skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese Tiktok is forcibly wholesome (by Chinese standards). They do not believe in absolute freedom of speech. Now Americans have just conceded that they don't believe in it either. It's good that we're all on the same page now.
Well for one only someone with severe mental issues would ever consider paying for porn considering how much of it is available. The corollary to that is that anyone making money from the porn industry is taking advantage of people incapable of making rational purchasing decisions.

And the adult industry knows this, which is why sites like Onlyfans empahsize exclusivity and direct interactions. Faking those makes the whole thing even more of a scam.
Sometimes it feels like we've taught computers to do long division by simulated hand just a billion times less efficiently.
The 5110 was also my first phone and still probably my favourite ever. I racked up a £300 bill on month 1 and had to essentially do my paper round for free to pay it off. Good times!
Sorry, Mad Men. The Ad Revolution Is Here
Embeddings are super cheap to compute
Try releasing a mobile news app in the US and see how it goes.

Even one that just scrapes Yahoo or something.
Man you're cutting off communication for 300 million people. These governments can shove it, they have no business censoring this many families. The government shouldn't have the right to backdoor every piece of software in the country. We've officially lost our collective minds here. I thought you Americans loved freedom of speech. Especially Elon. Or I suppose that was only marketting for his world takeover scheme. Huh
It looks like this service may be intended to have a significant off label use as a professional networking / online matchmaking app, judging by the choice of human pairs given in the stock images on the website. They're all male/ female pairings of similar age groups.

It's curious that the list of suggested activities includes conventional headshot-framed work activities as well as full body view stuff like exercise routines.
It's probably not groungbreaking. The title is misleading.

It's just a new arrangement of the spins in material. It may be useful to get better transformer or something, like improve them 1%, or in 30 years it may cause a huge unexpected thechnology revolution and my comment would look silly. There are similar discoveries of new materials with weird properties every month. Unless you work in that area, it is probably safe to ignore it for the next 10 years until it has some aplications. (Or you may enjoy reading the technical details.)
Yeah I bought a Nokia 2660.

After probably a month or so the hinge brackets broke from normal use.

Nokia refused to refund / repair it saying that only a drop could have caused it.

I replaced it with an AGM M8 which is a great dumbphone.
Listen, if they actually ban it, a copycat within the us will pop up, and the network will move there. I actually think it might be beneficial to change apps every now and then, it helps break the network effects that make apps "too big to fail".

All that will likely change is people will slowly move to a US alternative, one that's propagandized by the US and not china. You'll still be allowed to have whatever discussions you want on there, conservative qanon theories, or anarchist calls to action. The videos will go into the NSA database instead of china's, it'll train our algorithms instead of theirs, etc. The app will now be bound by US Law, for better or for worse. But if slow moving from an app is going to crush your political belief/circle/movement, you didn't have one to begin with.
IPv6 is also the real symetric internet, it will increase pressure on "IP trust management" for the users. But this is less worse that the current centralized Big Tech stolen internet accutely favored by IPv4.

It is going to be very hard to do properly "IP trust management" delegation to applications, for instance p2p applications. Basically, it will end up like android linux: many closed-source/open-source-compromised apps will be given that "IP trust management" by the user making it irrelevant. And thinking one second that this power can be handed over to some sort authority... omg... look at the world and human History.
But why is spacetime distance (x^2 - t^2)^.5
Search for the “paradox of tolerance”.

Nothing in this world is black and white.
High-Fidelity 3D Mesh Generation at Scale with Meshtron – Nvidia Technical Blog
It's not a mystery - it's anti-competitive behavior where they only want to give access to low-level NFC access (required to enable things like door locks, car keys, payment/loyalty card systems, transport, etc) to "partners" who sign an NDA and agree to a rev-share.
Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?
Client is not paying taxes, only for my services. What if I decide to not pay taxes myself and pocket all the money?
lol so he made this part 1 Nov 28 2022 and then disappeared
Interesting how one fork of Magisk lands in "AndroModLand" and another in some gaming space.
Why would they possibly include this?
If your timeline is brainrot it's because the algorithm has determined that is what you like.
never mentioned CO2 for renewables - i mentioned storing energy from them. that's the problem.
> things are either ethical or they are not

On the contrary, black and white thinking is considered a cognitive distortion. Real life is more nuanced than that.
Anyone know if there's a good way to control 0-10V dampers? I looked for a solution to control 5 dampers but I didn't find anything, so I started to design my own a couple years ago but never finished the project. I'm having a hard time imagining something so common doesn't have a common solution.
> it automatically blocks (does not work on) all the popular social networks

You should be head of marketing somewhere :-p
I don't think this is meant as a replacement for windows :D
Real life RadAway....

Something seems wrong here though, I don't see don't any explanation for the mechansim of action.
> QT I can see how it is disturbing.

