skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably a bit of one, a bit of two. Despite spending everyday in the garden growing up, I've always struggled with allergies and they've changed throughout my life. I was deathly allergic to tomato's and eggs as a child but grew out of it around 11-12, became very allergic to pollen and pet dander at 5, which is now life long, and recently in my late 20s become allergic to hazelnut and some other foods I've yet to pin down (my mouth comes up in hives with no rhyme or reason while eating occasionally). I've also developed oesophagitus in my late 20s, to the point where I choke on foods daily unless chewed to a pulp before swallowing.

To me, it seems the parasite theory makes sense in tandem with hygiene. Some people by upringing become predisposed to allergies, while others have genetically as a result of humanities constant fight against intestinal worms. As our genetic profile changers as we age, so does how our bodies express said genes which would be designed to fight something we no longer have.
NCSA Mosaic 1.0 Released (1993)
Can’t fool the patent inspectors if they don’t name it like that
Of course, there are many things a company can do to be a bit more assured it can access its data: CoW snapshots, backups on read-only medium (e.g. DVD or BluRay discs), HDDs/SSDs offline on shelves, and certainly many other things could help companies.

That's not incompatible with sandboxing applications to limit the damage a malware can do.

Even on a regular user's "workstation" there's no need for every single app to access every single directory / every single network drive with rw permission etc.

P.S: FWIW the backup procedure I put in place doesn't just encrypt/compress/deduplicate the backups, it also compares the backup to previous backups (comparing size gives an idea, for example), then also verifies that the backup can be decrypted, using a variety of metrics (for example if, after decrypting then decompressing the backup a Git repo backup is found, it'll run "git fsck" on it, if a file with a checksum is found, it'll verify that file's checksum, etc.). Already helped us catch not a malware but a... bitflip! I figured out that if a procedure can help detect a single bitflip, it probably can help detect malware-encrypted data too. I'm not saying it's 100% foolproof: all I'm saying is there's a difference between "we're sandboxing stuff and running some checks" vs "we allow every single application to access everything on all our machines because we need users to access files".
> Ok, wikipedia makes it clearer:

> "In mathematics, a Kakeya set, or Besicovitch set, is a set of points in Euclidean space which contains a unit line segment in every direction."

Is that definition correct/complete? It leaves open the option that such a set isn’t connected. I think there’s an additional requirement that, for any two directions D and E, you can move a line segment oriented in direction D so that it’s oriented in direction E without any point on it ever leaving the set.
I don't think that's entirely it. It's true that they could have easily killed him, but that might have touched off a much wider-spread insurrection, in a location where the geography gives locals advantages in a guerilla-style approach to resistance. The choice then becomes, "Get involved in a domestic quagmire," or, "Carpet bomb conservation areas and natural wonders."

Maybe inaccessible is the wrong word. Less-accessible? And big. Lots of ground to cover, even when you have an AF base nearby.
See https://alphastruxure.com/news-press-release/emtoc-microgrid... for an example of on-site hydrogen production.
The answer to too much exaggeration about AI from various angles is _not_ more exaggeration. I get the frustration, but exaggerated ranting isn’t intellectually honest nor effective. The AI + software development ecosystem and demographics are broad enough that lots of people agree with many of your points. Sure, there are lots of people on a hype train. So help calm it down.
What has your experience been with Home Assistant voice? I also have one but still use my Alexa’s. I love HA and it runs my house but my initial tests were not great. I tried both OpenAI and HA cloud assistants but I could have spent more time tweaking things and I bet I could have done a lot by writing my own prompt.
Whippersnappers, we call ’em.
Sounds like a cool project, but the name is such a bad idea, despite the cleverness of word choice. An app for a niche use case has it hard enough, doesn’t help that nobody can spell correctly even when reading it.
Are you saying it is not Israeli government policy to abuse detainees?
> There is more to it than this.

Humans are really complex, and something that is proven to work for many on a population scale may not work in every individual case.

