skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jillette even called out seatbelts seemingly as something he believes should be personal choice rather than mandated - in an "it affects the person making the choice, it doesn't affect other people" way.

I might be on a bit of a stretch here, but the after-effects of a car crash involving people not wearing seatbelts could be quite a fair bit worse for witnesses and bystanders than if seatbelts were worn. Being at fault for a car crash where someone is killed because they weren't wearing their seatbelt will weigh psychologically no matter the logic. First responders dealing with a non-seatbelted puddle of recently-functioning-human. Public roads are public.

To the nth degree, however, everything is interconnected, so everything we do can affect everyone else. Government gets the (what should be) unenviable job of choosing where to draw that line.
Sometimes people just don’t care.

I moved on, please don’t bother me about it and let the website live or die.

That’s about the answer I got the last time one of my favorite websites was due to be deleted.
"Open Source" is not a general language construct, its a defined term with a defined meaning.

The fact that many people use the phrase incorrectly is exactly the problem that needs correcting. Licenses gave very real legal consequences, and calling yourself Open Source when you're not is not a good way to create confidence with potential customers.
TIL the word "virgule".
> At what point should an acquisition be allowed on the sake of something being able to continue to exist and possibly save jobs?

Never? The entire point of private companies is that they take risk on themselves. If we have to bail them out we might as well just nationalize them. See: the entire american airline industry.
Is the link supposed to be this https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-reader-reports-...
The fate is clear, the how and why is not. Of course that's important for families.

And $150M is less than the plane itself would have cost to buy.
Reasoning with Attitude
Nothing fades into oblivion. The company is obligated to liquidate its assets which includes IP. This gives a big opportunity to build new products that may be more economically viable. This would not be possible if the company would be acquired by the incumbent who will just acquire the company’s IP and sit on it.
I believe Microsoft Research is the closest thing to the old Bell Labs or the old Xerox PARC that exists today, but I’ve heard that even MSR has changed (though this is just hearsay). I’ve heard historically researchers at MSR had a wide degree of freedom, and there has been many interesting projects coming out of there, my favorites being Singularity and Midori. Once again I don’t know how free the lab culture is, and I also don’t know the lab’s performance review criteria.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/
That's fantastic for you, and for DOCSIS users (setting aside DOCSIS' other pain points), but your neighbors on residential Ethernet-based plans do not enjoy the supposed security benefits of NAT that you claimed upthread.
The magic of a prediction market with a reasonable sampling of people is that the players don't need to be rational, for things that are publicly decided. Imagine every person who went to vote, also bet in a prediction market based on nothing except who they wanted to win - the prediction market would be right 100% of the time. And it'd similarly be right most of the time, with a good random sample.

That said, even for things that aren't publicly decided - the 'wisdom of the masses' [1] is very real and kind of weird phenomena. If you get people to try to guess how many beans are in a large jar, you'll get some people making really stupid guesses like 100, or a million. Yet when you average out the result over all answers, it tends to be extremely close to the right answer. At least unless you let people collaborate, then the effect disappears and we become stupid again. Kind of explains a lot of things.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd#Examples
> (1) lack of effort or (2) lack of organization.

(3) lack of reward

I say the former 2 is caused by 3. Why would anyone put in over-time to solve a problem, if they dont know how well they'd get rewarded by it?

It's why small/founder owned startups get more done with less, because they know themselves how much reward they'd get when putting in the hard yards.
reporting to who are you referring to?
Real ale is wonderful, I highly recommend it to anyone visiting the UK. I wish it were more common in the US.
Definitely one of the best headlines ever.

I'm reminded of the hero in Idiocracy who claimed, "Whenever someone said 'lead, follow, or get out of way', I got out of the way."
The only way to get approval to experiment on human subjects is by specifically intending the device to treat a condition, and then only testing on individuals with that condition. You can't just take volunteers off the street and start testing chemotherapy drugs on them for example - this is to avoid exploiting the poor and indigent as human lab rats.

They need to thread the needle of a condition so advanced that a brain link device would potentially restore a basic essential of life but also not so advanced that the patient can no longer give consent.

You can see the patient criteria they selected here: https://neuralink.com/pdfs/PRIME-Study-Brochure.pdf
I'd add only one thing:

Be the person that solves problems.
Employers want people that can solve their problems. they may not even care how it gets solved... as long as they problem they have will get solved so they can move forward.
Often this takes talent and skill, but in my live I've found that sheer bloody minded persistence and doing things the hard way will often be exactly what is needed and appreciated.
Interesting. To meet their definition of "social media platform" requires that it "Utilizes addictive, harmful, or deceptive design features, or any other feature that is designed to cause an account holder to have an excessive or compulsive need to use or engage with the social media platform."

