skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relating to fluoride's effect on bacterial biofilm - There are several different kinds of fluoride available in toothpaste, and they do not all have the same efficacy against bacterial plaque. Stannous fluoride is considerably more effective than sodium fluoride or sodium monofluorophosphate, but you may need to pay a small amount more for it and actually read the packaging to find it.

It's hard to find a website discussing it that is not paid for by a toothpaste company, but here's something. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24660268/
Once we hit >100k inserts per second, async inserts didn't work well for us because we had limited control over the background async insert batching happening on the cluster. The background inserts would be too small, resulting in many merges running, causing high CPU, causing high back-pressure (latency) on async inserts which would just result in an ingestion delay.

Plus, async inserts are only available on ClickHouse Cloud.
I've always really hated how Apple (and a growing number of companies) are deliberately blurring the distinction between local and cloud storage. When I store a photo somewhere, I want to know where it is, on the device or in the cloud. When you look through Photos (and many other apps) this is not very clear. They're all just in this nebulous "Library" which could be actually anywhere.

I think a lot of people are uploading private pictures to the Internet without even being aware of it because of how tricky and sneaky companies are being, nudging you to Cloud-ify everything without explaining clearly that "Cloud" ultimately means "Posted to someone else's computer."
To those who are dead, that's a distinction without a difference. So far as I'm aware, none of the "killer robots gone wrong" actual sci-fi starts with someone deliberately aiming to wipe themselves out, it's always a misspecification or an unintended consequence.

The fact that we don't know how to determine if there's a misspecification or an unintended consequence is the alignment problem.
The stock would be denominated in another currency, and the amount of your capital gains would be affected by forex rates.
Many people don't want to risk accidentally surfacing a nude while showing off other pictures and delete them more or less immediately. So it's merely a bright-line indicator; where other decisions to delete or not may be more easily forgotten.
STMG: A Machine Learning Microgesture Recognition System
I think you massively underestimate the power of viral media coverage and the role it plays in building a “brand.” You’ll never replicate the Musk/Altman/Satya soap opera again. ChatGPT will forever be in the history books as the Kleenex of LLM AI.
Eye Gaze devices(tablet with camera + software) cost around $20K, even if it offers 1/4 of the features this is good news for those who can't afford it.
I was able to run 32-bit Windows games in Wine on Mac, even on Apple Silicon. GTA IV on my M1 mini. There's some kind of "32 on 64" emulation built into whatever version of the 32-bit Wine that PlayOnMac installs. Impossible to Google so idk how it really works.

It's funny how the Mac is more compatible with old Windows programs than old Mac programs.
Well when the busybodies spread rumors about you you end up isolated either way.
Being anti-FDA has been a meme in the rationalist community for several years

The FDA is bad: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-ce... and I'm dying largely because of their torpor and intransigence. It's not just "a meme." It's my life.
Geneva - maybe, but that's not true for Vaud or Valais. Small kids, aged 7 or thereabouts, walk and ride buses to/from school all the time, en masse. This is a routine.
Maybe run a sentiment analysis so the nice emails get to you...
That write up could have used significantly more details. Is this competitive with a traditional telescope? 1/1000 the cost? Just the benefit of not having to share instrument time? Being able to incrementally expand the array?

Some kind of technical measurement for me to better appreciate the work.
Actually, we really don't. When GPT-3.5 was released, it was a massive surprise to many, exactly because they didn't believe simply scaling up transformers wouldn't end up with something like that.

Now using transformers doesn't mean they have to be assembled like LLM's. There are other ways to stich them together to solve a lot of other problems.

We may very well have the basic types of lego pieces needed to build AGI. We won't know until we try to build all the brain's capacities into a model of size of a few 100 trillion parameters.

And if we actually lack some types of pieces, they may even be available by then.
what hard evidence do you have to support this accusation?

1) You've accused the iphone users of having CSAM on their device, and

2) you've attributed a motive to Apple inc. as the root cause of the technical issue.
> The thing is, this sets up a moral hazard where it’s advantageous not to know

No, they would be better off if they had known what the pilots were doing and stopped the fraud rather than allowing it.

> If there were potentially harsh penalties for allowing this to happen, regardless of knowledge, I think you’d see much better controls put in place, and the incentive would be to keep safety critical operations kept in-house, where they can be better monitored, rather than spun out to make the return on capital look better to public markets.

If you made inaccurate reports to governments a strict liability crime with a harsh pubishment not requiring intent, recklessness,or negligence, I think that would actually be a bad thing and lead people to actively avoid any activity or field of business that might require reporting to the government.

