skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which provides the nexus, are we being prejudiced when we arrest the couple banging on a park hill in view of public? Or is there actually some deteriorated outcome from that other than it don't seem right.
Much like Tiktok getting a reprieve for suppressing negative videos about Trump or Elon.
> If you are debating it, then you've lost.

Also worth noting the modern mode of propaganda that Russian started using several years ago:

> We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “[N]ew Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”2

> Contemporary Russian propaganda has at least two other distinctive features. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency.

[…]

> The experimental psychology literature suggests that, all other things being equal, messages received in greater volume and from more sources will be more persuasive. Quantity does indeed have a quality all its own. High volume can deliver other benefits that are relevant in the Russian propaganda context. First, high volume can consume the attention and other available bandwidth of potential audiences, drowning out competing messages. Second, high volume can overwhelm competing messages in a flood of disagreement. Third, multiple channels increase the chances that target audiences are exposed to the message. Fourth, receiving a message via multiple modes and from multiple sources increases the message's perceived credibility, especially if a disseminating source is one with which an audience member identifies.

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
How many jobs will AI eliminate? Nobody knows, and here's why
Saying Mozilla made its money on search is misleading. It made money because Google paid to be the default search engine. Without that deal Mozilla would be in a much worse state. It's why Mozilla is scrambling to become an ad company.
> Since it is naturally occurring, it isn't patentable

Supplements are a $50bn business [1].

[1] https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-dieta...
Mark my words, in ten years, at least three out of Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Canada will have nuclear weapons.

I am really excited to see a new chapter in nuclear proliferation unfold.
To paraphrase one of my favorite historians - Every sweeping historical generalization has a "probably doesn't apply to the Monguls" exception. If you don't expect your professor to waste chalk writing this over and over, then he won't grade you down for omitting it from your test answers and term paper.
I don't think it's wrong to blame people who make life more difficult for others for their own aggrandizement

The game doesn't exist without players. I could make more money if I worked at Meta or Amazon, but at what cost?

I understand the realities of Game Theory, but then one could argue that being blamed and criticized for one's choices is also part of the game.
"Mr Wolfcastle, how do you sleep at night?" "On a big pile of money with many beautiful ladies"
I'm glad you've had good experiences with it. The experiences I've had are not great, to say the least. I rode in my friend's Model Y over the holidays and it drove slower than all other cars on the road to an unsafe level, nearly rear ended a car, and came to a full stop at a green light twice. For me personally, I just don't really trust it.
I'm in a similar boat.

I'm nearsighted and don't need glasses to see my computer screen clearly at all. But nevertheless I started getting headaches from eye strain.

Went to the optometrist, got a pair of glasses just to reduce eye strain at screen distance. Zero difference in sharpness, but I can work all day long with zero eye fatigue.
Even for leisure, many topics are better served by more timely online options. I certainly read more now than I did before the internet, but that includes only 1 book in the last year.
I think what we need is something that wouldn’t replace online content but would add a new layer, an alternative for those who want more real-world interaction… and maybe even for those who don’t realize they’d enjoy it yet, a new way of ditributing content is what i expect.
Next thing we’ll get DOM events beforecommand and aftercommand. /s

In principle this declarative approach goes in the right direction, but without an overarching concept and vision of the web UI of the future, this feels like adding just another wrinkle to the stack.
"Microsoft has poured over $13 billion into the AI firm since 2019..."

My understanding is that this isn't really true, as most of those "dollars" were actually Azure credits. I'm not saying those are free (for Microsoft), but they're a lot cheaper than the price tag suggests. Companies that give away coupons or free gift certificates do bear a cost, but not a cost equivalent to the number on them, especially if they have spare capacity.
I disagree. I think Google Chrome has a unique anti-compeitive advantage similar to 1990s Microsoft in bundling their web browser (chrome) on the world’s most popular operating system (android). The biggest difference is now that barrier to entry for generating a web engine is significantly higher than it ever has been, and over the years many of the competitors have given up on the pursuit. At the same time, there are more web users than ever before, and the web is a bigger part of daily life than ever before.

I might not be so worried if there weren’t clear privacy considerations with surfing the web and Chrome has no incentive to minimize it because of the ad-tech revenue Google generates.
It depends on how this is all handled. If Chromium/Blink were handed over to a Blender-style non-profit that were sponsored by the enormous number of companies that depend on it (including several cash-flush multinationals), things would continue more or less as-is, minus inappropriate changes requested by non-Chrome branches of Google.

