skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are what appear to be concentric wrinkles centered on the impact, artifacts of it? Like it was momentarily fluid and there are ripples on the surface of a lake.
When you treat every negative outcome as a system failure, the answer is more systems. This is the cost of a blameless culture. There are places where that’s the right answer, especially where a skilled operator is required to operate in an environment beyond their control and deal with emergent problems in short order. Aviation, surgery. Different situations where the cost of failure is lower can afford to operate without the cost of bureaucratic compliance, but often they don’t even nudge the slider towards personal responsibility and it stays at “fully blameless.”
Hm. I thought that was the latest release but it looks like no. But there seems to be no improvements from the last trial, so maybe 12.6 is magically better.
You should look at what the guy behind this company actually sells - they are very upscale replicas going in famous American homes, my guess is the standards are quite high

I have no clue if museums are in that space at all though
Here's the life-size blue whale sculpture outside the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo.

Note the size of the people.

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/10/e1/e9/42/...
I like Temple Grandin's "Thinking the Way Animals Do":

https://www.grandin.com/references/thinking.animals.html
DEA National Drug Threat Assessment 2024 [pdf]
I've been reading about folks moving to the Radio Quiet Zone for a long time. I had some fear that the number of e-refugees (for lack of a better term) would grow to a counterproductive level. Thankfully, the article numbers them in the dozens.

If they have more relief in their life + aren't a burden to others, what better outcome could I hope for?

disclosure: married to a chemical hypersensitive for 25y, who fortunately found some peace elsewhere
PlayStation store is not available in many regions, mine included. Not that I personally care, it doesn't make sense to support businesses that treat you like a lesser being.
That was my question as well. What is the user benefit of the monitor having a network connection?
This is a false dichotomy. You can make weed illegal without putting people in prison for it.
Would you trust a random soggy doc for which you don't know the person who wrote it and their competence, or the flashy deck from McKinsey? The answer is 99% of the times: McKinsey.

Only time that answer is different is when a person in power is still around and they pretty much veto the engagement with a consulting company.
The uk tax receipts in 2024 was 342.2 billion.

The nhs budget was 181 billion. Half of all government money appears to be going to healthcare.
I'm pretty proud of the fact that I've never been through an airport scanner. People treat me crazy for it and I probably am. "It is perfectly safe, you get more radiation from the plane ride."

My issue is that I do not trust the operators of the machine. I do not trust the safety protocols in place. We constantly tool on the TSA and its security theater filled with incompetent people. So, why do we trust them to operate these machines? What if it malfunctions or isn't properly serviced?

I was just at an airport, watched someone move a bit, and have to get immediately rescanned again. 2x the radiation, 2x the chances something goes wrong. The odds are against you.

Why are we so complacent in their usage? The only way around this is to suffer humiliation. An invasive pat down where they make you wait an inordinate amount of time for someone to come along, slowly put on gloves, explain to you the same set of rules you've heard a million times, and then literally touch your entire body, including brushing up against your genitals. I have actually noticed some guards enjoying it more than others.

In the end, I feel it is worth the 10 minutes of inconvenience and the humiliation (which I'm pretty immune to at this point in my life). I get to the airport early anyway.

Somehow the people in the article have gotten it into their heads that the only solution to their issues are to move into the middle of nowhere. That said, I can understand their situation too and feel empathy for them.
Yeah, GL.iNet GL-AR300M16-Ext is perfect for this purpose, very affordable and compact. You can configure the wireguard client, and then "Block non-VPN traffic" so it allows ONLY connecting through the VPN. Very handy! GL-SFT1200 should be a great option as well, currently the cheapest GL.iNet markets for their "travel AP" line, and you can run Tailscale on it[0]. I'm not sure about the AR300M16.

