skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about monopoly abuse but I do believe it's acceptable to charge a fee for access to your audience.

Microsoft and Epic don't want to pay the fees for using Google's payment system, which is a requirement here for Googles ecosystem (Apple too btw). I don't see an issue with that. It's not monopolization, Microsoft can build their own ecosystem (for the 3rd time try at least) and distribute apks to Android.

The alternative 'spiteful' approach Google could make is what Microsoft wanted to do with Unity : "For each user over 1Million, you pay 1$ per download".
I feel both strong agreement and strong disagreement with your comment.

Epistemology is probably the only topic that I would recommend being 30+ before you read. Before that, in my opinion most folks aren't ready for it. You need to both accept ultimate uncertainty and also deliberately create your own certainty in your life. That's a tough ask even for many older people.

I've come to believe that an important part of any society is creating a series of positive narrative myths that are increasingly-detailed and nuanced. Why positive? Because introducing negativity in any form early in the education process turns the kids off to receiving anything more on that topic or from that viewpoint. We need optimistic learners, not pessimistic curmudgeons.

So yeah, we're going to lie to you about the number line. We're going to lie to you about history. We're going to lie to you about damned near everything, and a simple search online will prove the lie. But we lie in order to encourage you to rebel, not to indoctrinate. Find the problems and fix them. It's not our business to tell you what they are. Hell, we don't know ourselves. We're in the same boat you are.

This is not a declarative, literal topic. Already comments here decry the big words. So while I agree with you, epistemology is just like any other intellectual super-power: you gotta be able to deal with the repercussions or you shouldn't dive in. The water's deep.

You lose all of that googling around for Wikipedia articles. Long-form books are the only way forward, along with the confidence and intellectual curiosity needed to eventually make a difference.
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Dengue is one of the few diseases that it explicitly targets immune cells. It hits Langerhans cells, which are skin-resident monocytes (a type of immune cells), spreads through the lymphatic system (part of the immune system), and then to white blood cells.

While dengue is certainly not unique (e.g. HIV also targets the immune system), but it is in the extreme minority of diseases. For the vast majority of diseases, this kind of response to vaccines or prior infections is simply not a thing.
Huawei Mate 70 launch: HarmonyOS Next details, specs, price
They really want to push the agenda, with repeated posts in here. But still no solution to the 100k years waste problem, for a < 100y utilization.
I’m just going to assume you’re a man, and don’t generally worry about things like revenge porn. Because that is a bigger concern to me than you, it seems. Sure, I don’t want my sound to be recorded either, but that’s why I put a cover on the webcam AND turn off the physical switch on my (external) microphone. They are both easy things to do.
Ergodox EZ.
yeah I had to google it

Maybe it's because i'm distorted by my profession but I like articles that describe facts in chronological order.

Here's it's as if there was a montage for an action movie with flashbacks and scenes and you're supposed to put the story back together
Pali suttas doesn't work, but Pali sutta does. It's a weird filter.
Yes, terms can be co-opted outside of their origins.

That's irrelevant to this discussion, my interlocutor takes the Quran to be revelation from God, as per Islamic orthodoxy. That is, the vast majority of Sufis since the birth of Islam have been Sunni Muslims.
"...the company still hasn’t explicitly said what about the situation prevents it from offering Xbox game purchases like Steam and PlayStation already do..."

Though the real answer is already in the article in a different context: "...ending the requirement for apps to use Google Play Billing."

Asshole monopolist #2 is angry at asshole monopolist #3 that they are monopolizing too much of the money that should by all rights be monopolized by them instead.
There is an aliexpress ad on top of the page.
Because unlike the authors of this set - who went and stripped the posts out of usernames and permalinks to anonymize it - that set you mention just grabbed data out of the API as-is (at least based on its huggingface description that's left over).

That's the difference.
> For example, let's say instead of gradient descent you want to do a Newton descent. Then maybe there's a better way to compute the needed weight updates besides backprop?

IIRC, feedback alignment [1] approximates Gauss-Newton minimization.
So there is an easier way, that is potentially biologically more plausible, though not necessarily a better way.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13276#Sec20
Microsoft says : "We've built an app, we don't want to release it until we can keep every penny we charge you within it. Until google change their policies we don't want to release it"

Translated it for everyone.
It would be interesting to replicate this with a shorter wavelength. I tried doing some stuff with UV LEDs but was frustrated by how inefficient they were. Bog standard 385nm "UV" LEDs emit so much blue light that weak fluorescence was easily washed out. I wonder if that could be messing with your calibration (or even if the extra blue light could be doing some sort of quenching).
Elementary OS 8.0 Released
I went and checked the page in another browser with my adblocker off. Wow. Just wow. I started using ad blockers on everything a few years ago because they became a little too annoying. I somehow missed when the web became nigh unusable from them.
This is the relevant bit:

> The redundant types are deprecated as of Python 3.9. However, while the aliases may be removed at some point, removal of these aliases is not currently planned. As such, no deprecation warnings are currently issued by the interpreter for these aliases.