Compared to WinUI, Android, iOS, GTk3+, let alone Electron, is there even a reason to hate/fear Qt past-2010 or so?
No government is not your friend. The do not care about you. Whether that is US or China or EU, they do not have your best interest at heart. As soon as they no longer need you, you will understand.
> When dried and frozen, Deinococcus radiodurans could survive 140,000 grays, or units of X-and gamma-ray radiation, which is 28,000 times greater than the amount of radiation that could kill a person.

I would love also if they called it Hulk the Bacterium
> As someone unburdened by nostalgia, my evaluation of “the best decade in music” is somewhat different from the choices made by more “normal” people. If we’re truly attempting to identify the decade during which the greatest quantity of beloved and enduring music was composed, I believe that to be the 1820s.

> greatest quantity

> two composers and roughly two dozens of works

Mate. I won't even go into how Schubert is vastly overrated (unlike Beethoven who is both overrated and underrated) but this doesn't make a good point.

Personally, as someone very much into extreme/superlative music - "weird" metal, zeuhl, no wave, post-hardcore, industrial, "new wave" (gothic rock, cold/dark/ethereal wave, alt rock, 4AD) but also romantic music, city pop and eurobeat - 85-00 was the peak of sensible experimentation, both in quantity and quality.
3230

Was a joy to use the joystick hehe
But is this true? Is the number of cases where projects fail due to court actions really so many that all this proactive pre-documentation to the nth degree is necessary? Or is it rather that there are too many lawyers and administrators employed, and they are seeing this as an opportunity to justify their own existence?
Another win for freedom and free speech! brought to you be the Meta lobbying team.
Surely DOGE will increasing staffing and technology at courts so they’re not perpetually clogged, requiring difficult and unjust prioritization, right?

(Hint: no, they won’t)
>They're banning app/news delivery app managed by enemy government

The hypocrisy is pretending it was all for "openess" and pointing fingers when other countries did exactly the same for their apps/social media.
Honestly I wouldn't know anything about rock bands because I don't listen to it at all so you could be very right. I just responded because this thread was talking about string/barbershop quartets, which are almost definitely 4 parts because that is the minimum number of people required to make a 7th chord, and then again because you didn't know what a Big Band was, which I suppose is very understandable, but as somebody that grew up around and playing on them it's super foreign to me.
> With Prequal we saw dramatic improvements across all metrics [for youtube], including reductions of 2x in tail latency, 5-10x in tail RIF, 10-20% in tail memory usage, 2x in tail CPU utilization, and a near-elimination of errors due to load imbalance. In addition to meeting SLOs, this also allowed us to significantly raise the utilization targets that govern how much traffic we are willing to send to each datacenter, thereby saving significant resources.

This feels like one of those "my company realized savings greater than my entire career's expected compensation."
Previous research has shown that Deinococcus, known as the most radiant-resistant life-form in the Guinness World Records, can survive outside of the International Space Station for three years. The hardy bacteria can also withstand acid, cold, and dehydration.

I cynically suspect if there's more research, it will be to engineer bio weapons.
IMO the trust between swedish government and people started waaay earlier when Sweden ended its imperial ambitions and the royal family focused on inside.

Agreements like above are important to labour rights, but it’s little compared to struggles other parts of the world came through. Just like labour rights are little compared to much bigger societal things like attempts to eradicate or assimilate whole ethnicities or force all sorts of social experiments on parts of the society. Where Sweden also has some history too, but it touched very small part of the society. And that society has very similar hostile feelings as far as I know.
Given healthcare costs that doesn’t seem wildly high after accounting for the administrative burden you’d expect for administering that amount of money.
https://archive.is/oBu22
funny the difference between the classical symmetry of the sat portrait vs the romantic asymmetry* of the self portrait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lermontov#/media/File:... !

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZpHxr0xs0Q

(who is at 2:27 & 2:29? AKAK?)

* Да, да, да, да, да это Кавказ!
How is the noise of these systems? And how often/long need they run to give you clean air and humidity extraction. Is there extra noise when it is windy outside? Is it installed inside the windows somehow or do I need to drill through the wall?
I’m not the OP, but have a vastly over spec connection. For about $70 US per month I get 2 gigabit symmetric. I could get something like 300mbps symmetric for about $40 US but love the extra. I don’t notice the difference every day, but it makes me very happy when I do.
> have engaged in severe censorship on certain topics such as the Israel-Gaza conflict

Then how are you posting it here ? Isn't this a social media network as well.
These units are ubiquitus in northernish Europe, as any new/renovated building needs them to reach A/A++ energy effiency. Brands like Komfovent, SystemAir, offering 200 m³/h ducted units for 2000 Euros, with efficiency like:

Outdoors °C -23 -15 -10 -5 0 25 30 35
After unit, °C 12,9 14,5 15,5 16,5 17,5 22,6 23,6 24,6

with indoor conditions + 22 °C, 20 % RH
If you’re talking Euclidian geometry of infinite lines on a plane definitely yes. If you’re talking about vectors then you need an additional concept to capture the way the case of two vectors which fall on lines which in the Euclidian sense are parallel but point in opposite directions is clearly different from two vectors which point in the same direction also. This is like the difference between cars in parallel lanes on one side of a multi-lane highway and the oncoming traffic which would be antiparallel.
Almost all?

