skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some fungi can survive the conditions of space, which is pretty incredible.

It is literally incredible, and the title is misleading.

The fungi was in some kind of box that was filled with a lot of CO2, a little O2 and H2O, and other stuff to simulate the atmosphere on Mars.

That box was then placed outside the space station.

It wouldn't survive if it was just growing in space, outside the space station. Believe me, I'm outside of it right now and it is not going to be fun[1].

1: I'm about to start doing my taxes-- blecch-- here on Earth, which is technically outside of the space station.
On a Tesla: Don't
I know :( We're poorer everyday for it.
This doesn't belong at the top of such a pyramid as it too has debased forms (e.g. paternalism or savior complexes). And more importantly has a focus on each of the levels, with some people transcending to meet physiological needs of all, others safety needs of all, yet others focusing on belonging or esteem needs, and other trying to enable people to self-actualize or transcend.

Self-transcendence is on the side of the hierarchy of needs, though admittedly a person isn't going to be very good at self-transcendence if they are starving or aren't educated. I think this drive of self-transcendence guides many people whenever they are at the various levels. Though admittedly some people get all the way through a Ph.D. without really having a sense of meaning or purpose, I think this kind of trajectory is in the minority and most of us mix it up a bit.
Using a rock to drive in a nail technically works. However, if you want to build a house in a reasonable amount of time, using a rock to drive your nails _is_ a broken approach if it can’t keep pace.
It also doesn't add routes between the outer and inner networks.
Fútbol and 'football' sound very close. Goal/Gol /gohl/ , I think not much. We spell 'twitter' with an American accent. At least we correctly say 'pub'.
Rip Fred Hampton. Hoover, he was a body remover.
Python is a tool that is meant to serve you. Python is a big tent, multi-paradigm language that generally allows you to do things in the way that best suits your needs, as best determined by you.

^^ this excerpt from the post made me spit my wine out ... this is what https://raku.org is for!

Surely, according to the zen of python https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/, the pythonic way is:

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

At least raku is architected on consistent class types from the get go so its gradual typing is not just an annotation / type hint bolt on.
Ooooh time to drop my favorite WW2 quote

When Pearl Harbor happened, we [Roosevelt's advisors] were desperate. ... We were all in agony. The mood of the American people was obvious – they were determined that the Japanese had to be punished. We could have been forced to concentrate all our efforts on the Pacific, unable from then on to give more than purely peripheral help to Britain. It was truly astounding when Hitler declared war on us three days later. I cannot tell you our feelings of triumph. It was a totally irrational thing for him to do, and I think it saved Europe.
It sometimes sounds the state of the art is headed there, see Cronin et al regarding “Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9
Keep your pentesting tools up-to-date. Run them against yourself on every single deployment, if you can. Don't just run them quarterly because that's all that your PCI-DSS requirements say you have to do.

Integrate security code scanning tools into your CI/CD process. Tools like Dry Run Security, or something comparable.

There's much more, but that has to do with how to run your CI/CD systems and how to do your deployments in general, and less to do with security aspects thereof.
because it doesn't stop at personal security - they participate in the forums set up by ring and share videos of "problematic activity".

that is a fundamental part of owning a ring camera - if you just cared about personal security you would buy a gun instead or live in a gated community. a camera isn't gonna do anything for you.
Have been using chatgpt/ copilot for a while now and I feel I know better the limitations and what it can achieve most:
- unit testing and docs, readme
- when it can potentially hallucinate

It helps me do things that I'd usually procrastinate from doing, yet I know how I can get them done. It is really a booster to ones performance if you know exactly what you want
Cybersecurity in 2024: Five Predictions
The problem is that you have to invest actual effort to memorize things. Memorizing things you very rarely need is not worth it, even if you're amazing at memorizing things. It's impossible to memorize everything you would benefit from having access to in written form.
Proof for everyone that these programs do work. You have a good memory!

