skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By 'countless', I was referring to events in this war other than Mariupol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_inva...

Of course russia committed many more in the wars you cited.
And we could add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_January https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazia_conflict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
Describing the factual sexist environment that existed in a prior time (or, hell, the ones that exist today) is not itself sexist.
I am not sure if that was there when I commented
The authorities could always bring over some other ones, if that's really what they want.

In any case, the drive to mate is pretty powerful. I would think a female in heat would swim back to the mainland if that was the only way to find a male.
How would somebody ping your internal network from the outside? Your firewall should block the ping getting past the router, regardless of the external interface responding.

That said: Who cares? Even if you published exact list of every single IP on your network, it doesn't do an attacker any good, because again, there's a firewall between them and your devices.
The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted
In fixed-point arithmetic, your basic operations come out to a multiply and a divide (which is a shift, if it's binary fixed-point) in the worst case. For rational arithmetic, you need to do two multiplies and a gcd-like algorithm to normalize the result (which is probably at least as expensive as a divider, even if implemented with hardware acceleration) in the best case, and three multiplies and an addition (and the gcd-like algorithm for normalization) for a simple addition.

Rational arithmetic operations are just plain slow, and there isn't a lot of magic that can fix that.
I actually thought it was misleading of the headline to say the probiotic crapped out...

A lot of people take probiotics to improve their general digestion (and not specifically for constipation). But it sounds like the study didn't even look at any of the other uses at all...
If you haven't updated your kernel since 1998, you may be vulnerable to the Ping of Death.

(I'm 90% sure this is the origin of this advice)
Chasing down oddities on predictably isolated environments is much easier though. And since the environment is declarative, one can actually roll back to the previous working state without breaking other things. For that alone the learning curve of the DSL is worth it IMHO, but I am not saying that the language and ecosystem are perfect just the way they are.
> Maybe like the original Brutalism, which was loved by architects and often hated by the people who had to spend time in the buildings

Exactly like that. Brutalism was an attempt to apply the principles of socialism to architecture. Like all 1:1 transpositions of theory into practice, it missed a lot of nuance and consciously ignored the contingencies of history -those discoveries made by trial and error that don't necessarily fit neatly into theory - resulting in terrible buildings.
I assume by "in industry" they meant in jobs where you are doing data analysis to support decisions that your employer is making. This would be any typical "data scientist" job nowadays. There the consequences of BSing are felt by the entity that pays you, and will eventually come back around to you.

The incentives in medicine are more similar to those in academia, where your job is to cook up data that convinces someone else of your results, with highly imbalanced incentives that reward fraud.
No, NP-Complete is only defined for decision problems. As OP specifically and correctly points out, NP hard applies to decision problems as well as search and optimization problems (and others as well).

You may review the following to clarify the distinction between the various NP complexity classes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-hardness#NP-naming_conventi...
> A lack of free speech is a hallmark of fascism (and communism for that matter.) Democracy only thrives within a free market of ideas. Once you lose that, it’s 1984.

We tried the free speech experiment and, honestly, lies to mislead the voting public are worse than yelling "fire".

So I disagree that speech should be completely unregulated- that leads to facism as well.

Edit: also, Twitter is absolutely not free speech. Try saying "cisgender" or criticizing the platform owner.
maybe try again - this is still in beta and isn't perfect. however - its much better than the base model, llama 3.1 70b.
Fair enough. Most of my peers could do it, but I guess they're not particularly average either.
Automattic previously prevented 1.5 million sites from receiving security updates.

Their latest move (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41751776) is announcing a security hole in ACF, a WP Engine plugin, and preventing them from deploying a fix for it. This places 2+ million users at risk.

Good guys wouldn't do either of these things. The sooner Matt is replaced or Automattic goes under the better.
Yeah it's all been a bit wishy washy. The west should have stood up for the principle that you can't just invade democracies and take their land because your army is bigger.
How do you debug it?

I'm guessing you'd need to solder on your debugging tools (oscilloscopes?) in parallel, since anything else would completely invalidate anything that you were trying to do.

It honestly sounds like a recipe for Heisenbugs.
The "Loeb Measures in Practice" book also by Cutland has a survey chapter.
yeah - its not perfect yet and responses always vary
There are many many ways in which spending a few more cents would have made it more useful.

The original concept was to use the 20 pin package, which had lots of GPIOs, including SPI.

The 8 pin package was used because the larger pin spacing and small number of pins makes it easier to hand-solder for beginners and kids.

If you want to spend $1 or $2 more there are already any number of ESP32 boards, RP2040, or even the full on 64 MB RAM Linux Milk-V Duo with 64 bit CPU, 1 GHz, and 128 bit vector unit for $3.
Can you draw the graph and actually arrange the nodes on a timeline?
its not perfect yet - still a lot of tuning needed. it should get the correct answer in a few tries.
Dark matter doesn't make the universe expand. It is massive, and thus it brings things together.