Of course one has to differentiate between "friendly" and subordinate semi-protectorates.
> The intensity of feeling within the Linux community towards Windows and Microsoft back then was intense.

Remember that Microsoft didn't really have an OS that didn't suck yet. Windows as we know it today did not exist, it was still Windows NT 4 and no directory. SQL Server 7 was released in 1998, but until that rewrite it was a product produced in large part another company (Sybase).

Exchange Server (~1996) was the first product Microsoft developed from the ground up to replace an awful product and it was wildly successful, even before real Windows/AD landed in 1999. SQL Server eclipsed Exchange as the flagship product around 2010 or so.

Macs were super popular on Ivy League campuses in the 1980's. Some schools sold Macs to students for $1,000 that retailed for $2,500. Some of the current Fedex Business Centers started as Kinkos locations that rented time on Macs by the hour.

Microsoft changed the education landscape when they offered most of their commercial products for 10% of retail. They also do this for 501c3 non-profits. I believe _students_ get a different discount (~50%).
As an atomised creative professional, copyright is not designed to help you. So it is not surprising that the "expected" mechanism for exercising your rights is not the most successful one.
I work from home and I self host various apps from my home server.
I also can stream videogames from my home.
The major upload need is work (database files) and serving the apps from my home rapidly (videos/photos).

The cool thing about 1gbit symmeyrical is that I don't have to think about it anymore.

Almost forgot, I backup all my important data on the cloud too from my NAS, so it has to upload often videos and photos.
For those not upto date with modern Serbian political scene, we're living in soft dictatorship, all nation level media is under government control, pumping propaganda 24/7. They also control hooligan groups and are not shy of physical violence.

Things are really heating up in last few weeks. On November 1st a huge concrete canopy on Novi Sad railroad station collapsed, killing 15. Main problem was that station was reconstructed recently, politicians took a lot of pictures, used it for self promotion, but after this happened, they started hiding things, denying that canopy was touched at all during reconstruction, etc. Not to mention that reconstruction cost was around 65m euros, while it's suspected that majority of that money was stolen.

This created a lot of rage in public, there were protests, blocking traffic for 15 minutes at the exact time those people died... Government reacted to that by sending goons to provoke and fight with protestants. Some of protestants were beaten up, some arrested. This only increased resistance and now students started protesting, blocked Universities, asking for full documentation about station renovation, asking for release of arrested protestants, and arrest of goons who attacked and beat them.

Last time students created this kind of large protest it was a beginning of Milošević's fall. That's why Vučić fears students that much - they're not corrupted, they don't have dirty laundry that can be shown on media, they're not aligned to any political option, except they hate Vučić, they're just asking that institutions do their job without influence from the top (which is not the case for many years).
>Your argument is predicated on the idea that banning TikTok is censorship. It's not. No speech or information is being suppressed; any speech being made on TikTok can instead be made on other platforms.

Not really, which is the whole point of censoring TikTok.
It is very difficult to see what your argument is here.

Initially you state that people are defrauded - indeed they are, very effectively and commonly, via phone calls. Ofcom has regulated the telephone system since their inception, and can charitably be said to have achieved zero percent operational effectiveness in that time.

The Act unquestionably causes harm - it makes it effectively impossible for open, anonymous APIs because of the age verification requirements. It requires the vast majority of operators (because the UK's definition of pornography is so impossibly wide it will catch almost anything) to collect a huge tranch of information for age verification, which will cost an astonishing amount of money and prevent many community initiatives from ever getting off the ground. It will lead to many sites simply blocking adult communities entirely for economic reasons, a part of society that is already subject to substantial discrimination from UK authorities.

The Act does not include meaningful provisions for free speech. The Ofcom guidance simply says that people should be mindful of it, with no enforcement whatsoever. It is still the case that, given the penalties for not taking down illegal speech, platforms are much safer taking down much more speech than previously. Ofcom's consultation responses on their "proportionality" show they have taken a view that the actions are proportional because Ofcom say they are proportional, and no actual work has been done to demonstrate that.

You say that the UK is not a totalitarian state because it's half assed. And it's certainly true that enforcement will be capricious and arbitrary. But that is hardly a defence of the act - it will still have a remarkable chilling effect because you never know if it's you that will be targeted. Meanwhile, it will probably have very little effect on any of the things it is supposed to prohibit.

