skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were not disappeared (the links below say we know where they went), and they were arrested by people who do have legal powers of arrest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil#Ar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCmeysa_%C3%...

I am not saying it is the right thing to do, but it is a very very long way from someone being grabbed, bundled into an unmarked van by people who are never identified (either as individuals or who they work for), and turning up later dead - or never turning up at all.
Complete layman's question:
If we would indeed be inside a black hole wouldn't we be able to observe new energy and matter entering?

Related question: the horizon of a black hole is expanding when the mass increases. Could this map to the expansion of our universe, which seems to expand faster and faster?
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Don't forget that same applies to C.
Love the idea and the name! Do you think whether this will worsen the YouTube experience? Because it encourages consuming content at a faster pace than watching the videos themselves.
> In the seventies social housing programs gave an entire generation a chance, and now that same generation is scalping their own offspring with the very same properties.

Controversial opinion, but the pension system is even more problematic in this respect. Boomers are living longer and didn't have enough kids to maintain the affordability of the post-war pension system, but they don't seem willing to take any responsibility and instead have demanded my generation must accept mass-immigration and record high taxes instead of say pushing back the retirement age or requiring boomers who are sat on a large property wealth sell their home to fund their own retirements....

I've been alive a little over 30 years and I've seen my city completely change as a result of immigration. And everyone I know who is working complains endlessly about the amount the government is taking from them in taxation.

And of course some people would argue that this cultural change was a good thing, which is fair enough if they feel that way, but one can't help but be amazed at how keen boomers have been to make such significant and permanent changes to our nation's culture and demographics simply to ensure they get their pensions. And it's not like boomers as a generation don't have the wealth to chip in a little...
Partially.
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Do you think it'd be okay if they used a local LLM, via ollama, and this MCP server?
Most server software these days is already written in memory-safe languages yet still has security vulnerabilities. If you reduce the vulnerabilities due to memory safety issues by, say, 90%, then there's nothing special about them anymore. On the other hand, memory-safe languages also don't fully eliminate memory safety issues as they depend on operations or components that may not themselves be fully memory-safe (BTW, Rust has this problem more than other memory-safe languages).

So a "panacea" in this context doesn't mean making the stack memory-safe (which nobody does, anyway) but rather making the vulnerabilities due to memory safety no more common or dangerous than other causes of vulnerabilities (and remember that rewriting software in a new language also introduces new vulnerability risks even when it reduces others). Whether these techniques actually accomplish that or not is another matter (the paper makes empirical claims without much evidence, just as some Rust fans do).
Many air filters are generating annoying sounds. You get better air, but the distraction by the constant noise of the filter might be more than counter productive.
I was wondering the same thing -- "direction of spin" is ambiguous on its own, you also need to pick which direction is up.

But if objective spin directions are roughly evenly split because the universe is isotropic, the spins from our viewpoint ought to be evenly split as well.

If they're not evenly split, the universe must have a preferred axis, which would be an amazing discovery. I guess if the preferred axis just happens to align with our own galaxy, that would support the alternative theory that it's due to an observation effect such as doppler shift.

Either way, it's incredibly cool to have such a simple but totally unexpected observation pop up out of nowhere.
I don’t know if whatsmeow was intended for this use case: imagine a LLM performing multiple calls in a short period of time, could you risk to have your whatsapp account blocked by Meta?
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People forget having to use IE with 12 toolbars when going over at some friend's house.
The guy at Walmart might have been mistaken about the law (surprise?): if you are a resident you may own and purchase firearms, a tourist would not be eligible - but there's nothing stopping you from lying on forms (besides the penalty of perjury.)
Why is that feature removed by companies? It still exists in vanilla Android, but for some reason the phones sold don't have it.
My Rust experience after eight years
Not to take anything away from this witty comment, but I think Harris is more on the doomer side?

Maybe that's what you meant after all.
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I don't understand how the 1e-16 Hz rotation of the Milky Way affects how we perceive other spiral galaxies' orientations.
> Atheists, black people, Hawaiians, Germans, Japanese- all of them have found themselves in court.

Even people who are clearly American can find themselves having to defend themselves apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_consp...
I don't know if the ROI on rewrites is zero, following Prossimo's work, I'm seeing lots of performance and maintainability improvements over existing software.
Nvidia just wants you to accept higher prices for less computing power.

That’s why Jensen is always saying Moores Law is dead - so you buy less of his sand for more bucks.
> the way the black plague broke the power of the Catholic Church

I think it is more accurate to say it broke the power of the aristocracy by causing a labour shortage.

The black death happened in the 14th century, the reformation in the 16th
WhatsApp acts the phone's entry point for many.