I think it’s also possible that in a world where Chrome/Blink is no longer guaranteed to dominate there’d be increased interest in contributions to WebKit, which is still quite open and flexible, helping bring it up to par for non-Apple platforms.
Physics 1A: the center of mass does not change. It is irrelevent. The tendancy to tip over is how wide the base is: look at the LEM. Big wide base. Did not tip over. None of them tipped over. They tip over faster on earth due to larger Earth's gravity and mass.
Right. If they're not going to let me preserve my copy myself, then they should have to do it for me.
This whole story is like a Hollywood style comedy script of bumbling officials more concerned with themselves and a photo op than anything else.

> But DOGE’s representatives were repeatedly rebuffed by officials; the Jones pumps were temporarily offline and couldn’t pump water at the facility because of a planned PG&E power outage for line maintenance.

>After the fruitless back-and-forth, Reclamation officials were informed representatives of DOGE wanted to “turn on the pumps” themselves, a person familiar with the matter said.

Followed by:

>But the men’s request to have a photo taken of them turning on the Jones pumps didn’t happen; Shang wasn’t an official government employee, he wasn’t allowed inside the pump facility’s control room, which is under strict cybersecurity protocols. Hassen had to travel back before the electricity was scheduled to be restored.

They flew all the way out there, likely on the taxpayer's dime, to do a thing they could have called ahead and found out they couldn't do...

Later:

>Ultimately, 2.2 billion gallons flowed out of the two dams into a dry California lakebed before panicked local water managers and Republican and Democratic California lawmakers beseeched the Army Corps to shut it down. It was enough water to irrigate 6,000 acres of thirsty almond trees for a year.

Government inefficiency and morons right there ... brought to you by the Trump Administration.
The third party vouches commitments with their year of birth for all individuals. The secret opening can be distributed to citizens with their identity card. Also multiple properties can be signed at the same time like location coordinates that can be used for other purposes and hence not making vouching exclusive to age verification.
https://archive.is/ChzNQ
It's been a transition, but, one of the parts I've learned to be thankful for, as a newly experienced citizen under fascism, is the link between paternal fascism and bread and circus. I missed in my 2008 era Poli Sci that there was a link between the two
Next Generation of Weight Loss Drugs Being Researched at UConn
I have honestly never heard of movable type on the web or is it all movable, rather than carthartic it's confusing.
Trump is going to demand a lot more than the few million Google donated for that. I doubt Trump would settle for anything less than a public grovelling to every Google/YouTube user (like TikTok), serious and significant pro-Trump tinkering with the ranking algorithms, or maybe a few billion purchase of $TRUMP.
AI is just hydraulics for the mind. Or should be.

I choose a direction and apply force.
This is just some guy on twitter
Pretty sure most has well boards come with UEFI. At least my ivy ridge Z77 board at the time did. God, those were the days, one could buy a proper motherboard for like 80$.
I do think that XMR is the one crypto (at least that I'm aware of) that actually delivers on the original vision. But that's exactly why governments despise it. It's very difficult to buy. I am really into the tech behind XMR. But I do feel that a bet on it is a bet on a future where governments completely lose control of things. And I am just not convinced that it will come to pass. As you say, surveillance is winning.
The internet died when GeoCities died
The horrors of war can be used an excuse for fighting wars. WMDs in Iraq, anyone?
This is an over-simplification at best. Some features of English grammar and spelling were planned changes - yes, based on other languages, but with particular agenda in mind. Generally grammatical changes were to conform English to Latin grammar: the stricture that one should avoid a split infinitive was introduced for this reason. Spelling in mediæval times was often changed to reflect the semantics and Latin or Greek roots rather than pronunciation - a good example being the change from "det" to "debt", introducing a silent "b". Later, some spellings were changed for political reasons, e.g. replacing "tire" (the iron rim binding a wooden wheel together) with "tyre" to disguise the derivation from French.

In brief, then, English does have some similarities with con-langs.
I'm sure he'd settle for downranking every journalist he doesn't like and increasing the rank of every news source that fellates him.
This doesn't seem a fair analogy. Elon Musk is not being paid by the government, as I understand.

The reason the manager flying around spending money to attend a downsizing meeting is gross is that the manager is spending company money (that could go to prevent downsizing).

To complete the analogy, you would need to be implying that Elon's personal money should be paid to fund federal services.
I like to refer to this as resume driven development.
> and converting their entire computer environment into a powerful runic device that requires complex incantation

I already have a Linux machine, but yes this looks like a nice addition;)
Lingonaut: A language learning to teach, not profit
Meters, not miles :)
I dislike uefi because I have to install and update the boot loader into the motherboard instead of the motherboard/cpu just running what's on disk. Not portable in the slightest. Some hardware failure preventing boot? You need another system and OS ready to go or download and burn a usb boot disk. Somehow that works but I can't just do that for my m.2 disk.

