skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in popsci/social media I've seen more and more awareness that it's "bunk" science.

It's in the same category as all that "alpha male" theory, Meyers Briggs, polygraphs, and "left vs right brained" people.

I'm starting to see more awareness around the concerns of "ballistic forensics" too, which is heartening.
It’s also nice to use for calling with US people that are willing to put up with it.

How do US people do intentional calls?
We are moving through eras faster than years these days.
Things like soft drink taxes already begin to do that.
USDA shares the blame for placing Carbohydrates as the primary food source on the food pyramid.
That $240m is the combined net worth of her and her husband.

It's not all that much considering that he founded and has run a successful real estate and venture capital investment firm for over 40 years, and considering that they are both in their 80s which means they have had up to 60 years of investments.
60ghz is isn't very fragile, 600 ghz is
Now that you say it that way, it does make some kind of sense.
Same here, I self host email with stalwart, and I use DecSync on syncthing for contacts, calendar is still on Google Cal. I'd love to hear what options exist.
I'm confused by this line of thinking. Are there really actors who a) do have the entire internet traffic since forever stored, but b) lack the resources to just go get whatever targets' sensitive data they want, right now?
The timing of Xserve was just extremely bad. It was a latecomer to an already saturated market of proprietary UNIX hardware that was already spiraling downward. Once the iPhone was a hit and was printing infinite money Apple had no reason to care about the enterprise market ever again.

IMO even if OSX and the PPC Xserves had been ready in the mid 90s, they definitely would have captured a larger enterprise market share (WebObjects too) but it still would have died off, like Sun, for the exact same reasons.
Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) heads are white in the breeding season. Birds start breeding aged three to five. So technically the statement is correct but I wonder if Gemini didn't get its pelicans and cormorants in a muddle. The mainland European Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) has a head that gets progressively whiter as birds age.
> there were technical and procedural safeguards that were intended to filter out US citizens' data, and analysts were not supposed to access US citizen data without a search warrant from a judge.

You never read about LOVEINT?
Well, memory safety is great but it seems Rust programmers also manage to create memory safety issues just fine:

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0401.html
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0400.html
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0377.html
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0374.html
etc.
> Hardly.

After Berlin fell, soldiers went through all the hospitals and checked every patient for the SS tattoo. Those with them got a bayonet.

SS members were hunted and killed throughout Germany after the fall. Some were hung upside down from lampposts and set on fire.

Hundreds of thousands of German soldiers died in POW camps after the war.

It was open season on German women after the surrender.

Germans underwent forced relocations out of Poland.

The killing did not stop at the surrender, it slowly faded over the next year.

Nearly all WW2 documentaries end with the suicide of Hitler, and maybe the Nuremburg trials. What else happened was savage and not well covered.

The Germans had a saying - enjoy the war, because after it will be hell.
The people pointing out that the judgment is 'unreasonable' are either intentionally lying or extremely ignorant.

The context is that the judge awarded a default judgment because Alex Jones literally refused to participate in the legal system. He committed overt perjury (and was outright caught on this) and proceeded to just stop complying entirely.

If any of us received a court summons and refused to show up or defend ourselves the court isn't going to shrug and say the case goes away. In a system of law you can't just ignore the law and expect the judge to take pity on you.
I thought that too, but Global Tetrahedron could just found 'InfooWars' as a satire site without Jones estate involvement at all.
I forgot about that one. Was there any scrutiny on the deal? It seemed to fly under the radar like nobody cared.
This is not at all what happened. I can't speak to his Google account, but Jones failed to produce text messages from his phone referencing Sandy Hook, claiming they didn't exist. Then his lawyers mistakenly sent a copy of the entire contents of his phone to the prosecution, showing that the text messages did in fact exist, and would have been found for a simple keyword search for "Sandy Hook," demonstrating that they were trying to conceal these messages from the court.
Check out our guide on writes — https://electric-sql.com/docs/guides/writes

There's a variety of valid patterns for writes & we don't want to be prescriptive about how you do them. We aim instead to help you easily use Electric with your preferred/required write pattern.

It's possible we'll write our own write library but it's equally likely we'll continue to find it better to partner with other projects building excellent libraries (like we are with https://livestore.dev/).
It's about as fast as human does it now.
If you're worried about Aliens, I can confirm that it's gorgeous in 4k UHD and the color accuracy is much better than the prior (manually frame-by-frame denoised) 1080p blu-ray release
of course every clause matters, thats why its a contract
Yes, but the ability to identify prodigies and give them the resources to realize their full potential is part of an education system, too. I don't know the full details of the IMO participants, but the team is geographically diverse.