You talk in your first paragraph about how HN posters are in a bubble, but remain remarkably unaware of your own. Many communities are already discriminated against by payment providers, banks and online services, and this legislation will make those effects significantly worse, but at the same time, achieve none of it's goals.
OpenAI whistleblower S.Balaji found dead in his apartment
Come down a rabbit hole with OpenAI o1 system card
The most interesting findings (at least from my perspective)
- OpenAI measured "honesty" that could become an interesting model eval others should adopt.
- Using instruction heirarchy to _avoid_ prompt injections
- When pushed to pursue misaligned goals, it tried to disable oversight in 5% of tests!
CTOs come in all shapes or sizes. Some can (still) build things, others are very hands-off. Some fractionals are hired to actually design and build the first part of the system.
My country (Australia) in the past month shut down 3G and 2G was shut down in 2017.

The 3G shutdown was ...problematic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJavqEzEIw
USB Floppy Disk Drive Raid (2003)
What are the trade-offs you've made to achieve this?
DC Circuit rejects TikTok effort to freeze looming ban
End of life care is crazy expensive [1]. Things like assisted living, hospice, and medical care for end of life is where a vast majority of the costs end up. Could the actual care be made more efficient? Maybe. The irony is the GOP spread lies about death panels when the ACA was being debated, and we may end up with them here if we go down a path of deciding who gets what EoL care in the name of efficiency.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-19...
I don't understand. Why do you think it can't?

https://ente.io/architecture
If you're in a hiring position and don't even know what "agile" means, please go do a more appropriate job.
Israel will close its Ireland embassy over Gaza tensions
I think they’re saying they’re going to abdicate responsibility for thinking about what’s happening to their government because a strong man is in charge now.

(strong man, not strongman, but you can decide what the difference is)
I really hate how people are arguing that it should be banned because of the content being inappropriate in one way or another when the content you see is based on how you interact with the app. We don't all see the same stuff. So yeah China may have more educational content but that's probably just becuase the people there are interested in that stuff. When I travel to the mountains, I get more outdoorsy/hiking videos. When I'm in my hometown, I get things relevant to our community. It's really a beautiful algorithm once you get to know it. And its so sad that the most ignorant in our society feels like they can make decisions like this for the rest of us. This sort of issue shouldn't even be state or municipal issue, it should be a household one.
The Nature paper refers to potential applications in spintronics. I'm guessing they mean some kind of improvements to MRAM devices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoresistive_RAM), which can be faster than conventional DRAM at the expense of high power usage.
Games and such do not have the real-world consequences of cash. I've sent all my kids to go out and e.g. buy some groceries. They learn to count their change and deal with strangers who might not be trustworthy. They learn to protect their wallets and not lose it. They learn to look at price tags. All real world skills that games do not simulate.
> The Nokia 5110 is a 2G telephone, meaning it uses the original 2G mobile network to communicate. This network has long been decommissioned in most western countries, including Australia.

In Europe, 3G is shutting down, but 2G as a fallback seems to be staying for years to come.

> However, 2G networks were still available as of 2023 in most parts of the world, while notably excluding the majority of carriers in North America, East Asia, and Australasia.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G

AFAIK, in the US, T-Mobile still has a 2G network.
The remaining problem is that metric threads are specified by the mm between peaks, whereas US customary threads are specified by threads/inch.

It's not immediately obvious to me (not a machinist) that the 127/50 ratio gets you the ability to cut metric threads without a mess of other head-scratching because you're now dealing with period instead of frequency.
nearly half of those you listed are my favorite films, we should be friends.
The better analogy is to when China wanted to block opium.
Halving the clock also reduces heat dissipation and extends component life.
Yeah, I'm European. Nowadays it's getting similar, but it was very different under communism - and the regime spent a lot of money to convince people to have children early.
That sure brings some memories. They were calling sleep() so you would have time to read the messages in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Back in 1995 or so I submitted patches changing the browser's inner loop to be select() based, with a queue of messages to show for a few seconds each without slowing down browsing. It took one night of hacking, and the maintainers rejected the approach as "too complicated".
Also, for most people these days, Android and iOS are the primary operating systems in use. And you can’t easily run Windows applications there.
From the abstract of the paper, the mechanism for radioprotection is the antioxidant properties of this particular mixture of Mg, orthophosphate, and this short peptide.

"Mn2+ coordinated by orthophosphate (Pi), metabolites, or peptides acts as a superoxide dismutase (SOD), and these Mn antioxidant complexes are universally accumulated in extremely radiation-resistant cell types across the tree of life."

However, the paper is really just studying the chemical properties of the mixture to understand why it works as a better antioxidant than just Mg+Pi