skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weeds have a function which does run opposite to the objectives of monoculture, but I'd probably put my money on millions of years of evolution over the needs of industrial farmers. Permaculture and "food forest" methodologies are not as good for anyone's profit margin, but they are more resilient and lean on natural processes of ecological niche development instead of fighting them.
I'm talking about the case where you wanted to run your own PDS and use all of the other infrastructure being run by Bluesky.

If you fully want your own copy of everything, then you'd want to run a copy of everything. But you don't have to. It really depends on what your goals are. That's why the post is about the maximal scenario. "Just your own PDS" is the minimalist scenario. But I think it's the one that makes sense for 95% of users who want to self-host.
One hopes that they will be let out of the area now and then to get a sense of how the country is doing and thinking.
Repairing California Without Fixing the Ballot Process Is Impossible
unicode program note for people who share the curiosity I had:

Λ-2D
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the first letter in the title is Greek capital-lambda; the others I've included here for comparison are less than, greater than, and capital-v

the original article uses lowercase λ
No, I really don’t. He acknowledges it’s not in keeping with the title or the thesis and then just sort of waves it off.

Smells like rationalization to me.
Market share only matters if there's a market, ie concurrent proposals. In an open world, concurrent proposals make no sense: let all applications talk with any other, let all protocols take inspiration from each other to build the best infrastructure.

There's nobody to talk to because companies explicitly make it so, not because a protocol is better than another
Yes, and I never said 100% of my professional experiences were bad. I had extremely positive contracts that left me smiling.

What I did say was that I never stumbled upon managers who did Scrum / Agile in a way that was empowering for the programmers.

Obviously these two things are very different.
"Forgot another point that became very annoying, the show is available but not with the subtitles I want and/or need. For example, watching a Swedish TV show on Spanish Netflix doesn't let me have English subtitles for example. But if I use Swedish Netflix, it would work, but technically breaking Netflix's ToS. Content rights have completely fucked up the user experience."

I think you can set which subs (and audio tracks) should be available in you Netflix profile. I can get chinese voice and subs for a lot of stuff in Sweden.

It is the same for Disney+ as well.
Algol-68 seemed like a good idea
We had evolutionary pressure to evolve self-preservation, and that stars with self, doesn't it?
Which means you can't have a partially instantiated object except while the constructor is running.
I literally found it in two seconds on one of the most popular non-legit streaming sites. Checked two others, and it's there as well.

The article author has no idea what they're talking about.
Browser-based parametric generator for Gridfinity bins and bases
I could easily see this as a security measure. Give the phone a concept of fear of being stolen. Phone, alone, continued source of power for an extended period. Somebody could have left it on a charger and gone away. Phone, continued source of power for an extended period and static bluetooth signals from other phones--what's going on here? This is very suspicious, turn defenses to max. It doesn't need to know the difference between thieves trying to thwart it and cops trying to thwart it.
Compliance matters. Once a day pill is much easier to do than rework routine especially when patient has the "can't anymore" disease. Read Darkness Visible if you want to hear all about what that looks like.
It's a really nice implementation. I wish it manages to stay alive, but I believe the owners of Tetris are quite litigious around both the game itself and the trademark.

I usually play on tetris.com
That seems to be an overly reductive view on the value of knowledge.

What practical purpose does studying ancient civilizations have? Why do we send expensive telescopes into space to study faraway galaxies and try to uncover mysteries of the big bang? When can we expect the results from number theory to lower the price of gas at the pump?
> Indie developers have shown that the cost to make a game is much lower than large game publishers are spending ... Then, over-budgeting leads to under-performing.

I think this is a great insight. Rather than taking a big gamble on a $100M game, you'd think a better strategy would be taking 20 smaller gambles on smaller teams putting out $5M passion projects. The revenue profile for a successful $100M game vs. a successful $5M game just doesn't seem that different. Maybe by a factor of 2 or 4, but not 20.