Of course, another aspect of the education system are the resources given to the average student, and I don't think there is much debate that the US could do better here.
That was 6 years ago. I find it odd for a CEO to talk so cautiously (odd but perhaps refreshing), but I'm certainly not holding anyone accountable for what they said in an interview 6 years ago when it relates to a bleeding edge industry.
call me disappointed. Not to belittle whatever work was put into it as there were probably a lot, just the one-suction-cup way of doing it seems so 30 years ago. These days i'd have expected [several] hands with fingers.
This is much like a palletizer. Here's a mixed-case cage palletizer, which fills up wire cages open on one side with various boxes.[1] For rectangular boxes, palletizing is a solved problem with many companies selling systems.

Irregular items are a problem. In the baggage handling video, the last bag, the soft one with straps, is sticking out after being placed in the baggage container. That's the same problem which keeps Amazon from totally automating picking. They keep trying, but nothing works well enough yet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN-6QaLd3VY
The Nostalgia Critic has a great video on King's version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4V7NllEE4k
Can anyone here summarize the legal principle involved here?

Why does Matt legally have to provide services to people he doesn't want to, even if he's morally wrong or generally being an asshole?

To my non-lawyer and only-watching-from-the-sidelines self, the ACF situation seems more clearly actionable, but the other things are very interesting.
Imagine a chart with two lines spanning the last 50 years. One of those lines was very high at the beginning, and has generally been trending downwards. One of those lines was quite low at the beginning and has rapidly been trending upwards.

The study is suggesting that we've reached a point where these two lines have finally crossed, which we probably could have anticipated coming sooner or later.

That the most salient recent observation is a change to the prevalence of tobacco-attributed disease doesn't really change what it means for obesity-attributed risk to finally overtake it. That wouldn't have even been fathomable 50 years ago and the trendlines confirm exactly what needs urgent attention now.
Besides Silverlight (which was supported all the way until the end of 2021!), you can still not only run but _write new applications_ using all of the listed technologies.
Exploring Flink CDC
I definitely agree that multiple competing products is a deliberate choice, but it was foolish to pursue it for so long in a space like messaging apps that has network effects.

As a user I always still wish that there were fewer apps with the best features of both. Google's 2(!) apps for AI podcasts being a recent example : https://notebooklm.google.com/ and
https://illuminate.google.com/home
Doesn’t the foundry rely on money generated by the product side for research abd development funding?

Where would that funding come from if the product side is a totally separate company?
PS3s are cheap and work for every non-UHD blu-ray ever released. Top quality player
Yeah, good call -- it's a very similar situation.
There was an audit of the VPN servers earlier this year:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/fourth-infrastructure-audit-comp...
So downloading the app and adding my interests my first 10 recommendations are:
1) An educational video about peertube itself by peertube
2) the same educational video about peertube by peertube with English subtitles
3) a slideshow presentation about Framadate in French by framadate
4) an educational video about the fediverse by peertube
5) another educational video about peertube by peertube but this time in French
6) a French video about the pyramids I think?
7) the same educational video about peertube by peertube with Spanish subtitles
8) an educational video about mastodon
9) an educational video about alternative medicine
10) and educational video about TILvids by TILvids

I don’t speak French fyi. Also it doesn’t change what videos I see when I filter by my interests.

Methinks this is not a viable competitor to YouTube.
billions of years of evolution are screaming at you to reproduce. your entire being was crafted for that sole purpose, methinks our flesh machines might enjoy that and it might actually be a good thing.

crazy thought i know.
$300 vs. open-source SaaS starter
We got to the point that AI isn't great because it is not like a Tarantino movie. What a time to be alive.
The full title of "Over 2,400 Voice Service Providers Face Removal for Failing to Comply with the Robocall Mitigation Database Filing Requirements" is a lot more clear.

> Removal from the database means other providers will
be prohibited from accepting call traffic from these providers.
I grew up in the UK. We have approx 30% obesity rates so less than the US but still pretty crazy.

Single parent who worked (and still does work) low paid manual labour style jobs. Same with the estranged parent who was around for a while.

I dunno. People talk about being a surroundings thing. But then the way it has worked for me and my siblings is that for the most part we've looked at the ways in which our own parents failed and tried to improve on that.

For what it's worth we ate a lot of "crap" food growing up but just portion controlled it reasonably I guess?
skulk updated their post upthread to include an actual quote from the judgment. That says quite enough. It doesn't have to list specifics of a repeated, flagrant, bad-faith pattern of attempts to disrupt discovery; the rest of the record of the case will do so, in detail after detail after detail.
The most worrying thing is that Mullenweg just seems unwell and has created his own reality distortion field where he can no longer see the absurdness and damaging nature of his actions. His behavior reminds me of a cult leader or a celebrity where they surround themselves with only people who do their bidding and gradually slip into this state.
Attributing "capitalism" to the increase of value to "shareholders" is a mischaracterization of capitalism. It's the only system that has worked for one singular reason:

People want more value for more work. If I work 12 hours picking potatoes and have to give 3/4 of them "according to my need" I will refuse to work. If you create fake jobs like "bolt counter" to insure 100% employment so the means can justify the ends (as communism believes) you end up with a collapsing economic system.