Dark energy, on the other hand, is the postulated cause of the expansion of the universe.

Edit: not a Physicist!
Note to readers. The Cromwell Hospital is a private company. It is not part of the NHS.
Wow someone had a bad childhood...why even share that with your class?
New implementation of the Leo Editor as a VSCode extension
After 'LeoInteg', which was a bridge to the original python version via a http tunnel, this new implementation called 'LeoJS' is a line-by-line translation from python to typescript which runs directly in VSCode. (Scriptable in either typescript or javascript)
I'm not sure why you assume I'm coming from a position of bad faith but to skip the back and forth, I'll just plainly state where I'm coming from. I'm agnostic as to the whole thing and ultimately, to be totally transparent, I still have a human therapist, for good reason. But he's only available during set hours so when I'm in crisis at 3am on a Tuesday, I also fully admit that I'll have conversations with ChatGPT. I'm sure I'm not alone in doing so.

I'm not trying to convince you that it's, right now, a replacement for a human parent/therapist/caregiver. it's the "not anywhere close" part that I'm responding to. It's closer than talking with a speak and spell, or a See'n'say, for instance, but also ahead of static worksheets that you can't have a conversation with. I have no idea if this is good for society, and I have no idea where this technology will take us.

I want to know the limitations of this technology, and I'm willing to be convinced that, hey, maybe what some of it's saying isn't helpful as a therapist, because that's interesting. The number of R's in strawberry, for instance has a specific technical reason it's bad at, because of how tokenization works. If, after being fed every psychology textbook, the advice it gives would be egregiously or subtly bad/wrong/harmful, or biased towards, say, giving a Freudian analysis when the industry's moved way past that, I'd like to know and hear about it, so I better know when not to trust its advice and be able to warn others.
Missiles in a Shipping Container
This is one of the many comments I see on HN where I genuinely have no idea whether it’s satire or just high-level technical talk. I assume the latter, but I don’t know enough to disprove the former
Nobody is willing to upset farmers.
An optimization problem can always be reduced to a decision problem of the form "Is X one of the optimal solutions to problem Y for input I?"
I agree! I find systems like OpenEmbedded's Yocto to be super helpful with learning how to build Linux.
If 99% of Twitter content you see is ragebait or jokes then isn't that on you for following accounts that post this type of stuff?

I've gotten enormous value from it from following accounts that post content I deem relevant to my interests.

Don't you view your timeline?
Fair: Allocating Resources Fairly at Scale
A Go library for maintaining fair resource distribution in multi-tenant systems using a randomized algorithm with constant memory usage. It's designed to be a "fit-and-forget" solution requiring minimal tuning or operational overhead. FAIR aims to prevent heavy hitters from monopolizing resources while ensuring that well-behaved clients get their fair share.
The pressure of a squirt bottle can make it go all up in the sinuses behind your eyes which is really painful when all you prob want is for it to take the short passage to the other nostril. Happened to me the last time I used it and it hurt for an hour, granted I'm always too lazy to dissolve the salt which apparently makes it hurt less.

I never had that problem with a neti pot since gravity can't apply as much pressure. So you're forced to be patient when it's especially blocked up.
In the world of photography, there's a wealth of opportunities for photographers. Whether you're just starting or have years of experience, selling your photos can be very rewarding. This guide will show you how to make money from your photos, using strategies that work.
Convenience store FamilyMart to abolish eat-in spaces
I'd agree - IPv6 is only going to get more important from now. Especially with ISPs doing rollouts paired with moving v4 to address conserving mechanisms like CGNAT.

The short list looks pretty sensible to me with those two exceptions. The long list gets a bit paranoid for me at the end - especially 32 onwards or so.
The most comprehensive resource for Africa
African Folder is a forward-thinking media company tasked with connecting a global audience to African culture and its diaspora through authentic content and immersive experiences in order to create a highly engaged community of empowered black people worldwide. African Folder is the most comprehensive resource for African culture, history, music, fashion, movies, and more.
This really needs a "flashing lights" warning, even better a toggle to disable or tone down the background color shifting.
Possibly nowhere for the heat to go. Some tubes need a certain amount of ventilation depending on the application. It wouldn't pop, but might fail.
So, on top of the GHG generated by the livestock themselves, which are large, as well as the GHG to generate fertilizer and grow the feedstock for livestock, the food we store for them also significantly generates GHG emissions?

It seems more and more like we might want to collectively reduce the amount of meat we're eating. I'm no vegan, but like, maybe eating meat only sometimes is a good idea. (Also, probably leads to less CAFOs and other questionably ethical practices if we, say, halve the amount of livestock we need.)
Google, Apple, and Email using PocketBase.
Patent trolls now know that if you sue Cloudflare, there's a good chance they'll shut down your company.
TekWizely here (creator of the linked project) - I didn't create this post but thanks to OP for sharing.

