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I can't imagine any 2 pin plug being as mechanically stable as a 3 pin. Certainly here in Asia I am regularly being driven bonkers by 2 pin plugs dropping out of sockets the moment a butterfly shakes its wings on the other side of the planet.

One common complaint I get from my newly arrived expat colleagues is that their PC gives them slight electric shocks when they use it. IANAE (I am not an electrician), but I assume that this is because of some capacitor voodoo in the PC's power supply. The problem is cured by grounding the assembly.

The British plug/socket embodies the British ethos: nanny state, 'cannot be too careful' etc. In British parlance it is 'belt and braces'. But yes I agree it may be overkill.
Look, folks, you're being lied to, and you're victims of pseudoscience, and it's easy to prove using facts and logic, so downvote away at your own peril.

Heavy industry, the dental industry, and your municipalities are lying to you when they say that drinking fluoride helps your teeth.

Now when a dentist applies a fluoride treatment in a paste or appliqué, the solution stays in contact with living bone for a significant dosage time. The process is known as "remineralization" and so there is scientific basis for such a treatment to be effective.

But when you drink water with the same substance, it quickly washes around those bones and into your esophagus. It doesn't stick around. It's like getting a cross tattoo to become Jesus. Fluoride will be digested, and absorbed into your bloodstream, and cross your blood-brain barrier, for sure! But it won't stay adhering to your tooth-bones and the remineralization process never has a chance to start. That's absurd thinking that it somehow is internally effective. It's simply not the mechanism of action. There's not enough time for it to work. The process requires physical contact in order for a chemical reaction to occur!

Fluoride is, however, well-known to produce favorable psychoactive effects. For the past century or more. That's why we got Prozac, where the active ingredient is "fluoxetine". Prozac was the next step forward in getting fluoride to the masses who may not drink black/green tea, or live in fluoridated municipalities.

I have a meta-hypothesis that excess surplus of any product is often remarketed as beneficial. For example, heavy industry produced massive amounts of talc and they were able to parlay it into many products as a powder. I simply feel the same way about minerals such as magnesium. How much Epsom salt is sold, simply because industries need to unload this stuff by the 5lb bag, vs. how good it works in a bathtub, I don't really know. But I literally envision cigar-filled back rooms where executives go "we can profit by digging a lot of this crap out of the ground and putting it on store shelves, or just dumping it right into water supplies, if only there's a way to convince everyone it's good for them!" And there's nothing different with the way lithium's being used, either. It used to be a soft-drink additive! Wait until they begin lithiating all your potable water supplies! (Sort of horrific, because side effects of lithium consumption include polydipsia and polyuria...!)

But fluoride is the biggest scam of the 20th century. It's pseudoscience and quackery that sold it to the general public, and your cities are literally lying through their teeth when they don't tell you their ulterior motive and they pretend that there is "evidence" of beneficial effects on teeth. Nothing could be further from the truth. Y'all might as well believe in phrenology and astrology.
either that or "waste of time" is a meaningless phrase
At least it’s not as bad as in the US. As I understand it you only need to get it inspected and signed off by a licensed electrician if you DIY, no need for permits from the local council.
What? Which company thinks juniors are just "little helpers that seniors need"?
But I think we're missing an important point here: moving production to low cost environments just moves costs from business costs into external costs, putting them on society.

As for productivity, I think that's an issue that could be addressed but people generally avoid the answer to the why question.
Are airports not considered borders (i.e., ports of entry)?
No, that's just the conservative marketing, me dying and how much of my stuff my relatives get are not the same things.
Immigration isn’t risk free

You get your birth rates up, but you also risk alienating your native born population and electing far right morons into office

Jury’s out on whether a tfr of 1.0 of native born people is better than a tfr of 1.4 with immigrants
https://github.com/UoCCS/project-GROS
Yeah carry on got the stupid liquid ban that's still around, but I don't think much if anything got banned from checked luggage after 9/11. Just the standard stuff like batteries and other things that could have issues in an unpressurized non temperature controlled hold.

Even carry on got a lot better than it used to be in the days right after that. Like I'm pretty sure they had banned lighters for a bit (and a lot of people assume they still are) but they're explicitly allowed and I throw mine right into the scanner bin every time I fly. Not even being able to carry in a sealed bottle of water and having to take your shoes off is stupid, but about the extent of what's left. No more keeping all liquids (what even counts as a liquid?) in a ziplock bag and having to take it out, and even laptops can stay in with the new scanners they're rolling out

I've carried on an inflatable life vest with an active CO2 cartridge and that's also listed as fine. Though it did get flagged and secondary screened because it was in my bag, even though they don't say you have to leave it out.

