skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, it's becoming apparent that the only reason people believe in The Holocaust is the massive effort that went into documenting and preserving the direct evidence. The exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries doesn't have museums and isn't part of school curricula, so it's easier to deny.

Hundreds of thousands of people, whether Palestinian, Jewish, Desi, or German, don't tend to move en masse without violence.

People who hold a mental model of Israel as a White European Colonizer seem to simply reject the idea that it absorbed more than a half million fleeing Black & Brown Jews in its first decades of existence. If they even accept that 90% of the Jews in Arab countries suddenly left without their property and money, they insist that it was a voluntary move due to inherent Jewish disloyalty to their broader societies.
No I’m specifically not. Did you read my 2nd paragraph? It’s essentially your argument here.

The person I was responding to was arguing that totp in pw manager is no good. Maybe you meant to reply to them and not me?
I had GPT4o walk me through configuring my RAID array, simple two drive duplication affair, and some command broke the configuration in new and mysterious ways - I can no longer get the drives to appear at all. So that will be the last time I copy paste anything from an AI into a shell.
And plastic shower liners.
Asteroid 314159 has been named after Matt Parker [video]
I'm just pissed that my source of free batteries is gonna dry up lol.
You can’t believe that making a small consumer electronic device was legal?
Kia will ramp up EV3 output as demand for its affordable electric model surges
Don't you think there's a chance that that narrative of "murderous autocrats" was manufactured post hoc to rationalize NATO's aggression?

Otherwise it's a mighty coincidence that the West only "intervenes" in places that are simultaneously relevant to Western geopolitical-economic interests and just happen to have a "murderous autocrat" begging to be toppled.

So convenient that the bloc which dominates the global media landscape is always narratively-justified in its murder campaigns. Nothing fishy there!
Tesla's profits are now coming from things Elon Musk said he wouldn't do
There are plastics in the tire, but the exterior bulk of the tire is rubber, which is not plastic.
Extra business only lasts for a awhile. Then the restaurant goes under when the influencers moved on to new things and the locals learned never to bother.
Correct. What do you think I wrote?
> 95% of everyday AI needs (for the people that even bother to interact with it) are covered by ChatGPT

True, but it is an external service with all the privacy concerns that entails. I appreciate eg. Apple pushing local AI but at the same time I don’t think it needs to ship with the OS. Just provide an AI API apps can hook into then I can decide which models I want and where they run.
Are you serious? That driver “testing” FSD doesn’t seem to understand basic rules of the road, like that you are not supposed to stop at a roundabout.
iphone minis weren't particularly borked, and they didn't sell well enough, people apparently preferred the larger iphones (to my own dismay)
> I can't find the source at the moment, but I've seen it reported in the past that engineers are actually unusually likely to be fundamentalist Christians who believe in creationism.

If it's the same thing I'm thinking of, it was kinda flawed, IMO, in that it was a comparison of such beliefs amongst various types of scientists, with, for some reason, engineers thrown in, too. And yeah, it's kind of unsurprising that engineers are more into unscientific nonsense than various types of scientists, because engineers aren't scientists. It would be more surprising if they were significantly worse than the _general population_, but I don't think that it showed that.
I wonder if they meant 'and' because yes, many high capacity disposable vapes are technically rechargeable as the batteries don't last as long as the liquid.
Thank you for making it mobile-friendly. I almost made my own Android version of this just because the usual site I played it on wasn't usable and the best I could find in the Play store was mostly there to sell you $1.99 packs of 50 puzzles as if there was any actual effort put into generating them (seriously, they acted like 1 free puzzle per week was generosity).

Although can we get a setting to switch left and right click's default actions? I prefer puzzle games like this to use "click where there is something, right click to mark where there isn't something".
What matters is tool support. Anything in the standard I expect to get tool support for (eventually), while everything else - lets just say I've been burned a lot by tools that are really nice for a few years but then they stop maintaining it and now I have to rewrite otherwise perfectly good code just so I can upgrade something else. Standard C++ isn't going anyplace soon and I feel confident that if something makes it into the standard tools will exist for a few decades at least (long enough for me to retire). Will Rust or Safe C++ still be around in 10 years, or just be another fad like so many other languages that got a lot of press for a few years and now are not used much (you probably cannot answer this other than a guess)
That's a bit of a mischaracterisation of the point OP was making. It is a small consumer device with a battery, that only lasts a few days and is then tossed out. That should never have been legal in the first place.
Like the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians ethnically cleansed from their homeland during Nakba (and now)?
It's like the Brown Noise for your brain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ijI4HjTGkw
haha yea, they were dev keys anyway but thank you!
A cache is exactly how I explain maps to people. They are saving precious compute cycles not computing the same static objects over and over again, by N number of vehicles.
Definitely. I was mainly trying to avoid using `**` as non-Python users might be more familiar with '^' instead.
The simplest way would be to also pre-fill forced empty spaces. It 'solves' part of the puzzle for the player, but hopefully that wasn't a key part of the fun. You go as far as to explain all of those bits at the bottom anyway.

