skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a bit different.

There's no reasonable path to reverse-causality with smoking. "People prone to developing lung cancer are more likely to take up smoking" doesn't really make sense.

On the other hand, "Fat and unhealthy people are more prone not to exercise" is a reasonable reverse-causality position, for all kind of reasons. Your knees hurt, you're self-conscious, it's extremely uncomfortable, your fat jiggles, etc.

I'm not saying direct causality doesn't exist here, I'm just saying that reverse-causality is reasonable, whereas with smoking it is not. Assuming causation from this particular correlation is harder than it is with smoking.
I'd note a couple things:

1. 2 failures across 1.5M hours is something around a 1.2% AFR, which is good, but not significantly below Backblaze's average. Definitely better than the stats on their worst drives.

2. Assuming some premium for higher-reliability drives, and some required storage growth over time, the most efficient drives to buy are those that fail at exactly the rate that lets you replace them at with higher-capacity drives as needed for storage growth. I'm personally at the point where I'm decommissioning 2TB drives with 100k hours; I'd be better off having saved some money and having the drives fail now.
As a non-Twitter-user and amateur sociologist - the twists, turns, and social dynamics of the Elan/X sh*tshow are really interesting to watch.
You might want to edit Wikipedia's list of Marxist-Leninist states, in that case?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states#Marxi...

Also the page on China, which states the government is a "Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'd be interested to see how that edit would be received by other editors of the page.
SDF has blogs over gopher://

gopher://sdf.org/1/phlogs

And often, if not usually, or always, the gopher content outmatches the web sites
as maintaing a gopher blog it's dead easy compared to the web. No styles,
you can post via a script, images would just placed as a link in the end, or under
an images/ directory to be read later.
A smart electrical switch toggling your low-current LED lamp based on a motion sensor or other HA automation, probably not.

A smart electrical switch toggling dozens of amps over several hours... this might be getting outside the realm of what I trust cheap chinese amazon products with fake, misleading, or no UL certifications to handle.
A CO2 fire extinguisher is about 1000 psi.
While I agree that Google's query interpretation as it works right now is annoying and frustrating more than it is helpful, that's largely owing to how inscrutable it is. If you search for cats and get dogs, it's not obvious why that happened and not obvious how to prevent it from happening. That problem is in no way intrinsic to synonym generation, but likely a result of leaning too much into embeddings to do the heavy lifting.

That said, skipping synonyms and other query variant generation is definitely throwing the baby out with the bathwater. When it works well it massively increases the recall of the search engine at very little loss of precision, which is important given the scale and noisiness of web results.
It's also not exclusive to China/authoritarian countries. Plenty of European countries have de-facto decriminalized cannabis by rarely enforcing laws on possession (I'm reminded of how often I saw people openly smoking weed on the street in Berlin years ago), yet politicians don't want to be the one to stick their neck out and say that the war on drugs failed or cosign the use of a particular substance -- even if their electorate largely would agree with them.
ACR for radiology is going on in Washington DC. Current staffing throughout the country is poor - over utilization of imaging and not enough radiologists. So we are lobbying for an increase in Medicare funding for residency positions (they are paid by Medicare). Also trying to get more J1 visas but that’s kind of dubious as we are taking physicians from another country who likely also needs physicians.

I have no idea why unmatched graduates are working at McDonald’s as you say. There’s always primary care positions open for the scramble last I checked. If they can’t get a spot there’s likely a real issue in their education or themselves. It’s a normal distribution of a population, MD or not.

I can’t speak to what NP and PA’s do - they have their own PACs and organizations. I know they want to increase their scope of practice and keep their liability low.
No, it's much easier to pass on dessert when you know it's 1600 calories as opposed to if you think it's much less. In essence the disclosure of how bad that particular item really is reduces the amount of willpower required to avoid it. If this wasn't true, all these restaurants wouldn't have kept the calorie counts of these dishes secret until the government forced them to share that info.

I mean this is common sense, the more clearly you understand the negatives of an action, the more likely you are to avoid it. And we have plenty of evidence that this works to alter people's behavior through looking at the effects of e.g. cigarette labeling.

Like up until the 1950s we actually didn't have good evidence that cigarettes were bad for you, and doctors actually got on TV and endorsed specific brands, so a lot of people weren't sure. Eventually the studies were produced and doctors started recommending against smoking and smoking started to decline. It didn't decline because people became Badass Willpower Monks, it declined because they were given access to more and better information.
Ryan Dahl: From Node.js and Deno to the 'Modern' JSR Registry
I don't use Mullvad, but I respect the shit out of them. This is a good, information dense explanation of the problem, their short term workaround and potential workarounds for others, as well as what will need to be fixed in Android. Good stuff.
> This is a really big problem with the AI industry. People don’t know the domain well enough and assume it is a fit.

