skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The European way is all about having a strong firewall between religion and politics

I find this quite contrary to my experience of e.g. modern Germany, Spain, Poland, Italy where many politicians are explicitly religious, laws are written with majority religious affiliation in mind, religious taxes may still be levied. Even France still feels in many ways like a "catholic country", even if they do have good explicit separation of church and state.

I would have said that government and (Christian) religion are completely inextricable for most Europeans, even if the majority of the population isn't seriously devout or even practicing.
Wouldn’t the question better be “would you be happy with the freedoms of a random person” otherwise you’re including all kinds of other factors?
> I don't use a toothbrush or toothpaste, and haven't ever really, as my ASD makes it unbearable.

99% of the world does brush their teeth, so I don't see how this is relevant to their health.
Schematron / Peppol / electronic invoices inside the eu (since some stuff is based on as2 / as4 , stuff like saml but for sending invoices)
Low Back Pain: A New Comprehensive Pathogenetic Model
> "We need to wake up from a failed, 40-year consensus that said that we could ignore the encroachment of powerful countries as they expand their ambitions," Vance told US troops at America's Pituffik military base.

Once again, every accusation is a confession.
Windows toolchain provides the import libraries to link with, and these are basically just tables mapping function names to indices in the DLL export table. So long as you don't actually use the new functions, an app linked against a modern Windows SDK will run just fine on old Windows, unlike the situation with glibc.
Apple uses functional organizational structure. Every product needs a cooperation of all functions to produce results. So engineer on os team working on drivers could be working on driver for the new hw part, but other team members including their manager are not necessarily disclosed on that hw.
I'm not trying to defend Linux btw, and I appreciate Microsoft's approach to backward compatibility (some of the Windows games I play regularly hail from the late 90s).

Just wanted to point out that ABI stability alone probably isn't the reason why Windows is so backward compatible, there's most likely a lot of 'boring' QA and maintenance work going on under the hood to make it work.

Also FWIW some of the early D3D9 games I worked on no longer run on out of the box on Windows (mostly because of problems related to switching into fullscreen), I guess those games were not popular enough to justify a backward compatibility workaround in modern Windows versions ;)
Meta analysis of the various studies (74 of them from a large range of countries):

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
That's beyond absurd. Sounds par for the course with HSBC!
Kite confiscated after apparently hitting United plane in Washington area
It might not be as easy as it used to be, but when I did remote PC tech support ca. 2008-2010, all day every day was almost nothing but removing infections of rogue (fake) antiviruses and their supporting rootkits that people got via "driveby download" -- no stupid mistakes needed (unless you count browsing without an ad blocker).
I agree with you, but GDP per capita isn't the correct measure here when the bottom 8% in the US has no health insurance compared to Sweden's 0%, which I have to assume because I didn't even find this measured anywhere due to universal healthcare.
And they still haven’t! Although expressions over statements would be a breaking change - I can’t see any mainstream language making this switch.
In the political philosophy of the US, the unit whose freedoms matter is the individual, not the community. Freedoms for individuals necessarily come from reducing the freedom of "the community."
Both. You get untreated, just with iodine and iodine + fluoride.

https://www.bad-reichenhaller.de/de/produkte/alpensalze/alpe...
This is the only thing that makes sense to me too. Putin encouraging this to undermine the USA's (already shaken) moral standing to object to Ukraine, and Taiwan (and maybe the baltics and the phillipines) being absorbed by their neighbours.

Though, does it account for the European reaction to wannabe empires nibbling away at territory on both ends?

Seems certain to backfire for everyone involved.
>The problem is that fluoridation of the drinking water is not supported by any science.

Yet it is supported by science.

Indeed even the discovery of this property of fluoride came about from the observation of people who naturally consumed fluoride had fewer dental caries and tooth decay.