Also, they have a large list of exclusions. Some of the phrasing sounds like under-16 people are mostly limited to person-to-person messaging, consuming content produced by others, and being able to access certain services that got exclusions.

Being able to speak publicly is sometimes expressly not allowed in these exclusions, but it is at least implied in other exclusions (which I guess might have originated to allowlist specific companies).

Teens who care to observe the law at all (many will not) will quickly realize that they can figuratively drive a truck right through some of those loopholes. (Example: a "photo editing & hosting" service with accounts and likes and comments is pretty much Twitter or Facebook, once an exodus of kids from "social media" starts congregating there. Bonus rebelious vibe, and the freedom/coolness that your parents and grandparents, and mean school principal haven't yet discovered it.)

If I had an online service that had under-16 among its users who were doing public expression/communication/content, and my business wasn't already clearly excluded, I would be scrambling to lobby for an exclusion. (I would also be discouraging this particular formulation of law, in the public interest, but remiss if I didn't have a backup plan for my immediate business in the case that it passed.)
I tested the performance of system calls on Windows 10 by repeatedly calling NtClose on an invalid handle. A system call took around 1200 CPU cycles.
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Rating agencies have to comply with the SEC registration rules. There are currently 10, but only 3 dominate the market for large bond issues. In theory anyone could start a new one but in practice it would be difficult. The most recent company to obtain registration was Demotech which did it in 2022 but the company had been around since 1985.

https://www.sec.gov/about/divisions-offices/office-credit-ra...
There are US troops in Iraq. In fact Iraq is trying to get them out, without success.(so far)

There are US troops in Syria. Al Tanf and the whole area where the oil is to the east of the Euphrates River.
British cartwheel pennies weighed exactly one ounce and British bronze halfpennies were an inch across - made sense for these things to be useful 100+ years ago.
It's quite easy to go tell other people what they should do with their time.

These researchers are in the business of improving algorithms. Implementing them in large industrial (or open source) code bases in a maintainable way -- and then actually maintaining that code -- is a different skillset, a different set of interestes, and as was pointed out, besides the point.

Either you believe their results, then be grateful. Someone (yoU!) can implement this.
Or you don't. In which case, feel free to move on.

Your tone comes off as entitled.
The article does mention the time-to-settle problem in footnote 9.
In the long term, the bursting of Tether is probably…
Tom Holland's Avengers bonus sent to Tom Hollander in error
He is banned; his comments here are only alive because I rescued them.
I wouldn’t call myself a “radical free-software absolutist” (and I hope you’ll agree that there’s a lot of ideological middle ground between an RMS and the average happy/dispassionately content Microsoft user), but one big advantage of open source in this context is that it’s a kind of insurance policy against the developer/owner taking things into a direction I don’t appreciate.

I’d be much more likely to run a fork of Edge without the incredibly annoying/distasteful coupons and rewards it keeps trying to push on me, for example.
Also no real keyboard and no blackberry messenger app. Certainly nobody will ever buy this!
Might as well pack it in. The shower cap is enough!
Oh yeah, 100% agree and I'm going to use that bread baking analogy if its ever relevant again.

I swear I'm decent at conversation in real life, but I don't think I'm good at it online.
If it's you, I'd never noticed. If it's recent, I'm glad you're OK!
Before this unusual rebranding, we had <strong>, another ridiculous attempt to add some kind of semantics (despite being essentially meaningless) to the <b> element, created during the insane excesses of the XHTML STRICT era.

<b> was, is, and always will be the bold text element. No one is going to die if there is some slight semantic meaning in your HTML.
The author didn't fail to realise any of that, because he pointed all of those things out (and more) in the article.
It’s nearly an impossible task to stop the onslaught of deepfakes, a task that only gets harder as the technology gets cheaper and better. The solution in the end will be some means to authenticate a video or photo before distribution. Those photos or videos not authenticated will then be nothing more than more realistic versions of stick figures with boobs drawn by adolescent boys fifty years ago.
This time. But only because the spotlight is on them.
But those will be, yes? Apart from the Ondsel-specific Lens stuff, are there things that will not make it into main FreeCAD?
You're trolling right?
Sounds like the Dreame L20 Ultra. I have it, it's miles better than any irobot I've owned.
In the late 90's, my dad was a screen printer and did a bunch of big runs of garments for Walmart stores. He'd built a good size business, doing regular jobs for Disney, action sports, NFL, etc, building a shop that usually ran two shifts of hundreds of employees. It's not an exaggeration to suggest that if it had a screen printed image on it, we probably printed it.

> very exacting in pick up and delivery times

Well, for us, not exactly. For our last contract with Walmart, there was a lot of language about timing. If the driver arrived and the order wasn't ready for pickup, we'd be penalized for every hour of delay. The penalties were such that you could end up losing crazy money on the job if you weren't confident about your abilities to deliver on time.

