skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that social media is an active threat to society that is doing vast magnitudes of harm right now, where as authoritarian creep is also a great threat, but it isn't currently eroding our self of self and the sanctity of the individual, and deliberately de-training us to be reactionary animals with no regard for emotional intimacy or others, and nosediving our quality of public discourse. I'm worried of a world where people raised on social media their entire lives that teaches them to think a certain way win their careers through what are increasingly popularity contests in the 21stc, run our institutions and have their hand on our metaphorical red buttons. I don't think our society will have the discipline or the patience or maturity to stay out of unnecessary conflicts or make decisions that are in our long term interests if we keep social media as a formative part of peoples youth.

ID's can be reissued like we saw with optus and while there's a lot of pain and misfortune from insecurity of assets etc we can reverse that, mostly. You can't reverse the childhood of an entire guinea pig generation once you find out that social media mentally broke them. Obviously, assets and security aren't a concern at my age so my perspective might be a little different.

If you have anything about a global ID mandate i'd be interested, because it definitely hasn't been publicised in the media, though that doesn't always count for much.

I have a lot of conflicting views on this, but I think overall we are better off addressing the threat from social media right now.

You might view the current generation of younger people with the notion of at least a warm childhood like your own, and regular life milestones and rite of passages behind whatever struggle they're currently facing as slightly older people. That's increasingly not the case.
Nice, but kind of weird to find piku/Piku in Fronterra.
You say you don't "support this version of reality", and yet you've put up a compelling argument for it.

If the Chinese government benefits from TikTok's ability to influence Western minds, then right, they may prefer the company dies than lose that capability.

If they aren't running influence campaigns on TikTok that targets Americans, then they should be fine with a sale to a fully-non-Chinese owner. Sure, they lose future revenue, but I'm sure they could sell it for a pretty nice sum.

(Honestly, if the Chinese government is not using TikTok to spread propaganda to the West, they are wildly incompetent to pass up such a fantastic opportunity.)
That is observable untrue. Social media thrives because of the lack of consent in the population. Social media amplifies dissent. That is why many people find these places so toxic.
While true the type system is a problem on the JVM world, that is taken care by the plethora of choice of implementations, some do include extensions.

Also while .NET is great and I favour it over Java when having the option, it is a guest on mobile OSes constrained by platforms FFI API surface, or subpar APIs (Catalyst on macOS), and Meadow isn't at the same level as PTC, Aicas, microEJ and many other embedded implementations.
And with what evidence?
Very well done, loads quickly and is usable even from mobile.

I love this sort of concept map and I am typically disappointed by the execution.
> my aim is to become a CIA agent

Was your question a secret code?
You also managed to get by without a bank account. Just take your paycheck down to the post office, cash it, and pay your mortgage this month.

Try doing that today and see how you get on. Like it or not, the world is changing
Libreboot 20241206 released - ThinkPad T480 added
For reference, it is currently 84% relative humidity and -20°C outside where I live. This is about the same absolute humidity as 5% relative humidity at 22°C (i.e., inside).
> These days, IMO, Apple is on top of the pile. They're launching satellites that likely will completely sidestep mobile carriers in the short term.

Satellite won't take over land-based mobile connectivity. The density and in-building coverage just isn't there. No matter how many sats you launch. There's only small windows of radio spectrum that work well for sats and the signal is spread out over too wide an area. You just can't get enough bandwidth to serve all iPhone users in populated areas.

It's great for backup purposes and sparse areas but it's not going to replace mobile networks.
There isn't an energy shortage in Sweden?

Sweden has an overproduction of energy, it is just generally generated in the north (where the hydro is) and consumed in the south (where the people are).

The 'shortage in the south' is just a political lens for explaining the high prices from the introduction of energy zones in 2011. Before then, there was one price for electricity in Sweden and this worked to the benefit of the consumer.

Stepping back, do we really want the south to invest in _generating_ electricity? And if so, at what granularity? At the kommun level, or the län? At what point is that granularity ok but the whole-of-Sweden granularity that we had before the privatisation push is not ok?
Yup, however at the same time there's been an effort to give kids paper planners again as well. Of course, that's been completely ineffective as they still had the apps, all results are published there, and more importantly, last minute schedule updates are still in there too. The school frequently cancels lessons due to teacher shortages; I think they should offer alternatives then, at the very least so that the school days are the same every day. Having to check the night before or even right before leaving if there's any changes is a headache.
Sure, I don't think it ever has, and that's fine. I'm of the opinion that truly free markets end in massive consolidation, monopolistic behaviors, and rent-seeking.

