skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Buxton himself could be self-effacing about his actions, saying he did not anticipate the vitriolic reaction of some health officials when he started questioning the study’s ethics.

Humans relentlessly believe themselves to be just and righteous. To maintain that self-sense, they will gladly deceive themselves — and often much worse.
I have some experience helping previous jobs block bandwidth abuse from user uploaded content. That lead to inadvertently finding some pretty bad content. I would figure out some way to have someone else review the content or at least some kind of automated scanner you can use to pre-check the reported content before reviewing it yourself.

Some stuff is hard to unsee.

Edit: I wonder if a local LLM (to help with privacy concerns) would be a good option or not to at least identify anything obviously bad. Wish I had more concrete suggestions.
I went to joker, for much the same reason. Their initial login page is the only one I know which proffers the 2FA input along with the password, a design feature I really like. And, they correctly applied my "automatic renewal" to NOT pre-emptively renew now, but say it will happen on the anniversary so I don't lose any of the last day(s) value.

Joker was recommended to me by another techie. Its German.

I was extremely disappointed google walked away from the domain game, because their interface was simple, logical and ironclad. I do not see how they possibly had costs in this which were not exceeded by the profits, and "click here" benefits for GCP and related product.
In a post scarcity society, capitalism dies as will most of the population on Earth. The elite will live in an amazing utopia with AI slaves and like a few million fellow humans.

Eugenics has always been the end game for the monarch class. Capitalism was a stepping stone.
Yeah the ads were too much...
Directly related to recapture of gold -- and related to the Manhattan Project by Farm Hall [0] too -- is the tale of German objector Max von Laue's Nobel Prize medal, which was dissolved during WWII and recast out of solution afterward [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Laue#Post-war

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_von_Laue#Hidden_Nobel_pr...
Seems my ad blocker is doing its job, I saw like a dozen diagrams and no ads.

Maybe try https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/sudden-stratospheric-war...
Found the folk who don't use adblockers.
You absolutely have a point. But for me, I'm not sure how to balance privacy and safety. Is my service really private at all if I'm handing off user files to a third party to do who knows what to scan for bad content, and potentially risk users through false positives?

Edit: A local model could work, but that can be quite compute intensive and therefore expensive.
That's equally true of the distribution of baryonic matter. We have to assess each galaxy individually to figure out what it's made of? What a crime against science. Never mind that they're still all made of a small handful of types of parts, which can nevertheless combine to form lots of possible histories and shapes for individual objects. Just like literally everything else in the observable universe. Seriously, what part of this argument is different for computing the amount of visible mass in each galaxy?
Could you provide some more details about the Tasmania example? Seems humans reached Tas "at least" ~40,000 years ago from my simple searching, which isnt too far off from the generalised 50,000 mentioned in the article.

Which species went extinct before then?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544032...
There are very few people left who post anything on facebook in my sphere.

And the creepy sexual content can be discouraged if you give the "I don't want to see this" feedback enough times and then wait a day. The alternative isn't good but at least it isn't deeply unsettling when I want to catch up on the few things of value left on facebook.
A Technical Look at Phone Extraction (2019)
> Hockley Mint has also upgraded its windows so that blinds are now encased between panes of glass — their fabric panels were a magnet for precious metal dust — and it also has an on-site laundry to process workers’ clothes.

Hilarious — I guess big tech companies weren't the first to offer employees on-site laundry after all!
> I kind of wish we could just pass a law that says you have to validate email addresses before attaching them to accounts at all. Because otherwise, competitive pressure will keep pushing people towards not doing it and aiming this gun at their foot in the name of conversions.

Would also help when people don't get their receipts or reminders or etc because they gave the company someone else's email. I think I've got three people who think my gmail is their address. And I can't just give up and close it because Google won't let you use a non gmail account as an Android account. Has to be gmail or whatever G Suite is called today.
>We are probably 30 years away from having an IT medicine that doctors prescribe regularly.

Given the audience of this site, perhaps "IT" isn't the best acronym to use here.
Your post - which at least attempts to list some of the advantages of a small shop AND some of the advantages of a mega-chain - demonstrates why kevinventullo's post is, in fact, naive - because he only mentions the disadvantages that Starbucks might have, without considering any obvious advantages it has, like scale and brand recognition.
Or who do not use reader mode, which works perfectly here.
I like the chat interface. It's more dedicated than the universal archival list of past conversations on Anthropic & ChatGPT. Repo is a good unit of work in a developer's mental model. I tried a few chats and answers have been concise.
All the scrapers are in Python but im slowly transferring it to Golang, i find it much faster.

