skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eating Brazil nuts regularly is probably overkill for people without a serious deficiency. Selenium is commonly available in many foods in decent amounts, including cheese and beans. A cheese quesadilla with beans will get you a good spike of selenium in one sitting.

You can google other foods containing selenium and put together your own preferred selenium-rich meal.
A free market, though it does not exist, includes companies censoring anything and everything. The idea that consumers can't tell a business what to do is yet more fascism via capitalism.
It makes very little sense as a circuit, because you'd just put in a 33 or 65 bit adder.
> And lots of arbitrarily software locking features to extract more money from different market segments.

This is the cultural difference between ARM and Nvidia.

ARM does care enough about their IP that you'll need to pay them for ARM's effort to develop their IP, but beyond that they will not restrict you unless it'll put ARM into legal trouble (basically export restrictions). Hey, you could get everything now with a one-time license payment if you are willing to do that. It's not FSF open, but it's certainly better than a lot of hardware companies.

Nvidia is trying to extract everything into each pipeline. You want to use their hardware? You have to agree to only use this to precise conditions that is purely for market segmentation, which conflicts with ARM's culture. Compounding this with the fact that almost all acquisitions done by Nvidia that was more open was closed down (try talking to Nvidia about Mellanox), if the ARM acquisition proceeded, it'll be a bad day for everyone else.
It seriously scrambled my brain. Couldn't get past the first graf
I wonder how many US companies use ffmpeg without knowing about their patent situation. Using ffmpeg on Europe or USA is not the same.

https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html
Thanks! We're quite fortunate in that we always knew roughly where we needed to get to from a technical, business, and regulatory standpoint, so actually getting there was just a long hike on a mostly known path, one step at a time.
Haha, I looked through the list and there's some comments I vouched for ages ago that got flagged into oblivion nonetheless. One which said that it was pretty much the old and fat who should stay home and another which said that the AZ vaccine was safe and delaying it when vax supplies were not abundant was tantamount to killing people.

HN's reaction was to upvote highly people who claimed AZ vax was shitty. This is a fun test of seeing if I was right about the evidence. I can now match against truth and see if these guys were right. If they were wrong, then I'm backing misinformation. If they were right, I'm a hero for science.

Good for them taking bold stances.

Do not go gently into the night, my brave friends! Rage against the extinguishing of your light! :D
Will robot repair tomorrow look more or less like the job of the Xerox printer repair tech today? Maybe a job I’d start training for if I worked in a warehouse.
Honestly at this point, any big tech IPO is just a license to print money.
There are also various c3 and c6 (and similar statuses outside the US) fiscal sponsors that may work for some projects that don't want to set up a whole organization.
That almost seems too good to be true...

But then again the cure to scurvy was also really simple and people still messed it up for 100 years...
> This resulted in a marked decrease in hospital admissions, traffic accidents and domestic crimes.

That was the same worldwide because nobody was outside.

Holy retcon, Batman!
Numerous widely-used identifiers were originally scoped narrowly.

Scope tends to widen.
This kind of linter would be useful for teams whose native language isn't English (such as ours). They often choose bizarre names for their functions, it's not always clear what a function does by reading its name alone.
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Some really smart researcher applied clinical trial data to make a calculator to guesstimate what different intensities and durations of exercise will activate AMPK to various levels:

https://rothschild.shinyapps.io/AMPK_dashboard/

Fun to play with.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out. Looks like it has a simple installer for Windows which is great but lacks a DB backend to store all job data and to operate the scheduler.
WhatsApp is popular in Europe because of its network effects, not because of any unique features it may have. If it were made unavailable, users would switch to Signal, Telegram, or the European-developed Threema.

Businesses would favor this change, since they would no longer have to pay WhatsApp for every conversation they initiate after exceeding their free tier.*

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29711001
Most of them don’t bother with employee provisioning profiles, also not everyone has sufficient leverage to demand a iphone with their employer.
Here's a rough workaround in the form of a uBlock Origin filter, if this example benefits anyone:

# bigger arrows; wider gap between arrows
news.ycombinator.com##:xpath(//div[contains(@class,"votearrow")]):style(width: 15px !important; height: 15px !important; background-size: 15px !important; margin-bottom: 10px !important)

# larger comment toolbar
news.ycombinator.com##:xpath(//span[@class="comhead"]):style(font-size: 200% !important)

edit: And here's some examples of other peoples' HN filters:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%23%23%20ycombinator.com&type=...
Made $200K from selling farts in Mason jars, pivoting to selling them as NFTs
You couldn't do overtype without them being distinct. I think It's that simple.
I assure you: native English speakers will often choose names that are just as bizarre.