("Ext" means it comes with external antennas, version without that suffix has internal antenna if you want it to be even more compact)

[0] https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/tutorial-tailscale-on-gl-sf1200-...
There is offline-first CouchDB: https://couchdb.apache.org/.
I swear my cat says 好玩儿 hǎowá'er? when he lacks stimulation, which means "Fun?"
Considering that, in 2024, if not a majority, then, still, a vast portion of our consciousness is words. Perhaps not for the illiterate, but for many, much of our knowledge is through the written or spoken word. [Edit: Even a hypothetical person, alone and isolated, never having spoken, would still devise internal language structures, at least for the external realm. ]

Base consciousness is surely not dependent on language, but I suspect base consciousness may be extremely different from what one might expect, so much that compared to what we perceive as consciousness, might seem something close to death.
If you were a poorer driver who did these things you wouldn't find these faults so damning because it'd only be say 10% dumber than you rather than 40% or whatever (just making up those numbers).
As sourced on kiwifarms, drew himself has posted lolicon on reddit.
GATTACA (The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film) [pdf]
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Weed was already illegal! We could have kept it illegal and simply punished people less for using and selling it. Whereas making alcohol, tobacco, and guns illegal is clearly impossible.
Your LG monitor likely just read that comment and will bill you for the T-shirt immediately.
A lot of people have been getting the free trial with 12.3 still on their cars today. Tesla has really screwed up on the free trial for sure. Nobody should be getting it unless they have 12.6 at least.
Massive multi-core is subjective. Most industrial computers are still low core. You are more likely to find dual or quad core in these environments. Multi-core costs more money and increases the cost of automation. Look at Advantech computers specifications for this economic area.

Software PLCs will bind to a core which is not exposed to the OS environment and will show a dual core is a single or a quad core as a tri core.
The problem is that every institution has been corrupted by the capitalistic viewpoint that everything needs to be profitable to work. Everyone believes that and lives there live around those principals there is not much room for a common domain any more.
Sure. What are you trying to say?
>I think the idea that the human body and brain is somehow inherently immune to any effect from radio waves, with no such mechanism even proposed as to why this might even be the case, is just as much a belief in faith.

it's an easy conclusion to get to just from the basis of what the human body does : we breath and exchange air -- that's plain for anyone to see , so we try to avoid breathing particles. We know that looking at the sun injures the eye -- we can see the evidence when looking at a patient. We know that fire burns the skin.

The human body has junctions and functionality that actually interact with energy at those levels.

Similarly we know what injuries from intense EM radiation look like, and it's not vague chronic fatigue syndrome-like symptoms, and it isn't caused by bombardment by non-interactive low power levels of differing frequencies and sources.

> Everyone on earth is exposed to radiowaves, so to establish a demographically matched control population to a radio wave laden case population is simply impossible

it's not impossible whatsoever to block all 'radiowaves' ; it's impractical and needless, so the study isn't being conducted by anyone that matters.

p.s. lead is a piss-poor 'radiowave vault' material compared to copper/steel/aluminum.
Running Spec CPU2017 on Chinese CPUs, and More
Thankfully I do!

Ordered one, it's coming today. Since I have TotalTech if I completely hate it I've got something like two months to give up on it. I don't game so if I can pull it off I can leave my XPS at home; we'll see ....
There are other variants with different file size limits
https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances
Maybe performance based or something depending on those hosting these instances?
NASA used to be nice over SLS was that they really didn't have a choice + congress pressure (hiring people who lost their jobs due to space shuttle cancelation) but now it seems like NASA _does_ have a choice to choose an alternative (and waaay cheaper) vehicle over SLS. Curious whether those senators will keep their pressure.
My TV did this. The worst part was that it disappeared so quickly I didn't have time to get the remote and acknowledge it. There did not appear to be any way in the settings to go and handle it manually. I just had to wait and get lucky.
I think in words. For me during thought there is a literal voice in my putting my thoughts into words.
This is the first time I ever thought we need an open source monitor hardware
Better get a firewall for you monitor. Maybe a usb-c plug that filters non visual traffic? /s
Writing Slow Code (On Purpose)
Would it be better for you if we took the Nth symbol in alphabetical order from the list of 978 standard symbols? You could do that.

