skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess he meant there was nothing else for nerds to do...
Yes the first thing that came to my mind when I read the article is Tay.

And we have come back full circle
You can praise/blame the puritans for this weird idea.
Maybe we can carve our computer keyboards out of bone and tusks like the cavemen did.

The irony of making phones out of glass is they are terribly fragile and often become e-waste after so much as being knocked off a table.

20th century plastic telephones were so rugged they often doubled as weapons in films.
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If I shined a laser pointer through the fiber in my house, would I DOS my neighbors?
There’s a really interesting discussion of precisely this in the comments under the article! Recommended. Might have to dig to see it.
Couldnt find that quote on the 2001 version of the site.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010626233912/http://www.elks.e...

Not sure if you are confusing that with the original Linux/Linus announcement post:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/dlNtH7RRrGA/m/Sw...
Mediocre managers hire, create, and retain mediocre reports, with an emphasis on create.

I welcome AI that replaces the mediocre bottom 80% of managers that lower a companies bottom line. The top 20% won't be replaced soon.
Thank you for reporting! I fixed it in the new version.
It doesn't work at all for anything without strong regulations.
So many parts of this story makes no sense.
About one year ago, my level of concern over Formaldehyde exposure went from "never thinks about it" to "disturbing thoughts" after an unusual incident. It happened after I bought an air quality sensor to monitor CO2 levels in the basement. It had other measures too, but they were of secondary importance to me - that is, until...

One night I was in this basement room having some leftover fried rice when I happened to glance at this air quality meter. It's formaldehyde readings were normally zero, but suddenly they were reading very high. I was astonished. Attempting to try and figure out what was causing this, I noticed the formaldehyde levels were affected by how close the meter was to the fried rice dish.

This fried rice came from a local restaurant that's quality has always seemed good. This particular fried rice was Cantonese style salted fish fried rice[0]. The fish in this case is salted, aged, and a little fermented[1]. It's definitely an acquired taste that me and a handful of people in my life really enjoy.

After some googling I found a few stories about how this type of salted fish had been found to contain formaldehyde[2][3][4]. Apparently the additive helps the meat firm up into a more rubbery texture, which is something I did notice about this particular fish chunks in this rice dish. Ever since then, I have not returned to this restaurant and I don't order that item off menus anymore.

[0] https://10best.usatoday.com/interests/food-culture/why-salte...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK304384/

[2] https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/09/formaldehyde-detected...

[3] https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/food/is-formalin-pre...

[4] https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/food/is-formalin-pre...
Substack fails on several points for me.

On the first or second page view of any particular blog, the platform likes to greet you with a modal dialog to subscribe to the newsletter, and you have to find and click the "No thanks" text to continue.

Once you're on a page with text content, the header bar disappears when you scroll downward but reappears when you scroll upward. I scroll a lot - in both directions - because I skim and jump around, not reading in a rigidly linear way. My scrolling behavior is perfectly fine on static/traditional pages. It interacts badly with Substack's "smart" header bar, whose animation constantly grabs my attention, and also it hides the text at the top of the page - which might be the very text I wanted to read if it wasn't being covered up by the "smart" header bar.
> sometimes its fun, but mostly it's serious.

Sometimes its fun, but mostly it's stupid.
How about the death sentence if it exceeds a certain number of victims or dollar amount?

Executing these fools might act as a deterrent.
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Not according to the article. Chatgpt could be argued to have knowledge. It cannot be argued to have understanding (yet).
The Chinese youth movement ditching big cities for the coast
Atrial appendage occlusions are already performed without surgery via endovascular access from the groin.
Nice article, basically a teardown guide, lots of details.

Portable electronics have come a long way. People kvetch about glued phone components but hey, better than exposed parts shorting out against the case!
Do they really hate them or do they just complain about them like some bad season of some series they will continue to watch anyway?

Life is better without plastic straws and plastic plates and plastic knifes and so on ... and people who don't care usually care but the brain structure to admit that is premature.
RP2350 was supposed to be a game-changer for the RPi (the corp) and customers alike. It's an immensely powerful, and well documented platform so it's a shame that critical bugs have stolen the thunder. First the E9 errata made me junk the RP2350 for projects where I needed to interface with any kind of tri-state logic and now this one basically shows that extra RISC-V cores are a liability for any security conscious design.

