skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do not create these exclusivity contracts exclusively for games they fund - but exclusivity is a requirement of accepting their funding.

https://kkkepic.com.br/en_US/exclusives/

A full list of their exclusives, the website is partially in Portuguese (I think), but the games and their exclusivity terms are all in English.
Not only that, but the "cure for dying" will surely be priced such that only the already-wealthy elite of that generation will be able to afford it. It's not going to just be handed out to everyone.
> people have a crisis of meaning already, there's a bestseller with that title probably being published every week

People have always been complaining about this, I think Socrates and Cicero griped about it in their times.

The problem isn’t distance from death but monotony. The philosophised immortal being has monotony forced upon them. Many people today and in the past self-impose it.
IME from the perspective of an SRE / DBRE, performance is nearly always given up (if it’s ever even considered) in favor of making things easier, and this tends to have large consequences later on.

People seem to have taken the quote, “premature optimization is the root of all evil” to mean “don’t focus on performance until you absolutely have to,” but when you push them to prove that they don’t have to, they often haven’t even profiled their code! Cloud compute – and especially K8s – has made it such that it’s expected that you simply over-provision and scale as necessary to get the throughput you need. I don’t personally see running through a profiler (ideally as part of CI) as being particularly difficult or onerous.
Insurance, whether public or private, is inherently a form of collectivization. People pool their resources to socialize the costs of catastrophe to protect the unfortunate few.

If Florida was a nation, "nationalized" might be a better term. And since Florida is too big to fail, the federal government would certainly come to their rescue after the inevitable catastrophe. So this really is back-door nationalization, a sneaky way to force taxpayers in New York, New Jersey, Illinois. Virginia and California to assume the risk of Florida's policies of climate-change denial.

It's a cynical game of chicken with climate change. By propping up its insurance market with artificially low rates, the state kicks the can down the road in the same way that big banks did before the 2008 collapse. The state and their propertied class profit today, delaying the inevitable reckoning with reality, and transferring the risk of their bad decisions to taxpayers.

It's a bail-out. But instead of blue-state taxpayers injecting cash into Florida today, they're unwittingly and involuntarily underwriting the risk that the state of Florida and wealthy Palm Beach property owners have assumed on their behalf.
Air Travel, and in general Transportation as a sector, is society-critical infrastructure and should be held to different standards than Joe's Barber Shop.
It's a shame they had to roll what was once a cool promotional program to encourage you to shop at CT into something that pushes credit cards and debt.

I still have some bills from the late 90's early 2000's when I was in Canada travelling and needed to pick up some cheap camping gear. I thought it was cool that they came in such low denominations (5c, 10c, 25c, probably more).
The thing I find the most interesting about this engine is that Ford did not use a spark plug. Inside the cylinder were two electrical switch contacts, and the spark was made on opening the switch. The electricity for this was provided by putting it in series with a light bulb connected to his house wiring. That's probably why it ended up in his kitchen sink - he would not have had any electricity in his garage.
Flixbus: can book online, include bicycle.
Actual bus: we don't take bikes.

I actually use flixbusses a lot. Great for pleasant journeys at a good price to see other places.
You should read about Apollo 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_6

Apollo 6 was an uncrewed test flight of the Saturn V. It was almost a disaster. Pogo oscillations almost tore the vehicle apart. And after staging, two engines shut down early and the rocket had to go into a lower orbit than planned.

But that flight was enough to certify the Saturn V for human use and they launched 3 astronauts to the moon on the next Saturn V flight, Apollo 8.
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Linux handles USB devices a lot better than other systems, it also has built-in drivers for pretty much every hardware out there. I'm not surprised.
> the broker is pushing new content to us over a singled long-lived HTTP response

Any plans to support websocket?

https://gazette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/brokers-tutorial-in...
reverts as in becomes an acute polio case
The homo genus has survived huge variations over the last 200k years. The likely global warming scenarios are very bad but extinction would need a major screwup with AI and/or genetic engineering.

Evolutionary processes will prevent total extinction, even if "the next generation is raised" one way, new trends will emerge.

A population of few thousand is enough for humanity to come back. Even if population dropped 50% every 30 years, it's still 500 years to get down that low. And we haven't even started trending downward yet.
This interpretation is based on incorrect decomposition of the word.

In this case, the "in" prefix means "in/on". Think of it as "inflame" + "able". Similar to how "inflammation" doesn't mean "a state of not burning" and "inflamed" doesn't mean "not burning". Also see "ingress", "ingest", "inaugurate".