Yep. This is painfully obvious in the medical world right now. Too many tech-only people assuming they can understand a domain in a few weeks and then run a business in it.
Rather similar, then.

I've come across GUI and a database where I thought object orientation was nice, and I'm also fond of contemporary Smalltalk-like languages. I've made peace with Java, but if I have a choice I'll be in something Lisp-like or logic programming. Racket, Elixir, Scryer, that sort of thing.
It absolutely does. I can't share a link to a post, so spreading the word about the blog's existence is pretty hard.
When is it better to use PRIMA than scipy.optimize.minimize?
Yeah but it hasn’t erupted in ages, she’ll be right.

As an Auckland resident we tend not to think if it much, except when walking around because the city is entirely built in hills.
Just want to throw this out there -- if you see something like this and you just repeat "I heard this is dangerous don't do" -- you're not really adding any signal to the discussion, you're just repeating nth degree beliefs [some happen to be true, many happen to be false].

Better to comment if you have electrical expertise and can articulate a specific risk. Or perhaps maybe a sincere question toward the actual experts (guarantee there are plenty on this forum) about what the failure modes are (e.g. could this overload if it gets wet and the arduino malfunctions?).
UX Design: How to Handle Feedback
At this point GNU/Linux will be as secure as running GNU stuff under ITS.
It could be more convenient for pure hacking, tho.
But you probably won't need it.

I have an EV, my house is old and its wiring is not very robust. But the garage plug can pull 6 Amps on 120V. That's 720 Watts. If I plug my car when I arrive home I'll get about 8 kWH overnight. On my Kia Niro that's enough for ridding 50 km / 31 miles. Add a little more on the weekend and it should be enough for daily commutes.

In newer houses with better wiring, you might get to 9 Amps and charge/ride 50% more.
Caves of Hercules
TrueNAS Core: Soft EOL
That's only a problem if your goal is to be read by as many people as possible.
Curious which impact this will have on the web-crawler. Will they ignore it? Will they push it, as they have subscribed themselves to the feed? Or will they experience a divide by zero-situation and go bonkers?
One problem with this strategy is that if someone crashes into you, an older car will likely be totaled, and the amount the insurance company gives you is not even close to what it will cost to replace the car. If you have taken care of your older car, it will be nearly impossible to find an equivalent older replacement. I'm sure they exist, but people are not selling them - they're driving them!

I was rear-ended while stopped in 2021, and received $8K for my 2003 Accord with 90K miles that was in very good condition. It cost me $28K for a 2018 used Acura with 35K miles. My insurance company only wanted to pay me $6K, but after scrutinizing the 3rd-party reports they used to calculate replacement cost, it was clear that the vendor's valuation software was shit - to the point where, when something should have been a credit in my favor, they made it a negative, so I got double-dinged. The insurance company even got the vendor on the phone, and the vendor admitted that the report didn't make any sense!
Rock Paper Scissors Programming Competition
The Germans attempted to exterminate entire races of people, the Soviets attempted to exterminate entire classes of people. The Soviets killed far more people if only because Stalin ruled for longer than Hitler.

As one of the first leaders of the Cheka said, "We are not waging war against individual persons. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class".
I have a lot of feeds in my reader, but I don't add feeds without first seeing the content on the Web. This gimmick is nothing special to me. For someone who doesn't use feeds, I doubt they would start doing so for a mystery meat blog.
Balaji Srinivasan, VC advocating dystopian vision for San Francisco
You're asserting without evidence that Apple is buying back shares to drive up the stock price.

I'm dismissing that claim unless you can provide anything within the ballpark of reasonable evidence related to that claim.
Well that doesn’t sound like snackable infotainment. I prefer my factoids to be context-free and ready for me to misremember in two years.
That's unfortunate, they only recently rolled out prompts to push Android users away from their in-app always-on functionality to the built in version.
Not shown: "systemd-run --shell" asks for the root password (or whatever set up for polkit authentication).

That some other process of the same user can influence that session with elevated privileges isn't really an issue. In fact, the terminal in which systemd-run was invoked is also owned by the user and can be "taken over" in the same way.
It isn't hard to DIY this right. You need to be careful and understand the NEC (or whatever your area uses), but the work isn't hard. I've seen professionals do some really bad work.
I find that using tools like pybind11 to create python bindings rather than trying to write Python C API directly greatly decreases fragility since the pybind11 team have already spent a lot more time than me understanding the python API and dealing with all the weird corner cases and optimisations.
We don't need any more recommendations of AI scribes. There are already hundreds of them. That business opportunity lasted 5 minutes before becoming fully saturated.
The Effect of Vaccine Mandates on Disease Spread
> The world's peoples were particularly less likely to agree on the ethics of homosexuality, euthanasia, divorce, prostitution, and abortion. Residents of wealthy countries grew more comfortable with all those topics, while residents of poorer countries were less so. Why did the trend towards tolerance and self-expression stall in poorer nations?

