skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Activated charcoal as a filter isn’t just about small pores (mechanical filtering).

Being pure (or nearly so) carbon with very high surface area (due to the activation process), it’s great for binding to chemicals which have some kind of reactive carbon chemistry.

Which includes most substances/compounds which are worrisome for us carbon based life forms.

So anything which is in bulk necessary for us, but which may be contaminated by compounds which are reactive to carbon is a good candidate for activated charcoal filtering.

It’s also why eating activated charcoal is an effective treatment for some kinds of oral poisoning. It preferentially/proactively binds to the problematic chemicals neutralizing them.

There is a similar (but opposite type of action) reason why prophylactic iodine pills are given out during radiological emergencies - by saturating the iodine receptors in the thyroid with safe iodine, the dangerous radioactive iodine doesn’t have anywhere dangerous to attach to, and it measurably decreases mortality.
On another HN post someone made a really interesting comment about why the US government attacks its own strategic assets. Both Microsoft and Apple do business world
wide and funnel cash into the US and these DOJ lawsuits impact how these companies operate globally. The anticompetitive behaviour involved is usually very intricate and it takes a good understanding of these businesses to spot when they cross the line. Most governments will never understand this and won't regulate these companies, so its weird that the US government does it for them.

On the other hand, Apple has shown that it is willing to differentiate product lines over geographic boundaries, so maybe this lawsuit will make apple offer 3 lines of products, for Europe, the US and the rest of the world.
How do you handle credential stuffing? Attackers will use a huge number of regular residential IPs or VPNs that you would expect to see logins from. How do you tell a credential stuff from a regular login? They are both coming from unknown IPs with normal login rates and they have valid credentials.
Talk to anyone in advanced privacy work or out of government -> full stop, yes, if you’re not doing Snowden-style measures (TailsOs) or really reconsidering where and how your phone travels around with you and browser controls, it’s done.

Tracking and the firms that do it is incredibly extensive and hard to beat (ie browser ad you just scroll by can fingerprint you well enough).
In one of the YouTube videos, there's a line from him along the lines of "if people do finish this year, it might be the last event as people will find it boring and not want to turn up.x
It love it.

For the hell of it, I looked at the Chinese translation offered in the nav. I can’t read Chinese, so I wonder what someone who can read it thinks, but it looks very cluttered to me. (I know font options are very limited compared to English.) Interestingly, it also uses different photos.
Lots of other things have changed, including, people are having kids older (known correlate), the DSM definition changed, and the general awareness has radically increased.
I mean do all that but don’t tweet it and leave your phone at home. That is the issue.
Android Chrome, too. If I am in the middle of the page and want to repeatedly alternate between scrolling up and scrolling down, I can't simply swipe up, down, up, down. Instead I must swipe up, up, down, down, up, up, down, down. The first of each swipe pair seems to move stuff just a pixel or two, i.e. some container of everything, not just the body element as expected, has a sliver of overflow with scrolling enabled.
I've learned over the years of traveling and speaking with ethnic Chinese and Chinese nationals that I make my acquaintance with, that there are numerous tragic stories like this in China and throughout the diaspora. Many are only preserved through family oral traditions and many of those will die out with the population decline. I've heard it expressed that modern day China has a lot of spirit (energetic vigor), but is still seeking its soul (embodied contemplative wonderment and compassion for all around ourselves, as opposed to dogmatic spirituality per se), and was struck by how apt that was to political leadership in all nations, and to an equal or lesser extent their peoples, depending upon the nation.
yes, but iPhones are not
The mayor enjoys high levels of public approval for her pedestrianisation and cyclability projects (and so do dozens of other aediles undertaking similar projects in the past few years throughout Europe), so I'm not sure what's your point here.

I also can't really figure out the logic of a conspiracy theory that equates "car (purchase + license + insurance + fuel) = freedom" and "bikes (300$ + strong legs) = slavery", but hey
> why would they want phone numbers

Because it is trivial to make a burner/secondary email address, but much less trivial to do the same with a phone number. Furthermore, everyone adds phone numbers to their contacts but very few add emails, so phone numbers are much more valuable from the perspective of inferring social graphs.