This kind of thing is done to great effect in "Good Sudoku", which gives players a lot of automated tools for the simplest things, as to lead players to handling the more fun, more complicated parts of the hard puzzles.
see "Green Chemistry" in the USA about 20 years ago.. science was well-developed.. also "Body Burden" search term.. largely stone-walled at the politics level.

"Product liability is a third-rail in American politics" yes
Well, I'm still waiting for an AI feature that recognizes my usage patterns, and adapts the system's behavior.

E.g. if it sees that I always reopen an application 2 seconds after the OS kills it in the background, then maybe it shouldn't be killed.

Or if I wake up 3 minutes before the alarm would go off, and take a trip to the toilet, maybe it shouldn't blow up the speaker while I'm frantically pulling up my underpants, but recognize that I'm already awake, or at least wait with the alarm until I'm around the phone again.

Or automatic backlight shouldn't go crazy when I walk in the night under the streetlamps, it should recognize that lamps are coming and going, and that backlight adjustment every 5 seconds is silly and annoying.

I could go on. IMO there is definitely a place for machine learning/AI in phones (and other places too), especially for quality of life thingies. Just nobody is doing them, I guess becacuse these are not as visible as image generation. My credit card has been ready to spend on such developments since at least 2021. One of these days I will have enough of waiting and do it myself, out of spite...
I'm not sure that's true. Not everybody is hounding for information from the web in the first place.

Apple's approach of using current-boom AI to help you navigate and digest your own private trove of multimedia content (photos, videos, apps, notes, structured data, etc) is absolutely useful to people as well, and for some of us, one of the only personal uses of this AI that seems compelling at all.

I'm much more excited to have help finding that goofy picture of my cat by describing what I remember, so I can share it with a friend, than I am to have some chatbot dialog about entry-level Python with a hallucinating parlor trick.

But these features have to work, and work well, and work fast, and be widely known to work, before they'll really win the market. But that's going to take a minute and it might not even happen.
Banning Russian users (IP blacklisting) is a pastime for anyone that ran any kind of service in the late 90s and early 2000s. This isn't as controversial as it's made out to be.
It's weird how the article (and perhaps the law itself?) frame it as being "for the children".

Disposable vapes are an environmental disaster. If this new law forces the manufacturers to add a 5 cents usb port to recharge them or force them to make the cell removable so it can be charged (disposable vapes already use rechargeable cells, they just can't be charged currently), it's a win for everybody.
Wait until everyone hears about the iron fortification that takes real resolve to avoid when buying processed foods. Down to most that you will get at Whole Foods, at least after Amazon acquired it.

I've been chelating iron for a few years now, on and off. It's a subtractive approach to antioxidant protection and it helps.

If you give blood regularly, it should have the same effect.

In the past, people may have noticed some health rejuvenation after a survivable injury that caused some blood loss.
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Concurrency, sure, I can see thinking of that as a separate thing (as some people from Google have advocated for). But aliasing isn't a memory safety violation, it's a cause of memory safety violations (and other kinds of bugs besides). The first example from the linked post is straightforwardly a dangling pointer dereference, and I don't understand how the people behind safety profiles can claim that it's out of scope just because it involves aliasing. Did they say something like "this assumes your code follows these non-machine-checkable aliasing rules, if it doesn't then all bets are off"?
The only thing that changed for me was a that it couldn't control my smart Home devices anymore, nor activate navigation, nor send messages via Whatsapp (I.e. while driving).

Literally every thing I used it for got answered via "I cannot do that yet" after it randomly opted me into that. Pure garbage.
Show HN: Peer-to-peer Collaborative databases in the browser
I have been trying to run SQLite in the browser using WebAssembly, then I had an idea, why not make it collaborative using WebRTC? This way, you wouldn't need a centralized server to share data with other people.

When you open the website, a persistent SQLite database will be created. When you join a room with other peers, any SQL statements or file imports by any peer will be replicated to the rest of other peers using WebRTC.

