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Every single organization that interacted with children pre-2000 has sex scandals. Boy Scouts, myriad public school districts, the Congressional page system, youth sports. It attracts pedophiles. Now we are all much more aware of the dangers.

https://x.com/rothmus/status/1828751103955292508?s=46
> Additionally, drones can hover for less than an hour. These "drones" stay floated for many hours on end!

I think this is misinformation stemming from today’s meeting with NJ mayors. There was a statement that they are seen for 7 hours at a time. At no point did they say the same drone stayed in the air for 7 hours. I believe they were stating that the sightings start after sundown and go on for around 7 hours. Of course the internet took this and ran with it as the internet does.
Eye drops were a recent problem too

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65171851.amp
Basically, Li-Air elements are wasting the energy from the phase change of oxygen. When a Li-Ion battery is discharged, you get the gaseous oxygen and bind it into a solid state molecule.

To do that, you need to expend roughly the same amount of energy that is needed to first liquify and then solidify the oxygen.

In fancy chemistry-speak it's called "entropic loss". You do gain some of that energy back when the battery is charged, as oxygen goes from a well-ordered solid state into the gaseous state. But it's not 100%.
Another super interesting article that talks about DNS and how it’s used at Spotify [0] (or was used in 2013)

[0]: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2013/02/in-praise-of-borin...
Agree 100%. I am hoping to use the MAID option on myself one day. Cancer runs in the family. Of course I hope to get to at least 80 or so. There is definitely such a thing as a "good death" and a "bad death" having seen both close-up in family members. Knowing my $ is going to my children instead of some scammy health insurance providers will give me the final smile on my face, and my last thought will be "I WON"
Where did you pull that number from? The ODS which is the official French Scrabble dictionary has something like 300,000 words.

In 9 weeks that's averaging memorizing several THOUSAND words PER DAY.

And don't give me BULL like "well plurality S/ES means a lot less" - yeah. NO. He still has to remember which words take what kind of plurality. And if you watch ANY interviews with him, you can tell he doesn't really take any shortcuts - he just straight-up memorizes them as a series of playable "tokens".

I'm all for the "indomitable human spirit" but you could practice 24/7 and you'd still be SCRABBLING at base camp while Nigel Richards summitted Everest without the aid of supplemental oxygen.

https://github.com/Thecoolsim/French-Scrabble-ODS8
A website that just proxies to another server does not need to do much to restore the previous state to make it look seamless to a user, the client will just perform another GET request that triggers a few SELECT queries, it's far more complex in the context of a video game.
If they're too busy to do paperwork I'd rather they just not do the paperwork instead of having an AI produce garbage data that will be ingested by another AI down the line accepting it as gospel source material
OTOH, it's interesting that you and the parent comment are basically saying "We, as a country, are failing our pensioners so badly that death has become the more appealing option for many of them. Therefore, we must trap them here with us until we improve the conditions that lead to them making that bargain (which we will never do)"

Taking away someone's right to assisted dying because you live in a society that has made death preferable to living for many seems like a totally orthogonal leap of logic. That doesn't reduce net suffering one iota.
I'm 33 and healthy sir. Pray tell, when will I die?
Will Anderson, another Scrabble champion/grandmaster, uploaded a video talking about Nigel's win here. The win is a lot more impressive than memorizing bingoes - Spanish scrabble has different letter distributions and point values, resulting in different metas. He didn't just memorize the Spanish Scrabble dictionary - he learned how to play Spanish Scrabble and dominated the first Spanish tournament he participated in.

Definitely worth a watch if you're interested in Scrabble at all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvNxkQ6Bgs
>> Grief on its own isn't sufficient for assisted dying

Who are you to make that call?
I have applied! Maybe we can get on a short call?
i dont think id characterize those as limits on individual freedom, as much as a requirement of individual freedom. you actually have to want it, vs a whim where you might be drunk and not make the choice you wanted
There are quite a few medical conditions in which it is impossible to make it not hurt.
It's a bad idea because the AI adds no signal, only noise.

If the problem is that there are too many questions, then reduce the number of questions.

There are probably many questions to help with filing reports and searching them later. It may no longer be necessary to have those fields if AI can deduce them from a single free form text field, for example.

I hope the police apps keep track of exactly what words and inputs came from the officer, and which came from the AI.
They more or less did say that. They said that people are reporting these things but they haven’t detected anything. If you read between the lines, I think they’re insinuating this is mass hysteria but need to continue investigating to be sure.
I got paddled by my school before by a wannabe dictator administrator, that guy ended up going to jail for literally breaking some kid's ass.

