to work for you. Two things can be true at once. My personal data and privacy are a priority for me so Google cheating me out of them trumps any fuzzy argument that doesn't hold water even over a two line comment. Because...

> Apple is giving users a worse experience

Wait, let me try your argument for size. Apple is close to being the biggest phone manufacturer on the planet, as voted by people with their wallets, despite making the most expensive phones. And why is that? Because everyone else offers a subpar experience, right? I voted for Firefox and I'd rather use Safari than Chrome because we have different priorities and definitions of what makes for a good experience.

Sibling comment had the right idea. The only fix for this is one that globally addresses via regulation the issues any company's dominant positions poses.
> Xi's aim is to reunify Taiwan with the mainland sometime in the 2020s

Do you have a source on that?

> AUKUS

The one that is supposed to result in submarines getting delivered sometime in the 2030s at the earliest? Hardly relevant for the 20s.
> only stuff behind cloudflare gives any issues (unless you're running a local proxy to handle ssl).

This used to be a problem because Dillo didn't implemented SNI, but should be okay now. If you still have some site that doesn't connect with Dillo from git (there is an updated dillo-git AUR package in Arch Linux), please report it :-)
I don't drive a snake to work. I don't use a snake for my livelihood. I don't take my snake down the hill for groceries. I can't load all my kids and their stuff in the snake to go see family.

Your comparison is lazy and ridiculous. Nonetheless, there are people trying to get cars out of cities (and I wish them luck).
An Open Letter to Intel: MINIX running inside Intel Chipsets [AST, 2017]
Disillusionment. I paid my dues with virtiofsd et al. I'm glad the dev is having fun and learning, I just hope it doesn't escalate into an OS schism.
But that elimites purpose for Ada. Rust has better type system to deal with this.
I wish L4 had taken off for general purpose computing. That and Plan9 are things I'd really like to try out but I don't have space to fit operating systems in amongst the other projects. They both strike me as having the Unix nature, either "everything is messages in userspace processes" or "everything is a file."
Thoroughly enjoyed reading DJB's writing. That style of arguing is so effective and yet so easily understandable by anyone having even basic understanding of cryptography. I hope there are students of his who are as good as him (or even better) and continue this kind of work for decades to come.
they are a good company, the only tip I would recommend, if you don't have a beefy system. Is install Pop_OS so it has all the GPU support etc, and then just run some lightweight WM. That switch got me a boast on the speed of an old laptop.
You almost made me curious enough to want to see if the writing style of LinkedIn posts has shifted in the last year.

Sadly I'd have to open LinkedIn and spend significant time on it to verify that suspicion, so I'll never know.

EDIT: Look, I'm sure there's good stuff on LI, but let's be honest: it is also full of really weird, cringy posts that are somewhat inevitable products of influencer culture mixing with company culture. If you don't think so you either lucked out and live in an amazing social media bubble or you're lying to yourself.
The disagreement is that you wrote "imagine a memory safe kernel" but appear to have meant "imagine a kernel with zero vulnerabilities of any kind", and those things are not equivalent.
No.

You should not incentivise people to lie, or give a specific answer.

Nor should you incentivise innocent people to proclaim their guilt
It has been happening for the past 7+ years.
I signed in with no problems using my MS account.
Public interest and popularity are not bad though. Raised interest, more funding etc. can all be good things and accelerate this research.
Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study
"It's validating to have members of your desired sex lust for you."

Thank you, very politically aware of you, however, I am in good shape but do not feel the members of my desired sex lusting for me, please elaborate on how to induce this lust in the desired sex, diameter of biceps, visible abs? What is required of the facial geometry? Thank you, can barely ;) wait to be lusted for.
Not likely, the definition of addiction requires harm. Resistance training has profound wholistic benefits. It's possible that someone can neglect professional or personal relationships to the point of harm, but I don't think there's any reason to assume that's the case here.

My point is simply that just because you do something compulsively, does not make that thing an addiction. E.g. breathing is compulsive, but it's not an addiction.
At least these laws have saved us from having streets full of opioid addicts.
People have had the ability to do that for decades, and they have almost always chosen not to when they had the option, because it's terrible. RISC-V is nothing revolutionary on that front, and doesn't magically make it better. Without preprocessing you won't have variable names or jump label names or strings, which is even more terrible.

Please give us some actual evidence, instead of just saying "you're wrong", because the position you're taking seems extreme and, frankly, bonkers.
The stations were all originally built by separate private railways companies which, naturally, served different parts of the country. Euston, for example, was built by the London and Birmingham Railway.
Yeah. The 2003 one, 1991 was totally fine.
Perhaps but I don't recommend buying such a supermarket with a 44 billion dollar loan especially if you have to pay ~1B a year in interest on said loan as well. Even without that loan thats over 6.6k years until ROI (and they still have regular operating costs not accounted for here).

