skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct that the Supreme Court ultimately has final appellate jurisdiction on matters of immunity, but that's a long way from enabling dictatorship.

To get there, we would need to assume that the Supreme Court, including only 3 Trump-appointed Justices, is both unwaveringly partisan and unwaveringly supportive of dictatorship.
The assumption that everyone has equal capabilities can cause a lot of needless struggle and suffering. Similarly assumptions that an individual can't or won't grow or learn or improve can also lead to a lot of unnecessary struggle and suffering.

Both things: that everyone's capabilities (and limits) are different and individuals can increase their capabilities can be and are true.

So I can understand someone's concern that we have flat earthers, as well as your lack of concern.
Almost daily. For years.
Probably the same one?
They saw the movie "Dave" and didn't realize it was fiction.
Do the workflows support voice-to-voice models like openai's realtime? Or if something like that exists I'd be curios.
Lots of things should have happened long before we got to this point. After Jan 6th he should never have been a contender for the nomination, but then he was and won it. And then the electorate at large should have chosen his opponent, but they didn't. And here we are. I'm not sure what would trigger nation wide protests that are large enough to have an effect - I suspect that in our spread-out country you'd need something like at least 20% of the population which would be about 65 million people. Most people are too apathetic to be bothered and by the time some final straw makes them care it'll likely be too late.
If another user you follow reposted or replied to a post, it can affect its order in your following feed. You shouldn't be seeing any loss as described in the article from following only 100 users.
Zig – a daily find-the-path puzzle
Now they don't have any phones with the old-style rounded bezel. The SE was the very last of them. I have a 12 mini and thing I really hate about it is the sharp, orthogonal bezel. It's very uncomfortable to hold for longer periods of time.

I'm taking this as a sign from Apple that I use my phone too much and should probably stop.
What’s your goal and what’s your threat model?
Yup. Also going for a drive, taking a shower, etc.
Reading the PR release that accompanies a scientific paper is a negative information activity. Anything meaningful that can actually be supported by the science done is already in the paper and if you can understand the paper, it will be self evident how you should feel about it.

Any sentence in the press release that isn't VERBATIM in the paper should be viewed as marketing, and unsupported by the science, and there is zero incentive NOT to lie in the PR, especially since the ones writing it are rarely even knowledgeable in the subject matter.
You have other people in this thread talking about how xAI offers massive salaries to top talent so it sounds like they do exactly that. Have the money to both hire experts and buy the equipment. I don't even know why this is a discussion, by virtue of doing what they did they needed to hire experts and buy equipment.
Let's say you have 40 chickens that lay 1 egg per day. Egg prices are $5 a dozen. You tell me.
We looked at the Medtronic 780g system, there are a bunch of problems for a four year old. Most obvious is the tube, it gets in the way, the omnipod is waterproof and just works. The next is inserting the guardian sensors used to be horrific (as I understand it they have an applicator now) but my son barely feels the dexcom G7 insertion.

AAPS is good, it could be better, but it has a complete set of features we need. Just need a phone
If it comes to it, the military.
Variations on Müller's Method of Polar Decomposition
Actually, I thought a bit more about it, and it seems there is a trivial potential attack when an adversary opens two calls - one to each user - and deepfakes each user’s feed to the other.

If all authentication keys (QR codes, TOTP codes, even PKI) are exchanged in the communication channel and do not authenticate the communication channel feed itself, the attacker can simply forward them between the two victims, maintaining a perfect “bridge” with no obvious sign of tampering. Once the authentication phase is complete, they can terminate the redundant call and continue conversation with the target having passed the authentication.

It seems to me that the only way against it is to authenticate messages (text or feed) themselves, and for that we go back to regular MACs that are already used today.
My usual plug for: https://smallandroidphone.com/

I think Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble, has decided he will have a go at an iPhone 13 mini sized android phone, since nothing exists in that space anymore.

Android rather than iPhone, but I've also recently given up hoping Apple would release a small phone. I recently bought a used iPhone 13 mini when my minor-regret-sized SE 2022 started playing up and I saw that all the rumours pointed at this 16E being huge.
Functional outcomes seem similar, trough we have a increased rate of malunion, delayed or non-union with nonoperative treatment. We usually indicate surgery if it's an active patient.
Being able to disable it on the fly is the number one thing I miss the most. Additionally, it would be nice to interface through the app instead of the website, but that's definitely under nice-to-have; the website is functional on a mobile device.
Meanwhile the SAVE act is working it's way through congress. This bill has language that seems to prevent a lot of people from voting:

Women who changed thier last name to their husband's.

Naturalized citizens who come from places where the language requires non ascii characters.

Anyone without a passport.

Anyone from a place where the courthouse burned down taking thier original birth certificates with it... Copies don't count.

