skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all saw what happened. The man was shaking his head long before the departure. He "didn't refuse" except by all communication and body language. If a man argued "she didn't refuse" after signaling in every way she wasn't interested, no one would buy your absurd and farcical assertion. They're only accepting it now because it suits their fictional premise. Even an autist can clearly see the disinterest.

"He didn't refuse" is the new propaganda to cover up how badly Zelensky fucked up in diplomacy. They sat the man down to sign it, then what we witnessed happened instead.
I currently work on a ~10+ year old project that has maybe half of this list, and if you _don't_ start this way, the toothpaste is near impossible to put back in the tube, and you're in for a world of hurt. If the early engineers don't work this way and the system makes its' way into production, then functional software + income is very difficult to override in the name of cleaning up messes.
Moreover, the problem as posed doesn't specify the direction of twiddling, which kind of gives away the answer.
This.

100% Reichstag fire.

When you increase the odds of catastrophe, you are also increasing the need for more authoritarian responses.
Forget about it, Windows 11 is chock full of "telemetry" to train MS/"OpenAI"/Copilot models to predict user behavior (that is, to make you obsolete) and ads. At some point, MS management has decided it is more lucrative for MSFT stock in times of AI craze to turn Windows against its users. It didn't have to become like this, and while I've never been a Windows person, it's sad to see Windows go. I've just recently setup probably my last Windows 10 tablet/"convertible" (that will remain on Windows 10, just made sure to install Windows 11 in addition/in a dual boot setup so I don't risk a drama going forward when it eventually needs 11), and the tablet features Windows 8 had and to a lesser degree Windows 10 still has were not half-bad and even had "soul"; I wish MS hadn't given totally up on mobile, tablets in education, etc.
Only because the Overton window has shifted enough to normalize it.
Author is keeping content on YT but also now on Floatplane. Discusses Floatplane. RAID1 is just a metaphor.
IPv6 address space may be trivial from this perspective, but imagine trying to establish two-way contact with a user on a smartphone on a mobile network. Or a user whose Interface ID (64 bits) is regenerated randomly every few hours.

Just try leaving a User Talk page message on Wikipedia, and good luck if the editor even notices, or anyone finds that talk page again, before the MediaWiki privacy measures are implemented.
Also Google:

Would you like to open this link in your phone’s default browser or download Chrome?

Yes/Download/Ask me again every time
Thanks I'll give it a shot! 0.85/month is CHEAP!
Reddit to "warn" users that upvote "violent" content
Nothing is stopping them from leaving the treaty. If it means your survival, it is a no brainer. Depending on other nations to honor their agreements for protection, etc is a joke. You have the US President openly speaking about annexing other nations and joining hands with Russia, Iran and North Korea. If that isn't enough of a warning than I don't know what is.
I did my PhD in that area, building the first working superconducting quantum processor (working in the sense of showing quantum speed up, although practically useless of course). That was one of the most fun things I did my entire life, I basically could work on all of the aspects of the computer from the cryostat, the microwave setup, control electronics, PCB manufacturing, chip design and fabrication, soldering, measurement software (written in Python and C++) to doing quantum theory calculations and analysing and visualising data. Nothing I did in my software career ever came close to that level of satisfaction (though there was also a ton of frustration involved).

So yeah I would be happy to work in that area again, though today there aren't that many well paying jobs there yet so I would take a big pay cut if doing that work, but if I wouldn't need to worry about money I would definitely work in that area again.
Windows XP was the beginning of the downhill slide for me because it was the first "phone home" version of Windows.

I'm not gonna gainsay anyone who says it was good, I'm sure they have lots of legitimate fond memories of Space Cadet Pinball, Half-Life 2, etc. But the Windows XP era was the first one where "what's happening with Windows" just passed me by. I was through with Microsoft's shenanigans starting around then.
If security through obscurity didn't provide any benefit then governments wouldn't have built entire frameworks for protecting classified information.
Yeah, I just went down a rabbit hole re-looking this up myself.

