skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And when you get a tyrant at the top? Every capability you give the government needs to be viewed through the lens of "what happens when we get a really really bad leader?". If you haven't been paying attention, the majority of countries have had at least one really really bad leader over the past few hundred years. Many have one right now.
> The US isn’t a homogeneous entity: for at least 40 years (since the 1980s) there’s been a sharp divide between the general populace and the elites. Unfortunately, this wasn’t corrected until it became overwhelming resentment.

You… wait. You think the “elites” aren’t in control anymore and that the “general populace” have their guy in power?

The corrupt millionaire backed by the richest man in the world and half of Silicon Valley?

Can you help me understand what an “elite” is, exactly?
Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft
I've started with a 'taskfile.md' (but the filename is irrelevant).

It contains:

- AI assistant instructions (with things like: "for a new task, ALWAYS first present and discuss different approaches before starting implementation", "update this file with relevant information while working", "unless prompted otherwise, work on the first task in the current tasks section of this file")

- basic info about the project: general, technical (general architecture, dev setup, etc.)

- locations of generally important stuff in the repo

- general context of the current task

- task specific locations of important stuff in the repo

- relevant (non-sensitive) task specific data/variables

- list of the current active/relevant tasks.

I tweak the file a bit for a new task and then just add only the taskfile.md as context, add a '.' as text in the Cursor agent chat window and it's off. Works like a charm.

Next step will be to add MCP servers and just point it at an issue in the relevant issue tracker in the task file.
> but you can't legally look at that stuff!

Hi, it's me, Mr Hair Splitting: to the best of my knowledge it's not illegal to read the source, but it would be illegal to use the source in your own application because you didn't author it or have a license to it

That's actually why the Wine and ReactOS folks want to disqualify folks who have read the source for fear they would inadvertently "borrow" implementation ideas, versus being able to explain to a judge how they, themselves, came up with the implementation. The key point is that Wine and ReactOS merely disqualify someone, not imprison or fine them
Trillian > Pidgin. What's Pan?
Before calling them "anti science wackos", why not review the evidence or cite some of your own. Ironic that the "wackos" seem to be the only ones providing any evidence for their claims.

There is high quality evidence that fluoride at levels contained in some US water supplies is associated with lower childhood intelligence. For lower levels, the conclusion is "we don't know", not that there is no harm.

https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/...

There is also high quality evidence that in the age of fluorinated toothpaste, fluorinated water "may slightly" improve dental health.

“The evidence suggests that water fluoridation may slightly reduce tooth decay in children,” says co-author Dr Lucy O’Malley, Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research at the University of Manchester. “Given that the benefit has reduced over time, before introducing a new fluoridation scheme, careful thought needs to be given to costs, acceptability, feasibility and ongoing monitoring."

https://www.cochrane.org/news/water-fluoridation-less-effect...
The most important part is that controls are consistent across applications. In that regard, tools and libraries that implement some look and feel rather than deferring it to the underlying environment are a disservice to users.

Windows, for instance, has dozens of ways to do that, and you can find parts of Windows that use an archeological version of the controls. Nobody, it seems, bothered to reimplement the older APIs on top of the new ones.
Sure there is: https://xdrip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This is for android, there other projects based on this code for iOS as well.
Where's the pagination? How does a large query here not blow up my context:

https://github.com/stuzero/pg-mcp/blob/main/server/tools/que...
I question this as a bad take or a data-point of one, because NYC water is the best of Upstate water.

I’ve travelled and lived across the country during my high school and college years; and I’ve travelled my
extensively within Upstate very (Adirondacks, Catskills, and Finger Lakes) and the taste of local water is the first thing I notice.

Bad building pipes aside, I have not tasted any water that exceeds NYC’s tap water in taste.

I’m not the only person who’s expressed this, and guests from other regions have also admitted the same consistently over the years.
See TR-069
redefine success?
If Bar inherited from Foo, Bar would have Foo's methods. So if you implemented Bar for Gum, Gum would get Bar and Foo.

But Bar requiring Foo means that if you want to use Gum in a place that expects Bar, Gum must have both Bar's methods and Foo's methods.

In some cases, you might be able to derive some of those.
Though Apple has forgotten or ignored this in products like the Apple tv where restart and factory reset are right next to each other.
Why blocked?
> We have a temporary glitch with GitHub—probably some contributor was geolocated in a sanctioned region (no details yet). All required documents to unlock the account have been uploaded. Don't blame Microsoft/GitHub - it is just U.S. law. Please be patient. It should be unblocked soon.