Sincerely,
Guy Who Once Named A Class RefBursar
The orchestrated release of that n-word video from PAC-related political actors is because there’s been no substantial traction on cancelling him (for insert whatever contrarian view he’s given airtime to). It’s part of the same political campaign. They’re getting incremental victories though - Spotify bends the knee even more, and how many episodes have been pulled now, approaching 10% maybe? Each concession/apology Joe makes will only encourage more of this. One wonders what kind of buyout clause or early termination clause is in that contract - probably the only thing holding them together right now. If I were JRE, I’d definitely be looking at those alternative offers and kicking the tires of the other platforms. Very large upside benefit to whatever alternative platform could snag him, assuming they can scale content distribution and security maturity in rapid order.
> from what I've seen, there's a lot of "obscurity" to this; there are many seemingly arbitrary choices all over the place.

When is a (7-/pk/win)zip compression algo not an encryption algorithm?

Do the use of certain mathematical functions make it an encryption algo?

I've always found the use of prime numbers in some encryption algo's to be a red herring, namely because in theory there are an infinite number of primes, but in practice your computing device can only use 1 from a finite number of primes otherwise it would take too long to encrypt something.

With this in mind, do primes actually make it easier to decrypt encrypted data?

>What's worse is that I fear there are incentives (mostly political/security interests) to keep the field small

Discussions like this ie communication poke light into those dark crevices of intellectuality.
They can determine when did the user logged in last. Signal already tracks this.
>(Of course, as is reasonably well known, there was no similar reforming impulse in the U.S. prior to abolition proper.)

I think this is an overstatement. There was a reforming impulse within the US and within the south, it just didn't get much power by the time the issue came to war. Those invested in southern slavery were deathly afraid of the impulse spreading throughout the south, banning abolitionist literature and teaching. A number of noteworthy plantation owners who freed their slaves on ethical grounds.
I would point out that there are plenty of people in managerial positions who do absolutely want to treat their people like crap and derive great pleasure and satisfaction from doing so.

The world would be better without such people, but they certainly exist and seem to have a habit of floating to the top.

For such people it might not actually occur to them that treating people like crap may be counterproductive to other goals like profit. Years ago I recall a family member telling me about their then boss proudly stating something along the lines of "if my workers are happy then I'm not managing them properly, employees need to be miserable to be productive".
The Theory of The Place: A level design philosophy
Totally separate projects.

Meta aimed to build a knowledge graph of published research papers.

Patient driven research/rare is one is a separate program focused on supporting patients with rare diseases connect with and support scientists studying those diseases and the larger rare diseases network.
15 Commitments - Found this book from a Tim Ferris podcast. It's a mix of different frameworks mashed together. I found each to be very interesting on its own.

I've read a lot of these types of self-reflection books now, and I like this one because of its spectacular density: many of the commitments could be their own book. For example, a few of them directly relate to NVC - nonviolent communication, others on processing and dealing with emotions in a healthy way, others with recognizing and separating stories and narratives from base reality, etc.

Also I like that this book is very actionable, very hands-on.

https://conscious.is/15-commitments
Or we could go with the cheap option. If there’s anything that the global pandemic taught us, it is that nothing about human behavior is ever set in stone and there will always be a way to make even draconian policies like lockdowns and mandatory face masks politically viable. The billions we’d spend building the crazy ideas you suggested which also have no guarantee of success, could be channeled into whatever it takes to get people to care more about the planet.
I think you're spot on in your observation. Reducing methane would help and definitely has its place, but CO₂ is a totally different beast. CO₂ is best thought of as a "stock pollutant" meaning that the more you have of it, the worse the effects. This follows directly from that fact that CO₂ sticks around in the atmosphere for millennia, increasing atmospheric radiative forcing. Methane, on the other hand, is better framed as a "flow pollutant" - it's harm is ~proportional to the rate of emission. This is a direct consequence of its much shorter atmospheric lifetime.

Here's a useful twitter thread from a real expert: https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1425572803508465664

And if you're up for a pretty technical (but still fairly approachable) read, check out R.T. Pierrehumbert ''Short-Lived Climate Pollution.'' Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 2014 42:1, 341-379 [https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054843]. Near the end of the paper, he delivers this gem: "Methane mitigation is like trying to stockpile bananas to eat during retirement. Given the short lifetime of bananas, it makes little sense to begin saving them until your retirement date is quite near."
Tricking people into reading your article is a poor way to start a relationship.
Sometimes, but you can always get one that isn't for use with Signal. That's what I do.
I checked https://NN-512.com and gituhb, trying to grok.

reading: https://gms.tf/riscv-vector.html

VLA (vector length agnostic) indirection makes the execution harder to control?

