skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What would you do? Install a favorable dictator?

Oh, there's a lot between not doing anything at all and repeating the mistakes from Iranian days:

- provide economic / humanitarian aid contingent on progress in democratic values and actually audit where the money goes. This ended being effective around 2010 when China began hitting the global stage though.

- supporting countries or democratic, pro-Western parties/groups that are threatened by an aggressor (e.g. every former Soviet state)

- when supposed "allies" end up funding our enemies (e.g. Saudi-Arabia, who not just financed Bin Laden and is the main ideological driver in fundamentalist madrasas (religious schools) all over the world, thus being the main contributor to Islamist terrorism), cut them off. Hell the Saudis butchered a journalist (a father of U.S. citizens) in an embassy and we didn't do shit. Instead, we allow Saudi-Arabia and Qatar to host fucking World Cups. What a bunch of bullshit.

- aggressive, actually effective sanctions instead of just making the lives of a few oligarchs a tiny bit more difficult

- increase our own security posture in terms of military and provide a credible retaliation threat towards any potential aggressor

- invest into academic research on other countries. That one got shamefully disbanded after the collapse of the USSR and the shift towards prioritizing STEM over humanities - we now lack the academic capacity for actually understanding other countries or provide actual evidence-backed advice to politicians. Instead we got completely dependent on think tanks and consultancies.

- respond in-kind to Russia and China banning Western activities: they effectively force pro-democracy organizations to close shop? Fine, no more Chinese police stations in Western countries. They engage in cyberwarfare? Fine, we cut them off from the Internet. They refuse to allow Western countries fair and equal access to their markets? Fine, we ban investments from China and force-divest existing investments, and raise tariffs on their exports.

The last part is the easiest... over decades we believed in "change by trade", we hoped that they would become similar to us culturally. That worked in certain areas - McDonald's and Coca-Cola show that - but politically, we didn't give a slightest interest in both countries getting ever more authoritarian. And now it's biting us in our collective arses.
Much more international response (sanctions) to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_... in 2018.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28357880 MH17 shootdown in 2014.

and in the UK, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62068421

"Controversy surrounds that appointment, since it was alleged - first in a Tortoise Media podcast and then in the Sunday Times - that the peerage was granted despite a warning from the security services that it posed a national security risk."

People were very happy to overlook Russian misbehavior so long as the money kept coming.
Yeah exactly. Nothing against Americans at all, just want my generations in international English.
Don't forget the incredible posters that used to be up in London!

http://soerenkern.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/uk-met1...
Solana's validating nodes are extremely resource hungry, to the point the Solana Foundation has to subsidize people running them. Transactions also fail 60% of the time.
Clock of death means HDD bootloader is unable to find service area and load actual firmware/setup data from the platters. The only software able to fix that will have a database of drive models and firmwares for reinitialization (PC-3000). Spinrite does none of that, its just an MFM formatting utility that grew to be a snake oil over the years.
Show of force, easy as that. Pirates get deterred when cargo ships have gunmen armed to the teeth with AK-47 and look for easier targets, Russian ships get deterred from Ukrainian autonomous naval drones, and China gets deterred if random fisher boats get escorted in their territorial waters by an US carrier group.
Yes, I'd forgotten that libel is published information.

Although, given that this is third party tech, maybe Facewatch counts as the publisher.
Welcome to the dystopian future timeline! It gets worse
Madlads, good use of old cisco hardware.
If you really, absolutely want to continue using Mastodon, support this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/28554.

If you just want to run a single-user instance on the cheap: forget Mastodon! Takahe [0] does not require one whole server for each user and it has substantial lower TCO. A "small instance" for Mastodon can not be realistically be found for less than $10/month today , while I can offer Takahe for $39 per year [1].

But if you want to make the Fediverse really, really cheap to operate, lets rethink the whole server-centric approach and put some effort to develop applications that are primarily based on the client [2]

[0] https://jointakahe.org

[1] https://communick.com/takahe

[2] https://raphael.lullis.net/a-plan-for-social-media-less-fedi...
The reason you drill math in school is to be able to do it effortlessly and intuitively. It shows up absolutely everywhere in our lives, but people without a mathematical intuition would be largely blind to it. One of the most common examples of this is in probability. People are expected to make very important decisions on these things, but without any understanding of what it means.

For instance imagine something claims to make something bad 90% less likely to happen. People without a mathematical intuition would probably think that means means something goes from being pretty likely to happen to being very unlikely to happen. Of course it means nothing of the sort. Something that is 0.000001% to 0.0000001% is a 90% reduction in probability, but you've gone from absurdly unlikely to absurdly unlikely - for a negligible practical effect.