I'm only an armchair etymologist and this is wild speculation, but I think that the meaning of the "in" prefix might depend on whether we get the word directly from Latin, or whether it comes through French.
"But, Auth Is Hard"
As if tiktok was the pinnacle of human existence. It's more or less just marketing trash.
There's levels to this.

Certainly "compiled" is one reward (although a blank file fits that...)
Another is test cases, input and output. This doesn't work on a software-wide scale but function-wide it can work.

In the future I think we'll see more of this test-driven development. Where developers formally define the requirements and expectations of a system and then an LLM (combined with other tools) generates the implementation. So instead of making the implementation, you just declaratively say what the implementation should do (and shouldn't).
Someone on HN [1] recommended "Broken Code," [2] a book about the various people who tried to fix Facebook/Meta from the inside and noped out. Highly recommend having purchased and read. "Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” -- Captain G. M. Gilbert

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40969211

[2] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712678/broken-code-...

(keep those book recommendations coming)
>QLC

In a 128Gb SSD? Welcome to BitRot city.

I’ll stick to SLC as long as I can, thanks.
Given the many organizational failures that Boeing has had in recent years leading to safety problems (cough Dreamliner cough), I'm quite sure that Boeing's engineers have no way to put their feet down.

Afterwards one might come out as a whistleblower. But the fact that the last two whistleblowers wound up conveniently dead (no really, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boeing-whistleblower-di...) is likely to have a chilling effect on people's willingness to volunteer as whistleblowers.
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> the point was to educate your kids to be obedient slaves with childhood trauma for their corporate overlords.

You haven’t heard of Samsung or the life of the average South Korean student. They invest the first 20 something years of their lives to get a corporate job as soon as possible, to not be left behind. Samsungs owns like half the country.
> very good for "Deutsche Telekom"

It didn't work very well for Telekom's competitors, though.

I've switched apartments about once every two years in average and every.single.time I've had to wait more than a month without internet (after already waiting a month for the scheduled appointment) because Telekom is the owner of the DSL lines and they connect their competitors' customers only when they feel like it.
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That's not different in Europe. Especially housing is a problem.

Education is a problem, at much lower prices than in the US, in most places, e.g. Germany. Thankfully not in Belgium, although quality is an issue. I don't know about insurance, but most types of insurance in the US aren't a problem ... because they don't exist except for expats (which means mostly EU employees/politicians). In .be you do not get to go outside of the normal insurance if you're a normal person.

Treatments outside of what the country insures are generally not accessible at any price. There was a very famous example of that in the "baby Pia" case.

And housing is shooting up. Both rent and prices. From a lower base, sure, but still shooting up and you have to finance it from a much lower salary.
I've scanned a few hundred images using an iPad as the light source. I've tried both a white screen and a bluish screen designed to basically invert the orange cast from the negative.

Both seem to work well. The bluish thing works quite well, but it turns out that different rolls need slightly different light color to compensate, so it wasn't worth the trouble. In the end the best result was buying a license for Negative Lab Pro[0] to post process everything

[0]: https://www.negativelabpro.com/
> I don't see how it would improve life overall, except for duration.

I think we differ here because to me, if life is good, extending duration is enough; it doesn't need to be even better.

> But your scenario implies that it is already a reality, which it is not, and that i would be in favor of killing people, which i am not.

I apologize, I tried hard to avoid implying that. I am only saying that if we were in my preferred world, very few people would advocate to turn it into this one. They would try to improve the preferred world in other ways to fix the problems that exist there. By symmetry, I argue that it means at a minimum that turning our world into that one is an improvement. (Though there may be other, different, ways to improve it!)
If you can hook up some U.2 drives, they come up to 15Gb and are “relatively cheap” on eBay.
It's not wrong but what people usually want to know looking at crime stats map is a probability to become a victim if they visit a particular place of will more to live there. Crime count divided by number of residents only relevant for crime targeting residents like home burglaries. For other cases these number can be no-representative.
I mean they can often be useful.
Pico 2, using the 2350, seems to be announced:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-pico-2/
Your posts are something I have in my bookmarks and reference regularly as I continue to build my own distributed data system. Thanks for continuing to test and report on these issues. These posts have clarified a lot of details about the consistency guarantees of these systems that I really couldn’t discern from their own documentation. The knowledge is invaluable with how developers lean towards just trusting the system they consume to be correct.
I recently posted a blog post about CodeYam, which is a software simulator. It creates simulations of every aspect of a software application - basically every function, both in isolation and in the context of the app or other function that import the original function.

We've put together a brief demo demonstrating how the software simulator can benefit a pull request workflow, creating simulations of all changes and making it easy to add/edit simulations and save them as part of a test suite. Would love to hear any thoughts people have on it.
> though it is the fake plants that are ever blooming and ever lasting.

