skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So, this is about a lot more than cigarette butts, and the researchers suggest a variety of other potential use cases, including spraying weeds in crop fields, inspecting cracks in infrastructure, and placing nails and rivets during construction."

How do the sifting machines differentiate between cigarette butts and little sticks/rocks/pieces of driftwood &c?

If this dog vacuum thing is not too noisy and can unobtrusively navigate an area it seems like it might be a pleasant "always on" addition. I used to work a maintenance job where I'd show up at 1am and sweep up dozens of cigarette butts from the parking lot. Then I'd pop back out around dawn and there'd be a dozen new ones! It really is a constant and ongoing issue.

Perhaps the robot could monitor the area for active smokers and just go over and offer up an ash tray.
The article doesn't only say that. It says also that they might remove low value, simple apps.
Is something like the Nogasm/Edge o Matic using this technology for evil? ;) Food for thought.
Your argument seems to be that a larger population leads to lower wages, which seems very reductive. Please elaborate
Elon Musk's X Is Reportedly Resisting a Subpoena in Epstein-Related Legal Case
It's a good illustration of just how much agency and empowerment a "security"-minded perspective can take away from users.
It's all fun and games until your host country grows a secret police willing to threaten what family remains behind to keep you from leaving.
People like Matt Cutts left Google to do exactly this. Much happier than when he was the head of the Google Search Spam team.
This seems pretty adjacent to their existing cloud business not requiring major new investments and is likely a requirement to do bigger deals with customers.
Netflix ends its cheapest ad-free subscription
Some industries, like agriculture or restaurants, rely so heavily on cheap immigrant labor that enforcing this would cause an economic crash and food prices would soar. Other industries will ask prospective employees their SSN, which illegal immigrants don't have. So, which part do you wish to change?
I wanted to verify the claim from your post/wikipedia link, as I don't believe it's true, but it's kind of a shame that wikipedia accepts a link to a 238 page report as the citation for a claim. It should at least refer to a specific page or section in the report. I don't want to hunt through hundreds of pages of this report to verify the claim. The report also doesn't have any sort of "conclusions" section so there's no quick way to even verify that the report is saying what they claim it's saying, let alone find the data behind the claim.

However, I did a quick search for every sentence containing the word Australia, and found nothing that seemed to back up the claim.
I don't see any method at all, sir.
"If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU'RE GONNA DIE AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT." [1]

Not patching is insane -- you'll let script kiddies in. Patching might not stop the next Stuxnet author, but you'll slow them down _and_ have fewer script kiddies.

A lot of people seem to be focusing on how the band-aid of automatic security updates can be ugly without considering the hemorrhaging that it's actually stemming. Nobody's stepping up with a realistic solution to the problem, which means we're stuck with the band-aids.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
All fair points, however if we take everything you said at face value (which I mostly do, with some caveats) it does give give one pause to consider what a constant stream of new migrants means. It all sounds well and good to say that the problem is self correcting after a few generations, but if you are constantly "importing" new (1st generation) migrants, this lag-time becomes a serious issue quickly.
Your example would actually prove the negative here. Adopting a black kid into the white family did not change the kid's race.

Adoption only changes the kid's environment. How do you read that as an indicator that race was the differentiator?

Do you mean only race of the immediate family in the household, not race of the person taking the test? That seems like a stretch to say it's race based at that point, and also a pretty useless data point unless your recommendation is to somehow leverage that by adopting more kids into white families because your belief is that will make them score higher on an IQ test and that a higher IQ score is a meaningful enough metric to propose such a big intervention.
While GP is not here, can you make me understand how exactly you deduced that GP expected TeX to be designed around said paradigm?
Flagging mines is a nice convenience/usability feature, but if you're aiming for minimalism, the game can be considered complete when mine locations are the only un-revealed tiles.
Deluge of Fake Mac App Store Reviews
You really put a lot of faith in IQ tests. What is it about IQ scores that makes you think it's worth so much that it should drive government policy and empower the federal government with the authority to do so?
Then you reboot in the last known good configuration.

My home PC's /boot drive keeps filling up with older kernels due to updates
I would be surprised if he wasn't giggling the whole time he wrote this.
Can someone from one of the major services comment on why they don’t run the N -1 policy on Falcon? My onboarding sales engineer recommended this to me years ago to avoid this situation. Why do critical infrastructure companies run bleeding edge updates like this?
> does the Operating System not have some responsibility in not allowing such outages to happen?

No. External drivers are acting as part of the operating system, their responsibility is to follow the rules for kernel drivers. Don't use-after-free or dereference otherwise bad memory (as appears to be the case here[1]), make sure you only access pageable memory at the correct IRQL, etc etc.