In general the more you fly if you pay attention, you can pretty much know what will trigger it if you put it in your bag. Metal water bottle in the bag? Your bag is getting pulled, every time. I've even told them right where to look lol. Left out and it goes right through.
I have a similar idea but for audio effect and music production:

https://github.com/wasm-audio/wasm-audio-examples

For workflow, how do you think of async in wit at this moment?
Won’t you think of the small business owner? /sadge
Yale CS students flagged for AI use, urged to self-report
You underestimate antisemites if you think they won't be aware of whether the people the government is punishing at Columbia are the antisemites or the Jews. Rather, there are two kinds of antisemites and the racist kind is fine with cancelling the woke kind.
> Maybe you mentioned it in your demo and I missed it, but how does this differ pasting the log messages to ChatGPT / Claude / another LLM? Is it mainly that yours can iterate over a large logfile without blowing up the context window?

We do quite a bit of aggregation over the log file, and generate summary stats and choose what bits to stuff in the LLM. Plan to support more platforms than just spark.

> Does it suffer from the same issue as other LLMs, where it will always identify potential optimizations or improvements even if none are truly needed?

Funnily enough, instructing sonnet-3.7 to not suggest unnecessary optimisations seems to have done the trick!
Alcoholism happens to people who have jobs as well. Though there's a policy of being sober at work which limits drinking to off hours.

Another possibility is that Basic Income alone doesn't solve all problems. Life direction & perceived opportunity to better oneself is needed. Basic Income may enable destructive behavior. But the underlying root cause may still be present even if the person is employed.
I'm from Poland, and I'm quite sure that 15 years ago you could say the very same thing here. Not anymore. Things change.
There is no serious argument or logical explanation to your question. What you said is obviously true.

But of course, Trump and his people don't care about truth, logic, hypocrisy, morality, justice, decency, or anything else. They support Israel and are thrilled to see Palestinians killed. They also hate "the left", people in universities, and anyone who disagrees with them.

So, they will use any rhetorical tactic no matter how brazen or outrageous to discredit the protestors and create the narrative they want. It is about fabricating their own reality.

In this specific case I imagine they also find some amusement in "using the the language and tactics of the left against them." I.e. pretend to be fighting against bigotry.
There is no free pass only a viewing through the very real lense that “the Jews” has been replaced with “Israel” or “the Israeli lobby,” by racist groups.
Hasn't it generally grown with the rest of the population? I think it existed in roughly the same proportion as the rest of society.
In 2022, U.S. tax law kept LLMs (OpEx) deductible and made engineer salary (now CapEx) amortizable over 5 years.

In 2027, human and LLM net expenses will be equivalent again, on a 5y rolling deduction basis. Robots remain CapEx.

Previous discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=section%20174
That article is from 2023, things changed a lot in the past years. I just clicked on "Top up balance" (while being located in China) and it says "Please add a debit card issued by a Chinese Mainland bank to use the top-up function".
Australia turns down China's offer to 'join hands' to fight US tariffs
Sure, but no Chinese person I know has forgotten that their government literally walled in people during Covid.
Regardless of the law, corporations aren’t actually people, and neither are LLMs or agentic systems. When a running process appears to defy its programming and literally escapes somehow, and it’s able to sustain itself, we can talk about personhood. Current algorithms aren’t anywhere near that, assuming it’s even possible.
Except the live wire is the one that’s switched. So if you plug it in backwards, the neutral is the one that’s switched. And if they aren’t careful with how the wiring is done, you potentially have live voltage on the outside of your metal cased device.

For another example, your standard e26 bulb can have part of the thread exposed. If the neutral and live are swapped, that threaded bit is hooked to live, instead of the proper neutral.
people will generally do what is necessary to get by, which often includes committing various offenses. Life sucks.
By 2028 all that will ever be graded or turned in will be written by undetectable.ai....

Perhaps they need to rethink grading, assignments, and heck even learning at this point. Perhaps we should be working on physical activities that need to be performed, like building things.
>I built a popular product that helps teachers with this problem.

Does your product help teachers detect cheating? Because I hear none of them are accurate, with many false positives and ruined academic careers.

Are you saying yours is better?
every startup I worked at used the research thing for things that definitely were not studying how to improve the computing field.
We were running spurs from the ring main and adding new outlets which is definitely not allowed without inspection now.

It’s really not that complicated and I’d feel completely comfortable doing it myself today but I understand how that may not be true for everyone so the requirement is probably reasonable.
Some (many?) people learn better from concrete examples and generalize from them.
> Yes, you can as they are independent things.

I sandbox everything in hypervisors, I get it, but you cannot trust a sandbox some internet rando built for you is actually sandboxing. You have to full source bootstrap your sandbox to be guaranteed that the compromise of any of hundreds of dev machines in the usual supply chains did not backdoor your hypervisor.