To name tens of millions. Maybe trump will interpret the law in a way that lets people vote, or maybe he'll decide that correct interpretation is to limit voting to people more likely to vote for his third term.
Declarative tools/workflows solve this much more elegantly than imperative migration tools. There's some initial discussion in sibling comment thread here, although that isn't specific to procedures/functions.

Regarding stored procs/funcs in particular and managing them like a codebase using a declarative tool, I have a blog post about this at https://www.skeema.io/blog/2023/10/24/stored-proc-deployment... – and although my product is specific to MySQL, a lot of the concepts in the first half of that post are generic and apply to any declarative tool. Some FOSS solutions to look into for Postgres include sqldef and Tusker.
It really isn't. While it's only .12" wider, it's almost an inch deeper and over 5oz heavier.
This has been developing over the last few days, with some users of the Tado smart thermostat and heating system being locked out of the app that's used to control both heating and hot water in their homes unless they agree to pay a subscription fee for basic access to the app (something which is still marketed as being free) [1].

If users do agree to pay, only once they have complete the process they are told it is part of a "test", however they are shown legitimate looking Apple Pay screens [2] along the way which Tado appear to be faking. Since there's no warning that this is a test up front, many users are finding themselves effectively locked out of controlling their heating and hot water at one of the coldest times of the year unless they agree to a pay subscription.

I have a Tado system in my house, and haven't been shown the screen yet, however it's highlighted for me just how little control I actually have over my heating and hot water if a company can remotely lock users out, effectively extorting money to continue heating their homes using hardware they have already paid for. I'll be looking to switch to something that's doesn't require an internet connection just to work...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it08yq/officially_lo...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/tado/comments/1it9hs7/fake_apple_pa...
Behavioural Patterns Are the New Skin Colour
my first post to HN but I wanna save you guys the click because I think the message is more important.

In a system that can't see you, your behavioural patterns become the things that are used to discriminate against you. That's all a digital system can really see about you. Physical attributes don't mean anything in a digital world, things like your ethnicity, gender, age, etc., aren't relevant to digital systems in the same way they are to bigots. But they can be inferred based on your behavioural patterns.

As systems increasingly categorize us based on our behavioural patterns they force us into different digital classes, some are ideal users, some are problematic. If you use a system in a way that doesn't violate any terms but that the operators didn't intend, you face increasing algorithmic discrimination in that system as you try to navigate it. These systems are the systems that we use in every day life, your bank accounts, social media's, iCloud's and Google Drives — you could be restricted or completely cut off at the whim of an algorithm, stuck without appeal because you won't even know which rule you broke.

And nobody knows what the rules are except for the ones who wrote 'em.
Can offensive ICBMs turn 90 degrees in air?
We (UK) long gave up our nuclear sovereignty, we've relied entirely upon warheads we rent from the US since the 90s, since 1970 if you consider our Polaris subs and WE177 bombs to have been the same deal - we claimed to have autonomy over the warheads, but it's questionable; Blue Steel was the last, true, british nuclear weapon - and even that used a modified W28 warhead, but they were at least 'home built'.
if you dont use it... you might lose it...
I'm using it for pretty much all new document generation tasks that are targeted to PDF, and it's very low fuss. Takes under 2 seconds to generate a 1600 page planner PDF with embedded images on many pages. I'd suggest giving it a try, unless you need certain journal templates.
Disclaimer: I'm a maintainer of the project

Pixie (https://px.dev) can be installed in under 5 mins and gives this level of visibility across all applications. No need to change your application (wrap in `subtrace run`) to get instant visibility.

We also support 11 application protocols (https://docs.px.dev/reference/datatables/) with TLS handshake tracing and MQTT support coming soon (encrypted traffic tracing has been supported for a long time).
"Goon work" is not a legal or scientific term of art, there is no qualified authority deciding on a threshold of time under which an objective definition is determined. It's not like there's a "model goon" somewhere like there is a model kilogram.
> does not account for users banned from Bluesky by Bluesky for breaking the ToS or PDS abuse.

Then you are missing the point. I am asking how much censorship power the largest node in the network has.

If being blocked by the largest provider means 95% of users can't see me anymore then the situation is strictly worse than Mastodon vs ActivityPub-at-large.
Really Id just feel annoyed that the bartender was wasting my time and feel socially obligated to buy the wine after he just spent so much time bloviating about it.
Well, a goal of most science is to be reproducible, and it couldn't be reproduced, merely for technical reasons (and so we shared as much data from the runs as possible so people could verify our results). This sort of thing comes up when CERN is the only place that can run an experiment and nobody can verify it.
Added support in this PR https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra/pull/1957! Isn't shipped just yet but will be soon
This just seems like a case of attacking the messenger
Regarding unwarranted surveillance of Americans not suspected of a crime (and by extension, our allies):

Throughout my longish life, these things have not changed.