The kernel's job is to provide services and to make sure the other components are running smoothly. The problem is, by the time that something bad like a bad dereference has occurred, other issues may start to arise. And unloading a driver or something may cause data loss and may not actually fix the underlying problem (especially if you pin the error on the wrong driver[2]).

If third party software does not follow the contract, there's... really not much they can or really should do. In user mode, an access violation is given to the program when you access bad memory. This usually results in a process crash, which while annoying, may be fine. User mode programs can't[3] bring down the operating system.

In kernel mode, there's no way for the OS to know that you're not going to start overwriting the disk accidentally so they made what they believe to be the safest choice--stop[4].

In any case, there's really no way for 1 to happen (since driver updates can be done externally to Microsoft), 2 is nebulous, and 3 is potentially dangerous.

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[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

[2]: For example, in the case of stack corruption.

[3]: Technically they can in a couple of limited cases (but this really isn't the point). The first being killing CSRSS or another process with the "critical" kernel flag, and another by using NtShutdownSystem from the NT API.

[4]: Other operating systems have taken a different philosophy. Notably Linux can be configured to allow the machine to run after a driver or other external event causes a kernel oops.
I was expecting lulz but this was actually very well written and gets into a lot of the softer aspects of human-computer interaction.

Also the double entendre of "plug" in technology contexts, subtly brilliant.
It happens quite a bit in few Indian states too. Governments are too trigger-happy to shut down Internet in times of large-scale competitive examinations or protests against their policies etc
> And on the flip side, importing Central and South Americans

Which countries are those, exactly? I"ll refer you to:

- "South American Immigrants in the United States" [1];

- "Hispanics and Latinos in California" [2].

Now California's single largest ethnicity is Hispanic. Nearly all are of Mexican descent. They're underrepresented in voting though where the typical California voter is still older and white [3].

We have Venezuelan refugees now. Their government is ostensibly socialist. So Venezuelan refugees have similar leanings to Cuban immigrants.

Colombians are a large group there. One exit poll suggested roughly half voted for Trump in 2020 [4].

The point is that the Latino and Hispanic vote is complicated and certainly not monolithic.

[1]: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/south-american-immig...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanics_and_Latinos_in_Calif...

[3]: https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/08/calif...

[4]: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/populist-leftist-colombi...
Lightning protection in these types of cables is well understood, since the telephone system contended with the same problem. Fortunately EMP effects are mostly accounted for by lightning protection, when it comes to the outside plant. There are definitely lightning arrestors where cables enter facilities, but I would wager the facilities were built with halo grounds. There is integral EMP shielding in the design of the bunkers, as well, with a steel liner surrounding the concrete.
>A bunch of nerds with no social competence who make up their imaginary "committees" and give themselves "director" titles prepare for another public shaming and mobbing.

Have you seen the GNOME Foundation? At least the staff is mostly as far away from Nerd as you can be, it contains HR people, that is far, far worse than Nerds, when it comes to backstabbing and rumours.

(I don't know why GNOME has around a dozen (full-time?) employees, managing the project. What are they even doing? Just internal politics?)
It's not a war, it's a genocide.

At this point it's not cash that is missing, it's absolutely everything that sustain human life, and there's probably not enough working things to even barter.
At some airports, staff does maintain infrastructure.

At others, airline staff is responsible for it. And just like airport staff, a tech who can deal with Firefox on Windows is cheaper than someone who can troubleshoot the same in Linux or a more custom system.
I think you could get 90% of the way to “all” with information that’s already in federal databases. People have jobs. Look at the fake / duplicate SSNs. So, John Smith with SSN 999-99-9999 is a White Male born in 1943, but the family at his residence is Asian and in their 30s? Absolutely no need to harass random people.
> does the Operating System not have some responsibility in not allowing such outages to happen?

No. The OS is supposed to guarantee that userspace programs can't crash the system like this, but CrowdStrike is an invasive kernelspace driver, not a userspace program.
Drones, indeed. Now your government's murderbots can be powered by Google Gemini.
None of my family has been back in decades, we've long since abandoned it.

Also, that situation is a lot more likely to occur in the mother country than most people's host countries, if it doesn't happen already. There's a reason it was the East germans fleeing, and not the other way around.
The.FAQ is pretty fun. Be sure to check out the mailing list sign up page -- there's a pretty funny pull down menu there.
Not really. They can just use a public key to encrypt ephemeral symmetric keys. The private key is stored inside AWS and is never exposed to the device.
Please don't break Mint's UI/UX. It's the only one that works like Windows.
They probably lost more from the . . . massive blood loss necessitating a whole blood transfusion.
Awesome, thanks for getting back to me and the helpful snippets. They put me on the path to solving the issue, and finally actually exploring kwin's window rules which I've been procrastinating on diving into.

