skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know a lawyer who was convicted on one of those. The detectives had the mic + transmitter taped to his groin so it would get through a pat down. Then the undercover just spoke both sides of the conversation (the defendant's side was whispered and muffled). Someone testified it sounded like the defendant. Conviction was overturned on appeal on a simpler issue unrelated to the evidence.

In fact, I remember a drug dealer I was helping with his defense. Hidden mic on undercover was taped under his armpit. He arrived to defendant's hotel room for a deal and defendant made him undress. The recording is hilarious because defendant is like "You fucking snitch, what's that under your armpit?" and the undercover says "It's my .. er .. MP3 player?" LOL
He wasn't trolling; the memo was intended for other similar academics, and the targets were all chosen to be outside of their bubble: on the "them" side rather than "us". None of his colleagues were using PL/I, Fortran, or Cobol, so they could just have chuckle. They weren't running a business depending on a single vendor, with crushing complexity, so hahaha, those guys are idiots. Etc.
"Marketing and evangelism" => the arrow has been going down for like ten years now. Better strategy?? Not in the OP. They are actually begging the government for pity.

Not just now, but Mozilla's own argument here is they can't sustain themselves in the long-term without an illegal trust agreement.
Demos of Manus AI agent use cases [video]
> Can you describe why there's a big push for self checkout? I suspect there's a bigggg difference between countries, so this all sounds very alien.

I love self-checkout as long as they give you the scanner to carry around (or mount on the shopping cart). The entire shopping process is just so much quicker, havent waited in a checkout line in years. The same amount of space for 3 cashiers can have 10+ self-checkout machines as least.

> To me people pushing for self checkout sounds like somebody preferring self service over full service gas stations - I find it difficult to understand.

Might be cultural, but full-service gas stations sound bizarre. Why would you need an attendant to do something so basic? Like a lift operator to press buttons for you.
Finally we agree.
Oh it is alright to destroy fundamental traditions that the English invented and fought for literally for millennia. That is fine. It only happens now and again!

There are numerous examples of the police in the UK arresting and prosecuting people for making simple statements of fact or giving their honest and reasonable opinions. It is not actually that rare.

It would if anything be better if it were more rigorously enforced, because it wouldn't last very long if it were. Instead, the threat of it looms over everyone.
>Sorry man, it's already in front of a federal judge. Your "just asking questions" period has expired.

Great. Hoping they'll get to the bottom of it.
Your research excluded the income and expenses of the company which produces the browser. Mozilla Foundation's program service revenue is Mozilla Corporation paying Mozilla Foundation to use Mozilla and Firefox trademarks.

Mozilla entities in 2023 received $495 million in royalties. This was 76% of revenue. Royalties means search deals essentially. Search deals means Google essentially. Total expenses were $497 million.
It definitely can. The sentence was decided as disproportionate to the crime. Illinois has a "proportional penalties" clause.

This is found in the Illinois Constitution, Article I, Section 11, which states: "All penalties shall be proportioned to the offense."
It's a bit of an over-generalization, though. Tech stack matters more and more, the larger a project gets, and the more people join it. Some languages and frameworks lend themselves better at long-term maintainability, as the code base gets larger. Other put so many foot-guns at your disposal, that you need a lot of discipline to keep things manageable. And, of course, once you start working together with others, the choice of language and framework becomes much more consequential, as it will limit who can join the project, how quickly they can become productive once they join, etc.
Probably this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbioCor

They technically worked but they were expensive, painful, and basically just kept you alive on a bed. In essence they were like a more invasive version of the iron lung but required a team to maintain.

For this reason while you may have heard it used it various trials with "success" they were considered a failure in the end and rejected by the FDA. I've spoken to some people who worked on it and the feelings are pretty bittersweet.

Learning from this, Abiomed later brought a heart pump called the "Impella" to market which works to assist your heart instead of replace it. This device is cool for different reasons and can actually save peoples lives instead of merely prolong them a few years.

The new artificial heart in the OP is more sophisticated than the AbioCor, the science keeps improving.
Do elaborate...
And the 2025 xpeng g6 is so much better than previous model, 5C charging battery, better ride, even better energy efficiency, better looks, better interior design, 30% of car parts are updated. And they delivered this update 2 years after the first model, when normally it takes other companies 5 years for an upgrade of this size. They have positive margins on a 17-20k RMB, 270 miles+, 350KW charging, FSD like autonomous driving EV, even though they have to price it this low due to ultra-competitive market. They can't do this without Chinese supply chain. Speed of iterations, innovations, fast time to market, efficiency is this all about.
>Those scales in the picture just scream “prove you’re not a criminal, scumbag”.

So what? This seems like such a weird thing to be concerned about. Do you get upset when you are asked for ID when you buy alcohol? Or when a police officer asks to see your driving licence?

>why would anyone opt into this if you can go to a different store instead?