Also that's less than half the active mastadon user count, and I'm skeptical that is enough users for it to maintain being worth 12$/y for that remaining user count. And any remaining advertising revenue would be decimated by such a low user count.
Keep your key fob in a metal (coffee) can
The #2 Kia challenge on linked https://exchange.aaa.com/automotive/automotive-trends/smart-... is also interesting. Only takes breaking in,
a screw driver, and a usb to start the cars.
The former British Rail was cheaper to run, cheaper to use, and provided a better service which integrated service delivery, maintenance. engineering, and national R&D (with valuable IP which was given away for nothing after privatisation.)

It was often joked about because it was underfunded and run down, but in financial terms it was hugely efficient.

The ideology isn't really about "free markets", it's about giving public money to donors, cronies, and - bizarrely - foreign businesses, because much of the privatised network is foreign-owned.

In fact the ideology is fundamentally about not spending public money on working people - because they're poor and inferior, they don't deserve it, and if life gets too comfortable for them they'll start talking back instead of knowing their place.

Over the decades the definition of "working" has expanded from "factory workers and semi-skilled" to formerly middle class professions like law and medicine.

Engineering has always been considered a low-status profession, as has competent - as opposed to venal and self-interested - management.
Oh, design patterns ― those were a wild ride for me back in the day!

I stumbled upon the Gang of Four's Design Patterns when I was a kid, feeling like I'd uncovered some coding Bible in a caveman moment.

So, I dove headfirst into trying to understand and apply those patterns to my Java code. Let me tell you, it was a struggle. Failed attempts left me feeling pretty darn horrible and questioning my smarts.

That whole experience still gives me a shiver down my spine.

But, fast forward a few years, and I realized that, hey, I've been using some of those patterns all along—just didn't know their fancy names back then.
If you’re interested in a deeper dive, this is basically a summary of Peter Attia’s Outlive

https://peterattiamd.com/outlive/

It’s a good book, I’m currently reading it now. The premise is: if you want your later years to be healthier (as thoroughly defined in the book, but covering physical and emotional wellness), you need to start early with a long term plan

So far so good, I’m enjoying it
Looks like the basic ideas are right, but Attia seems a lot more thorough:

https://peterattiamd.com/about/

Summary:

Eat 1g of protein per pound of body weight

Creatine seems good on the margin and there's no downside to it.

Resistance training and cardio are both very important and you should probably be doing significantly more than is comfortable.

Sugar in moderation isn't as big a problem as it is made out to be.

Alcohol has no benefit and is harmful, to some extent, but Attia still drinks it.
Some background: there were two Chinese teams publicly pursuing LK-99-derived room temperature superconductor, which I arbitrarily named "north China team" and "south China team". North China team was headed by Hongyang Wang (who lives in Beijing) and south China team was headed by Yao Yao (who lives in Guangzhou). They used different synthesis and different analysis, i.e. north China team used hydrothermal synthesis and used SQUID measurement, while south China team used solid state synthesis and used EPR measurement.

This is a joint paper of both teams. They reproduced results of each other (this is unclear in the paper, but stated in their behind-the-scene posts) and measured a clear sign of superconductivity. It is "near room temperature", because they are sure about 250 K (hence "near"), but not sure about 300 K. As for "possible", the behind-the-scene post makes it clear it is false modesty.

If you are interested, you definitely want to read behind-the-scene posts. Read them here: https://www.zhihu.com/question/637763289 (they are in Chinese). Hongyang Wang is 真可爱呆 and Yao Yao is 洗芝溪.
AWS Wickr – End-to-end encryption
Is that year to year or month to month? Could not find any note on that?

But then again the share increase compared to share of Linux users, is quite large.

Interesting that only 0,06% are using Win 7 which I would name MS' last good OS.
Opus 21: Investing Adventures in Lithuania
Yes, this also needs to be reduced but isn't preventable by the French government, unlike the small boat crossings.
Today I learned that Intel was (is still?) using MINIX as OS inside all its chipsets, for the Intel Management Engine (AMT).
Three of the 51 authors are from Poland. There are breakdowns by country and also comparisons of forest cover, urbanization, and temperature. There's a button that lets you look at the pictures if you want an easy country overview.
According to your stats, 78% of the time they run, they are less than 10 minutes late, and most of the time ("normally") if they run they arrive within 3 minutes