skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “thirst ball,” which helped ninjas avoid dehydration. They were made with crushed umeboshi pulp, rye ergot fungus, and crystallized sugar—a potent, electrolyte-rich combination of foods often used today as hangover cures.

Emphasis mine. Does ergot fungus always have LSD in it? It just gets mentioned in passing and isn't returned to. If people were historically taking LSD to keep themselves going, it would be very interesting to learn more
I don't believe this is the case. On my corporate account stuff only uploads if you drop it in OneDrive. If you use “Documents” on OneDrive then yeah they get uploaded. Use it in the local folder, and it's local. Otherwise, I'm a Linux man.
> The math is called law of large numbers

That reduces sampling error, not non-sampling error.
"Hot grits", obscene ASCII art, homophobia, racism, nazi jokes... The comments section on Slashdot was downright offensive. I never understood why Slashdot tolerated these things. They killed their own community.

HN was immediately the opposite: a place you could read the comments before the article.
So in laymans terms, enough people had untreated and undiagnosed parasitic infections that "they got better" was curing an undiagnosed comorbidity to a positive C19 and since the parasite causes high risk problems eg with kidneys or pulmonary risk or breathing, it helped them survive.

Is that it?
> I guess we can vote with our feet

In this case, both options are available: switching employees or switching to a city with higher pay
The downvoting proves it: irony is dead.
>For the last few years I've been trying to change the billing address of my Microsoft and Office 365 account and it's still wrong. Microsoft account management is so feckin' stupid that I feel sorry for all Windows 11 users who will be forced to use it.

My minor example of Microsoft address stupidity is that when I make a purchase at the Microsoft store, and provide a shipping address that I only want to use for that purchase, that address becomes the new default for subsequent purchases even if I specifically turn off the checkbox asking if I want to make the address the default. (I've had dozens of opportunities to test this.)
This is not true at all, you can transfer the license. Unless it was an OEM license and is tied to the hardware. It has nothing to do with your MS account. I've done this many times when upgrading hardware for myself and my family using different combinations of Home/Pro licenses.
I might get downvoted, but I like windows as an OS. I used it for years and it was pretty stable and easy to modify. Now that they are going the way of Google they really have nothing to keep me. Linux has been my main OS for years anyway. Windows I used for office, adobe products, and games. I guess I'll just keep a network gapped VM around for those on my linux and buy some extra memory to handle the VM.
(because men) is an interesting line to draw.
Does any study ever suggest that a $0.10 drug with expired patents is better than the new and patented $30 alternative? If so which benevolent pharmaceutical company funds such studies?

Between doctors prescribing specific medicine "brands" when generic alternatives are available, insurance companies denying perfectly valid claims and forcing you to challenge their decisions in tribunals and similar venues, and pharmaceutical companies engaging in questionable behavior,[1] I am very reluctant to trust anything championed by this unholy nexus.

[1] There is a multivitamin product from Bayer called Supradyn that I have been using for years. Last year, the company changed the formulation and halved the doses of most of the ingredients while increasing the price by 50% resulting in an effective price increase of 300%.
It's an internship, not an investment, not a life long commitment.

Take it. Learn some stuff. Take the work seriously. Don't drink the kool-aid. And for your next real job you'll probably have the luxury to look for something that you're more excited about contributing to.
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Wow that's a name I haven't thought about in a long time.

I was in high school in the early 2000s and Slashdot was like a haven for me.

I grew up in a town where I didn't know anyone in technology, let alone professional programmers.

But thanks to the internet I could get onto Slashdot and talk to other nerds and interact with real live professional programmers.

I haven't logged into my account in years but in hindsight that site meant a huge amount to me.
Interesting, so you're telling me there is a mathematical basis for why things always work out over and over again in the imaginary world but not in the real world?
You're missing that the chain is already essentially ubiquitous for those that this is an important topic to,

to the point where large institutions are betting millions and billions on being a layer-2 player on it.

& if Ethereum isn't the "winner" at the "end", it'll be an Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible implementation.
Gait recognition already exists.
Wow... If this has been your experience then you've had rotten luck. I've never experienced this in 25 years developing professionally.

On a typical code review, a reviewer takes about 10-15 minutes tops to review the code in a PR. 75% of the time the code just gets approved. Otherwise it's usually a few minor points that are 2 minute fixes, and rarely it becomes more involved because the person was unaware of something important (so a 20-30 minute fix, or perhaps a meeting to discuss the issue and come to a concensus if nobody's really sure how to deal with it).

PR code chunks are kept small so that things are easy to review, and easy to switch back to if there's a problem. Generally there's 0-1 cycles per review. If we're working on something big, we make an integration branch for that feature and then merge the changes in multiple small PRs again, so that only the integration branch itself needs to be kept up to date with mainline. Blockages due to unmerged code are unheard of (at least I've never experienced it).

