skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The steering wheel in the case of overpopulation being a general reduction of living standards in the best case and widespread genocide and refugee crisises in the worst case.
Uninsurable where? In the US most people get their insurance through group policies, either through their employer or through the government marketplace. Life insurance companies might be able to make use of your DNA information to alter rates, but I don't see how medical insurance would be able to do so.
The income of the company is not the "fruits of the labour" of the people that work there. There is no logical connection there.

You don't "create" all the value just because you work there.

Also the total cost of employment is much higher than salaries, and there are big overheads in any business that aren't wages.
Yes, since there’s nothing more powerful than religious belief, how do you teach a population to avoid doing a particular risky thing? By codifying it as an iron-clad zero-tolerance word-of-god holy decree, so much so that adherents aren’t even cognisant of the mechanism at play.
Mindfulness, like meditation itself, is not exclusive to dharmic religions and does exist in the Christian tradition.

https://ianvanheusen.com/mindfulness-in-st-ignatius-of-loyol...
There are multiple usages, specifically just citizens of the USofA is just one use.

American, a. and n.

(əˈmɛrɪkən)

A adj.

1.a Belonging to the continent of America. Also, of or pertaining to its inhabitants.
1.b American language (usu. with the), (i) a language of American Indians; (ii) American English (see sense 3). Also American tongue.

2.a Belonging to the British colonies in North America (obs.).
2.b Belonging to the United States.
2.c U.S. spec. (See quot. a 1861.)

1837 Diplom. Corr. Texas (1908) I. 187 A large number of fine American horses‥which there is no doubt had been stolen from citizens of Texas. 1846 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. (1849) iv. 37 Such [Indians] as rode ponies were desirous of swapping them for the American horses of the emigrants. a 1861 Winthrop John Brent (1862) ii. 14 He was an American horse,—so they distinguish in California one brought from the old States. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds, xvi. 253, I rode a good-sized American horse.

3.a Special Combinations. American bar; American blight; American cheese; American cloth; American dream; American English; American football; ...oadfoot et al. Billiards i. 41 In 1876 D. Richards‥ran second to Cook in an *American tournament. 1976 Cumberland News 3 Dec. 19/1 On Thursday, December 16‥a Christmas American tournament will take place.

3.b In the names of various trees and plants native to North America, as American arbor vitæ, Thuja occidentalis; American ash, Fraxinus americana; American aspen (tree), Populus tremuloides; American Beauty (rose), a variety of cultivated rose; American beech (tree), Fagus grandifolia; American elm (tree), = white elm; American plane (tree), the buttonwood or Virginian Plane (see plane n.1 1).

B n.

B.1 An American Indian.

B.2 A native of America of European descent; esp. a citizen of the United States. Now simply, a native or inhabitant of North or South America (often with qualifying word, as Latin American, North American); a citizen of the United States.

B.3 A ship belonging to America.

B.4 pl. Short for American stocks or shares.

B.5 American English; the form of English spoken in the United States.
Only when you're an utilitarian. Not everyone is.

My deontological take is that animals deserve the right for bodily autonomy. Violation of that, even if painless, is unethical.

Plus we all know that most animals are factory farmed and suffering and pain there is not limited to the time of slaughter.
Any “deeply unprofitable” company that goes public without at least any bright future forecast will get their share price hammered right after the IPO, or would probably cancel the IPO since the underwritten target IPO price would be too low. This has happened.

There is no “conspiracy” cheat code here, the reason they went public is to satisfy their pre IPO VC investors. The snowball just continues roll at that point.

They had over $1B of total investments prior to their IPO so the pressure to go public was clear.

If you look at their share price, they held at around $40 for about 4 months, after which there was a sharp drop, see:
https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/08/09/why-23andme-holdin...
„survivors”
„witnesses of history”
„testament to tradition”

I do wonder if the trees share in a mutual understanding of all these human metaphors and language.
And if I take my regular ordinary commuter car off the paved road and onto the dirt I get stuck in the mud. That doesn't mean the whole concept of cars is worthless, instead we paved all over the world with roads. But for some reason with LLMs, the attitude is that them being unable to go offroad means everyone's totally deluded and we should give up on the whole idea.
The usb c charging port can also be used for wired headphones.
How could he afford all this medical care?
https://zenodo.org/records/13984680
The people getting ripped off by Microsoft defiantly noticed
Just had dang reply that it only works for ‘[dead]’ (which I guess only applies to comments), not for flagged posts.
Presumably, by buying health insurance.
Can an Outsider Ever Become Amish? (2016)
Myth or no myth, the barnacles are delicious

(when fresh)
Very interesting.

Memantine is an antiviral/nootropic (NMDA agonist) that's considered one of the best conventional therapies for Alzheimer's. For e.g., https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32914577/

Amantadine is a related compound that's seemingly more potent as an antiviral, and less potent at the NMDA receptor.