I suspect it's the standard principal agent problem where no one decision-maker individually benefits from instituting this change; rather, each individual manager is trying to optimize the total headcount underneath them, leading to bloat.

Are any major studios currently pursuing the "smaller passion projects" strategy? Paradox, maybe?
That's more a flaw of classification systems though. Because even if they comprise a distinct life form does not mean they need to have a unique species. Consider lichen, which comprise two (or more!) separate "species" which becomes a meaningless distinction when they cannot survive on their own, or even if they could, not in a form recognizable in any wayas they were when they were a part of the symbiotic system
In college I told the clinic I wanted anything but Sudafed (joke on campus was they’d give you Sudafed for a broken arm). Gave me Sudafed anyway.

First 100% sleepless night in college. And the only sleepless night that wasn’t having too much fun or stressing over a final exam. Trash can.
> When you finetune with lora, you're updating maybe 5% of the parameters

I'm not sure I understand this comment. The LoRA paper[1] specifically says that all of the pretrained weights remain frozen.

> keeping the pre-trained weights frozen

Specifically, the LoRA paper differentiates itself from updating some parameters by stating

> Many sought to mitigate this by adapting only some parameters or
learning external modules for new tasks.

1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685
IMO the visual wire/node paradigm of Max/MSP and Pure Data makes a lot of sense because it builds upon the "plug one box into another" interface that electronic music hardware follows, and because it can mirror electronic circuit layouts. I find it far easier to follow complex signal flows (especially with animated realtime diagrams showing numeric values in real time) in a visual layout vs. static text blocks.

Also more recent versions of Max/MSP have "mc" (multi-channel connections so you don't have to create separate wires/nodes for multiple identical signals) and text-based programming nodes with "~gen" and JavaScript.
Maybe not related to this topic, but I was thinking about certain games I purchased from Ubisoft. Whenever I open Uplay, it asks me to log back in and enter a 2FA code.
So basically all my Ubisoft games are playing pirated versions after purchase.
By the way the anti-cheat system Ubisoft uses, EAC, also refuses to work at the same time as GoLand, so I can say that I really don't have a choice.
Being a winner takes all state by LAW isn't the same as just "agreeing" with the next door neighbor state that you will be a winner take all, based on a national popular vote, and tell electors to do something different ...

That's not the same thing at all.
> when everyone is starving

I agree with you that people who are actually starving care much more about having food than being treated as equal citizens.

But lets be real. People are not starving. Homelessness, yes, because the housing market is fucked -- which is not directly the GOP or the Dem's fault, and not something Trump or Harris would be able to "just fix" -- but food is heavily subsidized in the US, though what the poor have access to is mostly processed garbage food which is why they suffer from many more health problems than the wealthier. (This is a huge problem which neither party is addressing.)

What's also interesting is the poorest segment in the US, under $30K, who might be the closest to "starving" (as a euphemism), voted primarily Democrat this election.

Having said all the above, I do agree with you that having a roof over your head is much more important to most people than being treated equally, and that economic equality is the biggest problem in our country.

Unfortunately, Trump doesn't give a shit about economic equality. And the Dems only pay lip service to economic equality. After all, it's a feature, not a bug, of capitalism.

So since Trump isn't going to fix that problem -- in fact will make it worse (judging by his first term), plus the fact that "do we really care about human decency and values so little that we're willing to put a despicable human being -- by all accounts -- as our leader?" I can't stomach that even if Trump was the Second Coming of Christ as his cultist Evangelical followers seem to think.
It is also worth reading Chaos Theory and the story of the scientists https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/a-love-letter-to-chaos...
Meta beats suit over tool that lets Facebook users unfollow everything
> Games run a high risk of "we ran this project very well and the game still ended up boring as hell."

Granted and unavoidable in creative endeavors.

But there's a ridiculous number of game development studios that incinerate money without completing anything.

That's simply bad project management.
> with men bent on signaling their expertise all the goddamn time.