We've been seeing some of this already in recent decades. The current administration in the US was starting to really think about what to do about that, but I expect the next one will allow businesses to do whatever they please.
Do you believe that META does not censor content? Or amplify specific views? Or suppress the reach of certain others?
I'm waiting for next gen hardware. All the companies are aiming for AI acceleration.
One thing I learned while working closely with the (Brazilian) government is that the government itself exists only because a law says so, and the most important difference between public service and private initiative is that the private sector has laws regulating what it can’t do while public sector can only do things (and offer services) that are stated in law. In short, outside the government you can do whatever you need as long as it’s not explicitly forbidden while public servants can only do what’s explicitly permitted.

Governments are not designed (nor should they be) for efficiency. They are designed for safety, accountability, transparency, and universality.

Finally, I must say that I started working with government agencies with the misconception they are lazy, underqualified, people, and nothing is further from what I encountered. The people I worked with were smart, well educated, intelligent, and had an unparalleled sense of public duty I’ve never seen elsewhere.
Speaking of, I wonder if and how many of the existing frontends, interfaces and support packages that generalize over multiple LLMs, and include Anthropic, actually know how to prompt it correctly. Seems like most developers missed the memo on https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-..., and I regularly end up in situation in which I wish they gave more minute control on how the request is assembled (proprietary), and/or am considering gutting the app/library myself (OSS; looking at you, Aider), just to have file uploads, or tools, or whatever other smarts the app/library does, encoded in a way that uses Claude to its full potential.

I sometimes wonder how many other model or vendor-specific improvements there are, that are missed by third-party tools despite being well-documented by the vendors.
I bought a Stratasys J35 and its just a bucket to dump money into... I mean it can print absolutely tiny features but maintinance and consumables are so expensive.

Meanwhile my colleague bought a Bambu Carbon for I think 2% of the price of my J35 and its such a brilliant machine. Fillament printers just seem to be getting better and better.
this is how i learned that taylor swift had a birthday recently. my samsung television advertised it to me on the ad banner that goes across the top third of the home screen of the television.
> Just click on the friendly little coloured rectangle with the rounded corners. That's the app. That's all you need to know.

That’s the exact amount knowledge most users want.
That's revisionistic.

Sweden started phasing out nuclear in 1999 and has since closed 6 of 12 reactors.

- Barsebäck B1 and B2 was closed in 1999.

- Oskarshamn O1 and O2 was closed in 2015 and 2017.

- Rinhals R1 and R2 was closed in 2019 and 2020.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4rnkraft_i_Sverige#Avvec...
This looks wonderful, but it operates on the assumption that outdoor air is something you'd actually want to breathe where you live :)

Unfortunately, due to cars and dirty heating systems around where I live, outdoor air tends to be not great.
The problem is that transferring energy like that requires both lines and the ability to receive the energy. Transferring has (large) energy losses, the ability to receive requires a large inertial mass, like the large and heavy turbines of the nuclear power plants.

There are/ were plans for a number of different power links, but some of them have been denied because of environmental concerns (I think! please correct me on that.)
Fusion360 has a free tier and it's enough for most people.
Enough time?

A nuclear reactor takes much longer than she's been at the office to build, and the Germans would still siphon off most of that electricity driving the price high nevertheless.

Wind obviously wouldn't solve it (since, you know, the energy prices were so high because the wind didn't blow).

The other actual solution would be something drastic like break away from EU energy market, is that what you're suggesting?
I bet if it comes to that, a DNS pollution alone will drive down 80% of traffic.
Which privatisations are the cause of this energy conundrum?
> It seems like we now play racquetball with the courts, with each opposing administration appointing judges who are sympathetic to its viewpoints.

Judges having political alignments is one of those things that non-Americans point to when they want to argue that 'America is a silly country full of silly people'.
Bevy is a game engine, but you could also use it as a UI system (for a game or other type of application).

Imagine a game where you can customize your racing car decals and it allows you to drag in images, online game that allows uploading avatars etc. This also allows for completely new and experimental types of game designs. Or someone just wants to create a traditional image editor..

This is probably not the most important feature for a game engine, but again it is also not completely academic.
Actually this is a good thing. There's demand for energy so prices go up. This in turn makes investments in energy generation in Sweden more lucrative since they apparently have a lot of energy revenue coming in from abroad to finance more such projects. There are a lot of renewable energy projects in and around Sweden and the wider region. And of course they are actually manufacturing and exporting a lot of wind turbines as well. Wind technology is a substantial part of their economy.

There is no energy shortage in Sweden. They can export as little or as much power as they want. But of course with prices being high that means they export a fair bit and that causes prices to rise. Which is causing Sweden to make a lot of money from this business.