:)
- The crypto is designed to prevent MiTM attacks, which also makes doing NIC crypto offload a lot harder.

Huh? Surely what you're doing in the accelerated path is just AES encryption/ decryption with a parameterised key which can't be much different from TLS?
Github Copilot is really good at writing spaghetti code. It isn't good at refactoring and modularizing your code. So if you're used to writing spaghetti code yourself, you can work with it and manage the complexity. If you're used to writing highly-factored code, the code it generates is going to require a lot of work.
Why not write a blog then to fill in that gap?
I was thinking the same thing except the Arduino instead of the Raspberry Pi. All the Pi is doing is "note selection and the synthesising of the audio buffers themselves." Surely the Arduino Uno can do that, too?
>different.

Almost any. In Spain:

za, ce, ci, zo, zu -> tha,the, thi... as in "think".

In America they'll use the /s/ sound, but because the Internet usage both
spellings are understood fine since "El Chavo del Ocho" times in Spain,
Mexican/Venezuelan soap operas and, similarly,
with todays' 'La Casa de Papel' from Spain overseas.
Such a response would generally be a crime; existing cybercrime legislation generally does not have any clauses permitting retaliation as "self defence", and also very often you'd be DDoSing an innocent third party, another victim whose compromised device is abused to route traffic, and also affecting their neighbors on the same network.
I hope your area never has a major disaster. Why do you have to make this into a Blue vs Red battle?
I don't see any "storage permissions" option. Android 14.
... Experts who, often, make a living from offering polygraph services...
A hint or two would be fetching.
Interesting. Came to similar conclusions when analyzing my (httpd) access logs for https://turmfalke.httpd.app/demo.html ... but so far nothing really out of the ordinary.
Youre right, being highly disagreeable has its downsides.
Supermemo (an earlier-established piece of Anki-adjacent software) and its fans are big pushers of something called "Incremental Reading":

https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Incremental_reading

https://www.help.supermemo.org/wiki/Incremental_reading
Also the fact that with a set of switches, if one doesn't work, it doesn't affect the others. Touchscreens seem to fail all-or-nothing, or at least have large areas suddenly become unusable.
TCP has at least one unfixable security exploit: literally anybody on the network can reset your connection. Availability is 1/3 of security, remember.
Remote doesn’t necessarily imply using the internet. ;)
”In light of other tech companies laying off their workers, Y's reluctance to slim down its workforce demonstrates Y's failure to reduce its dependence on employees. With a high level of uncertainty surrounding today's labour market and Y's limited ability to lower its fixed costs, our confidence in Y delivering competitive returns to its shareholders in the medium to long term is diminished, leading to our revised, lower rating of Y."
This is a recent thing insisting that words don't include women because they have a male genus. And only in this specific direction. Nobody complains that men are not persons because "person" is always a "she" in German.

The burden of proof still lies on the people arguing that word X does not include women.
I maintain a Brewfile (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle) which contains the majority of the non-project specific applications that I like to install on any new Mac:

https://github.com/jonahgeorge/dotfiles/tree/main

What's really nice is the `cask` & `mas` keywords allow you to install .dmg files & directly from the App Store.

---

While its not included in there yet, I've been experimenting with maintaining a private Homebrew tap which contains my ~/bin directory as opposed to shell aliases.
Wow..Thats a name I haven't seen in ages!
I remember when that happened..Horrible
and last time I looked (10-15 years ago??) the wells were still contaminated, and people still had to drink the water :-/
This is actually a follow-up refactor, the fix is here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/commit/abe79e4ec43798...
Just a hitch found on https://porffor.goose.icu/

On running the example 'Array Reading' with an optimization level of 3 I get the following error

CompileError: WebAssembly.instantiate(): Compiling function #2 failed: local.set[0] expected type f64, found global.get of type i32 @+207

Is this expected?
Startups Must Improve Lives [video]
Skipping days is not against the algorithm, it accounts for skipped days.