If Rpi wants to rescue RP2350, they must release a new bug-fix stepping soon, or this one is done.
The Network is the Computer. :)
As far as I can tell, Nanite is only faster when you're rendering huge trianglecount, unoptimized meshes, and strictly slower than proper LOD - I've seen convincing evidence that just enabling Nanite for already-optimized meshes results in big performance losses in and of itself. If anything, it's the prototypical example of a "performance regression for the sake of streamlining artist workflows" feature.

And honestly, I'm not very impressed by volumetric clouds when games like Assassin's Creed Unity from 2014 had enormous, sprawling open worlds with high-quality visuals comparable to much more recent games that struggle to run on hardware with several times the juice.

Very often, modern games look straight up worse for much higher resource cost because they stop looking better once you're forced to drop from maximum settings(and you are). There's blurry AA techniques, resolution upscaling(ew), or the fact that lowering texture resolution often degrades graphics way, way harder than in older titles using similar texture fidelity.
Great breakdown of outline rendering techniques! The detailed explanations and code snippets are super helpful for understanding Unity's shader possibilities. Thanks for sharing!
So maybe it gets paired with the self-attenuating insulin and the experience gets even better despite some inaccuracy!
Fascinating advancement with HORNET for RNA structure visualization! This method bridges a significant gap in structural biology, opening doors for further research and applications.
Yoon might be the first elected political leader to publicly succumb to brain rot from the truth free internet. We all routinely overconsume 'produced information', so we're all increasingly susceptible to consensus building tactics from people with an agenda to push. Especially vulnerable are the critical thinkers who think they are immune
Would there be any technical benefit to this over using server sent events (SSE)?

Both are similar in that they hold the HTTP connection open and have the benefit of being simply HTTP (the big plus here). SSE (at least to me) feels like it's more suitable for some use cases where updates/results could be streamed in.

A fitting use case might be where you're monitoring all job IDs on behalf of a given client. Then you could move the job monitoring loop to the server side and continuously yield results to the client.
there were, are and will be alternatives. we won't go back but we evolve. plastics ruin taste and they feel bad. people's senses are just a "bit fucked up" due to the many "other" things in water, air, soil, drinks and food.
It's a nice change to see a GenAI project that's coded in Go and Ruby instead of the usual choices.
Dark mode gives me severe after images. Light mode is Ok.
What I miss in the paper is any accuracy figure for glucose sensing. If this is an alternative to needles, how would the measurements compare? That is the first question one should ask.

I fear we can assume that, although the approach might be novel, it can't replace needles for accurate measurement. But maybe I am overlooking the performance comparison.
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> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
Have not seen that article but I agree. I’ve been cooking pasta with less water and using box times for years. Has never ever failed for me.
These cameras are taking about three million pictures A DAY of cars moving about San Francisco.
I think the idea would work better using an ordinary laser printer.
I suppose "ink" because it's cognate with "printing". Also maybe the tattoo connotation of putting something in / under the skin
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Any suit does, not just the 90s ones. A t-shirt is very unforgiving compared to a suit.
this reminds me of Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) - a treatment of cancer using X-ray beams.

because a single beam damages both healthy and cancer tissue alike (and goes through entire body like jedi's lightsaber), IMRT creates many many low dosage beams around the body from different angles.

As a result, most of healthy tissue that surrounds tumor gets exposed to a minimum radiation, but cancerous tissue accumulates required x-ray exposure from many small beams.
Oh, this attack sounds sophosticated. Did the attacker researched and tried to mimic your friend's online behaviour?
There was a discrepancy in medical coding. The lawyer was looking for something very specific in the medical charts.

I searched for "how long does a doctor have to bill you in florida" and the a top result was this gem, "A doctor in Fort Lauderdale I saw in 2020 contacted me to tell me that there was a /"billing error/" 3 years ago that they now want paid. What can I do?" That sounds about right.

I don't know the specific details about the lawyer was doing.
All the AI shit, plus this

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_ka...
Ser/estar in Spanish as well.
Thanks!