I do on average 3-4 code reviews per day, and this has been my experience for my whole career (aside from two places that did pair programming instead) spanning many companies from startups to multinationals.
> In my former department, there were many cases like this, only with gender, and the department was sued. The university settled out of court for large sums of money, and faculty won tenure on appeal. Their cases sounded exactly like his.

Did the faculty member decide to stay, or go elsewhere? Most people would probably feel very uncomfortable about the lawsuit and outcome, even if it was ultimately vindicating.

Out of curiosity, what was the settlement in terms of multiples of annual salary? Are we talking 5x or 20x?
It's a good career move. But it's also contributing to an evil company.
I'm confused.

> That done, the antiseptic was pumped into every one of the innumerable tooth wounds until my arm was so full of the liquid that an injection in one drove it out of another

Isn't antiseptic applied topically not systemically, as they seem to be doing here by injection, and didn't antibiotics get developed later than this? I can't understand what they were injecting him with. Can anyone fill in my gaps, please.
I concur.

They now employ the creator of BtrFS, among many others who contribute greatly to open source projects.

The connections that you might make could prove invaluable, even if Meta is not for you when you graduate.
Many of the early studies weren’t high quality studies. And as I recall a couple were outright fabricated. It takes time to run randomized prospective studies and those are coming out now.
Forgiveness can be extremely difficult; well done for recognizing that your individual experiences aren't a reason to restrict the opportunities of others - that's more than many people are able to manage.
Especially s bulkhead that's between two segments that are both underwater.
> they should at least attempt to ask the torturer "How do I know that you will stop when I give you the information?"

Anyone who will torture you for information is going to include this in your torture now, just fyi. Might as well just ask them to let you go.
If they don't it will only be because "we got fussed up about it".
the best part is you can use Fennel lang for this.
True, although they have to coexist with Java exceptions. Also, they target the JVM (I have a vague notion of there being JVM-to-native compilation projects, although some of what makes the JVM appealing would be difficult to impossible to do in native code).
No. Two influential tech thinkers that I admire and their views on Facebook / Meta:

1: Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/22/kropotkin-graeber/#zucker...

2: Jamie Zawinski (jwz)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/10/if-you-work-for-facebook-qu...
Microsoft defaults the local username to the first five letters of your first name, I believe.

From a purely practical point of view, I just hate that using a MA auto generates your local username (typically into something painful) this way.

So if your name is "Jonathan Smith" and you like to use "jsmith", bad luck, here's your "jonat"!

If you could specify that at least, it wouldn't be so much of an issue to myself.

A local account that I later link up has given me this control. Now I'll need a throw away, new local account, then link to my real one. What a PITA.

(If anyone from MS is reading this, would love if you could fix this. Just add a username field to the online account please).
Biden says he's now convinced Putin has decided to invade Ukraine
I guess I will finally have to move to that free macbook pro I was offered couple of times
now (we are 3 Windows / WSL2 users and 30+ MBP, which is sad).

Not completly ruling out Ubuntu too.
> When was the last time you used an iOS device without an Apple ID?

That's not the point. The point is that Apple gives you a choice.
How does downtown Chicago not have anything like standard DSL or cable internet packages?
Everything you list still exists and is not social media so I'm not really seeing all the parallels here. Also I never said where I draw the line because I don't know. But if I had a 13 year old daughter it would probably be something like you are not posting pictures of yourself online or the phone is gone for 30 days.
> one has to reconcile conflicts between C++ paradigms and Rust paradigms...

The modern trend is closer to refactoring C++ code so that it's more Rust-like, not the other way around. The C++ Core Guidelines include plenty of indications on "paradigms" and overall design, so this is something C++ developers are being asked to do anyway. But unlike these, Rust is fully intended to ensure no unsafety in the safe subset.
Hi, Sean! Thanks again for creating Pion. That's what I'm using for the product now. I shared my reasons for choosing Pion on Reddit when you posted about the Pion v3 release:

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/kj1net/pion_webrtc_...
This.

You need to grind leetcode enough that you can match the interview question to the leetcode problem.

The best case scenario is that you get the exact leetcode problem more or less. Then you put on a show pretending like you've never seen it before and act like you serendipitously arrive at the optimal solution via iterating it from a naive one.