~All federal politicians support/expand it and then obfuscate their part.

News orgs don't/won't cover it (most of the time). The reason is every possible reason. Stated differently: Reluctance is a forgone conclusion; every editor/journalist has their own why.

There is an excess of voters who compulsively give Gov the benefit of the doubt. At least where Gov favors it's interests over ours. (modern version: Where Gov acts in good faith and places our interest first, wound-up voters endlessly crap all over that [because agendas].)
You've submitted this numerous times recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43096204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43084295

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43074126

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42956529

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942902

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42929283

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#reposts
I wasn't trying to be trans-phobic. I was just wondering how you are supposed to resolve it when you think you have 4 kings and the person you are playing against thinks that two of them are queens.
Mine craps out every 2-3 months for no apparent reason. It doesn't crash, there's no errors in the logs, it just stops responding. I restart the service and it's fine. No idea why. I setup a cron to restart it weekly just to keep it from being a problem.
Why doesn’t iPhone tethering solve this problem already? Why pay for two modems? Genuinely curious.
“Big screen goooood” - social media addicted consumers
Why isn't crypto crashing?
Related yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093328 Pi-hole v6
China did publish some information once for a while. But the information is usually in Chinese and lacking details.
I could have worded this better since running xcodebuild is obviously outside of Xcode. But it's not a stretch.

Is it possible? Yes, of course. Bazel and Buck iOS builds have existed for a long time, and many large teams use them. You can even use Gradle to build an iOS project.

Does Apple officially support any of those? No, you won't find any Apple instructions telling you how to do any of this, Apple expects iOS apps submitted to the store to be built with Xcode. You're on your own with these solutions. And setting up Bazel for an iOS project is not an easy undertaking.
I’m really not looking forward to the day when they start serving ads through LLMs. Hopefully local is solid enough by then to do most of the same stuff.
I come from autocracy and it's way more similar to the US than one might think.

It all starts with distrust of institutions, (silent) support of majority and power consolidation under executive branch. It's very hard to get out of it, and propaganda and terror just one part of it, and I'm not even sure the first.

Just to be clear I lived in Russia.
He said "over the top" not "extreme". Those two terms are not synonyms. If you don't believe me ask your favorite LLM.

Maybe you think he meant "extreme" and was using a euphemism. But then we have a second problem: politicians aren't necessarily reliable for analysis because they can't necessarily say what they believe.
I might agree somewhat with the comments so far about the article lacking specificity for why FreeBSD is a far better choice that Linux. Of course, I cannot write an entire article in my comments but this topic has been floated to me recently as a article I should write.

I've been a user of FreeBSD since the mid 1990's when I used it on servers that powered the ISP I ran. For operational environments I love that you can simply take FreeBSD to the bank everytime because it always has your back. It purrs like a kitten once configured and unlike people believe, its very easy to configure. It combines brick wall stability, top of the line performance, and incredible flexibility if you can program.

FreeBSD follows a clean separation of the base OS and userland, making it very easy to strip down unnecessary components for embedded use. So is a minimalist customizable kernel a reason that makes it an excellent embedded systems programming candidate? You betcha. For fun I used to rewrite large parts of the UNIX kernel customizing so many different functions.

TinyBSD/NanoBSD offer specialized FreeBSD-based lightweight distributions that are already optimized for embedded applications. Linux? Fails.

Free BSD offers a monolithic kernel with modular components that are optimized for performance while allowing dynamic module loading. FreeBSD offers advanced file systems (ZFS & UFS2) so your choice of high reliability and/or lightweight and stable. The FreeBSD TCP/IP is well-optimized over many decades making it ideal for embedded networking devices. The low jitter & deterministic performance are ideal for real-time or latency-sensitive applications such as industrial control systems.

Yes, the Open-Source & Permissive licensing are important but not as important as FreeBSD's preemptive multitasking, which is essential for real-time applications. Some real-time OSes, like RTEMS integrate FreeBSD's networking stack because it so darn near perfection. Common Address Redundance Protocol (CARP) provides high availability, which is useful for mission-critical embedded systems.

Now I could go on and on or we could start getting down to bits and bytes but FreeBSD is used by people IN THE KNOW who want performance and stability. It's simply a fact.

If you are interested, there is also a new startup built on FreeBSD but built for desktop users who want the GUI. It's better than Ubuntu by far and still comes with the built in stability of FreeBSD that just works day after day, week after week, year after year.

However, it has some drawbacks. No reinstalling the OS everytime you turn around because some new - heedlessly written - code has hosed up the operation so bad reinstallation is the only choice.

One thing for sure, its not about the true Open-Source licensing. Nope.
> It's a toll on entering the area period

The issue is that not only some but disproportionately many of the people being deterred from entering the area are from outside the jurisdiction, so their only representation is at the federal level.

