skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the way, other sources on acidified garlic have shown that it is shelf-stable for a lot shorter than the study you cited implies, even when properly done. Yes, you get it for a couple of months, but that's it. Most pickles, canned goods, and preserves last years.

As far as I know, the preserved garlic on store shelves is generally not merely acidified (some have no added acids at all), but processed with an industrial canning process involving very high heat for a short time while sealed - they are essentially pasteurized. That's why it is shelf stable for a few years. Nobody is selling jarred garlic that is merely acidified.

Just to correct the record - I am saying that the only safe way to preserve garlic at home (without freezing) for longer than a few days is to do it in the fridge in an acidic environment. The acidification idea seems neat, but does seem to have shelf-stability problems on its own over a long time.

It's very clear that uncooked garlic stored in an anaerobic environment goes bad quickly, but if you have a good standard of cleanliness, cooking (part of the industrial canning process) almost certainly does retard the growth of bacteria. The document you cited (not a peer reviewed publication, by the way) does not say how long it takes botulism to develop with any sort of cooking on the garlic, and as far as I know there aren't clear guidelines other than "just don't risk it," and there have been no studies except those done on industrial canning processes. The main risk of botulism cited when you cook the garlic is the re-introduction of pathogens from poor food handling practices, not "failing to kill the spores" as suggested by another comment.

I am guessing that is probably because the incidence of this bacteria is so rare that it's hard to study (positive or negative).

Ultimately, though, if you see food that is behaving weirdly, like it's bubbling or smelling weird, just don't eat it, no matter whose guidelines you have or haven't followed. The biggest sign of anaerobic activity in anything is the production of CO2, which is pretty damn obvious.
Security in the 2000s
Meta discussion:

It's interesting how very quickly this got buried.

At the time of this writing, three hours after posting, I have to go back twenty-four pages to find it, in amongst things with 2/3rds to almost 1/10th the points, posted one, two, five days ago.

I actually expected that it got flagged, and was surprised to see that it hadn't.
VPN probably.
The "purge" option was intended to delete the specific package's state, and it was supposed to be destructive. Compare with "apt remove --purge httpd" which removes all your nice hand crafted server configs.

The bug happened because if there is no config specified, it applies to all configs.. which is obviously not a good idea with purge.

The fix [0] makes purge safe-ish again by requiring a config file, so it won't purge your homedir unless you explicitly tell it to.

[0] https://github.com/bluca/systemd/commit/c4220bd2d390e9b330e8...
There's no superintelligence without non-turing based (logic gates) hardware. Is SSI going to be developing quantum computers?
> it requires endless system maintenance. Otherwise all the PHP stuff becomes vulnerable to random hacks

How so? I've seen PHP websites & apps run for 10+ years in production without updates. Even longer with a simple "sudo apt update" every few months and a "composer update" every year or so. The maintenance rate is actually very very low.
Yes, I did know that the word trundle made sense, because I have come across it before in books, as a kid, in stories for children. E.g. "The gardener trundled his wheelbarrow along the (garden) path."

(The word is not use much nowadays; archaic, as the dictionary entry says.)

I was only speculating about the connection between the two words (trundle and treadmill), because they sound vaguely similar. Maybe they have a common Latin or Old English or Old German root, as many English words do.

Update: I checked, and it seems I may have been partly / loosely correct about the etymological connection:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trundle

Etymology

Noun and Verb

from trundle small wheel, alteration of earlier trendle, from Middle English, circle, ring, wheel, from Old English trendel; akin to Old English trendan to revolve

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treadmill

c
: a mill worked by persons treading on steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tread

tread
2 of 2
noun
1
a(1)
: the part of a wheel or tire that makes contact with a road or rail

Italics mine.
I'm pretty sure someone did experiments with a microwave trying to reanimate life but that was well after it was invented.
IS it just me or is this ridiculous? They separated people who were having different symptoms and they showed it in MRIs. All this does is prove that you can derive these brain "biotypes" without the MRI. Why is this new or special or needed? We need treatment, not more tests to tell us what we already know.
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes the sample you get comes from a distribution determined by the interference.

My point was that 1 sample in isolation won’t give you information about the underlying distribution, except that it’s non zero at that point, maybe?
>> I do get a LITTLE annoyed every time I have to walk around the stupid floor mopping robot

I ran into one of these things late one night after checking into a hotel. Dead tired, I got off the elevator and was walking down the hall when this 3-foot high dalek started following me. "Can I get you some towels?" I retreated into my room. The next morning I almost tripped over it. It had spent the night outside my door... stalking me.
Government is controlled by the highest bidder. I think we should be prepared to do this ourselves by refusing to accept money made by unsafe businesses, even if it means saying goodbye to the convenience of fungible money.
Check out Will Whang's work: https://www.willwhang.dev

He and the developer of the Pieca camera (https://teaandtechtime.com/pieca-a-raspberry-pi-camera-syste...) have both been tinkering with 1" sensors, which seems to be the current limit for what kind of sensor works okay with the Pi's CSI interface.