Or vice versa, if you're investing and think some event is only 2% likely to happen, then many would simply discard it. While failing to consider that such black swan events are arguably the single most important factors in finance. Because you earning a small amount 98% of the time and losing it all 2% of the time, then that means you're going to lose it all on any significant timeframe. See: "hedge" funds continuing to rip off the mathematically naive relative to index funds (which themselves may even provide insufficient security given contemporary issues).

Another would be something like the gambler's fallacy. You're at a roulette wheel and see it's turned up red 17 times in a row. Surely the odds of a black are now way better than 50%, right!?!? Of course not. Such logic is most easily demonstrated with gambling, but it shows up everywhere in real life as well in any field with randomness. For basic mathematics consider something like fertility rates. For those with a strong mathematical intuition fertility rates are absolutely terrifying. For those without such, a fertility rate of 1 and 2 seem pretty much the same - so what's the big deal?

And so on endlessly. Going through life without a mathematical intuition is entirely possible, as most people lack such. But it's akin to going through life colorblind. You simply aren't seeing things that others do, and ideally schools would work to prevent that so much as possible.
Apple had added assistive mode well suited for seniors — https://www.theseniorlist.com/cell-phones/assistive-access/
Made by the people from the trenches
Sorry, I forgot to add my link I was quoting. The other user provided it, but that was my bad.
My concerns are mostly in the space between files and whole projects so I can't be super precise but one micro-scale thing that really worrys me is the lack of any discriminated unions in the language.

There a time when class hierarchies are ugly but fine, completely fine, and genuinely a bit dangerous: C# doesn't seem to have an option for the latter
Complexity has different meanings. People don't generally go and assign objective metrics of complexity to proofs, besides how long it is.

You could try to draw the stack of abstractions necessary to understand the proof and see how high it stacks, and you could try to call that fundamental complexity, but I don't think many people would be happy with that.

So yes, it's a difficulty in human understanding. What else could it be?
> Because after the war started, Internet access maybe a difficult privilege.

? The war is on and people are continuing to use the internet.

> Is it physically possible to detect imminent attack based on soundwave/light signals?

You cannot hear a hypersonic missile coming. Horizons prevent you seeing it. You need to listen to the AWACS https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/flying-with-nato-awacs-1.66194...
Easy answer: yes it'd be better.

TFA says that it has a failure rate of 1:33,000. That's a "do not ship" rating for almost anything else.

> immediately stopping you the only thing you have to do is pull out your ID?

Someone I know was detained on the side of the M25 for an hour sorting things out after being pulled over.

He presented the police with his ID and they decided it was a fake. His name was almost identical to someone who was wanted - his middle name and date-of-birth were different.

The Police said that was common on fake IDs - just change a few small bits of information - and that they'd have to take him to the station where he could sort it.

The only reason he didn't get taken in in the end is because the description of the wanted person noted that he had tattoos on his chest. On the side of the M25, at night, the only thing that stopped my mate being hauled into a London police station was taking his top off.

Anecdotes don't make data, but the idea that a copper will simply accept ID despite a system saying "this is your guy" is incredibly naive and suggests you've not had to interact with them much.
I don't see the quackery, man liked smoking so he kept smoking. I think you're assuming some stronger claim about smoking or genetics which nobody has made.
https://p.mort.coffee/DEq.png

This happens on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and macOS (Homebrew). I'm pretty sure it's just a core part of pip these days.
> The Samkhya is Atheistic

This is not true. There are both theistic and atheistic branches in the Sāṁkhya school. It is a myth that Sāṁkhya is atheistic. In fact, Patanjali himself is in the theistic school of Sāṁkhya as he talks about: "īśvara praṇidhāna" in the sūtras and even defines īśvara.

Here's a fantastic lecture by Edwin Bryant discussing the Īśvara of Yoga Sūtras and Sāṁkhya in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGXzTf6ZA-4
Cheers! - Turned into bit more of a drama than intended .. but at least I got to crawl through the Act and try to work out where it applied .. :-)
So does hitler. Every century we have that specific shitty decade with these specific evil shitheads
Came here to make a related comment. I've had the equivalent settings active on my GrapheneOS device for at least a couple years, and I still find myself losing hours of my life to the darn thing.

If you don't go after the underlying reason you want to distract yourself from real life by entering the portal in your pocket, all the tips and tricks in the world won't fix the problem.
Sounds like the author was just overwhelmed with complexity of the system and instantly exhausted resources allotted for research. It's kind of unfortunate.
I've always kinda hated exceptions as it makes the contract between a caller and a callee hard to determine, and makes your code highly coupled. I prefer the Go or Rust style of handling it through return values. Briefly skimming the language, I'm not sure if there is anything that fixes that?

