skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, Ulster Scots is still somewhat common in the most isolated and rural areas of Northern Ireland, almost exclusively spoken by farmers - who aren't, unsurprisingly, frequent users of the internet.

This is how some US teenager, who didn't speak a lick of the dialect, ended up being the lead contributor to the Scots Wikipedia:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-...

According to my father, who's an Ulsterman, back in the 70s and 80s you would still find job advertisements written in Scots, as supposedly it was a legal requirement to write in both English and Scots - similar to Quebec with English and French. Although most of the time these postings would be complete gibberish as no one who lived in Belfast understood Scots at all.
That's literally the opposite of fear of failure.

People who use equipments actually have fear of failure. Fear of something makes you want to avoid it, and they try avoid failing in case their bare abilities are not good enough
> If I get logged out of every website on a weekly basis I'm going to be annoyed.

Then those websites should move to Passkeys.

> How do they use first party cookies to track you?

Because Meta and Google allows websites to submit advertising data to them server side using a self-hosted JS file which sets the first party cookies on your behalf.
Learning to use a lathe and having half-decent inserts, micrometers, etc. is a whole another topic, though
You will note that they have fewer of those and expose them in much more limited ways.
What nonsense! Title 42 is still in place and as much as the GOP likes to paint Democrats as immigration loving there were more deportations under Obama & Biden than Trump. Perhaps look past the political soundbites and more at the numbers and the immense complexity of the situation.
Yes - it would be cool to know how much time I should wait while I do something else on other tabs.
Why didn't you tell us yesterday, when it was still up?
The good: Estonians.
The bad: The big scary neighbour.
I think you are conveniently ignoring how the Senate representation is now so widely disconnected from the demographic reality in your answer.
Just call an API and supply the JSON schema.

Though I doubt that arguments in this restricted form are more expressive than the original representation.
Hardy bacteria found living inside microwaves
- Vinyl decals - try applying hot water for 5 minutes. Hot to touch, not boiling and decal must be continously covered with water. It should slide off.

- Stickers - if goof off doesn't work, try epoxy paint solvent. It's added to epoxy paints that you use on floor, but you can buy it separately. This stuff is several times more potent than anything I've tried. Found out by accident when pouring into sink with a sticker at bottom. The sticker just slid off seconds after applying.

- If those two don't work - it's probably some heat-set paint, you will not remove it chemically.
Total Cookie Protection is a completely useless feature.

Advertising industry has been moving to first party cookies ever since Apple implemented ITP.
Ask HN: Which open source LLM end user apps are you using, regularly?
Personally, I lean towards llm from Simon Willison and OpenWebUI if I'm not using one of the closed services. I would be curious to learn, what you are using.
Lack of death just means that people won't have the courage to take risks against injustices anymore.
Home made solutions do work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYZmeReKKY

If the parts are small enough for the ultrasonic, I use it as well.
Yes, according to the archived Rust implmentation[1] which in turn refers you to either clap[2] or structopt[3]. Other implmentations does not mention this but those I looked at had not been touched for years. Either very stable or unmaintained. Unfortunately the latter according to the Rust crate. The dotNet implmentation had a very small version bump in the dependencies but the rest of the project does not seem to have been touched the past 2 years.

[1] https://github.com/docopt/docopt.rs

[2] https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap/

[3] https://docs.rs/structopt/latest/structopt/
Source: trust us. This is some bullshit science.
> I think this shows that in species where the male does not die promptly after mating, there is good reason to live longer

Yep. Parenthood. And for humans (and other social species like elephants, other primates, etc.) to be grandparents. Humans have a particularly long juvenile period, which they need care of parents and cannot reproduce.

The reason humans still die, of course, is so that resources aren't wasted on bodies that take more and more energy to keep alive and healthy, which ultimately comes back to entropy.
> But fortunately we can still run our own routers/switches and see outgoing traffic.

Which is useless if they simply encrypt the data before sending it over SSL.

Then you will never know what they are sending to their servers.
Maybe it is if the alternative is those things you granted monopoly on wouldn't exist. With drugs especially it's a difficult proposition to spend time researching if the day after you make your pill and sell the first one the next guy can just sell it too. So we need a larger change than just modifying the patent system for medicines, we'd also need to change the way we fund pharma research and after having thought about it a lot I don't have a solution. I agree with the problem you mention, but the solution isn't simple.
Okay, here’s the first step: install a pluralist democracy via a representative democracy.