I haven't found a larger sensor that is available to mere mortals yet, but it would be neat to get to 35mm someday.
Normies won't use these. UX needs to be simple.
Embedding Resources into Binary with C
> We also don't know how to make an AI that definitely won't help someone like that.

"...offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, where we have deep roots..."

Hopefully, SSI holds its own.
I used to have a really big problem with holding my breath when I played League of Legends. I'd routinely get dizzy after long teamfights and I was completely unable to communicate with my teammates over voice chat during fights/skirmishes because I couldn't make myself expel air (which is worse may depend on your point of view).
Marc: The MAximally Redundant Config Language
Ah, the usual:

- obscure command names

- data loss by default

- blaming the user

There is a reason many are not quite happy to embrace this wonderful ecosystem.
They’re starting to roll out trash containers in the city, should have been done years ago. There’s a bunch of interconnected factors: all residential buildings in NYC get municipal trash pickup (most other cities require private trash service for large apartment buildings), Manhattan doesn’t have many alleys so trash has to go out front, on-street parking blocks larger curbside bins and using exclusively wheeled cans would crowd the sidewalks. They finally decided to remove some parking spaces to allow for large curbside bins.
No, of course not. That would be a clickbait headline. An accurate headline would reflect that, while there are a numerous earthquakes, it isn't unusual and there is no increased risk of eruption, per the USGS.
This is refreshing. A premise for a time travel movie that is both accurate in terms of its portrait of computers, and it doesn't present basic time travel "oopsies" .
You think we should try to create an unsafe Dyson Sphere first? I don't think that's how engineering works.
Anything except tasks that require having direct control of a physical body.
Until fully functional androids are developed, there is a lot a human-level AI can't do.
What's with the bullshit names? OpenAI (nothing open about them), SSI, we can probably expect another mil guy joining them to get more mil contracts.
When there is a $ crunch and keep stead fast and not compete(against Google, open source, OpenAI), safe AGI becomes no AGI. You need to balance $ and safety.
Breaking Taps had a video not long ago covering his efforts to design and fab his own image sensor, though it didn't work and it wouldn't have been anywhere near 1MP even if it had.
Looks great!Thanks for putting this together.

For some reason, EDT is not available on the dropdown menu. But my browser displays EDT once I publish the event.

So in the meetup event I can set it to be 7:00pm - 9:30pm EST, but it displays as 8pm - 10:30pm EDT.

I switched it to be 6pm-8:30pm EST so it displays the time that I want, 7pm-9:30pm EDT.

Any chance you could add EDT on the dropdown menu? Thank you.

https://radius.to/groups/latinos-in-tech-orlando-meetup/even...
That's so dang cool.
X debut 40 years ago (1984)
I'm definitely packing this with me if I ever time travel.
Lack of space. A trash pile that is gone in 24 to 48 hours isn't permanent - whereas a dumpster is. Not to mention, access to that dumpster by a truck would be difficult.

Hypothetical, but when you have a single block of 10 buildings, each housing 500 people - the trash generated is a lot and if each were to have their own dumpster parked outside, where would cars or delivery trucks park? If parking is allowed between the dumpsters, how would the trucks access those dumpsters? There's no room to park them off-street because the buildings typically abut next to each other without alleys in between.

That's without even mentioning that even if multiple buildings share a dumpster - then you run into the question of how do you deal with illegal dumping? How do you bill each building for trash removal? See: "The Absurd Problem of New York City Trash" by NY Times (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/upshot/nyc-tr...)

No paywall version: https://archive.ph/XFAFg

Discussion on that article: https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/comments/1b5i1xk/the_...

A study: https://manhattan.institute/article/innovative-waste-managem...

What I'm trying to get at is that the trash problem in NYC, and any proposed solution, raises a lot more questions than anything else.

I for one, would love to see Amsterdam inspired under-sidewalk bins (https://www.core77.com/posts/102208/Amsterdams-Smart-System-...)
Join and help us raise up a new God!
..and if we are crack enough, this one won't smite us!
No, the superposition is a real physical thing and not just a probability distribution, the particle is in all parts of the superposition and not just randomly at one of the spots, we can see in experiments that it is in every spot. If you measure it then the superposition squared is the probability distribution of where you will find something, but it isn't just a probability.