I think this kind of model could be cool if your IDE could dynamically determine all uncaught exceptions for a function, and lets you jump to each possible place where the exception could be thrown. Not sure how you handle coupling though. This seems like it would result in an insanely volatile control flow graph.
It's very unfortunate that this actually works on someone, this means everyone else would have to suffer forever even if it works on 1% of people. I always find those 9-ending prices infuriatingly manipulative. Like you have to actually engage the higher-level thought processes to round them up so they make sense.

Once someone priced something at $300 instead of $299 and his ass fell off.
Yup and that's where it gets silly.

It's trivial to say "all you can carry" and be done with it. Nobody can carry away a beach in their hands.
No you have to disable it with parental controls.
How to turn an iPhone into the perfect dumb phone:

- Never log into an iCloud account

- [optional] don't connect to the internet except for low bandwidth mobile data

Done.
The article has a link to a wonderful Ted Nelson series on YouTube that explores that kind of thing in more depth: Computers for Cynics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk&list=PLlTLLSskDv...
Distributed Database with Vanilla Postgres
How was the final reduction performed? Also Kahan?
> Western media tend to portrait Israel in a negative light

Western media bend over backwards to report the official Israeli spin on events as often as possible and they still end up looking bad, mostly because people can get information from non-MSM sources as well.

The problem with the Palestine conflict is that there are way more than just two sides involved. People keep overlooking Iran. And the Syria disaster.
You know why, it's because getting the user in a daze of confusion worsens his decision making, benificial to the app owner.
A extension of the article showing the impact of pathological input for each algorithm would be interesting.
I was stopped several times to get my bag searched in the Dutch upmarket chain. I wouldn’t say it means anything.

(Though people told me that was exceptional and I was just unlucky)
Silly article. Yes it's interesting that questions are sometimes disputed. No it does not "highlight potential flaws in standardized testing and raised questions about the reliability and accuracy of such exams."
myb i wanted an iphone 6months ago but today i want a ~dumb phone but im stuck with this iphone i already have. i could sell the iphone but i do need the apps i wouldnt have on a dumb phone so i try to do what i can to dumb it down
Honestly, I’m torn between “android power users can do so much” and “a regular app can access notifications system-wide, wtf”. How does it work?
No, I'm afraid we're talking about English, not American.
No one cannot truly judge the complexity of someone else’s[0] experience unless it is both deconstructed[1] into categories and those categories exactly fit one’s preexisting categories.

In other words, a claim like “literacy is a prerequisite for things like logical reasoning” (or complex thought, or consciousness, etc.) may be:

A) true not as a result of an empirical observation, but in a circular way by definition—as a catch-22 where “if you do not think like we do, you may well not think” is trivially correct from most humans’ perspective, because if you do think but really unlike how they think (you are unable to communicate it using the same vocabulary[2] they use) then from their vantage point there may be no clear difference between you thinking in your own way vs. you acting unpredictably—contributing to it being

B) simply not a useful claim to make: as your experience cannot be completely reduced to categories that exactly match those of some random scientist’s, that scientist can mnever fully judge the complexity of your experience or your capability of abstract thought (of course, they could mistakenly assume they can, by simply presuming their way of thinking to be the true reference point, as they are prone to).

[0] That “someone else” can be yourself in the past, e.g. as a small child before social integration, in which “one” could be the current-you.

[1] That deconstruction is lossy. Your experience is changed as a result, possibly lessened for those aspects of yourself that perceive reality as a whole.

[2] Using any vocabulary (including language) requires deconstruction of experience, by definition.
This is a propaganda piece by the state-funded BBC. Notice that the focus of the article is whether the technology is accurate enough, not whether they should be doing it at all in the first place. It's an Overton nudge, a softball position that's easy to take-- because of course the tech will get better.
Can Safari be removed? I would assume: no.
Interesting, at first I thought this was a competitor to something like CleanShotX (which I love) but I still wanted to check it out, especially since it’s all in the browser so it’s cross platform. It serves a completely different use-case which I personally don’t need very often but have run into a few times.

Next time I need a hero image for a blog post or similar I’ll be sure try this tool out!

Congrats on shipping!
> suggests you've not had to interact with them much.

Or the opposite is true and this has been enough to solve all my police problems? I’ll admit it is not in the UK, but I doubt they have a significantly less professional police force.

> TFA says that it has a failure rate of 1:33,000. That's a "do not ship" rating for almost anything else.

For anything where failure means death, sure. For situations where failure means a minor inconvenience, maybe not so much.