It seems that there's nothing unique about semaglutide, and %FFM loss is just a function of how rapidly you lose weight.

The most rapid losers on semaglutide have the same %FFM loss (30%) as bariatric patients, for example.

And if you don't want to lose weight that fast, you can just temper the dose (unlike with bariatric surgery).
Private Equity's $24B Walgreens Bid Is Wild
There Are Other People in the World
What, pray tell, is disingenuous?

Sure, the comment is a bit pointed, but isn’t the GOP the party of “F%#k Your Feelings”?

What part of my comment was false?
It doesn't really follow that we (humans) have to replicate how we (humans) gained intelligence, there very well could be a shortcut that doesn't involve millions of years of getting eaten by tigers.
Yes, everyone agrees with you. The claim you responded to was that you should have to be explicit, because it is very easy to unintentionally copy. For example, it is easy to copy when there is never more than one live pointer to a datastructure. It's easy to copy when you allocate a resource in a function and return it, which makes the original an orphan which is then immediately freed. It's extremely easy to make a mistake which prevents move from working and you have to go back and carefully check if you want to be sure. It should be trivial to just say "move this" and if something isn't right it's an error at compile time, rather than just falling back to silently being wasteful.
https://archive.is/CMbAT
Run Ad Nauseum instead of plain uBlock Origin. The websites get clicks on their ads, you still don't see any ads, and you poison your ad profile. Everybody wins.
I don't understand how either of those assertions answers my question.

1) Having a lot of problems doesn't mean you have to throw up your hands and take a totally unstructured approach to solving them.

2) So work on setting realistic budgets instead of slashing and burning things at random.

The problem with both of these is that they require people who a) know what they're doing and b) really want to make things better. The new US administration does not appear to fulfill either of those requirements.
Ukraine could easily help them. They have the people and technical know-how.
Yes, and the bus speed lower, so you're losing a bit of performance.
They have Académie Française which intends to control the language to an extent, in recent times focussing a lot on resisting then encroachment of English word and phrases, but IIRC their recommendations don't carry as much weight as many think and are often ignored even by government departments and other official French bodies.

The Académie do publish a dictionary every few decades though, there was a new edition recently, so there is a prescriptive dictionary for French even though it carries little weight in reality.

French is the only living language to attempt it to this extent, though the existence of one is enough to make my “there are none for living languages” point incorrect. It is difficult to pin a language down until no one really speaks it day-to-day (so it doesn't evolve at the rates commonly used languages do).
I’d like be able to uninstall Edge which, as of earlier today, isn’t possible without fairly focussed time consuming effort.
The actual videos that I store locally are in RAIDZ6, replicated using ZFS snapshots to two local online copies, with a third copy every night pushing data up to an Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive vault :)
Both are bad obviously, what a weird place to try to whataboutism
You're right! Next time I'll try faxing them instead /s
I'm not an expert on the actual biological mechanisms, but, it makes intuitive sense to me that both of those effects would occur in the situation you described from simple cells working on gradients: I was one of the authors on this paper during my undergrad[1] and the generalized idea of an eye being placed on a tail and having nerves routed successfully through the body via pheromone gradient is exactly the kind of error I watched occur a dozen times while collecting the population error statistics for this paper. Same thing with the kind of error of a face re-arranging itself. The "ants" in this paper have no communication except chemical gradients similar to the ones talked about with morphogen gradients. I'm not claiming it's a proof of it working that way, ofc, but, even simpler versions of the same mechanism can result in the same kind of behavior and error.

[1]: https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/alif2016/28/100/9940...
> You can also assume that both goblins are telling the truth right up until the moment they stop explaining the rules.

It says this in the very beginning.
Americans are overweight.

Our entire food chain is full of preservatives, carcinogens, and things that should not be consumed by living beings .