This actually solves a problem I face when I need to share some data to analyze it with other people because we use Google Sheets, but I don't like analyzing data using spreadsheets, I find SQL to be much better, so this project allows me to leverage the full power of SQL(ite) and also be able to collaborate with other people.
Care to elaborate on the idea? I suppose you mean that ads will come to this "computer use" tool itself. Now, will users keep it in the foreground, when they already expect the tool to do (almost) everything for them?
Google Maps tells me where to drive. Does that count as driving? If so, Google has achieved self driving decades ago.
There's a huge difference between restricting people's right to defend themselves and their right to purchase shitty single use electronics that slowly kill them
The hard part with 2FA over SMS is that it's no longer considered secure [1]. I want a dumb phone too, but with all the security tools we need (password manager, 2FA apps/tokens, encrypted messaging, etc.) it's becoming less and less an option for me.

I wish there was a middle ground where I could have my phone be dumb enough to keep me from playing on it all the time, but secure enough that it makes sense for me.

[1] https://www.okta.com/blog/2020/10/sms-authentication/
I'm not affiliated with them, just the first article I found on the topic
Fwiw I upvoted you. To be fair to Murrow he's talking about not being afraid to resist McCarthyism.

As for general jingoistic propaganda, it's as old as time. I'd also consider it immoral and irrational. Interesting though, as it benefits societies and not (fighting) individuals, and so should have a complex evolutionary dynamics (maybe like with worker bees). _Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori_.
Someone once told me "Anytime you feel defensive when you're not being attacked, that's a feeling you should examine."

There's an awful lot of defensive comments in here! Nobody's forcing you to stop eating red meat. If you feel ambivalent or defensive about that choice, it's fine and healthy to say "I know eating this red meat is riskier than eating white meat or a vegetarian meal, but I'm going to choose to eat it anyway because that's my preference."

What I'd urge you NOT to do is to try to deny or belittle the source that's providing the information that makes you uncomfortable. That leads to all kinds of bad mental patterns!
Hang on a second. You said that the disengagement rate is not zero. But also that remote humans never drive. So which is it?
> There is no mechanism at all

I think that's somewhat misleading, the lung has a mucus layer and cilia to move particles caught in the mucus up and out. But I'll agree that it's not a completely robust system. Anything that gets past or can't be moved by the mucus layer is going to be a problem, especially particles that can't be broken down by the macrophages.
There's an entire big and celebrated business sector that spends every working hour taking intact plastic products and grinds then into fine shreds, a process likely to contribute more than a fair share to microplastic dissemination. Maybe worth investigating, a good candidate for more microplastic release than the clothing industry.

Name of that business sector? Plastics recycling.
GP's comment confused me too at first but after reading the article a second time, they do frame it as "for the children":

> Ministers in England said the move [...] is intended to protect children's health and prevent environmental damage.
>If you were an important CEO or something, and you had a competent human Personal Assistant - would you allow them to reschedule your appointments if you were running late?

Yes, why wouldn’t I? I could also give them parameters like “if I’m more than 20 minutes late please re-schedule this” or “if my flight is delayed please let everyone know it’s delayed”

Why wouldn’t I do that? Presumably the person hired is competent to make determinations within parameters specified.

I could also let them know when it’s inappropriate to do this. Again, they should be competent enough to discern the differences between when it is and isn’t appropriate.

This could honestly be done by an algorithm if you give it the correct inputs and outputs and it could be fed updates, the only real limit is the fact that some of this isn’t exposed via an API either in a timely fashion or at all
AI is a means to an end - it's the end that people want (or don't want). For example people like fast and accurate spell check - they don't care whether AI did it or not.
An Interactive Approach to API Prototyping Using OpenAPI
It originally used grated cheese according to this article from the Canadian magazine The Walrus (Canada has/had a love affair with Kraft Mac & Cheese or Kraft Dinner as they call it there -- think of the BNL song "If I had a million dollars".)

https://archive.ph/20130105114605/http://walrusmagazine.com/...
Same. Part of the reason the addiction never quite took hold of me is that I could tell that despite the addictive rush they just made me kinda jittery and nauseous. Obviously this varies an incredible amount person-to-person.
Do you know what severely hurts your income as a scientist? Lying about the data and then other people finding out. With the amount of data both of LHC detectors were publishing covering up the lie would be impossible- it’s exceedingly difficult to fabricate data convincingly (see Jan Hendrik Schön).

I would be much more worried about errors in methodology than falsifications.
> allocates new memory, creates the new element and only then deallocates it.