Contacts aren't stored on the phone, messages act as contacts. Phone and video calls also on WhatsApp. Photos are shared via WhatsApp so that's where the gallery is. It even functions as a calendar of sorts – events are organised in WhatsApp groups so there you have directions and dates and who brings what. More and more businesses use WhatsApp to communicate with customers.

Why people like this, I do not know. But this is what I observe. Maybe software in general is too shit to use so people prefer to take a sub-optimal WhatsApp-based life over fighting their phones at every step. And I can't blame them.
the headline confuses me, this sounds like he's doing something legal.
It was 'big in East Germany' though (see my comment about Prof Dr Horst Voelz). A translated section from that link:

"The response to the show was unexpectedly overwhelming. Over the course of the approximately 60 episodes, the station received a total of approximately 50,000 letters from listeners. This was unprecedented in the history of broadcasting."

...and of course as a teenager I was eagerly awaiting each show and recorded the programs that were broadcasted at the end :)
If you remove the emotional coloring from this, you’re just saying that most people in London work for a living, and that many of them commute from less central locations to more central ones. The same could be said of many big cities. Not everyone likes big cities or wants to raise their children in one, but your original comment was a bad take.
At this rate, we're more likely to see major advancements in AI enabling verifiable rewrites than we are to see the C++ committee make any substantive efforts towards improving safety or ergonomics. And I'm only half-joking.
Something like color histogram data is probably enough for fingerprinting known content.
French Competition Watchdog Fines Apple $162.4M over App Tracking Transparency
Ask HN: What are ways programmers "reframe" problems to make them easier?
I write shaders and I often use HSL colour space rather than RGB. This solves a few problems: keeps contrast ratios consistent (by keeping luminance, L constant). Adjusts hue, H, whilst keeping the colour palette in harmony.

It also means I need only modify 1 value rather than 3.

What are other ways in which programmers reframe problems to make them conceptual easier and the implementation more straightforward?
Thanks for the feedback. It is tricky to define what we do without being super verbose. We also talk about it as “one click dev environments” (the benefit vs the feature I guess) but people don’t necessarily get it either. Any suggestions on how to describe it?

What do you mean with shared data sets? Not sure I understand
When you click on edit, you can see the specific section of the ToS:
https://edit.tosdr.org/points/11339

Apparently this means that YT can acces the synced browser history if you're logged into Chrome.
I read this is how the CD Projekt Red founders smuggled Western games into the Iron Curtain states. I think it's an urban myth, but separately, the founders smuggled games into the USSR, and some games were smuggled through the radio then.
The article mentions 600kW power to a single rack might be a thing soon. Surely not air-cooled ?

This seems wild to me. I used to warm myself next to 4kW racks of telco gear when I was still doing overnight work (20 ish years ago) and thought this was a lot of power to be using in such a small space…
> Due to an effect called the Doppler shift, astronomers expect galaxies rotating opposite to the Milky Way’s motion to appear brighter

How does this work? The page it links to doesn't explain why rotation would matter.

Edit: To clarify - one side of the galaxy would be moving towards us, and one away from us, no matter which direction it spins in, so this should not affect the average brightness of the entire galaxy.

The original paper (https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/1/76/8019798?logi...) links to a few papers discussing this, among them https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/15/6/1190 It doesn't answer my question (or if it does, I didn't understand it), but it gives a magnitude for the expected effect on brightness - 0.6%. I do not think that would explain the 1:2 ratio of observed spin directions.
Incredibly ironic. The infamous "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate" that appeared in Harper's in 2020 proved that a huge, vocal cohort of the academic left had failed to learn anything from Arendt's work and were dedicated to ignoring the rise of totalitarianism in America. Now the intellectual assets of Lapham will be divided between the Arendt Center and Columbia University, the epicenter of capitulation to Trump.
This one was supposedly done by the new Gemini: https://codepen.io/thaakeno/pen/vEYaRgK
> If AI in 2032 never gets stuck anywhere ever, then that's a totally different world we'd living in.

Well, this. And at that point we'd likely be facing the same situation in just about every other information-intensive field as well. Yet it doesn't seem like anybody has any idea how to prepare students (or anybody else) for that kind of a future.

It seems absurd to give up on learning and understanding things ourselves because of a hypothetical future for which nobody has a better plan anyway.
The transmissions from NOS in The Netherlands could be received here in Denmark, and I actually succeeded in downloading several programs based on the BASICODE 2 standard. At that time (eighties), people had all sorts of home computers, but this way we could actually run the same programs, whether you had a BBC computer, a ZX81 or one of the many other brands.
The way it worked was that the programs used a common (primitive) BASIC dialect, and where there was a difference, a subroutine was added with a high line number.
E.g. instead of clear screen you would just write GOSUB 100.
There's a user manual here:
https://archive.org/details/BASICODE2Manual/page/n7/mode/2up
What do you think their concern was? I can't see any other issues someone might have.
> So was Moore's law dead 20 years ago? Clearly not.

