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www.theguardian.com 1y ago

The convictions of Lucy Letby: should they be overturned?

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www.congress.gov 1y ago

H.R.238 – Healthy Technology Act of 2025

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ai.meta.com 1y ago

Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens

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Sycamore Partners Is in Talks to Acquire Walgreens

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Mike's PBX Cookbook

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arxiv.org 2y ago

GateLoop: Data-Controlled Linear Recurrence for Sequence Modeling

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Nuclear Fusion: Who'll Be First to Make It Work?

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www.antipope.org 3y ago

Accelerando (2005)

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

FTX billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried funneled dark money to Republicans

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BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month

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NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030

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stackoverflow.blog 4y ago

Web3 skeptics and believers both need a reality check

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The Gdelt Project – A Global Database of Society

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ArVid

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www.citylab.com 7y ago

Europe's Disposable Income, Mapped (2016)

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Third of Britons have stopped or reduced eating meat

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www.theguardian.com 10y ago

Kabul's drivers get their feelings across with windshield stickers

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www.bloomberg.com 10y ago

Where to Stash Cannabis Cash? Tribal Nations Make Bid to Bank It

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www.theguardian.com 10y ago

Why the workplace of 2016 could echo Orwell’s 1984

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Seeing the Secret State: Six Landscapes of the Surveillance State

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www.theglobeandmail.com 11y ago

Phone monitoring apps flourish in South Korea

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www.theguardian.com 11y ago

2014 Officially the Hottest Year on Record

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github.com 11y ago

The Onion's GitHub profile

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Viktor Kožený – The Pirate of Prague

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www.cfa.harvard.edu 11y ago

Cosmic Evolution: An Interdisciplinary Approach

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www.livingwithdragons.com 12y ago

Locations of the London traffic cameras

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www.vice.com 12y ago

Bananas are going extinct, just like they did in the 1950s.

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Do any of you know of an international flora database?

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www.zdnet.com 12y ago

Proof-of-concept OSx goto fail exploit implemented by NZ security consultant.

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I don’t want to be a downer here, but the structure of this repo and the verbosity+language of the docs feel 80% vibecoded. Not that that’s wrong; I just feel kinda gullible for even clicking on this.

One uses xargs or parallel only a few times before they remember some of the quirks that but them. And then they become cautious. And then it’s muscle memory. And if it’s not an often occurrence, they learn to check the man page.

Anyways, in a world of “vibecoding” why add another “tool” to the mix when the LLMs have been trained on all our stackoverflow-posted grievances to begin with?

I wish this form of Veganism was more well-known. I know a few Vegans who went down a similar path and who were told by a few people they were no longer Vegan. They took the easier path and stopped calling themselves Vegans, which I thought was sad given their objectives when becoming Vegan were clear from the get-go.

Bookish teens will read them anyway.

Giving them the option to do so in school, I would imagine would be met thankfully by them if done well, and a "no thanks" from the less-bookish - who very possibly will go on to read them later on in life.

Yeah. Redis (valkey now for me mostly) is where I go for that extra oomph if the patterns make sense (or some level of scripting for dev work makes sense; the lua integrations is chef's kiss.).

Yeah that's super frustrating. It sounds like a classic IT dev issue when IT is ops though to me - and I'm happy to be wrong.

I personally believe (notice the caveat here) that debugging relatively well designed databases on a good RDBMS is an easy task, if given access to logs, data (or even a redacted replica), and docs. Choose the docs along with one of the first two and it shouldnt remain a mystery for long. I've worked with postgresql a lot over the last couple decades, and even the most convoluted live-in-prod bug isn't wasn't half as bad as the vibe coded nonsense I see and debug weekly (not hating on AI; fwiw this is more a symptom of process/lack there of around integration of the tech IMO).