Happy to answer any Qs.

Also, I'm about to add a killer feature that lets each template tag provide a printf specifier to format values beyond the simple '%s' (current default).

Thanks again !

-TekWizely
If anything just too new. There are patches submitted. If you were really up for it you might be able to cobble enough together at this point to patch up and build a kernel that could run, but I am not certain how much more if any is needed.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-msm/patch/202...
New technologies are promising a shortcut to enlightenment (2021)
I’m reminded of the New Yorker cartoon where two armies face each other, both carrying the same image on their flags.

“There can be no peace until they renounce their Rabbit God and accept our Duck God“
Cautionary tales on the use of proxies to estimate body size of extinct animals
Hey this was very simple and fun to use. Thanks!

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/P_0yqTFP...
So one big question is, will the service refuse to answer when topics like sex, self harm, physical violence, drug use, or the like come up? Every bigcorp LLM tends towards the social propriety of a Victorian governess, and for plenty of people being able to talk about those things is a baseline requirement for even the blandest 'friend'.
I'm not sure why you jump to executive involvement when I specifically stated two creatives butting heads. There's all sorts of stories where execs or someone came in and forced a movie to have, eg a giant robot spider in a wild west settint that didn't make sense but they really wanted one in some movie so they forced it to happen in one of the projects they were overseeing. but the sum of us is better than individual, so while there are solo artists out there, they're the exception rather than the rule.
So are these Grizzlies now an "invasive species" on Vancouver Island?

Explain why or why not you think so!
I've healed several friends' tummies by telling them to stop using rinse aid.

It's very, very definitely a thing.
I worked at Automattic and the connections you could develop with your coworkers were fantastic. Almost everyone was kind, helpful, and encouraging, and I did my best to bring a positive attitude every day. Nearly everything being written communication makes that easier! (Eg you won’t seem standoffish one day if external circumstances have you in a poor mood.)

While you aren’t seeing people every day (the company is distributed), the relatively frequent meetups in cool places are a massive highlight, and just make your relationships that much stronger.

There are a lot of folks who have been around for ages — even if you aren’t working with someone directly anymore, you’ll frequently see a familiar face (and helping hand!) on the other side of the company.

So the grief of leaving these relationships is acute, especially if you’ve been around for a while. Processing that grief is healthy — and I might suggest that not having any kind of relationship with your coworkers is unhealthy. Or at least speaks to a cold culture somewhere.
good point! problem is, I can't know what other people have spoiled it on either, so if we'd independently come up with the now spoiled "the boat can take all" variant, I can't know unless that gets revealed over Twitter or arvix or HN or wherever.
How are kernel or application updates applied to buildroot-installed systems?
Lane Detection
> green-eyed at the time

What happened to your eyes?
Well, as long as I'm invited :)
All of these amazing therapies coming out of applied biology are based on years and years of basic science that has been done in universities across the world. Much of it funded by the US NIH. Unfortunately funding for basic science is very hard to come by.

Imagine if the billions of dollars being blown on boiling the oceans for a slightly better autocorrect were being used on basic and applied biological research instead. I have no doubt many afflictions would be a thing of the past (at least for those who embrace science instead of superstition).
Well, buildroot is mainly for embedded applications, so whatever applies to that: OTA updates with A/B partitioning are common. OStree-based are getting a lot of traction as well.

But technically you could build something with a package manager etc and update as usual. It's just a build system.
From the Cloudflare version: "Sable IP is merely a shell entity formed to monetize (make money from) an ancient patent portfolio acquired by Sable Networks from Caspian Networks in 2006. Caspian Networks was a router company that went out of business nearly 20 years ago"

... if the patent portfolio is 20 years old, they must all be right at the end of their lifetime (the one in the lawsuit expired a year ago). Probably not worth it for Sable to keep them.
I have always felt that the foo/bar demo/example snippets have held me back in comprehending code, because there was no reasonable logic to it. It just means nothing to me, other than the FUBAR reference others have mentioned.

I personally, and professionally, think it’s a horrible convention.
Physical Activity and Hypertension from Young Adulthood to Middle Age
I would love to know. I currently have an embedded product using buildroot and as it is not exposed to a network at all, I don't have any worries about security. However, I'd love to hear of a nice mechanism to basically upgrade the system image in place. I imagine you could use something like a pair of partitions and just change the kernel boot parameters to point at the most recent one, but I'm curious about what solutions people use.
Yes, typically a short conversation with an LLM gives me more info and understanding of a topic than reading a Quanta article.
Doesn't seem like this should be flagged/against site guidelines, because this isn't a "you're an astroturfer, so how much are you getting paid for this post?" comment, it's a "you say you don't do anything for free, so how much are you getting paid for this post?" comment.
CHM Revolutionaries: Theranos Founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes
How about emoji?

https://www.globalnerdy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/poopy...
> Instead of using tiny rocket thrusters (eg cold gas or hydrazine thrusters

Hydrazine is toxic [1], auto ignites at “24°C on a rusty iron surface” [2] and burns at over 2,000°F [3].

