skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CDs/DVDs typically oxidize after 15 years.

Print the book version on vellum, and you'll preserve it for a few thousand years (or ANSI paper with the infinity sign, which supposedly lasts for at least 750 years).
I’d love this to be incorporated into 23andme and the like. Would change one’s approach to retirement and savings if you knew how long you needed money for…
Ya, have a cat who took on 2 copperheads at once with great delight. I won't say I rescued him but I did get him out of there with some blood loss (mine). Maybe a study on the cat - mongoose correlation?
If you already know exactly what you want, buying online from a big corporation will always be better than buying from a local brick and mortar store.

I think bookstores are one of the best examples. Amazon has literally everything, but if you're not exactly sure what to read next, if you walk through the highly curated aisles of a local used bookstore, or talk to the (highly knowledgeable) person behind the front desk, you'll probably walk out of the door with something awesome.
I think I understand your POV and can see why one might find some peace in it, but I don't. More crime, or I suppose mroe news about it, so we know how much crime costs? More attacks make us safer? It's a means justify the ends argument, but it doesn't hold water.

It's eerily similar to "burn it all down" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism, which, itself is on the rise and burning from both ends.

I infer your point to be that more attacks might cause the victims to step up their defenses. It's a cat and mouse game. Always has been in all realms.

"It'll get worse before it gets better." I've been hearing that for decades. I'm starting to wonder, due to what appears to be a decline in civility. Following the rules only works if we all do. Those who eschew the rules have an obvious advantage.

Where has integrity gone? We are tearing ourselves apart and justifying it ... or coming to terms with it I suppose, by saying it'll be better some day.

Well... when... exactly? By what measure will we know?

I know Stephen Pinker, Hans Rosling, and various folks say it's the best time to be a human. Okay. Sure. I see the math. I'd like to see them update their charts for data out over the past year.

But ... anecdotally, none of that math seems to percolate down to my community. The people around me are in constant fear. I just saw a woman walking down the road, all by herself, I had clear vision for a mile and so no one else but her... and she was wearing a mask.

She was afraid. She was anxious. Regardless of the relative safety that exists today, or the belief that it'll be safer tomorrow because of the lack of said safety, the people around me aren't feeling it.

They're buying guns because red people are coming for them... or the blue people already are. Or the government will. There is literally no milk at the store because of an HDPE shortage prompting the grocer to put a Force Majeur notice on the dairy fridge door.

Trust has broken down. Fear of our own neighbors is up. Crime is up. Poverty is up. Suicide is up. Cyber crime is up. Inflation is up. The Gini coefficient is up.

I really have trouble believing that making it worse real fast, or even reporting more of it, is going to make it better.

I don't see it.
I do agree that user privacy is a very broad concept.

I do think there is a HUGE difference between centralizing data from many users across the web and sharing it with 3rd parties for marketing or intelligence goals AND simply tracking app stats in order to improve the user experience.
The main privacy issue about 3rd party cookies and tracking is that a specific user can be targeted by entity B based on the actions he did on a property owned by a different entity A, without the user ever coming in direct contact with B.

I understand that your main concern is not privacy, but the usefulness of such privacy-friendly stats. Analytics is a very complex space and even if you collect all the data in the world, usually the best decisions can not be derived directly just from the data itself. Also, for in most cases companies are not looking to spend a vast amount of time and resources in order to find the "best" way to go forward, instead they want to collect just enough data that helps them improve there business in some way.

So, for example, if just by approximatively knowing the top referring domain for converting users you can spend more on marketing towards those specific users and increasing your sales, the analytics tool already proved to be useful.

I believe that most of those basic privacy-focused tools already clearly state that they are a "simple" alternative and that they offer only basic stats. To be honest, in many cases, most users have no idea how to use Google Analytics to drill down into data and take relevant actions, so all the data being collected is many times never used.