But, in any case, the fraud offenses at issue ARE NOT strict liability crimes now, so people without the requisite knowledge and intent cannot be guilty of them.
It's a great example of the barking dog effect. Put up a barrier between people that they know can't be crossed, and they'll just let loose the wildest aggression possible. The second that barrier is gone, they're back to "normal". It's frightening seeing people's impulses revealed while the barrier is up.
> If I had killed someone, would I be allowed to buy my freedom

In some cases this has been allowed, assuming it was not intentional. For example a neurosurgeon who accidentally hits someone in a crosswalk. The family can ask for no jail time so the surgeon can continue practicing because that's the only way the civil settlement will get paid. This depends on the victim or family's wishes, whether or not the prosecutor will approve, and what the judge thinks.

From a societal view and the victim's view it might be a better outcome to get monetary compensation.

FWIW since Boeing is too big to fail I'd love to see the US Government get rid of the current upper management and board. Put engineers back in charge and move HQ back to Seattle.

Boeing's "new" CEO is another accountant. How much do you think he really cares or even understands the engineering and process issues? And how long do you think that "care" will last once the heat dies down?
I agree with your sentiment, but I've had satisfactory results running 32-bit Windows games on x86_64 Linux

On Debian, I found I had to run

dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update

and then install the wine32 package
It's not the SD card, it's the random powerloss from the janky chargers people used to power their raspberry pi that caused the SD card corruption. 99% of SD cards are used in battery powered devices with zero risk of power loss.
I empathize with the author (on more than one level, an LDAP agent in Javascript sounds like more trouble than it's worth and his suggestion to use Go makes sense), and while this kind of email is inexcusable, it's ultimately a risk of being on the internet.

To be clear, I don't want to sound callous or say that this is, in the long term, the cost of doing business in open source (it absolutely should not be); but if you're a person with a publicly-routable email (say, via git commiter or author metadata), on a long enough timeline, someone awful's liable to find it and use it maliciously.

My opinion (admittedly, not having been on the receiving end of something this pointlessly awful) is that it's better not to fold to these kinds of attacks. These people are basically schoolyard bullies, and usually attention-seekers. Validating their attempts only encourages more behaviour like this.

I hope the former maintainer is doing well, and I hope this message doesn't come off as disrespectful or harmful. If it does, I'm very open to hearing about alternative approaches.
Yep. When I tried to get a SIM in India, it was a nightmare as a non-national. I had to get a local colleague to get one.
Yes, he's getting over it by not working on a project that he didn't get much pleasure out of anyway. Seems fine to me.
The WA degradation really baffled me. How did that come about?
Maintainer can do what they like, I respect that.

I do worry that trolls who really don't care if they quit maintaining this software have outsized influence on things and the outcome of a decision like this. And the decision MIGHT only impact everyone but the troll, and maybe even encourage such bad behavior.

Recall an actress who noted how much abuse she received over the internet for how she looked. She announced she wasn't going to do something (it was something related to her clothing) as a response. It was presented as almost a punishment, but I couldn't help but wonder who was driving the bus / decisions in that situation.

Still, I respect the maintainers choice and I have no magic solutions for this.
I like your attitude, but this statement:

> while ensuring privacy

...is rather contrary to gmail's whole business model.
I think this makes sense to the extent that an understanding of the differences between language helps separate out language from the underlying meaning. However... the models that are used receive input (i.e. translate from language), and to learn / understand, and to output information (i.e. re-encode into language), do not all have to be the same.
That makes sense and fits what I had in mind: there is no formalization at the source level. Thanks for the details!
Related:

TechCrunch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361543

Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156212/google-android-a...
Set out on an adventure with angel investing
>By designing for car dominance, we've made walking extremely dangerous, especially for children.

Near where I work, there's a stretch of storefronts that's had high turnover over the past decade. All those spots are on one side of a large road. On the opposite side of the road are a bunch of stores and restaurants that have thrived long-term, given that there are more residences and offices on that side. Even though there are plenty of crosswalks, the road naturally deters people from giving business to the shops on the far side.

Roads connect places for cars. But they're walls for everyone else.
Recent and related,

UniSuper members go a week with no account access after Google Cloud misconfig (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666) - May 2024 (37 comments)

Google accidentally deleted a $125B pension fund's account (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347118) - May 2024 (13 comments)
Good to see someone in a top position that actually understands why Mozilla exists. (Unlike Laura Chambers, the CEO, whose only web presence appears to be her page on LinkedIn, a site that actively works against all of Mozilla's principles.)
How is ransoming a hospital's IT terrorism?

The American Heritage dictionary defines terrorism as:

> The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.

The FBI has two definitions:

> International terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).

> Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.

