skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your friend wasn't trolling and genuinely believed this advice, they have a very poor understanding of risk, and it would be beneficial to them to research it a bit (by which I don't mean click-driven youtube or tiktok influencers). To be fair, risk, diversification and other important financial concepts are not intuitive and are not taught (in a simple and intuitive way) to people although they're essential to majority of people in well-off societies.

In a nutshell, this is a great example of survivorship bias. Yes, with perfect future information, Bill Gates could've been much richer. So would I, and I would only need the winning lottery numbers! Lacking this crystall ball, Buffett's advice was (and remains) correct.

Also note at the utlity aspect - as a purchasing power, $1.33T and $138B are the same, and the only meaningful difference is to keep some kind of score. You can buy basically anything that's for sale, burn it to the ground, and still remain filthy rich (recently proven by Musk's acquisition of Twitter, on which he spent around $23B of his own money, according to quick web search).
Well the US did help Saddam Hussein target Iran with chemical weapons in the 80's, and helped Britain remove Mossadegh from power in 1953.

It seems like the main thing Iran has done against the US is through proxies, which reflects modern US strategy.
What we're seeing here might be classic case of the iOS Freedom Choking Syndrome: when a device's lack of freedom spreads to its owner and chokes cerebral circulation.
Throwing gasoline into a fire is probably not the best thing.
Displaying the temperature of something might be cool.
Renaissance Technologies and other small funds constantly beats index funds. So it depends on the hedge funds.
Palestinians are resisting a decades long occupation.

Israelis are bombing refugee camps and hospitals. Openly calling for the destruction/removal of the entire population. Assassinating journalists, preventing food and electricity and clean water from an entire population.

> Casualty stats are like polls. Its quasi data at best.

30,000 murdered people in three months isn't a statistic. It's human lives. Those are real people. They have names, and you can see the lists compiled.

The average age of murdered children over there is five years old.

If you want better stats, get Israel to let journalists in (maybe ask them to stop killing them while you're at it).

> Can someone name a large-scale armed military conflict in which the civilian population caught in that conflict weren't treated as expendable?

Ah - there it is. Palestinian civilians are expendable to Israel, and you call this normal.

But how many senior Hamas leaders have been taken in Gaza? Zero.

How many hostages have been rescued? Minus three.

All while a child is murdered every ten minutes.

Israel is committing verified war crimes and atrocities every day. It's not excusable. There is a responsibility, even in war, to protect civilian life.
If a Payroll system can cost 2-3 billion (see phoenix Canada), which is basically a CRUD, ledger and business rules - something we’ve already done 1000s of times.

They probably add the costs of test equipment which I presume they had to procure and even destroy several times to make sure the virus worked.
To add on to that, it's a very "childish" word, something a little kid would say. It's like you did something without your mom's permission, implying a child-like sneakiness or mischievousness.
Famously user friendly crypto.

Where nobody ever loses access to their assets in perpetuity.
But wait, taxes are only on the difference between strike price and FMV, so if it’s underwater you could take it as a capital loss and net out ahead!

/s
Because they should lose their conflicts, because they would do bad things if they won.

This isn’t like, a game, where we want all sides to have an equal chance of winning?

If a robber comes to your house armed with a knife, and you have a sword with good reach, you don’t toss the robber a sword out of some sense of sportsmanship.
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Many things, starting with true support for recent protocols. Until now, no solution were able to leverage multiplexing and couldn't issue concurrent requests using one connection. This permit to avoid useless threading and complexity.
Then, about security, plain DNS is over 30 years old, and we still rely on it to resolve hostnames, it is dangerous to say the least. With support for encrypted DNS and DNSSEC, you raise the bar higher for potential attacker. Then about certificate validation, you cannot be sure the certificate is not revoked without this solution. Almost every dependencies in the chain are SLSA signed, thus almost eliminating some risks.
Finally, getting a fresh evolution without having to re-learn anything or re invent the wheel has some perks. This solution extend the well known Requests and provide both sync and async interfaces, almost no change required.
And more, but I'll let you discover the rest by yourself.
Well, not all incoming signals get the same weight for the outcoming signal, as the dendrites are e.g. more or less close to the part of the cell where the spikes are generated. But this computation is just analogous to the connection weights together with the activation function in artificial neural networks. That's not what enables classical conditioning in single Cerebellum cells.
Isn't thread dead yet?
I mean, US/UK did demolish the democracy in Iran due to their greed for oil. So, its not like their anger is completely out of thin air.