To sum it up: yes, privacy-friendly tools might offer fewer stats but for the majority of the users using those platforms those basic stats are enough.
I know of two:

DIME - Dark Internet Mail Environment

mnm - mnm is not mail (my work)
When it doesn't match anything, you don't even see which movie it was...

https://itsbeenthatlong.jonabrams.com/900

This one was "Bringing Up Baby (1938)".
There are equivalent functions in C too. The point of the article is about not using them. So how would you implement the above functions in Rust would be more pertinent.
Weebsay – cowsay but it's random anime quote
I'm talking about big corporations. I don't remember any leaks from Google or Apple. I do remember one recent leak from Facebook which is very unfortunate, but that was not about collected privacy data, AFAIK, just some accounts.
Interesting thoughts. I think a lot of this comparing Apple to the companies you listed is the wrong way to think about them.

First, it's not just Apple. The App Store/ecosystem concept is a newish concept, and probably needs completely new types of regulation outside of anti-trust. Apple, Google, MS, Sony, Nintendo, etc... are for the most part monopolies in their respective worlds, but fail at the traditional monopoly definition. Waiting for a company to achieve an AT&T or Standard Oil level level of power is an outdated way of thinking. Apple also doesn't have anywhere near that level of power.
Bell Labs was the beneficiary of a government-enforced monopoly on telephone service, but never mind that.
At a previous position I regularly used a variety of company issued hardware (alongside my standard workstation). The only company device I had consistently was the phone.

In my current position I can be called up for an emergency at any time. I'm not going to cart my desktop or laptop around on my day off, but carrying a phone for use with any reasonably secure machine I can find is a good solution.

People with responsibility for operations systems will find themselves in this kind of situation somewhat regularly. These are also the people most likely to seperate work and personal devices due to usage policies or risk profiles.
Ask HN: Contract programmers, how did you get started?
Contracting sounds great. High pay, work from home. Effectively become your own boss. All the up sides come with the risk of not finding any work for a while.

Finding your first contract appears to be the scary one. Quitting a stable income to go out and look for an unstable income. How did you do it?
"Other" jurisdictions are easily attracting capital from countries who are trigger happy to rob their citizens with taxes.
Also one thing that is often overlooked is how 'old'/traditional diets were very seasonal.

You would have tomatoes from June to August. Sardines would be the fatest around July. You would have grapes and wine by September and chestnuts by early November. You would kill a pig for multiple families once a year, eat some of it fresh and salt/smoke the remaining.

Perhaps this seasonal scarcity is not a protective factor but it seems to me that this a variable that is never discussed when looking at traditional diet of <geographic-region>.
"If you aren’t already convinced about the merits of transactional analysis in your investment strategy, I encourage you to stay with me for a while. I am 100-percent confident that over time, I can provide you with enough anecdotal evidence of the predictive power TA offers in security patterns and trends that any reasonable observer would lose all doubt."

I assume this is an investor recruitment strategy designed to filter out anyone with critical-thinking skills, like the badly-written 419 scam emails. "TA is just like science, let me provide you with anecdotes" is the dumbest thing I've read in years.
Education, investments, creative work.

Of course investments in the country where corrupt polititicans are proposing doubling capital gain tax is not going to work.
Come on. The ultra-rich don’t pay their fair share. You know this and everyone knows this. Wealth inequality is obscene. Full stop.
Momentum trading is all you have. So last week that was Dogecoin and a few years ago it was value investing. The answer is “make money” and let it be taxed. The governments dont care about after-tax money which can then go anywhere unaccounted for. Thats when it can go in a tax deferred account in perpetuity.
Ie how do you know the target's endianness? C++20 added std::endian. Otherwise you can use a macro like this one from SDL

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/9dc97afa7190aca5bdf92...
That war was lost decades ago.
Spaniards or Italians take Olive oil seriously, just like in China you could clone or adulterate anything but tea, silk or porcelain.