Medical hypothesis: This makes me wonder if amantadine might be an effective drug in Alzheimer's treatment. It would come as a total shock to the med chem community if memantine's activity had to do with its suppression of viral replication, and much less to do with its activity at the NMDA receptor.

As an aside, the Russians have a similar drug called bromantane which is sold OTC as a sort of mental energy booster. It's not really a stimulant, and its effects are mild enough for daily use. It might also be very interesting in this context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromantane
Saving others a web search for some random name...

> Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. [...] Various colloquialisms refer to linguistic relativism: the Whorf hypothesis; the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis; the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis; and Whorfianism. [...] Sapir [and] Whorf never co-authored any works and never stated their ideas in terms of a hypothesis

The current state of which seems to be:

> research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting a weaker version of linguistic relativity: that a language's structures influence a speaker's perceptions, without strictly limiting or obstructing them.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
> If Cloudflare had no physical machines, employees, and property within Italy's borders, under what law could Italy levy a fine?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/rome-data-center/

They have two data centers in Italy.

In term of jurisdiction, global companies tend to have physical machines, employees, and property that is spread out globally. If its not branch offices, it is equipment and remote workers. Cloudflare specifically has a branch office in Portugal and England.
I always used the silhoutte method (mostly because it generated cool art), and I'm happy to see it works well for large K, though fails at K=1
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The whole point is to be aware (or mindful) of the emotional reactions that you are having so that you can process them in a way that works better for you.
Clear your mind, see what floats to the top, carefully examine it (without getting caught up in it), let it go, see what comes up next.
It is possible to survive the lunar night. See

https://space.stackexchange.com/a/67918/40677
Its system prompt says it should reply in Chinese. I saw it discussing its prompt in the thinking process.
The lifestyle description seems less affluent than Walter ‘Heisenberg’ White.
What if you spherically interpolate the basis vectors and linearly interpolate the translation vector?
Arguably, the real problem with humanity's resource use today is not consumerism - not overconsumption - but overproduction. We produce vast amounts of food only to let it go to waste. We produce vast amounts of consumer goods only to shred the unsold (or returned) surplus to maintain their price points. It's cheaper to destroy what we overproduce than to discount it or decrease production output. From an economic point of view it becomes a problem of optimizing the waste disposal costs, not the resource use (especially not resources that can be externalized) - turning food waste into animal feed or biofuels, which in turn incentivizes overproduction when those uses become too profitable.

The entrepreneurial spirit is a perfect example for this. We can talk about disruption all we want as if it means making the world better but ultimately we're looking at existing systems and seemingly saturated markets and asking "how can we add to this in a way that makes us money?". We are explicitly opposed to notions of zero-sum markets but the only way to have a non-zero sum is to add more to it and that extra something has to come from somewhere, even if it's an externality to the balance sheets. For the past century marketing has been defined by creating needs rather than addressing existing ones, selling more rather than just providing another option.

This fuels the economy but it's a horrible waste if you look at it from a detached impersonal global resource use perspective. Even trying to go against this system has been productized and can be bought as a subscription model at this point. We've unlearned any other way to do things because everything has been recuperated by the system we've built. It is indeed easier for most people nowadays to imagine the end of the world than the end of the current system and it being replaced by something better, fairer or more resource-friendly.
They don't. But some humans do.
I get the medical angle, but I cannot understand why it would matter to know that some distant ancestor may be from scotland. Is that really worth turning over your detailed biological build plan with all its flaws to some shady cooperation?
> Spotify saw a 9% increase in exploratory intent queries, a 30% rise in maximum query length per user, and a 10% increase in average query length—this suggests the query recommendation updates helped users express more complex intents

To me it's not clear that it should be interpreted as an improvement: what I read in this summary is that users had to search more and to enter longer queries to get to what they needed.
I checked the list of the fines (https://www.cnil.fr/fr/les-sanctions-prononcees-par-la-cnil). They are definitely doing good things, but they do not seem to be very active to prevent companies to gather large databases if they can give some reason (ex: facebook / linkedin / etc.).

And I am fine if your opinion is that less data collection is better everywhere, but this idea should be applied to everybody (government & private entities). My opinion is that if you fear much more the government than private entities you give those private entities an advantage.
Care to share sources for those alternative media with modern drivers?
Sure, but the audience for 'being aware of DNA privacy' is not the police, but normal citizens, particularly a good number of people who, despite the abuse, are a general good in society.
This is the best comment I've read on Hacker News in a long time
Paradoxically, it might be the other way round. The Biblical folks were always very superstitious, and this is clearly documented in the Bible even before Christ.

Now, what Jesus taught is one thing, but what people created is another one. What Luter revolted against, for example, were not the teachings of Jesus, but all superstitions that were created by Christians and deemed to be Christianity.