The Germans have a good name for them that many languages have incorporated: Besserwisser.

My way of treating them: let them talk. It makes them happy.
I might even learn something new. If they are wrong, I do try to ask them a though provoking question. I know that the question will live in their head in the background for a long time. Perhaps one day it'll help change their minds.
> ...one of the Meta monorepos (yeah there’s not just one!

Eeh... Might be quite meta-, but really doesn't feel very mono-.
> The CDN does cache stuff on QRO often but Workers and KV are a completely different story.

I don't know of any way that requests to the same hostname could go to QRO for cache but not for Workers. Once the HTTP headers are parsed, if the URL matches a Worker, that Worker will run on the same machine. This could change in the future! We could probably gain some efficiency by coalescing requests for the same Worker onto fewer machines. But at present, we don't.

I do believe you that you haven't seen your Workers run in QRO, but the explanation for that has to be something unrelated to Workers itself. I don't know enough about your configuration to know what it might be.
I actually never heard the phrase until I got online and saw the meme!

My biology classes did have us gene editing bacteria to chance its color. That was fun!

> The only one that comes close is Athlete's Foot, which makes the victim sound cool.

The best cure for athletes foot is a 30 minute soak in diluted bleach. Get a wash basin, fill it with warm water, and add enough bleach so that it tingles a little bit.

Do this every other day 3 times, e.g. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Problem solved.

Make sure to clean out the shoes as well, ideally not wearing any infected shoes for a few days at least, and soak the insides with Lysol a few times to prevent reinfection.
It doesn't seem the article addresses this, but I'd ask these questions: "would it be possible that mitochondria's evolutional interest and the organism's interest are not aligned?" "how many independent DNA can an organism possess?" "why mitochondria do not elicit immune reactions? Or can they?"
What feeds the grass? Chances are it partly is imported fertilizer (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/imports-of-ferti...), and that the nitrogen in the fertilizer is partly washed out into the environment (https://www.wwf.org.uk/press-release/government-watchdog-fai...)

Also, chances are the livestock partly is fed from imported food, for example in winter.
"I tried this thing 12 years ago and it sucked, therefore it still sucks today and will suck forever"
Excellent point.

Are there mitochondria in neurons?
Mitochondria are why I’m a Rare Earther.

In Earth’s history, mitochondrial endosymbiosis occurred once. Without that you don’t have the energy budget for complex life. Moreover, there may be a narrow window where it can happen: modern microbiology has defences and selection pressures that it make inhospitable to the hobbling chimeræ the first mitochondrial cells would have been.

Until mitochondria, the emergence of life from nothing is plausible. With mitochondria, its progression to complex, multicellular and intelligent life makes sense. Both processes in small steps can be replicated, more or less, in the lab. But that one moment is not and has not been. As a result, I think the universe has lots of living slop but very few plants and animals.

(Aside, look at ATP go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUrEewYLIQg&t=939s)
I agree with you, but just for kicks I'd like to go through your examples.

First, blogging is alive and well in the outdoor sports space. "Trip reports" serve as incredibly helpful tools for research. In climbing, [Steph Abegg](https://www.stephabegg.com/tripreports/chronology) has one of the most useful sites cataloging, detailing, and photo logging all of her ascents. The late Marc-Andre Leclerc was a beautiful human, and while there are films and memories about him, it's his [blog](https://marcleclerc.blogspot.com/) that allows the world to get a truer sense for who he was.

I'm probably in the minority, but I prefer blogs over YouTube for their ability to parse the info more easily. TikTok takes most of the control in how it presents any info you might find and tops it off with immeasurable distraction.

ChatGPT can be great for quickly gathering relevant knowledge, but it still needs cross-referencing, and lacks the creative and novel elements that comes from a valuable human blog post.

Mainstream news articles tend to lack personality and voice.