In a simplified system suppose that we just double easy card review times, and reset hard cards back to 1. You have a card up for review today, you last saw it N days ago. Two scenarios:

1. You don't delay. You review the card now. It's either hard and reset to 1 (see it again tomorrow) or easy and you see it again in 2N days.

2. You delay. You review it M days from now. When you finally do it's either hard and reset to 1 (see it again the next day) or easy and you see it again in 2(N + M) days.

That's it. The algorithm has you covered if you delay. It doesn't do something silly like say "This card was supposed to be reviewed after 2 days, but you waited a month. You remembered it, but we're going to show it to you again in 4 days." The algorithms will take the delay into account (maybe not one-for-one) like I illustrated above.
No, doing this properly isn’t hard.
This sounds right up my alley. Any suggestion on roles/titles/companies to keep an eye out for? I’ve been a SWE for 20+ years and have a background in mechanical engineering
Dorf Fort (2020)
Microsoft Teams has square checkbox in their Planner app that behaves like radio button. Super not confusing.
A lot of difficult (for Tesla fans) truths in this.

Obviously Lessig is not a fan of Elon, but it is strange that he makes the statement “If Tim Cook were CEO I’d have endless confidence” (paraphrasing). Tim Cook has been trying to build an EV for 10 years, was also given the opportunity to buy Tesla, and didn’t.

I also don’t quite understand the “Software update sucks” sentiment. Is there another OEM that does it better? The only regressions i see are from regulatory requirements. (Well and disabling of sonic sensors)
That's a matter of preference. I like the sharper iPhone forms more (4, 5, the first SE, 12 and onwards). I also love the sharp look of Mini and iMacs (especially the 2007 - 2015 ones).
I'm sure I've seen heavy users stating it doesn't last them through the day.

But even 2 is ridiculous for a watch. It's not like a phone or another device that you use occasionally and can even use while it's charging. It's supposed to be there on your wrist.
What is a poker settler?
This aligns with my thinking about the utility of LLMs: they're rubber duck programming as a service
Yes I've made this mistake with docker and UFW before :( Such a footgun.
For examples of famous Hitler fans, one good example was Unity Mitford, one of the 6 Mitford sisters, daughters of an English baron.

Unity (and her sister Diana) were so close to Hitler that they were part of his inner circle of friends.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Mitford
In the context of these experiments the fungi don't really have to do anything in this Mars-like environment, except surviving. Many fungi can do that quite well by going in a dormant state.

If you want to take these results to extrapolate whether there could be living and "thriving" fungi on Mars right now: there are radiotrophic fungi that can extract energy from ionizing (and possibly non-ionizing) radiation. There could also be fungi capable of chemosynthesis, the production of sugar and amino acids using oxidation reactions as a fuel source.
Universal healthcare is a disaster in every country similar to the US (UK, Canada). The Scandinavian model is an exception, and would never work here given social factors such as population makeup and numbers.

I'll keep my reasonable tax rates and absolutely top notch health care I receive through my employer, thank you very much.
When you include common-law and look at the broader cycle, I'd argue the legal system is more like a JIT optimization rather than source code: We formalize and streamline lots of existing implicit social rules and shared expectations, things that exist-before and can operate-without any formal legal text... Just not as well.

In other words, the relationship is more like recipes versus cooking. People cooked foods first-- possibly many many times--and then formalized them later with documentation and rules to help make an outcome transferable or fast.

However, it would be a mistake to think that just because recipes are ubiquitous, they are a prerequisite for the process.
Yep. I recently found out the non-descript brick building in the slightly shady part of town actually houses tens of millions of dollars in servers.

It was quite the shock to go from the grimey city alley to a perfectly clean, high tech, and highly secure interior.
You broke the HN guidelines egregiously here. Please don't do that again.

Turning this thread into a flamewar about Israel, of all things, was beyond vandalism and approaching arson.