The website is NextJS.
Comparing hunting with rudimentary weapons to hunting with modern firearms is insane
Probably jew-el-ery
Kind of like mini-USB, which was briefly popular but quickly supplanted by micro-USB. I think my only surviving mini-USB device is a bike light battery.
Hello? Do you understand the word "notional"?
Ah, typical short sightedness.

Heated grips are reasonably common… on motorcycles.
I meant it only for the reported content so that is, to me, a proper balance because that's kind of your legal requirement[0] to take down content which is reported. But since that's ripe for abuse the proper way is to basically first hide the content, review+confirm it's bad, and then take proper action.

So I would try asking around or thinking of how best to handle the specific reported cases without exposing yourself too directly.

[0]: I am not a lawyer
OpenSRS is sort of that? Brought to you by Tucows. They also run Hover.com if you want retail domain service.
A more information-dense post with some background [edit: …background on the phenomenon and its significance to climate and weather forecasting] from the U.S. National Weather Service:

https://www.weather.gov/bis/sudden_stratospheric_warming_eve...
Jet A probably is worse for buildings, but compressed hydrogen gas seems a lot worse for the people on the plane and people near the plane when it is on the ground. Methane, ethane or propane also seems worse for the same reason, namely, they need to be at very high pressures for the tank to be small enough to be economical on an airplane.
Many years after the technology was widespread, yes. Unlike “Crypto” and “AI” which are all underpinned by short-term “get rich quick” thinking.
The NPU is a Hexagon DSP with HVX, Hexagon Vector Extensions, and HMX, Hexagon Matrix Extensions. The core ISA and vector ISAs are pretty well documented and supported by upstream llvm, but AFAIK HMX is not publicly documented. Core ISA + HVX by itself can probably get you to 1/3 to 1/2 of so of the theoretical peak TOPS for Hexagon. It's been a bit since I've run code on device, but all the support code is in their SDK, and it's easy as pie to get it running on the simulator.

QCOM have said that up to ~13B LLMs will run at reasonable, and I think that's a pretty good peak for ~40TOPs and ~150GB/s bandwidth.
These content aggregator types sound a lot like the kind of centralization that bitcoin designed to rid us of.
Thailand to roll out a $13.8B handout plan in digital money to citizens
I had no idea Steve called it so early.

One can absolutely keep a webful experience with webassembly. But there's a huge drive of "Towards a Modern Web Stack" people who want to use Canvas and raw input processing to build their own engines, ignore the web completely & do everything themselves. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC...

They value the web only from the developer perspective, for what they can build. The user agency of the web is irrelevant. It's such a Applet/Flash/Native vibe.
Yep, it wrecked my friend's thyroid and adrenals. I don't know what the drug was, but it was immunotherapy for stage iv melanoma.
Carpet is probably the best thing for it, since the dust will work its way down in and stay there instead of sticking to your shoes and winding up all over the city.
If you think of the processed film strip as a rudimentary database, a chronolgically organized record of images, you can see how it aided in productization. On the other hand, it's also clear that computers are eons ahead in that capacity.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1758/

Dark matter really is a theory with falsifiable data. I'm not sure of the exact arguments, but I believe the evidence available (such as the evolution of galaxies) is only consistent with the existence of actual dark matter particles, and not with some alternative explanation of gravity.

It's not as simple as saying the mysterious properties of the hypothetical particles are defined solely by our observation, because simply assuming the existence of these massive particles explains all the experimental data within our current framework of gravity, while no other theory has successfully explained the data. We don't need to invent any mysterious new properties beyond the properties that we know massive things have.

So yes, maybe we will one day discover that dark matter isn't real. But by Occam's razor, it seems very likely that it's real, and nobody has a better idea. If it is the only theory that fits all the data, there doesn't seem to be a good reason to reject it.
> combined with the contents of other databases and weaponized against me.

what does weaponizing mean here? Because i do believe it is a hypothetical threat that most don't actually see as a real threat. The only scenario is that it acts as evidence for you being in a specific location/time, when it is inconvenient for you to admit to being there.
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If you're talking T2...[0]

Glossary entry:

>Unique ID (UID) A 256-bit AES key that’s burned into each processor at manufacture. It can’t be read by firmware or software, and is used only by the T2 chip’s hardware AES engine. To obtain the actual key, an attacker would have to mount a highly sophisticated and expensive physical attack against the processor’s silicon. The UID isn’t related to any other identifier on the device including, but not limited to, the UDID.