Further studies cemented the benefits of the passive inclusion of fluoride in drinking water versus control groups.
So no, the science you speak of is almost certainly politics dressed up as science.
I mentioned that in my comment. You wouldn’t get new versions, but in case of security or compatibility patches you could download them for free to keep running your old version, not just for one year.
Is that not just a passive form of putting fluoride in the water though? Government is still spending money but without the desired outcome of having a healthier fitter population.
Quantum mechanics teaches us nature isn't continuous though.
Enriched flour is another good example that I was hoping someone would mention*.

It’s worth noting that it’s also slightly different in that processed flour is deficient in thiamin and calcium, so the fortification adds back these nutrients.

On the other hand, processing water to make it potable doesn’t remove fluoride and so fluoridation is not the process of adding back something that was there beforehand.

*I searched this page and found flouride and flouridation four times before your comment.
Flatpaks aren't distro specific.

As for being overkill, surely you can see the advantage of having a single uniform distribution format from the end user's perspective? Which, sure, might be overkill for your case (although app isolation isn't just about dependencies), but the important thing is that it is a working solution that you can use, and users only need to know how to install and manage them.
This perception is out of date. The UK population actually has very healthy teeth as a whole:

https://www.yongeeglintondental.com/blog/healthy-primary-tee...

That, of course, is not quite the same thing as perfectly white, perfectly aligned teeth.
So you will ask "What is our churn?", get a random result, and then turn your whole marketing strategy around wrong number?

Thats cute.
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP14534 is one study. We did earlier studies in the 50s when we made the decision to only use fluoride orally.
I’ve worked in VFX shops and it is indeed very common practice.
Fluoride is not "in fact toxic". A substance becomes toxic in high amounts. Vitamin D becomes toxic in high amounts. The level of fluoride in drinking water is well below the toxic level.
As an experienced "software engineer" :D, I fully agree with you. Although I would phrase it differently.

All patterns & practices come with their benefit and drawbacks. So all decisions are very much dependent on the circumstances. This is what you called "local maxima".
While the Java implementation is suboptimal, there is really no need for it to be that way. I think the ideal way to go about it would be to run the compiler optimisations and whatnot then generate something semantically similar to C89 as output. Then you invoke a simple compiler with few optimisations on the target machine the first time the program is run, and cache the results somewhere. On all subsequent runs, you've got something which can actually run faster than pre-compiled C code because the compiler doesn't need to preserve the ABI so can do stuff like inlining dynamic library calls.
Are you asserting that only liberals aren't raging Islamophobes? Wild.
>(Well, they also make espresso drinks and made-to-order deli sandwiches, so I guess it's appropriate to tip if you order those.)

I disagree. I tip for delivery, and for table service. Not for a service that does not require leaving the counter.
Maybe because it's a good newspaper?
Coke zero is still murder on your teeth, though. (And not fluoridated, of course.)
Many commonly used Windows fonts are licensed under proprietary terms, preventing their inclusion with Wine.

Winetricks[1] can be used to acquire and install a set of default fonts directly from Microsoft.

Furthermore, Windows font fallback differs substantially from that of Linux and similar systems, which generally utilize Fontconfig and FreeType with font relationships defined in configuration files. In contrast, Windows (and consequently Wine) employs a font linking mechanism[2]. Windows handles font linking natively, whereas Wine requires manual registry configuration[3].

[1] https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/fonts-layout...

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29028964/font-recognitio...
AI Agents and Observability
NIH has rescinded its scientific integrity policy
Even if you self-host on own domain using libre software, you have to trust the registrar and certificate authorities. Thinking you can cut out all trusted third parties is naive,too.
That says more about the industrializaton of scientific research than anything.

LLMs is the new hype product of tech companies. Wait a couple years and the interest will die out.

Maybe we’ll live the day when true neuroscience (none of that Andrew Huberman stuff) will be trending.
Yes! https://Endor.dev

Let us know what you think if you get a chance :)
There are multiple distros that make it very easy - as in download a .exe or .msi and click on it: https://help.zorin.com/docs/apps-games/windows-app-support/

Some of these have a long history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire

They have never been all that successful.

