skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an area of the lawn we needed to bury a pipeline. Soil was removed and I designed an Iris bed with stones. Weeds soon invited themselves to the composition. The rigid leaves of the Irises are now mixed with serrate leaves of Mercurialis, soft tones of Stellaria and rounded Umbilicus. I like the result, so I will tolerate it, for now.

Just today, in that area, two silvery eyes where looking at me. They weren't followed with an animal face or body. Just a weed background, like if an invisible master of mimicry were hiding at plain sight. But if was not an animal, it was a weed. A weed with eyes. True history. The world is full of surprises.

The deploying leafets of an Aquilegia created perfectly symmetrical cups at each side of the stem. Sit in the cups, two identical balls of pure dew looking at me like a baby. It was just a seedling in a crevice when I picked it by a tiny leaf and found a new home for the poor thing. Today it rewarded me with some magical seconds for that.

I would loathe having a garden that smells like vinegar and melted rotten leaves. Things don't need to be like this. There is a lot of fun waiting in the unplanned and untamed.
You can't take pseudoephedrine every day. Nor is pseudoephedrine used for allergies - it is a decongestant, not an antihistamine. Nor does immunotherapy "solve" allergies.

A simple google search before posting would have made your fictitious scenario a little bit more believable.
read: someone had 1.3M they needed to wash
There were some numbnuts that were calling themselves "Bio Hackers" and freely injecting themselves with random CRISPR injections. I wonder what's going to happen to them.
But the jury found him liable
ResEdit was awesome!

For those unfamiliar, Mac files of the era had two sections: a resource fork, and a data fork. Resources were structured chunks of information, like icons. You could open ResEdit and mod any app you liked.

I missed resource forks when they moved to the UNIX way in what's now macOS.
So in general this is kludge to implement app isolation via "VM", because existing CPU architectures suck at isolating code?
From Europe: https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.2903/j.efsa...

No effects. Weak evidence shown in in-vitro studies is not supported by the animal experiments or statistical data.
We do it all the time. Let's see what was added to cambridge this past month:

- fridgescaping

- Fanum tax

- Quit-Tok

- runglasses

- boomerocracy

- appification

And that does include adding definitions to existing words. "Literally" can also be defined by its antonym.
The crash dialog box with the bomb icon was a pretty common encounter as I recall it.

Similar to Windows 95 and the "illegal operation" box.
Looking forward to seeing what China's domestic market develops as a result of all of this. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Chromebooks, actually.
System 7/apps would crash from time to time. I think we just had lower standards then. IIRC Macs prior to OS X didn’t separate one process’ memory from another?
No, it has nothing in to do with NeXTSTEP. XPC was designed recently and for macOS/iOS. This is just that it was not designed with security in mind along this axis.
Please, as stated in the hackernews guideline : "If you submit a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title."

Source : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Windows has far worse. Injecting code into other processes is routine and almost impossible to get rid of.
Super Bowl Halftime Performer by Lottery?
What can you do when experts can’t be trusted? Draw lots.

Lil Wayne had expressed a strong desire to headline the Super Bowl halftime show in 2025, as the event will be hosted in his hometown, New Orleans, at Caesars Superdome. He shared this ambition in interviews, hoping to bring his music to the Super Bowl stage. However, Kendrick Lamar was ultimately chosen for the 2025 halftime performance, a decision made by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, which handles Super Bowl entertainment. This selection disappointed Wayne, with fans and industry figures, including Nicki Minaj, voicing their support for him .

I know this is a high-profile event but is it time to start applying “sortition” to the selection of the Super Bowl halftime performer from a curated list of artists provided by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to ensure a diverse and unbiased representation, which can bring fresh perspectives to decision-making.
It’s the economy stupid.

The Democrats may very decide they won’t run a woman for president for another generation but I think gendered issues only go so far.

Consider a women in Kamala Harris’ demographic who is of prime voting age if not reproductive age. Harris is not going to need an abortion for herselfin the future. She might be concerned about her younger self or her daughters (if she had them7) or somebody else’s access to abortion but I can feel that way as a man.

Meanwhile a woman can be every bit as much at arms that a Big Mac meal costs $12 and dread the thought of a $4 a gallon tax on gas (I think enough to have a climate change impact.) Many of Trump’s best issues were ones that were popular among large swathes of the electorate.

If anything, the Democrats have to get over the idea of cobbling together a majority out of minorities and focus instead on issues with a broad appeal. Consider the “99%” of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

BTW note that many of the most significant female politicians in Europe represented major shifts to the right such as Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkle, and Giorgia Meloni. It’s plausible that the Republicans will run and even win with a female candidate before the Democrats do.
So... is nobody going to bring up the long-standing interpersonal relationship between Trump and Cook? Did we think something changed all of the sudden in this election?