I've spent small amounts of time in Europe, and each time literally just eating whatever junk food I wanted, I came home losing 10 or 20 pounds. The food outside of the US is just fundamentally better.

Let's say you're a teenager and you want to buy yourself some soda, in America the vast majority of the time you're not getting real sugar, you're getting hyper processed corn syrup. Before you know it all types of weird crap isn't everything you eat. And this has disastrous effects .

Ozempic is really a shortcut to an extremely complicated problem. Realistically if you want to eat quality food you have to move to another country, it's that bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT_(treaty)
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I too want ableton on Linux but then what about our vsts. Would we need a Linux version for all those too?
I am tempted to call the 64 Ariane Grande.
Now can we use this to do smog checks on cars as they drive so I can avoid the biennial chore of taking the car in to a shop?
Poland does have one nuclear reactor, although it is a small 30 MW research reactor and not a power plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_reactor
I think this is silly and misunderstands why / how Reddit users vote.

Users on reddit vote on instinct almost. They don't know the subs rules, they don't even know the sites rules. You could have a "cats only" sub and if a cute puppy shows up on someone's feed, they'll upvote it. Reddit voters don't care about the context or rules, and no amount of reminders will make them care, and on highly visible posts they always outnumber the amount of thoughtful voters, always.

The answer here is to give the hall monitors a bigger stick and poke voters who vote wrong, who don't know / care that they're voting wrong.

Sorry Reddit, your system just doesn't have voters who care / you've got a system that has never given them a reason to care and wagging a finger with warnings is not enough to change that.
After some research, mostly in /r/GermanCitizenship, I recently applied for and received my German passport, based on my mother being German at the time I was born.

There are a lot of subreddits with a lot of useful information. Search for "citizenship by descent" (not just on reddit and not just about Germany) and you'll be overflowing with stuff.
AI finds 5k-year-old civilization beneath Dubai desert
Thank you for that. I just got around to looking it up and that definitely explains it.

I wonder if there's a carry on effect of advocating for domestic steel production to get that benefit without drawing a lot of attention to it?
I'm pretty sure I watched that live at the time too
If you could solve the simpler problems, you’d be able to solve the larger problem. But you can’t, because you can’t even solve a simple problem.
Reading books is great! Wonderful technology that I continue to marvel at and benefit from, along with the public library system here in the USA.
I use a mix of Calibre and paper notes in a folder to track my reading, in part because I wouldn't pay for the privilege of tracking my reading when I am capable of using a pencil, and Calibre has columns and custom columns (priority, rating, notes, highlights). Coupled with NoDRM plugin (see mobileread forum) and never buying from Amazon (or using any Amazon product (Goodreads), or any other that gleans my usage behavior, as far as I understand it, anyway, and on balance with my goals), I'm confident my epubs are right where I left them, unaltered except by me (my child is legally blind but can read very large font, so stripping DRM and using KOReader on a Kobo ereader allows for large-enough text).
While reading is good, reading and acting on one's understanding is better. We're all mortal, so join the mess and share your knowledge, wisdom, and skills even as you gain more through books, up until your final paragraph (which in really good stories I tend to cover with my hand so I don't glance ahead).
If all I do is read, that's me being selfish and asleep at the wheel (or just along for the ride). I'd rather be awake and engaged, participating in democracy for as long as I'm able.
Thank you for announcing you lack of understanding. I will update my priors. I was hoping somebody wouldn't find it funny, because that makes it even funnier to me!
Requiring the fee to post will suppress poor people, not spammers. Bad actors will happily pay to spread/promote spam/misinformation.
The problem with learning Swedish is 95% of Swedes speak English and are more than happy to speak English.
ByteDance shared the TikTok content recommender, which I'd argue is somewhat close to an ad recommender :)
I'm genuinely baffled about how to even respond to this.

That's your reply? That there's an even worse person who isn't in the slot?
https://heldercorreia.bitbucket.io/speedcrunch/
> Not to be confused with D.A.F.T.: A Story About Dogs, Androids, Firemen and Tomatoes.