Even today, when you talk to Christians, many of them believe in various superstitions. So, frankly, the opposite of your statement might be true.
No, not true. Many societies in the world have voluntarily reduced reproduction to the point where population growth would be zero, except for improvements in longevity.

These changes largely pre-date small recent drops in living standards, having taken place at the end of unprecedented runs of improvements in health and quality of life.
appear to confer is a pretty biased wording. Rather, the only correct way to write about it is "there was a correlation that needs further investigation, we have no idea if there is a causal link about it".
Enjoy reading about irrigation, greenhouses, mechanised farming, crop rotation, artificial fertiliser, herbicide, pesticide, the Haber-Bosch process, artificial selection, genetic engineering, futures contracts, state subsidies, refrigeration, salting, pickling, freeze-drying, vacuum sealing, National cheese reserves, food banks, and more!
What engineers get wrong about communication
But this has already happened, is it not?
Hahahaha what. The UK has multitude of airports that get you out of the country, even long-haul. Manchester, for example.
Where's my TacoCopter??!

https://tacocopter.com/
> Love this. "Akshually" is kinda what I'm going for (maybe not midwit), the point is to take something a bit incongruous and pull it apart pedantically.

You got the pedantic part down, but I don't think that you took a charitable view of the game's systems, and your assumptions were maximally conventionally-minded.

Rather than assume "this is bullshit and doesn't work," I think you'd do better to try to imagine "how could this possibly work?" That question can lead down interesting paths.

It doesn't even take much, in this case. Very fast projectiles and/or scopes that account for variables like bullet drop, wind, etc. Both of these things already exist, in a sense, or are on the cusp of existing.
I really think Satoshi is Peter Griffin tho because that's the only guy that ticks all of the boxes.
I’d recommend adding your first (and maybe second) paragraphs directly to your readme - this is a much clearer description if you don’t know what landlock is already!
Another downside of RTO.
> So you agree then that a public API would likely necessitate a slower pace of change. It’s good to finally get on the same page.

Not at all. The pace of change is determined by how fast you introduce new API's. Apple in particular can change API's the iPhone talks to their watches as fast as they want, because they control both ends. Them publishing the protocol has absolutely no effect on that.

> What my argument is and always has been since the beginning is that a public API imposed costs on that evolution and almost certainly implies a slower pace of change.

Despite everything you've said here, I still don't know what those costs are beyond maintaining deprecated API's and documenting the API.

> If you want to use TLS1.3 everywhere, you can’t.

You're not Apple. Trust me, if Apple decided their watches and phones should only connect using TLS 1.3, then that's what would happen on the next release. You apparently are claiming being forced to publish they are now using TLS 1.3 would slow them down, but haven't offered a shred of evidence or a coherent reason on why that would be so.

On looking back, you haven't said anything new in this reply - you just repeated the same assertions. Sadly I have said anything new either, which means it's time to move on.
History is also littered with people confidently stating that since something has not happened it therefore can never happen. Often immediately before the thing then happens.
Participated in beta testing for a few computer games. Did some localized translation for these games. Looked for work.
I agree. You can, however, make a case that that time period was revolutionary - i.e. that power relationships were transformed - though without (much, at least widespread) violence.

That's certainly the argument made by those within American society who want to undo the legislation and institutions by which those changes came about.
I hate this trend wholeheartedly. They even introduce it to schools. I know they have good intentions but this is not how things work. The processes related to one's mind and personal development need to be voluntary and genuine, not sponsored by HR. Instead, what happened is that some people took an important aspects of Asian religions and presented it as a panaceum for stress and other contemporary problems.

It is not a universal cure, though. If you have problems, you become more aware of these problems. What do you do, then? In a traditional setting, you had a teacher who was personally responsible for guiding you on the path. Will your HR lady do that? It all makes very little sense to me when implemented in this way.
Using an unsupported HP printer on macOS
Typewriters are terrible. I had one as a kid and I don't miss them at all. Sure they are better than handwriting, but I'll never trade even a simple editor like Notepad for a typewriter... And I say that as someone who does plenty of fiction and nonfiction writing.