Crazy how people actually expect Apple to be as liberal as their marketing suggests. But then again, people also believe Apple is as secure and green and repair-friendly as their ads suggest.
Favorite hack: taking goofy pictures of my friends faces and ResEditing them into SimCity 2k in place of various departmental advisors.
Oh man, should have made this the default before posting! Lol
I expect nobody outside of Google has ever truly taken the time to study it. When was the last time you saw a programmer actually research the effectiveness of their tools and not just land on "I like this. It feels right." I never have!

But I'm not sure it matters. Go was created to test the theory, not because a theory was proven. It didn't have to be successful. It may be that the studies didn't happen even within Google, although that is our greatest chance. We do know Google actually cares about data, unlike programmers.

That said, since Go was released it seems every other language has tried to copy it with their own twist, so while that may not come from a place of evidence, it would appear that the feeling of increased productivity[1] was felt.

[1] Or something adjacent. Focusing on engineering isn't necessarily about productivity. You can't discount productivity, but it is not the top engineering concern, especially in a place like Google.
Who'll fire the first shot?
None of this has to do with the Mach part of XNU. There are genuine bugs there (everyone hates the memory code for example) but again that is completely irrelevant here.
Lossy audio formats suddenly become very discernible once you subtract the left channel from the right channel. Try that with Lossless audio vs MP3, Vorbis, Opus, AAC, etc. You're listening to only the errors at that point.
None that I have on hand, no. Not in the US, at least. But do you agree that it's possible? The registry afford that capability. There are raids for far less.

I'm not trying to needle you. It's just nothing like alcohol, tobacco, etc. It's not even really like opioids.

Anyway, I think your conclusion is reasonable, even if we come to different conclusions. Mine is based on common benefit. I think the benefit that comes from the drug far surpasses the detriment.
Settings > Face ID & Passcode > Allow Access When Locked: uncheck Control Center.
consider the nostr protocol
Salt too. I saw professionals use salt during a trip recently and looked it up and tried it. My driveway cracks are devoid of life now.
Lil Wayne hasn't dropped a significant release since 2018. Lamar is a no-brainer over him, I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you.
...a RACK full of 96-core servers could give a whole core to each user and still have hundreds to spare.
Every time I have a new diagnosis or a new medication I absolutely double check any OTC medications.
> City Connect uniform which is unrecognizable to the extreme for most teams.

Preach. The NY Mets version looks like Colorado Rockies themed children's pajamas.
"Hey, Let's think of something that will make Netanyahu less likely to continue the military attacks. And maybe persuade the world to think of us more sympathetically."
Most likely Stiver emigrated in the 90s for economic reasons -- Russia was in shambles. There are about 11 millions of emigrants of Russian origin [0], but I highly doubt that many will come back even if tomorrow we get a new liberal president.

[0] https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/WMR-2022.pdf
> These all come down to arguments about semantics and don't add anything to the science.

This accurately describes much of science...

> My heart can exist independently of me, and be transplanted into other people, but does it mean that it is alive?

The cells that comprise your heart are very much alive, but they will die without support infrastructure. They live, they replicate, they die -- like every cell in your body. If I relocate you to the moon without support infrastructure, you would die too -- and yet (I think?) you are probably alive.
As others note, it is classified in the tree of life. We know approximately what kind of bacteria it evolved from, and mitochondria themselves constitute their own divergent branch of the tree of life (there are many longitudinal studies of mitochondria across species).

But if you wanted classify them based on functionality rather than evolutionary history, I'd say they're more like viruses. They have only a handful of genes themselves, and exploits the nucleus' genetic material for all the other proteins it needs to function.
Ben Horowitz's Cozy Relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department
How do you change the political environment in a dictatorship where ruling class has all the power and majority of the money and controls what you should read, watch or talk about?
> No matter how low the odds are, the counts of those potential interactions bring this outcome to a certainty.

That is simply not true. Events are classified by probabilities, and there are a whole lot of things with a probability a lot less than will happen across the whole ocean across however many billion years.

All the higher-probability events will occur, yes. But a specific sequence of multiple extremely low-probability events? That then continues to replicate before it gets wiped out by chance?

Not a certainty, absolutely not. Contrary to what you say, it matters very much exactly how low the odds are.
One way to detect when this has occurred is to use fstatfs() [0]: it will tell you whether an fd truly belongs to a procfs, or whether it belongs to some other kind of filesystem. Of course, you still have the issue of one part of a procfs being bind-mounted onto another part of a procfs (or onto a different procfs). For that, one mitigation is to double-check the st_dev of every file down the chain. But it still doesn't guarantee that you haven't been led into a recursive bind-mount: for that you have to use tricks like checking rename() error codes, or some of the fancy new openat2() flags, to test the absence of a mount-point boundary.