I have one remaining issue though, and it appears to be with mpv, but maybe you have dealt with it before. No matter how much focus stealing protection I place on the mpv window in kwin, nor using the `--focus-on=never` argument with mpv, stops mpv from stealing focus when it launches. Any ideas? Otherwise I might try your idea about piping a playlist to mpv.
this is utter speculation; we don't have anywhere near the level of archaeological evidence about the social relations of 7th-century lydia necessary to make statements like this. no inscriptions survive in lydian from that century or the following century, except for the occasional graffito, plus of course words struck on coins. even from later in lydian history, we only have a few dozen texts of any length. the kings before gyges are quasi-mythical; we don't even know how kroisos, the most famous of gyges' successors spelled his own name. we don't know how kroisos's taxation system worked. we don't know if the peasantry was free or enslaved. we certainly don't have any contemporary accounts of social relations between soldiers and peasantry

however, we do know that rulers around the mediterranean were levying taxes and making war for thousands of years before the lydians started making specie into coins
The Feds know where most illegal aliens live and work, they just don’t do anything about it.
I somewhat disagree. By way of example, when I search for "unreal engine UObject" I would expect to get the documentation page for Unreal Engine's UObject class. (https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...) Google search was at one point excellent for this sort of thing! But, today, when I search for that, the UObject documentation page is nowhere to be found.

It is still OK for Python stuff. But it used to be good for everything!
LLMs are also capable of mixing up information about different people:

> Prompt: Who is Tom Faber

> ChatGPT: Tom Faber is a versatile individual with multiple professional identities. He is known as a culture journalist and gaming reviewer, contributing to prestigious publications like the Financial Times, The Guardian, and The New York Times. His work often covers topics related to arts and gaming. Additionally, Tom Faber serves as the Clinical Director of the Zuni Indian Health Service Hospital and is a founding member of the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project (ZYEP), where he has been instrumental in developing programs for the Zuni community since 2006 (Zuni Enrichment) .

It's probably obvious here that it's talking about two different people as the fields are unconnected, but if they were closer, you'd assume it's the same person.

They can also invent things:

> Prompt (new chat): tell me about tom faber

> Tom Faber is a prominent figure in British literature, known for his work as an author and editor. His most notable works include his novel "The Scent of Death," which delves into themes of mystery and psychological drama. Faber's writing often features intricate plots and rich character development, reflecting his deep understanding of human nature and storytelling.

The only book titled "The Scent of Death" I can find was written by Simon Beckett.
>https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Minutes/20240527

This is simultaneous hilarious and frightening. Wtf is going on at GNOME?
From their homepage:

> Used by manufacturers like Maus-Tec for the Edge-o-Matic Orgasm Denial System
You've just said that there's a mode that the Russian Federation can just get into, that will allow it, a country with 144mln population, to gain an upper hand in a hypothetical war against the EU, a union of 447mln people, while having inferiority in all kinds of technology, from practically non-existent semiconductor manufacturing to inferior metalworking, thanks to which Russian howitzers have 8-10 km smaller effective range than European ones.

The high-speed "Sapsan" trains from Moscow to St. Petersburg are German, not the other way around. The cranes they used to build the Crimea bridge were Dutch, not the other way around. The optics they were putting in their newest tanks was French, not the other way around. But of course, all these guys need to take over Europe is just "mobilization", whatever that means. With multiple times less people and inferior technology. Right.

You are either seriously misguided or just trolling.
> The UN, UK, and EU have no sanctions imposed on Cuba

The US is the 800 pound gorilla in the room here. The US is 90 miles off the coast of Cuba. Cuba once supplied cane sugar to the US. Now we can't of course because it might hurt the corn lobby.

Imagine if the EU imposed sanctions on the UK, an island nation just off its coast. You could say "the US is free to trade with the UK" and you'd be correct but do you think for a second it wouldn't be massively damaging to the UK economy?
> and on Linux

On Linux, they apparently had done the same thing and caused a bunch of Linux systems to crash[1].

[1]: https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstrike-broke-debian-and-roc...
graeber is fascinating and compelling reading, and he may be right about things from time to time, but he is not a reliable guide to reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years#Cri...
We need technology to be either so stupid it's easy to adapt, or so smart it adapts to us.

But not smart enough to betray us.
Not sure if it's needed for you anymore, but I'll post it anyways, here are some links to documents from Bayer MaterialScience I have collected for designing injection molded parts. Pretty good general resources for the subject:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20240531004633/https://kompozit....

* https://web.archive.org/web/20230816100057/https://fab.cba.m...

* https://web.archive.org/web/20230602222325/https://techcente...
Ah yeah, that idea is understandable at face value but so unbelievably ridiculous under slight examination. Even court experts have to constantly restate why they are qualified to know something and then how they know it, yet a computer program, written by people who are often not experts in the field in question, gets a free pass.