I have recently been envious of a neighbours bushes - they flowered uninterrupted for many months, all spring, summer and autumn. Fantastic sprays of cream and crimson blooms. Both beautiful and long-lasting, I would love to plant those over more temporally limited ones that only flower for a few days per year.

It is not the permanence that is unappealing about fake blooms, nor the brevity that makes flowers beautiful. To me anyway. Silk wallpaper with floral prints that has survived for hundreds of years in old British castles and country homes is no less beautiful for its age.

I’m not sure I see the relevance of your other points. I guess we see things very differently.
Yes, thanks. I am (superficially) aware of this as well as of the Lippman and Bernays work.

I am just curious about specific details or material artifacts of the media narrative control.

Herman and Chomskiy, as I understand, describe more conceptual model, that media orgs depend on their owners, on advertizers, etc, and thus influenced or biased.

But how does it work, if reallly present?

Pure self-censorship when people don't want to harm the interests of those who they depend on? This alone may not be enough, because requires clear understanding of the interests, which may not always be transparent.

Personnel policy, when only people with right beliefs are hired? May be not flexible enough, if the narrative needs to be changed quickly.
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That's not remotely what he said.
> so foreign to my American perspective - our public transport is more like, "maybe it'll be on time, probably not, you'll have no way of knowing, also screw you"

New York’s Metro-North and LIRR have 95%+ on-time rates [1]. (EDIT: On time is defined as less than 6 minutes late [2].)

[1] https://www.metro-magazine.com/10217862/metro-north-lirr-exp...

[2] https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/reports/pdf/report-9-2025.pdf
What makes you think they'll need a perfect spec?

Why do you think they would need a more defined spec than a human?
A screenshot of how it looks would have been helpful. I guess this is in response to Arc browsers design. https://arc.net/
Looks like the SDK got updated a couple hours ago:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/commit/efe2103f9b284...
Raspberry Pi Pico 2
Really good read! Not sure if it's the impostor syndrome talking when people say "auth is hard". I'd like to say "it's created by a human, it can be learned by a human".
Not an exact match, but https://github.com/soketi/soketi might work for your needs (API-compatible with https://pusher.com )
If your std::string was using a short string optimization, that would explain the “accident”.

Some implementations even put char[0] at the first byte in the optimized form.
I believe my critique applies: if you don't want to be static, don't be static. You can choose to change yourself.
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>If you are not happy about that you can get it DRM free from the website

It's surprising this and GOG is always such an unpopular option. Most of these stores really dig their claws into the game and force you to launch it through their own shells with all kinds of nagging and network traffic.

I've become convinced most consumers really just aren't capable of "shopping" for software.
I don't really understand the downvote, as cancelled trains do indeed not count towards the delay.

So often trains are cut short and do not reach their final destination, which is arguably even more inconvenient for the customers.
Some specs here: https://www.digikey.ca/en/product-highlight/r/raspberry-pi/r...

Based on the RP2350, designed by Raspberry Pi in the United Kingdom

Dual Arm M33s at 150 MHz with FPU

520 KiB of SRAM

Robust security features (signed boot, OTP, SHA-256, TRNG, glitch detectors and Arm TrustZone for Cortex®-M)

Optional, dual RISC-V Hazard3 CPUs at 150 MHz

Low-power operation

PIO v2 with 3 × programmable I/O co-processors (12 × programmable I/O state machines) for custom peripheral support

Support for PSRAM, faster off-chip XIP QSPI Flash interface

4 MB on-board QSPI Flash storage

5 V tolerant GPIOs

Open source C/C++ SDK, MicroPython support

Software-compatible with Pico 1/RP2040

Drag-and-drop programming using mass storage over USB

Castellated module allows soldering directly to carrier boards

Footprint- and pin-compatible with Pico 1 (21 mm × 51 mm form factor)

26 multifunction GPIO pins, including three analog inputs

Operating temperature: -20°C to +85°C

Supported input voltage: 1.8 VDC to 5.5 VDC
... And RP2354A/B even has 2MB built in flash!
This is already the case for e.g. gambling ads in certain countries. Recently I saw the first website that was basically begging the user to "please be honest" on the age popup, indicating a good number of people have caught on to just clicking "under 21". Of course I still clicked "under 21".
Not that I can blame the Swiss for wanting to make the trains run on time, but I laughed at this part:

> SBB introduced the regulation back in July 2022 in consultation with Deutsche Bahn. Introduced as a "temporary measure" at the time, it is now permanent.