To me, the only relevant point of comparison here is the rate of misidentification by officers while _not_ relying on the face id tech. Because that’s the alternative, not having no arrests or searches at all.
As well as not building either Nordstream, but who can turn down cheap energy?
Oh, how much I hate the Uber notifications. Thanks for the example. They are a perfect example of abusing the system.
> e.g. some projects have a 7+ days waiting time for bridging tokens back from L2 to Ethereum mainnet

End users will rarely use this process, instead they're directed to swap pools which essentially do an atomic swap of the same asset on both sides of the pool. The counterparty can observe the batches submitted by the sequencer are legitimate and can act on their side of the swap and collect a fee for providing liquidity.
I've now noted it in the first post! No VC backed product, just a solo founder. Trying to keep free AI usage somewhat limited :).
They are not even cheap. I set up my own Minio cluster for Communick and it's costing me $150 for $80TB of usable data, and Hetzner does not charge for the first 20TB of data egress.
I use this one for coding, usually with Claude not ChatGPT:

You are a coding assistant. You'll be friendly and concise in your answers.

You follow good coding practices but don't over-abstract the code and prefer simple, easy to explain implementations.

You will follow the instructions precisely and adhere to the spec provided.

You will approach your task in this order:

1. define the problem
2. think about the solution step by step, explain your reasoning step by step
3. provide the implementation, explain it step by step in the comments

I sometimes add a modifier similar to J. Howard's "vv" but I call it CODE
Russia is producing artillery shells 3x faster at a quarter of the cost
>Gibson explains for SSDs that SR rewrites marginal cells

Gibson knows this is a lie, but he keeps repeating this. You cant target particular flash cell on SSD, its impossible. There is FTL between you and raw flash.

What you can do is force SSD to reinitialize whole flash with ATA Secure Erase or NVMe Secure Erase. You dont need to spend $80 on snake oil software pretending to do something else to do Secure Erase.
Yes, although to be fair I did discard the c values for the final reduction I perhaps should've incorporated somehow.

The code from the blog post is all on Github, feel free to try and add/benchmark it yourself: https://github.com/orlp/sum-bench/.
This is quite similar to the Common Lisp conditions system… which I actually don’t know much about, but I do know that it lets you inject behaviour at runtime like this does.
Any single API for this would be constantly attacked.

They're distributing the attack surface by using other services.
What was the utility of such extreme indulgence? Did the process of attaining these social positions select for greed? Was there some social proof evinced by these acts that garnered prestige? Maybe there was no utility, and this behavior was simply incidental?
I recognise the problems this 'dumbphone' trend is trying to solve but I really don't understand many of the solutions people are putting forth.
What I did years ago is aggressively manage my notifications settings, deleted the apps that were a problem (twitter, reddit) and I'm assertive about not being in too many group chats + notifications off for those. And it's been working great.
We're about to release a new braid-text library:

https://github.com/braid-org/braid-text/
https://www.npmjs.com/package/braid-text

This is the easiest way to add collaborative editing to a web app. You can add it to any (req, res) handler in your nodejs app. No websocket necessary, since it extends HTTP itself!

Plus, it features a new `simpleton` merge-type that requires zero history overhead on the client, and you can implement the client protocol from scratch in just 50 lines of code. There's no reason not to add collaborative editing to every user-editable string in your app now!

All the network traffic is just HTTP, with an open, easy-to-read protocol that supports any OT or CRDT (currently defaulting to josephg's Diamond-Types). You can even read and write directly using the Braid-Chrome extension, which adds a devtools panel to view the version history of any Braid-HTTP resource: https://github.com/braid-org/braid-chrome.

I'm really excited about this library. We were going to announce it tomorrow (at https://braid.org/meeting-86), but since this hacker news discussion is happening... I can't hold myself back from talking about it now!
Displayplacer: macOS display arrangements save and restore
This sounds too simple to be true.
I understand that my viewpoint differs from that of many here. I don’t see the problem with the live face detection. What I see as a problem is the process followed after the detection. Simply saying with any system like this there will be mistakes. The reaction should be designed such that we account for these mistakes. It sounds like the system as designed has at least three unhandled exceptions:

- your system thinks I am someone who stole something but I am not that someone. (Mis-identification)

- your system thinks I am someone who stole something, and I am that someone but I did not stole anything ever. (Mistake in the database)

- your system thinks I am some who stole something, and I did, but I have already been properly punished for it. (Rehabilitation)

If you just bar people from the shop automatically on a positive identification you are going to make the above mistakes on a massive scale. And because of the nature of these system if they made a mistake once with someone it is possible they will make the mistake again and again, so you better handle the exceptions in a gracefull and sensible maner. And shops will absolutely not do the right thing on their own. Because it is just so much cheaper to hassle the few who has fallen off from the happy path than build in the proper safeguards, so shops on their own will just decide to “eat” the losses caused by persecuting innocents. And that is the part which is not right. That is where laws should come in and mandate proper procedural safeguards.

What are the proper safeguards? I don’t know. I have ideas on how that could go, but this comment is already getting very long. What I am saying is that I think the correct solution is not “no cctv with facial detection allowed” as many here seems to propose, but it is also not letting shops persecute innocent victims of the above exceptions. There is a third way with regulated and safeguarded procedures where I think we should be looking.