skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Taiwan and the bakeries and store bought bread here are quite bad. There is the occasional tangzhong/Japanese milk bread which is ok but everything is bland or overly sweet with a very loose crumb. It’s all the same enriched dough recipe everywhere.

People in Taiwan seem to hate salt, or pride themselves on avoiding it, so the bread often has zero salt in the dough which has an odd, neutral flavour profile. Whenever I talk about it with anyone they insinuate that it’s because I’m a foreigner and all foreigners are crazy about salt. Meanwhile, I’ve been to Japan and love the bread over there.. Bread should be 1-2% salt by weight(to the flour).

Dough is also never fermented here. This results in hilariously bad attempts at French bread like baguettes or country loaves. I grew up in Montreal and I am intimately familiar with what this sort of thing should taste like.

I do a lot of my own baking now.
Some folks object to the Brave Rewards system and the embedded crypto wallet.
The planet dies everyday by our creations .. Yet we keep marveling at our creations everyday. Nothing changeth.
I had to use a trial version of Endnote 9 because a collaborator was using it. It was slow. Adding paper by DOI would freeze the interface for ten or more seconds on a database of less than 100 papers. Meanwhile adding a paper by DOI to my Zotero DB (curently 2000+ papers) is a snap.
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I'm thinking wildly here and not getting into technicals, but it could also be seen not necessarily for humans but also for ecosystem restoration efforts in harsh remote environments.

For example, while I have some viability questions the company Terraformation has been trial'ing photovoltaic solar powered water desalinization (using brackish wells as a source) in deforested areas for water - https://www.terraformation.com/blog/solar-powered-desalinati...

If I understand correctly (still learning and might be wrong), another way to frame this is in perceiving water vapor itself - you can be in desertifying areas and yet supposedly have plenty of water vapor to a lack of evapotranspiration. This is what some have framed 'the second leg of anthropogenic climate change' - ( https://museecology.com/2020/10/30/15-professor-millan-the-s... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf4jwkhCk_A - "Desert or rainforest" , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdcsQw3ma_Y - "Restoring the Water Cycle 1" )
Hum... What would you do differently from the article?
The Issues for node-ipc have devolved so much, and it's completely hilarious and entertaining to read.
Content marketing for scanning tech.
Is this some kind of superfluidy Mossbauer-like bulk effect?
Its stock is also down >30% relative to a few months back. Maybe it was just a chance to whittle down dilution at a discount.
Oh, I see. I understand how this would apply. Now I'm curious if it has been successfully used in any case of malicious open-source software.
I think there's some history rewriting going on here, as a different version of the code (9.2.2) which apparently contained the malicious code was linked to from another GitHub issues, but that version no longer exists in the git history.
At the same time they don't utilize the 4 most easy to reach points of the screen, the corners. Windows always used those for essential interactions so the interface was really fast to use: for the start menu just throw your mouse to the bottom left corner; to close the window throw your mouse to the top right corner; to show your desktop throw to to bottom right; not sure anymore about the other corner as I am on Mac for a while already. Since switching to Mac I am always thinking about how stupid the interface is for disregarding important user-friendly details like these.
Just to be clear - the cohort in his paper is not all opioid users. It is the subset most likely to become addicts, for the following reasons:

1. The meta-analysis occurred during the period of time that pill mills and other unscrupulous prescribing was rampant. See that there was no note regarding patients' (legal) polydrug use or by morphine equivalent dosing, nor was there any modification to the analysis of the data to see how this period in the legal drug market impacted patient outcomes.

2. This analysis selects for chronic pain patients, which tends to mean the long term users of opioids while excluding the acute patients who, particularly among the in-patient subset, pretty much never become addicts during their course of use - which is what we'd expect if these compounds were as addictive as claimed.

3. These cohort selections often do not include some or all palliative care patients. I won't accuse them of doing this to sensationalize their numbers but it does have a significant impact on results, as again palliative care patients very rarely cease their use and carry forward afterwards an opioid misuse disorder.

4. They do not control for or look at the specific impact of the main problematic legal opioid - Purdue Pharma's original OxyContin formula. Because this drug did not have the pharmacodynamic profile claimed by the firm and represented in the safety studies, it was considerably more likely to cause opioid use disorder, as patients would be much more likely to take extra doses to cover the shortfall in the dosing window. This would lead to patients who otherwise would exist on a steady dose asking for increasing doses - or, worse, turning to the street to acquire diverted doses.
To know what's actually going on here, one must open the revision history of the top comment, and view the last version from the OP (since it was then edited by the maintainer). See: https://web.archive.org/web/20220317042712/https://github.co...