Directly contradicts

>Because the UID is unique to each device and is generated wholly within the Secure Enclave rather than in a manufacturing system outside of the device, the UID key isn’t available for access or storage by Apple or any Apple suppliers.

on page 5.

In cases of ambiguity, I always assume the case least favorable to the end consumer, which is the case whereby there is a database somewhere someone is not willing/able to admit to for fear of burning all the muggle goodwill to ground.

Tis much easier to lie and force someone else to prove you wrong as long as you don't show the strength you have without having a plausible alternative explanation; it's one of the oldest techniques in the King's Game. We also know this by another name: parallel construction. That old turkey shows up in DEA training materials; no need to even reach as far as the Intelligence Community/Military Industrial Complex.

[0]https://www.apple.com/mideast/mac/docs/Apple_T2_Security_Chi...
OP ask for a similar pattern for .net, you come here with unnecessary aggressive stance on something that was released 8 month ago, looking at your history it does not surprises though since you seems to have a grudge with Go.
That's a long stretch from "why aren't we seeing more adoption" to your assertion that "no wallets/exchanges/no one uses it"?

Because payments happen been pairs, there's no easy count of activity. The best estimates I know of are things like https://blog.river.com/the-lightning-network-in-2023/ which is almost 12 months old.

As to "no wallets support it", that's a strange thing to say, since lightning wallets support it, obviously.

I'm yet to see any comparable statistics in L2s on Ethereum? Was hoping you'd have something there, too :(
No this is an actual explanation and exploration of the consequences of the tendency for energy to spread out
Okay, let's try curiosity then:

"Didya really mean to say that there's literally no one walking this Earth with meaningful criticisms of Marx who has in fact also read what he's written? "Without being hyperbolic", no less?" 'Cause it sounds like an awfully weird and authoritarian thing to say."

Inquiring minds want to know.
Sure, but we are talking about democracy and power of majority. Majority of people may be better if there is no high wealth gaps.
Future proofing of country economy is a related problem but it may be too far away.
Appears to be 100% computer generated text saying nothing over the course of thousands of words except there's a polar vortex and we should all be very fearful of it although there is no indication of what that might be. Cool, I still can't downvote this crap but bots have no problem posting it to the front page.
> Insurance companies will soon be buying data about your exercise routines so they can adjust your rates accordingly.

if this results in lower insurance for those who are deemed to be healthier due to exercises, then it's a good outcome. Pricing insurance more accurately is almost always a good outcome.
This sounds a bit defeatist, and seems to ignore a large swathe of work that has happened since 1952 (the Miller-Urey experiment).

For example - this experiment was conducted a year before the structure of DNA was discovered / published - so it's quite a bold claim to say 'origin of life' research stalled in 1952.

To your first, second, and third questions - I can highly recommend Nick Lane's book 'The Vital Question' [0]. To some extent, I think he also spoke to your fourth question in that book - but I read 3 or 4 of his books around the same time, so my memory is fuzzy.

Either way, his hypothesis around alkaline thermal vents is hugely persuasive & compelling.

I'm really struggling to understand what you mean by the claim 'formation of water involves processes akin to supernovae' - do you just mean you need a star to explode before you get heavier elements (including Oxygen)?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vital_Question
How does AVX512 guide ISO C?
Yip, I think this is the main moral to be taken from this incident, and many like it. It's not like the people carrying out these experiments were just sadistic racists. They probably saw themselves as being able to, in the long run, save far more people and create a greater, safer, and healthier society for everybody, being able to eventually treat not only syphilis but any other disease which may manifest similarly.

About the time somebody starts arguing that the ends justifies the means, something has probably gone wrong. Because the "ends" people envision quite rarely come to pass, yet the means of trying to pursue those ends do, with 100% certainty, happen. So most often you end up with all the evils, and none of the utopian justifications at the end of the road.
Operating on stream of bytes, defined by registers.
If the argument that there is a flaw in the special prosecutor's appointment ultimately ends up being upheld on appeal–and there's no guarantee it will be–there is a solution that may save the case: appoint a new special prosecutor, using a different procedure that answers the constitutional infirmities of the previous appointment. That said, it is unclear whether a new special prosecutor would be allowed to resume the case at the same point, or be forced to re-run earlier parts of it – but I suspect judicial economy would favour resumption over repetition. Also, if it becomes necessary to seek Congressional approval for a new appointment, the current partisan division in Congress may make such approval difficult to achieve. If it is an appointment requiring Senate confirmation, it may be possible for Democrats to push it through on party lines even without any Republican cooperation – but that assumes no conservative Democrats (such as Manchin) defect. But if it also requires appropriations, it may be much harder to get the needed appropriations through the Republican-controlled House. And of course, whichever way the appeal goes, there is the very real risk this delays the case until after the November election, and if he wins, it may lead to the case being suspended on constitutional grounds, and likely eventually dismissed

