skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a standard method for disinfecting water in aqueducts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_germicidal_irradia...

> UVGI for water treatment // Using UV light for disinfection of drinking water dates back to 1910 in Marseille, France. The prototype plant was shut down after a short time due to poor reliability. In 1955, UV water treatment systems were applied in Austria and Switzerland; by 1985 about 1,500 plants were employed in Europe. In 1998 it was discovered that protozoa such as cryptosporidium and giardia were more vulnerable to UV light than previously thought; this opened the way to wide-scale use of UV water treatment in North America. By 2001, over 6,000 UV water treatment plants were operating in Europe

And yes, there are also commercial products for home use.
Why not put radio arrays on the backs of StarLink Satellites and have them act as an orbital array sensor that uses its downlinks to push SigInt directly back to US NSF NRAO

A Dyson Sphere of Radio Nodes instead of Star-Plasma-Harvesting Nodes.
The Brennan Center for Justice conducted a survey in 2006 that estimated that 7% of Americans didn't have the necessary documents to prove citizenship [1][2]

The ABA quotes the US Census estimating as many as 10,000 babies are born every day without a birth certificate [3].

[1]: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/mill...

[2]: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citi...

[3]: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/publicat...
It would allow a memory read to yield to the async loop, but overall performance of the read itself would always be lower.

It’s the kind of thing that would be better implemented as a special “async buffer” where reads are guarded by a page fault handler that returns as soon as the read is scheduled and a read that yields on an unresolved page load.
Not bananas, just the Cavendish bananas. In tropical countries across the world, different varieties of non Cavendish bananas are still freely available and consumed. The reason why Cavendish bananas are susceptible to such dangers is because genetically they are all one plant, but these other varieties are not.
A great example of the unreasonable effectiveness of branding; huge numbers of people who don't really know much at all about cryptography engineering know the "doom principle", because it's much more memorable than "nonce collision" or "error oracle".
Tiebout Sorting and Toxic Releases
I do the “programming as art” in my free time, when working on my own side projects. I do it because it’s fun and I take proud on what I produce.

For work stuff? I couldn’t care less if the code comes from me, my colleagues or an LLM. As long as it works and it’s secure, we’ll ship it.

Folks, career != job.
I'm only vaguely familiar with the "mark of the beast" stuff from my catechism days as a kid. Isn't it supposed to be a tattoo or physical mark on the body? How would the proposed national ID differ from the social security number we already receive?
Would you trust Facebook to let anyone log-in based just based on your claims of owning an account?

The supreme court just backed Arizona in reinstating voter-id proof. Clearly fraud is a concern on all sides - just ask the losing party (-> 2016).

As long as anyone with a driver's license and an SSN can register to vote, the process is just bound to be faulty no matter how many recounts you do. The prerequisites apply to many non-Americans with interests and incentives to go abuse the system.
So to me, it seems rather moot to deny voter-verification because a DMV is only open once a month and costs something? So in a car-country like the US you're not going to drive with a valid license because of that?

The problem is likely much lower with in-person voting than with mail-in if you look at all the video-documented ballot stuffing cases - Even if they're just isolated, it shows that some nefarious efforts are being made to influence elections. Securing them should become a non-partisan effort.
> it is sad to me just how much people are trying to automate away programming and delegating it to a black box

I take it you're not using a compiler to generate machine code, then?

Scratch that, I guess you're not using a modern microprocessor to generate microcode from a higher-level instruction set either?

Wait, real programm^Wartists use a magnetised needle and a steady hand.

Programming has always been about finding the next black box that is both powerful and flexible. You might be happy with the level of abstraction you have settled on, but it's just as arbitrary as any other level.