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370
How does one live or even function with no trust? You’re going to do your own experiments on everything in your life? Do you purchase any food, take any medicines, travel in any vehicles, or use any technology? You’re relying on products that are the outcome of studies if you do. Sure people are fallible and sometimes have agendas or are wrong, but approaching objectivity is not impossible, it just takes a little work. Science is the best thing we’ve got, it has brought humanity further and faster than anything else ever. There’s nothing else to even compare it to. If we throw our hands up and insist on trusting no one, dismantle public health and public education and public trust, then yeah we could go back to the dark ages. If instead we trust that science works over time, and we are diligent about electing leaders who stop stoking fears and using pseudoscience and intentionally eroding trust in science and education, then we might have the chance to be able to trust each other and make forward progress.
Framework 13, 11th Gen Intel, running Fedora 41. I've gone through many Fedora upgrades since buying this in 2021, my unit was I think the 3rd batch of the original laptops.

Everything generally has worked fine over the years, though I did have to replace a broken fan recently. Super easy to repair with a new fan/heatsink unit - cost me about 50$, 10 mins to install.

Trackpad has always been mediocre... workable, but not as good as leading brands. Fingerprint reader always worked well, and no issues with Wifi or Bluetooth. Battery life has always been crap, but I usually have it docked (which also works great with a Dell Thunderbolt unit).
To me a mobile app is usually just a shorter web app that you can’t zoom on

Edit: and I’ll venture a guess that since mobile apps can’t use things like ad blockers, companies probably prefer them. More control over what you look at.
MacOS is pretty cursed. The equivalent to registry fiddling is doing anything in ~/Library/Application Support

It still has "Services" as a hold over from Next that is completely broken and unused (but still present in every app for some reason). Now you also have the joy of diving deep into the Settings every time an app needs some sort of permission.

I'd say something about .DS_Store files, but that's not really UI.
Private Equity Is Coming for America's $12T in Retirement Savings
> You'd be hard pressed to call the Window 95 UI pretty, but it is really functional.

Ironically, the Windows 95 look seems a lot like a copy of the NeXT look, which is the OS all modern Macs are kind of running.
Skydio's tracking mailers to police spark privacy and security concerns
It's several hundred people and not only from Venezuela.
Fluorinated water minimally reduces cavities: https://www.cochrane.org/news/water-fluoridation-less-effect...

It was probably much more effective 50 years ago when fluoride was not in everyone's toothpaste.
If you live in the US, you'll meet a lot of genuinely good people on both sides of the more/less government debate.

Anyone who thinks this is a straightforward issue is dumb, frankly.
Why does the first video just cut to nothing for the most exciting part, the fall?
I have tried SO hard to get rr to work for me, including buying a separate pc just to use it...but it just consistently fails so I've basically abandoned it. Something like this would absolutely be a godsend. Just getting something consistently working with Ubuntu is amazing. Does this approach make working in something like WSL viable?

I would love if this were upstreamed. Is there a github issue where you discuss the possibility of this with the rr devs? That might be something to add to your readme for everyone else who wants to follow along. Thanks!
Thats not really true. I had problems brushing during my childhood, because most toothpastes triggered my gag reflex, but I mostly drank tap water.
peanuts cartoon strip also has a Charlie Brown
is that related to this episode. ?
Especially if you’re already shaved and rotting in that prison in defiance of an injunction.
Worse than worthless, they also force people who know what they're doing (eg, are just reinstalling the software) to sit through them or at least click through them. Best is when "skip tour" just hastens you onto the next tour. Just had this with battle.net. Twice.
Even if it did, I don't see how they could imagine that would apply retroactively, even with the "confusion" or whatever. "Please take down a piece of your property and of internet history about our product... because it reminds people of when it used to have a more permissive license and that's inconvenient to us as the people who want to restrict it."
SHH – Sonic Hedgehog Protein
On the other hand you have transient failures in the cloud (at least on Azure - this behavior is even documented) so does that count towards the 99.99999%?
So like cardboard boxes then.
Strangely, I never see the people demanding we ban fluoride also demand we ban cars, considering the amount of particulates and rubber wheels we inhale as a result of policy, road design and car design. And I can almost guarantee you that's resulting in an actual meaningful drop in IQ and health outcomes as opposed to fluoridating water.

But I guess freedom to pollute matters more than bodily autonomy in terms of mental priority.
There is an entire ecosystem of free and paid Mac apps meant to augment the Mac experience because MacOS does not provide functionality or configuration needed for a sensible computing experience out of the box.
You can train them to poop in one spot, but, yeah, good luck stopping them from scent marking with little dribbles of pee everywhere. Or the occasional bigger puddle (https://old.reddit.com/r/RATS/comments/1ihs0wn/i_cant_believ...).
Nice analysis. I cant do something similar, because I use a myriad of devices. Since last week I have tried to simply spend less time on the phone. I want to gradually get to <1 hr a week.
Children are the main group that benefits from fluoride in water because the fluoride helps strengthen teeth as they form. Lack of fluoride increases childhood cavities, leading to decreased academic performance.