This said, I see the tiny niche like the funeral homes mentioned in the article. I'd still prefer a printer, but if your job is filling out government forms printed elsewhere, I can see the cost savings.
printing a bunch of whitespace is a way of entering into a new state ( I am thinking about a state machine), so the LLM can use that whitespace as a new token that can be used later to refine the state of the system. In math terms, whitespace is a tag for a class (or state) in the LLM. I think that perhaps RL can take advantage of such tags. For example whitespace could indicate a point of low gradient (indetermination) or a branching point, the LLM in some way would learn to enhance the learning rate parameter, so the message in the head of the LLM is: be ready to learn from RL because in your actual state you need to take a branch from a branching point that can enhance your capabilities. This is similar to tossing a coin or a die. The rule could be: when whitespace do increase the learning rate parameter to escape from zero gradient points. Caveat emptor: This is just an speculation, I don't have any data to support this hypothesis. Also this suggests that whitespace could be a "token that reflects the state of previous layers" and is not contained in the vocabulary used to train the model, so I should say that whitespace is a macro-token or neurotoken. If this hypothesis has some ground then it could also be plausible that whitespace could be an enumerate neural tag in the sense that the length of whitespace reflects or is related to the layer in which the zero gradient or branching point occurs.
Finally, my throwaway user need whitespace so I will change the password to a random one to force myself to avoid adding new ideas.
That's the most rational approach. Also, I'm against racial/gender quotas. Poor people comes in any race, the same with challenged people. These should be a priority, and not races and genders as it happens in the US.

Being gay, black or a woman is not a disadvantage. You can be utterly rich, too. Meanwhile, black people in the ghetto are not that different to the white trash in trailer parks.

How come a rich British Black dude emigrating to the US has more disadvantages than the average white Joe from Detroit?
Do you have sources for what these multiple people have said?
Soviet era Science Books for everybody's enjoyment - https://mirtitles.org/ Concise, Information-dense and to-the-point unlike the majority of books being published today.

Also checkout all "Dover Publications" catalog on Science/Mathematics/Engineering. Most are old classics and very good - https://store.doverpublications.com/
Would that make feasible (in the long term) to have macOS permission manager like « do you want terminal to access documents folder ? » on Linux ?

As a very average user, that’s the kind of thing I miss on windows and Linux.

Because I installed Google chrome, it doesn’t mean I want it to be able to scan every single file I have on my computer yet there is no way to prevent it and I feel it’s a big security and privacy issue that no one speak about !
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Investigating CVE-2025-29927: Authorization Bypass in Next.js Middleware
You're spot on, figassis — the idea of "job security" as we've known it is rapidly becoming outdated. Talent isn't going away; rather, it's becoming fluid, accessible, and globally distributed. Your vision of a Slack-meets-Fiverr platform, where everyone collaborates and offers skills on-demand, aligns perfectly with this shift. Political hurdles may indeed slow things down (let's hope they don't), but there's hope. Historically, technology has a way of breaking down barriers faster than they're built. The real challenge — and opportunity — is designing tools and systems that facilitate trust and seamless collaboration in this global freelance ecosystem.
I think it's generally considered that China is (charitably) "wrong" by OVERESTIMATING its population.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=china+population+numbers+wrong&t=n...
The other 10% being wanted criminals?

why more people don’t take their personal privacy seriously.

Probably because this testing has been happening for almost 20 years at this point, and we’re still waiting to hear about someone being harmed. For the most part, the privacy concerns are FUD.
Or security improvements.
Not SSO?
Scoring is wrong. Using all 7 gets a 50 point bonus.
Hit this on the very first rack.
I built this tool to help everyone to minimise there cost by providing This tool for free so try and give suggestions that will help a lot
Do you have any examples of people being harmed, or are you just spreading FUD?
Awful.

Fortunately, we won't have to suffer x86 much longer.
All over the place there are folks living without official documentation. Mostly recent immigrants, but also elderly folks who were distrustful of government when the ID cards were introduced, nomadic peoples like the Romani who may have reason to fear government interference, and so on... Maybe not enough to invalidate the official census numbers, but certainly enough to make them inaccurate
China unveils a powerful deep-sea cable cutter that could reset the world order
Shouldn’t people predisposed to speeding pay more for car insurance?
> T1

Not 1T
Agree on every word. They'll probably make free threaded shitty too somehow. We'll see.
>Math paper

Beware, AntiRez. Without a proper Math background an a 'human' PhD in Math laying near you, any code you implement as algorithms can have slight mistakes throwing all your implementations to /dev/null. Because you have no ways to be sure of the output.
I believe it’s more that people don’t see the potential threat and harm into providing sensible data to commercial entities.

People who have been for instance wrongly jailed because Google gave their location history to law enforcement and they happened to be near a crime scene, these people they understand the value of privacy.
https://malwaretips.com/blogs/my-realistic-bunny-toy-scam-2/
The parent comment made me curious enough to go look it up. Is it this same ActiveBatch that you both are referring to? https://www.advsyscon.com/
Setting aside for a moment whether this is feasible, an effective preventative care program would make the insurance program more competitive, in cost or quality. You're assuming employers and patients are just along for whatever anticompetitive ride insurers take them on. That would be a departure from marketplace fundamentals. The ACA also has safe harbors for process improvements .

On the feasibility point, if this use case is entirely infeasible I don't know what all the hand-wringing on this board is about!