Personally, my stance is to just blindly trust whatever /proc tells you, except in really unusual security models. Users can only end up hurting themselves by putting nonsensical things in there. (The same way no one should bother checking that /dev/null isn't a regular file, even though root can easily make it one.)

[0] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/statfs.2.html
See below on Wikipedia: "Most proteins necessary for mitochondrial function are encoded by genes in the cell nucleus and the corresponding proteins are imported into the mitochondrion. The exact number of genes encoded by the nucleus and the mitochondrial genome differs between species."
Isn't this the dream of bluesky?
Nth time that AI can repackage human creative labor that was funded by other humans.
Said researcher has expressed basically this exact concern fwiw. Just because they’re being paid on some bugs doesn’t mean their life is all sunshine and rainbows.
"General acceptance" is a subjective criteria. But the endosymbiont theory is >60 years old at this point.
Also, even if switching away doesn't send a message to Google. Why would you rely on products that you consider a risk? I didn't switch away from Google because I thought it was a huge financial blow, but because I didn't want to have anything important to me deleted with no notice.
I agree it is very unlikely. And I don't think you are proposing this is the case, but for the sake of argument. However, wouldn't it still be rather easy to verify? Faraday cage just helps with isolation and filters out the noise, so you can analyze a smaller set of data, in this case meaning you have to parse through less signals/data. But you would still be able to pinpoint this. If you can just monitor ultrasound, filter out what isn't easily explained/common (like background background radiation is to the universe).

To verify the original claim that it could happen over BLE, you don't need a faraday case to verify or prove this. The faraday cage just allows you to cut down on the data/signals to analyze.
Emergent property of humans, it turns out.
Placing text representations of the symbols above them (as interpreted by the handwriting algo) seems so obvious that it’s the sort of thing that I’ll be frustrated if Apple doesn’t adopt it. It generates confidence in the output.

Some things aren’t obvious until we see them. This is one.
Yes. The part them out in China:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1co38zn/stolen_ipho...

* https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/how-your-stolen-...

* https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13757041/Chinese-ci...
> Tens of millions of people lost access

This is a bit hyperbolic. You just have to ask for it at the counter and show ID.
> But I was amazed at how often the apps/OS crashed

Which is one reason why Step 1 after unpacking the computer was to install the "Programmers Switch" to get access to the reset button.

Rebooting the machine was completely routine. And it wasn't particularly slow (in context, by todays standards, everything was slow, all of those machines were glacial), at least for the time. I don't recall having to ever really run Disk First Aid on anything though.

In fact, I remember making a "toy" that was a simple app that all it did was bring up the "Bomb box" (the infamous dialog with the sizzling bomb an reset button akin to the Blue Screen of Death). The detail was that if you moused to the Reset button in the dialog (which was, essentially an autonomic response for most Mac users), the Reset button would move away from the mouse. So, you "couldn't" hit the reset button.

There was another button, typically disabled (I think is said Resume or something, I can't recall -- it was always disabled), if you clicked that, it would "melt" the screen and exit the app, no harm done.

I spent a lot of meticulous time duplicating the dialog box and bomb icon. Run the program, note the box and icon, hit the interrupt button (on the Programmers Switch) to bring up the original, tweak, rinse and repeat.

Someone eventually uploaded it to the assorted BBSes. I found it in a book in a bookstore once.
I don't think so: A federated network of social-media mini-sites doesn't really relate to things like blocking ads in your browser, automatically filtering out sections of radio/podcasts in your car that happen to contain siren noises, or a parent putting up barriers to adult content on a device.
Show HN: 10 Minutes A Day, Hacker News – Stay up to date, no doomscrolling
Hey folks -- I created 10 Minutes A Day because I was spending too much time 'doomreading' in comment threads, in an effort to stay up to date on what was going on in the tech world. While I love Hacker News and other news aggregators for what they can teach me, I found myself often unhappy reading through hundreds of comments that while, entertaining, ultimately made me feel bad.

The concept of 10 Minutes A Day is extensible beyond just HackerNews, but the Hacker News dataset was a great place to start as it is often a go-to for news around technology and new projects.

It was built on top of Flask, React, OpenAI GPT-4o-mini (to drive down costs), and generally uses a few different prompting techniques to make things work as intended, because GPT-4o-mini can be frustrating to instruct.