Having said that, it doesn't condone the actions of the Iranian regime as well.
Asking questions to gain a better perspective ≠ flamebait. Plenty of people have their own reasons to hate the regime. It doesn’t matter to me personally since I have no stake in Iran or her politics.
An internal tool I'm responsible for maintaining (that coworkers at my company use) consumes CSVs, and a lot of the time they're made by less-technical employees who use Excel to create/edit them. Very often Excel causes unexpected bugs that baffle me when the tool can't parse it. One time it surprised me when all the cells looked right in Excel itself, but when I popped it into Emacs, there were ~15 extra commas at the end of every row. Don't know what world that would be expected behaviour in, but alright.
Not to be "that guy", but... one second is a VERY VERY long time to compile a hello world program.
Actually, the kernel maintainers are very against this idea, there's even a mini-rant included in the kernel source: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

In my opinion, the rationale in this document is mostly post-hoc justification for the natural momentum of the kernel team to continue the Linux project exactly as it has been for 3 decades, essentially a Unix clone, with the exact same design decisions that went into Unix, even the unconscious ones (such as no thought for the utility of driver modularization).
I missed this projectors thing but I've not been camping for the last 4 years. What I hated last time was the needlessly super bright flashlights campers started to use to walk around the campsites. I understand the psychological and commercial call for brighter is better, but they are really harsh to the eyes to the other people. Any 1000 lumen light is more than enough to see where you're walking and its maybe more than what people use at home to lit their rooms. I used one of these lights to bike at night in the woods. My flashlights are less bright than that. I see lights with 3000 lumens on sale on Amazon now.
RSS is head over heels. In an ideal world, websites would connect to users wanting the information and then a notification server installed on their devices would listen for incoming connection and display the wanted notifications. No tradeoff between latency and wasted bandwidth. Sadly the Internet isn't a peer-to-peer network anymore and dynamic IP, NAT and firewalls make this impossible.
On my android, I cannot type - the keyboard does not open. So it's read-only on my mobile.

I think that was the problem with Monaco on mobile: the keyboard never worked correctly. That was my experience.

Edit: I don't want to complain, Monaco is superb editor and it would be super if it worked on mobile consistently. But from the github issue, it appears that Microsoft doesn't seem to want to change that.
I have to disagree completely here. In the case of going to the moon, the most reasonable prior for "astronauts pick something up that then returns with them intact and is able to survive in highly oxidizing atmosphere" should be near zero. The prior for "we bring something to the Moon that somehow contaminates the place" should be significantly higher than that, yet still very small. This is, of course, taking into account that we didn't know how hardy tardigrades and some of the various types of extremophiles could be then. But, IMO, I still don't think that should raise the risk estimate of bringing anything back very much, nor should it raise the risk estimate for contaminating the place to anything approaching that of any of the very real possibilities for which NASA literally had 8+ contingency plans. And I say all that even while factoring in that the potential impact of bringing something back that would be able to survive could be the destruction of humanity, destruction of Earth's biosphere (and all of humanity with it), or any of a number of other existential risk scenarios.

With AI, those probabilities are all flipped on their heads. The reason we know of some of the risks, e.g. the risk of deep fakes being used as tools for fraud, is because they have already happened. That one single scenario alone having already come to fruition takes whatever anyone should have for a prior probability of said risk and shoots it straight up to 100%. And, that alone is a key difference between AI today and lunar or terrestrial contamination by alien life in the 1960s.

Let us not also forget that there are many, many other risk scenarios than deepfakes being used for fraudulent purposes. Much as I hate to reference Rumsfeld on this, there truly are "unknown unknowns" here, and we have to take that seriously. And then there are the middle ground scenarios, such as the possibility of severe and lasting economic disruption, to the point where capitalism might not be able to function as it has for the past several centuries. I truly don't believe that any foreseeable "internal" risk[0] could cause capitalism to completely stop working forever, unless we just run out of stuff to dig up out of the dirt, but AI certainly could cause multiple decades of disruption, which would be nearly as bad for most people alive today.

I'm gonna cut myself off there, because I think this is getting a little ponderous, but also because I think my point is made now: biotic contamination, whether forward or reverse, involved a sum of a lot of hypotheticals with very low probabilities, whereas AI risk involves a sum of some certainties, a few potential (though perhaps low probability) existential risks, and also an indeterminate number of unknown risks of unknown probability. It seems pretty clear once you crunch it all out that AI is certainly the greater threat.