And the flip-side is that anecdotes to the contrary do not mean that a population-scale observation is invalidated.

(I know this isn't the point you're making, but others in this thread are.)
I did something similar, share contact via QR code, offline, but with a dedicated encryption/decryption device to realize the airgap: www.qryptr.com
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Explicit charges are very rare these days, but there are at least still metered plans that count both incoming and outgoing texts against a monthly maximum.
And now we will have every country bordering an empire armed with nukes. We can also assume those with money already have them.
Now im sure if gametheory is involved, the middle east will cease to be in the next 20 years.
Culture relativists will have the blood of a billion people on their hands. Why did you not help?
I've tried using LibreWolf on MacOS but there's a few annoying bugs.

HN has a really small text size for me and I usually read HN at 120-133% text size. LibreWolf does not remember this setting on per-site basis and even opening HN-to-HN link in a new tab doesn't preserve text size and I need to increase text size constantly.

In addition, posting images to Bluesky doesn't work. Every attempt results in an image of proper size but consisting of only vertical lines. For this, I need to fall back to Firefox or use Safari.

Even if the first of above problems is a "feature", the latter is definitely a bug. I haven't filled a report yet. But for now, I'm planning to test Zen.
Independent and optionally local, which is the important part.

I can use my HA Voice with a Local LLM, OpenAI, or Home Assistant cloud. Similar I can swap out TTS and STT with local versions if I want.
Why is that optimal?

I understand at least having a dual residency as a back up plan and that’s our plan with establishing residency in Costa Rica before retirement and keeping our by then paid off condo in the US.
The Risk of an Accidental or Unauthorized Nuclear Detonation (1958)
Why do you like Elon?
do you have evidence for this?
Ok but then the theory of black holes are wrong because this isn’t dense at all.
You already can [0]. C, PL/Perl, PL/Python, and PL/Tcl exist out of the box, in addition to PL/pgSQL, which I assume you were implying isn’t a “real programming language.”

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/server-programming.h...
This reasoning seems to work for some cases and not others, so there might be a ton of other factors, potentially more impacting depending on your situation and genes. The article points at food and other immune elements (e.g. smoking, so I assume pollution also) for instance.

For instance Japan has a known pollen problem. There there's no correlated action to keep small kids out of pollen (that would mean masks, not playing outside at school etc. which are measures extremely hard to take), nor to prevent anyone from getting pollen if they're not known allergics. They go to school and have to be outside for significant time.

Yet the allergy rate increased twofold in a decade, as the pollen presence also increased.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15622459
gmail is only free for a subset of its users, as are other google services.
Powerful is correct. It's strange to me the number of people on this site who think we should just throw away trillions of dollars. We should use natural gas to make renewable dirt cheap, just that would offset any externalities you can make up.
If there's one thing that neural networks have shown, it's that they are much better at picking up encoding patterns for realistic tasks than humans. There are so many aspects that could be used in dimensional reduction tasks that it seems pretty wild that we've come this far with human-designed patterns. From a top down engineering perspective, it might seem like a disadvantage to have algorithms that are not tailored to particular cases. But when you want things like general purpose image generation, it's simply much more economical to let ML figure out which dimensions to focus on. Because humans would spend years coming up with the details of certain formats and still not cover half the cases.
This is sad because its thats not what Stoicism is actually about. The most prominent Stoic author today is Ryan Holiday and the guy is a staunch liberal. He's worth checking out if you want to see a sincere modern day interpretation of stoicism.

They despised material wealth and comfort. They also talked alot about Justice and doing what is inside your control to correct injustice was seen as a high virtue.
These keyboards were terrible to type on anyway. I was super happy with my sony Z4 tablet which came with a laptop dock that worked amazingly well. Super 'lappable' too.