It's absurd. There needs to be some baseline level of demonstrable proof that a computer system actually reflects reality, and in a form that the defense actually has a genuine chance of answering, otherwise justice is precluded.

In the age of AI, this kind of jurisprudence is even more terrifying.
Multiplication requires O(n^2) complexity with the usual algorithm used by humans, LLMs have a constant amount of computation available and they are not really efficient machines for math evaluation. They can definitely evaluate unseen expressions and you train a neural network to learn how to do sums and multiplications, I have trained models on sums and they are able to do sums never seen during training, the model learns the algorithm just by giving it inputs and outputs.
Even relatively harmless things like haram vs non-haram meats can cause a huge struggle, yet alone other more nuanced, complex cultural issues.

Also should we really be accepting of cultures that openly and unashamedly want to harm marginalized groups such as anyone who identifies as LGBT? Getting some new recipes or whatever (as it appears that's the direction you're thinking of) is one thing, having people decapitating school teachers [1] because of a drawing (which itself was based on a lie) is a whole different thing which nobody sane should be in support of in literally any context, ever.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67664805

What benefits do you see from importing and allowing this kind of barbarism into society?
Auditors might consider this a feature. ;) What's more secure than a computer that's totally inaccessible (because its OS has been rendered unbootable)?
> there are going to be critical enough systems that may be under a serious threat of breach that any wait is not worth the risk.

Disagree strongly. You are analyzing risk the wrong way. That is what I call: "Security by being on the latest patch"

Zero days occur every day and many are ongoing right now. Your antivirus vendor or OS vendor, needs hours to days, to weeks, to detected them, understand the attack, come up with a defense, test (hopefully...) the defense patch, deploy in phases (hopefully). So you are always many hours to days behind the latest threats and before getting such a protection.

The core idea here is "Critical System"

If the system is critical, it's security and robustness needs to rely on it's security architecture. Not "being on the latest patch". You will always be catching up to any threats.
The "cyber agencies" could focus on pen testing of domestic companies, and issuing fines to insecure ones.
Some alternative solutions that I haven't seen mentioned here are: Write.as (or it's open source code WriteFreely if one wants to self host) and Memos (which can be self hosted, or you can use a platform such as pikapods to host it for you

Personally I settled on Astro + Netlify for my technical blog. I can write in Markdown, push to GitHub, and it automatically gets compiled and hosted by Netlify for free.

However for non programmers friends and family, I've setup a few blogs with Memos and they all love it.
Security should be baked in. This incident and the one where Azure certs were stolen and were abused, security isn't an upcharge, it is a necessity.
Honestly the thing that I always find myself coming back to is Pandoc + Markdown, and then rendering the document with XeLaTeX. I personally find markdown very easy to write and parse on the fly, and it has a pretty straightforward transformation to LaTeX so I get pretty documents. I can also easily render it to other formats if I need to. Pandoc rocks.
Tcl has been a staple on Mac for over 30 years at this point, since System 7 at least. It was installed in Mac OS X as standard, not sure if it still is these days.

I use it to wrangle text directory listings from old Macintosh CD-ROMs from pre-Unicode era. The character set support and conversion code seems to have been written by Apple themselves in the mid-1990s. https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2022/03/31/working-with-clas...

I was pleasantly surprised by the syntax and capability of Tcl as well as the fact that it's still being developed and supported and that the maintainers took my feature requests and bug reports seriously and actioned them in what I consider a short time.
The rules exist so that certain people have a pool of “off the books” informants / assets that they can leverage. If you allow them in, then you lose the stick. If you can’t grant citizenship, then you lose the carrot.
Crowdstrike apparently doesn't believe in doing that and there is a way for firms to set that, but this issue bypassed (ignored) that protection
As a software engineer who has done plenty of home improvement, gardening, automotive repair, etc, I think the best and brightest would learn quickly.

Now, let's take the average farmer, orchard worker, construction worker, and then chuck them into a software job. They wouldn't know where to start and wouldn't get anywhere without the same educational basics that 99% of developers have gone through. That's not elitist, it's just reality.

So, there's a clear distinction to be made and it's not necessary to water down every word in the English language because we're afraid of hurting someone's feelings.
European nations suggest that some immigrant groups aren't able to integrate with the host society after multiple generations

You as an American can move to France, and you'll never be considered French. Doesn't matter if you speak french every day for the rest of your life with the most perfect French accent the world has ever heard. And if you and your American wife have kids in France after living in France for 20 years, your kid isn't French either.. even if he lives there for another 80 years. Better hope your kid finds a french wife, or his kids won't be french either.

The idea that you move to a country and you're one of them is an American concept.
> Wtf is going on at GNOME?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing, for a long time, afaict.