Less than ideal, but still great is when it's not a perfect match but you can recognize the pattern required to solve it - which comes from grinding. There are a finite number of patterns and sub-patterns into which many interview questions fall into. You could still end up unlucky enough to get a question that does not, but at the end of the day, it's matter of optimizing your chances.
https://youtu.be/jFg1SvLVlII
I mean running docker on the remote machine and just sshing into it. I assume changing the docker host on OSX just means a command is being sent over the network. Just wondering why prioritize "local" development if its all remote anyway.
>> The news I keep seeing around Meta lead me to think the whole thing is a sinking ship

Keep this in perspective; it's an intern position. I think going to Meta in this scenario is win-win. Either you love it and get the opportunity to stay or return permanently, or you don't and can go somewhere else with solid engineering experience and the assumption that you wanted something "more fulfilling or valuable".
This thread might get shut down for being political, but id be interested to hear hns opinions on the topic. I have no idea what to think and am not really sure I can trust e.g. CNN to give me a nuanced view.

Edit to more directly prod discussion: do you think this will actually happen? On what scale? And if it does, what might the impact be? Will I actually care a few years from now?
Academia attracts these types like a moth to a flame. It's a type of arrested development. They go from high school, to high school plus (modern college), and then they don't know what to do enter the "real world" and so they stay in school and get upper graduate degrees.
I don't know. It seems like the rise of a different form of patriarchy. When only top 10% of men get the women. It could be a form similar to polygamy, like the biblical patriarchs who had multiple wives.
Yes it does. Not all critics of the situation of women in the so-called Arab Muslim world are uninformed.

This bad situation also predates western imperialism or Pax Americana.
There should be some feedback to something so drastic as a desktop context change
Writers' Workbench for 9front
The Writer's Workbench (wwb) was a software package developed for the Unix operating system by Lorinda Cherry and Nina McDonald of Bell Labs.[1][2] It was perhaps the earliest grammar checker to receive wide usage on Unix systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer%27s_Workbench
You don't really know if you want to work for a big corp until you try it.

An internship is a great way to try something you don't have to commit to long term.
Everything? Of course not. Display some images and text from a server? That seems like a perfect use case for a browser.
Anyone who has a second password might have a third one, better keep that arm in shape 'cause it's poundings all the way down.
> How many things have you developed after spending unkown amount of time? You don't feel you're entitled to ensure you are credited with that work and allowed to earn from that work?

I do feel that if I spend my time creating something on my own, I should be free to use it, yes. Unfortunately, the patent system means I'm not necessarily allowed to use something I invented and created myself, because it may be patented.

As John Carmack said:

"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying."
It's also that treatment with dexamethasone may be dangerous in patients with preexisting Strongyloides infections. Astral Codex Ten has an (admittedly rather speculative) take on this: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
I'm glad you brought this up.

I think this is similar to how domestic violence is cast as a women's issue, yet men are just as likely if not more so to be victims.

https://www.saveservices.org/2019/02/men-face-31-greater-ris...
It's been a number of major releases since consumer Windows really cared about piracy (for end users at least, obviously if you start a business selling illegal licenses they'll still care about that). The more direct answer would seem to be this helps them push all of the cloud hosted services that are integrated into the default install now, easier for someone to pay for OneDrive or apps on the Microsoft Store or use the O365 app if they were already forced to create/sign in to a Microsoft account for those to load with.
Aspirin regimen for cardiovascular event prevention as an example of a cheap drug studied extensively.
Flip a coin. Heads yes, tails no. As soon as the coin's up in the air you'll have a feeling as to what you actually want to do. Go with that.
Makes sense, although there are lot of other "charities" that I'm pretty sure have no accountability. I'm guessing this one got removed cause it is under the most scrutiny by the public.
> I don't find the surveillance to be intrusive, so it's acceptable.

Interesting opinion for somebody with nick called 'shadowgovt'. I get your point, but even as that its shouldn't be OK in any meaningful way. It can easily end up as a slippery slope that is extremely hard if not impossible to come back from, and the intrusion to ones privacy goes deeper and deeper till you have absolutely 0.

Nobody alive in this world has absolutely nothing to hide. Maybe ass warts or shape of sub-par penis, some rather unusual preferences or opinions on XYZ, body odor when sweating or locations of body hair, whatever.

We shouldn't have OK categories for intrusions to our most private parts of our lives, period. Terrorists, ad optimization, blahblah whatever, just nope. At least disabled by default and if one is brave enough just go ahead and enable it to get that 5$ discount. I feel very strongly that I don't want my children to live in a world like that, how can we fuckup with such a basic and important item.
I will forever link this whole thread in any discussion where HN is discussing anything real world/outside of our bubble

It's hilarious
When going "two to the right" over empty desktops it is nice to see it was triggered two times maybe? I have a habit of putting the same stuff on the same virtual desktop number, so the other are ofen empty.
Ignore the HN armchair hate, Meta is an all-in project by a founder-led FAANG company. You'll be able to see first-hand its early successes/failures. Not bad for your first internship. Glhf!
Epoch user name, btw
I agree in general with the idea that any real life experience is good experience, and one previous job experience in FAANG will generally help you get a job in the future as well.