And the psion series 5 further back, though it was a bit size constrained and too heavy to type on. I even got the Gemini pocket out of nostalgia but it was terrible in terms of software and the keyboard while looking the same as the psion, had a much worse mechanism.
Monroe Doctrine Still Dominates U.S., Latin America Relations After 200 Years (2023)
But in general, ruby code only passes anonymous functions and, in those cases, the syntax is beautiful.
Yes, and I believe the hygiene hypothesis is one of the mechanisms at play, for sure. Didn’t mean to imply otherwise. But this other idea I think could ALSO be a factor and it’s not as neat and tidy for people to understand, so it’s important to not oversimplify.
Better still, fetch him a Bugblatter Beast of Traal, and let the two of them duke it out.
In an outdoor sandbox? Sure it is. Where do you think all that pollen goes when it falls out of the air?
Hundreds of microseconds? L1 access? I don't have the faintest idea of what you're talking about.

Communication between processes is negligible compared to all of the sequential disk/SSD accesses and processing required for executing queries.

The database isn't stored in L1 and communication isn't taking hundreds of microseconds. I don't know where you're getting your information.

The fact that SQLite is in-process is primarily about simplicity and convenience, not performance. Performance can even be worse, e.g. due to the lack of a query cache.
If you want to ignore such implementation details, you’re basically saying you want to see a language that doesn’t allow recursion, or maybe even one that allows recursion, but only in such a way that the compiler can compute the maximum amount of memory needed for activation records.

In a language that doesn’t allow recursion, using a call stack still can make sense for the implementation because it allows reuse of memory for local variables between functions that do not call each other, directly or indirectly.

But then, you’re giving up “plus weirdo stuff like the ability to hand out references to local data in functions that have already returned”, although, thinking of it, static analysis could make those locals survive by manipulating the stack pointer (if you have the caller allocate and, reallocate the locals of the called function, the caller can postpone that reallocation if it wants to access the locals of the called function). I’m not sure that weirdo stuff is worth the effort, though. It’s just a weird way to return multiple values from a function.
"I'm not buying a car! And I'm especially not buying a Tesla!"
I switched to GNU IceCat about a week ago, following the ToS / privacy changes in FF. I have never used chrome, and never will on principle, in fact I now use zero google services, or best I can. Disabling webfonts / google fonts has been interesting. Anyway, IceCat is growing on me, once I figured out how to gradually enable bits of js for the sites I frequent (not many left at this point). I have a physical aversion to adverts, so I feel better that my limited browsing data is not being sold by mozilla. One thing I havent yet worked out is enabling webGL in IceCat, since I want to get back into my Zig/wasm/WebGL stuff soon.

I'm interested if HN has stats for visitor browser-agent, but also for account-holders. Since I wonder how many users actually switched in the last month, or if it was all just huff and puff.
I get not being able to ignore calls (although that sounds like hell too, given how common spam calls are to US numbers), but it would really not be possible for people to agree to call you if they urgently need something?

Not doubting your description of your situation, and it does sound extremely stressful.
I've been doing this for a long time, ever since I was able to score a used Wacom Cintiq. I would recommend anything with a screen (Cintiq, Huion, iPad, etc.) over a plain graphics tablet if you can -- it makes things more tactile and immediate.

I've (mis)used a number of drawing apps for programming design, including Milton (as in the article), Foundry Mischief, AutoDesk Sketchbook Pro, WonderUnit Storyboarder, Blender, Leonardo, Krita and Xournal++.

Mischief, Sketchbook and Storyboarder are either discontinued or no longer under active development. Mischief had a really nice infinite canvas and some nice features for doing presentations across it. You can still get an old Windows version if you look in the... right places. But it's a dead end. Sketchbook has a lot of nice features, but seems like it's all but abandoned. It /is/ available on mobile. They used to have a nice blog where they featured a lot of great artists. Storyboarder is cross-platform and source is available, but packages can't seem to be downloaded any more.