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[0] Mmeaning one that originates within capitalism itself, like AI, rather than one that originates outside of capitalism, but puts pressure on the system, like climate change..
And nested CSS, although it’s coming to CSS soon.
It’s worth remembering the x86 emulation on Apple Silicon is as good as it is (reportedly better than most other x86-on-ARM efforts) in part due to CPU features Apple added to the host platform for that explicit purpose, from memory ordering[1,2] to obscure flag bits[3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28731534

[2] https://github.com/saagarjha/TSOEnabler

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33635720
I think in many people's goal to "simplify using a computer" it ends up making things that could easily be educational without actively trying to teach you anything -- basically sparks curiosity and informs a bit. (like this great example the author shows here). One example of this (that previously existed in actual computers) is the old trusty red hard drive light telling you that the hard disk is active... if you were like me, you knew the game was going to actually load this time when it showed a particular pattern and you heard the hard drive make a satisfying sequence of fast disk reads. Seems like a nice compromise is to hide the "advanced view" but keep it there for the curious people who likely will be the next generation of computer nerds making the world go 'round.
Isn't there a flag for getting only the opened filenames? (If not, why not)
Although saying 'our users [are all wrong and stupid and have] fallen victims to Gambler’s fallacy' (obviously my addition in square brackets) is a bad look, the rest of the article details how they adapted the algorithm to make it seem more random even though actually it is less random.

There's no winners here, the randomness purists will say 'well if shuffle plays all the songs in alphabetical order, or all your Metallica songs first, or some other order, they're all perfectly legal permutations and as likely as each other'.

Then the majority, folks who just want to listen to a variety of music, who will say 'how can it possibly be random if all the Metallica songs are together or Pantera songs are together, or Christina Aguilera songs are together?'

I think in the end Spotify did the right thing here by opting to be less mathematically purist, and doing what users actually want from a shuffle.

There is a separate (and maybe unrelated) issue which is that dynamically generated playlists seem to heavily favour well-known songs, which may be what you're referring to.

But yeah, this article is coming up on ten years old now. I would be surprised if the shuffle algorithm is still the same.
First U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rockets toward the moon
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You should watch the video then, as it goes into more details about new strace features introduced in the last few years, like print only system calls with a specified return status (successful, failed, etc.).

I'm particularly intrigued about what I can do with system call tampering. I like the example of being able to make unlink() be a no-op, giving you easy access to a temporary file which is normally automatically cleaned up.
It landed on grass/dirt. On the photos on Twitter there seems to be some thick vegetation. Seeing the drops on the screen, if it has rained, then it would make the ground even softer.

If it would have landed on the asphalt, concrete, marble it would have looked very different!
As the first generation after Portugal's dictorship, I think it is even worse how naïve people happen to be regarding intelligence services, even in democratic countries.

The whole point is to do the dirty work it isn't supposed to be happen.
I do resonate with this perspective. Iran could be the most evil group within humanity but that doesn’t mean she shouldn’t act rationally and acquire weapons her enemies have.
At that point I'd rather it ran like the old DOS versions or later Filesystem checks at startup (very useful for boot partitions).
There are standards like Zigbee, Thread, and Z-Wave for that.
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Picking a random integer between 1 and 1 million.
Except it doesn't work on programs that call strace.
Yeah, sure. I mean "we don't do fraud detection, it's literally one of our design decisions that you can't do anything after fraud has happened, and also, fraud is kinda in our DNA" systems are totally well suited to solve that.
Right, but it's pretty obvious that the risk of something that's already here destroying humanity / civilization / the planet, is far greater than that of some hypothetical thing that may have been waiting to be brought back from the moon of doing it. Both sides of the equation matter here.
>>We can’t compare the full 1k to 1k km yet because EPA ratings aren’t out

True

>>PHEV is a green washing ploy IMO. Plugging in every day is hard enough as it is

So I disagree in the sense that they do work absolutely amazing if your usecase works for what they offer. Our Volvo does 20-30 miles in EV mode, but that covers my driving needs every day, and we have a charging point outside of the house, so plugging it in every day is literally not a problem. In consequence this car just doesn't use any fuel - I drive it every day but fill it up maybe once every 3 months. In fact the main argument for buying it was how much it was going to save us every month on fuel compared to our last car - which turned out true, the savings more than offset the larger finance cost of buying it.

But on the other hand, I know someone who owns one living in an apartment in a big city, without any good way to charge it - in that case it's an idiotic thing to own, he's basically lugging around 400kg battery pack, ruining his economy, for no reason at all.

>>but with an PHEV it’s perfectly fine to skip that - and people do.

Maybe some do - I wouldn't stop at a hotel without charging point, because even though the range is only 20-30 miles in EV mode it makes a really big impact on overal economy.
There is a podcast about how this works inside AIVD (civil intelligence) and MIVD (military intelligence) unfortunately it's in Dutch, but if you speak Dutch and are interested: https://open.spotify.com/show/6wZZ2ojf2XxwgfYT649wpO