So... RISC-V does not provide instructions for each exponent

MMX(64), SSE(128), AVX(256), AVX512(512)

and therefore the the compiler/assembler/human needs to use the input-length-agnostic instructions which the hardware lowers to operations that are implementation specific?
> Large, influential emitters like China and India will not play ball.

This is not true. We are all in the same frying pan and I don't know why people keep insisting that the others don't understand it. Of course they do. They have political pressures from industrialists and deniers just as we do here that might prevent immediate action, but they are not fundamentally different. Quite the opposite.

Either way, why do we have to wait for others to move first. We know there's a problem, we know there are solutions, get to it.
(For context: the spam filter uses the Haxl library. Yes Haxl itself has few developers; but it has many users)
Threema allows phone number, email, both, or neither and just a random PIN like BBM
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that's pretty much how safety regulations at airports work. Stackoverflow perhaps hired a prior airport consultant for security.
If anyone's wondering, entry ticket for their 3 days event starts from ~600$ (of course you can pay in crypto).
My old analog doorbell/intercom broke last year, I only got around to replacing it with a smart wifi doorbell last month (when the sticky note saying "doorbell broken please knock" blew off again).
It turns out the chime signalling (EV1527 433MHz) is the same as my home alarm, and when I went to open the door to pair it with the newly mounted doorbell it paired with the front door sensor first. Now I get three chimes (motion, doorbell, door). I have not yet been able to unpair the chime, there is no reset, and it accumulates devices rather than overwrites.

I'm not sure if the ability to answer the door while away is a good trade off given the complexity, and potential security issues.
Your source confirms that exactly.

"Since distilled water doesn’t contain its own minerals, it has a tendency to pull them from whatever it touches to maintain a balance. So when you drink distilled water, it may pull small amounts of minerals from your body, including from your teeth."
Subtraction, division and addition is one of the common answers that is still wrong, unless you also want to do a comparison, first, and that is generally high cost.

Read https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63303 to see many problems around pointer differencing.
I have a theory if you want a haskell job you have to compromise heavily on many other aspects of job criteria such as salary, preferred location, interest in the domain etc. Why? Because there are so few of those jobs that it is highly selective and leaves you no selectivity for other aspects.

Want $300k + Haskell? You better be someone who wrote GHC!

Want $300k without Haskell? Just need US residence, and coding skills and be a bit ruthless.

I think a good Haskell job is the on where you build your own micro SaaS using Haskell.
I don't agree with this assumption because of a hidden variable: time.

Even the smartest person on this planet still needs time to learn things.

Someone just starting to use a new environment won't have the months and years of practical experience with the many frameworks and libraries out there. They won't have the battle scars to know out why one library is better than the other one for this specific use case. They won't have the experience to know why structuring the code in this specific way is better than the other way.

And thing about the other myriad gotchas every environment has, that someone only picks up over time, as they try to use all the corners of a specific software stack.

I mean, yeah, sure, a smart dev will look up best practices and carry over some of their existing experience, but unless they're a true polyglot (and that takes many years as you probably need at least 1 super intense year with each or more like 2-3 years with several), they will still be a solid mid level dev, but not a true senior dev using the new framework.
Yeah, beer prices in Germany are absurdly low. Unfortunately that also means that it's quite hard for smaller breweries to compete. The Franken region (densest brewery region) is seeing the slow death of the family brewery because the clientele is not up for even small price hikes. Even the deposit on the crates is an actual consideration for these brewers as people won't buy their beer at full price 10€ (they will get the money back on return of the crate) instead they usually require just a 3€ deposit. This means that the brewery is staking out 6-7€ per crate sold in hopes it returns functional.

If you're ever in Bavaria again, you should make a visit to Bamberg. It has an incredibly rich culture around beer. They are famous for smoked beer, though its just two breweries of about 20 making it. The others all have absurdly high quality beer at fair prices all with a certain amount of personality.
Couldn't agree more. I don't see it as a reflection of my own mental state or mental health at all, just as a reflection of the fact that it's time to start looking for a new job.

I think that it is quite common for software engineers to have a feeling of being badly attuned to their work environments and then misattribute that as a problem that lies within themselves rather than their work environments.

I even feel that some management practices common to our field are basically a form of psychological abuse, akin to gaslighting, which provide to the employee a false reality where everything that goes wrong is their own fault. For example yearly reviews and institutionalized continuous feedback cultures tend to create a lot of salience around what an employee is doing wrong and should do differently in the eyes of management, while seldom allowing any iota of attention to fall on questions about what the company is doing wrong and should do differently in the eyes of the employee.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was something that ended up actually causing mental disorders in employees. This is pure speculation, but our field does have very poor stats on mental health [1]. A competing explanation is that our field is attractive to people with pre-existing problems and therefore draws in people with mental disorder, rather than creating mental disorder. Or maybe it's a combination of both.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-demog...
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> see also immense popularity of video games, which provide "fake work" that is closer to what we need

Or sports, or hobbies in general.
Interesting point to note is that they have some external funding from the EU.