The Blender grease pencil tool just gets better and better and works well with tablets. I've used it to do rough sketches and user-interface mockups. Colour selection was a bit clumsy last time I tried, but I think it's been improved since. I think you could say it has an "effectively infinite" canvas. Scriptable, 3D objects are first class.

Leonardo is Windows-only, but has pretty nice raster-based infinite canvas. Very responsive and quick. Very easy to do constrained lines and shapes, which can be useful for programming ideation. It's my current go-to, I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I switch to Linux once Win10 is unsupported. Maybe it will run on Wine...

Krita is really more of a traditional paint program, but I've still used it for notes and designs even though no infinite canvas. It has a "Comics Manager" bolt on that can be used as a sort of notebook. Scriptable.

Xournal++ is a bit of a strange beast. It's intended to be more of a "notebook" application. No infinite canvas, but as many "pages" as you like. It deals with LaTeX, PDF and also pressure-sensitive tablet sketching. It has voice recording and markup features. It's also cross-platform -- I've used on Windows and Linux, and if I can't take Leonardo with me it's probably going to be my new main app. Also -- nice to use when you want to sign a PDF with a "real" signature.

Not including things like GraphViz, PlantUML, etc. -- all the apps above are very responsive and support pressure-sensitive sketching, which I think is vital for ideation and exploration.
A simpler method to detect this would be to store GitHub action tag hashes and freeze an action if any tag is changed
Copyright law is explicitly outside the scope of small claims and consumer tribunal systems.
I don't think apple is the best. You still end up with lots of data collection by Apple.

Degoogled Android like Graphene is way better for privacy as long as you are careful with the apps you install.
I think he should first focus on managing towards a Starship without RUD.

Oh, wait... focus...
> The license could be structured so that only the user who compiles the code would be licensed to used it (general distribution would be prohibited).

Firefox is already GPL'ed, such a license change would violate that (along with many libraries it depends on also being GPL'ed). This is not possible.

Here at ardour.org, we use this:

> either compiled binaries for a minimal cost or as free open-source code.

(technically, name your own price for the binaries)

and retain the GPL. It works fine for us.
You’re describing the pain of poor architecture rather than the pain of global state. The tool itself is neutral. Sharp knives and all that.
> it's the status quo in messenger land

Yes, and it's incredibly frustrating that we couldn't avoid ending up here. Maybe it was inevitable, but I still find it very sad.
Nope, but they never admitted to already having worked on their temporary visit visa (waiver), or that they were denied entry in nearby country due to planning to work there. And they were at an international airport which would have given them easier option to get deported.
Yes, if your interested checkout Ryan Holiday, he writes pretty extensively about this.

Cato is a good example of a stoic who stood for justice, he sacrificed his life leading a resistance against the tyranny of Caesar and fighting injustice.
Three private space companies, three billionaires.
Looks like classical stoicism is competing with Nietzsche in "how much modern people can distort and/or misinterpret it". Not saying it's winning, but it's up there.
Those aren't really "sales" numbers (tbh I'm not even sure GM "sold" any car either given that it was able to destroy all of them).

GM only produced 660 units and 457 units. They never tried to actually mass produce the car and seeing how current electric vehicles are I really understand why; why cannibalize your higher margin ICE vehicles?

This is basically the same argument people make about a cure for cancer. Since there's a ton of money in treating cancer you can't develop a cure and kill your cash cow. It however, completely misses that somebody that isn't currently treating cancer can come in and develop a cure (i.e. Tesla) without tanking their treatment margins.
> These [baby] universes would be unobservable to us because they are also behind an event horizon, a one-way light-trapping point of no return from which light cannot escape, meaning information can never travel from the interior of a black hole to an external observer.

Also meaning that “our” blackhole (the one containing us) is unobservable from the parent universe for the same reason. So where is all this extra light/energy going in our universe? Should we not have detected an increase of energy in our universe?
I am not familiar with RCS, but considering the plethora of messaging apps available that just work, why did they choose the most complicated way for users to use it? And what do you mean it is not available on every carrier and needs SIM access?
There's probably a patent for: "Just double-checking before answering to the user".
> The RAV4 nickel-metal hydride plug-in hybrid from 97-03 sold a grand total of 1400 units.