Not a big deal for us since we were tight, and could easily handle it.

Then Walmart arrived a day early. The driver had made a choice to stop for us first, which, after pulling up the contract, we realized it allowed for that. Our lawyer had determined it was vague enough that the agreed delivery date would prevail, contractually. Which is probably why we didn't notice that the contract also said the pickup clock started the minute the driver arrived, and that was also the official pick up time. Had we caught that during contract negotiations, we'd have refused the terms. But we missed it.

We weren't a small shop. We already ran two shifts, and quickly needed to pull in a third to be able to finish in time to get any profit out of the job.

We almost did that last contract with zero profit, and refused all business from Walmart after that day.

Thing is, I've heard of similar stories where Walmart would do similar tricks with produce from farms. Whether myth or not, I don't know, but I know with certainty how they treated us. There were probably incentive structures in place for drivers to show up early, and some of them had the balls to do it a lot earlier than others. In this case, they could give the driver an bonus for his better than on-time averages, then "buy" goods worth a retail $5M+ for the cost of the driver's salary and bonus, plus whatever the supplier (us) managed to keep after penalties.
Ask HN: TIL themes for HN is a thing. What else do you guys use to browse it?
Pretty much the title. I saw the Dracula theme trending today, so I thought I'd ask.

I'm fairly new here, kinda like the default raw exteriors, but always on the lookout for things to improve my experience or simply make it cool.
Personally I use https://github.com/pyxelr/hacker-news-bluish-gray
Most people who're suffering from cognitive dissonance don't have a problem with the dissonance, how-ever they struggle with articulating themselves with their limited vocabulary, it is only after they obtain the vocabulary can they cognitively start process their emotions/experiences. Its only when the frontal cortex can build new adaptive mental models to process the emotions can people move forward, Everything else is a coping strategy.

It is a large part why therapy is useful because you out-source that vocabulary/articulation/interpretation to a third party who can articulate it back to you which helps speed up that feed-back loop/process.
Thank you for sharing all the context; very interesting.

1d does stand out. I can guess what they were going for. I wonder if it could be somehow scoped to gamified, or to feed-based algorithmic sites. As a random example, Reddit's site definitely underwent such feed based boosting in the last few years. I'm constantly getting suggested content that is some form of region-based outrage event, Person X doing horrible thing to person Y, etc, and its nauseating. You click one such thing and it knows and it just hits you again and again, and eventually you just have to get out. Which sucks because every time I pick up a new interest, its an easy place to go to find more people that are into it; but you can't get that without the BS.
My mom would just bring a briefcase full of printed medical records to every appointment.
Wasn’t this on AppEngine in the early days? Yeah, if this is the same thing it’s probably the first queue I learnt / used. Will add it in.
I'm seriously claiming that if you don't read the actual terms of a legal agreement, you shouldn't wager on the outcome of that agreement. The headline statement leaves a ton of ambiguity, so any reasonable person would read the short paragraph that describes in full detail how the outcome will be measured and then bet accordingly. Caveat Emptor and all that.
Floss!
I meant her being a murderer was extreme, not her ability at opsec. Definitely not a criminal mastermind, but this opsec is difficult and oftentimes people are either a)caught on the hop trying (without planning/preparation) to cover up/escape the consequences of their actions or b)are caught because they gave the game away while planning because they didn't want to do (a).
Yes. No idea what happened with the bookmarklet this time.
https://github.com/lookfirst/refined-hacker-news/tree/main
Copying files is absolutely not stealing since it doesn’t remove something from the owner. Stealing is conventional bad not because the thief acquires something, but because the original owner is deprived of something. I’d be pissed if someone stole cash from me even if they burn it. It’s not that they now have my property, it’s that I * no longer have* my property that’s the issue.

In the case of piracy, the original owner still has their property. So I’m sorry but “theft” is simply the wrong word. The original owner is not deprived of their data.

In the case of the fence however, the original owner is indeed deprived of some modicum of energy. The energy is indeed *taken*, or removed from the original owner. Thus I do consider this “theft”. It’s also true that it’s a trivial amount.
Thats not hypothetical those are pretty obvious functions of the tech. If two people have it implanted in similar regions and have record,playback, and can send files to the other person for playback、then you get thought transmission. Probably lossily. Two people with internet enabled laptops. (more useful if both of them can read and write a common language)

There are downsides of course, but the benefit vs downside of most new technology is assymetricaly in favor of the upsides, primarily due to human nature being assymetrically good natured. You can use an iphone to organize terrorist attacks and scams, or to call your loved ones. Thats up to the users. 99.9999% of users are just using it to do normal human social stuff. Probably same for implants, but cooler. That doesnt make an iphone utopian. Thats your words not mine.

paper and conversation, and audio recordings, cameras and video do many of these things. Just with lower bandwidths.