Because weighing your trolley only takes a second and still saves time over scanning things manually?
It's no more of a pulse than any other dead short that would trip the breaker instantly rather than on a delay.

The fault current that a breaker is required to be able to interrupt is two orders of magnitude larger than we're talking about feeding into the wire, and a 15 amp breaker is designed to _not_ interrupt a 150 amp load until a second has passed (there's a rating curve for this): some loads might require that much current briefly, and the wire in the wall is not going to overheat in that time (that's why the breaker has the curve that it does: to model and therefore protect the allowable heating of the wiring).
(from the first puzzle)

> The venerable SMS system uses a message limit of 160 bytes. This was designed so that a message could fit in exactly one packet, thus being really cheap and fast to handle on first-generation mobile phone networks. Although the approach makes sense for technical reasons, it unfairly penalizes people who use non-latin (e.g. Russian, Greek, Japanese) alphabets - in most encodings, they need more bytes per character than latin alphabets.

Except that obviously the system is going to use an encoding that makes sense for the local language. It was long remarked that Chinese Twitter users enjoyed a less restrictive limit. [Practically no limit at all, since as this puzzle notes Twitter limited by the character instead of the byte.]

You need two bytes per character in Chinese (unless you really want to use UTF-8).

是她吗？ - 8 bytes
Is that her? - 12 bytes
是的 - 4 bytes
Yes - 3 bytes
我做了很多宝宝的表情包 - 22 bytes
I made a lot of stickers of her - 31 bytes

This doesn't look like a penalty to me. If we did switch the Chinese into UTF-8, it would take about as much space as the English.
I heard awful things about Cocomelon. My 17-months-old doesn't watch TV much, but when she does it's usually old Soviet cartoons lol.
Yes, with this device, there is no pulse.
I wonder whether it matters as to how those requiring CPR ended up in hospital in the first place: did they suffer a cardiac event outside of hospital, and arrive at hospital with CPR being continued, as opposed to those who were in hospital to begin with, but suddenly required CPR for whatever reason?

That line in itself seems to suggest that the likelihood of CPR being successful increases slightly when a victim is transported to hospital with CPR continuing throughout from the time of their cardiac event, versus those who never make it to hospital, because the CPR givers stop (exhausted, unable to continue) or because efforts before reaching hospital are considered pointless/time-of-death called (as it was clear to medical professionals that CPR isn't going to bring a clearly dead person back to life).
Brave gives you everything Premium for free.
It's pretty incredible to think that we're at a point in human history where we can map 450 million galaxies and probe the origins of the universe
Carmat a French company has a total heart product for a while in Europe. In February they celebrated the 100 implants, with the longest one lasting 25 month. https://www.carmatsa.com/en/our_product/

However this is really difficult and the company is struggling financially as the market is rather limited.
A closer look at the details behind the Go port of the TypeScript compiler
Microsoft's implementation has been cross platform for almost a decade now. You're way too late to the Mono FUD party.
~98% of people employed by the federal government work in the executive branch (if we count military, postal service, etc.)
As poster above you states, they are clinically dead at the point the heart is removed. Their brain has stopped functioning. There is no coming back. They are a meat popsicle.
A lot of these are actually just thin clients connected to an (AS/400?) mainframe, despite technically being fairly powerful (i5, Windows 7 Embedded, etc) PCs. This means every action and button press on the UI is actually a network call to somewhere, potentially even off-site. That probably doesn't help.
That's not the point though, I'm not anti-automation or anything like that. The point is, using robots on interfaces and systems made for people is not the way to go.

Why would you want to have your swipes on Tinder and your trip planning to Rio be automated through human interface? If it was for legit reasons it would have happened as from machine to machine communications. I'm big fan of the AI agent concept, my objection is that at in its current state people don't think out of the box and propose using the current infrastructure to delegate human functions instead of re-imagining the new world that is possible when working together with AI.
The sub-title of the article is completely unhinged:

> China's Dominance Playbook, General Purpose Robotics Is The Holy Grail, Robotic Systems Breakdown, Supply Chain Hardships, The West Is Positioned Backward And Covering Their Eyes, China's Clear Path to Full Scale Automation, Call For Action

I closed the page quickly despite the subject matter is something I am interested in. Also the AI generated images that have no raison d'etre of being there.
Oh thats easy, the population is constantly starving and maxing out, cannibalising on the young. Reptiles are great on surviving from very little. Once the abandunt food source enters that "starved" ecosystem , all those hungry husks get revived and inflated to full life.
> The issue is US culture has been giving priority to anti-industrialists

> Huge chunks of what China did are illegal. Running a successful industrial economy seems to violate a host of western employment & environmental laws as well as many regulations.

Come on. For the west to combat the “anti-industrialists”, you would have to suppress the choices and decisions of normal people, who don’t want to see others die for the sake of factory owners.