FYI, it wasn't a hybrid.

And your statement is a bit misleading. 1400 sales sounds pathetic, until you realize that means they completely sold out. 1400 was all they ever made.
Eh, no idea about Turkey, but sometimes it’s also a ‘what do people talk about when you’re around’ thing, and what do people actually recognize?

For instance ‘Asthma is incredibly rare in India’. Yet, having lived in India, I constantly ran across people with telltale Asthma symptoms (loud wheezing, lethargy, difficulty exercising, etc.).

I bet if you put those people on a peak flow meter, they’d all be diagnosed. I only knew 1 that got diagnosed though because ‘Asthma is incredible rare in India’, and also who can afford the time and energy to go to the Doctor?

Talking to a couple pulmonologists about Asthma in India (I got it when there!), they basically just laughed and said ‘at least this isn’t Delhi here, that is a gas chamber’.

For allergies, lots of people over time I’ve heard complain about things ‘tasting spicy’ that weren’t spicy, or seen people get facial swelling or hives after eating things. They just chalk it up to ‘oh yeah, that does it for me somehow. I guess I should stop?’. If asking if they have allergies, they just said no, we don’t get allergies here.
Was it at a land crossing and were you already denied entry into Canada due to you planing to work there to sustain yourself?

I get it that US could be nicer, but it was Canada who denied entry first (the girl was coming into Canada after being in the US for weeks prior to that).

I just don't think this has changed due to Trump: I could very well see this happening prior to Trump.

Somebody mentioned how average detainee wait for a court date is 50 days! Trump has not been in power long enough to bring the average that high.
I see it as more of a side effect of an immune system that is designed to adjust itself for whatever pathogens are present in its environment.

Depending on where you are born, you can be exposed to a completely different set of microorganisms or compounds present in the environment. Your body first needs to know which of those are benign and not. A simple heuristic is to tolerate most of these that you have been exposed to till a certain age.

But hey this is just my armchair biology. Don't know if there is anything supporting it
Perfect.. the real hacks always in the comments!
That’s right, Aurora Postgres is quite close to vanilla Postgres. Aurora DSQL is a different story though.

For a more scientific answer, there is this project: https://pgscorecard.com/

Note that Aurora scores 93% while Cockroach scores only 40%.
I really like Stephen Fry's take on the difference between American and British comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2AbqTBxao (YouTube)
Under Trump, AI Scientists Told to Remove 'Ideological Bias' from Models
"Researchers Amit Assaraf and Itay Kruk, who were deploying AI-powered scanners seeking suspicious submissions on VSCode, first flagged them as potentially malicious."

AI-powered vulnerability reporting is a scourge.
it is documented as recommended here fwiw:
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actio...
Well the way they did it (twice) means they had space for other stuff, and of course also failed because they didn't have enough redudancy
I think it’s in the 0-2% over the next 100 years range. I think there are situations where the US collapses but the world doesn’t so that’s why it’s lower.

If the world collapse happens, it’ll be a result of pandemic, meteor, solar storm, nuclear war, or something like that and not some country “taking over everything.”
I honestly think you have a way to negative outlook and heavily overestimate the US role in the world. But who knows
ITT is alot of people that don't seem to understand Stoicism.

For the people making weird claims that its a philosophy specifically for conservatives, its not. Try checkout stoics like Ryan Holiday or Cato if your interested in seeing the emphasis on justice and being good to others as a virtue.
Makes sense because the mass of the known universe intuitively is enough to prevent even light from escaping its total gravity.

Should our universe accordingly be spherical?

Can we detect outside objects entering the universe's event horizon?

What if any statements can now be made about what goes on inside the black holes that we can observe?
I'd like to see the results in something like Wing Commander Privateer.