Notice also that "entering the area" is the thing people not from the area do. If you want to be in Manhattan and you live in Manhattan you're already there.
Why would a company hire iOS developers when they can build everything for all platforms in a single language and framework? It's fungible, interchangeable, easy to maintain, and easy to hire for.

Apple is being boneheaded by going their own way. But closed systems lorded over by tyrannical giants typically are.
Wow this is interesting AF actually.

I also imagine that Linux is going to have quite the edge over microsoft on AI based programs.
Uber adopts rivals' model for India autorickshaw rides to weather competition
I wonder why timelines aren't implemented as a hybrid gather-scatter choosing strategy depending on account popularity (a combination of fan-out to followers and a lazy fetch of popular followed accounts when follower's timeline is served).

When you have a celebrity account, instead of fanning out every message to millions of followers' timelines, it would be cheaper to do nothing when the celebrity posts, and later when serving each follower's timeline, fetch the celebrity's posts and merge them into the timeline. When millions of followers do that, it will be cheap read-only fetch from a hot cache.
That isn't really what happened in Singapore.
This article has so many problems that I don't know where to start.

> Tech companies exploiting resources in poorer countries while extracting data from their populations to get rich is akin to “digital colonialism.” She compared data extraction to silver mining in Bolivia, which enriched colonial Spain but left nothing behind for Latin America. “They are extracting data in the same way. Data doesn’t even leave (behind) taxes,” she said.

1) Data collection and data mining are very different from data centers, but good luck explaining that to the layman.

2) Malaysia's economic problems are largely due to dysfunctional government including racial preferences baked into the constitution, coupled with the resource curse, meaning exports of oil/LNG fund all sorts of wasteful spending and crowd out other businesses. "Digital colonialism" is the least of their worries.

3) Last but not least, 60% of SE Asia's data centers are in Singapore, which is wealthier than the Western countries that, per the article, are apparently exploiting it.
Perhaps I'll finally update my 13 mini. I've been holding out hope that Apple will release another small form factor phone, but this may be the closest they will get.
New Observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4, Lower Impact Probability
> as that is probably too hair-trigger for the Russians

See “Able Archer 83” for why realistic testing can be dangerous!
Is the iPhone "e" series going to be a yearly release now? Like the Pixel "a" series?
Between this and Vance saying that the president can ignore the courts, it's getting harder and harder to think that this is joking, just narcissism, or just spur-of-the-moment shooting his mouth off.
I guess the thesis is that Singapore is the primary business hub in SEA, but Singapore doesn't have a grid that can handle large scale data centers (especially with power hungry GPU demand). Logically Johor bordering Singapore is the next best option for data centers.
I don't think they are insane, they are quite useful when designing security mechanisms, while at the same time being utter noise for the end-user benefiting from that system.

> If you're building a chip to generate prime numbers I do surely hope you know how to select randomness or make constant time & branch free algorithms, just like an engineer designing elevators better know what should be the tensile strength of the cable it'll use. In either cases, it's mumbo jumbo for me, and I just need to get on with my day.

Part of what muddies the water is our collective inability to separate the two contexts, or empower tech communicators to do it. If we keep making new tech akin to esoteric magic, no one will board the elevator.
I wonder if this phenomenon was part of the reason why Küntscher's intramedullary nailing was so effective at speeding up the recovery from broken legs.
Hey, I've just finished typesetting the first editors-ready draft for a book using typst 0.13-rc1!

I love it.
There is no social cohesion or solidarity in the US, that's the biggest problem

In France if they'd raise the price of baguettes by 10% you'd have strikes from teachers, public transportation drivers, dock workers, train drivers, doctors, trash truck drivers, &c. all at once, after a week it would be complete chaos and the government would have no choice but to negotiate

In the US everyone is playing their little game on their side, decades of free for all capitalism at work
> What could be more important in life than how you make people feel?

Food, water, shelter, survival, comfort, security.

Is this a joke?
I did. I do.

I don't use it for everything, but it is a 2x-10x multiplier.
Sure but they also leaned heavily into the “we still have an aux jack hurr hurr hurr” while they figured out how to copy Apple
about two more weeks ...
It's clear to me why we might be interested in using AI systems to explore our ethical intuitions, but far less clear why we would expect them to be able to answer such questions 'correctly'.

Given there are at least three decent metaethical positions, we have no way of selecting one as 'obviously better', and LLMs have no internal sense of morality, it seems to me that asking AI systems this kind of question is a category error.

Of course, the question "what might a utilitarian say was the right ethical thing to do if..." makes some sense. But if we're asking AI systems to make implicit moral judgements (e.g. with autonomous weapons systems) we should be clear about what ethics we want applied.