Where's the pursuit of an ideological goal? These guys are ransomwaring whoever has money and bad security, right? Seems like equal opportunity extortion, rather than terrorism to me.
Cool.. a more up-to-dateish version of Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP[1] and SuperWASP[2])

[1]https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/researc...
[2]https://www.superwasp.org/about/
Some might be sponsored, but most of them also do not get compensation for their work. They’re mainly doing it for the public good.
I hope so.

I also worry that "hey reminder that" really doesn't do much on the internet, except maybe give the troll their moment in the spotlight.

Granted, as I say in my other comment, I don't have an magical solutions to this kind of thing :(
Human is not limited by computational power of brain (or rather, it is not the limitation we encounter). We are limited by time and the fact that our machinery degrades with time (aging).
Responding to you because Masters of Doom is the right answer here. It shares a lot of details from Doom Guy, but gives a more complete timeline and better views, from multiple sides. It's a book that just makes you want to hack a game together. That's coming from someone who wasn't old enough to idolize the devs when they hit celebrity status.

Other books I really enjoyed:

- Spelunky by Derek Yu: Written by the sole developer of the game. Covers idea to development to release. Really captures a nice feeling of indie solo game making.

- The WoW Diary: Focused development 'journals' from one of the WoW level designers. Has a lot of original concept art and early alpha images. Goes over a lot of history and is just a fun read with some good insight.

- Half-Lift 2: Raising the Bar: Concept art, journals, iterations, and details from devs and HL2. Simply a fantastic insight into what they went through progressing from Gold Source to the Source Engine. Where Masters of Doom gives the written history of Doom, this book gives the nuts and bolts of HL2 and CSS. It is highly sought after by fans and developers alike and can be hard to come by.
Beyond deleting the reference to file , Delete the data on disk means one of two things : Overwrite with zeros or have another file contents written over it .

Overwrite with zeros is generally not done as default in flash memories to improve disk life, flash memories have a limited number of times they can be written too, so most memory controllers will try to distribute writes

This seems less a OS bug, more likely iOS/iCloud had a bug on marking deletion correctly
Consider substituting 'criminal' (or 'felonious', etc) for "weird" in future tellings of this story. Death threats are generally regarded as a crime by police and judicial systems, and 'weird' tacitly excuses the crime committed upon you. A death threat is not in the same category as weird, and does not deserve a framing-pardon from us.
For whatever other issues people are rightly concerned about - when sensors like this 'brick', it's just the weird superfluous cloud features that are turned off and the core functionality still works fine. Though on the smoke detectors, modern code is that they all need to communicate and alarm at once, so depending on how that's architected on the Nest devices, could prove problematic to lose all of that.
I was proud of my ability to increase my own wages 15% over the last few years, until an inflation calculator revealed that I have merely tracked with inflation.

Feels good to not fall behind? I know that's a lot more than what many are experiencing. At the same time it's disappointing that a "great career trajectory" is actually treading water (technically)
I assumed that if you hit unsubscribe they would immediately sell your email. I've seen a lot of spam sent with an unsubscribe option.
Even non-cryptographic hashes must provide some sort of security against attacks. Let's say we use a weak hash function in an open addressing hash-map - if I can calculate a set of inputs that will all collide in the hash-map, then it will turn the O(1) lookup into a O(n) lookup.

If a small change to the seed mixing (literally moving a line from the end to the beginning of the function) increases the security with no penalty to performance, then we might as well make the change.
You're spot on. The lines are being blurred and it's already biting us.
I tried it (with short/full commit hash). GitHub gives a warning:

> This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.
Every attention thief is absolutely thrilled at the idea of tracking your eyes. Let’s all imagine the day where the YouTube free tier pauses ads when you’re not actively looking at them.

Shit. I’m turning into one of those negative downers. I’m sorry. I’ve had too much internet today.
Given the amount of people in this thread (and similar threads over time) saying "just thicken up your skin" (i.e. it is the maintainers fault for being sensitive, not the trolls fault for being a dick), I doubt it.
Those were all designed after monadic IO was introduced in Haskell. The ability to mark IO operations in types (and the do notation) was a game-changer.
I've recently had to zero score SpamAssassin ENCRYPTED_MESSAGE rule as it's being exploited. Also I don't receive any encrypted messages.
I don’t take hundreds of jobs and social security numbers aren’t submitted with a job application. There are far more companies than my capacity to quiet quit at jobs.
I actually don't think the author provided very good arguments. It was my only real beef with the article: "this might do bad things" gets rounded off to "this is dangerous", even though his sources don't say the bad things will happen. They simply might happen.
have you read the actual email.. ? It's pretty bad. I've co-founded a very succesfull open source project and I can assure you a lot of people treat maintainers like crap. One guy sent me a few mails with veiled death threats because I banned him from the forum (He was harassing users and the community decide to boot him...)
The site shadowstats.com, which is one of the granddaddies of the "inflation stats are rigged" claims, says that it "unrigs" government inflation statistics. It does this by simply adding 10%.