If they want lower prices locally, they should look at their local energy market, infrastructure, and regulations instead of blaming the Germans for being able to pay market rates for energy to Sweden.
Is argue 'better'. Different, yes. More gadgets, yes. Better? I’m not so sure.
I don't think data on-shoring and better privacy controls solves the problem of a widely-used platform controlled by a company beholden to a totalitarian government that has likely been drooling over their ability to influence the political thought of their adversaries' citizens.
That is a very naive take. Banning TikTok will make US big tech (Google and Meta) much more powerful and much harder for politicians to regulate.
I had a N900 and was very fond of it, but it was really a prototype. Part done before its time, part a type of system that wouldn't have worked for normal people long term.

The N900 was more or less a tiny computer running Debian. With 256MB RAM, and swapping on flash.

It was way too low spec to run reliably like that, you quickly ran into swap death. And it had none of the niceties of Android's memory management, having apps designed to be stopped as needed.

Security-wise it was also bad, it was just a normal Linux box, so banking apps would be a terrible idea.

If it didn't get killed, I wonder how would they have polished it up for public consumption.
The question is what's the budget? Ultra short throw projectors are more convenient because they can be put on the counter in front of where you'd hang the TV, but they're pricey. No need to hang it from the ceiling, or across the room.
I dont know. Ask him?

https://time.com/6900348/tiktok-ban-donald-trump-congress/
You mean KGB, or what?

I’ve lived for almost 30 years in post-Soviet space and never once I saw “we’re good, they’re bad” propaganda from the West. What I did see is an order of magnitude difference in income, quality of life and rights that people have.

So yeah, fuck Russia, fuck KGB and platforms that assist them with doing their dirty work.
This is the answer. It's not as simple as just laying down more cable, and it was a really hard self-own to shut down the nuclear plants in the south without anything to cover for them.
I discovered (and thoroughly enjoyed reading) the book thanks to that interview!

Thank You So Much :)
The basis of measurement is provided by method of measurement: if you measure coordinate, you measure in coordinate basis, if you measure energy, you measure in energy basis. It's not specific to MWI.
Beggars can't be choosers :)
> how many times have you had your phone/ipad/laptop get stolen/mugged for/lost, or all three

I lost my iPhone in a taxi once. Had laptop die once. Not at the same time.

> how did you recover/break back into your digital life

Bought another phone, logged into my iCloud account with password and 2FA to my GMail account, got the code on my laptop.

For catastrophic losses like you describe you should have the MFA backup code(s) printed and stored somewhere safe. I keep them with my passport and a backup copy on a secure USB key. I avoid having all of my stuff in the same place at the same time.

I don't travel to/live in places where I have to worry about having my things stolen, or getting mugged. Can happen anywhere but some places have much higher crime rates than others.

I didn't mention MFA backup codes, but anyone using MFA at all should print those out and have a couple of copies in safe places.
Pretty sure the apiserver just queries the etcd database (and maybe caches some things, not sure) but i guess it could be the apiserver itself that can't handle the data :P
Very cool!

If someone is looking for something similar with less hassle, let me plug my friend’s product :) https://www.inklay.app/
I’ve been using it for the better part of a year now to show the weather, a dashboard and some comics and am very happy with it, it just works and looks great too
When I was in high school 20 years ago, the school published a big sheet of paper on the central notice board, updated each day. Heading there first thing in the morning and seeing whether some of your classes got cancelled was a nice social ritual.
Sure, but consider that we actually found out about Cambridge Analytica, Facebook got egg on its face, and made changes in how they share data as a result. (We can argue over how meaningful those changes were, of course.)

And on the other side, we have a company owned in part by entities that are beholden to every whim of the Chinese government. That's by design, and they can't change that, and have no motivation to change that.
The more obvious answer would have been to invest in national infrastructure to connect the hydro in the north to the consumers in the south rather than nuclear.

Either way, she's responsible. The Germans are not. Their actions are an external factor she should have compensated for.
Isn't it the other way around? 50% humidity means that air contains 50% as much moisture as it, at a given temperature. Raising the temperature means that the air can now hold much more moisture.

Bringing in cold air at 50% humidity, then warming it up to room temp makes the humidity fall, leading to dryer air indoors than comfortable.
that's a bit ridiculous - isn't it. also there are similar magic math proofs designed to lead the onlooker astray by miniscule inaccuracies and suddenly it follows that 1 = 0.
While there's a lot of good learning material on the web, MOOC and other, I'm not sure it's an improvement over the alternatives — my mostly-pre-internet teenage years had me learn a lot from stuff I got from the library.

And sure, even just Wikipedia alone is bigger than most libraries, but as both are too large for one person, I'm just not convinced.
I stand corrected on the directional nature.

By routing I mean that the choice of destinations for the first phase at least is less constrained than what would it’s possible with a high-speed rail project connecting existing cities. Leisure isn’t the best phrase I agree but for example there is a difference between the ridership of the San Francisco cable car versus the buses and light rail of the Muni. I am not saying that people do not commute on the cable car but I would expect the vast proportion of riders are not commuters. I’m but sure how else to phrase that.