"If you build it they will come" seems to still hold true for the posts and trip reports I've written. I've been pleasantly surprised by the email I've receive in my inbox asking esoteric follow-up questions, wondering how they even found my posts in the first place.

Overall traffic is admittedly mostly non-existent, and that's fine as I'd be glad to help or inform the few that do come across my posts. Though more to your point, I do wonder how many potential (younger?) readers will never come across a blog post because it's not ingrained as a place to look for info, as opposed to YouTube/TikTok etc.
Mostly the police don't care about this, it's the owners of the copyrights who care , they might send an email to your ISP and then you'll have to pay.
You missed the entire point, but thank you.
Wouldn't CT give Hari Seldon a way to predict discontinuous (revolutionary) political change ?
> Are there mitochondria in neurons?

Yes [1].

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7373250/
They "behave as" bacteria. Are they bacteria? Are they 'alive' by themselves? That's the distinction.
How are men treating women like “worthless objects”? Is it something specific (like abortion law in a particular state?) or a general feeling or something else?
Why American C-section rates are increasing
Infection with Naegleria fowleri is incredibly rare.

A run-of-the-mill bacterial infection is much more common. There's more than one type of infection you can give yourself by putting water into your sinuses.

You're correct that it does require a source of the pathogen, be it the water, a poorly cleaned neti pot, or the interior of your nostril.
I still have lots of questions, but I think that's on me haha. Thanks so much for taking the time for this, and for pushing forward the human race in such a groundbreaking manner. Hope y'all are doing well in these dark times.
What if I told you that evidence has shown that immigration was deflationary and contributed to the low inflation that the US experienced where other nations had it far worse than we did?

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/did-immigration-bring-down-inf...
Thanks for this! Some notes:

- food clock is kind of arbitrary (I went four levels without finding any food), or else I'm just not diving nearly fast enough.

- game crashed when I descended from level 16

- the only difference I can figure out between various monsters are: some are stationary, some wander, and some chase you. I can't tell whether they all steal money from you or steal items or just some of them.

Fun overall, I'm happy to have paid the $5 just for the chiptune Holst.
> If you live in a democracy you have a vote and a voice to bring to the table.

In a theoretical direct democracy that would be true. But we’re talking about Canada and the US here.
I'm just wondering why we always see pop-sci mitochondria content but no ribosome videos.

I think it's the catchy nickname "powerhouse of the cell."

Ribosomes don't have a catch nickname so they get a lot less content produced about them.

If I was a highschool biology teacher I'd probably call them "The assembly line of life." That would stick in people's minds I bet.
Another vote for this, especially on pathways and between bricks etc.
> ...but it will make life easier for people with congestion

I haven't purchased pseudeophedrine, but my understanding was that you just walked up to the counter and had to sign your name at the pharmacy. Is that not the case? Doesn't seem like a big pain if that's the case.
But then what purpose would it serve? The last 30 years has brought no lack of new languages, not to mention evolution of older languages. Just use one of them.

The purpose of creating yet another language with Go was to break from what everyone else was doing, to see if a "simple" language would stop developers from playing with fun language toys all day to instead focus on actual engineering.

Arguably it was successful in that.
> The affected devices even included one that was in Airplane Mode and another that was kept in a Faraday cage

> The officials hypothesize that an iPhone running iOS 18 can send signals that make nearby units reboot if the device has been kept disconnected from cellular networks.

Either the officials are storing multiple devices in 1 cage, don't understand Faraday cages, or are arguing in bad faith.

> In October of 2024, multiple users of iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max units reported that their devices kept restarting themselves for no apparent reason. This is a known issue that occurred during normal use and one that Apple fixed with the iOS 18.1 update.

> This timeframe would also align with the creation of the alleged law enforcement document. Specifically, the document says that three iPhones with iOS 18.0 were brought into a forensics lab on October 3, after which they rebooted themselves.