The issue is also described in the National Vulnerability Database: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23812

Relevant: https://snyk.io/blog/peacenotwar-malicious-npm-node-ipc-pack...
Defining neutral (or even claiming such a thing exists) is inherently a political claim. Even if what you want is the most politically uncharged space where it’s maximally available and accessible to the largest proportion of society who would benefit from and foster that… look how many qualifying words I needed for this sentence. Can you imagine any of them being specified in a way none of that potential set of people objects to?

Part of the reason I can’t is… there are things I can’t be neutral about because lives depend on it, including my loved ones and my own in some cases.

I don’t think this was the right way to put very real human cost into software as an agent of change or discussion, but I can think of ways it could be (because) I can think of dozens of other ways necessary social progress would have been impossible without people interjecting “neutral” which wasn’t.

And if that feels too radical for you or HN, let’s not forget that this is a common tactic of combat (and the “political” subject is literally war). Railroads and landing strips aren’t instruments of war, they’re ostensibly neutral. But they’re widely regarded as conventional targets because they facilitate otherwise non-neutral activity. The same goes for any other infrastructure.

Again I don’t think this was a helpful action. But I think it was an inevitable one, and I think hoping for neutrality in software is just naive.
You say all this as if Chrome is somehow not even worse
There are mobile speed cameras installed near several schools in my US neighborhood.
Making projects more trustworthy: checks and balances, replacing the culture of single-author micropackages with larger multi-maintainer projects (like Qt) where maintainers review each other's work (as well as outside contributors), reducing the ability for one rogue individual to pull stunts (instead requiring the coordination of multiple people, which is not impossible but more difficult).

Avoiding delegating trust: simpler dependencies with the minimum necessary functionality for each user, writing code not to ease the job of maintainers, but to better teach users learn how it works, empowering users to review/contribute upstream changes or fork the library if they desire. This conflicts with Boost-like entangled "multi-maintainer projects" where every library has a sprawling tree of internal dependencies, but (I'd argue) not more modular large projects.
Do meta and google do human review of all advertisements or is it all automated?
Thanks for your perspective! This makes me wonder whether wherever one has first learned to drive feels most right.

That said I haven't been to the US so not sure what it is like.
It's short for "cross-references", which in the context of parts means "alternate parts".
Vivaldi is still Chrome though
I often wonder how many businesses often need code to operate. Back in school we had a database design class where the prof asked us to design a system for a user base of 50 something users per year. We were all dumbfounded when our react/postgres/python stacks were overkill when the prof explained that pen and paper or excel would’ve sufficed
hrm.... I do this occasionally with some other folks on a project. often it's fe/be concerns - one person needs something added in a payload, for example. Working in their same branch to add that for their environment/branch was much faster than trying to coordinate a series of other changes/branches. It's not something I/we do a lot, but the few times we've done it in the last couple of months people have really liked it, and seemed to feel like we were making faster progress somehow.
That’s because none of us truly want to give up what we have gained. You’re still commenting on a website using a computer or a phone. The only way this will fix is after the planet is truly fully fucked, where no amount of money can protect you from that, then humanity will figure out whacko ways to fix it. Many if not most will suffer indescribably, for sure. But I see no other way this will play out.
Even without all the controversies, Brave is still Chrome.
Sure great points. But in my view, it remains just that, a photograph. A photograph can be deliberate, complex, and evoke many emotions. It can be pleasing, utterly horrific, or anything in between.

But when I take art classes, I'm not taking photos. I do that in photography class. So as a matter of definition, a photo for me qualifies not as art.
I agree with you but it's not the same level as discrimination, sexual harassment and verbal abuse IMO. You presented the probably most extreme toxic example, now think of the most extreme examples of discrimination, sexual harassment and verbal abuse.

I don't think when people say their workplace has poor work-life balance, it's not typically to the extreme you mentioned, it's more mild, like boss calling on weekend, after hours work, etc. I don't think you can have mild discrimination, sexual harassment or verbal abuse. Perhaps verbal abuse.

Sometimes though, you get real winners like Blizzard with all of the above recently. I know enough to never work in the video game industry.
To be clear: this political stunt was stupid. Transcendentally stupid, if not actively evil; it was untargeted to the point of shocking irresponsibility and if the stories I've heard about the data destroyed by this are true, criminal charges are in my mind justly warranted. But I can believe that and also believe that these kinds of blanket claims are toxic, too. Because "politics" happens the second more than one person exists in a space. And neutrality is an inescapably political stance.

Claims like these are, presumably, in good faith, but to make these claims you have to skirt the reality that "don't talk about it" functionally ends up being a tacit acceptance of the status quo. And that status quo has a lot of people downrange of it who the more comfortable among us (and I for one am very comfortable) may find much more palatable if they'd just shut up--but the world is more existential than discomfiting for them, and we should respect that.

