skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this seems like a terrible reason to silo huge chunks of humanity from each other

That's why I set that argument aside.
> arcane names

That's why they're magic! If people used these words every day they'd end up starting fires or summoning demons.
will be storing the nuclear launch codes on this app
The problem is that an such cap or regulation will be geared for the past, not the needs or resources of the future. The free market beats centralized planning for this reason. It allows for new and unforeseeable growth, which your limits will entirely castrate.
Clie was quite good, first 320x320 device I got back then
I hear a couple of different arguments from people regarding their fears of AI.

1. They fear that a superintelligent AI is coming, and that it will result in an apocalyptic event.

2. They fear that the capabilities of various AI technologies that exist today, or will likely exist in the near-future will result in people's lives worsening in different ways, such as jobs being lost.

3. They fear that misinformation will become very common and democracies around the world are at risk.

It's very difficult to quantify the risk of argument 1 occurring because we don't know whether the current state of the art will ever advance to superintelligence.

Argument 2 will probably happen to some extent, but what extent remains to be seen - you can already see that AI generated garbage is killing search, and with it a lot of the open internet as we knew it.

Argument 3 I find difficult to understand. Misinformation has existed for a long time, and AI is just one more way of making it (perhaps at scale). You've always been able to claim that your political opponent was a puppy murderer with no basis in reality - the way I see things, AI is just a way of laundering that kind of claim.
Separating the world into “good guys” and “bad guys” does not constitute “values”. That is the thinking of a child.
I'm a Huge fan of Netplan, glad to see even more upstream improvements.
LLMs are just fancy adaptive random walks, and they tend to pick more novel candidates, not less. To wit, proof search has done random walks for ages. But proof search accelerated with LLM oracles is pushing the state of the art for automated proof search.

The progress isn't insane or miraculous. But it's moving the needle in an otherwise somewhat stagnant area. And that means we need to pay attention and update our beliefs and working theories.
Digital Wood Joints
> and it was often considered a black mark if you went to work for a defense company (even Palantir)

Yeah, this always tickled me. Obviously smart people should just go work somewhere innocuous like Meta or ByteDance.

Also FWIW this is Palantir and Anduril's bread and butter. They get to vacuum up all the wrongthinkers.
Which other distro still supports a release from 2018 without paying for support?
and we got "IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM" in the meantime, for better or worse
How does the author dismantle everything? He literally concludes with:

> Conclusion: I Genuinely Don’t Know What These People Are Thinking

Two things can be true at the same time (and are always true of 100's of aspects of modern life):

1. A devastating possibility is in theory possible, the likelihood of it happening is non-zero.

2. We can't live and make decisions catastrophizing given _we have absolutely no understanding_ about the real likelihood.

Is the coffee example a good argument? Of course not! But do we know the likelihood of humanity's ability to create super intelligence AND that that intelligence will cause unimaginable suffering? Uh I don't think so?
Remember that 60% of primary energy supply includes the half of that energy that gets thrown away as heat when making electricity. So you'd only need to replace the actual useful final energy.
> Luckily BNC connectors are rare nowadays.

This can manifest anywhere that has grounding issues and electrical wires that are not isolated from human touch, not just BNC.

For example, in conventional Ethernet, you have to ground the shielding for EMF reasons, but you usually ground only one of the shieldings on both sides of a cable - conventionally, at least in Germany, in the distribution rack of the patchpanel, and if you connect two distribution racks/rooms, on the "upstream" side - but you never ground both ends as that can not just cause ground loops but especially very weird issues where fault current suddenly doesn't pass back to the AC distribution panel on cables with the proper wire gauge but through the (very tiny) gauge of a network cable shielding. That's a perfect recipe for invisible fires, and even assuming there is no fire, some points of the effective "micro grid" can be at a high enough potential to shock someone.