Just outright say that democracy doesn’t work, and that Chinese style autocracy does.

Get to the actual heart of the debate. Trying to replicate the Chinese economic model, while dodging the moral and philosophical choices that supports it, results only in deception and prevarication.

Anti-industrialists is arguing via classification and nouns; it just grants a short term win which fails to live up to its pomp when it hits an obvious counter point.

Seize the major question, have people accept and acknowledge the tradeoffs in all their misery and glory.
There is certainly a lot to be said for first-mover advantage, but TradeMe specifically (while still popular) is currently fighting a losing battle. Between rising listing fees, selling fees as a percentage of the product's value, and the influx of drop-shippers that flood categories with "local" products, its days are likely numbered. Personally, while 10 years ago everyone I knew was using it, I no longer know anybody that goes to TradeMe to sell everyday items. I'm not a fan of FB, but the fact that it's monetarily free to use makes all the difference for the average user.
IIRC this problem affects heart transplants as the nerve that controls the speed of the heart is severed during the operation.
The appeal is in the strong emotions which it induces. The crying is a side effect of this, not the appealing factor in itself.
Do you have data backing that up? Per https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/sizegame:

C#: 945 kB
Go: 2174 kB

Both are EXEs you just copy to the machine, no separate runtime needed, talks directly to the OS.
> I’m sure there’s thousands of brilliant developers who would gladly work for Mozilla for like $50k/yr if it was truly independent.

I am not sure. Can you convince me with evidence?
As for water detection, I'd imagine SPHEREx will be better suited for large-scale mapping rather than pinpointing water on specific planets
First official release of LLVM Flang
This looks pretty cool.

Whats the idle power consumption of the unit itself without devices connected?

I got rid of an old UPS recently that had surprisingly high power draw, and it didnt have any of these advanced features, screen, radios, etc.
Yeah I guess progressive refinement is limited in quality by how good the first N iterations are that establish the broad outlines.
I'm surprised they haven't started blocking Firefox too, since its market share continues to drop.
Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]
These devices have double batteries, external power, and will beep like crazy already quite a while before it runs flat.
Really sucks a company doing something important like this is struggling. Such kind of company shouldn't need to worry about profits because we know how profit-minded medical breakthroughs look like.
Don't be disingenuous. You know very well what the parent is talking about.

Random example: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/no-charges-in-koran-burn...

Also loads and loads of others. The Police in the UK are completely out of control.
What a truly powerful tool!
Hospital discharge != implant
Of course, that might be the easiest way. Given that you can get tiny magnets that are pretty strong but only a millimeters or so in size and therefore also light, you could just stick them to your different test masses in various configurations and see if it makes any difference while leaving the mass distribution pretty much unchanged.
From the article I am not totally convinced that "Telecom security sucks today", given they just randomly picked Freeswitch to find a buffer overflow. "Telecom stacks" might or might be not insecure but what's done here is very weak evidence. The Salt Typhoon attacks allegedly exploited a Cisco vulnerability, although the analysts suggest the attackers have been using proper credentials (https://cyberscoop.com/cisco-talos-salt-typhoon-initial-acce...) So nothing to do with Freeswitch or anything.
I meant that they (the shopifake shop designer) will iron out the grammar glitches that no llm would make as they get better at this.
> the lowest level representation that allows me some ergonomics

The ergonomics of compiling your code for every combination of architecture and platform you plan to deploy to? It's not fun. I promise.

> my default assumption to use JS runtimes on the server

AWS Lambda has a minimum billing interval of 1ms. To do anything interesting you have to call other APIs which usually have a minimum latency of 5 to 30ms. You aren't buying much of anything in any scalable environment.

> there is decreasing utility in familiarity with a language to be productive.

I hope you aren't planning on making money from this code. Either way, have fun debugging that!

> the advantages of scripting languages are being eroded away.

As long as scripting languages have interfaces which let them access C libraries either directly or through compiled modules they will have strong advantages. Just having a CLI where you can test out ideas and check performance is massively powerful and I hate not having it in any compiled project. Go has particularly bad ergonomics here as writing test cases are easy but exploring ideas is not due to it's strictness down to even the code styling level.
Imagine the value after cosmic inflation kicks in
No, its just that these things are obvious. There were many many very similar innovations at the same time that were very similar, we just remember the one that won.
Binary Security found the undocumented APIs for Azure API Connections. In this post we examine the inner workings of the Connections allowing us to escalate privileges and read secrets in backend resources for services ranging from Key Vaults, Storage Blobs, Defender ATP, to Enterprise Jira and SalesForce servers.
Give the author some grace. Sheesh. You sound like a toxic senior dev

What about opening an issue with the incorrect results
This isn’t even strictly true; Maryland, one of the original colonies, was founded as a haven for Catholics and named after a Catholic queen.
> that seems to be the norm now.