That’s gonna take perhaps 100 years, nobody is even talking about it. One party wants to move to some sort of crypto-fascism where a former but dwindling majority will stay in power forever. The other party fashions itself as the „only“ democratic choice against that, and enjoys that position of being the only choice… and doesn’t seem to see the irony that if you’re „the only choice“ in a democratic system, it’s not a democratic system.

In the meantime while fixing the system, please deal with the climate crisis, otherwise this whole „long term view“ will be moot.
Which decisions have you read?
It's not open source, and whilst its built on Vitess, Vitess alone doesn't do what Neon does, just makes it easier to horizontally scale.
This isn't about what any person wants, it's about what's more likely to increase odds for survival. Living too long, for a creature that doesn't have any medical technology, means probably a higher chance of cancer. Living too short means less chance to pass on its genes, or to help its children pass on their genes. So theoretically, we humans found a balance between the two where we live long enough to be grandparents but that's it, and that's what's encoded in our DNA.

However, now that we understand DNA better, and also what causes various cancers and how to treat them, we should be able to change our DNA to extend lifespans without causing us to die of cancer at young ages.
The quote was mostly a flourish (and apparently too open to interpretation to be useful).

In any case, it is about hypothetical “machine dictatorship” in particular, not human dictatorships you describe. Machine dictatorship traditionally invokes an image of “AGI” and violent robots forcing or eliminating humans with raw power and compute capabilities, and thus with no substantial need for accomplices (us vs. them). In contrast, it could be that the more realistic and probable danger from ML is in fact more insidious and prosaic.

What you say about human dictatorship is trivially true, but the quote is not about that.

> I don’t see how an LLM in the mix would make it worse

How about a thought experiment.

1. Take some historical persona you consider well-intentioned (for example, Lincoln), throw an LLM in that situation, and see if it could make it better

2. Take a person you consider a badly intentioned dictator (maybe that is Hitler), throw an LLM in that situation, and see if it could make it worse

Let me know what you find.
When I started at my current job I had the choice which OS and/or machine I'd like. I always wanted to give Linux a try so I went with Kububtu/Windows Dual-Boot.

After a year I removed the Windows part as I never used it. I am still happily using Linux (has been 5 years now) and find no issues with it.
I don't recognise most of them, just a few. Banter is now heard in the south. My mum says mollycoddle (perhaps it's widely known like banter?) Interestingly, when I lived in Suffolk in the early 2000s people said chud for chewing gum. I found that one funny and thought it was just some slang the kids made up.
By that same logic non-existence is vastly preferable to living. Life is suffering.
While technically true, the title feels like a clickbait headline to me. It is both overly broad "toxic" but at the same time highly specific "paper" while the reality is much more complex.

This bit from the article does cover it better.

> After analyzing 39 brands of straws made of various materials such as plastic, paper, glass, stainless steel, and bamboo, the team found that paper straws contain the most perfluoroalkylated and polyfluoroalkylated substances, also known as PFAS. These synthetic substances are considered harmful to humans, animals, and the environment.

But if you go to the abstract: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19440049.2023.2...

> PFAS were found to be present in almost all types of straws, except for those made of stainless steel. PFAS were more frequently detected in plant-based materials, such as paper and bamboo.

I can't access the full paper, but this makes me wonder how much of a difference there is compared to plastic straws. If there is a difference, but it is effectively meaningless, I'd argue that paper or other organic straws are still the better alternative. If it is a significant difference, I do agree there is cause for concern.
That is seriously some sexy ASCII work. Section 2 even has color. Interesting and informative, thanks for posting
why not just link directly? https://existentialcomics.com/comic/557
Here the Wikipedia page (in French): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdu.com

For the past 26 years the page only displayed a message like:

Lost on the Internet?

No worries, we will help

* <--- you are here
There's a project to try get a MySQL compatible extension for Postgres going, which may work.

https://nextgres.com/
Aside replying to the eroteme:

I believe one can observe the targeting by only observing the children. I ALSO believe this applies to all children in a social network where X between 1 out of 100 000 & 9 out of 10 have access to sites that are the works of the corporate.

The entirely new mechanics seems to be that most humans' will run on metaphorical stimulants & steroids on the metaphorical Wheel of Status. Humane behaviour (e.g. honor, respect, sincere curiosity) will become subject of learned helplessness. Before the child realizes that their toys are not the real things and the real things may be much more interesting; or before the child realizes they don't need to use the toys to satisfy X desires, they will have learned that status, EG pretty videos of using the toys, gets them what they want EG toys & attention from companies, parents & peers alike.
This seems approximately as likely as people not having the courage to enact injustices (since their victims will have unlimited time to plot a perfect revenge and gather all the resources that would require).
You mean different people surely? If it's the same people, the lack of types should be less of a problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Men_Are_Mortal a great book on this. It shows how the immortal are withered away by time and futility of there attempts to change history and be a permanent influence.