Neutral connection losses/resistances in multi-phase grids are even worse because these aren't just a threat under fault conditions - here, "normal" operating return current makes its way back to the actual neutral/ground via whatever path it can, and that may even include water pipes [1].

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/@ericandrade45/video/7051359949812731...
CSS Bonfire
If you're on Android with f-droid, the Silence app[1] has solved this exact problem for me. Numbers that I haven't called before and aren't in my contacts can still leave a voicemail but not ring the phone.

*Edit, you said sms, not calls. I take screenshots and report them with the resources on FTC's website[2]. I'm not sure if it's effective, but the texts did stop for me.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.lucky.silence/

[2] https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-recognize-and-report-s...
To be fair, you have avoided the fatal ones. So at the very least you're not a hypocrite.
Private prisons must be profitable and keep growing to satisfy the shareholders!

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the incarceration rate in the US increased by a factor of five.[22] Between the years 2001 and 2012, crime rates (both property and violent crimes) have declined 22% after already falling 30% in years prior between 1991 and 2001: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
> They’re propping up Russia against Ukraine for example.

That's a funny argument, given that the same piece of legislation with the TikTok "ban" also includes a(nother) $60.8 billion package for Ukraine [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/politics/senate-aid-pa...
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to-upgrade-your-release
Right, and Enron would probably have enjoyed it, and that's why they dreamt it up. But a market can't survive on traders.

It needs real buyers and sellers who aren't looking to capture inefficiencies in the market but to smooth out uncertainties in their cashflow. Dell, Apple, Samsung, TI, etc. They would find it didn't offer them a good hedge.
Yeah it's much easier to deal with terrible service when your return ticket with Ryanair doesn't cost more than 20 EUR. In the meantime the cheapest flight I was on in the US still cost $200.
Sorry, I don't understand your question. By "treadmill" I mean sticking to a particular distro year after year, upgrading regularly -- it could be Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, CentOS, etc. Unless you're constantly switching distros, you're on a treadmill. I wasn't comparing Ubuntu to other distros.
Another alternative perspective:

Having a language that can not be machine translated, may be beneficial. [1]

1. https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/navajo-code-talkers-and-th...
Reply stop, etc. You will get more and the only other thing you can do is get an SMS filter but I wouldn’t want my msgs going through a 3rd party…

Unless they’re robotexts, which they’re most likely not, they’re not illegal.
Hook up a kill a watt to your TV and verify what you're saying.
Show HN: Geopolitical/Environmental Risk Monitor for Companies House
Sounds like your problem, not canonical’s!
There still is, but SQL is mostly used as a compiler target these days, with users using higher level languages (e.g. "ORMs") to hide the nastinesses. As such, its flaws don't impact all that many people.

Which is a shame as it needn't be that way. A well designed relational calculus could avoid these abstractions that come with their own problems.
Way back in the day, I picked up a cheap ($5!!!) copy of Readings in Database Systems from Michael Stonebraker. I found it fascinating to read the original papers that proposed concepts, and then to see those concepts implemented and become the norm.

What I didn't expect was the amount of drama within the context of those papers. In Codd's original paper on relational theory in the 60s, he spends a chunk of time dedicated to talking about IBM as "the man". Hilarious.
We may have spotted the first magnetar flare outside our galaxy
Twitter uses a similar animation on your profile when it's your birthday. That's one use case and I am sure there are more.
Always lovely to see projects like this. I used it years ago after thinking "surely there must be some kind of tor-like thing for bittorrent" and lo and behold, there was tribler.

At that point hidden seeding and downloading were both done via tor-like outproxies, eg, out to the regular internet. I recall talk from the issues page about intra-tribler media, eg, anonymised from end to end - does anyone know if this has been achieved?
> your country will become more like the subcontinent

You really do seem to view life through a very-narrow lens; you appear to be generalizing your own family's recent, one-generation experience as though immigrant culture somehow quickly alters the host culture in major ways without that happening to the immigrants themselves.