As for new vulnerabilities, I dont know if we will be able to interpret incoming signals via brain interface as foreign, but id guess like any other input, if you didnt grow up with it youd be susceptable to manipulation. But if you grew up with it youd probably have some sense in discerning between your ideas and others ideas. (Sort of like how my grandma thinks scam emails are from honest people, but for younger folks its obviously malicious) Could be wrong though. Only one way to find out. Put one in grandma.
Clojure itself actually loads pretty quickly, but almost every project has enough libraries to make loading the project take a few seconds.
Disclaimer - I work for a health service that isn't in the USA and has a very extensive EMR.

I don't disagree. I started my career dealing with paper folders of records that were fastidiously organised by a team that made sense of them. Now everything is electronic and fucking _everywhere_. The work didn't go away - but giving everyone a computer made it everyone's problem and nobody's job.

A really good EMR (or other records project) makes the 'work doers' jobs easier and is intuitive. We often severely miss that mark or only do half the job required.
I have an Erdos number of 3, since I published with Barry Mazur who has a 2.
Encounter is too small for notability. We all have six degree of separation after all. Erdos number is specifically publishing paper, which is much harder. Just like its variants like Bacon number for producing films.
Over a decade ago I helped quite a few people migrate their forums off places like Proboards, ActiveBoards, and many other "free" forum hosts to their own hosts using phpBB/SimpleMachinesForum etc.; many such hosts had highly customized forum software and no ability to download the database in any usable format. Copies of my converters might still be floating around on the Internet. At least one of these free hosts used something fairly similar to vBulletin, IIRC.

The process is in principle not difficult: scrape the site (I recommend a dedicated scraper for that), then go through and extract everything relevant into a SQL database formatted the way your target forum software expects. The hardest part was recovering BBCode formatting in a usable fashion. Unfortunately my converters were written back when I didn't understand HTML parsing terribly well, so they're a hodgepodge of ugly regexes and handrolled string parsing.
TWA Hotel
I wonder how many field office numbers have changed…
Feminist AI
Yep, MCAS was an “engineering solution”. Hopefully this time they’ll at least document their “engineering solution” for the people who have to fly the damn thing.
I vape daily and use disposables (yes, I am the baddie.)

You'd be surprised. A lot of people go out drinking, do not want to bum cigarettes off of strangers or smell bad but still want to use nicotine and drink. Single use vapes you throw away the next day are great for that. Women buy disposables a lot, according to the personnel at the vape shop I go to which specializes in disposables.

I think vaping even disposables is better than smoking cigarettes. I would ban cigarettes before banning disposables purely due to the litter from butts. It does not help that in the US public smoking areas do not exist so people often throw it on the ground.

Nicotine is not a nice habit but there are certainly lesser evils in the spectrum and disposables are a far lesser evil than cigarettes.
A video with some of the interior - https://youtu.be/S-Wmk7mCjLo

I'm really interested in the reuse of this terminal which sat vacant for many years. Are there ideas here for reuse of other large defunct structures?
https://jobs.braveclojure.com/
Sorry for the wrong link (cannot correct it anymore):

https://academic.oup.com/book/55106?searchresult=1
No. If this was in an advertisement I'm pretty damn sure it would violate truth-in-advertising laws. Clarifications are one thing, contradictions are another. Most "reasonable" people reading it come away with an understanding of it that contradicts the fine print. Which is exactly what happened, and hence why so many people lost money. You don't get to put contradictory terms in a contract then blame it on "caveat emptor".
The trouble with your utopian thinking is that we do not have an education system that reliably equips people to make rational decisions, nor do we have information hygiene rules that help reduce noise so that people can make rational decisions. Last, but far from least, we do not give people the time to think and/or collect data.

So, this is not to say that any of this tech should be banned or regulated. Regulation itself is at risk of being irrationally/dishonestly captured.

It's just that there's no cause for celebration either. A lot of people are going to suffer, and ultimately even if the tech does mature, people will find far more ways to enshittify it for a quick buck.

In other words, even if in the best case scenario we might have new gadgets etc. the world won't really change. The shape of our conflicts (information vs. misinformation) will remain roughly the same, and the balance of our power in those conflicts will remain roughly the same.

As a consequence: the probability that you (or yours) will get to benefit, rather than merely be the temporarily-disgraced winners will remain roughly the same: quite low.
>Delta entered Chapter 11 on Sept. 14, 2005, amid high fuel prices and the burdens of high labor and pension expenses. Delta significantly reduced its labor and pension costs while under court protection.

It’s always interesting that Chapter 11 is a way out of pension promises. That someone can take employment at a certain wage, and then the company can renege on the back half of the compensation once the person retires.