Both of these are extremely valuable for adtech and generic "growth & engagement" scum, thus why all companies matching this criteria started effectively requiring phone numbers. The 2FA/security angle is just an excuse for the true reason behind it.
This is really interesting but goes completely counter to how I understand emotions. I see emotions as often being driven by very high level but subconscious cognition. It's like an abstraction that regulates your attitude towards a situation. In order to do that regulation it has to make an assessment at a fairly high level of sophistication. It has to integrate information quickly.

I think this is an extension of the way the brain works in general. It's just the most visceral example of the phenomenon of subconscious cognition.
Reverse DNS IPv4 Map
Syntactic sugar, in the sense that it is a syntax that is bad for you.
I also enjoyed the last "Next Steps" reference at the end of "Functional Programming in Lean":

- Functional Programming in Lean may be interesting to readers who enjoy jokes about recursion.
You can use Pack for those cases too. --press=hard creates a more compressed pack for cases of pack once, unpack many.
Can we call it syntactic ashtray? Because it feels like I'm sucking on 1970s ashtray when I see or use it.

Those who have read their Spivak 2017 will know that databases are just Co-presheaves of Ologs over the Kliesli Category of the Power-Set Monad, the Identity Monad, or the Giry Monad. I would like a QL that acts like it!
I had to disable Enhanced Tracking Protection AKA ETP from firefox to run it.Otherwise it is stuck on loading screen.

Though it is working with uBlock origin(default settings)..
Awesome synopsis
If you mean what you say, I'll trade you all my modern conveniences in return for a small patch of land with a house in 1970s standard or 1960s standard. Deal? If offered this, a large majority of young people and people without real estate would gladly accept and happily live without iphones or AC.
> At 3:10 P.M. eastern on Thursday, Dunn tweeted that eight runners had moved onto loop four—a race record. That bunch included Paris and Campbell, whose quest to break his own Barkley finisher record lived on. While Paris completed loop four 10 minutes back from Campbell, Campbell waited for Paris to start lap five so she could choose her direction.

This is a lovely bit of sportsmanship[^1]. The person who finishes the 4th lap first gets to choose what direction to go out on the 5th (last) lap, then the remaining runners have to alternate. The course is a lot more difficult one direction than the other. Campbell waited to start his 5th lap to give Paris the choice what direction she wanted to run her 5th lap.

[^1]: I've run a few ultras. It's a sport that seems to either engender or attract good sports. Probably due to the shared suffering.
Fishy, it was the outsider that obliterated the establishment and the current narrative

It was bound to happen anyways..
Oh boy, I hope the lizard-people-conspiracy idiots do not read this article...
I've always understood the increase in diagnoses to be more about increased awareness than about a change in human behavior.

E.g. it looks like autism wasn't defined as a spectrum in the DSM until either 1994 or 2000: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/evolution-autism-diagnosis....
Just a meta comment, I fully agree with you here, but using the word "nah" (especially as an opener) comes off as very dismissive. My guess is that is not your intention, so I wanted to offer some friendly feedback on it. It may be a regional thing, as where I'm from it usually includes significant body language that clearly shows that it's not a shallow dismissal but rather a "I disagree but not forcefully" or "I'm unconvinced" but in other regions "nah" is used in a mocking way.
a single encryption is for the stone age.

if [pecadillo] must remain secret when your nieghbour is investigated for [crime?] then encrypt at least twice, and obfusicate the original message
This is beautifully executed.

Game of Life must be the first simulation I ever took on as a programmer — and have revisited it over the years.