According to whom?
You somehow forgot Russian drone attacks that happen literally each day.
“I hate both sides” well, I hate you, and would pray ww3 would start.
I wrote 362 words on why language rewrites are a faulty indicator of language quality with multiple examples and anecdotes, and you hyper-fixated on the very first sentence of my comment, instead of addressing the substance of my claim. In what alternate universe is that a good faith argument? If you were truly arguing in good faith you'd restate your position in whichever way you'd like your argument represented, and then proceed to respond to something besides the first sentence. Regardless of how strongly or weakly you believe that "native representations win out", my argument about misusing language rewrite anecdata still stands, and it would have been far more productive to respond to that point.

> If I said "If you drink and drive you will inevitably get into an accident" - would you argue against that statement?

If we were having a discussion about automobile safety and you wrote several hundred words about why a specific type of accident isn't indicative of a larger trend, I wouldn't respond by cherry picking the first sentence of your comment, and quoting Google definitions about a phone ringing.
That's a good question. Given how frequently NASA's science budget gets caught in political crosswinds, it's definitely a concern
I found that lobste.rs had a much narrower range of views on every topic. And the intolerance of other views is presented far less eloquently than here. People just get hard downvoted or banned. Not just the obvious political ones but technical views too: dynamic typing is rubbish, cryptocurrency is rubbish, etc
What's the use case here? Power outages?

In Europe we have plug-in batteries that just cycle PV every day to lower your electrical bill. But these are usually 2,5kWh or 5kWh.

In Europe you are hard limited to 800watt on a normal plug, no way you can do 2,4kW without a special fuse.
Full service gas stations are popular for the same reason drive thru 'everything' is popular. It's just much more convenient. Drive in, hand some cash over, wait a few moments, perhaps have some random banter with the attendant, drive off.
You can do this already by yourself or use a service which you need not even trust.

Every x seconds, collect all the pieces of data that need to be notarized as existing in the world prior to some time t. It can be an arbitrary amount of data.

Construct a Merkle Tree[1] of all the hashes (or HMACs) of all the data to be notarized. Compute the Merkle Root. Make sure that everyone gets their Merkle Proof (path from leaf to root) or publish the Merkle Tree publicly.

Embed the Merkle Root into a one or more cryptocurrency blockchains to exploit their immutability guarantees. By either including it as "additional data" to some transaction or just straight up as a fictional cryptocurrency address.

Every piece of data processed in this way will have a Merkle Proof (cryptographic path from hash of the data to the Merkle Root) that proves it existed prior to the creation of the Merkle Root. The Merkle Root will have its creation time bounded by the proof of work conducted on the cryptocurrency blockchain.

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree>
Gemma 3: Google's new multimodal models
Google released their new Gemma 3 multimodal (text + image) models. Gemma 3 comes in 1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B sizes and the 27B model matches Gemini-1.5-Pro on many benchmarks. It introduces vision understanding, has a 128K context window, and multilingual support in 140+ languages.

Interestingly the model's architecture is very different from Llama, Gemma and PaliGemma's.
We let the authoritarians send all their assets in a final meatwave. oh we learn to recognize the not surplus bribed tribal mode of humanity as the danger it is to stability of society. Less idealization and startrek, more actually taking into account what represents under stress. The degrowth we yearned for has arrived .
Until recently, Kleinanzeigen belonged to eBay. That may have contributed to its popularity.
Strengthening policies on affiliate programs in Chrome Web Store Extensions
Intent is the only thing that ever really matters.
Cisco Unified Call Manager almost certainly has vulnerabilities, as does Metaswitch which has shambled along in network cores after Microsoft publicly murdered it, Oracle SBC is often wonky just doing the basics, whatever shambling mess Teams is shipping this week for their TRouter implementation definitely has Denial of Service bugs that I can't properly isolate.

Lets not even talk about the mess of MF Tandems or almost every carrier barebacking the web by slinging raw unencrypted UDP SIP traffic over the internet...

It is possible to build secure systems in this space, but instead we have almost every major telecom carrier running proprietary unmodifiable platforms from long dead companies or projects (Nortel, Metaswitch,etc) and piles of technical debt that are generally worse than the horribly dated and unpatched equipment that comprises their networks.
Just out of curiosity, what did you apply with?
Every manager I see now who gave up or was not a good coder is now chomping at the bit to use these tools
Free market capitalism and soviet state socialism or communism is just editorial masturbation. Regardless of the economic system, the everyday tasks are done by regular humans. The system can organize them but if they don't want to do the work, the work won't get done. There is no magic system for that.

Over a decade ago, I worked in a public hospital with a really tight budget. The Pneumology section was clean, orderly and provided service to patients as they came with no waiting time. The service in the building nearby could well fit in the definitions of crimes against humanity. Same hospital, same financing, same system, just a different boss.