How about searching for all symbols with the letters DEMACRO that are 8 letters long? We could do that too.

The technique works so long as you can uniquely determine the symbol through some combination of standard Lisp functions that don't contain F. Lisp has a big library, so it's not tough.

"70" isn't a number that is associated to F in any common person's understanding, and the pronunciation of the number "70" in English has no objectionable F sounds, so I don't agree it's cheating. :)
This is one from a line of LG monitors that state they come with webOS

https://www.lg.com/us/smart-monitors

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-32sq730s-w-smart-monitor
A prime example of thee "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
The Talk: Bernie Sanders and Slavoj ŽIžek [video]
I'd go for a NanoPI R6S[1]. This thing is a 4 Core beast with USB-C Power Supply support. OpenWRT Support via snapshot, see ToH[2].

If this is too expensive, you could also go for a NanoPi R4S[3], but I wouldn't. The N6S is worth the additional cost.

If you need wifi, there is the R5C[4].

1: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...

2: https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128

3: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...

4: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product...
Meta is so weird. There are articles in the financial press about how "Zuckerberg's Metaverse bets are paying off", even though, to an extremely good approximation, zero people use any Metaverse products at all. Stocks are going up and up despite extremely weak narratives to justify them. I think this is not actually a measure of these companies' strength, but of the dollar's weakness. Stories like "we will all live in a cyberpunk dystopia ruled by Mark Zuckerberg" and "chatbots will perform most work very soon" have become more believable than "the dollar's ability to purchase houses will decay by no more than 2% each year". Since only flimsy narratives are required and nothing really needs to be constructed, no actual engineers need to be paid.
I have never looked at SNOBOL code before. I had heard of it because the arcade game TRON had a SNOBOL level (in addition to levels: FORTRAN, BASIC, etc.).

I had also not seen the Eliza code before. Very fun.
That could be - but my point is the article doesn't make it clear what kind of oil we're talking about, and as you note - the oil would come from the fats, so why is it excreting from the bones? IE: wouldn't all the potential oil have been removed when they prepared this specimen for display?
The technology to remove pain from humans has been invented via CRISPR. It is possible to live with "congenital insensitivity to pain", so we know it can be done safely. It has been demonstrated in lab animals.

I think that this gene therapy should be given to patients instead!
Most ramps are more than long enough to accelerate close enough to traffic speed if one wants to, especially in most modern vehicles.
I don't use the expensive Pi devices and like the parent commenter, I use an old laptop with a 4 Gig VM, host Ubuntu, VM Ubuntu and it runs my kube cluster as well as a separate kube cluster on the host itself. If it used much power, my wife would be on me about it. PS I don't use Snap.
Don't forget:

Primemarkcoin

Perceptiongapcoin

Liecoin

epiplexiscoin

and of course, the every useful pyramidcoin and scamcoin.
Spacex is at 180bn

Boeing is at 96bn

I was actually prepared to call bullshit on you, but I stand corrected. I figured Boeing would be worth more with all the other things it does.
ha ha, i was just kidding :)
Other than code related data annotation for LLMs, this is the only kind of work I've ever been able to find in software development, all the consulting shops big or small work like that here. When I read about people having proper testing, code review, product managers setting actual expectations of what the software should do... It sounds like a wonderland to me.
Coming soon to monitors with integrated webcams: please drink verification can to continue working!
Going far enough, we should credit some anonymous Homo erectus for discovering fire... Not that I am completely joking, the tree of human knowledge is fascinating by its depth and goes deep into the pre-literate age.