The idea is that new code shouldn't use them, but they work perfectly fine and will keep working in the near future. Even if they decide to remove these at some point, you're looking at several years before it actually happens, and you'll have plenty of time to migrate.

As it stands, you can use them to your heart's content without issues.
If drugs flood my community, you can't say the solution is simply "just don't do drugs, duh". If you put the burden on the population when everything in society works against them, it's not productive in any way.
To me that sounds like a regular subscription with a "first three months free" discount, not like a free trial.
Do you have any examples? What kind of changes were there?
30C is a bad choice for colors/dyed fabrics. Cold wash is important.
I don't think so, I suspect that this is standard fare for the audience of a website called 'lithub.' In the words of gamers: git gud, scrub. (<- light hearted jab)
K8s is absolutely not Google-scale. Not even close. The scheduler is not built for it.
The Regular Expressions Manipulation Engine
Yea and that....my bad for not mentioning it.
You really think the elites are generally better informed than the rest? They don't fall prey to stuff like celebrities, gossip media and so on?

I haven't seen any sign that this is the case among politicians where I live, or among the few quite rich people I've looked into the lives of, mainly through their email and interviews. Compared to the leftists in my "in-group" they're generally very uncritical, poorly informed and pretty narcissistic.
'Supergiant' gold deposit discovered in China worth more than $80B
If you just want to play around with the data, check out the bsky dataset on Axiom https://play.axiom.co/axiom-play-qf1k/stream/bsky (700M+ events and counting)
Product looks solid but please stop it with that dark mode joke. I'm technical within all definitions you could possibly come up with but white-on-dark is just unbearable for my eyes.
I remember the time where there was no party without constant Spotify ads running over the speaker, that's the only type of free account I know of.

Other than that my point was how incomplete it is and always was. It could be nice as additional catalogue to my music, but for me it's missing to many of my favourite songs to use it as main driver.

Edit:// in Switzerland downloading music for private use is no crime. So the initial situation was different I guess.
It might be able to but that would require getting rid of cheap sources of energy and manufacturing which the deck is stacked so hard against it will never happen. Before humanity will do anything we have to get rid of the current ruling autocracy since acting now would create pain over time, acting later would create pain when most people alive are dead. And maybe put the environment before profits, same problem though.
The maps, surveys and projections say otherwise, but of course you're free to believe what you believe.
"Revolutionary Road", by Richard Yates. Because it uncovers the greatest conspiracy of our time.
Also "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy, for the same reason.

The real so called "mindfuck" comes when what you read unravels the reality around you, not when it sends you in some utopia with the promise of a metaphor built to solve a great mistery you actually don't give a f... about.

P.S.This is just one of the HN threads which is more valuable than the article it refers to.

Thank you for all the good books mentioned here, HN!
If I shell script something together that executes a process in a PRoot environment, would that be similar to Docker?
I did this:

const response = await fetch(
url,
{
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify(reqData),
}
);
const resData: ApiResponse = await response.json();

then I parsed resData. The JSON in the response is still type checked but I don't have to fight anymore with the HTTP library. I can't remember what it was as it never made it into a commit.
intervals.icu works well for endurance training
So the IPFS part is instead of a CDN? Does it replace asset URLs in templates with e.g. cf IPFS gateway URLs with SRI hashes?

datasette-lite > "Could this use the SQLite range header trick?" https://github.com/simonw/datasette-lite/issues/28

From xeus-sqlite-kernel > "Loading SQLite databases from a remote URL" https://github.com/jupyterlite/xeus-sqlite-kernel/issues/6#i... re: "Loading partial SQLite databases over HTTP":

> sql.js-httpvfs: https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs

> sqlite-wasm-http: https://github.com/mmomtchev/sqlite-wasm-http

>> This project is inspired from @phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs but uses the new official SQLite WASM distribution.

Datasette creates a JSON API from a SQLite database, has an optional SQL query editor with canned queries, multi DB query support, docs; https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/sql_queries.html#cross-d... :

> SQLite has the ability to run queries that join across multiple databases. Up to ten databases can be attached to a single SQLite connection and queried together.
But you don't "manage your own hardware" if you are renting VMs, which was the question here.

Also managing a cloud infrastructure is a lot more complex than running Debian and Ansible on a VM.
That's a problem with aluminium - no fatigue limit. This means that cyclic loads on an aluminium frame (or pole) will eventually cause it to fail. Steel does have a fatigue limit such that cyclic loads below that threshold won't cause eventual failure.