Even the Apollo spacecraft programmers at MIT had a black box: they offloaded the weaving of core rope memory to other people. Programming is not necessarily about manually doing the repetitive stuff. In some sense, I'd argue that's antithetical to programming -- even if it makes you feel artistic!
CBT worked well for me. Unfortunately though after the first few weeks, doing the exercises and thinking about my problems seemed to reel me back into the gravitational pull of my problems right as I felt I was escaping. As you point out, its an anecdote and a sample size of one... but is a factor in my opinion.
Do you intend to dedicate all your personal communication and financial dealings to historians to study after you death? Or only Orwell's?
Python import management for Neovim
This feels exactly like the manifesto that artists on X started defending that Ai-generated Art isn't Art but look where we are now, companies are able to generate not only quality Art assets but photos too but amateur consumers creating songs, videos, pictures that they couldn't have previously.

Unlike art where you can tell if the end product is AI generated even, software is not. The end users do not care if you used AI to generate your react front-end or back-end, your employers dont care who wrote the code as long as its bug free and works like in the scope document.

Ironically, I don't see software developers writing manifestos or complaining that AI generated software isn't software or that they are stealing from them.
Yes. Those problems seem relatively easy to fix compared to the immense benefit of a significant reduction in disease transmission across the board.
One just hopes said military capability is doing the defence, not the offence.
Writing an essay forces you to think about an idea intimately, acting as a tool for thought in and of itself. The way I use programming is the same.
Yes, it is true that many rural people never had birth certificates, all races taken together. This does not trouble people who want to suppress minority votes because as long as something disproportionately impacts the black voter then the collateral impact on some white voters is acceptable.
Commensal bacteria are generally not airborne, whilst viruses that harm the immune system often are. So surface hygiene can be overdone, but air hygiene is a good idea.
Microsoft tried the same (working with Deutsche Telekom) a few years ago. It offered only half the services (mainly "raw" compute, not the cloud services) and was about 30% more expensive and (by design) did not interact with the "regular" Azure. You can imagine how that went.
Local first, from the command line using llamafile version 0.2.1

Explain the shell command: git commit -m "hello world"

The `git commit` command is used to create a new commit in Git. A Git commit is a snapshot of the project at a particular point in time, with the ability to track changes made and revert to previous versions if needed.

In this specific command:
- `git commit` is the shell command itself.
- `-m` option is used to specify a message for the commit. This message provides context and information about the changes that were made in the commit.
- `"hello world"` is the argument provided for the `-m` option, it's a simple string that serves as the commit message.

So, this command will create a new Git commit with the message "hello world".
I just started using it a few days ago after hearing about it here.

So far, it feels transformational for my productivity. I've been using the ChatGPT and Claude webapps a few times a week for specific problems for a year, but this level of integration makes a big difference. Particularly for parts of the stack I'm not super experienced with -- I'm a backend/ML developer, but I was putting together a web UI with Tailwind for a personal project yesterday. I highlighted the ~20 lines of HTML for a menu bar, pressed Cmd+K and typed "can you make this take up a little less space on mobile?" and it adjusted the breakpoints and sizes of multiple elements perfectly. Pretty cool stuff.
The way I (L1-english) have thought usage went is: "beestje" (as in "Huisje, Boompje, Beestje") is informal for animal, but "dier" (as in PvdD*) is formal.

So I guess I'd offer "beach critter"?

* https://www.partyfortheanimals.com/en/organizations/partij-v...
I think their intention is to be an alternative to OEDIV [0] (Oetker* Daten- und Informationsverarbeitung KG), targeting European companies and governments.

If you understand German and want to take a look at OEDIV's remarkable datacenter, der8auer posted a video [1] around two years ago giving a tour through their datacenter. Small but high-quality. This is what Schwarz Gruppe is after, though not as closed as OEDIV.

[0] https://www.oediv.de/en/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMFo74rArBw

* Yes, Oetker, the pizza-maker.
As far as I know all western judicial systems, both civil and common law. But as I said, there are exceptions for certain professions, and situations.
This is a very accurate, and very depressing, summary of why EU is stuck since the 2000s.