I always thought that too. I spend a lot of time outside and check rigorously. Very often I find a recently attached tick. Found a fully-engorged deer tick half-detached not too long ago - pulled it off jaw-intact. In treatment for early-mid stage disseminated Lyme again, for the third time. Certainly a hidden tax one pays living in New England...I've recently put a lot more effort into things like permethrin.

From what I understand, you're spot on with your last note. Larval stage can be extremely hard to see even when fully engorged. Adult-stage ticks (at least Deer Ticks) are the size of a large grain of cooked brown rice. I've seen fully engorged nymph-stage that rival the size of a grape...

What I'll never understand about this whole thing is why most people seem to easily tolerate the rigamarole of maintaining an entire host SBC OS and sending or even cross compiling binaries to it, for microprocessor work. I much prefer maintaining a dev env on machine(s) and sending and flashing a binary over the wire. Maybe I just dislike state, but the pico (and several other MCU ecosystems these days) make it so easy to

I still find his pattern recognition book useful and informative. It may be dense, but some of us consider that a positive for 'reference' literature. That book was one of very few that still holds up well fr when it was published - truly in on of the last "dark ages" of ML.

I think those down voting you are perhaps overly eager. I upvoted. Grab "Deep Learning" - you'll find it useful, imteresting, and likely less 'dense' in the negative sense!

Accelerando (2005) 2 months ago

I feel the need to link the top level comment[0] the venerable cstross posted the time I submitted the same link a few years ago.

I also want to quote a comment of his on THIS posting of the link[1], just because he said he is chill being quoted on his referenced comment.

And finally, I want to state here that I fullheartedly agree with aforementioned comment and I too crave a banksian fully automated luxury gay space communism future.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33828666

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163649

I like this. It's just saying you have responsibility for the tools you wield. It's concise.

Side note, I'm not sure why I feel weird about having the string "Assisted-by: AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION" [TOOL1] [TOOL2] in the kernel docs source :D. Mostly joking. But if the Linux kernel has it now, I guess it's the inflection point for...something.

An RTS where you could only swap between FPV views of each of your units would be fun. Or at least different. Savage II but there is only 1 player per team, and no overhead view. And you can wrench control from a bot at any time.

As a kid I played something similar to this, and monetary value (A=0; J=11; Q=12; K=13) was introduced as a rule. Someone played a card they wrote on a 10 that forced me to eat a worm to destroy the card (and get $10). I never got my $10 and felt guilty for months after, and guiltier when I realized I felt guilty for eating a worm without compensation. The fact I felt I would not feel guilty otherwise confused me.

Would play again.

With regards to the microwave, here’s a token “please safely discharge and double check the cap” comment!

With regards to vapes, just look on the ground near a sidewalk. I find like 3 or 4 big depleted vapes a day in a US urban area. Closer to 15 or 20 in greater London in the UK.

Sounds like he’s in need of a new microwave. Not tongue-in-cheek; sounds like there’s something up with the shielding, and if it’s not visible, how will you know if it gets worse?

Edit: I see no reason this wouldn’t work, however?

Huh. This is more readable than almost any large python codebase to me at first glance. It’s 2D, and well commented. I find it an excellent use of screen real estate. Perhaps it would be a different story if most of us weren’t stuck in 16:9?

Size of Life 7 months ago

You’re pretty close actually. It’s a single strand of positive-sense RNA 7.5kb long, and a protein capsule. +ssRNA is treated as mRNA by the host and is directly translated into proteins.

Substantially. It is way more coarse, usually much more moist as well. Tends to be more “pure” tobacco with less additives, though I’m sure that’s not universal. I know somebody who does not smoke but buys it to keep in cabinets and various drawers because they love the smell. I must admit I am partial to the smell as well.

It does seem to. I’ve been working on some personal projects where I’ve needed to look up and research transformers quite a bit (the kind that often has a ferrite core) and it has been frustrating. Frustrating not just trying to search for the wire datasheets, etc., but also because I often have to use the other transformer via service to find what I’m looking for because search is so enshittified by the newer definition.