This is what makes quantum mechanics hard, if it was just a probability distribution nobody would find that vexing its just a normal probability.
No online discussion of pneumatic tubes is complete without a mention of the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel: https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
There is red flags all over the way they make “safe AGI” their primary selling point
Is it specific to screens tho? How does it compare to reading a book, writing a letter by hand, sewing, cutting vegetables for lunch, curiously disassenbling an alarm clock or any other activity that requires focus and concentration?
No more so than trying to control a supersonic aircraft when we can't even control pigeons.
> ...a result of aggressive candidate filtering all the way up to 1/3 of the way through the program after its started.

I can attest to this. AppAcademy essentially gave me free interview prep with many rounds of technical interviews resulting in me landing a role before the admissions process even concluded.
What's coming in Leaf Node (Minimize to tray and certificate exipry checks)
gas diffusion centrifuges are an excellent example; possibly, for example, silex will turn out to be orders of magnitude cheaper. the absolute thermodynamic limit for isotope separation is many orders of magnitude away from what is currently practiced. and of course if you run your reactors on thorium or plutonium you don't need isotope separation

interesting, i hadn't heard of igcc before. thanks!
They “trundle?” That’s a cool word.
> and its benefits are largely a forcing function to get you to build a portfolio in a short amount of time and have a peer group to rely on.

That is an incredibly valuable service to provide.
I'm sorry, but your photos depict exactly what I am talking about. Those streets that the cars are crowding down are narrow (to an American) with barely enough room for two lanes of traffic. Cars are parked with two wheels on the sidewalk. And even in the "hellscape" era, every door was a different storefront.

The streets may have been "redesigned around cars," but the distance between the buildings remained the same. And the buildings were built for small-scale stores on the bottom. This is what makes it feel like a neighborhood.

The conversion back to a pedestrian/bike heaven was natural, because the size of the streets was made for exactly that.

Compare to a modern neighborhood built around 5-over-1s [1], [2]. The streets are 5x as wide -- often four lanes of traffic and two lanes of bike lanes. And the ground floor is often built for a single store, like a large clothing department store. There's no reason to walk down this street, except to get from point A to point B.

Even if you decided to eliminate cars, the streets simply wouldn't make sense as a pedestrian area. They're too big, too exposed. It would feel like walking in an industrial zone.

It's not strictly the way 5-over-1s are designed, it's the way the streets are designed, and the way commercial space is designed.

1. https://commonedge.org/in-praise-of-5-over-1-buildings/

2. https://commonedge.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/mid-rise-w...
Why do people always think that a superintelligent being will always be destructive/evil to US? I rather have the opposite view where if you are really intelligent, you don’t see things as a zero sum game
> All this does is prove that you can derive these brain "biotypes" without the MRI.

From the article:

> There is an urgent need to derive quantitative measures

> We need treatment, not more tests to tell us what we already know.

Testing for objective markers can/should lead to choosing the most adequate treatment faster than relying on self reported symptoms or subjective opinion from therapists (even if experienced or informed).
>vaguely treadmill

I meant to write:

vaguely like treadmill

”Type in haste, correct at leisure" - Me.

Like the quote: "Marry in haste, repent at leisure".

:)
The hard part of androids is the AI, the hardware is already stronger and faster than our bones and muscles.

(On the optimistic side, it will be at least 5-10 years between a level 5 autonomy self-driving car and that same AI fitting into the power envelope of an android, and a human-level fully-general AI is definitely more complex than a human-level cars-only AI).
Isn’t it because they don’t have alleys?
Firewall blamed for statewide 911 outage in Massachusetts
Seems to me that the goal is to build a funding model.
There CANNOT be such a thing as "Safe Superintelligence". A ML system can ALWAYS (by definition of ML) be exploited to do things which are detrimental to consumers.
It occurred to me a few years ago that the vast majority of my value as a programmer is the huge amount of trivia and giant set of heuristics I’ve picked up in years, and years, and years of work. Almost none of which came from formal education, training, anything like that.

That’s the stuff that gets me unblocked much faster than a newbie, and lets me spot shortcuts and connections and opportunities that save sometimes months of work. That stuff’s what lets me scan an exception message and stack trace fairly quickly for the one or two pieces that matter, even in some unfamiliar environment.
Just to give another data point, I'm settled, have two kids, and almost never hear anybody say that.

But I'll confess, I find people who talk like that a little obnoxious and I'll admit I may self select and avoid those people.
how is causality established? the data seems to support either conclusion:

A.) we found the types of brains that are inherently prone to depression/anxiety

B.) we found the patterns that depressive/anxious thoughts make on MRIs
No police reports?

And why does the article link to itself in the first paragraph, with a link you'd expect to find the original source?

The article presents no original source for the reader to verify the claim was made.