Most EU tech and non-tech companies, with some notable exceptions like Spotify, have this mentality.
I suppose the stronger garlic and onion flavors along with oregano isn't appealing to the Japanese pallet.
he 100% cooperates with FSB. That is why they happned to arrest the french ambassadors relative on drug charges today to be able to trade him.
To be a bit facetious/snarky: And we compare this to the EU's version where they're outright open about it and censor-away? "We're not being bad, this is legal censorship!"
A bump allocator can be implemented using atomics, but it does not support freeing individuals elements. I have seen some CAS heaps (linked list like) but I never had to implement them.
It's long overdue, there's no reason that voting should be on a workday and difficult, and Democrats should propose voter ID laws that make it easier for people to show up at the polls. They don't seem to, though, or even to argue for the concept.

They seem to spend most of their time trying to stop people from voting, trying to stop people from running, trying to keep people off the ballot, trying to keep people from talking about their candidates, and harassing minority groups that threaten the firmness of their key constituencies. A lot like Labour in the UK.

They spend far more time trying to weaken everyone's right to vote for the candidate of their choice than on anything resembling the opposite, notwithstanding them mentioning John Lewis every five minutes, and erecting statues to him.
Get an AQ monitor and a standalone filter, it will be able to constantly filter air vs the once during fresh air intake.

Also my ERV only runs on demand (~1/3 of the time, which is not enough filtration)
Why not both? California is actually pretty good about this. We have early voting at select stations, and legal time off on Election Day. A full day off is unnecessary IMO, but a federal legal mandate for 2 hours PTO on Election Day would be great policy.
Well GP spoke about Western leaders and National strategies. I guess GP forgot some European companies.
I don't know about scam ads, but I've been seeing badly targeted ones, for example a bunch for a lawyer who specialises in helping Americans who live in the UK to renounce their US citizenships.

I'm not an American, I don't live in the UK, and I'm working towards gaining a second citizenship rather than removing one.

Also for example, an ad from a government of a country I don't live in about them banning a breed of dog I've never heard of. I don't own any breed of dog, definitely now whatever that was.
You didn't answer the rest of my questions, which are sort of relevant. If I run a small platform of a couple hundred users, and one or two of them are actively harassing and threatening other users, my only option should be taking them to court? To say nothing of jurisdictions, or anonymity, or any number of other issues, you should realize that this gives an unfair advantage to platforms that can spend more money on lawyers to argue their case, or lobby for legislative change, etc.
Enchantment is just the measure of the quality of our attention

Modulo the attention that leads to enchantment is a privilege. When a person's world is full of actual danger, bending down to smell the flowers can be a fatal vulnerability.

Or to put it another way, lack of enchantment is not a moral failing any more than disenchantment is a virtue. Other people's circumstances are not what bliss-ninnies project upon them any more than they are the projections of cynics, conspiracy theorists and paranoids.
Like two weeks ago the WSJ reported a big expose on how Instagram permits users to sell drugs using paid advertisements. I guess Zuck will be arrested shortly after Durov? I can't believe these comments are in good faith but dang says assume so. Smh
A “dislike button” that really worked on social media would overturn their business completely.
while it's amazing for them to keep maintaining it, as the person mentioned down the thread, it's hard to know what they are actually running, right? and it's not a lot of work to patch this or clone/branch as necessary before deploying. Oh well, i already resigned that a part of my life will be run by someone else by now.
For convenience, I asked ChatGPT to create this table, which summarizes how many times each movie has been mentioned in this conversation so far. It got a few counts wrong (as usual), but it still gives a good sense of the frequency. I hope it can be useful to someone:

| Movie | Number of Mentions |
|-------------------------------------------|---------------------|
| The Matrix | 9 |
| Lord of the Rings Trilogy | 8 |
| Pulp Fiction | 8 |
| Alien | 7 |
| Fight Club | 7 |
| Ghostbusters | 6 |
| Die Hard | 5 |
| Back to the Future | 5 |
| Inception | 5 |
| Star Wars Trilogy (original) | 5 |
| Groundhog Day | 5 |
| Terminator 1 & 2 | 5 |
| Jurassic Park | 4 |
| The Thing | 4 |
| The Fifth Element | 4 |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 4 |
| Ghost in the Shell | 4 |
| Interstellar | 4 |
| Casablanca | 3 |
| Office Space | 3 |
| Shawshank Redemption | 3 |
| The Godfather Trilogy | 3 |
| The Blues Brothers | 3 |
| Blade Runner | 3 |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | 3 |
| Unforgiven | 3 |
| Total Recall (1990) | 3 |
| The Crow | 3 |
| The Princess Bride | 3 |
| Akira | 3 |
| The Big Lebowski | 3 |
| Guardians of the Galaxy | 3 |
| American Psycho | 3 |
| Indiana Jones Trilogy | 3 |
| Kiki’s Delivery Service | 2 |
| Ratatouille | 2 |
| A Clockwork Orange | 2 |
| Mission Impossible (various) | 2 |
| Casino Royale | 2 |
| Skyfall | 2 |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 2 |
| Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 2 |
| Apocalypse Now | 2 |
| The Shining | 2 |
| Groundhog Day | 2 |
| Donnie Darko | 2 |
| Dune (2021) | 2 |
| Gladiator | 2 |
| Predator | 2 |
| Seven/Se7en | 2 |
| The Dark Knight | 2 |
| Snatch | 2 |
| Prometheus | 2 |
| Schindler’s List | 2 |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | 2 |
| Dr. Strangelove | 2 |
| Silence of the Lambs | 2 |
| Kill Bill | 2 |
| Real Genius | 2 |
| Top Secret! | 2 |
| Tenet | 2 |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 2 |
| The Adjustment Bureau | 2 |
| The Expanse | 2 |
| Pulp Fiction | 2 |
Probably a matter of cost. E.g. in some territories plexiglass screens were put everywhere between clerks and customers - as a measure that was considered more easily mandated and done (basically, simply cheaper) than modifying air treatment infrastructure.
Working as a car driver isn’t illegal. Working as a getaway car driver is.

You’re making the opposite point of what you intended.
It doesn’t extend to police questioning, i also pointed out it’s a different thing when you are in a court.
For the police an innocent bystander can turn into a suspect real fast.
"About to be fixed" is potentially inaccurate.

There has been no meaningful change in this proposal for some time now.

Perhaps in 6 months, hopefully I'll be proven wrong.

But there's no reason to suspect that now is the time.
Countries like the US and China are not afraid to subsidize strategically important industries in regions with proven capabilities.

Meanwhile the EU likes to waste resources on failed hopeless regions. For example the new investments into making EU independent on chip manufacturing is going to the failed hopeless eastern parts of Germany. I know East Germany had the strongest electronics industry in the former Eastern Bloc but nowadays it's a literal failed hopeless zombieland.
I totally felt that!

My kids almost never got sick in daycare (1-2 days per year), but especially the first year I felt like I had a cold most of the time. But it improved later years.
From the first paragraph:

> A Florida man is facing 20 counts of obscenity for allegedly creating and distributing AI-generated child pornography

I'd bet distribution of CSAM the crime what got him prosecuted, not modifying OSS.
chrome, windows 10
It also doesn't apply to most laws. The law doesn't always require a victim or harm. Just look at speeding tickets or DUIs. You don't have to harm someone to wind up in jail
I think it was clear from my comment that I haven't heard a single person (not just study) here talk about it.

While it's reasonable such an adverse effect would be stronger in cases where at home a different language is spoken than the national language, it's very unlikely that it would only have a noticeable effect for exactly those families, with zero noticeable effect otherwise. And here, where masking rates were extremely high and amount of attention put on/money spent on child development is higher than almost anywhere else in the world, no one has ever brought it up.

This doesn't even touch upon the fact that unprivileged families are much harder hit by epidemics (let alone Covid) in general, due to a host of other factors.

> But of course if the facts go against the government narrative, the “studies” will not report them.