What does it get me? A fancier "bios" menu that supports a mouse. Big whoop.
Could you land a weeble? So it wobbles and does not fall down.
Why a quantum leap isn’t the length of an Ångstrom will always sadden me. I’m sure there are other scientific concepts you can use to describe a Great Leap Forward…
Well the Mongols are the exception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqcVro-3f4I
High memory consumption or memory leak on Intel integrated graphics
You know what, when I spent a summer there I do remember it being hilarious how many things had warnings.
Sounds like two totally different driving situations and the results are about what I'd expect: highway driving vs city driving.
Almost no discussion matters as long as Google Analytics/fonts is embedded in almost every website you visit. EFF is looking at individual grains of sand on a beach of surveillance.

Pornhub publishes insights on their blog where they include an age/gender/country breakdown of their viewers. That data must come from somewhere, likely google analytics or something like it, which means that there is a thriving surveillance market whether there is age verification or not.

The surveillance is already happening, there isn't any need to backdoor it because it's already there.

People think google is a search company, but it's not. People think Facebook is a social media company, but it's not.

They are privatized intelligence companies, intelligence as in the I in CIA. And rather than that intelligence being used to, said charitably, make America a safer place, that intelligence is being leveraged to make rich people richer and less regulated.

Not enough of a spotlight is on privatized intelligence functions. It's no wonder it feels like corporations have more power than the government, they have access to mini privatized CIAs, with arguably much less oversight.
I know space is hard but so many of these missions seem to fail in such silly ways. In this case, this company's both missions had the same problem attributed to its "tall thin design". Why do they keep making the same mistake again and again?

> "The failure of Athena....was almost identical to IM’s first moon landing in February 2024"

> "Athena had the same tall, thin design that some experts had feared could lead to a repeat of the accident."
without locking you into a single cloud vendor ;)
> Anyone can go build a web browser if they want to.

Anyone can build a web browser that can navigate the web as it existed in the 90s, but that's not true of the modern web. To a cynical observer it would certainly appear that Google has made a concerted effort to make the web standards nearly impossible to fully implement from scratch. I look forward to seeing if Ladybird can actually become production ready and fully usable, but that effort is notable precisely because the conventional wisdom is that it's essentially impossible to compete with Google anymore with a new browser.

Only Safari really exists in a form that can check Google's power—which is ironically only possible because of Apple's walled garden that prevents all other engines from competing on their platform.
I agree, and I suspect there are large numbers of unknown bugs in a lot of data frame based applications.

But to do it right you'd need a pretty good type system because these applications implicitly use a lot of isomorphisms between different mathematical objects. The current solution is just to ignore types and treat everything as a bag of floats with some shape. If you start tracking types you need a way to handle these isomorphisms.
1. Musk is not involved in either Waymo or Uber.

2. You can see it right now. I have personally taken a ride in a Waymo taxi.
this seems simple, but they avoided an obvious data point: how much do solar owners earn by selling back to the grid, and how much do consumers of that energy pay for it?
I’ll believe their proficiency claims when they replace all their software developers, knowledge workers and PhDs with this stuff.
I still remember all those "guides" about how to design your page, so that the annoying forced ad gets not served / shown.
A sensor-actuator–coupled gustatory interface for remote tasting
This is an issue we've encountered in our products - and I've seen it impact Intel graphics processors, as far back as gen 8.
I saw a P65 warning on a car.
Full title:

A sensor-actuator–coupled gustatory interface chemically connecting virtual and real environments for remote tasting
wow, ibis supports nearly 20 backends, that's impressive
I think it does change the situation when you're potentially dealing with lateral movement. In 1/6th of a g it takes less lateral velocity to topple over.
> Calories in and calories out

This is sort of like trying to fly a plane using Newtonian physics. Like, you can do it. But it’s more an exercise in pedantry than practicality.

My body, for example, loves to frivol away weight. I can eat like a pig and lounge around and my basal metabolism will spike and I won’t gain weight (nor lose much strength, though I do lose definition). Similar for people with metabolic syndrome: their bodies will literally start starving themselves by cutting basal metabolism in reaction to less food or more exertion before they’ll give up some fat cells. Not everyone who is obese has metabolic syndrome. But you’re going against the science if you insist all we need is diet and exercise education.
This is a popular science article, not a scientific paper.
That is fundamentally the problem with this type of offering.

You can't claim it's even comparable to a mid level engineer because then you'd hardly need any engineers at all.
Or Brazil where the DSc student stipend is 3100 BRL (roughly 500 EUR).
What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain
it's probably a knee jerk reaction to the horrendousness[0] that MySpace allowed users to do to their pages which was just a follow of some of the bonkers designs from GeoCities.