Meanwhile, the mortal while shortlifed and with only one poker chip in the game, play and win/loose with all the passion they have and form a sort of river, that withers the immortals plans and dreams down to zero.
You don’t have to upgrade. The popup reminding you of the new version is a bit annoying, but that’s it
Could this impact AI development timelines for major tech players?
Who needs kids shows when you can make your kids watch the channels mentioned in this thread?
If you open up the code Playwright codebase you will discover that it is literally Puppeteer with the copyright message header in the base files belonging to Google. It is a fork.
The Shkreli case has nothing to do with the rest. He was playing the insurance companies and there isn't a single person that went without the medicine due to the cost. Almost nobody takes this medicine.

In fact, it still costs $750 today.
> If that were the case, how would we have discovered the OCSP server

Because Apple is not trying to obfuscate anything.

If they did you would never have discovered it.
International Atomic Time (TAI) is one of today's most precise and reliable time standards. It is a critical element of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the global standard for establishing local times.
Yeah, this was an era where just opening the wrong email would fill your computer with malware.

Even “legitimate” companies have exploited users to the extent they physically could, resulting in the situation where we are currently at where the OS makers have to fight back for the users.
As much as I enjoy neal's little games, I'm not going to be trying this one, unfortunately.
I got my glasses a year ago and just did a checkup. Apparently my current vision (with glasses) sits at 21/20. They did two tests using the rotating lens machine.

I might have better vision (with glasses) than a lot of people who wouldn't get glasses because their vision would be good enough.

I'm in Germany and my glasses are mainly used to correct my astigmatism.
> If a supermajority of people agree on both the purpose and implementation of anything, then their elected representatives will easily come to an agreement as well. That's literally how laws get passed.

In a representative democratic system.

The US does not have a representative democratic system.
Looks interactive
It at least does make it extremely clear to the employee that they are being watched.
> We experience pain, and want to return that pain

I disagree. We absorb pain for our community/tribe or our own goals. Ideally, we don’t pass it on.
Divided by population one of highest crime rate areas in the UK is Westminster because this are attracts a lot of tourists (some are targeted by pickpockets) but not much people live there (denominator is small). A better metric will be crime count divided by man-hours spent in the area per day. Such data unlikely exists in open access but mobile operators should be able to estimate it based on base station logs.
Following the laws of a market you choose to operate in does not absolve you of your actions - just ask IBM.
It is all about nostalgia really, as someone that was around when Amiga actually mattered, it was a great product for its day.

Nowadays, while modern systems still don't offer cool ideas like its datatypes extension model, everything else is quite outdated in how to approach similar programming problems.
Well that’s one way to solve the replication crisis
It isn’t that “touching it” is a slippery slope, but that ignoring part of it is a slippery slope.

If an amendment is passed to change the 2nd amendment, that’s one thing.

But not doing that, and just banning private gun ownership (or whatever law one might want to pass that goes against the second amendment) anyway, would be a rather different thing.
>You think those numbers are enough to keep the population from ballooning to entirely unmanageable numbers?

If we keep reproducing at today's rates, of course not. However, birthrates are in free-fall worldwide due to many factors, with the biggest ones probably being education, women's rights, and access to reliable contraception. As the high birthrate countries improve in these areas, their birthrates fall; we've seen this universally in countries across the world. Of course, there's other factors too, like high costs of living, gender divides in some cultures, etc. The latter ones might be solved eventually, but I truly hope we don't regress on the former ones.

With life-extension research, I think it's highly unlikely someone is going to find the Holy Grail anytime soon that suddenly makes humans biologically immortal. Instead, it'll probably be a slow process of incremental improvements. So while those improvements chip away at the death rate, cultural changes will continue to decrease the birthrate: people will continue to choose to have fewer children, people will wait longer to have children, etc.
The article currently does not offer a link to the decision. Took a bit of digging to find it in Approved Resolutions | Special Meeting of the ICANN Board | 29 July 2024"[1] under the heading of Reserving .INTERNAL for Private-Use Applications:

> Resolved (2024.07.29.06), the Board reserves .INTERNAL from delegation in the DNS root zone permanently to provide for its use in private-use applications. The Board recommends that efforts be undertaken to raise awareness of its reservation for this purpose through the organization's technical outreach.