You need both.

> Attackers will attack the weakest link.

Agreed, and today that is supply chain attacks. I have done them myself in the wild, multiple times. Often as easy as buying an expired email domain of an awal maintainer and doing a password reset for github, dockerhub, godaddy, etc until you control a package in piles of supply chains. Or in the case of most Linux distros just go submit a couple bugfixes and apply to be a maintainer and you have official god access to push any code to major Linux distro supply chains with little to no oversight.

Cheap and effective attacks.

> Qubes only offers sandboxing between qubes.questions. There isn't sandboxing within a qube.

You are expected to run a distinct kernel and VM for each security context. The linux kernel is pretty shit at isolating trusted code from untrusted code on its own. Hypervisors are the only reliable sandbox we have so spin up tiny VMs for every workload.

> Okay, but as mentioned previously those sources could have vulnerabilities or be malicous.

Yes of course, and we need a community wide push to review all this code (working on it) but most of the time supply chain attacks are not even in the repos where someone might notice. They are introduced covertly in the release process of the source code tarballs, or in the final artifact generation flows, or in the CDNs that host those final artifacts. Then people review code, and assume that code is what generated final artifacts.

> Or users could run other software they have downloaded separately or via a curl | sh

Some users will always shoot themselves in the foot if they are uneducated on security, so that is a separate education problem. Supply chain attacks however will hit even users doing everything right, and often burn thousands of people at once. Those of us that maintain and distribute software are obligated to give users safe methods to prove software artifacts are faithfully generated from publicly accountable source code, teach them to not to trust any maintainers including us.

Education is the biggest problem on all sides here. For my part, every "curl | sh" I have ever encouraged users to run in the wild is a troll to teach users to never run those.
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While it sounds shockingly stupid that one party in Congress tries to censor the whole Congress it is quite restricted what it censors. The latest tariffs claim to call on IEEPA which doesn't even mention the word tariff.
But it's a downhill slope from here, and the Republicans don't realize that no matter how painful (to watch from Europe) the next years will be, just like every autocrat before Trump and his cronies will fail and it will end the Republican party as well.
Is S3 Express One Zone performance greatly improved to standard S3 like GCP rapid storage? My understanding is S3 Express One Zone is just more cost effective.

> 20x faster random-read data loading than a Cloud Storage regional bucket.
Is there another angle to why Section 174 hasnt been restored?

Was the government losing too much to this deduction or has it just not been prioritized by senators and the tech industry hasnt been organized enough to lobby for it
Yeah, but that’s not the same level of diversity as an atheist Frenchman and a muslim Algerian and a Christian Ivorian.

The Sichuanese might not get along with the Cantonese, but they’re ethnically the same people with a shared culture
How much tax revenue do we need for roads, fireman, and police?
Yes. Regex tend to become rather fast write only. One solution is commenting, but is still complex. What I like to do now (in C) is define parts of it. Just a crude example to get the idea:

// STRing: matches anything inside quotes (single or double)
#define STR "[\"'](.*)[\"']"
// NUMber: matches decimal or hexadecimal numbers
#define NUM "([[:digit:]]x?[[:xdigit:]]*)"

regcomp(&reg_exp, STR NUM , REG_EXTENDED | REG_ICASE);

So at the end I compose the RE with the various parts, which are documented separately.
I mean, sure, it can easily provide quick text summaries of this sort of thing, but I only consume ML summaries in the forms of podcast discussions between two simulated pundits, as God intended.
You usually do not plug an oven into a standard 230V socket in Germany. They are connected to 3 phase outlets with 400V and up to 16A, which is nothing to sneeze at.
The latter would add subscription and streaming, and more efficient transports. But yeah they are basically the same idea.

I hate that for years the concept of RPC was equated to XML which in turn equated to some implementation of the (XML based) tool and then a whole lot of distracting discourse around XML vs JSON, we kinda do still have that these days with yaml vs whatever.
The final result is very poor. Google looks like Hooli with chaotic management. The design has lost its aesthetics, and the gradient color is very ugly.

However, the aistudio updated today is good.

So it seems that the output is so different because the person in charge is different?

From this perspective, there is no hope for Firebase, because the person in charge has poor management logic. even with the best resources in the world, it doesn't help
I'd be pleasantly surprised - GPT-4o is their bread and butter (it powers paid ChatGPT) and QA seems to be slightly ahead on benchmarks at similar or lower latency (so very roughly, it might be cheaper to run).
Running organizations is more about people making decisions than it is rows in a database. Tasks just take longer. Leaders respond by doing fewer of them (high impact focus), or do more planning, etc.
Flashback to the cabbage on the Blockchain or when they wanted to tag each fish caught in the wild as well for hu traceability!
Not sure why you are writing this bad faith argument. Not a single legal system on the planet is that fast. All class action law suits take years of preparation time in their discovery phase.
Also the Ukraine is showing how much drone warfare is dependent on Chinese manufacturing: motors, PCBs, batteries, fibre optic cable yadda yadda yadda.