The dot matrix is actually eight 5x8 characters, or 320 bits in total. I'm packing those 320 bits into the the 4 bits per byte that are available to us in this shell protocol. Plus, another 9 bytes for the packet header and footer. Looks like I wrote 92 in the article, I must have miscalculated that.

I'm not using the full 7 bits because figuring out a way to do so turned out to be way too hard for me, so I opted for a solution that is negligibly worse than the optimal one, in comparison to the original one.

If you're wondering about the exact algorithm, consider checking these files out, but please keep in mind that I haven't cleaned the code up yet: https://github.com/portasynthinca3/swl01u/blob/master/fun/bi..., https://github.com/portasynthinca3/swl01u/blob/master/fun/ba...
The extra slides in the Q and A were a hoot. Super impressive preparation and anticipation by the speaker.
Which is why when you have programming languages with rich runtimes and ecosystem, the OS kind of becomes irrelevant.

"an operating system is a collection of things that don't fit inside a language; there shouldn't be one"

-- Dan Ingalls

So what happens is that those runtimes built on top of whatever low level primitives are available, and that is about it.

Even considering UNIX alone, many ways to do asynchronous IO aren't even part of POSIX, it has remained specific to each UNIX flavour.

To some extent, UNIX/POSIX API surface has been the C and C++ standard library that WG14 and WG21 didn't want to take over into ISO, but almost every C and C++ developer expects to exist anyway.
This looks really nice! I've taken a few runs at APL, J, K, BQN, ... and this looks the nicest so far.

I love the unicode glyphs and the color coding which makes it much more readable. I might take a look at the Exercism track.

I wonder if this might make for a nice embedded array DSL in order languages? In particular could this compile into numpy or Jax expressions?
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Look up any typographic manual and you'll learn that you can't make lines of text too wide or else people will have trouble reading them. Example - https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html .

This is also related to why professional newspapers and magazines lay out text in relatively narrow columns, because they are easy to scan just top-down while hardly moving your eyes left-right.

I do think that vertical phones are too narrow for conveying decent text, but you also can't have completely unbounded page widths because people do run browsers maximized on desktop 4K screens.
Those are some of the most pedantic grasping at straws reasons I've ever read. It's like they know there's nothing wrong with http so they've had to invent worst case nightmare scenarios to make their "It's so important" reasons stick.
Https is great. I use it. That website is pathetic though.
TikTok knew its livestreaming feature allowed child exploitation, allegedly
There are constant debates about them in Sweden. Especially after fatal accidents or incidents involving teens driving at speeds above 100 kph. [1][2]

The original law considered tractors and other farm equipment, AIUI. You can drive these so called A-traktor with only a moped or tractor license when you're 15.

[1] Swedish article from 2022 with some examples (there are many more since then): https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/ungdomar-manipulerar-a-tr...

[2] Example police chase: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CqcEqhXWiYE
Exactly. Transmitting over radio continuously is what is expensive, not encrypting a couple of bytes.
> what I thought was a pretty innocent comment about the joy of Italian pasta

There are few punishments more swift and severe than what happens after you express any opinion at all about Italian food on the internet.
It’s partly because we have a standardised 24 hour clock and solar noon (when the sun is highest) is sometimes ahead and sometimes behind GMT noon. The sunrise and sunset times relate to solar noon so they vary accordingly.

See ‘equation of time’ and ‘analemma’ for underlying astronomical explanations, as hinted at by sibling posts.
'Mirror life' research poses risk to all life on Earth, scientists warn [video]
> 1. What you're describing would have to happen on the f-droid app, but the vulnerability seems to be on fdroidserver?

As far as I understand (I'm not an expert on F-Droid), this validation happens on the server side. The (repo) server verifies that the signature matches that of the first version it saw, the phone (when installing the APK) verifies that the signature matches that of the first version it saw.

Android keeps the fdroidserver honest for upgrades, fdroidserver provides an additional bootstrap point for Android's trust.

> 2. Even if this actually affected the f-droid app, what you described seems like a very modest increase in security. The attack this prevents (ie. a compromised server serving a backdoored apk with a different signature) would also raise all kinds of alarms from people who already have the app installed, so practically such an attack would be discovered relatively quickly.

Sure, it's the difference between "automated tooling sees the problem immediately and addresses it proactively" vs "hopefully someone will ring the alarm bell eventually".