I often see this in conservative/right-wing newspapers, or in this case, extended British Tabloid.
"Government doesn't work. We just need to make a new government that is much more effective and far reaching in controlling people's behavior."
I've worked in this product area before, and the big threats that we always had to watch out for were

1. Spam - once the app is large enough, you will be inundated with 'groups' that are just marketing pitches for companies and products. If you don't have a system for approving groups or figuring out how to promote high-quality over low-quality groups, you're going to struggle. Also, the whole idea of 'high-quality' vs 'low-quality' groups is dangerous in various ways.

2. All the other pitfalls of user-made content, e.g. hate speech and inappropriate content

3. People will try to use this as an online dating site - you need to decide early whether that's good or bad, but it's a huge (and potentially overwhelming) aspect of creating an app like this

4. Facebook groups will eat your lunch

5. Really great to see your early caution about building too many features and trying to be everything to everyone. All conceivable features will be requested, and you'll need to have a clear vision in order to decide what is important and what is not.
Filesharing (for media anyway) has largely moved from torrents and direct downloads to streaming since it's easier to charge people money for accounts and/or push difficult to block ads at people that way. I'm not a big fan of filesharing for profit, but greed infects everything.

Whatever the next innovation in filesharing is, it'll probably involve money
Perhaps, but btrfs has lost all my data twice. There's an old saying in Tennessee that says "Corrupt all my data once, shame on you. Corrupt all my data twice, you can't corrupt all my data again."
That story actually came about from a scientist doing experiments on frogs. Frogs with removed brains.
Arguably the frogs are not smarter than we thought

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog under the Experiments header.
it sounds like british columbia grocery prices are insane. are those us dollars? five chicken breasts here is about $3000, which is about 2½ us dollars
Bankruptcy courts have pretty wide latitude to modify or terminate most types of agreements that create a financial obligation or liability. Certain types of student loans are excepted but not much else.
We changed the URL to that from https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/06/slack-automatic-test-conv.... Thanks!
I mean, it's not even remotely legal but some TNT can shut down a bridge and highlight that it needed help...

And it can be done in a way that there isn't a bus on the bridge when it collapses.
Stanford Hospital has a pneumatic tube system which earned a listing on Atlas Obscura: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pneumatic-tubes-at-stanf...
Absolutely.

People who spread misinformation aren't evil. They subscribe to a certain set of ideals, and feel comfortable within their social circles when those ideals get reinforced. The main desire is to be validated as a person, the issue is that internet has allowed those social circles to leak and attract other people looking for validation.

All you need to do is to provide a natural organization of those social circles with a technical solution, where people can get the validation while having their ideas reinforced, except those ideas would be factually correct.

And on a hierarchy of needs, things like money and food and shelter and health come way before ideology, so you just need financial incentives in that form to get people to organize. I.e something that looks like "If you post a true wikipedia article that is peer reviewed to be true, you get tax breaks or payouts, if you post things that are factually false, you get a fee".

Multiple ways to solve this technically. All the solutions however would require a government funded/ran public key registry associated with your unique username, with a corresponding private key that is password+biometric determined, and you would need to have every piece of social media signed with a private key.
In my experience parks in suburban areas tend to be reserved for sports facilities (baseball, tennis, etc) and playgrounds. They’re not usually nice places to hang out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

"X originated as part of Project Athena at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984.[3] The X protocol has been at version 11 (hence "X11") since September 1987."
> with both available PCIe slots populated between the external SAS controller and a dual 10gbE CNA.

Interestingly, there do appear to be PCIe cards that have both external SAS and high speed networking in one:

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/unique-oem...

Looks like a bunch of mucking around is needed to get things setup, but seems like it works ok from that point onwards:

• https://www.ebay.com/itm/314150370285

Have been considering grabbing one to try in a HP Microserver Gen 8 that runs Proxmox. Not a lot of free time at the moment though. ;)
Digital Shelf Labels Are a Win for Customers and Associates
Which of your points isn't also true for physical gold right now?

Maybe put those forward, and someone will address them for you.
That's Comma 2.
> Like the Tottenham Hotspurs owner??

If AGI doesn't coach them to trophies, nothing ever will.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/tacticai-ai-assistant-... / https://archive.is/wgJWu
Looks like that may have been caught in the crossfire when they blocked right-clicking.
This feels like a decent idea that will never actually work (or matter) for most people, kind of like self-signed PGP emails and such?

They're solving an unreal problem that can be solved by "human trust" in a Mastodon-like system. Like, hey everyone, I'm no longer joebob@bluemastodon, I'm joebob@purplemastodon.
I should probably do an updated talk/article/deck on io_uring.

I really do like NT internals though.
The AI Ecosystem of Ukraine: Talent, Companies, and Education