[1] https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/mater...
For now it looks like death can't be "solved" at all.
You may be able to prolong individual human life, even by a lot.
But how to solve entropy and the end of an empty, cold universe?

There is even speculation that life is from a certain angle only an effect to accelerate entropy under the umbrella of the Maximum Entropy Production Principle (but I do not remember the source).

So from the standpoint of current knowledge of how nature works this seems to look dire.

I also personally disagree. I do not think that the beautiful chaos of life is strictly preferable to the requiem eternam of death. I'll go when I have to, without hesitation and regrets. It's not the things that terrify us, but our opinion of the things.
The answer to immigration is indeed to improve the countries that are the sources of migration but I think this should be by making the world fairer, more equal and less profit led. History shows that direct or indirect intervention by the US fails terribly as much, if not more, than it succeeds and those failures lead to immigration.

The United States' post-9/11 wars have resulted in mass population displacements and widespread regional instability. Afghanistan: failure, Iraq: failure, Somalia: failure, Yemen: failure, Libya: failure. And that's only in the last few years. The West keeps thinking that it can destabilize a country, choose which side they want to win and somehow that country will emerge as a stable & successful ally without any side effects. That's delusional thinking but our governments keep doing it. We need to try something else and we know prosperity creates a more stable peace than any army.
XRP (Ripple), the "crypto" currency with none of the attributes that make real cryptocurrencies interesting:

- XRP is managed centrally by mostly unknown folks (this is its worst attribute)
- therefore supply isn't fixed and unverifiable
- therefore transactions are ultimately reversible
- protocol security is a joke (see other's remarks in this thread)
- XRP is not anonymous
- XRP was pre-mined
- etc ...

Regarding supply management, it's basically even worse than the US dollar in that instead of folks (the fed) that are eventually answerable to mismanagement mistakes, the Ripple supply is managed by a bunch of people somewhere that you have no control over.

Also, being a very, very distant cousin of Bitcoin, and almost unknown to the masses, it has received almost no scrutiny from the tech. crowd.

Basically, XRP is the equivalent of a county fair token, managed by the local carnies.

I still baffles me to this day that anyone would still pay attention to it.

Walk away from that garbage fire as quickly as you can.
All the best for your launch.
The last two companies I’ve worked at have made me install some device management tool which requests permissions to do basically everything. It’s not clear what data the company actually gets and how many of the capabilities are being used.

I’d certainly appreciate info that says “yes, your screen is being recorded right now” rather than a long list of permissions.
You're not going to run out of atmospheric oxygen, no matter how much you breathe. There is, for your purposes, an unlimited amount of it.

That may make all your breaths meaningless. But when I'm meditating, or bicycling up a hill, or face-to-face with my lover, or watching the sunrise on a cold morning, my breath has plenty of meaning to me. Limiting the amount of oxygen I was allowed to use would not lend those more meaning; scarcity is not the same as meaning.
Death is not really the result of entropy. No life we know of is the opposite of a closed system.
Team America policing the world again?
Show HN: I built interactive map of active and decommissioned nuclear stations
Hi all,

I am not an expert in nuclear energy but I've always wondered and found it difficult to get a clear picture about the amount of nuclear stations located in a specific region. So I built this tool that shows all the nuclear plants in the world, scaled by their capacity and with indication of their status. Clustering is enabled by default and allows to see the sum potential capacity of a region.

It's a fun tool for me: e.g. disable clustering, scale circle radius to 70%, go to EU, and you'll see Germany has shutdown all of the stations. Ofc it's a widely known fact, but what came to my surprise is that Poland, Turkey, Scandinavian countries, Africa have literally 1 to none nuclear stations. Which is kinda strange because some of these regions are modern, well-developed, and Africa specifically was sourcing lots of nuclear fuel for other countries other the years.

idk what to do with it yet, but I think I'll come up with ideas for future improvements as I believe nuclear sector will grow drastically.
Yeah that's just the TASS version, so likely to be a fake to cover a manufacturing defect.
So one side packs, say 3 new justices onto the court to get their desired outcomes... until they lose an election. Then that next person packs 800 new justices so they can get their outcomes.

Do you see the problem?

That's the short sightedness the GP was commenting about, and it's kind of nutty to realize so few people comprehend such a basic concept. Yet, here we are.

MAD only works when both sides are rational.