There's some good info on bike frame materials here: https://bike.bikegremlin.com/11144/bicycle-frame-materials-e...
Here are a lot of alternatives: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1g15gqe/uptimerob...

Why should people use just one tool all the time? There are many alternatives in this world, free as well.
> PS: Huskies are just wolves with the gene for extra drama. ;)

And singing. They love to sing along.
May I ask why you’re bothered by this fact?
I'd claim the way most people imagine it being used for scamming, cold-calls impersonating someone the victim knows, doesn't really end up working out in practice because scam operations dial numbers at a huge scale expecting most not to pick up a "scam likely" call (or be away, or a dead number, etc.). Having to find a voice clip prior to each unanswered call would tank the quantity they're able to make.

For spear-phishing (impersonate CEO, tell assistant to transfer money) it's more feasible, but I hope it forces acceptance that "somebody sounds like X over the phone" is not and has never been a good verification method - people have been falling for scams like those fake ransom calls[0] for decades.

Not that there aren't potential harms, but I think they're outweighed by positive applications. Those uncomfortable with their natural voice, such as transgender people, can communicate closer to how they wish to be perceived - or someone whose voice has been impaired (whether just a temporary cold or a permanent disorder/illness/accident) can use it from previous recordings. Privacy benefits from being able to communicate online or record videos without revealing your real voice, which I think is why many (myself included) currently resort to text-only. There's huge potential in the translation and vocal isolation aspects aiding communication - feels to me as though we're heading towards creating our own babelfish. There's also a bunch of creative applications - doing character voices for a D&D session or audiobook, memes/satire, and likely new forms of interactive media (customised movies, audio dramas where the listener plays a role, videogame NPCs that react with more than just prereccorded lines, etc.)

[0]: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/virtual-kidnapping
Why do you need to have a lot of permissions for the extension?

This extension would be able to read and alter web pages and see your browsing history on this website. This could include sensitive information, including passwords, phone numbers and credit cards.

You can change this later in the Websites section of Safari Settings.
As in "the divided god"? not shoggoth but sandworm?
profit. they have the best information money can buy and they use it to make profit.

Hanlon's razor doesn't take into account the fact that they have a perfect motive.
I share your annoyance. I've convinced that the sites themselves are doing this to attract subscribers.

Every time anyone complains you get the backlash of "if you want good journalism you have to pay for it", yet few can afford to subscribe to more than one or two publications and yet we have to suffer paywalled links from all of them. For me, the one UK publication I pay for is enough (and that one is, ironically, not even paywalled).
Times have changed. Students who use podcasts, YouTube, and ChatGPT to complete their academic tasks aren't shallower or less educated than those who have spent years mastering the skill of extracting information from dense books.I have younger relatives who can't sustain their attention to read a book to save their life but still earn excellent grades because they were born into a world of technology. Their way of finding and extracting information is different—not better, just different.
As a teenager (30 years ago), I found this book to be a bit of a mindfuck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun

I have heard of most on this list for obvious reasons but this book really got me to see war in a different light.
Nitpick: AFAIK, revealing a phone number is required for registration. But it’s no longer required in order to communicate with other Signal users.
A Conflict of Visions is a good one. Thomas Sowell is a true intellectual. Sure, he has strong biases, but I believe those developed out of his intense study of the facts, rather than being implanted in him before he started thinking for himself, which is sadly the case for many so-called intellectuals nowadays.

If you could recommend only one of the others, which would it be?
I'm at risk of saying something very ill informed here but my gut feeling is the difficulty lies in linking the person who is currently accessing the service with the person who did the age check.

Taking your example: people may have multiple Google accounts. And one Google account could be shared between multiple people (inadvisedly, obviously, but lots of real users do things like this).
You're questioning what you didn't see by yourself and can't imagine that a car can drive as fast 7km/h without any help of cruise control?

Ok..
pico8 has the ability to export anything you make into native binaries. Simple as that :)
It's for people that read books and have done so for a long time. That's all it takes to appreciate it, you really don't need to be a scholar.
For those that don’t know, you shouldn’t blindly let programs have access to tmp. They can get access to sockets and stuff. If you’re running with systemd there’s a private tmp option for this reason.

It’s always best to sandbox programs when you can. Linux has been making this much easier but it’s still non trivial

https://salvatoresecurity.com/the-many-perils-of-tmp/
Yeah I guess that would be a positive application of AI for once. I think most people assume by default that other people are sincere, will do them no harm, mean what they say and have empathy like they themselves. They might be totally unprepared to deal with crooks and malignant narcissists and will auto-correct any hint that this is not so.

On a related note I always wince when I ask Copilot a question and the answer will inevitably be followed by an "engagement hook" like "Isn't language fascinating in how it evolves and adapts over time?" or "Do you think any of these fit the bill? ". Shudder.
Yes, dropping Germany's opposition[0] to further NATO expansion under Bush's pressure[1] during the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest was a catastrophic mistake.