[0] so bad a new word is used for it
Particle physicist here with my perfunctory plea to not name software after particles. Makes it much harder to find things :)

(Though if someone could write a positron program that zaps all electron instances that would be welcome)
It’s a weird in between, IMO. I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s not emulation, because in most places the original architecture’s state is maintained and functions are hooked through macros like PPC_FUNC - the original source code is not fully ported to the host platform, but relies on a set of compile and runtime tricks which, well, emulate the properties of the guest. But yes, it’s not traditional emulation and things are gradually ported to be more “native” over time.
I don't think the egotistical notion that the viewer would succeed where others failed is even a thing, or that it takes a "certain type of person". It's just that violence is stimulating and fun to the perpetrators and witnesses. Civilization is not something innate, it's something that must be learned and maintained and practiced or else we lose it.
Hadn't heard about that what happened?
Well, basically, that sums it all up.
The problem with the internet is the mixing of different contexts. You can have cute cats, disney fandom, hobbies, politics, porn, extremism all on the same platform. In the real world you don't have strip clubs at disney world or children wandering about in a bar.
window.top.location = window.location
You can browse through archived GeoCities websites on The Geocities Gallery [0]

I get a warm feeling looking through all these "home pages", they feel so much more genuine and personal than anything found on modern social media.

[0] https://geocities.restorativland.org/
Interesting to see this presented as a puzzle- I've never thought about it academically, but knew the answer immediately from hands on experience. Slipping metal bearings over metal shafts when the inner diameter of the bearing is less than the outer diameter of the shaft is a piece of cake if you throw the bearing into a toaster oven for 15-20 minutes first. It'll drop right on right down to the base no problems. When they're unheated you wouldn't be able to get them on and down even with a significant amount of brute force hammering.
As @aranchelk said LL and LR grammars are literally that. They allow you to assign names to regexs and compose them.

Libraries like python's lrparsing [0] let you assign regex's (aka tokens) to variables, then build grammars by combining them using python expressions. For example:

while_statement = Keyword('while') + '(' + expression + ')' + block
statement = while_statement | ....
block = Token('{') + Repeat(statement + ';') + Token('}')

These grammars are more complex, with more rules you have to follow, but also more checking is done when they are compiled. They tend to mostly work once they do compile. So they are what you asked for, but there is no free lunch.

On the down side, lrparsing is pure python so it's slower than python's inbuilt regex's.

[0] https://lrparsing.sourceforge.net/
https://archive.ph/C3kGV

> Even infrequent users—those who used, on average, roughly three times a month—scored higher on a delusional-thought scale than ex–ketamine users, people who took other drugs, and people who didn’t use drugs at all. Those who averaged 20 uses a month scored even higher. People believed that they were the sole recipients of secret messages, or that society and people around them were especially attuned to them. The psychological profile of a frequent ketamine user, Morgan and her team concluded, was someone who had “profound” impairments in short- and long-term memory and was “distinctly dissociated in their day-to-day existence.”
'Extinction level' cuts coming to NASA, report says
I use different corrections for laptop at about 18-28" and reading in an armchair at 15-23" -ish. It's really not a big difference in distance!! - and still very noticeable.

It's not for avoiding outright headaches (I don't get vision headaches) but it's clearly more comfortable. It's quite possible that what's pleasant is in part the change of pace - but it is also better adapted for sharpness.
Yeah, boot menus and UEFI configuration as the sibling suggests.

This is actually a huge problem with DDR5 memory training. Since memory training must happen before the GPU is brought up, the screen stays blank for that duration (which can take several minutes). The only indication that it's happening is in debug LEDs if your motherboard has them.
I know a lot of people in the AV space. Tesla and their camera only approach is a joke in the space. They're years behind other players.
My guess to the most probable source is the human body...
Absolutely no substitute for research and the facts. Thanks for the research.
One thing nobody remembers (or at least never writes about in these retrospectives) from the early days of Geocities is you literally had to virtually "walk" up and down "blocks" in the the "neighborhoods" to find a "vacant lot" to put your site in. When I initially tried to sign up, they had some beta of a "vacant lot finder" cgi form that didn't work. It wasn't like these days where you just sign up and get an account - there was scarcity and a bit of a hunt.

I ended up going to some other service (it may have been Tripod?) to host my page before we switched ISPs to one that gave you 2 MB of space.

As far as I can tell the "blocks" were never archived so they're missing from the internet archive. You can see the indexes of them here https://web.archive.org/web/19961221013557/http://www.geocit...
I tend to view apples AI approach as calm and sane. They aren't burning cash, and their consumers are happy.
> If Chromium/Blink were handed over to a Blender-style non-profit that were sponsored by the enormous number of companies that depend on it (including several cash-flush multinationals),

The "that depend on it" is a past tense analysis. When those "cash-flush multinationals" need to roll out the next version of their product, are they going to continue to bet on a "Blender-style non-profit"?

Or are they just going to ship an iOS app like everyone else since "everyone knows web sucks on Apple now" and "everyone has an iPhone anyway"?