If you fake phones or handbags or sunglasses nobody cares. It is forbidden but authorities turn a blind eye.
If you fake tea in China, you get executed. Period.

The most important thing is that people know and a big industry behind. It is easy to trick Americans, but I know people that could clearly differentiate between different varieties like arbequina or picual and even the year and the place it comes from.
I live in an apartment in a San Diego suburb, well outside of the trendy spaces. Our electricity bill is typically in the $80-100 range. That would suggest a delta from other states of perhaps $50, if I allow for some generous fuzz factors. Right now, our incomes are from Walmart and Domino's Pizza, and even in those circumstances, $50 is nearly a trivial cost.

I won't try to speak for McMansion dwellers and their bills.
Check out the work of Dr. Cate Shanahan. Many interviews on YouTube.

In short it's to do mainly with the linoleic acid (omega-6) content of those oils, these fats are highly unstable / subjected to oxidation. When they get integrated in our own body fat it wreaks havoc. Can't burn fat / inflamed / chronically hungry / tired etc.

I don't have a reference but I read a study showing how the fatty acid profile in people's body fat has gradually shifted to more and more polyunsaturated fat. This is not normal and as Dr. Shanahan explains, the integration of seed oil fats in human body fat is unprecedented and a massive experiment for which we're seeing the results for some decades now, but are slow to realize.
Surely passage in human cell culture or in mice genetically engineered to express human ACE2 would also create that selection pressure in the lab? If SARS-CoV-2 was manipulated in the lab, that's the usual explanation I've seen given for that affinity.

Mink seem very unlikely to me, since I've seen papers reporting evidence of host adaptation on mink farms:

https://academic.oup.com/ve/article/7/1/veaa094/6025194

So if the virus first evolved in mink, it would have to have evolved enough in humans not just to favor human ACE2 but also to lose its affinity for mink (to the point it has to regain it later), all during that couple months of cryptic spread.

And do you really think China is doing a bad job looking for the intermediate host? I don't think that's impossible--for example, the true origin could be some agricultural practice so horrible that they consider the present uncertainty better than disclosing that. Lab origin has become strongly associated with anti-China political sentiment, though. (That seems stupid to me, considering that the USA was funding the WIV; but here we are.) So I'd be surprised that the CCP would pass up a chance to disprove that.
Yeah, but you've submitted a PR. It's not a fix, it's broken code. As soon as they run their code generator, it'll disappear.
Perhaps Amazon could require a password on large purchases?
Clearly it is, since the C4 collector manages to do it. To be fair though, the "pauseless" part does come at the cost of a slight slowdown in normal code execution since it instates read barriers to work its magic. This means the lack of pauses is paid for by significantly higher overall CPU overhead for garbage collection compared to a collector design that does include pauses. It could be worth it for some workloads where it is very important to have low 99th percentile response times though.
Why Can’t We Just Make More Chips?
> The Mediterranean diet is a diet inspired by the eating habits of Greece, Italy, and Spain in the 1960s.

Hmm.. that's what I said too, right?
Small (usually ethnic) places run by one chef or one family and not in the city centre are where I find the best food in my town in New Zealand (400,000). They also tend to be amazingly good value (or perhaps I optimise for that too?) But I am not sure how you could find them as a stranger to town.

As a generalisation, I have found that high quality restaurants occur in towns where there is the demand for them. This requires that there is a significant population of customers who eat out enough, pay enough, and are discerning enough to keep restaurants up to standard.

My town (Christchurch) doesn’t really have the culture, so the quality of the majority of places isn’t great. Wellington has a similar population but it has much better restaurants (including in the city centre), because the demographics of Wellington tends towards more disposable income and more foodie culture, so the people that go out often really know what tastes good.

The other significant issue with New Zealand is that the majority of restaurants are delivered their produce and food by restaurant supplier companies; food which often is no better than what you may get at the supermarket. You can really notice the difference when you eat home grown veges or home kill meat - some of the most memorable meals I have had have been simple ones at people’s homes. There needs to be a food culture to care about taste enough for restaurants to seek out better tasting food ingredients.