[0] http://www.summitbucharest.gov.ro/en/doc_160.html

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Little-War-That-Shook-World/dp/023061...
> The vast reserve, which could be the largest single reservoir of the valuable metal left anywhere on Earth, is worth billions of dollars and caused the global price of gold to skyrocket to near-record highs.

Someone explain please? That is not how supply/demand is supposed to work
You _can_ use it for a minimal period without cost.

As for the normalisation argument, if there's a common understanding that "free trial" means "X months free followed by being charged", then that's what free trial means.
martingale's expected payout at the end of the run of bets is whatever the first bet was. Reverse martingale is a viable betting strategy, one which when employed at craps will get you real close to the -0.16% expected payout.

martingale you increase your bet when you lose, and go back to your base bet when you win. Reverse martingale you have tiered bets, i use 5 tiers, just 1-5 times the base bet. I do $5 craps, so on the pass line i'll put $5. win, put $10. win, put $15, win put $15, win put $20, win put $25, and $25 then on out. if at any point you lose you go back to base bet, $5 in my case. You'll note that after winning the $15 bet, i am no longer betting my money, all further bets in that run are all the casino's money. That is why i like this method. I go in with $200, i get 40 chips, i get to lose 40 games in a row. I've only walked out of a casino loser once, too.

reverse martingale works with any game where you can choose how much to bet, including video poker, roulette, and keno i guess. I wouldn't use it on poker, because betting is a different strategy, and i wouldn't use it on blackjack as it's "too choppy", especially with lots of people and 6 decks, imo.

The best bet for the player in the casino is "don't come" with odds, after the button is on - on the craps table. One of the worst bets in the casino is the big 6 | 8 and all the center-field bets. iirc they call those "the bets that keep the lights on", iirc it's closer to 4% house edge, but i'd have to go look at the payouts and write 12 numbers on the back of a napkin to double check.
Hammer meet nail. I currently work in a more traditional "ops" team with our cloud infrastructure dictated by development (through contract hires at first, and now a new internal DevOps team). It's mind boggling how poorly they run things. It goes so deep it's almost issues at product design stage. There's now a big project to move the responsibility back into our team because it's not fit for purpose.

I think an operations background gives you a strong ability to smell nonsense and insecurity. The DevOps team seems to be people who want to be 'developers' rather than people who care about 'ops'. Yaml slinging without thinking about what the yaml actually means.
This will go down in history as a prime example of seemingly smart people seemingly wanting to do good but ending up opening pandora's box

> We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

lmao, we truly didn't learn shit, or even worse forgot things, since Descartes, it would be funny if it wasn't such a serious topic
Love picocad.

Now that picotron is ramping up which basically offers a superset in terms of features compared to pico8: will there be an expanded picotron version of picocad?
Yeah makes sense. Now that fetch is standardized and built in to node, frankly I don't see any reason to ever pull in request.
We've Been Searching for Aliens All Wrong, Researchers Say [video]
Sound quality is better and they pay artists more. That's about it.

UI quality is a subjective thing.
I invite you to read https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carl-Elliott/publicatio...

If you genuinely think the medical and pharma industry don't exploit homeless and other marginalized populations out the wazoo as lab rats. They also only stopped doing it to prisioners when it was made illegal, because that's what they did before. Of course using them has a lot of practical problems, as you outline, other than the much bigger ethical issue.

You managed to miss the whole point of the comment though.

Which is, how is it possible that a multibillion dollar industry, exploiting both the test subjects AS WELL as the researchers in the form of practically free PhD candidates can still claim it's one of the most dificult / expensive endeavours? Where does the money go? When you look, it goes to the bureocrats and to the "bio-investors".
Session was the go to couple years ago but now SimpleX chat is imo superior with proper PFS even quantum resistent and better UX.
> Most other products require a lot of high paid labor to produce, think of a video game studio for example, also without any guarantee it won't flop, and it certainly takes longer to develop than to do a clinical trial.

You have to try really hard to make a video game no-one wants[0]. You might not recoup all your investment, but you won't sell zero copies. A drug can have all that money poured in, and nothing come of it.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/two-weeks-after-launc...
You're talking about WURFL and Luca Passani. I recall working with it for a project 15 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WURFL
from their FAQ:

"TrunkVer always defensively implies breaking changes between versions."
It's probably much more true for strategically important companies than for your average Chinese person that they are in some way controlled by the Party.
There was recently an article about the "China 2025" initiative on this here orange website. One of its focus areas is AI.
What a huge ommision not to include anything from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles. The blokes 'mindfucked' the entire world during the last century
If anyone is looking for a good read, there's a great book called Arcadia, which revolves around this trend of traditional city food markets being supplanted by upscale hipster traps.