To be sure, immigrant enclaves such as the Haredim in NYC or the heavily-Muslim banlieues in France can do that. But it's generally on a very-local basis.

And on a national, long-term basis: Successive generations are born to immigrant families. They marry — often to spouses from other ancestral cultures — and have their own kids. Those kids are influenced in countless ways by their teachers; their friends and other peers; the media; and other facets of mainstream culture.

That's how assimilation happens: The host culture absorbs immigrants — and influences them — while borrowing from their cultures, adding new ingredients to the "alloy" (or amalgam? I'm avoiding the Melting Pot metaphor).

Or at least that's what happens when the host culture doesn't engage in knee-jerk exclusionary behavior out of pathological fear of The Other and an egotistical assumption that We Know Best About All Things For All Time.

(Source: As I said in another thread recently, in various ancestral lines I'm descended from immigrant grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great grandparents, with ancestry in four different countries (possibly five; we're not sure). My kids have two more countries in their own ancestries from my wife's side, and their respective spouses have even more countries in the mix, so any kids they have will be even more of a blend.)
Searing heat shuts schools for 33M children
Hungry waxworms eat through plastic and digest it too
The author of the paper invented SQL
The better way to measure cosmic time
> You'll see this syntax on my blog because it's what Prettier does, and I really like Prettier.
She said no - but we went on to be great friends still to this day, so I'd say it did work. We joke about it still.
This exact claim gets made in every single robocall conversation on HN. I've never looked, maybe it's always the same people making it? Pretty soon someone else from Germany will be along to tell you about how many robocalls they get. And someone from the US will mention they also get no robocalls.
Anecdata, but I've gotten less outright scam calls this past year.

These days, it's just local shady companies. Think: "Expired Vacation" package timeshare pitches and lately callers asking if I have Medicare A and B.

The Medicare stuff, I assume is some kind of fraud, but the kind where they talk you into being a customer for some service so they can bilk the government for that service (which they may or may not deliver). Fraud, but a more insidious kind - not unlike the auto warranty sales calls (which I seem to no longer get either).

So mostly lead generation for shady domestic companies is what I seem to get. You can always tell, because when you ask the name of the company they hang up on you.
I threw away my laptop, now the website is completely gone.
It's blatantly racist. Just imagine the opposite and the resulting uproar
Don’t the senders of these messages understand the risk of alienating the people they are trying to mobilize?

(My conspiratorial side wonders what’s stopping political opponents from spamming “black flag” messages… ie to reduce the turnout of a political cause they don’t like)
Retrieval Head Mechanistically Explains Long-Context Factuality
Hi, I'm curious about your alternative model for capitalism. How does it aim to change the logic of capital accumulation? Since companies are driven by profit, the entire system revolves around capital growth and competition, which ultimately leads to the emergence of monopolies and billionaires. How does your model address these issues?
This is so f*cking bananas, don't believe the hype - slavery isn't dead in the US.
How is that not designed for people? Don't you think people are searching for comparisons between two different products?

Here's Zapier for instance, comparing their tool to a Microsoft substitute:

https://zapier.com/l/microsoft-power-automate-vs-zapier
Does Canonical push their changes upstream to Debian?
It's pretty good (Tested on i5-6600 / 8GB). A small slight to MS: If this was still the balmer era, we'd be clapping "Developers" and making cool windows apps with this today. It doesn't feel right anymore: This PC vs. My Computer...
Not really. With all the problems of packaging software for Linux, I'll take that any time over Go.

The whole "spirit" of how Go authors approached every infrastructure task they had was to start as simple as possible and grow as necessary, in small increments. Unfortunately, incrementalism doesn't work in this domain. It's very hard / virtually impossible to go back and undo bad decisions once they become public. Some steps will require sweeping changes all across the board and cannot be performed in one increment.