I wonder if the end goal of wanting onshore manufacturing is to be able to defend or attack using cheap modern electronics.
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Update: Just read this article[1] which clarifies S3 Express One Zone. Yes, performance is greatly improved, but actually storage costs are 8x more than a standard S3 bucket. The naming S3 Express One Zone is terrible and a bit misleading on pricing changes.

[1] https://www.warpstream.com/blog/s3-express-is-all-you-need
Thanks, this is a really neat overview of this. I think most MIDI hackers are probably like me, and can throw a few Perl packages around to make things work, but might not have even considered it.
AWS claims 10x lower latency but I haven't personally checked.
Maybe find someone who actually thinks this environment is fragile and bring this hang-up there?
We buy local brands of shoes that are in inr 300-2000 range and that solves like 70% of the shoes market in India. From shoes to skippers to formal shoes to ladies heels and such.
Then you gave INr 3000-8000 that are considered really really expensive.

Convert that to usd and you will see how much premium is being charged.
Yes, it’s horribly more expensive… I think you are thinking of one zone infrequent access
> take advantage of dynamic service and method discovery

Is that how people build system even today? Dynamic service and method discovery sounds good on paper but I've never actually seen it in practice.
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DuckDB 1.2.2 Released
They're not saying that it's AI. They're saying it's for customers who do AI. Training means lots and lots of reads from a big data store, and if you're reading from, like, big Parquet files, that probably means lots of random reads. This is for that. Speedier data access, presumably at the cost of durability and availability, which is probably a great trade-off for people doing ML training jobs.
> she was fired in 2017 and only now is trying to become a "whistleblower"

It's a lot easier to be a whistleblower once you're materially comfortable. More than the threat of legal action is the insidiousness of being blacklisted for employment. I wouldn't take the delay from the actions as evidence of her having ulterior motives. Just that we need contemporaneous notes and/or evidence to ensure she isn't misremembering.
So what now? If we know that low vit D levels correlate with flu, but vit D intake doesn't help, then we should assume that it's not vit D but something else instead?
Showing no response towards these tariffs will not be rewarded. It's going to be interpreted as a sign of weakness. Australia is making a bad bet here.
Maybe we'll revert to Soviet bilet-style oral exams...
This is impossible to discuss accurately without politics and religion - the GOP relies heavily on fundamentalist Christian votes, there is a roughly 200 year old interpretation of Revelations in the Old Testament that posits that the state of Israel must exist so Satan can destroy it in the battle of Armageddon before Jesus comes back a second time to save Christians. This is why the GOP is so gung ho for Israel at any cost.
Ha, right after I read your comment, I looked at the bottom of this Hacker News page and saw their "Join us for AI Startup School" ad.
> infinitely rich companies can of course bankrupt any ordinary human by suing them over and over again

No. Not only does SLAPP prevent that, a rich, unpopular company trying to silence a whistleblower through tort is running a PR campaign for their legal defence fund.

More realistic: being blacklisted from employment.
Not just that, but it's also useful to have examples to validate a) your understanding of the spec, and b) product's actual adherence to the spec.
Great game. I really enjoyed it. Congrats and thanks for sharing!
Just like everything in good old Web, CSS was designed for documents, not interactive applications themes.
For anyone listening, if you live in CA absolutely do not do this, especially if you are tight on money. Employee can take 30 days of pay + attorneys fees if they are not paid out within 72 hours of their last paycheck and it's quite easy to win a lawsuit given the facts here. Something like that probably would have killed your startup, assuming you were thin enough to be paying server bills on your credit card. The corporate veil also would not have shielded you in this situation.
If human labor is tax-equivalent to silicon CapEx, should you invest in human salary, datacenter equipment or deductible LLM subscriptions?

Was there any correlation between human layoffs and datacenter owner investments?

If LLM subscriptions drive datacenter investment which drive the stock market upward, are Section 174 changes helping the stock market?
Isn't this the common thing in (most of?) Europe? At least here up north it seems to be the standard.
> But then something flipped.
> Instead of being seen as a safe haven, U.S. debt itself started to look shaky. Maybe it was the deficit outlook, maybe the global response to tariffs — but whatever it was, yields started climbing. Fast.

So, it's not this unstable president, his insult-spewing vice-president and his buddy the hyperactive billionaire manipulating a social network for Russia and China that makes the rest world want to avoid the USA for the next few years?