Ah ignorance or bad faith after all.
When people say things like this what they're actually doing is falsely associating walkable urban fabric in cities like San Francisco, NYC, and large parts of Chicago as being especially dangerous just because it's only practical to be pick-pocketed on foot.

They say this while ignoring the generally low crime rates of those compared to peers. For example, Chicago has an almost 20% lower property crime rate than Peoria, IL. Fort Worth, TX has 52% higher property crime rate than New York City. Carmel, Indiana, an affluent suburb with a public high school ranked #354 in the country and 6th in Indiana, only manages to have a 28% better property crime rate than NYC.

(And driving a car around is a lot more statistically dangerous to your life than walking around a big city. I'd rather have my phone stolen than be t-boned by a drunk driver)
I was completely sedentary for 2-3 years.
I did practice intense sports over the year and I already had experience with sedentary/active lifestyle changes, so I'm familiar with the "throw up" feeling. That goes away in a couple of weeks.

My mother did always describe to me the feeling of being exhausted after sport as a pleasant one, so I do perceive it as pleasant.

The reason why I hate it is because I could be doing something enjoyable. I tried looking for sports that I actually enjoy but I found only windsurf, which is highly impractical, expensive and very time consuming. I'd rather spend that time with my kids, my wife, playing board games and playing videogames.
A faculty member clued me in when I worked for a college of pharmacy 20 years ago! FDA should be embarrassed. This shouldn't even have been hard. How many drugs have been p-hacked into efficacy and would need expensive trials to disprove? Oral PE is metabolized too quickly make it to the bloodstream and can't be more than a placebo.
I like the animations, though.
They reportedly did:

https://chaos.social/@jiska/113447894119816217

That would make sense since thieves know that they have to get an iPhone offline to prevent Find My tracking and remote locking.
Actually, it would be beyond reckless for Apple to do anything other than implement this as a safeguard. The cops just gave up the game. Their only way into a locked phone is one in an AFU state. Apple doesn't give backdoors to law enforcement, so in lieu of Apple being able to patch this vulnerability, they absolutely should implement protections against it, including this one we just heard from the horse's mouth.

If Apple doesn't make this an official feature, or worse: fixes this issue for the convenience of law enforcement, we need to read that as Apple selling out our privacy to the government.
I think this is simply a matter of finding good defaults. In my opinion, the order of magnitude should be how many days without reception, not how many hours. A week sounds like a sane baseline for me, since that is more than ample time for most people to end up in a situation where you're connected again. Likewise you could reset the counter on a successful unlock. On the flip side, a week is not enough time to reasonably bruteforce anything if the time you have to wait before each retry goes up with every failure.
> I think you can set which subs (and audio tracks) should be available in you Netflix profile. I can get chinese voice and subs for a lot of stuff in Sweden.

It's a geo-content restriction of some sorts. I'm guessing some of the subtitles Netflix is leasing/renting/whatever, they only lease for specific regions.

I'm 100% sure I've watched shows in the past on Netflix where if I use a VPN to set my location to Sweden, I could get English or Swedish subtitles, but if I use it without VPN (so Spanish location), it would refuse to allow me the English subtitles and instead allows Spanish or Swedish subtitles.

I'm sure someone more knowledgeable knows exactly why that is.
If it is readily available down the street, it looks to me that people cooking their own is a superior outcome for society in every single way than they buying it down-street.

Even more if the professional labs close down due to lack of customers.
What a brilliant idea!

To Xcode i go!

And I now have an excuse for a new M4 Mac mini.

You’re a genius Navark!
Horrible idea.

I don't have an iPhone, but it's not exactly alien for me to be in a situation where I've gone more than a couple of hours without touching my phone but while it is doing something important: recording where I am. (And, yes, I have fallback options, but they aren't nearly as good.)

If you're going to put in an auto reboot either make it long enough nobody will trip it while the phone is legitimately recording something or make it configurable.
Somatic cell modification is relatively safe. Or rather, not existentially dangerous to the species unless both extremely widespread and extremely deleterious.