The current iteration of late-stage capitalism is not capitalism _at large_. It's feudalism clever disguised as an egalitarian economic system. The solution to this is not communism, it's undoing 100 years of stock-market oriented business design. We don't know what "late-stage" communism looks like simply because a revolution occurs several hundred years before it reaches that point. Not even the premiere implementers of communism, the Russians, could keep their system.

It doesn't work. In any country, in any system, with any group of people larger than 4.
> They'll never be able to stop him from creating "The Alex Jones Off the Deep End Show" where he thrills listeners with zany tales of conspiracies that can only be held at bay with these brand new supplements

So you're unable to think about this problem without putting your bias at the forefront?

> He just has to forfeit Infowars and its assets.

Actually, with this ruling, he does not. Roger Stone's group will get a legitimate change to purchase it to keep it under Jones' control. If you think that's a miscarriage of justice, as the OP does, can you explain why?

Why is forfeiture of his platform a necessity in your eyes?
> What else are they going to do with their time, after all?

ONE OF the main functions of the prison system today is access to prison slave labor, so I imagine they'll keep him busy.
Real Estate vs. Stocks (2022)
It's line of sight only. Think about it like a flashlight. If you have a flashlight (w/power) up on top of a skyscraper roof or a mountainside it can be seen at very long distances. At street level it goes till the next small rise in the ground.
And I’m going to continue to blithely ignore outdated grammar rules.
Mochi / Henry Meds. Mochi is the cheapest.
It seems like, as a society, we're moving more toward "personal freedom" -- which includes "personal responsibility".

Like: we used to ban alcohol, betting and drugs. But we unbanned alcohol and betting and are moving towards decriminalization of drugs.

Not saying one way is right or wrong (I can see arguments on both sides, and I personally prefer having freedom). But it does seem the general trend in (US) society these days.
We have a good solution in mind. Check back in a few months!
Includes this letter from Executive Director: https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/eoy-letter-2024/
Well first of all it fluctuated much much much slower, and even if we skip that part, getting wiped out doesn't seem very desirable. Of course the planet and life in general will continue, what will degrade over time is the abundance we enjoyed up until now.

The fact that we changed so much despite being "here for like 0.0025% of it and tech for like 0.000001% of it" is the alarming part lol

https://xkcd.com/1732/

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jp...
For me, I check my used bookstores for movies that aren't easy to find anymore. I've had good luck so far. Most used movies including Blu-Ray are around $6 USD.
Tesla shares climb to record, boosted by 64% pop since Trump election victory
if you understand why Uber, Lyft and taxis are such a big industry than you understand why driverless rides will be such a big industry. It's the same industry. But driverless requires a fraction of the labor cost, hence the potential for cheaper rides that will only grow the industry even larger. And I don't have to tip a robot.
In Italy SMS are included in the monthly plan since many years, but everyone is using WhatsApp too.
Default judgments are a punishment.

Your right to sell things derives from the first amendment.
I'd like to report my experience trying out this release.

I did a cargo install. I then used the dx command line app to create a new project. After initialization I ran dx serve in the directory as instructed, but it gave me a compiler error with seemingly no feedback on what specifically went wrong. And again, this is for a hello world app that they generated for me. I'm unsure how to obtain more information on why it failed.

I feel like I'd have more insight and ability to debug this if I were trying to compile using a standard rust workflow rather than their CLI tool.

You can press v to enable verbose logging, but this doesn't add information which provides clarity to me. Here's the compiler output with verbose logging, though heavily edited to be readable in this HN comment box

14:17:49 [dev] Building server...

14:17:49 [dev] Building app...

14:17:49 [dev] Executing cargo...

14:17:49 [dev] cargo args: ["--profile", "server-dev", "--
verbose", "--features", "dioxus/server", "--bin", "hack"]

14:17:49 [dev] cargo args: ["--verbose", "--features", "desktop", "--bin", "hack"]

14:17:49 [dev] cargo args: ["--profile", "server-dev", "--verbose", "--features", "dioxus/server", "--bin", "hack"]

14:17:50 [dev] Setting builder to failed state

14:17:50 [dev] Build failed: Other(Cargo build failed, signaled by the compiler)

Status: Failed
The tl;dr of the dispute is that, a few months ago, Matt Mullenweg decided to start ratfucking WPEngine, to which they responded by suing to get them to stop ratfucking, and the court yesterday ordered Matt to stop ratfucking, to which he has apparently responded he doesn't want anything to do WordPress if he can't ratfuck WPEngine.