There are many cases where one's existence is a political question; much of America, for example, thinks the right to existence of LGBTQ folks is up for debate. When the fact of your existence is controversial, your existence is political--and it is rather difficult to criticize someone for acting as such.

On the other hand, an evangelical Christian doesn't have to drop slurs in a package. They already have a world where people are beaten and killed for being gay, even with the prodigious successes of our LGBT siblings to date. They still have the world that they want--they're just not happy with the slope of the function.

One of these things is not like the other.
The church of liberalism has entered the eleventh hour.
A year? It seems like you should have been able to come up with something within a year? Unless it's an exotic or you have tight targets for cost or supplier qualification.

If you're willing to share the original part number, I'm curious as to what FET could cause so much grief.
It's incredible that we designed a material for robustness that takes hundreds of years to break down, and it is the default material for designing single use everyday items, and then rely on all the efforts of an ineffective recycling program to maybe get a couple more uses out of it.
Thanks for the example. Is there a way to perform a positive and negative look-ahead instead of just reading the remaining data to end of input?
That's not at all close to textbook terrorism. There's no violence or intimidation. It's not even clear whether this is unlawful.
People are saying it’s not the same but counterpoint: An MRI scan in a state of the art facility in Chennai India in at least 50 different facilities costs 2000-4000 Rupees or $26. The machines cost the same if not more here due to import duties. Labor is cheap but these labs truly compete with each other and that’s what drives the price down. So please acknowledge that the healthcare system in the US and other places is broken.
They claim to charge based upon your requirements, your business model and revenue. If you are a startup they will most certainly overcharge you for their framework. They also want access to your financials to make sure you would be in compliance with the contract.
At least with Faker.js, it didn't act as malware. Simply a deleted project. That was a more respectable protest. This... well it's certainly an attention-grabber. But if he wants people to be sympathetic to his message, good luck with that now.
Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turtle shells
Ah I see. It means investigators assessed speed as being a causal factor. But they can and do consider multiple things to be causal factors. I don't remember more precise details.
Nah, it’s not new. Even remarking that the hot thing is reimplementing things in Rust is not new, you find at least one similar remark on almost every candidate thread. Remarking about such remarks is somewhat less common. :-)
On many platforms, such as FreeBSD and macOS, the application-exposed ABI for tasks such as "open a file" or "validate this x.509 TLS certificate" mandates that you link to a shared library and call into it using the C calling convention. (libc and Security.framework, respectively.)

Linux is unique in that you can hand-write assembly to perform a system call and have it work across OS upgrades. FreeBSD does not have stable syscall numbers: open() must be a libc call.
Yes, package.lock is used by default now. But when you do want to update the dependencies. It will update thousands of libraries at the same time.

However it is a problem of the eco system, not package manager.
This is another reminder of why we should to move toward permissions sandboxing for individual libraries. Deno is a step in the right direction since it requires explicitly granting individual permissions for reading and writing the disk, but it currently does that at the program level rather than the library level.
The work they do is just outstanding - congrats to all involved. I am proud of backing the project and if you own a M1 (or now plan to get one just because of Asahi Linux), you'd probably want to contribute too:

https://www.patreon.com/marcan
Kind of. I like to quantify a certain threshold of skill and effort before I qualify something as art. For instance, a 4 year old drawing scribbles, I would consider art. There was skill, however minimal involved. It might not be very good, and a photo that you take would certainly be more aesthetically appealing, but one required deliberate craft to create and bring to reality.

I simply find it distasteful to call something created with the click of a button art. Yes it can be beautiful, yes it can capture the highs and lows of humanity. And yes it can be thought provoking, represent artistic intention, years of learning lighting, composition, framing, etc, etc, etc. But at the end, I'd call it a photo, not art.
For that, we can sell you something called Oracle!
[laughing in RMS]
If you want to be extra obnoxious you can do something like: 820458671
this https://w0nder.herokuapp.com/posts/9fjM1tOJO7MWX4fYw3AU2Q==/...
Why should the maintainer not have the freedom to write the software they wish? The users of their software aren't being denied their freedoms to control and repair the code.
I would not encourage anyone to acquire any opioid medication not prescribed, for a number of reasons. That said, Tapentadol - a cousin of tramadol but much stronger - can be easily bought from Indian and other Asian pharmacies on the clearnet and at affordable prices. One might have a package here and there get seized but all that results in is a snide letter from customs.
IANAL, but as far as my understanding goes, it means that the algorithm is patented and therefore requires you to pay a license fee if you want to redistribute the code in a country where software patents are practically enforceable (like the USA).