Extreme bias on the part of the author. Also, the statement is objectively untrue. It appears that the author has opinions on hot-button issues, calls his opinions "tolerant," and proceeds to wonder why poor countries disagree with him.
Financial institutions in the US do this constantly. They call you, and then they ask you for stuff like the last four of your SSN and what loans you might have with them to prove that they're speaking to the right person. They act surprised when you don't want to answer because they called you.
"Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.

'Arms bending and stretching!' she rapped out. 'Take your time by me. One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! Come on, comrades, put a bit of life into it! One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! ...'"
First worlders became irresponsible and decadent
It would be fantastic if there was a good normal-form formatter I could use for local work, and let automation format the code back to lint style. Unfortunately with something like IntelliJ/Java the commit-time reformat is not reversible. Maybe google's Java formatter is, hmm.
Have you worked in a bar? Both of those things can be untrue, lol.
It's a failure of our internal simulatory abilities. People are usually much more confident in their counterfactual beliefs than they have any right to be. Self reinforced internal narratives ("if only this had happened then this would have happened") seem necessary in order for us to maintain confidence in our predictive abilities. I wonder if we were truly aware of the surrounding cloud of possible alternative outcomes, if it'd be paralyzing for otherwise mundane activities. How many times do we escape death by the thinnest margins everyday, without ever being the wiser.
Meanwhile, I can't get my iPad Pro to reliably display PDF files that have color and b/w images combined. Works fine on a Mac laptop.
I think it's worth pointing out that all demonstrations of this issue either needs yama to be disabled for `ptrace` to work (this is what reptyr does under the hood), or you need to be part of the parent process to abuse the tty terminal.

The other demonstration shows the latter part, but requires you to have a reverse shell in the parent and can't be abused across users.

https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/17860809689581612...

Generally, this issue is overblown. Both of these "exploits" works on `su`, `sudo` and probably `doas` because of session caching or because you have access to `ptrace`.

I'm not sure what security boundary you are breaking and this seems more like a cheap dig at `systemd` to feed into the decade-old hate train at this point.
Maurice Gee wrote a great kid's sci-fi novel around the tunnels in 1979 called Under the Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Mountain_(novel), which was a good read back in the day...
Which is why my primary career goal is working less at this point. Not because I hate software engineering, but because I love it...
The article assumes that wealth should correlate with an increase in, decidedly secular values (tolerance of homosexuality, divorce, abortion, freedom of expression, etc.)

In a vacuum this makes sense; poverty causes people to be very dependent on each other to share resources, and when any group of people depend on each other so much, they need a set of shared rules and norms to govern their interactions with each other. Rich people can live relatively more independent lives and so for them self-expression is obviously easy to endorse. Poorer people depend on each other and the better they fit in the more accessible to resources they have. They thus have no incentive to bring more non-conforming people into the fold to diminish their resource pool and erode their shared values which help them work together with the people they depend on.

But this strikes me as one of those things statistics and surveys cannot measure. I am from one of the "poorer" and "anti-Western" countries, and even as people have become wealthier there has been a staunch anti-Western sentiment. It feels to me, without much statistical proof to back it up, that two things occur:

1. There's lots of distrust for people who become wealthy and also are seen as selling out the shared morals and values of their people, in every country, Western or otherwise. You can see the anger hurled towards Hollywood celebrities by conservatives and conservative religious people in the US as an example. But a solid chunk of American rich people are conservative morally. They tend to keep their American values in tact and are relatively humble. Consider Bill Gates who wears a Casio watch, Zuckerberg who dresses in t shirts, Buffett who eats McDonald's every day, etc. These are very American traits every one. Alternatively, many of the elite in poorer countries are more American than they are from their own people. They retain very few cultural aspects of their own people. In essence, most of the elites of the third world are like Hollywood celebrities rather than down to Earth people who the masses can see themselves in. This isn't always true (Ambani is a notable exception), but it's often true.

2. As other countries have not yet totally bought into the Americanization of the world, they're aware of and wary of the pitfalls that come with it. The shift towards liberal values have come with great individual freedom and enormous strides in humane treatment of others, but they've also come with increasing isolation, the breakdown of families, shrinking and aging populations, and many other negatives. It wasn't clear to people before that conservative values might be the glue that keep large families and tight-knit societies together (it may not even be true, but the perception that it might be still grows). So I'd say the lag in those values spreading around the world has given people time to think about whether the tradeoff is worth it. Many still say yes, but larger and larger numbers of people are pushing back than before
AI Agent Notebooks Using LangChain, LlamaIndex, Milvus, and More
The general "what is over there" type questions are often more up-to-date in commercial outfits - but the military can order a satellite pass of an area that they're particularly interested in, if they need it.