This is almost as good as Eric Raymond having a disambiguation for a cartoon villain.
What seems to be happening (to me) is roughly every other generation MS makes massive changes to the OS which most people hate for being different, then they release a new version of the OS which is just basically polishing those features, maybe walking a couple back, and that becomes the "beloved" version of windows.

People hated Vista, and loved 7. Yet 7 was really just vista with a bit of polish. What changed is when 7 came out the average computer capabilities had gone up significantly.

People hated 8, but loved 10. The only real difference between the two is MS dropping the weird tablet mode that nobody wanted/asked for.

People currently hate 11, I suspect 12 will be loved mostly because MS will back off a bit on some of the new innovative UI changes and advertising everywhere.
>Are you comparing people who took a decision to end their life with people who never asked to be killed?

No I am not. I am saying your logic is invalid because it DOES apply to people who never asked to be killed. If you USE your logic to justify euthansia, then I'm saying it's invalid because that argument can justify murder as well.

>Getting treated != healed.

So you're saying people can never be healed through treatment? I think we have a bigger societal problem here. Psychologists and doctors have no reason to exist in this world because their entire job is treatment and treatment doesn't heal people. We should concentrate on solving that problem first.

To honest, you can't respond to a complex statement with a simple one liner argument that completely mischaracterizes what's going on.

You = wrong.
Modular DNA origami-based electrochemical detection of DNA and proteins
First time I've seen a windows update on the front page of HN. What's particularly interesting or news worthy about this update?
I'm dealing with a lot of this right now. The product managers working on the Windows App SDK just cannot seem to fathom the notion that not all Win32 apps are written in .NET or C++. I've got a GUI written in Go that I'm adding WinUI3 features to, but I pulled that off _despite_ their SDK, not _because_ of their SDK.

The irony of all of this is that WinRT is built atop COM, which should allow it to bind with any language that supports a C-based FFI on Windows. But then they add all this XAML codegen crap that's C++ or C#-only, pulling us in too deep.
Is REI turning into a corporate retailer?
i think the opposite, the error accumulation thing is basically the daily experience of using LLMs.

As for the premise that models cant self correct that's not the argument i've ever seen, transformers have global attention across the context window. It's that their prediction abilities are increasingly poor as generation goes on. Is anyone having a different experience than that?

Everyone doing some form of "prompt engineering" whether with optimized ML tuning, whether with a human in the loop, or some kind of agentic fine tuning step, runs into perplexity errors that get worse with longer contexts in my opinion.

There's some "sweet spot" for how long of a prompt to use for many use cases, for example. It's clear to me that less is more a lot of the time

Now will diffusion fare significantly better on error is another question. Intuition would guide me to think more flexiblity with token-rewriting should enable much greater error correction capabilities. Ultimately as different approaches come online we'll get PPL comparables and the data will speak for itself
Bitwig user here - it's developed by former Ableton developers and the sandboxing system they use for plug-ins makes it rock-solid. Even when a plug-in does crash (which is rare) - it doesn't take the entire DAW with it.
Time Trouble
USD is so much cleaner, true
I'm not talking about the fine tuning that make them side with the user even when they are wrong (anyway, this is less and less common now compared to the past, but anyway it's a different effect). I'm referring if in the template you make the assistant reply starting with wrong words / directions, and the LLM finds a way to say what it really meant saying "wait, actually I was wrong" or other sentences that allow it to avoid following the line.
Good to know there's an OSS alternative.
As a presumptive juror I was once asked how I felt about "chemical evidence". I responded by arguing that pretty much all evidence is chemical evidence. I challenged the room to contradict me (which they could've, but nobody did).

I ended up on the jury, so apparently this performance successfully masked my pro-defense bias.

"Chemical evidence" turned out to mean measurements of pupil dilation as evidence of an inability to drive safely.
> just a brief list of what I'd like to mention to shutdown the argument that I don't know what I'm talking about.