Agree. It is only 'dead' because Moore's law is about the cost per transistor, and Nvidia wants to keep that price constant.

Double the transistors? Double the price of the chips. That's Nvidia's wet dream.

I hope this backfires on Nvidia and the standard Moore's law returns.
Fun fact: ham radio operators to this day use a similar technique to distribute images - it's called slow scan television.
If we find the "thought and effort" part of communication valuable, we'll keep it. If not, we won't.
It's not that black holes prefer a direction, it's just that they have a direction at all. It's one of the very few observable properties of a black hole.

If I'm following correctly, the "we're inside a black hole" idea is a major reach, connecting at least two unrelated concepts (black holes could contain baby universes; black holes have spin). But it's a really interesting idea and not obviously wrong.
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I don’t think we know enough about relative time from outside our universe. Our 15 billion years could be the parent universe’s one second.
Clockwise relative to our viewpoint, while we would expect that we'd see an equal number rotating in either direction no matter which way we looked or where we were looking from.
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> Well first, no it’s not a hard requirement that every kid has their own separate bedroom. Sharing bedrooms for kids is a thing.

Sharing with their parents? Otherwise you still have this transition.

> Second, if you started your family with a three bedroom house, kids 1 and 2 (or more, with sharing) are accounted for.

If. Most people don't start at that rung of the housing ladder. My parents did… but they bought in the early 70s. I started on a one-bed apartment, which I let out when I emigrated.

> Third, you’re ignoring the “on top of births” point. Those immigrants who need housing TODAY are ON TOP of births, and the number never slows down. That absolutely creates massive additional housing pressure.

1M births + 1M immigrants is indeed more than just 1M births. It's also begging the question, by presuming that in the absence of immigration there's no change to births.

Or emigration, or house building, or a whole bunch of other things that influence all this — Indeed, one of the jobs immigrants can be found working at, is house building. Those kids who have yet to move out, occupy rooms, and yet can't immediately contribute to building more homes.
Feels like it would be a hard optimization problem. Not sure what else they would be doing either?
As someone that uses Syncthing for pretty much all the usecases you mentioned that sounds very interesting! Do you mind sharing some details about the process so far?
Exactly and anything new entering the spinning black hole is likely to inherit its spin.
They are open for soldiers on official leave?

But keep comparing being arrested by official police for draft dodging in the middle of a war for existence to sending secret hooded officers to arrest a brown-skinned scarf-wearing woman for supposedly antisemitism while your pal Boer Elon is doing Nazi salutes in public.
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It's a personal essay about how not all—probably most—technology is destined to liberate us.
I'm working on an alternative frontend for GitHub https://githero.app/

The focus is on providing a better experience: faster, with smoother interactions, with higher information density and a lot more focused on your daily work (with features such as bookmarks and drafts).

It's web-based but there will be also desktop apps (thanks to tauri) that will integrate with your local git.

If you start using it and want to ask for feature requests or notify bug reports please go to the discord server: https://discord.gg/RHCJvUSbr5 Thanks!!
This sounds like the Fachhochschule hired some guest lecturer from the world of employment (since it is a goal of Fachhochschulen to also give the students a perspective from work environment in their lectures, this sometimes happens).

Unluckily the people responsible to hire a guest lecturer fell for a windbag. :-(
My best guess would be using a standard coordinate system such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergalactic_coordinate_sys...
One side is moving away from us, the other towards. This means their relative speeds are different, detectably so.
Indeed, raw healthy foods like chicken breast, rice, banana, are cheaper than junk food those people eat. They just feel too bland to them and won't satisfy their acquired unhealthy tastes. So healthy stuff isn't even sold where poor people dominate.
Technically, sure, it's not possible to tell what the future will be, yet other automakers somehow haven't managed to innovate as much and here is a new carmaker from the US that ships actual products en masse. Also, apparently Elon is able to do more than one difficult thing at the same time and succeed. The stock bubbles may burst and fall but it's unlikely an end to anything.
What strikes me is how much of these current geopolitical events are driven by singular individuals whose current inclinations were shaped by their very arbitrary past encounters.
For example, if you take the current US administration's hostility towards Europe. That might just be the result of the Vice President being at Yale and encountering a few snobby children of European old money, and they might have been a bit too mean to him, and that might be the sole reason he has so much antipathy towards the whole of Europe.
Exactly my view. People should be more educated, not less.
Is this a good way, for the person who's lost his/her wallet to contact the person who's found it?
Much later in the year 2000 there was the 8-Bit Construction Set record: http://www.beigerecords.com/products/beg-004.html

It had Atari and Commodore music (as audio) as well as Atari and Commodore software (as data).