Take care when asking locals for advice, including young people working in hospo. They are often not foodies so they don’t suggest something that is any good... instead they might mention a new place or a popular place (or even worse, a tourist place).
This is an observational study, not a randomized controlled trial. So it can’t really establish causality. A number of observational studies have previously shown an association between MeDi adherence and cognitive function and dementia risk; this went further to establish an association with structural brain imaging measures.

We’re still waiting for the outcome of the NIH funded randomized controlled trial.
Could you define "fair share" please in a way that everyone is agree with?
> KPMG, Deloitte and PwC

But aren't they in bed with the companies using these schemes?
DNS-o-TLS and bouncing from a UK-region cloud-provider endpoint works for me. Any ISP blocking (internet censorship in the UK is more rife than you’d expect) is either done via hijacking DNS (which D-o-T mitigates) or if you’ve a consumer ISP connection.
Miners can change the proof. Governments can't do that
“It’s not rocket science—it’s much more difficult,” goes one of the industry’s inside jokes.

Actually... this is not a joke.
Walmart is not a local shop. They have a pretty large software dept i house and you could probably check availability online yourself.
This makes the question of how much covid-era remote work will remain remote (particularly for the highest-paid employees) particularly urgent.
Best is 4.

<< In the 1981 Mel Brooks comedyHistory of the World, Part I, King Louis XVI, reflectingon his outrageous privilege, exclaims, “It’s good to be the King!”
Mr. Brooks was ontosomething >>

great!
It's not what they eat, its how and when they eat (or not) is also important.

One thing Taleb points out is things like practicing lent or religious fasting that is component in these cultures.
I suspect the more hands-on tools by which law and order is enforced such as asset seizure, 24/7 monitoring, discreditation, and prison time could be the motivation for otherwise tax averse entities to transparently contribute their exact tax proportion.
Is there some sort of issue with ICIJ reporting?
Even if they were, these are massive organizations, so different people may have different views on the matter.
Actually, often you do pull out your Pantone or HKS color matching cards to work out which specific red is required, whereas you don't care which brand etc. your print service uses.

(src: merchandise printing)

(Also, at one place I worked we bought some used server racks that we were told had been painted in a very specific company standard server rack beige by the previous owner megacorp.)
It'd be nice if there were some sort of 70+% reliable rule of thumb for this. I say this as someone who's made money on both value investing and dogecoin, but who's still anxious when taking on risk in new momentum-y ventures.
>Can’t they just be stewards of Linux kernel development and focus on that? If there are other initiatives just create other foundations

The way a lot of these other initiatives are organized is they are their own foundations/projects under the LF umbrella which lets them share infrastructure, piggtback on events, etc.

Meanwhile Linux seems to be doing quite well from where I sit. I'm not sure what activities are lacking around Linux that a more focused (and inevitably much leaner) organization would drive.
I know of a software engineer that worked in a manufacturing plant.

The salary was significantly lower, but the the work was easier and the rate was slow. Heck he even replaced his manager once the manager retired.

Not everything is about money, as long as you don't need the money.
You can't win in a duopoly.
How to extract and meaningful and semantic keywords with BERT
So, as a resident of Texas, I'm certainly willing to admit that our power generation system had a rocky winter. But, typically, it delivers low-cost energy. We have a lot of solar, a lot of wind, and most of the fossil fuel generation is now natural gas. Tesla is building here, and there are more electric cars and solar panels on roofs all the time. If this article's assertions about the basics of California's problems were fundamentally true, Texas should be right behind with rising power costs. Instead, they are roughly half as much.
I'll throw a range out there for the sake of argument, and I'm really low-balling it: 25-30%
Which religion is this?
I deeply distrust headlines with expressions like 'scientists say', 'study finds', or with words like 'may', 'might' or 'could'.