The studies showing that masks were incredibly effective at preventing disease spread went against the US "government narrative" at the time, since I imagine you're talking about the US.
I use Hetzner cloud not because it's European, but because it's great.
Yep, that's me. I'm the guy who asks about the requirements then asks additional questions about the edge cases. Basically, I attack the business system before I build the technical system. Any flaws in the business system would manifest in the technical system, so might as well discover them first. Then I fail the interview because I'm slow.
I'm appalled that you would argue in good faith that a tool for communicating in secret can be reasonably described as a service used to commit a crime.

Why aren't all gun manufacturers in jail then? They must know a percentage of their products are going to be used to commit crimes. A much larger percentage than those using Telegram to commit one.
People can say whatever they want. Orwell wasn't God of Moses. If you change his book you have a new book that stands on its own merits.
As an occasional petty criminal, I think this is a great idea.

As someone who has considered night security positions reading books and doing nothing all day for my paycheck, it's somewhat disheartening, but probably for the best.
Try to deposit 10k to your bank account and then, when they call you and ask the obvious question, answer that you sold some meth or robbed someone. They will totally be fine with this answer, as they are just a platform for providing money services and well, you can always just pay for everything in cash.
Isn't this a variation on a theme? A lot of current unrest revolves around people feeling ignored and unrepresented because of the global aspirations of tech and government.
> competitiveness between insurance companies

Maybe we should question this assumption that insurance companies intend to compete. It strikes me as very difficult to compare insurance companies. Some of them don’t even keep up to date information about the doctors that are in network (you have to call the doctor to ask).
In Polish people don't use Cloud but Chmura?
I thought you altered the phrase spoken by the villain Syndrome in Pixar's "Incredibles" movie: https://youtu.be/GYmHYQPaHaw?feature=shared
In some countries you have legal rights to information collected about you. This can include information collected by social media sites. Just because Facebook has a forced arbitration agreement in their TOS doesn't mean it's valid everywhere, especially in countries that nullify those clauses. The same goes with information collection clauses. Laws supercede terms of services.

And personally, while I don't mind users being able to be banned for harassing users, I do think everyone, including trolls, should have the right to information collected about them and their account
> As far as I can tell, every state that has voter id also provides free IDs.

Are you sure of that? I've never heard of a free state ID, and certainly never gotten one. I've only had ID from five or six states, though.
I tend to agree with this post. I am the only person on my team and one of the few at my company not using LLMs to assist my programming. So far I don’t think I notice any difference (better or worse) … we’ll see how this experiment plays out I guess.
I only use it to name my functions and variables
Exactly, now replace code with AI generated art, photos, drawings, videos, music. Your employers couldn't care less if its convincing enough to ship. even better now that it only takes seconds to minutes.

We are at the cusp of creative destruction and we are only getting started. Ironically, blue collar jobs seem safe as there hasn't been a humanoid revolution and what I see in the white collar field is what blue collar workers experienced before the automation and offshoring of jobs
If you search over YouTube, you'll find many people who have built one aspect or another of a lightsaber. There are things that look like lightsabers, but can't collide with each other. There are things that look like lightsabers, but can't collapse into a hilt. There are things that dump energy like lightsabers but don't fit into a dapper little hilt.

It may just be a matter of perspective, but if you spend enough time with the various options, you may well come away with a much better perspective on why you're never going to have anything just like them. You might think seeing the possibilities would make it more likely, but you'll also see just what it would take to be all these things at once.
Do we have evidence that CO2 is causal or is it still just a correlation? In general, poor ventilation + humans = high CO2, so unless there was a controlled experiment done that's a pretty strong confounding factor.
Not saying I agree with legally permitting this kind of thing, but just addressing your comment:

If the government can throw you in prison for something, it better be for a good reason. If it's simply doing something "that doesn't harm anyone but is perceived as not conducive to social cohesion", that doesn't seem like a good reason. Many conservatives would say gay marriage, polyamory, tattoos, porn, foul language, and blasphemy are not socially cohesive. Insulting people or using slurs is not socially cohesive. Some countries imprison people for many of these things, but I'm glad the US doesn't.
The Guardian a reliable outlet for whipping up outrage among the uninformed and easily misled.
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