Obviously The Wall resonated well with me :)
Because nobody has the moral right to demand that other people suffer for their own sake.
Crude, maybe, but my opinion is that if someone -- healthy or not -- does not want to continue living, that's within their right. Add medical / health complications into the mix and it (again, imo) becomes inhumane to _not_ allow people to choose how it ends.
I agree, they all look very similar. The more masculine man has a slightly narrower head I think and slightly different eye shape. The more feminine woman looks weird to me, a bit goblin-like with the cheeks and eyes. It would be more interesting to see the actual photos that these are averages of.
Most of those hot fixes are data driven as in database updates. Gameserver just reload the data, the binary itself
is not touch.

I've never seen a game where they hot reload code inside the gameserver itself, it's usually a downtime or rolling updates.
what are the benefits?
Previous related small discussions:

(7 points, 2 days ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42386303

(3 points, 9 hour ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400224
If this comes through it may boost performance to have a turbocharger for better forced air intake.

Or with a tank of pure oxygen, have the EV act like it was gasoline engine on nitrous oxide.

Somebody should calculate a ballpark figure for the number of grams or kilos of oxygen that would be needed per mile for an average vehicle.
This is horrible, and I wish it was more surprising.

I stopped playing Pokemon Go when it wanted forever access to my location, because that's creepy, and sure enough that was the right call.
U.S. electric and hybrid vehicle sales reached a record in the third quarter
Someone at Google actually got Apple to kill the Juno app on vOS because they decided to make this. Imagine that being your job.
For someone so willing to criticize the interests and hobbies of others, your spelling and grammar need a lot of work.
Okay, so get rid of the menial questions. If you can't get rid of them because they're important, then definitely don't use an ML model to make up answers for them.
So where there humans walking around that had obvious neanderthal-like characteristics but not neanderthal?
SlimLM: An Efficient Small Language Model for On-Device Document Assistance

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.09944
Wow. What possible reason would anyone have to make that information so easy to access?
Then I can't refrain from asking: and what's the style of LLMs? For example the ChatGPT which is apparently rated around 1800? That should be completely different from that of a classic chess engine.
I guess he really is a world champion!
Not identical, but fairly close. Much closer than the examples in the first image would suggest based on the numbers presented.
> How do you square that with the modern Catholic church’s systemic support of sexual abuse of minors?

I'm the first to criticize Catholicism given a chance, but ... I'm not sure that's actually a valid claim to make outside of the particular case of ... I think it was New York in the 1990s, which is a statistical outlier (at least in English-speaking countries).

There are a lot of Catholics and therefore it's unavoidable for a lot of pedophiles to be Catholics, but the same is true about teachers. Can you reasonably say "how can you support the school system given that teachers systematically sexually abuse minors"?

Remember, there are 4 kinds of lies:

- lies
- damned lies
- statistics
- things somebody said on the Internet
Which is why you would have to be insane to develop software for them. Twice in my career I have been involved in development projects for Google hardware (wear and daydream). Never again.
Comparing the act of people transitioning or people being given financial assistance to the act of people being killed by the state is genuinely sickening. Total inversion of reality and conflation of reversible benefits with literal death.

The government has no incentive to provide better housing or disability benefits to the working class when they can instead withhold those things and watch legions of poor & desperate people die. Do you know they actually calculate how much money killing all of these marginalised people saves them? That Canadian media advertises these figures to sell the state killing program?
> Most of those hot fixes are data driven as in database updates. Gameserver just reload the data, the binary itself is not touch.

And since the data from the disk/database (whether it's a Lua table, XML structure, JSON object, or a query) is then representend as a low-level data structure, that's essentially what hot reloading is - you deserialize the new data and hot-swap the pointers in the simplest terms.

>I've never seen a game where they hot reload code inside the gameserver itself, it's usually a downtime or rolling updates.

In World of Warcraft, you will literally have bosses despawn mid-fight and spawn again with new stats or you will see their health values update mid-fight, all without the players getting interrupted, their spell state getting desynced, or spawned items in the instance disappearing. This can be observed with the release of every single new raid on live streams as Blizzard employees are watching the world first attempts and tweaking/tuning the fights as they happen.

EDIT: Here's such an example, for the majority of the fight the extra tank could keep a spawned monster away from the boss, then mid-fight, the monster suddenly started one-shotting the tank, without the disruption of the instance, this was Blizzard's way of addressing a cheese strat to force the players to do the right as designed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMm60BXAjU
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That's kinda what erlang does, just on a different level. Your docker and your load balancer are both inside your app.
True, but that doesn't really make them that different than Meta or Apple.
Not sure why you're being downvoted--you're not wrong. Well, one might quibble about how much meaning modern life has, but we're definitely atomized and alienated.
Ok then ask for that shutdown money in advance. (Or write it off if someone churns).

Or make the recurring payments quarterly or annual.
"Soylent Green" seems more and more prescient. I'm not talking about turning people into food — not even the over-population fracas depicted in the film (that seems to have been a distinctly 70's-era fear).