Despite the claim on their old page to be the “first use of vinyl for software distribution” they did later acknowledge and reference some prior art in a Slashdot thread:
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140154&threshold=-1&com...
Where do you draw the line? LLMs for searching, BM25 for searching, exact match only, no processes at all (forbid whatsapp search, make them scroll)?
Anecdote but all of the PR around this release displayed only liquid cooled so I assume so.
Optimizing Cetuximab
> (that's all assuming that there's a single best definable specific behavior for a given op for a given architecture, which isn't actually true; e.g. ARM scalar shifts do `shift %= width`, but SIMD shifts shift the other direction on a negative amount, and give 0 on `abs(shift) >= width`, only looking at the low 8 bits of the shift amount)

In that case, your implementation defined behaviour could still be that your compiler is allowed to non-deterministically pick between any of the allowed behaviours. But nasal demons would still be verboten.
The Warcraft Wiki also has the same issue: fled off of Fandom and is getting out-SEO'd by Fandom on basically all results.

https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Warcraft_Wiki:About
Every codebase I’ve seen encapsulates access control logic in a service layer of some sorts. This is a solved problem and does not need new patterns. I don’t mind doing it the way article suggest. But it is hardly anything new.
> Nvidia hit many roadblocks

Roadblocks they've seemed to put on themselves, in the name of market segmentation. There is a huge market sitting between consumer and "professional" GPUs, and nvidia is trying to milk the market as much as they can before any of the competitors get their shit together.
Isomorphic Labs announces $600M external investment round
eating own dog food and I made an error - red face
They may be talking of this new, decentralized, open-sea, counterfeit-proof currency I've heard fishermen raving about. It's called cowrie. But some friends working in the mines think it's a joke and it will soon crash.
Here is an example of the sound that was heard on the radio for approximately 2 to 3 minutes that was broadcasted on the Dutch radio.
https://on.soundcloud.com/QAUa2Kkgef1gDxDQ6
Earlier this year I started making music with an m8 tracker, from Dirtywave.
Fantastic device, I highly recommend. It’s my first tracker and took only half a day to feel comfortable and being able to produce simple songs!

It’s so effective that I can have a chord idea at noon, and a song done before the evening
that's trivial to model... if anyone looking for a phd topic that sounds complex but only involves basic trig. (conclusion will probably be a No)
I played games on a Commodore 64 from cassette tapes, in principal you could record games onto a blank cassette but it was very flaky. Good times though.
Want to build a platform to alleviate chronic suffering that can't be understood by one's local doctor.

Suggestions by this platform wouldn't interfere with treatment protocol straight away; it wouldn't ask the patient to stop medicines their doctor has prescribed, or itself prescribe scheduled drugs.

It will suggest complementary interventions. Case in point: anxiety, depression, brain degeneration & other related diseases - there's Rhonda Patrick's protocol of HIIT exercises to breach the blood-brain barrier & deliver positive effects; there's Dr Chris Palmer's method of looking at metabolism & mental health jointly & benefits of a keto diet to solve such issues.

Likewise, there can suggestions from Yoga-Pranayama where deep breathing can solve insomnia & hence other diseases downstream such as hypertension in many cases.

After being on such complementary protocols, the patient's suffering will be reduced, but also the body will heal enough to an extent that their local doctor could reduce/stop medication.

The tech is in the platform, combing through wisdom of all such complementary protocols for a start. If it gains traction, we could start involving experts have system route some queries specifically to them.

I have experience building the ML-LLM part. Anyone wants to join me and build the full stack part?
Personally, I would say that still reeks of being manipulative. I've received messages from a friend which were definitely LLM-generated, it made me like that person considerably less
Is inside the article:

"A preferred axis in our universe, inherited by the axis of rotation of its parent black hole, might have influenced the rotation dynamics of galaxies, creating the observed clockwise-counterclockwise asymmetry,” Nikodem Poplawski
> Your lecturer is significantly undermining your education (which you pay for!).

In Germany, at state universities, you typically only pay money for the student self-administration. The huge "payment" is rather the opportunity cost.

> The purpose of your CS degree is to build a strong theoretical foundation

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533033 Loeffelmann wrote that this happened at a Fachhochschule, not at a university. The purpose of universities is to give the student a strong theoretical foundation to prepare them for doing research. The purpose of Fachhochschulen is to prepare the student for working in jobs outside of academia.
How are you linking that effect to the spin orientation of the Milky Way galaxy? Where is the all-sky anisotropy coming from?
ServerSearcher (https://serversearcher.com) to make it easier to find cloud/virtual and bare-metal servers that match specific requirements like RAM, location, or CPU. There needed to be an easier way.
It did.

Or perhaps it was because I dualbooted 98 and 2k.

All my warez were on a fat32 to be accessible from both. Somehow the audio in my mp3 collection got replaced with audio from my movies.