Ironically, the cost of membership at shadowstats has stayed unchanged since 2008.
Many public figures have social media and PR teams to help deal with stuff like this, you really expect that every individual out there should just grow a thick skin as culture is continually encouraging us to have more and more of a public presence? This is the kind of thinking that gives a free pass to entrenched patterns of discrimination and targeted hate speech. It's very possible that emails like this wouldn't just be a spew of random insults but targeted towards a person's very specific triggers, and in that case a thick skin cannot stop a bullet.
Its a contrast with American style development where much of the development is actively hostile to walking despite being rich and developed. Kids in Mexico and Peru walk places too.
- "Each of the eight lenses in the array is connected to a Santa Barbara Imaging Group (SBIG) STF-8300M CCD camera. These cameras have Kodak KAF-8300 CCD detectors, which have a 3326 × 2504 pixel format."

https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5473 ("Ultra Low Surface Brightness Imaging with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array")
That's a pretty nasty email; I initially thought this was some kind of bizarre targeted spam, until they started talking about the coding stuff and it made me realize "nope, a human wrote this".

I don't think I've ever received anything this horrible ever; when I was attempting to make videos on early (~2008) YouTube as a teenager, I definitely got a lot of death threats though, so much so that someone made a whole-ass video threatening to kick my ass because they thought I said something bad about people in wheelchairs (I did not, I genuinely have no idea how they even came to that conclusion).

The internet is simultaneously the best and worst invention that humans have ever made. It allows people to be their true selves, for all that entails.
That sounds like class-action lawsuit levels of bad.

That being said, I'm actually not that worried about Nest getting killed.
Its just not true. Bikes get stolen a lot even when they are locked.
But There is not a lot of violent crime in Switzerland, so you can walk around everywhere without any worries.
Actually yes, it's our job
What does some people not filling out paperwork before moving to another country have to do with how the society treats 5-year-olds?
I guess my comments make it sound like I don't appreciate this type of work; I absolutely do. An old friend of mine[1] was responsible for the first 3d support in the vmware svga driver, so this is a space I have been following for literally decades at this point.

I just think it should be the objective of vendors to offer actual GPU virtualization first and to support paravirtualization as an optimization in the cases where it is useful or superior and the tradeoffs are acceptable.

[1] https://scanlime.org/
> Based on every article I found, above 1000 ppm clearly affects sleep quality, cognitive performance, it causes headaches, etc.

Sleep quality and cognitive performance are often difficult to perceive in yourself.

Headaches aren't like that at all. If every article you found states that CO2 above 1000 ppm causes headaches, that should reflect poorly on everything else in all of those articles.

> Even if CO2 would be harmless in itself, it is a good indicator for bad ventilation.

This is perfectly true.
In my jurisdiction, brake checking is illegal.

But it's pretty hard to enforce just for the reasons you mentioned. "I saw something on the road" is a fairly bullet proof defence which nobody can counter.
Minimizing the cost of unemployment if nothing else, I assume. The documentation of "we tried to find something else, just simply couldn't"
Lice is my guess as to why the houses were burned down—that or spiders.
Doesn't Synology support running VMs directly on the NAS itself?
If Minecraft were a Microsoft product from the start, they probably wouldn't have made the Java version compatible with Mac or Linux (even though it uses JVM, there are some natives included), or wouldn't have made a Java version to begin with.
What a fabulous false dichotomy you've created
Withering Rooms – horror adventure in a procedurally generated Victorian mansion
Wow, I've never been so inspired to continue brushing my teeth daily.
Accessibility features tend to be superpowers though, and I'm glad Apple gates them behind permissions and opt-ins. We all know of applications who try to trick the user into granting them inappropriate access to the device through the Accessibility APIs. I think DropBox still begs you to grant them Accessibility access so its tendrils can do who-knows-what to your system.

With great power comes great responsibility.
Sounds like a first hand account of PHP driving people literally crazy
That‘s a good one. They write down your frame number and tell you they get back to you. Then you never hear from them again.
It will be interesting to see what IBM's army of lawyers think about those lazy accusations of code theft ;)
iOS 17 audio image descriptions for blind people via Image Magnifier should work on all iPhones, but do not work on iPhone SE3 and iPhone 11 Pro. Audio image descriptions do work in iPhone 12 Pro. Lidar in 12 Pro increases accuracy, but should not be mandatory. Hopefully this is a bug that can be fixed, since text descriptions were still functional on the lower-end devices.

Source: purchased devices until finding one that worked, since Apple docs indicated the feature should work on all iPhones that can run iOS 17.

Edit: audio descriptions in Magnifier are non-functional on iPad Air, working on M2 iPad Pro.