In any field.
That's not even remotely true. Eg. Europe doesn't want any meat imported from the US.

Different standards...

Perhaps educate yourself before claiming things.
What's the name of the NIH trial? I'd like to keep tabs on it.
There's a company called True Fit (https://www.truefit.com/) which attempts to solve this.

True Fit partners with several stores. You go on a store's web site (for example, macys.com), and you tell True Fit about some clothing you already have that fits well (brand, size, style). Based on that, it refers to its database to recommend the best size of the product you're considering now, and it tells you whether it thinks it will be "snug", "true to you", or "loose".

Basically it just formalizes the kind of knowledge that shoppers use about how brand A tends to run small, brand B runs large, brand C is aimed at young people so its shirts are more tailored, brand D is aimed at older people and their shirts are more "generous" in the waist, etc.

Their web site calls it the "Fashion Genome™", which is a "comprehensive, normalized fashion graph".
A friend of mine was contracting for another company and needed extra skills to make a package deal for his client. I filled that spot, he got the contract and I was subcontracted for some of the deliverables.
I said, "Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Hey, you, get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud, baby"
I also recommend The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. It’s only about a 15 minute read but quite powerful

https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/emily.klotz/engl1302-6/rea...
That cats have a natural snake recognition circuit is news to me. Several more anecdotes:

A feral cat that gave birth in a family member's garage in east San Diego (not the sierras but mountainous at ~3k ft elevation) found a rattle snake on their property one time. I had to scare her away several times while running around looking for a bucket and some long sticks because she did not recognize the danger at all. It looked more like she was approaching a strange new male cat that was about to court her than a venomous snake

Regarding the cucumbers: another family member had a cat in Europe in a village around 56°N - which is near the upper limit for snakes, so he's unlikely to have ever seen any, let alone eaten one - and the cat loved cucumbers. They had a greenhouse and had to be extremely vigilant after picking cucumbers because the second they'd turn their backs the cat would proceed to take nibbles out of every single one of them in turn, even if he was given one of his own. I think your cat just likes cucumbers.
Claims of Anonymity of the Steam Hardware Survey
Endianness doesn't matter though, for the reasons Rob Pike explained. For example, the bits inside each byte have an endianness probably inside the CPU but they're not addressable so no one thinks about that. The brilliance of Rob Pike's recommendation is that it allows our code to be byte order agnostic for the same reasons our code is already bit order agnostic.

I agree about bsf/bsr/popcnt. I wish ASCII had more punctuation marks because those operations are as fundamental as xor/and/or/shl/shr/sar.
Everyone is unlikely to agree, but I'm pretty sure we could find a range that the majority of people agree with.
She deserves a Nobel Prize, it’s that simple
and its still a lot
I guess I was a kid back then, but I don’t remember any of the adults I hung around haggling in stores like circuit city, and my family are immigrants from a country where you haggle over vegetables.

As far as I understood, it wasn’t in the interest of the big retailers to spend time haggling with individuals.
I must say I am very impressed by Kitty's number of open and closed issues on Github. And it has so many features. The developer also seems like a nice guy and open to suggestions. I have used urxvt for a long time but wanted to try something more modern out, and set Kitty up today with a nice small config. I like it a lot so far.
> completely unmotivated

As one meme put it: I am a part time seasonal employee half way through my 2-week notice. Do you think I care?
Suicide by Culture (2017)
I dislike web devs bringing this to C++, I prefer having my libs in .\ThirdParty\ folder. If we embrace and allow vcpkg and whatever follows it to happen we risk more agony in the C++ ecosystem.(see the sad state of Python package management: setup.py, setup.cfg, whatever.toml, conda, pip...the list never ends)
Why was there a counterfeit Xcode in the first place? Reminds me of how hard it is to download Xcode with the crappy App Store when not having the connection Apple engineers enjoy ...
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