To this day it continues to come up in my mind when people muse about things like consciousness. Is there a magic dust to us? Or are we the result of simple rules playing out in a grand stage?
LLM leaderboard focusing on assessing their biases
"...in mice."
14k on every single connection is pretty huge. How many TLS connections for just this site? What about a site that uses 10+ cdns?
This gave me a feeling of infinite computing power.
In that range you usually have to talk to a sales person, if you are not into that, super micro has a nice online configurator with realistic pricing

You can configure a server with 192 cores, 24x96GB Ram & 16 drives for 60k no problem
Anker is my usual bet for usb

https://www.amazon.ca/Anker-Adapter-Female-Samsung-Devices/d...
> If anyone can solve this problem, it is us

We've literally created this problem by making industrial-scale stalking profitable and socially-acceptable. We've created an entire self-sustaining industry that spies on everyone, is not accountable and that the government can just ask for data when needed.
> That less woke/regulated companies will suddenly leapfrog the giants now?

What kind of "leapfrog" do you think is necessary to produce a "killer fully autonomous robot"?

We've actually had "autonomous killer robots," machines that kill based on the outcome of some sensor plus processing, for centuries, and fairly sophisticated ones have been feasible for decades. (For example it's trivial to build a "killer robot" that triggers off of face or voice recognition.)

The only thing that's changed recently is the kind of decisions and how effectively the robot can go looking for someone to kill.
Oh, of course. Brain fart moment. I pattern matched (ha!) to code I've seen too much where that's at compile time.

Yeah, runtime here works but I agree is still not as good as Application.get_env. Aside from (IMO) code clarity reasons, last I checked it is (or can be) much quicker. Application is a quick ETS lookup, while System reaches out to the system and I forget the details but at one point that was much slower.
Not true with ESNI.

E.g. if you are connecting to a cloudflare domain an attacker can not tell which one.
Kindly explain how "not having 90% of public surface area in a dense city dedicated to 1 mode of transport, the automobile" is tyranny. If anything the elimination of everything else as a mode of transport (by not having safe paths for people walking or cycling, as well as subpar public transport) is the true tyranny here.

It's true what they say: for those accustomed to privilege anything else is an assault.
when did I say anything about cars? I say to hell with all cars, replace everything with bicycles and electric scooters. Then we can use lightrail to connect larger communities to one another.
Police sweep Google searches to find suspects; facing its first legal challenge

2022-06-30 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31938350
It could be cool that layers are z dimension in terms of adjacency. It would also bring some challenges but hey, esoteric languages exist for the bold ones!
I worked with two frameworks so far - SQLalchemy core and a much bigger "orchestration" one (dagster / airflow equivalent). SQLalchemy got me type checking, column name checking, and DB migrations versioning with Alembic.

The bigger framework got me more static analysis and dependency graphs on top of that. Those features saved me lots of time and headaches (type checking, dependency graphs, etc). Mind you, the frameworks I worked with still allowed for raw SQL for those edge cases that still pop up.
Is this really something novel?
literally only in the currently designed world dominated by large cars, which is equally outrageous. Nuke the entire nonsense system we have, let people have homes in yards, and force everyone to get around on bicycles and electric scooters and electric accessibility carts.
Much of that can be automated (how do you think AWS does it?), but I get the point. Still, the OP said: "You save money by re-architecting and using more managed services." To me, that isn't implying "save money from personnel costs," it's discussing pure service cost.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764360
The question is: if the new regulations will make it harder to cash out, or is it very hard to cash out already. If it is the latter, the new regulations do not contribute to the solving new crimes. In this case, the new regulations are not needed and the lobbying behind them is not about preventing crime, but about the interest of industry stakeholders. Such stakeholders include software companies that sell anti-money laundering solutions.
Yes. It totally switched the narrative on Israel (and that's great imo). They didn't ban videos of Palestinians getting murdered and bombed, like other platforms did. It's a bit insane since even my apolitical friends got exposed to the raw videos and now it really shaped their opinion. I won't push it since I know this never actually happens, but it got zoomers to maybe even consider the conflict important enough to be an issue that swings their vote (the issue is that we don't vote lol).