> The Deuxfleurs association has received a grant from NGI POINTER[0], to fund 3 people working on Garage full-time for a year : from October 2021 to September 2022.

[0]: https://pointer.ngi.eu/
Thanks for the feedback! We've implemented a ton of features since then, most notably story history & versioning, annotations for documenntation, better alerting on changes (e.g. no event in 24 hours etc.), but recognise there's still a long way to go. I'd love to hear some more feedback if you want to DM me, it sounds like the project was a bit of a horror show!
There is never any 100% monopoly in other sectors either unless it's something government enforced where only one company is allowed to do something. What matters is that a significant amount of consumers do not have a choice of dealing with with the company in question if they want certain types of things. That is true in tech if you define the "type of thing" narrowly enough and is true nowhere if you define it broadly enough. The debate of where you draw the line is independt of the terms used.
It's pretty fuzzy in the clips I've seen, so I think it depends what you mean by perfectly represented. A coordinated set of lasers can cause a single point to appear to emit from multiple angles simultaneously.

Re: radar, I was not aware of evidence that the radar signature of the device is known to match the appearance of the device in real-time. Where do you get this?

My understanding is that some radar stations picked up 'something moving at high velocity' in some area, and the jet fighters went in for a visual. There may be only a very loose correspondence between radar tracking and visual tracking. It would be much easier to evaluate if they released the numerical data, which the navy no doubt has.
A list of every web API in Deno
> independent components like the filer, the volume manager, the master, etc.

You can run volume/master/filer in a single server (single command).

> filer probably needs an external rdbms to handle the metadata

This is true. You can use an external db. Or build/embed some other db inside it (think a distributed kv in golang that you embed inside to host the metadata).

> It also seems that a bucket must be pinned to a volume server on SeaweedFS.

This is not true. A bucket will be using it's own volumes, but can be and is distributed on the whole cluster by default.

> They use Raft, I suppose either by running an healthcheck every second which lead to data loss on a crash, or running for each transaction, which creates a huge bottleneck.

Raft is for synchronized writes. It's slow in the case of a single-write being slow because you have to wait for an "ok" from replicas, which is a good thing (compared to async-replication in, say, cassandra/dynamodb). Keep in mind that s3 also moved to synced replication. This is fixed by having more parallelism.

> Better scalability: because there is no special node, there is no bottlenecks. I suppose that SeaweedFS, all the requests have to pass through the master. We do not have such limitations.

Going to the master is only needed for writes, to get a unique id. This can be easily fixed with a plugin to say, generate twitter-snowflake-ids which are very efficient. For reads, you keep a cache in your client for the volume-to-server mapping so you can do reads directly from the server that has the data, or you can randomly query a server and it will handle everything underneath.

I'm pretty sure seaweedfs has very good fundamentals from researching all other open-source distributed object storage systems that exists.
And why wasn't someone there to ease him over the culture hurdle? I've taken people who had no idea about Async and baby sat them till it clicked. But left alone it would never have happened. New hires should not just be thrown a task, left alone and then be slandered two weeks later on hacker News when they get it wrong.
Whether or not it's a prominent family, the continued distribution of ghoulish photographs of a dead young girl should come with substantial criminal penalties. There is no possible justification for it - it's not like it's a free speech issue. No family should have to deal with this along with the grieving process.
I don't understand how these crawlers even work. Last week I published a PoC for CVE-2022-0316. The next day you Google that CVE, and a whole bunch of foreign language sites with an exact copy of my blog would show up. My own original content wasn't on the first two pages. I hadn't linked it anywhere at all and Google Analytics shows literally 0 viewers. Yet they found it, scraped it, and had winning SEO. Seems fixed today.
I could cite individual observations and reports, but the field is difficult to summarize in a single HN comment. There are many factors that we cannot completely oversee, primarily tipping points (disappearing reflective polar caps) and feedback loops (melt of permafrost with methane release).

More concretely, have a look at the latest IPCC report [1], page SPM-16. Three of the five scenarios include temperature rises from 3 to 5 °C. Based on the last decade, the world has not reduced total CO2 emissions at all (not even slowed), despite its knowledge about climate change. Therefore, I have reason to believe that the three bad scenarios (intermediate to high CO2 emission), are more likely to happen than scenarios covering halted or little CO2 emission.

[1]: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
As I understand it the value for Nvidia came from adding Nvidia GPU IP into the products that AMD sells to customers.

Nvidia would have expanded the market from their own products to licenses.