They describe the process on how things can be approved and what needs to be done for that. But this thing sounds like it was more an MIVD (military) thing and I can imagine there isn't nearly as much legal due process on that side.
The whole verified thing can't be trusted. I tried to play CyberPunk on my deck. The on-screen text is unreadable, the framerate is highly unstable and all in all it's just a bad experience. I ended up signing up to nVidia Geforce Now and finished it on there. Hogwarts legacy was just as unplayable, textures failing to load, bad framerates, bugs and crashes. I don't have the deck anymore because I can't trust that "verified" games are going to be playable.
What is Threads?
It's relatively trivial to have a `FROM scratch` dockerised microservice in Rust. I'm not convinced having an entire OS brings that much to the table.
Python 3.13: –enable-experimental-JIT –disable-GIL
The amount of (very impressive) human labor that went into building something that was dead on delivery. Kudos to them for being able to incentivize engineers to pull through this.
That depends on the quality of your randomness. If it's a person picking the number that definitely isn't a 1 in a million chance for most numbers. You need to get pretty specialized hardware before you can confidently say it's definitely an equal chance for every number every time.
Indeed, the doomsday clock is already requiring higher and higher resolutions. I unfortunately dont see how this changes the dynamic at play.

I think Trudeau put it rather well
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/israel-s-gaza-campaign-puts-...

> Israel's close friends are worried its military campaign in the Gaza Strip is putting at risk the country's long-term safety, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in an interview that aired on Thursday.
Threads is their Twitter / text-only offering.
Thank you for this, I would want that to happen either. But why is Iran like an armed robber? I guess I’ll need to research a bit more.
On he other hand, hydrogen requires thicker insulation including on the starship/booster itself, or pressure vessels everywhere, better cooling etc., All kinds of additional things that need to be manufactured and maintained and that emits plenty of CO2 in today's economy and near future.

Manufacturing green hydrogen is very akin to green CH4, so that cancels out. It's very likely we will need huge CO2 capture capacity anyway for other reasons, so offsetting rocket launches will then become marginal. And releasing CH4 on launch looks like a technical problem, not a fundamental one. Release additional oxygen so that everything burns completely further below the engine.

I don't think Mars manufacturing will make any change in Earth greenhouse gases emissions, or do i miss something?
The result we want is "stop burning carbon" so yeah.
As someone that used to be an active Gtkmm/Gnomemm user, it certainly wasn't their goal during the first decade of this century, and Canonical only came up with Unity due to disagreements of what the user experience should be all about.
I drop my iPhone 12 mini on the daily onto marble floor, asphalt and concrete .. sometimes it flings out of my hands with an arc to it. Slippery little thing, it is.

Only the edges are a bit scratched up.
That's not even close to true. Humans don't have the ability to exponentially amplify their own intelligence. It's not too farfetched to imagine that AGI just might have such a capability.
Yeah. Partner just hit one of those blocks, recruiter sent her offer for well paying position, but with EU institution that mandates a degree, so she didn't even get to interview in the end.

And she had extremely valid reasons for not finishing that degree, but it still is brick wall from time to time.
> For what it's worth, docx is technically standard. Not sure how that pans out in practice.

It doesn’t, basically,—the spec isn’t enough to render it, and Microsoft has stopped engaging with ISO in favour of publishing what is now nineteen major versions[1] of their own spec in step with Office updates. There also was a huge shitstorm[2] around the ratification of the original, unsurprisingly given how useless and patent-infested it was.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards...

[2] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007011720521698
>NHS... Palantir influencer campaign

A combination of terms you'd never, ever want to see together in a sentence.
Point taken.

Positions analyzed per $, per W and per watt-dollar are surely much, much higher, though ;)
Corollary: it's easier to fraud if you can fake high integrity.
I wish videos were to the point. I really wanted to know how the wafer is moved. But it goes on and on about history and what the machines are like and light sources.
Mobile dev here. If you are talking about native mobile then I'v played around with using HATEOAS with native code in the past (around ~2013).

It works fine but is obviously not as flexible as on the web. It also does require that each linkable screen be developed in a strict black box fashion.

It was a fun exercise to try out, but not sure what the value of using it in production would be.
Came here to recommend that great post too.

Also, the graphics are much prettier there if you like that kind of thing (which I do).
It's a common insight, yet you see slogans like "zero tolerance" or "our overriding priority is security" everywhere. You can choose to believe people championing them are just oversimplifying or actually encouraging a bad system for their own gains, but it's important to be able to point to a well-written piece explaining why they're a bad idea.
Sentry will use user data to train AI models without user consent
I don’t care much for Iran or its neighbours. If you’re framing Israel as the victim here, it probably does have nuclear weapons. I suppose a follow up question is: why is Iran evil for having a secret nuclear weapons program and Israel isn’t for its program?
Including compiling from scratch the complete C++ standard library on first use, which I should probably have mentioned.
No, you don’t need specialized hardware. The output of a modern hash for crypto absolutely needs to produce a uniform distribution across a million.
To be fair, printed documents used to be like that for the first one or two centuries of their existence.