There's also some debate about whether this decision, if upheld on appeal, might also lead to the overturn of Hunter Biden's convictions – https://www.newsweek.com/aileen-cannon-trump-case-dismissal-... – however, it appears possibly not, since the special counsel in the Biden case is concurrently serving as a Senate-confirmed US attorney; whereas, although Jack Smith never actually held such a role; at the time of his appointment, he did not hold any Senate-confirmed position, since he actually had been an employee of the Government of Kosovo (as a war crimes prosecutor) immediately prior to his special counsel appointment; previously, he had been a DOJ attorney, but never held a Senate-confirmed position.
I come here for tech news and discussion. Other stuff is discussed endlessly on nearly every other social network. I’d actually say the curation here isn’t strict enough. Pretty much every NY Times, Ars, Wired, Atlantic, and FT story get posted. I’d rather those sources be throttled so more weird small blogs can get through.
> There's even a case where this resulted in an air disaster

Lets not forget Sewol disaster 'recovery efforts' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_A8dq2fA5o https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-sinking-of-the-... where no rescue was even attempted before letting President decide (establishing video feed to command center).
Europe's rushed attempt to set the rules for AI
Yes. Japan had changed a lot in past 10-15 years, but traditionally the culture had been anti-fun, anti-profit, and more recently anti-culturalist. UX engineering looks a borderline indecent activity for people with this set of cultural values. It's seen like how Mycogenian nuns look at beauty salons.

"They sell tools not toys" - no offense, I hate deceptive UX engineering and e14n as the next guy - and vibration motors in Dyson vacuums - but that kinds of denials existed, and IMO had hamstrung Japanese tech products for too long.
I am working on the embedded software for an air conditioner controller used on a self driving vehicle.
They shouldn't publish a zone for a domain they don't control (yet). Regardless of who whois says manages the domain, if I were to query the new registrar's servers they could theoretically send people somewhere else than what was intended with the currently published zone information.
tl;dr poppyseeds.. like a 1996 Seinfeld episode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shower_Head)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210946

Heres the inline:

See https://github.com/rustyrussell/runes for a simpler alternative and implementation (this has C and Python, but there's also a Rust implementation because why not?)

However, the "no db access" property has proven to be untenable in practice. Users end up wanting to see what runes are issued, blacklist them, know when they were last used, and have rate limits. The last two are a killer, requiring some state to be kept (unless your system allows you to return a modified rune to the user, which is a different workflow from normal bearer creds).
Disclaimer: I am the founder of Fewsats, former Lightning Labs employee and owner of the L402.org domain

I'd like to clarify a few points and add some context to the discussion.

1) Protocol: While the current implementation of the L402 flow uses macaroons for credentials and Lightning invoices for challenges, the protocol itself is agnostic to these specifics. As long as the challenge has a verifiable "proof of completion" and a way to identify the credentials, the L402 flow can work with other types of credentials and challenges.

2) Micropayments: While L402 supports micropayments, it's not limited to them. At Fewsats, we use L402 for subscription-based services with standard SaaS payment amounts, issuing macaroons with 1-month expiration dates.

3) Multi-currency support: The Lightning Network currently uses Bitcoin, but with the introduction of Taproot Assets (also from Lightning Labs), it will natively support other currencies like stablecoins (USDt?)

4) Open Protocols: The Lightning Network and L402 are open, decentralized protocols that anyone can use and integrate without depending on any specific third party. There's no native token, ICO, or controlling company, making comparisons to bankrupt entities irrelevant.

5) Network health: The Lightning Network has been operational for years and continues to grow and evolve, with developments like L402 and Taproot Assets enhancing its capabilities and utility I would say it's future looks better than ever.

If I forgot anything feel free to as me in a comment.
Unfortunately, that is so complex and changes so often that should not be implemented at protocol level, but around it.

P.S: I feel you :)
https://archive.ph/tq29D
And that uses as its source a 2023 blog post — https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/disrupte...

This is interesting, but ancient history, and the article is clearly spam.
A 20k GPU will be passively cooled and you'll need a real server for that. Even the old MI210 another poster sent is passive.