> Doesn't f-droid perform the build themselves and sign the apk using their own keys? They might be pulling from the upstream repo, but that's in source form, and before apks are signed, so it's irrelevant.

According to the linked blog post, not anymore. Apparently, these days they serve the author's original APK, but after verifying that they can rebuild it (modulo the signature itself).
> I am in the relevant age group (are you??)

Hu… so you are from those than only take advice from a doctor when he already had the same illness as you, and if he didn’t, he has no idea what is talking about… and AGAIN btw, ad hominem argument… it cannot be that that is all you have!

Just for the record: it does not matter if I’m in that age group, but I’m.

The only person here moving the goal, and abandoning discussions by not replying or making ad hominem arguments when shown that you are plain wrong here is you, btw, other people have repeatedly pointed that out, is not that I said that.

Now back to track, because you want to derail the discussion just for the sake of “winning”:

I was replying to your comment, where you stated: “Experience, wisdom, there may be many benefits to employees over 50 – but we crunch data slower, let's not fool ourselves.”

My interpretation of that sentence is that at some point in life, everyone will not be able to keep the pace at some intellectual tasks, and even when I do agree 100% that brain ages, and that some people may experience difficulties in very demanding environments (e.g. ATC) for the vast majority people between 40 and 60 (and even beyond, with less degree) is the point when they reach their maximum potential. The “speed at crunching” is a minimal part of everyday life and work, so minimal in fact, that even if you get bad/slow at it, you can compensate by pre optimization: that is, to first filter, then crunch.

Also btw you mention physical stamina. Which is IMHO totally irrelevant to the discussion. I know of no work, (physical or intellectual) that needs stamina… if anything life and work is about endurance, not stamina.

Now to be clear: I’m not discussing here for winning an argument, or because I enjoy it. If fact is terrible to have to discuss with someone like you, because you insult immediately. I’m trying to get a point here through, because I have seen just how bad can it be, for the mental health of some people, to believe that they are somehow “getting old”. I have seen people go down into a deep depression, just because some random charlatan in internet said “from X years things are going to be so” doing nonsensical generalizations.

But I assume you will lose again the opportunity to discuss and learn something, by throwing some ad hominem arguments, or just insulting without any logical following from the discussion.
Why are you arguing with a bot in the first place. Makes no sense.
That depends on what the CLA says. A few do not permit arbitrary relicensing.
This both fails to answer the question of why NATO expansion is concretely bad for Russia, and brings up a new claim which is irrelevant and inaccurate.
China's Economy Is Burdened by Years of Excess
It is a service that does one and one job only. It's a webservice that can tell you the current year.

Currently on the top of their landing page is this message: Service degradation: Our API is occasionally returning 2024 instead of 2025. Our intern is investigating and working on a fix. We apologize for any inconvenience and would appreciate if you could stop emailing us about it.

It is a bargin for only $499/month
If this is proven to work for 99% people and high refresh displays become cheap GPUs could optimize for rendering just a sliver of screen at a time.
Sure, but it's a lot easier to avoid a harmful chemical (and protect children from it) when you have been informed that it's there.
Mature-Node Foundries Face Overcapacity from China
https://archive.is/t3h4a
Over the last year I’ve gotten a couple of offers from PCB manufactures to make my projects in exchange for a review and visibility in my projects and on my site. It was tempting, but every time I thought about doing it, it felt off.

I really like writing to readers and not obligating them to anything else. No sales push, no ads, no sign ups. It’s nice that it’s just what I wanted to share.
https://archive.ph/1i4JW
Not really, it depends on the OS X version, and the one used by Swift has multiple implementations.

Also it isn't regular pthreads on OS X, rather Apple own's flavour.

Described on the Internals section.
Takes a quick google search for "microplastics health effects" to find a well researched laundry list of health downsides.
I do not understand at all what this is talking about or why. Is it some elaborate joke?

Don't visual effects people go to lots of effort to add motion blur? Why would you want to remove it?

Why are they trying to simulate old CRT displays?

Can someone explain what this is about?
I've watched this and I think this will not be the holly grail because the crucial components change the spin direction during operation. So wear and noise and inefficiency.