10MAD is going to be extended across different news verticals in the future (once I have the time).
There's a specific page on Wikipedia about Mitochondrial DNA [1], where it is clearly said that:

In the cells of extant organisms, the vast majority of the proteins in the
mitochondria (numbering approximately 1500 different types in mammals) are
coded by nuclear DNA, but the genes for some, if not most, of them are
thought to be of bacterial origin, having been transferred to the eukaryotic
nucleus during evolution. (citing [2])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA

[2] https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cels.2016.01.013
They also ban people that pay them.
What do you mean by "alive?" Because of course they are alive, regardless of whether you consider them bacteria or not. There is a strange definition of "alive" that is being used by you and the author article that I'm not understanding.

If a mitochondria is not "alive," then is it dead? Even if it is taking part in an active, living cell?
That is wild! It's not every day I get to see a completely new, unique visual effect. Kudos.

I'd love to see a video with vastly slower movement, so I can pay attention to what's actually happening. The fast movement turns it all into a blur (literally).
If I'm running a command in the background, and want to be notified when it's done, I usually run it like

cmd; say 'files done'

I wish I could use his voice though! These were sounds of my childhood.
That’s how, for example, the British system works (but even it has some features that make it quite different in practice from the American one, for example the head of government needing to maintain the confidence of parliament).

It’s not how most of the actually well-run parliamentary systems work, because those have elements of proportional representation.
Why do you assume there would even be too much G in the first place?
I’d hope people get raided or at least some police investigation. Much of the process seems pointless otherwise.
As far as I know, Musk doesn't read Hacker News.
In terms of the programming paradigm this is not dissimilar to Funciton:

https://codeberg.org/Timwi/Funciton

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton
Only the second to last paragraph was necessary.
Cargo airships to move freight in the outback (in 2028)
Is this the same manual listed here https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/66123/Macintosh-Plus... ?
It is not. I care a lot about who becomes president, but choose not to vote as a form of protest against our broken system.

If I lived in a swing state, I would probably vote.
Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
They were, originally. Over the eons, they have lost many of their original genes. Source: Nick Lanes fantastic books, specially Power, Sex, Suicide
How do you know Mach wasn’t the cause of some workaround in the 90s, and that 5 workarounds in a row later it becomes harder to resolve this issue in 2024?
Show HN: test if your browser supports WebGPU
I took a look at how WebGPU works, you can use it to run a Twin Prime Search (pretty slowly). It's just a demonstration of the technology.

Let me know if it works on your browser.
I think that's a little farfetched since a lot of prokaryotes show the beginning stages of complex multi-cellularity.
Are you an Irish citizen? Or can anyone contact the Irish DPO because Google is “based” there for taxes or whatever? I’m wondering if I can use this as a US citizen.
No, they mean you get a license to buy meds and that license gets revoked if you abuse them. Not that you need a _driving_ license to buy meds.
Can you explain to me how you see security software as helping here?
I don't know of any definition of "alive" that can survive application of a reductive understanding of biology that doesn't either count viruses as being "alive," or decide that nothing is alive.

The uncertainty, I understood, was whether to classify them as distinct organisms the way we classify other species, as they are intrinsically parasitic for their replicative capability.
well one is allowed in a corporate setting and the other isn’t. that’s the main practical difference. i have literally sat in meetings where women are complaining about “old white assholes” in the industry (im not white) while my white male colleagues just look around uncomfortably.
How much math can you fit in 70k? Implementation of the DB48X
Because I read the blog post.
Guess what happens when allergens irritate the inside of your nose? You get congested.
Can iPadOS display a UI tailored to the native resolution of the external monitor such that the user need never interact with the iPad's own display?

Is using a mouse with Mobile Safari a pleasant experience if the user is doing many hours of interaction that way?

(Actually, now that I think about it, iPadOS is too restrictive for me: I can't configure it in ways I would want to, but GrapheneOS doesn't have that problem what with being almost entirely open-source.)
Oh my. Is this what Fox News teaches?

- Gutting the Fed Gov doesn't bring down inflation or prices. These are not correlated issues.

- The US is a net exporter of oil, doesn't depend on the Saudis.

- "Giving Ukraine" to Putin won't happen, as much as Trump would like to help his buddy out, but because the EU won't let it, because Congress ultimately controls spending, not POTUS, and they're the ones (mostly the GOP) pushing for more military aid and a bigger budget (they upped Biden's military budget and aid to Ukraine). But even if Trump did drop all US military aid to Ukraine, the Ukraine won't just collapse, that would take time. And even if Russia did fully occupy Ukraine and "end" the war, that doesn't impact food prices in the US as food imports from the Ukraine are a tiny percentage of total food imports, very little impact. Sunflower oil, maybe.

These are not factors that will bring down prices.
I read this comment a few minutes after it was posted and checked just now and you completely changed this comment to something else… I’m not going to engage with someone who does that without even putting an Edit: tag.

So yes please do not reply…
then so is being socially expected to provide for a woman with the same or better opportunities than you