That said, I wouldn't dismiss Karikó's and Weissman's discovery of replacement of uridine with pseudouridine as merely "writing a paper". It was a pretty crucial technological stepping stone that made mRNA treatment orders of magnitude less dangerous to humans. Same with their discovery of the way how to deliver mRNA into cells (using lipid nanoparticles).
I regret that comment. I was upset and shouldn’t have posted it.

But what I would say is: countries have distinct cultures, and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to preserve them, which implies controlling the rate of immigration from different cultures. The U.S. would be quite different if we replaced half the population with people from Iran, China, or even England. There is a happy medium.Pros and cons.
> The interesting question is how good self-driving has to be before people tolerate it.

It's pretty simple: as good as it can be given available technologies and techniques, without sacrificing safety for cost or style.

With AVs, function and safety should obviate concerns of style, cost, and marketing. If that doesn't work with your business model, well tough luck.

Airplanes are far safer than cars yet we subject their manufacturers to rigorous standards, or seemingly did until recently, as the 737 max saga has revealed. Even still the rigor is very high compared to road vehicles.

And AVs do have to be way better than people at driving because they are machines that have no sense of human judgement, though they operate in a human physical context.

Machines run by corporations are less accountable than human drivers, not at the least because of the wealth and legal armies of those corporations who may have interests other than making the safest possible AV.
If white makes it easier to remove dust, then why are the parts that are most likely to get covered in dust gray?

Also, the backpack look a bit bulky.
I think you are probably right, but then the natural question becomes - why? As in, is there something unique to this specimen and it's display? If I drive over to the aquarium in my state and examine the whale display, would it also drip?
Also remote play is amazing!
The most important thing that unions do is raise safety standards.

"Decreased unionization rates in the United States have been linked to an increase in occupational fatalities."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_union#Health

"The Local Average Treatment Effect of a 1% decline in unionisation attributable to RTW is about a 5% increase in the rate of occupational fatalities. In total, RTW laws have led to a 14.2% increase in occupational mortality through decreased unionisation."

https://oem.bmj.com/content/75/10/736
Globe Life.

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/320335/00003...
Awesome!

Back in the day, I reverse engineered the level format of v2. I Understood the graphics and physics attributes, but never how the waypoint system worked. (in multiplayer, if you take too big of a shortcut you’ll be penalized by being “popped”)

Can you explain how the waypoint system works in v3?
So they'd violate your privacy and re-centralize the web for free ? That's not exactly a rebuttal
I feel like we need open source hardware cellphones too, and everything else.
Binance, FalconX and the Curious Case of 1.35M Missing Solana Tokens
Sorry, thanks for telling me.
I invited some people to Yu Fukusawa, and after it was over they all said you're a real fungi to be with.

...

thank you, thank you... I'll be here all week.
Surely the number of cars than can do it, and the price, also matters, unless you're going to ban private cars
Probably something like an n100 based "NUC" type deal. Its has loads of float performance and is much better suited to being a "server" than a pi (much as I love the pi)
Yeah, unfortunately you need a proper startup culture at your location to have access to companies small and big like that. I don't think there is a single place like that in Europe. Fortunately, it's quite easy to find work for American companies. And well paid.
It doesn’t really matter to me if there is a proposed mechanism already or not. Phenomena exist before we are able to describe it mechanistically after all.

There are assumptions to that setup as well. There’s the assumtion that this effect is dependent on magnitude that you could measure easily within a certain drop off. Maybe the drop off point is quite far from these emitters or doesn’t even exist, and any such exposure is enough like a binary condition. Then there is the assumption that people living near large emitters today are always around them, and the assumption that people not living around large emitters never go off and spend time around them. I think there are many interesting questions like this where you just can’t ever get a reasonable design that is truly powered enough for all the potential latent variables involved. Modern science works well when the fruit is low hanging statistically, but thats not always the case for every question.
Airplane companies are worth surprisingly less than expected for how crucial and important they seem at first glance.