Ah, I'll have to check the standard. Thanks.
Expensive Housing Is Both a Policy Problem and a Symptom of Growth
No, the problem is that "AI" just isn't any good at almost anything.
That’s the line of thinking behind Halide’s recent “process zero” feature on iOS

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220178/halide-camera-ap...
siri’s speech recognition and intent handling is so comically bad. as of late, for some unknown reason, when i ask siri to favourite the current song while driving it curtly replies that it doesn’t know which speaker i’m referring to. this used to work.

another fun problem is siri not recognising my speech despite me not having a particularly strong accent, speaking slowly, and enunciating. i’ve gotten into the habit putting on a valley girl or bbc news anchor voice while using siri since that usually works.

whoever is in charge of siri needs a reality check, the feature is borderline unusable.
Of course, they are gimmicks to attempt to sell new phones, now that the market has stagnated, many folks even have two or more phones, and hardly need fancy features.
IDE integration. For example, I use the Jetbrains RustRover IDE on Fedora Atomic, which is an immutable Linux distribution that is based on keeping the OS setup as clean as possible. I use DevContainer to install the toolchains I need for my project and the IDE takes care of setting up my development environment.
> it’s not real intelligence

Hence the predicated “artificial”, and hence the downvotes you are currently receiving.

Your message is largely, if not entirely, a strawman.
That's simply amazing: we fight with disposable plastic straws but we had no problem with single use electronics and battery. Insane.
Aside from the health/chemical-pollution aspects, these things have simply resulted in such ugliness because I see them strewn all over the ground every day.

Apparently "disposable" means "throw on the ground".
What we have is a human problem. The convention exists in enough places (though in slightly different forms) to call it a convention, but it needs more adoption.

Every once in a while someone who writes a lot of Rust will blog about some code they discovered that was 'unsafe' and after looking close they realized it wasn't doing something that fundamentally required unsafe (and often fixing the code to be safe fixed real bugs). C++ and Rust have to leave people enough rope to hang themselves in order to solve the problems they want to solve, but that means people will find a way to do stupid things.
I've spent quite a few hours on this thing when I've needed something non-linguistic for my brain to engage in. If it was World of Warcraft, I'd probably be a level 30 rogue.
> The sad reality is your next job is only dependent of being able to pass interview rounds, and increasingly less about your previous work.

Could you explain this? I don't think that's what I'm seeing.
"Ships can't touch diagonally."

But it lets you do it and then tells you it's wrong at the end.

When the "4" has a strikethrough, the strike is almost impossible to see.
Continuing to say 'I am saying what I am saying' without clarifying anything despite repeated request while scolding me for being stupid after specifically asked you what else it could mean is hands down the the most asinine thing I have heard from anyone on the whole internet for this past month.
https://youtu.be/K5OBBzvLnAM?t=831

The cigarette reviews tend to be a bonus segment - most MREs don't include them today (for good reason) and it's not the intended purpose of the channel anyways. That being said, I have never craved a cigarette more than the moment I laid eyes on a box of 1944 Chesterfields.

Honestly I'd just recommend all the episodes, MRESteve defines "peak YouTube" for me. It's a really relaxed and fun exploration of the different survival meals and basic kits distributed to soldiers around the world.
I mean a RISC-V netbook with a Linux GUI already exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qDGV6LTOnk

That is what is already exists. Put some money into it and you have a real product. The work Microsoft did for Windows on ARM I'm sure is mostly compatible. Windows has been a large number of architectures in the past (PowerPC, Itanium, Alpha, MIPS) so portability is in it's DNA and there isn't much ARM-native & hardcoded Windows software out there.
I have it set up with ollama. It’s… interesting. HA commands are provided to the model as tools so it works as well as the model is able to determine when and how to use tools. From experimenting with that and my own tool use code I’ve found that models vary greatly in their ability to wield tools and none that I’ve tried are exceptional.

It’s neat that you can intermix general chatting with HA commands but you’re probably going to find that the old assist is more reliable for commands. What I do like is that you can use a template as your system prompt so you can provide the state of a number of entities and then ask for them with natural language. That works well.

I have an Alexa/Echo voice announcement system set up and have recently tied that into assist so I can do automations like if the garage opens I prompt for “what is the state of the garage?” and announce the result. Makes it feel more humane than the same plain announcements all the time.
If you turn on hardmode there's a "Save Checkpoint" button. But not easy mode at the moment (I wanted to keep the UI clean).
I'm not sure how it is in the UK, but in the USA it's also next to impossible to find a disposable vape that doesn't have an insanely high amount of nicotine. If anyone is unfortunate enough to try a disposable as their introduction to nicotine, they'll be as hooked as a pack a day smoker in no time. I switched to vaping after the pandemic and saw in realtime vapes come out with higher and higher nicotine levels, replacing the lower nic vapes on the shelves.

The only reason I had to use disposables was that I couldn't get replacement coils & nicotine juice for several months. They can't use traditional shippers, and the services they use vary wildly in quality; I probably still have a shipment gathering dust in a storage warehouse after several failed delivery attempts. For anyone trying to quit smoking, my best advice would be to go to a vape store that has a lot of custom vape equipment and not just peddling disposables. They should be able to tell how much nicotine salt / freebase liquid you should use given your current smoking habits and goals for quitting.