By and large I don’t know that have any disagreement with ether the original comment or the reply. I agree completely that we have to be careful when comparing a high-speed rail project to the Las Vegas loop. Whatever your opinion of the former
There's ransomware hackers in some countries who also write reports while getting health insurance and paid parental leave...
So your entire argument for supporting U16 ban is that despite knowing that:

- it will put every Australian's PII in the hands of people who have a bad track record on security
- de anonymize the internet as we know it
- make it easy for a foreign actor to break in (remember if there is a backdoor, it will be exploited)
- increase the state's surveillance capabilities on their own citizens

All of this to do what exactly? Save democracy? Save the children? Can you prove that if we do that the outcome would be better than if we did nothing?

Do you have anything tangible in terms of proofs as to what outcome will be achieved?

My take is you don't because if you did, we would not be having this conversation.
> Everytime i manipulate dx i feel like walking on a minefield.

Embrace the minefield, love the minefield!

Signed
a physicist
its not just your time zone ;) and its not just engineers.
I applaud your efforts to keep your son from being addicted to screens.

While I'd be more conservative in the setup (I'd probably go with a device without inputs that turns on just to browse to a website directly, making any browsing mistakes or changed layouts less impactful), I do wish there were better alternatives for parents than "hand your kid a smartphone".

In an ideal world, schools would use some kind of one-way messaging devices to get the benefits of modern technology without the addiction smartphones bring, but I don't think we'll see that any time soon. Perhaps something like a (locked-down) Remarkable e-Ink tablet with a cellular network connection to receive school notifications and schedule updates as well as for doing homework in could prove quite useful, but that also sounds way too expensive for schools at the moment and you'd need to lock it down so that it's no more distracting than a piece of paper.
Well, if president Biden wanted to justify violence against the police and justice departments to thousands of Pennsylvania youth for the rest of their lives, he could not have chosen a better man to grant clemency to.

Kids died because of this man's greed.
I was a developer at a third party developer writing Foleo software and I always wondered what was going on on the other side of the wall. The rumour I was told for the cause of all the delays was that some executive had decided the screen was too low resolution way too late in the project and everything had to be redesigned.
Released a year or two earlier they might have been decent devices, IMHO.
> a design is still needed, of the appropriate size, otherwise you're just making things up as you go.

A design needs to be understood, certainly, but that doesn't necessarily mean a document, or indeed any permanent artifact. And if you do need a permanent record, a PR can be as good a medium as any.

> Don't forget: "weeks of coding can save hours of planning" ;)

I've found the opposite is true far more often. People plan and plan until the plan is not merely pointless but actively destructive to productivity.
This is the crucial insight. The last proof in TFA writes it in differential form notation, where "dx at constant y" is dx∧dy = -dy∧dx.
Military officers are not immune to believing crazy shit. The eye witness testimony amounts to “I don’t understand what I saw”, not “aliens”.
YouTube is the only algorithmic thing I use and I'm not getting depression content so not sure what the point is. I do constantly click not interested to get the algorithm to recommend what I actually want to though. If I was getting bad content I'd think it'd be pretty easy to stop watching YouTube and watch more Netflix or something.

Completely removing all screens would be quite hard though yes in the modern world. Tbh idk how people lived before TVs.
Based on previous performance, not electing Trump would have helped.

But Elon's first act as efficiency co-czar was to get get Trump elected and he'll now need to trim Trillions just to come out even.
The article explicitly says as much.

> So what’s clear here is that the spirals themselves have nothing to do with prime numbers; a much cleaner and fuller pattern can be seen when we plot all positive integers (as well as zero).
from my own experience and observations i'd say anti-karma is real. you do good, fate will punish you for it ;)
I find it amusing that America bullies countries for not enforcing the DMCA meanwhile they can't block piracy sites in their own country.
So they haven't actually phased out nuclear power, just reduced it.
I’m not really married to that form factor. I guess I’m more curious about HDMI splitters or pass through and what people do there.
> There was no Google

I have a broken memory of the time, because I swear I first came across Google as the better alternative to AltaVista in my last year at Uni in '96, but Wikipedia says Google arrived in '98, or at least the company was set up then, is it possible it was usable 2 years before they incorporated?
Actually the molar heat capacity for neon, or argon, or a mixture thereof, is the same. These are monotomic ideal gases as far as your calorimeter measurements can see.

If the number of particles is the same you’ll need the same heat to increase the temperature by some amount and the entropy increase will be the same. Of course you could do other things to find out what it is, like weighing the container or reading the label.
Teaching requires more than semi-intelligence.

Also I wouldn’t trust the current crop of “AI” software to generate accurate VR images, say of the workings of a steam engine or mechanical clock.