The reason why Matt started ratfucking is somewhat unclear. In the most charitable interpretation, he was unhappy with how little WPEngine was contributing to WordPress, and intended to create a pressure campaign to get them to do more, which backfired considerably. In a less charitable interpretation, this was merely an extortion campaign which turned out to be unsuccessful.

Matt claims that this is all in defense of open source, but I'm disinclined to believe him when the legal filings in his defense essentially amount to WordPress (whether the .com, the .org, the Foundation, the trademarks, the code itself, etc.) is entirely his personal property for him to do whatever the hell he wants with and we're all blubbering idiots for thinking that any action he'd ever taken (like setting up a foundation expressly to keep it from being one person's personal property) could ever change that.
A contract is only worth as much as you’re willing to enforce it. If you’re not willing to enforce your contract, the clauses don’t matter.

If you’re stuck in the bureaucracy: escape it. Their rules aren’t serving you so why obey them? Escalate to their legal department, send a certified letter about your impending legal action against them. Enforce your contract.
I was curious what the experience was like, having never used Mastadon. I searched for "Mastadon Signup"

First page is a bunch of rules. I don't mind moderation and decorum, but leading with that sends a signal to me that the moderation is going to be even more capricious than Reddit.
Wow! Imagine the margin that makes for the seller...
That’s exactly the kind of prescriptivism up with which I will not put.
I'm pretty sure you can run 1 watt on WiFi.
Never ending war with happy people.
I also use leptos, which appears to have a lively, developing ecosystem.

The contrast is interesting because leptos was the brainchild of an individual (Anglican priest, too, IIUC) whereas Dioxus is venture-backed.
Do they not have trumpets where you live? Did "tooting one's own horn" imply breaking wind during the annual performance review? Far and away the most common use of "toot" is playing a note on a horn.

At one point, Gargron, the main guy behind Mastodon, even mentioned using a trumpet as the basis of Mastodon's logo branding: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/962

"Toot" also has the double entendre. In all my life, I've never heard anyone outside a playground use it to describe flatulence. In my personal experience, it's almost always been about the musical notes. I'm not in a band or otherwise around musicians more than the average person, either.
> The question of whether people in higher socio-economic class score higher in standardized tests is obviously true and uninteresting

Indeed, it's uncontroversial and that is why I used it to set up the second half of my question, which hopefully is more thought-provoking.

> Obviously its safer than smaller Toyota vehicles, the pertinent question is whether its safe compared to other SUVs

We're finally on the same page! This was the second, and more interesting part of my original question that is yet to be answered.

In the US, socio-economics is obviously a confounding factor that should be controlled for when comparing by race or by immigration recency.
Which courts hear disputes regarding crytpo currencies? Which law enforcement officers investigate crimes related to crypto currencies? Which grids power mining? You live in a very dark bubble if you think crypto currencies are somehow operating outside of all the benefits of a society.
Big Tobacco became big food: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/bi....

When tobacco became problematic they bought all the food companies.
4090 (2022) PCIe 4.0 x16 is quite decent. The major limit is memory, not bandwidth. And 3090 (2020) is also PCIe 4.0 x16, and used cards are a bargain. You can hook them up with Nvlink.

Nvidia is withholding new releases but the current hardware has more legs with new matrix implementations. Like FlashAttention doing some significant improvement every 6 months.

Nvidia could make consumer chips with combined CPU-GPU. I guess they are too busy making money with the big cloud. Maybe somebody will pick up. Apple is already doing something like it even on laptops.
Nginx can do weighting. Nginx plus can do a lot more.
Yeah. More to the point, you're taxed on capital gains in dollar terms. Cash is 1:1 with dollars -- it will always have exactly zero in capital gains. So in some sense you are taxed on capital gains of cash you use to buy things -- it's just exactly $0.
I was under the impression that you could permanently "seed" videos for others, even if you're not the origin instance, through WebTorrent or something along those lines. Fuzzy memory tho
Well yes, but actually no (at least if you're in the USA). The DMCA prevents the circumvention of copy protection measures, which means that by ripping a blu-ray or DVD, you're committing a crime. This is doubly bullshit in that before the DMCA was passed, copying your physical media was always legal and if you were caught distributing unauthorized copies without being paid for them, you were not a criminal but only potentially vulnerable to a civil suit from the copyright holder(s).
"In October, Mullenweg announced that he’d given Automattic employees a buyout package, and 159 employees, or roughly 8.4 percent of staff, took the offer. “I feel much lighter,” he wrote. But shortly after, he reportedly complained that the company was now “very short staffed.”"

The jokes write themselves.
There's a difference between adaptation; and retelling the story in a way that damages the integrity of the original. Many of the above changes don't make sense even within the movie's own material. Even if the books didn't exist, Faramir's filmic story arc (as just one example) would be a badly executed example of character development.
Why are we so quick to defend AI?