Seeing the film again I notice the way it portrays the untouchable wealthy classes (briefly) and then the rest of us. (I should read the book [1] because I was intrigued by little scenes like the one with the old people in the library — if you even remember that bit.)

[1] "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison
It's worth noting that distillery is deprecated in favor of mix releases, which don't support relups out of the box, and specifically warn against them due to the complexity involved in writing code to support them correctly.

It's a cool feature that's no doubt amazing for applications that need it, but it brings a fair amount of complexity vs other deployment strategies.
Hard agree. Have gotten to play this dance with getting migraines treated. To get the treatment I know works, I had to try taking a medication both me and my doctor were reasonably certain would make me sick.

Sure enough, the medication made me so nauseous I missed two days of work. Then I got to stop taking the medication, and go through withdrawal. Thanks, insurance companies.
Calc AB covers it, and BC certainly gives you enough for a proof.
Sounds like what happened with hot upgrade privileges in some erlang shops too.
At 2,500 ft that is definitely no civilian drone.
Yeah, the Intel Horse Creek chip with the same SiFive P550 cores was probably much better on I/O -- and likely DDR IP as well, if they used their good stuff -- but for some reason Intel decided not to go to mass production on them, despite showing off a working board at a trade show in IIRC September 2023.
Grey goo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

AI paperclips

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/ai-and-paperclip-problem

Prions getting into food supply

Nuclear holocaust.

I’m definitely not sleeping tonight. I can see why Gen Z is thinking not to have kids…
Rewind made a big ballyhoo about being local, not reliant on cloud services, not syncing anywhere etc

Windows 11 is practically a cloud OS when paired with office365 and OneDrive, users may be forgiven for expecting their history will be exfiltrated from their machine, employers will have access to their screen recordings etc.
>The one that annoys me is handsets using proprietary batteries and charging.

You can squarely blame Japan for that hellscape of a mess.

Nowadays we like egging Apple for their proprietary shenanigans, but they are actually nothing compared to how much hate Japanese companies have for universal, intercompatible standards and how much that mindset has affected electronics at-large to this day from Japan's outsized influence in electronics during the 70s through 90s.

For example, if you have a ham radio transceiver from ICOM you absolutely require ICOM handsets, microphones, speakers, and other accessories for it. Equivalents from another brand like Yaesu or Kenwood will not work, even if the physical connectors are the same because the individual wiring is proprietary.

Some people here might recall Sony only supporting MemoryStick and telling SD cards and CompactFlash to fuck off, ham radio is that but exponentially worse.
I'm reminded of the South Park episode where they bus all the homeless to California.
> A lithium-air battery (in general all metal-air batteries) is likely to have lower efficiencies for a complete cycle than other lithium-based batteries, perhaps not much above 80%, if not even less.

This paper directly contradicts this claim with actual measurements of efficiency.

> The energy efficiency of the first cycle was 92.7%, and it gradually dropped to 87.7% after 1000 cycles.

Which is centered just above the 90% mark the person you are replying to gave.
Yeah but the souce isnt theirs right? It was in the first versions trained on books and internet and stuff, no way they can publish it. Idk how right or wrong I am here, but I’m glad it’s something open enough you can self host all of it and nothing proprietary is needed.
I think a lot of it comes down to deontological logic and morality versus consequentialist morality.

It is recognized that the outcome is the same. The difference lies and how you get there
Sometime in the next 100 years.
Related The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet Archive (179 points, 2 months ago, 95 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712120
Depends. Is it okay to sell oneself into slavery? Some radical right libertarians will answer that question positively, but even for libertarians this is a fringe position.
>You can’t tell me that someone couldn’t fine an awesome game using their maps and street view

Isn’t that just Niantic? They spun out of G and made Ingress and Pokemon Go
> Not the op but I guess the idea is that questions of life and death should not primarily be economical questions.

Sure, but as an American life and death is already an economical question *above all else*. The quality of medical care that I receive is already directly linked to how much money is in my bank account and how much my employer is willing to pay for a medical plan.

End of life care in the US is designed with the primary goal of vacuuming every asset out of you and then letting you die once it's gone. It seems unethical to say "sorry, you don't get to opt out of this. Everyone's got to go through the whole process."
Came here to say this. In Lisp, you can just compile a function, or load a file and it just works. It's not even sold as a hot feature, not the way Erlang sells it. It's just a feature.