For me that's awesome. But it really really really didn't sit well with members of Congress I guess, and boomers in general.
I agree with you. My reference in business questioning value was on the flood of money going into building new models. That’s where we will see a significant and painful culling soon as it’s all becoming quite commoditized and there’s only so much room in the market when that happens. Tooling, security services and other things to build on top of a commoditized generative AI market opens up other doors for products to be built.
I think this might be the tipping point for me to start looking for alternatives in the search engine space
I assume the link was supposed to be to this specific answer, as that's where the quote in the title comes from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/1618406
How does this compare to a `FROM scratch` image that has a binary on it already sans debug/symbol table? Got down to a <10MB image, will have to check this project out.
Bryan Lunduke is a tech youtuber who has occasional commentary on extreme political ideas popping up in places like IBM, and his last video was critical of Rust-as-a-feature projects. I can't help but wonder if this is what actually got him banned, finally!

But in all seriousness, I don't really like his content that much, but it deserves voicing that YouTube have banned him. I don't think he's even that controversial, he's just upset the wrong FAANG people.
did you not read, or not agree with the authors comments about what about reasonable or appropriate?
The icon color and name made me think this was Feedly not Feedle, took a moment to understand they were unrelated
I wonder if Kagi's implementation of the same feature influenced anyone at google or if this was an inevitable development. Google has been providing the AI answer boxes for years but it's never been very user driven.

With Kagi you can use !fast/!expert bangs to use one of several LLMs fed the top few search results or as of last month, just end the search query with a question mark (no affiliation just a happy customer). It's almost completely changed how I use search.
I think there is probably the option to opt out of this feature, it's just that it will be on by default?
No, of the 420 suspected chickenpox cases, 20 (4.7%) had herpes.

157 had chicken pox, 47 had enterovirus, and 194 were negative for all four viruses tested.
Vasopressin is tied to single-cell acid/base regulation, on that chromosome 3/7/17/X major axis.
Could be nice to have an “I’m feeling lucky”
Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF ?
Real GPD...
> Business minded folks are already starting to deeply question where the value is relative to the amount of money spent on training.

Not just training but inference too, right? They have to make money off each query.
> What's the status of digital signature algorithms? There's much stuff that doesn't need to be encrypted because it's not secret - anybody can read the URL. It just needs to be protected against forgery.

This is obviously not true, what leads you to claim the URI is never sensitive or protected information?
Jasmin Paris first woman to complete gruelling Barkley Marathons race
Google did not do "nothing with Fitbit (dead)." You can buy new Fitbit's right now. They also incorporated a lot of Fitbit tech into the Pixel Watch, which is also a very functional smart watch.
If it's human temperature I would use something near 36.6 C, obviously? Probably 35 C.

If it's air temperature outside I would use 0 C.

If it's cooking temperature I would still use 0 C, not absolute zero.

Actually the only case in which absolute zero seems like the sensible answer I can think of is superconductors' critical temperatures and other physical stuff.
Was this before BigQuery/Presto/Trino? To me it seems like those technologies would have been a good fit.

They don't really work with indexes but instead regular files stored in partitions (where date is typically one of them).

This means that they only have to worry about the data (e.g. dates) that you are actually querying. And they scale up to the number of CPUs that particular calculation needs. They rarely choke on big query sizes. And big tables are not really an issue as long as you query only the partitions you need.
This makes a LOT of sense explaining how wearing a mask throughout the day observably changes behavior!!
In the US attending your graduation ceremony has zero bearing on whether the university recognizes if you achieved a degree or not. Is the UK or Oxford different in this regard? Who cares if someone attended a ceremony. This sounds fraudulent at first glance. People with legit credentials don't need to add technicalities to their claim.
The diff itself is impressive, but in terms of styling I still prefer diff-so-fancy[1]. It's easier to read at a glance.