But it also depends on what you want to work with in the future, and what kind of companies those are. Experience with FAANG, depending on the company, can actually make employers wary of you instead of amazed. I've seen companies expressing this myself, when I've helped companies with improving their hiring process and they talk about previous bad experiences hiring people who only had FAANG experience, people who try to shoehorn their "everything needs to scale 1000x" solutions into everything instead of being pragmatic, and also a disregard for slurping up data from users left or right and sending to 3rd parties, or even considering various solutions that are borderline unethical.

In general though, any experience in the beginning of your career will be good for your future prospects, so I wouldn't worry too much unless you have a specific idea of companies you want to work with in the future.
Some people who have moral or political objections to working for Meta. Those are perfectly valid, although Meta's potential pay is sufficiently huge that taking a stand can be a really rough thing to do. A successful internship can lead to a job that, within a few years, is paying life-changing amounts of money, often multiple times anything their parents collectively made. But presumably that's not your objection. You may be worried about whether OTHER people will judge you, but I wouldn't worry about it. Professionally, nobody's gonna snub your resume because you worked for Facebook.

"Meta is a sinking ship" is not a great reason to ignore this internship opportunity. That's because the skills Meta will train you own are valuable even if Meta fails. If you do this internship, start a career at Meta, and then six months from now it suddenly and surprisingly shutters, you'll personally still be in a great position. Jumping ship to another FAANG company, joining a smaller company with Meta on your resume, or starting your own company with an expanded professional network and a better understanding of what good engineering is are all options.

Also, the likely upcoming failure of Meta's VR ventures will not ruin Meta. These large companies frequently make bets that are fairly unlikely to work. Often they fall on their face, but sometimes they succeed beyond anyone's wildest expectations.
If a computer program is generating the training data, aren't you just training the AI to do the same thing as the already existing computer program does?
You are asking a question that has no answer. What do you want to see, confirmation? Do you have doubts? If yes, why? Do you think your doubts are not right? Or you are just looking for a joke as an answer? Here is one:

"My grandpa died in the Gulag. He drank so much vodka, he fell from the guard tower and broke his neck" (this is the Eastern Europe version). Is there any parallel between the joke and getting a job with Meta? Is it?
It's tough to find any solid info on the actual history of the development of the WCAG contrast criterion, but it looks like they chose to base their concepts on the work done in the mid to late 1990s on the sRGB color space, which itself seems to have been motivated by the desire to maintain the simplicity of defining colors by R, G, and B. The WCAG's "relative luminance" is calculated from the raw RGB values using very simple arithmetic, which tends to not be the case for perceptual color spaces.
Interesting, thx for the response. Pony is on my list of languages to do a deeper dive on at some point in the future. It has some interesting ideas I thought when I last glanced at it.
I'd love to, and support the project with my bucks, but that seems a bit optimistic in the short term. Getting more and more work done with linux in the meantime.

With these efforts, at least my craving for sovereignty is mostly satisfied. With windows I feel like a crofter living on someone else's land.
For what it's worth, I always knock a star or two off my review for a restaurant if they won't give me a paper menu. It's fine if they lead with the qr code but I want to at least be able to ask for a physical one.
I'm not the commenter you are responding to, but we've been using webrtcbin in a production system since late 2019. We had some help from Collabora's consulting services (specifically from Olivier and Aaron!) and our use case was pretty targeted (near real time broadcasting of a video stream to a handful of internal users) so YMMV.

EDIT: Didn't realize you were the author of Pion! We looked at Pion and Janus when we were evaluating, but ended up using GStreamer ultimately because we had other GStreamer components within our pipeline.
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It's not going to fall apart during your internship.

Your experience will be valuable and recognized, the only thing it could be less useful for is getting a job at meta afterwards, but you might decide that you do want that job anyways.

You can do more than one internship, and engineering at Facebook will still be respected by other companies, even if Facebook goes under
>anything that takes that long to make an argument seems to not have a specific point

Is this what twitter has turned discourse into? If you haven't made your within one or two tweets your whole work is dismissed as "not have a specific point".

Anyways the "point" of this article is that the government is punishing their enemies by locking them out of the financial system. This is bad because of how much we rely on the financial system for every day life, and that the action is being done without the usual due process (ie. right to a trial). You might be in favor of this action because the targets happen to be your enemies, but this could easily be flipped next time around.
Carpenter here, how would you trim the door on the inside of you pulled it out?

That's gonna be pretty obvious.