I manage a few websites written in Lisp, and updating them is as simple as push code, recompile and it works.
The RVA23 spec was only published in October. It'll be 2 or 3 years before finished products are on sale.
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I could be wrong, but I think that term life insurance usually pays out but a whole life policy doesn't. At least that's been how my policies were.
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, and an AI company the source of their training data.
It is pretty obvious that you're an alternate account of the developer.
> See also Google Wallet and Google Wallet (yes)

... wat? Are you suggesting Google has two different services both called Google wallet?
Why exactly was the promotion motivation bad?
I didn’t mean to imply I’m concerned, quite the opposite. Like mentioned, this has been happing for half a decade in my world.
Facial structure alone tends to be fairly androgynous. You're used to a lot of other cues from hair, height, body shape, clothing, and voice.
Dagger 0.15
If a torrent has no seed with an open port, a peer without an open port won't be able to download.

This means having no port-forwarding shouldn't be much of an issue on private trackers (because most people have it to improve their ability to seed) but on public trackers some torrents might not download.
Yes but again it's not hot swapping code as in Erlang, the C++ code is unchanged, they just change some xml somewhere.

By your definition every CRUD app have hot reloading capabilities.
If an EV goes 400 miles on a single charge, then you're looking at 400000 miles of total range! That's absolutely acceptable.
Nice to see that most people get to pay into healthcare for their entire lives in Canada. Then at the end, when the healthcare system is needed, the only solution the inefficient system has to offer is suicide.
Timescales are always interesting.

I always thought of the interbreeding of Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals as being a sort of “one off event” or something. I mean, obviously not literally just once, but maybe some little era, part of the process of us wiping them out.

But, 7000 years is a while. I mean, how long has our current civilization lasted? I guess it depends on how you define it. But certainly that coexistence, whatever it was, lasted longer than any countries or other institutions have…
Erlang is built for reliability. They're chasing nine nines. Everything about the BEAM is built to emphasize that, the design choices, the documentation, the recommended practices.

Erlang is not very fast, but that's not what it was built for.
The other argument against capital punishment is that, aside from the satisfaction of watching someone who "deserves it" suffer, it doesn't really achieve any practical effect that detention doesn't. This makes even a single mistake morally unacceptable since it doesn't really "buy" anything.

With MAID, the practical effect is a very direct and incontrovertibly causal alleviation of suffering on a large scale, which has to be balanced against potential induced suffering due to mistakes.
I speculate that there are US satellites up there watching the movements of Chinese satellites.

I suppose they also have signal monitoring, the commands to the Chinese satellites would be encrypted but the mere detection of a signal should cause the observers to warn whomever it may concern within the US military/government behemoth.

Now I'm imagining signals being hidden in Chinese satellite TV uplink, amongst the Chinese pop music videos...
Here’s what I found on the web for Alexa is dumb as a box of rocks.
Dedollarization accelerates
> If this comes through it may boost performance to have a turbocharger for better forced air intake.

No it won't. At most, the battery might need a small fan. Turbochargers are needed for regular cars because internal combustion engines just suck.
If you're wondering about the overall architecture of the NES, I just found this page - it's pretty great and answered all my questions that came up reading the article:

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nes/
> Yes but again it's not hot swapping code as in Erlang, the C++ code is unchanged, they just change some xml somewhere.

Right, not on the C++ side, but on the Lua side that WoW uses - you load the new gameplay code that pulls the new data, and override the globals with new functions.
I think this can be achieved with some ease with a machine learning model. You will have to train it on games between 1300-rated players and below. A transformer model might work even better in terms of the evenness of play (behaving like a 1300 rated player throughout the game).
This works in a small organization, and is probably the best way to run one. I've been part of multiple teams like this. Everyone is high agency, genuinely interested, and making decisions that are (at least intended to be) best for the whole.

As another poster said, this just doesn't scale. You eventually hire someone who doesn't care as much, or just sees it as a job, or has worse judgement.

Being able to run this way is almost a paradise, and it's a lot of why startups can out compete big players.
Scrolled to a random position in the file, and there's 37 lines of all declinations of the word "monologue". Followed by a bunch of nouns with just two to four forms, followed by 47 declinations of the word "monopolise".

What he did is no small feat. You still have to memorize which suffixes are possible in which verbs (there are rules he would pick up on, but there are exceptions to the rules). But it is made easier by French verbs having a lot of possible suffixes, those suffixes being fairly regular, and English taking a lot of its "fancy" words with French (or adopting a Latin version that's close to what French adopted from Latin).

I still couldn't come close to thinking about achieving it. He is doing the extreme sport version of scrabble for sure.

And these advantages in French make it even more impressive that he could do the same even in Spanish.
They don't look the same to me but something about the models seems really oversimplified to me, in the sense that the variation they're modeling doesn't come anywhere near capturing real-world variation affecting sexual and romantic behavior. To me it feels like there's huge dimensions of facial variation that are just being completely ignored.

When I think of masculine looking women I know, just for example, they look nothing like the masculinized photos. It's like they're focusing on the averages , and a bunch of important variation is being collapsed in the process.