[1]: https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy/
Huh. I guess it's obvious I don't use TikTok (I'm past 30, I have no business going there) but I had no idea it had actual political content.
Average users can't or don't need to be helped. Let's think more about those who have special needs.
It's about control and OS companies want to return to the old days where the ISV was not a thing unless blessed by them. Sony was a big proponent of this in recent years.
I'm glad they explain how to write names on the card for even very long names, like: "Dingo Pontooroomooloo Vaasa Silvaan Beenelong Wooloomooloo Warrandyte Warwarnambool"
I was just about comment that I'm a little afraid to start reading the article at this time of night. Apparently the comments aren't safe either! ;)
If elevated CO2 increases vasopressin, and if increased vasopressin drives symptoms of autism, then wouldn't we see a large population with autism symptoms in the Midwest or anywhere that people are indoors all winter?
> (middle ages' level of technology...)

Star Trek reference?
Exactly - time is relative to our reference frame, so that would be the best arbitrary choice.
It's discussed in more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799743
It's "SOURCE"
Saying what you want first rather than what you have is evidence of the von Neumann bottleneck or it was a sign of the times when SQL was being developed on 1970s machine.

Either way, point taken that it is not like a proof.
If you disable "always on" display you can get 2 to 3 days of battery life from it. I love always on display, but I have it disabled currently because of that
Not so alarming if the map comes equipped with a suitable adjoint (best approximation to inverse) map with which it may be composed; it's by pulling back that "taste classifies, and it classifies those who classify."
I carried a CO2 meter on a flight recently, to use CO2 as a proxy for COVID risk. The levels were quite high for the whole flight--over 1000 pretty much the whole time iirc and worse on the tarmac.
> I don't think a paying customer should have to go through all that.

You vote with your wallet. Stop complaining. seriously. OP just provided you the info. 1+ for Unhooked. For Ad-blocking I use uBlock Origin.
maybe that site deserves to be slow and.... well I was gonna say unusable, but a site with over 10 different CDNs is probably already nearly unusable.
Discussions of what is/is not syntactic sugar are unapproachable for me because I cannot get past the abuse of sugar's essential functions in the tortured metaphor.
When left handedness was seen as a disorder and students who used their left hand were beaten, rates of this disorder were a few percent. When the idea of left handedness became mainstream, rates skyrocketed and we know the base rate is about 10%.

Homosexuality was considered a disorder in the DSM until 1974. Self-reported rates of homosexuality have skyrocketed since then. Most likely explanation is that the true base rate has not changed, just society's measurement of it.

Children with ASD in prior generations were labeled as delinquent, troublemakers, retarded, or were abandoned by their parents and communities.
Yeah those ones are etched to be parallel to the surface. I was thinking of tiny circularly rotated (lathed?) ones oriented to the normal of the surface. So sticking straight through it.

Then you could have a surface that substances can permeate through, but only in one direction.

So kinda like a 3d printed Maxwell's demon. https://youtu.be/11QkX4u6RJg
Verily lays off molecular sciences employees
The remarkable thing about vim is that it isn’t an IDE. The expression of actions on conceptually meaningful segments of text is just general enough to get most of the editing functionality of an IDE for free. Magic!
Yes! This! We are our bodies, and our bodies are biochemical. I'm encouraged by growing awareness and acceptance of things like psilocybin-based treatment for PTSD. Psychobiology is fundamental to... everything a human can experience or be.
Do the swe/people actually doing the implementation of this really think llms are ready to be used like this and won't just piss off and turn people against "ai"

What chat gpt did was interesting, in hindsight I think it was a mistake calling it ai.
Of course we're there already sadly. I was just confused by the sentence structure.

This video is from 7 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecClODh4zYk

The interesting thing is who's actively working on this, any despots, private companies, foreign nations, who from the talent pool, criminal orgs or even western military which mostly works for the western elite classes.
Why the hell is your Kubernetes API public?
72-bit DDR5 is nonstandard to begin with and I assume AMD and Intel are using undocumented ECC codes. There might be hints in patents.
That's why I explicitly said could in italics. Because not even that is certain.