Maybe try a puzzle game (sokoban games provide a similar experience to the one you describe), or a multiplayer one. It seems your experience with games is fairly limited, and what you've done here is basically the equivalent of listing a bunch of Marvel movies to "shut down" the argument that you don't know much about cinema. Or for a more topical example, listing the Harry Potter books and Tolkien as proof you are well read.

> None of these games were ever the same experience as a book

Well it's a good thing we're talking about "mental stimulation" rather than "giving you the same experience as a book". There are obvious differences between games and books. Games have a controller, books often do not. Games often have different colours in them, books rarely do. I don't see much productive in you simply telling me that a game is different from a book, I know this. It is the core of my argument. That a game is different from a book, provides a greater level of mental stimulation, and yet doesn't have the supposed mental benefits that reading does, therefore these benefits are likely overstated in books. I also hypothesise that observed benefits of reading come from ideas presented in specific books rather than the mere act of reading any text. Any difference between games and books is only relevant to this discussion as it relates to those ideas.
It could be done in one city. Parts of this are being done in Las Vegas but just the bits about roads. It should be a big city to reap the benefits of not sitting on the highway for a few hours a day.
That’s been noted but doesn’t change the fact that tech products have become increasingly user-hostile over the last two decades, while QA spending is way down.

Personally I thought the first twenty-five years of SNL were great, and it is good recently.
Most people use this tool as an alternative to the official SEC website since it also displays the original SEC document alongside the chat interface. So you can think of it as a complimentary tool to other financial tools (like Bloomberg terminal etc) as opposed to a replacement. The pricing also reflects this.
Web PKI is not TOFU in the specific instance where you have an a priori trusted url you know about. But I, and others, argue that this isn't actually that strong of a guarantee in practice. I'm just trusting that this URL is the real life entity I think it is. The only thing you get is that you're connected to someone who has control of the domain. And it's pretty clear that with ACME and DNS challenges we don't need a huge centralized system to do this much weaker thing, you just need any DNS server you trust, it can even be yours.
I feel like https://xkcd.com/927/ applies
Even if I tend to bash Google for how the whole Sun thing went down, or how they kind of mishandle Java support, one thing to really appreciate is how despite all the killed projects they are known for, they managed to have a business unit that firmly believed in an OS with managed userspace and pushed it at all costs.

What Longhorn could have been if the .NET and Windows Development teams actually worked together and not against each other.
So the only thing protecting classified docs is the public not knowing where they are? That's what security through obscurity is.
Good, I suppose, given our colonial history of dominating and exploiting people and land to grow bananas to ship to the USA. I tend not to buy them even if they're cheap. Fortunately I'm in Washington state and there are so many delicous apples.
Love that it's open source. Here's the magic sauce, i.e. system prompt:

> I want to translate this part of a book text to swedish. Translate to EASY swedish. Make the sentence structure easy. Make the words easy. Simplify it to A1 level while maintaining the story meaning. output ONLY the translation. Use the previous text and after text to understand the context. previous text: "{previous_text}" after text: "{after_text}" text to translate: $BEGIN_TEXT${original_chunk}$END_TEXT$ " DO NOT SKIP ANY TEXT INSIDE $BEGIN_TEXT$ and $END_TEXT$
Do they still actually analyze the gas? When I did mine they just plugged into the computer and it was done in 10 seconds.
1. EU citizenship is not a thing. You can only have citizenship of a EU member state.
2. Looking at who the majority of Americans voted for no thanks.
Show HN: IEMidi –  Cross-platform MIDI map editor for arbitrary controllers
U.S. Likely to Ban Chinese App DeepSeek from Government Devices
https://archive.ph/zLmIv
Self hosting your alerting tool seems like madness to me, but, you do you.
This isn't new.

Funny how these same mods loved it when it was applied against r/The_Donald, but oh - NOW this is "a slippery slope".