I suspect there is not enough overlap between people who want to use Linux and people who need to run Windows apps that badly for it to be viable.

The biggest problem is games, and even with Steam's best efforts not all Windows games will run on Linux, AFAIK.
Backing stuff up in the cloud is easy (albeit expensive). Keeping the data from leaking is the hard part.

Most studios are hyper paranoid about their movie or TV show getting leaked.
So “mocking” a country is now casus belli?
> The vulnerability is caused by the fact that atop always tries to connect
to the TCP port of 'atopgpud' during initialization. When another local
program has been started (instead of 'atopgpud') that listens to this TCP
port, atop connects to that program. Such program is able then to send
unexpected strings that may lead to parsing failures in atop. These failures
result in heap problems and segmentation faults.

Okay, so, if I have a shell and the rights to listen on a host, I can crash the "atop" of other users? That's it ? I could also create a fork bomb, fill up the disk, use all CPU and memory, etc...
If you mostly do singleplayer, sure.

Anything online with anti-cheat is usually broken.
> My initial searches suggest that these are by prescription only. Do you have any information to the contrary?

No, I don't. Does that matter?
The whole code is horrible: https://github.com/Atoptool/atop/commit/542b7f7ac52926ca2721...

Inconsistent usage of braces, no clear memory ownership or life-cycles, zero tests.
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Cool, I love that there are ways to utilize RAM and VRAM as filesystems. Sometimes you just don't need all that pure RAM/VRAM.
Serverless databases with branching support like Neon make this kind of thing trivial to do. You can just have a test that branches off your prod DB, runs the migrations, and then deletes the branch. This is lightweight enough to easily run on every pull request change.

No mocking or anything. This tests that your migrations are safe to run against real data.
Nakedo is one of the last working YouTube Invidious front ends instances
Icebreaking Explained – Finland: Europe's Icebreaker Superpower
Hi HN,

Fletcher here.

The demo below links directly to a conversational agent asking about your experience with Hacker News—give it a quick try.

A few insights from building this:

Models & Prompting:
The main agent runs primarily on Gemini Flash 2.0—IMO the best production model right now. The main prompt/context document behind it is about 70 pages (the difficulty of prompt engineering is underrated).

Probabilistic vs. Programmatic:
After building this, I think "traditional" SaaS solutions aren't going away. All existing SaaS use cases are deterministic (programmatic). So lift and shift with AI is hard.

Why Franko?
Qual data is rapidly becoming more valuable than quant data, but the key is the quality and context: you need your own conversational data to effectively build a personalized understanding of your specific customers, hence Franko.ai. Short and specific conversations, at specific points in your customers journey.

Would love your feedback or just say hi!

Feel free to reach me directly at fletcher@franko.ai.
The trouble with slippery slopes is that not all of them are fallacious, as you are suggesting. This is a reasonable point: if we are doing delivery of medicine through tap water, where's the line? A few people have seriously suggested putting low doses of lithium in the tap water as a societal antidepressant.
>The failures of race-based medicine aren’t an argument for ignoring physiological diversity. Pretending that differences don’t exist doesn’t make them disappear; it only drives practitioners to rely on flawed intuitions. Familiar racial categories do a poor job of tracking ancestry and genetic variation. Yoruba people, in Nigeria, and Bench people, in Ethiopia, both qualify as Black, yet genetically they are further apart than an English person is from a Tamil. Instead of clinging to dubious classifications that obscure variation, we would be better served by developing methods that account for people’s distinctive ancestry and lived environment.

This just means we need more categories. Not that categorization is inherently bad.
No hate from me! You can believe what you like but I do disagree I'm afraid.

I think any rule-following (ie ~computational) system is either below, or at the same level of dynamic complexity as all others.

I also think that it's truly impossible to draw a sharp line between alive and not-alive, so the idea of 'free will' would have to extend all the way down to the smallest things like atoms/quarks/space etc.