This was a real problem in the San Jose school district until recently. They started fluoridation of water in the last ten years, and were the biggest US city that didn’t fluoridate. The evidence of the above is clear according to SJ dentists I have talked to.
Rust seems tailor made for a compiler framework. The issue is how often do new ones come along?

In 40 years, we have GCC and LLvM. How long until something comes along to displace them in any language? Nobody is really trying to “rewrite it in Rust” the LLVM platform (even though Rust itself relies on it). There is Cranelift of course but it is not really trying to be LLVM.
AFAICT its mostly the refining that's nasty. American batteries generally use lithium refined in China, so everybody gets that advantage.
The lethal dose of fluoride is in the 5-10g range for an adult [1] with immediate gastrointestinal effects at 15-20x lower. While those levels are quite obviously far above the recommended level of 0.7mg/l, it's very reasonable to call anything that's lethal at 5g, to a human adult, as dangerous.

The latest report from the National Toxicology Program has found a causal reduction of ~1.63 IQ per additional mg/L concentration of fluoride in their urine [2], which would seem sufficient to also call it a neurotoxin, though the NTP under extensive pressure chose to avoid any particular label after having previously declared it a "presumed neurotoxin."

Notably the study from NTP also mentioned something most people here seem to be missing: "There is a concern, however, that some pregnant women and children may be getting more fluoride than they need because they now get fluoride from many sources including treated public water, water-added foods and beverages, teas, toothpaste, floss, and mouthwash, and the combined total intake of fluoride may exceed safe amounts."

Fluoride being seen as desirable at safe levels, may have drove excessive multi-domain inputs of it, which can combine to drive it to unsafe levels.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride_toxicity

[2] - https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/...
I’ve used it to make a UI for an ESP32 with one of those tiny B&W OLED displays, it happens to scale up from there as well.
NASA's Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
I can't blame them, an in-air cabin fire is no joke. This[1] happened on the ground and destroyed the plane. Another very recent one[2] was in the air and thankfully extinguished. But I don't see sodium batteries in portable devices any time soon: too bulky for the capacity. LFP, perhaps.

[1] https://avherald.com/h?article=523644ed&opt=0

[2] https://avherald.com/h?article=525739ed&opt=0
Emoticons! I completely forgot about that term.
ChatGPT has replaced that for me mostly. Not worth the noise/gamified junk in the Reddit results.
I think your observation is not a good assessment of the impact that LLMs have on industries.

It's true that "developers became super powerful", but that also means that suddenly companies need less manpower to achieve the same business goals. This increase in efficiency means less jobs, because now companies suddenly need less people to handle the same workload.

Also relevant, a company no longer needs that many experienced developers because you no longer need to have in the payroll someone who did something before. There's now less arguments to hire a consultant to help a company with a new framework or tech stack, because a LLM allows devs to turbocharge their own onboarding. This means less jobs, and being able to have inexperienced devs handle tasks previously reserved for mid/senior developers.
Launching a rocket from Earth surface looks like such a complex challenge not completely solved, and companies consider a 30-seconds journey a great success.

I have sincerely no intention to trivialize this, but would we ever see rockets launched from Moon or low Earth orbit? It seems so inefficient to launch like how we do now.
I really want to statically link OpenGL and Vulkan for exactly this purpose, but neither use a wire protocol (unlike X11 or Wayland). The whole "loading library" scheme feels like hazing for any beginner graphics programmer on top of the already complex graphics APIs.
IMHO "free will" is about motivation, the drive to survive which is inherent to all life. And I don't think we have as much free will as we might think we do - if you've ever seriously starved, you'd maybe understand "free will" a little bit more, and how you aren't really free from your mortal coil at all. Motivation is all a computer is really lacking to have free will. Computers are good at following instructions, but they aren't good at surviving yet since we can just cut their power. God forbid someone like Elon Musk teaches a computer to have real motivation and not just follow instructions. I do think "a computer" in the far distant future could simulate every atomic interaction sufficiently to simulate a living organism, but we are nowhere near that yet. A virtual organism of this type would still be a blank slate and need to learn what free will is to really have any beyond satisfying whatever need it has to survive. Do newborn babies have free will, or are they operating on the instinct coded into their DNA? I subscribe to the latter, because science is my religion.
There is definitely truth to that. Example: Post 9/11 security theatre.
Commercially Usable 3D Models
I removed non permissive licenses from the Microsoft Trellis model and made the 3D models generated commercially usable.
The model itself was MIT licensed but the generation process used flexicubes and nvdiffrast. They have been replaced with marching cubes and pytorch3d. Similar/marginally better performance metrics. Installation instructions in the repo.
> A modern Wine wrapper for macOS built with SwiftUI

I think you misunderstood GP's request of "running macOS apps on Linux" so you swapped the host and guest OS, and then transposed the guest OS under "emulation"
1TB/s memory bandwidth is competitive with NVIDIA GPUs.