Go packaging mostly works because of the extra restrictions imposed on themselves by most package authors. But, if you were to stray off the beaten path, you'll discover that the system is unprepared to deal with your case. Go is the opposite of thoughtful and insightful design. It wins at first because its fast and easy to do, and once you are hooked, you will have to work extra hard to deal with the difficult parts yourself.
US Senators call on postal board to abandon Postmaster General's USPS reforms
The Pixel 8 does this, it's called "Call Screen" and since getting it I never receive unscreened calls from outside my contact list. It's been very nice to have.
Have to pay $20 just to try it out.

I tried the same in 3.5, and it’s not reliable. I queried it to translate the conversation you generated and it failed to recognize it as “fon” and instead reported it as “yoruba”
Not only is it not dead, it has been intentionally and painstakingly reconstructed over the past ~150 years.
Wish they had talked a bit more my favorite Palm OS device, the Tapwave Zodiac. It had a nice big screen, was very durable, and while the game selection wasn't exactly robust, it was still fun.

And it worked just fine as a Palm OS device. Played video quite well too. It was an excellent machine all around.

I still have my Tungsten E2 with the WiFi SD card, though the WiFi only works with WEP. I kept a crappy old WiFi router with WEP on it as a bridge just to allow the Tungsten to connect for a long time.
That's why I specifically added "developed" countries (and no, it wasn't an edit).
No offense but airlines in the US do work differently than the EU. I think it's possible for both of us to be right though.
I suppose one complication is that not all flops are equal, computation is not only "how many kW/h did this math take" but "how much memory and at what bandwidth"
> You need very tiny wires through very tiny holes in locations very precisely aligned on both sides. Aligning things on the scale of nanometers is very, very hard.

Do you need to align that precisely? Can't the power side have very large landing pads for the wires from the signal side to make it much easier?
Defence Mechanism (Psychology)
> I understand it is free to send SMS in the states, you pay to receive them.

That has not been true in many years. Most people have unlimited everything. Cost conscious consumers do opt for plans with limits, but that's on data, not calls and/or SMS.
In addition to that, spreading the costs evenly across the 40 million residents of California, it’s a whopping $500 per person. Not exactly cheap, but also not a political nightmare to find the funding.
So you're saying what they really mean is finding the the disadvantaged in the upper tail of a normal distribution and giving them an equal footing, not result, but footing. I think _most_ people will agree with that, except we do see some people who for unknown, well we know, but anyway, want to disband and tear down schools for gifted kids and similar programs. I'm afraid it's a disguised version of the anti-intellectualist nature of some people. They don't want education, they don't want success. They want an easy life doing little, maybe a YouTube personality, maybe an influencer, maybe a social activist without having to study much, but I want things to go my way, because.

Beck and Foreman, are examples of people, who as kids had absolutely nothing, but succeeded.
There are 170 million TikTok users in the US. Intelligence services would be doing a bad job if they didn't have their hooks in it somehow.
ESP32-C2, ESP32-C5, ESP32-C6, ESP32-H2, ESP32-H4 and ESP32-P4 are also RISC-V.
Xtensa are ESP8266, ESP32, ESP32-S2 and ESP32-S3.
I have done all this using ESPHome. There a quite some control loop components you can utilize for this, such as bang-bang and pid thermostat.

My thermostat:
https://github.com/wildekek/esphome-opentherm-templates

My air cleaner:
https://github.com/wildekek/BlitzHome-BH-AP2501

My bathroom hygrostat uses Home Assistant:
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/generic_hygrostat...
> Yes, it's continuation of the same pattern we've been seeing for decades, but I think it's fair to say that generative AI will escalate that pattern dramatically unless specifically addressed.

It's cool that it can be addressed though, right? AI can be both, the fast track to escalating the issue and the fast track to deescalating the issue. Interesting.
Or add a mandatory `where` for delete and update queries.