Is it really meaningful to suggest that it could be anything like 'free will' at that size? Sure some quantum stuff seems indeterminate but could be fed by something that looks random to us - it might not actually be (dunno!?), but the idea that things at a larger scale could be meaningfully controlled by feeding-in different values (that still somehow have to look perfectly random!) seems extremely far-fetched to me.

Larger things like a molecule, a transistor or a human! generally stay as coherent and predictable/controllable (or self-controlling) things, even in the face of indeterminate-ness at the smallest scales underneath. I just can't see how there's any utility in connecting the idea of free-will/consciousness to this indeterminacy.. it's like saying free will is just fuzziness, and how does that really help in understanding life, the universe and everything?
AKA as the spoiled brat kind of freedom.
Fluorine is a dietary mineral.

At higher dosages, every dietary mineral becomes harmful, then (generally) lethal.

Without iron, humans die. Yet accidental (over-)ingestion of iron supplements is a leading cause of poisoning in small children.
Default gameplay maybe? But I'm pretty sure there were servers that tried to do whatever Veloren is doing. The diversity of minigames and whole game concepts on Minecraft servers was pretty extreme for a while.
To me, not sitting in front of a Mac, but using it via remote desktop, doesn’t change the fact the show is being edited on Macs. Which makes me not see the point in the article.

It’s like seeing a car ad where someone is being driven around by a chauffeur in a BMW, then arguing that “they are not actually driving it, it could be any car”.
Multiple senior leaders in Trump’s White House, including old school republicans like Rubio have floated deporting American citizens to El Salvador. I would not want to be the person at the center of those court cases
Indeed, it is a shame. However, XPL-EX is a fork (though with much internal code (re)written at this point) with even more capability, while maintaining the familiar and simple UI. Seems pretty neat!
Regarding the math in ML, what I would love to see (links if you have any) is a nuanced take on the matter, showing examples from both sides. Like in good faith discussing what contributions one can make with and without a strong math background in the ML world.

edit: On the math side I've encountered one that seemed unique, as I haven't seen anything like this elsewhere: https://irregular-rhomboid.github.io/2022/12/07/applied-math.... However, this only points out courses that he enrolled in his math education that he thinks is relevant to ML, each course is given a very short description and or motivation as to the usefulness it has to ML.

I like this concluding remarks:

Through my curriculum, I learned about a broad variety of subjects that provide useful ideas and intuitions when applied to ML. Arguably the most valuable thing I got out of it is a rough map of mathematics that I can use to navigate and learn more advanced topics on my own.

Having already been exposed to these ideas, I wasn’t confused when I encountered them in ML papers. Rather, I could leverage them to get intuition about the ML part.

Strictly speaking, the only math that is actually needed for ML is real analysis, linear algebra, probability and optimization. And even there, your mileage may vary. Everything else is helpful, because it provides additional language and intuition. But if you’re trying to tackle hard problems like alignment or actually getting a grasp on what large neural nets actually do, you need all the intuition you can get. If you’re already confused about the simple cases, you have no hope of deconfusing the complex ones.
doesn't discuss any confounding variables that may also correlate with the use/disuse of flouride.
Again, you’re technically correct but I don’t think it matters.

Windows gives (in practice) DE, user space, and kernel stability, and various Linux distributions don’t. If you care about changing the Linux ecosystem to provide that stability it matters, but if you want to run an old application it doesn’t.
Zero reflection, just rolls right into “here is why I’m actually right anyways”.

People like you are impossible to deal with. I’m ending this chat.
No, no they do not. Where do you make up these statistics?
Four bad definitions of "Agentic AI"
It's a bit odd, because the main appeal of blocky voxels is that it makes building easier, and these aren't building games.
And now you've pulled in a full sql parser as a dependency (admittedly a dev/build time dependency, but a dependency nonetheless) in a project that has no business parsing sql.