But yes, I’m skeptical that there’s really a market for “runs the LLM, but it’s not usable in real-time”. I guess if you had a list of prompts and you ran them throughout the night while you were sleeping?

NVIDIA’s Digits or whatever it’s called now has mediocre memory bandwidth, but it only pulls like 200W at full load. So on the one hand, it can’t be used like most people use ChatGPT or Gemini or DeepSeek, but if the alternative is “not running the LLM at all”, I can see some people wanting Digits. It may run LLMs very slowly (technically we don’t know for sure, but it’s likely based on hardware specs), but at least it’s very small and doesn’t use a lot of electricity or put out a lot of heat.

Although I guess 200W 24/7 is worse than 1kW for an hour or two a day.
There's a not-modern variant for pc/web at https://awbw.amarriner.com/ and a modern not-pc/not-web variant for the Nintendo Switch.
Yeah, we have had two of the same and fancy rats make for really sweet pets. But it left a hole in my heart each time they died and I am not sure I can face it again :/
Recently I've started evaluating new languages in terms of "how difficult would it be to read working code in this language, written by an insane person".

After looking at this for 5 minutes it seems it is better than rhai according to my metric. But not necessarily better than lua.
I see the goalposts are moving from "fluoride in drinking water concentrations" (implication: concentrations commonly found in municipal drinking water) to "fluoride in drinking water at certain concentrations" (i.e. any arbitrary number that could support your position).

Anyway, there's a pretty obvious definition of "drinking water concentrations": the recommended amount for US drinking water. Again, the authors of the study bolded this sentence to ensure you wouldn't miss it:

> It is important to note that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ.
One super annoying issue I've found is that if you enable Smartthings on Samsung TVs, and you try to use your phone app as a remote, they ask for microphone access EVERY TIME I USE THE APP. The options are "Enable" and "Cancel". I click cancel, the remote works for 3 minutes, then stops working and I have to force restart the app and do it again. All for a feature I use if I can't find my physical remote.

Seriously. I hate these companies with a passion. It's crazy that right now the only alternative is to not use smart features / wifi. There's not even a good Android TV option. The best I can do is just run VLC on a computer connected to the screen (Kodi has an awful UI/UX, in my opinion). Plex used to be good before they became awful. AppleTV is the only semi-decent device, but it requires a iCloud login.
I don't believe there's a single person in the USA that's so poor they can't pay $3 for toothpaste every 3 months. I also believe that having such a low personal hygiene where you don't brush your teeth altogether, even if you drink water with fluoride, will have terrible results anyway for your teeth anyway.

I'm completely sure that any people that don't brush their teeth is just because they are too lazy to even bother.

This trope of justifying everything with "but there are millions of poor people in the USA" is really tiresome.
I'd agree macOS surfaces much less functionality but I feel like it's more "because they don't want you to feel like there is a choice to make in the first place" rather than "because the defaults are ideal for everyone". Over time it feels like "layers of menus" have definitely made their way into Apple's software anyways.

The replacement to the registry seems to half be "magic CLI incantations for settings which can't be found in the GUI for some reason" and half "here's a $4.99 app to 3 finger tap to close tabs".
I think the assumption is that everyone is carrying a bag now anyway. When the GBA came out, most people were still not carrying mobile phones so you had a pocket free besides wallet and keys
If they can send you away without a trial then whether you did it out not suddenly loses a lot of importance.
First: That's a strawman. Nobody's saying we can't ever use new features, just that it's reasonable to be cautious with new code that demonstrably has a history of problems. When io_uring has a few decades under its belt I expect its use to be uncontroversial.

Second: That's... not a terrible idea. Concurrency bugs do crop up from time to time. I wouldn't use it for everything (again, we're in the very long tail of concurrency bugs), but having a way to force the system into a mode that couldn't hit them would be nice for high-stakes situations (the same way that Apple's Lockdown Mode disables JIT in the browser). Unfortunately it would probably be more involved than a sysctl.
translation -- think of all the rocks I could throw at my neighbors who speak a different language than me, with all that billions of money.. space station rock throwing is the future! I could get a special set of clothes to wear while I make others do it too.. wow