To delete/update all, add `where 1=1`

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p.s. In mysql I always add `limit 1` for every update. If `limit 99999` isn't enough you are probably doing it wrong.
At least, refusing to use SQL gave me opportunities to understand how data structures work: B-tree, RB trees, hash tables, R-trees, Z order curve, quad tree, KD tree, BSP, grids, N-ary tree, geohash, etc etc
NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution
Fintech CRED secures in-principle approval for payment aggregator license
invented the relational model rather
Thank you.

Yes, I have heard that saying being quoted some time ago.

While I mostly exist on the other side of the water's edge... I am happy and hopeful that that is the case and hope it will continue to be that way and that the circus some politicians yonder the water's edge are putting on stops.

Some things do, and should transcend, political boundaries.
e.g. while I, would I be eligible to vote in the US, would most likely not vote Republican(probably not aged enough yet :D ), I must say that I like this guy https://www.facebook.com/RepZachNunn/videos/this-isnt-a-horr... simply for trying to do the right thing there.
Found it while I was prompted to do some more research due to busying myself with this thread.(and it is not the only report I found... See here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S160061352...) I always thought of it to be some boogie man story made up by Falun Gong or Falun Dafa hanging about the CBD to rope in support. Finding out that it is actually substancial... I think this is my seeing evil moment if I ever had one, and I am only in front of a computer screen in my PJs.
The primitive sadism underpinning the carceral system in this country is shameful.
or anywhere else. the kings protection money must be paid, or else. You might call it fancy words to distract, but it is what it is
No, this release is not immutable like Fedora Silverblue.

Ubuntu Core Desktop is planned to be, and was planned to be launched with this, but it was pushed back: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/ubuntu-core-desktop-dela...
It never was, the 13th amendment (which abolishes slavery) has an exception for convicted citizens:

AMENDMENT XIII

Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
I mean, no one has a well defined definition of free will, much like the worlds intelligence and consciousness.

With this said having more knowledge expands your ability to explore the problem space of existence. Lets imagine that you are a single bit, you have the 'choice' of being one or zero. From an outside observer the problem space of the outcome is very predictable in the sense we know it's going to be a 1 or 0. Now, keep adding random bits and our ability to predict the outcome of any state drops dramatically very quickly. But that's choosing at random, what if most bit states are bit random at all? For example this digital creature we're talking about now is millions of bit states long set by a learning algorithm, it so advanced it has an internal Turing machine that can simulate potential outcome states far into the future when executing code. You would look at this and say "well, it doesn't have free will, it just has an incomputably large set of potential bit states" But an outside observer unaware of the programs nature and it's starting state (for example it's performing a Turing test against the machine) would probably think the entity has free will.

You are a very large set of states, because of this you cannot prove free will. You've reversed causality in your summary.
Most systems I work in raise a warning when an update or insert is missing a where clause.

For all rows, we typically just use `where 1=1` to encompass all rows. Allows for cleaner readability too as each clause can be separated by an AND
I think you misunderstood, 30 years from piston powered to jets that are still being flown today. The F15 was introduced 27 years after the end of WW2, where all the fighters of consequence were piston powered.
Correct! Disable Pointer Events has surprising utility!
My experience has been that dislikes are station specific. I regularly dislike songs on channels in order to shape the genre, even if I actively listen to that song on other stations. Pandora's whole identity revolves around stations, so it would be weird if dislikes were global.

I've found the pandora community post below that seems to confirm it, though I'm not sure whether the community admin answering the question is actually a pandora employee or not.

https://community.pandora.com/t5/My-Collection/What-if-you-l...
OP script feels way more performant on mobile.
>Generative AI only works for the most popular languages on the internet

I'm not so sure about that. I was amused when playing with ChatGPT shortly after it was public that it could answer questions in Esperanto and even write the silly sorts of stories in it than it can in English.
People rarely use AI, chatbots, etc.

Much more damaging to local cultures is immigration that doesn't integrate. Speaking from the perspective of Barcelona.