In this day and age of increasingly rampant supply chain attacks & dependency vulnerabilities, I'd definitely be second guessing the approach of "just write a test for it" if that test involved blowing up your attack/vuln surface
Very nice.

Has anyone got rr working with python?
It's a clickbait title that needs to be changed to stop spreading misinformation.
Office 2013, last non Click2Run version, worked wonderfully on Wine few years ago
CVE database, the ongoing liability laws in cybersecurity across several nations, and companies that also happen to be C and C++ compiler vendors, are my credibility.

It is incredible how for the last 50 years we keep getting ad-hominens from folks that think actually to know anything at all about security, and only clueless junior developers don't know what they are doing.
"Your community could decide" is not freedom in the American political sense. In US political theory, the unit of freedom is the individual, full stop.
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I agree, but I would go a step further.

You’re using a magic constant that doesn’t do anything at runtime. It’s only there to be parsed by static analysis. In your case that’s uv doing the parsing but another tool might delete it as unused code. In the sense that it’s one thing pretending to be another, for me, it’s in the same category as a magic comment.

Instead, why not make a call to uv telling it what to do?:

import uv

uv.exec(
dependencies=[“clown”],
python=“>=3.10”,
)

from clown import nose

The first call can be with any old python runtime capable of locating this hypothetical uv package. The uv package sets up the venv and python runtime and re-exec(3)s with some kind of flag, say, an environment variable.

In the second runtime uv.exec is a noop because it detects the flag.
>My exact point is that after publicly shaming Americans (eg, mocking our lack of social spending while being deadbeats to NATO) and collaborating with their perceived enemies (eg, the US internationalist elites) for my entire lifetime, there’s a significant fraction of the US who sees the EU and Canada as adversarial.

We're watching history be reconstructed into pretext in real time. Soon, we will always have been at war with Canada.
>> IBM announces the 3161 and 3163 ASCII Display Stations, serial-based terminals in the IBM 3101 lineage that were capable of emulating various third-party terminals. They sported the first terminal-specific IBM Enhanced Keyboards, which typically have an extra key over ANSI and ISO PC-style Enhanced Keyboards, and ASCII-style ones like 316X's often uniquely have line drawing symbols on their numeric keypads.

And of course you'll be playing rogue.

https://sharktastica.co.uk/resources/images/terminals/Wyatt8...

(Nethack came out two years later)
Sure, the current version of LLM should wait for someone's input and then respond.
Parent commenter doesn't mean literal gulags, but a similarly bad place sent people to by a similarly bad government.
Given that every OS is heading towards centralised application updates. Windows Store does that AFAIK. I am guessing MacOS's store does too. The major mobile OSes and its the only way almost all users install anything.
Are you in FNQ? Around Brissie and the Goldie we're all flouridated.

I've heard similar rumours about army recruitment in the 80s though.
You should solve the problem you need to solve, not the problem you have a cool solution for.

The problem to solve is "given my database in an arbitrary but valid state, applying a migration should succeed and leave the database in a equally valid state". Not "how do I stop people adding NOT NULL columns into tables".
Whatever it is, it is extremely successful at it.
Wine was in a much worse shape back then.
Just an FYI, water is also toxic.
Baffling is the ignorance in the ways of WG14 and WG21, while pretending to be a know it all, maybe update yourself on the relevant papers for C2y and C++26, aimed at clearing up references to UB with erranous behaviour, or implementation defined.
Alternatively it's fairly trivial today to run a transistor-level simulation of the 6502 (and a couple of other chips) thanks to the visual6502 reverse engineering effort (the http: link is intended):

http://visual6502.org/

The netlist is available in their Git repo:

https://github.com/trebonian/visual6502

...and there's a C port of the netlist simulation code:

https://github.com/mist64/perfect6502

One advantage of this approach is that you can inspect internal chip state that isn't visible on the output pins, which is very useful for emulator coding.

...and a couple of years ago I glued all those bits and pieces together for a 'remix' of the original visual6502 web application, using WASM + WebGL + Dear Imgui:

https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/