So in general the commercial stuff is better, but in the specifics the military stuff will come out on top, depending on what the mission is and how much anyone cares about it.
Yeah, screw those losers that want UL certification on their chargers.

I don't see a single thermal cutout on this design. I'd be scared.

The PCB is equally scary. How was the trace width figured for the high voltage side? There's also little or no isolation to the low-voltage side.

I also didn't catch if this is a level 1 or level 2 charger. Is that line 120V or 240V single phase? He's pulling 10A which may as well be level 1 household outlet charging here in the US.
Not really. I got mugged quite close to a tube station in relatively central London and no CCTV footage, so all the cameras are useless.

I was on a jury for a court case where: the incident was caught by a bus camera, but the police waited 6 months to ask for footage, footage is deleted after 1 month and they know this. The shop across the road captured the incident on CCTV but the cop had "tech problems" trying to transfer the video file to his laptop - even then they didn't even bother to sign a document stating what they saw in the video.

CCTV and cops (at least in and around London) are just totally useless. And the gov is useless too, "fighting" crime rather than addressing what causes crimes.

Otherwise, it's not too bad a place to live for a travelling Kiwi, great launchpad into Europe, oh wait they fucked that up with Brexit, too.
> still be good enough in terms of safety when pressure is lost?

You might not design for that case. A suspension bridge can't survive a tower falling over, or a cable snapping.

The pressurized structures wouldn't be able to survive leaks over X size, and for leaks under X size, compressors would be used to maintain pressure.
Furthermore, I wonder what the views of childhood obedience are those people actively raising a child in each country. I would say "childhood obedience is not important" because I don't spend time near children.
> I'm sorry about using a non-spec compliant ID on the entries, but there are no URLs for blog posts to set it to.

Assuming they're just arbitrary IDs, using urn:uuid: might be a more compliant version of the same idea https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bi...
No, the limit is Basel III: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III
Sure, so have I. I don't think estimates are good for determining a date for a contract or anything like that. I think they provide data about the tasks when prioritizing, which is valuable. Code coverage is also a really low quality indicator of test quality, but it is still useful.
thanks for sharing! I also run https://www.aboutfeeds.com which is a simple "explainer" for those new to RSS

the limitation of feed styling is that it requires custom http headers:

Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8 # not application/rss+xml
x-content-type-options: nosniff

and so it doesn't work on GitHub Pages, which is otherwise my go-to for building + hosting static sites.

so... if anyone from GitHub is reading this, please make it possible to tweak the page headers! (and if you know anyone there, please pass on this request :)
I made an Privacy local run idexing tool
I have used a lot of indexing tool for google on cloud. But all them have the privacy concern becuase I need to add other's account to my google search console. And I had another pain point was all the SaaS indexing tools were subscription business model.

So I made an local run, life time deal, privacy first indexing tool. You can use your own google account and run locally on any clients such as Windows, Mac and Linux.
At least with plants we have a sufficient understanding of them that it's possible to propagate them from a single cell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropropagation
How would achieve cultural integration without trade?

This reminds me of how much technological progress the British had to make so they can reach India.

I also wonder what life on the Americas would’ve looked like if the Europeans didn’t wipe out the natives with deceases, horses and guns.
Didn't really fail, GeForce Now is still available and working well. Stadia was abandoned by Google but worked really well for the ones that had good internet and lived close enough to the data-centers.

The bad part is needing to live close to a big, expensive, GPU-heavy data-center, but if mobile GPU's are getting that good, maybe in the near future we could have single servers or small racks serving a few dozen to a few hundred players, that would be much easier to co-locate, grow as needed, and improve latency.
Seems like a cop-out. If you are worried about adequate safeguards.... just implement it with adequate safeguards! And how many users that need safeguards are going to be actually using serial devices anyway?

I wish people would be more honest about this sort of stuff. I am sure that the real reason is they just don't have enough resources to implement and support this very niche API.
The paper is more informative than the article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46581-5

I also wonder whether more wealth meaning more westernised will continue to hold given the west is no longer economically dominant.
Aluminum has some interesting properties and if you don't know how to mitigate them can be trouble. I know they can be mitigated, but I also know I'm not an expert in all of them so I won't comment too much. So yes, but only if you are careful in ways most people wouldn't think to be careful.
Have they tried using AI to increase their productivity?
This reminds me of a fascinating book titled "The Red Atlas" by John Davies and Alexander Kent which is about the very detailed maps of Western cities the Soviet Union created during the Cold War.