The market is also not as big as you'd think.
The https://github.com/sunshowers/spr fork supports jj :)
I work with a guy who used to be at McKinsey. He's literally the worst coworker I've ever had. Everything needs to be done yesterday, except he takes weeks between responses. He delegates nothing to his people, and constantly tries to take over things from other departments, making himself an INCREDIBLE constraint and burden. They have an insanely toxic culture there.
Sadly they've only given us Mountain Dew flavored Doritos but not the other way around yet...
> There are articles in the financial press about how "Zuckerberg's Metaverse bets are paying off"

I'm always in the mood for a good chuckle if you happen to have a link to one of those.
Actually looking at the articles again most of the discrepancy seems to be they were from 2022 before the Worldcoin crypto payouts started in 2023 which is why the people in them were annoyed they hadn't been paid, whereas I joined after that and was paid out straight away.
Is this the death of the Sapir-Whorf theory?
This sort of framing you're engaging in is exactly what the person you're replying to is complaining about.

Yeah, the person who got hit was technically a pedestrian but just using that word with no other context doesn't covey that it was a pedestrian on a limited access highway vs somewhere pedestrians are allowed and expected. Without additional explanation people assume normalcy and think that the pedestrian was crossing a city street or something pedestrians do all the time and are expected to do all the time when that is very much not what happened here.
In a nutshell there is no way around the following : anything worth the effort, will take effort. Mess is not.
> McKinsey asked us for lots of information. Then they put it into a dossier and gave it back to us."

To be fair, that’s exactly what a psychologist does
Once you've identified the viewer you can see if they have a license for that they're viewing and report the thoughtcrime if not.
Yes a PCP is what family doctors or GPS are elsewhere.
Terrorists: so smart and so common and the TSA so useless that there have been zero successful attacks on air travel since 9/11.

Zero.
'A little hyped up': experts downplay claims over Petra archaeological find
I was at a fungus event yesterday (really) and they spoke a bit about patterns in nature and how they are similar to Turing Patterns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern

> ... arises due to the interplay between differential diffusion (i.e., different values of diffusion coefficients) of chemical species and chemical reaction.
In Ruby, the `if [condition]` modifier at the end of a line is used for more cases than just assignment. For example, `return if s.blank?` and `raise "invalid" if input.length > 100`. In Ruby, this pattern makes it clear that the statement is only executed if the condition is met.

I'm not advocating for this feature to be added to Python, just explaining why it's not confusing in Ruby.
but words, sentences, and dialogues are all features of language.
It's a crazy field. It's quite obvious that *most* of the effects are purely psychosomatic. The effects are related to appearances rather than reality--for example, there is a small correlation between visible high tension power lines and health. But not to the actual EMF strength. Same thing you see elsewhere--people with health issues moving to undesirable but not bad housing because that's what they can afford.

I've also been in multiple online discussions where various people were sensitive to sounds that most people don't hear--typically devices that messed with magnetic fields at frequencies in the ultrasonic range. (Say, many switching power supplies.) Something a little bit loose wiggles in the field and you get an ultrasonic whine. None have struck me as kooks--but consider what happens when someone doesn't pay enough attention to detail. Is it the Wi-Fi radiation or it's power supply? Plenty of people fall for the obvious item in figuring out food reactions, I would expect to see some in other areas.

And what if there actually is something of a basis? We have plenty of examples of inadvertent AM radios, including from dental fillings. Clearly, it's possible to receive radio energy in freaky ways--the AM radio is the obvious case because it carries a signal whose reception manifests in a detectable way. What if the "electrosensitives" are actually people who have some natural resonance in the brain with some common transmitter? It wouldn't take a lot of energy to generate spurious brain activity. Mistaken generalization certainly seems within the realm of possibility.

Note that I'm *not* suggesting any direct harm here, just interference.
https://archive.is/PsUeX
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-28/zuckerber...
Tesla's were famously poor at detecting partial lane obstructions for a long time. I wonder if that's what happened here.