I agree with sbilstein that its odor is nasty as well.

(Edit: it turns out you've been breaking the site guidelines a great deal. We have to ban accounts that post like this, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, that would be good. Please especially don't use multiple accounts to break HN's rules with.)
Show HN: Hacker News AI built using function calling
Hi HN, I built an AI that can interact with the Hacker News API and answer questions about hackernews stories, whats trending, what on show etc..

Check it out here: https://hn.aidev.run

You can ask questions like:

- What's on hackernews about AI?

- What's on hackernews about iPhone?

- What's trending on hackernews?

- What are users showing on hackernews?

- What are users asking on hackernews?

- Summarize this story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156778

- Tell me about the user pg

It uses function calling to query the HN api.

To answer questions about a particular topic, it’ll search its knowledge base (a vector db that is periodically updated with the “top stories”) and get details about those stories from the API.

This is pretty barebones and I built it today in < 2 hours, so it probably won’t meet your high standards. If you give it a try, I’d love your feedback on how I can improve it.

If you’re interested, I built this using phidata: https://github.com/phidatahq/phidata

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Thanks for reading and would love to hear what you think.
I always like to self-cope by telling myself life other than us exists in a plane of existence/dimension that we cannot comprehend and that's why we haven't found anything.

Fingers crossed that we stumble upon another 3 dimensional carbon based lifeform though, can't even wrap my head around how that'd affect civilization, would certainly be a mindset altering change globally.
Wait till you learn about RICO.
This kind of sounds like it was written by AI
That's not good enough for me. It doesn't listen to all of the instructions.
The increased size is indeed very nice from an accessibility perspective, but it seems to me that practically everyone capable of going to the lavatory on their own is also capable of operating a (well-designed) mechanical lock on their own. And for everyone who needs help to do this it's a non-issue because the person helping them can close and lock the door.

The caveat here is that I'm not an expert on this, and that I'm possibly argueing from a position of ignorance. But none of the people claiming accessibility benefits (there are several) have made a very convincing case, beyond a mere assertion that it's more accessible. The door design as such is more accessible, but I don't think it actually matters in this context.
What is the deal with this? I also came across this article and I’m confused how this isn’t a big deal if legitimate. I mean it could cause a huge problem for current Wall Street favorite nvidia.
ICE is the name of the derivatives exchange, which is in Chicago. The cash market is called NYSE.

The parent post said ‘ICE AND NYSE’.
Microdosing psychedelics: Current evidence from controlled studies
I cross-reference with the Leetcode editorial and some staring hard at code.
People used to believe a lot of crazy conspiracies and superstitions throughout history. The reason why we're so appalled at Qanon is that "it should be so easy for them to correct their superstitions, given the tools we have".

It's hard to argue that nowadays people believe more crazy stuff than before the internet was invented. (It's very easy, of course, to claim this, as many like to do.)
Hopefully zero! Still, if you replace your car (or its battery) every 10 years (pretty long IMO) and smoke one vape a day (yikes), you'll use more cells on your car than your vapes.
https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/14423

Looks like a bug with AnkiDroid and different Android versions (if the app was installed on a prior version of Android and Android was upgraded). Some workarounds in that thread.
> LLMs is a disaster to our field because it caters to the average human fallacy of wanting to reach a goal but without putting in the real work to do so.

It's a tool. It doesn't make sense to blame the tool. Is it the screwdriver's fault it gets used as a hammer? Or a murder weapon?

Used intelligently Copilot & Co can help. It can handle the boilerplate, the mundane and free up the human element to focus on the heavy lifting.