Cold gas or copter are better, though I’d personally consider springs with explosive bolts.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK592403/

[2] https://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics0281.htm

[3] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19680015493/downloads/19...
No. AGI is talking about the "general" human intelligence rather than specialism. An AGI would be as good as a human at both composing poetry and playing chess, both identifying bird calls and proving mathematical theorems. We don't know what a categorically superior intelligence would be so we can't rate some machine on that basis.

The Lem story "Golem XIV" concerns a machine which claims it possesses categorically superior intelligence, and further that another machine humans have built (which runs but seems unwilling to communicate with them at all) is even more intelligent still.

Golem tries to explain using analogies, but it's apparent that it finds communicating with humans frustrating, the way it might be frustrating to try to explain things to a golden retriever. Lem wrote elsewhere that the single commonality between Golem's intelligence and our own is curiosity, unlike Annie, Golem is curious about the humans which is why it's bothering to communicate with them.

Humans (of course) plot to destroy both machines. Annie eliminates the conspirators, betraying a hitherto un-imagined capability to act at great distance, and the story remarks that it seems she does so the way a human would swat a buzzing insect. She doesn't fear the humans, but they're annoying so she destroyed them without a thought.
Nah gravity would win (see: black holes)
The comment you were replying to seemed to relativize, contextualize the use of a dehumanizing term (‘orc’) that is frequently used by Ukrainians and supporters of Ukraine when talking about russian invaders. Whether the Vietnamese or the Palestinians similarly use dehumanizing terms about Americans or Israelis is irrelevant, just like the nationality, US or otherwise, of the person making this comment.
Kudos to the USN being willing to go toe-to-toe over Taiwan while the USAF punts.
IIRC OpenBSD's arc4random (even in the kernel) gets its initial seed by pretty much identical mechanism as linux-specific getauxval(AT_RANDOM).
As far as i know, ethanol and all biofuels are/were a dead end. They were used purely for farmer subsidies and the energy independence was an excuse.
Quantum Advantage for NP Approximation
E numbers cover everything that can be added to food. Some examples would be E164 Saffron, E290 carbon dioxide, E428 gelatin.

None of these are anywhere near the "weird chemicals category". You'll find that all euro foods have Es in them, but it doesn't mean they have half-tested industrial food additives in them.
Yuk!
Sham "colleges" are also a major problem. They fudge attendance hours, deliver worthless courses while also pocketing public funding (thanks Gillard!)
Same here. Got a replacement right away
Efron?
Yes, it requires specific configuration. The reason most distributions of Linux use them is it allows you to dynamically discover and load kernel modules at boot time, and provide a fallback for if mounting the disk fails.
Same. Immensely helped my gut, and uh, other things too.
They turned hazel when I hit puberty. Hair got darker, too. Pretty common in white folks, FWIW.
Thanks! Macro-expanded:

Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41730415 - Oct 2024 (409 comments)

Others?
Lol, now for some reason I'm wondering what you think of the old "how to shoot yourself in the foot" / "how to determine which programming language you're using" jokes.

I guess one actually realistic version of the fully-jacked-in-hacker fantasy is network guys who are in so deep that they can read bin/hex numbers fluently without consciously "converting", etc. This I know of, and from there, I can conceive of someone who has become familiar with the binary representations of certain instructions? Or something? But I guess it would have to be a very specific (and probably read-only) situation. And, unless I'm missing something, it wouldn't amount to a deeper or more enlightened understanding of anything meaningful to software concerns
> All we have to do is figure out what arrangements do that.

That’s the hard part!

> It is literally the only thing we know — conscious experience. We just don’t know, yet, how to replicate it outside of biological reproduction.

This conflates subjective experience as necessary (an uncontroversial observation) with actually understanding what subjective experience is.

Or put another way: we all know what it’s like to breathe, but this doesn’t imply knowledge of the pulmonary system.
Literary Theory and Criticism
> We should have gotten micropayments to work in browsers instead.

Sadly that would have only accelerated the enshittification. Commercial interests are what turned the web into slop. Remember when Usenet was originally rendered useless after succumbing to spam? That's the web as of 2024, and why we can't have nice things.
Came here to recommend the Challenger Sale
Zot is (at least in part) from the old comic Wizard of Id and (by the same artist, Johnny Hart and Brant Parker) BC. It was the sound of a lightning bolt (natural or wizard-created).

Reprint cover of "Ala Ka Zot!":

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61hytBWmsqL._SL1000_.jpg