Just a reminder to folks that there is nothing so permanent as a “temporary” government program.
Well, they clearly report on niche phones that they feel have a decent repairability. For example they call out the Fair Phone (which is awesome, but according to wikipedia they've only sold 400k phones across all models).

It seems if they have limited resources they should focus on the most repairable models of all major phone manufacturers and tip the needle that way.
Covid did none of that. Our idiotic, hysterical reaction to a respiratory virus caused 99% of the fallout. Hysterically blaming the dreaded Covid is part of why things are so fucked. Every single Covid mitigation was exactly the opposite of what a rational society would have done.

Good lord. It amazes me that people still buy into the hysterical Covid narrative painted by a bunch of media appointed, politically motivated “experts”.

You were lied to and manipulated for others gain. It takes an extreme amount of privilege and a very sheltered world view to keep buying into the 2020 covid narrative. Snap out of it.
New X-ray world record: Looking inside a microchip with 4 nanometer precision
Do you really expect anyone to be able to answer this? How would anyone ever know before it's too late? Nobody would use it if they knew, and they know that too.
Here in Sweden it's illegal to do so and you only find advertisements directed at children on stations operating from abroad.
Looks like this[1] is it, called "Central Weather Administration seismic intensity scale". There are few more similar standards around the world[2]. Looks like Taiwanese version is indeed related to Japanese standard. From [3]:

> 臺灣的地震觀測始於日治時期，2000年8月之前的震度分級是沿用日本1936至1948年所使用的震度分級，

My crudest roughly-letter-to-letter translation:

> Taiwan's earthquake observation started during Japanese ruling period, Aug 2000 and before's intensity classification thereby following Japanese 1936 to 1948 -at employed intensity classification,

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Weather_Administration...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_intensity_scales

3: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%A4%E9%80%9A%E9%83%A8%E4...
English Trying to make sense for one second challenge. Level: Impossible

It's always amusing all the gotchas that exist in English. I'm glad I grew up in it rather than trying to learn it as a second language.
Thats the direct translation but for some reason in spanish our double negations are usually just negations.
While I understand the motivation and wish for similar tools myself, I think the healthier solution is to just put less information into the top of the funnel.
> They also wrapped their avionics cables in flammable tape

Who approved the design, and are the Engineers still employed by Boeing? Curious minds would like to know. Any way to trace this from public documentation?
https://resourcewatch.org/data/explore/Powerwatch is also a resource.
That could be interesting but it does seem like a much fuzzier and slower feedback loop than the original idea.

It also seems less unique to code. You could also have a chat bot write an encyclopedia and see if the encyclopedias sold well. Chat bots could edit Wikipedia and see if their edits stuck as a reward function (seems ethically pretty questionable or at least in need of ethical analysis, but it is possible).

The maybe-easy to evaluate reward function is an interesting aspect of code (which isn’t to say it is the only interesting aspect, for sure!)
It doesn't; It translates to "One is none"
This is the infamous double negation many foreign speakers (including me) struggles with.

https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/26777/how-does-d...
In all sane markets, the buyer is both the person who selects the goods to purchase, and the one who pays the price agreed upon. These things seem linked, but it turns out it's really easy for them to be separated.

When medical care is funded by health insurance, you are the person who selects the goods, but you're not the one that pays the price. In some cases, you will never even be informed of the price, you don't want to be. And you rarely find out unless there are "problems".

The insurer doesn't worry if the bills are high, they'll just raise your premiums... but your monkey brain never makes the connection that your poor goods selection resulted in the higher price. It might even be unfair to blame you, even if you are careful which products you purchase, someone else was curious and you're punished with them. This incentivizes you to be less careful, not more. But if bills are really getting out of hand, the insurance company can just deny the claim.

This incentivizes the medical care provider to raise the number on the bills. If half of claims are denied, just double the bills and the math works out. The medical care provider is incentivized to get tricky with the billing codes, to obfuscate, to over-complicate. Over decades, a culture of being borderline fraudulent develops, a mythology that it's impossible to even know the costs upfront.

If I wanted to invent a machine that would cause prices to spiral out of control at the fastest possible rate, I don't think I could beat this.

> public education

By all means, I wish medical care could be as wonderful as public education. We could have the excellence of inner city Baltimore schools, coupled with the overabundance of service we see in California schools and the high levels of compensation of the average nationwide teacher salaries. Never mind the great outcomes that institution provides.
47MB of code from a min/max macro is simply hilarious!
One thing that might put others at ease is having a way for client-side code to NOT be automatically updated, as some view this as a type of backdoor or method that malicious code might be injected without being noticed, even if unintentional.
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