All that aside, it's early days. It's too early to pass judgement. And it seems unlikely it's going to go away.
Oh dear. My comment got somehow corrupted. It was a talk about kernel hacking.
>As sceptics pointed out at the time, though, the energy balance notion has an obvious flaw: it is tautological. If we get fatter (more massive), we have to take in more calories than we expend— that’s what the laws of thermodynamics dictate—and so we must be overeating during this fattening process. But this tells us nothing about cause. Here’s the circular logic: Why do we get fat? Because we overeat. How do we know we’re overeating? Because we’re getting fatter. And why are we getting fatter? Because we’re overeating. And so it goes, round and round

Yeah, so? Why do you need it to tell you about the cause?

By that information alone, you have a path to stop being obese: don't overeat.

You also have a gauge to periodically check to see if you're over or under-eating: you are getting fatter or losing weight respectively.

Even if the cause takes 500 years to be discovered, you already have enough information to lose weight.

Thankfully the TFA also tears down this "it's circular logic" bullshit refutation.
Phallacy, the sex organ of untruth
Damn, that's a really human-like response. This bot game is really getting serious.
One option could be to lock the port down to only your jump/bastion server source IP.
How do you flag a title?

Flagging an article doesn't do anything about the title, but kills virtually all further discussion if it's no longer on the front page -- which doesn't seem desirable.
This is great, I wish I could find off the shelf LED candles that more closely approximate the real thing. I'd also like them to be taper candles on a little holder with a loop finger hole so I can grab it to investigate noises in the night.
Funny enough, if you look at polling data of Americans... amongst people who actually lived during the JFK assassination & later investigation and kept up with all the details.... only about 11% believed the official narrative. More than 80% thought the official narrative was a lie.

Nowadays (when most Americans have just read about it in history textbooks), it feels like most people believe the official narrative and dismiss conspiracy theories as "crazy".
APNIC includes Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore – did you block addresses from there too?
On how many images was this one trained? I remember their last model being quite undertrained compared to stable diffusion models
Yes. I left a key word or two out. Sorry.
DHH – The benefit of seniority ought to be bandwidth
> But I understand why it's happening

I'm not even mad at them that they want to pay the bills. What I find sad was the method they have used: capture community as big as possible and then sell the community.
So many people and orgs fell for that. Now the 'squares' are closed. There is no public internet, just niches.
IQ is a test, it isnt intelligence and isnt even a measure of intelligence. It is valid only for establishing certain sorts of mental retardation in a human population.

To say that "genes cause IQ" is several levels of confusion. The claim has nothing to do with whether genes determine the physiological body structure, the claim is whether relevant aspects of human intelligence are a product of the at-birth or developmental structure -- or of that acquired from the environemnt, ie., neural plasticity / brain structure / etc.

Almost all evidence we have is that relevant aspects of human intelligence are environmental, ie., acquired. There is little evidence of the alternative because the experiments needed to establish it are large impossible or unethical. So it might be true, but we have no evidence of it.

Insofar as any claims are made about genes and IQ they amount to associating markers of geographical-historical migration (ie., breeding across time) with a very bad proxy measure of abstract reasoning which, at best, only detects deficits with any reliabiliy.

So we have proxies on top of correlations on top of terrible measures of anything with zero reliability in the range of interest. This whole thing is operating nearly at fraudulent levels of "research".

There's very very little this field can say scientifically, since there arent any experiments. It's all pseudoscientific uses of stats.

To simplify matters, suppose that we know for sure that all above-average differences in IQ are 100% environmental/acquired-during-lifetime. Now, so what do twin studies show, on this assumption?

They show that genes must be correlating with these environmental measures, and twin studies give us an 'effect size' for geographical-historical patterns of reporduction.

So twin studies, even if they were valid (and their assumption of linearity renders them invalid), do not decide the matter. You need indpednent evidence of causal mechanisms from experiments, which doesnt exist.
Of course you don't have to create your own cards, but they would work better if you did. You can use ChatGPT to automate onerous tasks, but have to compensate for it by engaging with the material in other ways. I doubt that grinding decks is enough. Depends on the activity and the goal I guess. Acing exams, sure, without doubt.