In other parts of the world (like large parts of Europe, for example) software patents are practically unenforceable and you can probably distribute your code as you see fit. Code is still copyrightable, so you can't just redistribute someone else's library, but your own code does not violate their copyright.

Some greedy American companies will probably still sue you if you do, hoping to enforce their patents regardless or at least scare you into paying them, but at legally you _should_ be in the clear.

When it comes to dedicated hardware for an algorithm, though, like hardware accelerated video codecs, you'll likely run into patent trouble in most of the world if you choose to build your own hardware for a patented system.
I want the politics of protest in software. I want us as a community to be better prepared for the responsibility of our profession—like engineers—and better stewards of our society, and to protect people from the dangers of sabotage while advocating for the people who rightly see sabotage as a viable option… possibly the only one.

We have extraordinary privilege and power as workers. We have the power to make the world better. The people who want to make it worse already see us and our domain as an attack vector. We cannot change that. We should rise to the occasion, not declare neutrality in its face.
I'm going to go out a limb here and I am going to say that the bread in Western Europe (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, excluding the UK) is vastly superior to their cardboard, heavy, tasteless Eastern counterparts.
Hahaha... Plasma in software rendering... Is this X11 or Wayland? I have some horror stories: on non-unified memory architectures, KWin Wayland with QPainter rendering slows to a crawl on alt-tab, because Qt is trying to CPU-render to GPU-owned memory over the PCIe bus (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447383).
> I'm not sure what we're supposed to learn from it

That a individual's reputation doesn't earn enough trust to be an unchecked link in your supply chain. Dude can go rogue at any time, and you have no idea of what might be the trigger, because you don't actually have any personal knowledge of them.
Anecdotally, with N being roughly 5 people, THC/CBD do nothing for several types of chronic pain, short of getting high enough that you stop caring about the fact that you are in pain.

Worth a shot, but I wouldn't recommend anyone getting their hopes up trying it.

Tiger balm, on the other hand, is nothing short of magic.
Open Source? Yea? I mean, that's the whole point.
The DC area has speed cameras all over normal city streets
Infrastructure Is Distribution
Ask HN: What project management tool is your team using and why?
I am currently managing 40 Software Engineers and working on six different projects. Just curious about new tools available out there.
Airport scanners are not CT. They will only give you one projection. I would also be willing to bet these CT machines can only scan a very small volume. Typically, they will rotate the sample, not the X-ray source and detector. I’d imagine some of the cost comes from being able to move the source and detector while keeping everything in alignment. (Disclaimer: My experience is secondhand with scanning metals)
> How are copyright holders going to chase spun-up shell companies in some random country abroad where there is zero chance of pursuing them?

You still need to set up a shell company. That's still an extra barrier to entry.

> my ad either more or less is a financial scam

If your ad has anything to do with finance or is in a grey area it gets extra scrutiny.

> people are lured to a site (which gets changed after approval)

It's trivial for advertising companies to screen-scrape target websites and alert/suspend ads in case of significant changes. Maybe having liability would push them to do this and close this attack vector?

> it names some new crypto thing which the vetter has never heard of before.

In this case it gets escalated to a team that can do proper due diligence on it and only then it gets published if it ends up passing muster.

> uses the likeness of a celebrity specific to the target country and that the vetter doesn't recognise

That's a different problem entirely and is much less serious than financial scams. If that's the only issue with the ad (it might not be - if it's supplements or some other health-related BS it's likely to fail on health-related rules).

> Do you need to have vetters in every country and with knowledge of each industry - is this medical ad a scam?

Yes - why is this so outrageous?

> Facebook might have the means of dealing with something like this, but for anyone smaller hosting ads that wouldn't be the case. So then you'd need a way of segmenting legislation by scale.

Potentially, or alternatively we might not. Maybe having the potential to force harmful content in front of millions of people needs to be regulated closely, and if you can't do it responsibly, well tough luck - what matters is the potential harm, not how many employees or your company turnover. Nobody has a right to be in business after all, and it's clear that the industry is not capable of self-regulation.

> Then it's whack a mole with new scammers reappearing if you smack one down.

I don't doubt there's always going to be a few that fall through the cracks, but the objective is to at least raise the barrier to entry and hopefully having a better paper trail that makes it easier to catch up with the offenders if they do manage to slip through.
This is really great. I'm struggling to find SAM D5x chips and considering swapping in RP2040s instead. Seeing the flexibility in the PIO here makes that pretty tempting.

What are people using for cheap ($5-$10/ea) displays now?
This could be great for a prepper's toolbox. If it actually hits the $150 price point, it's easily affordable for someone in the developed world who just wants to be prepared if the developed world un-develops, and drinking water's a critical survival need that many properties won't have available without municipal utilities or transportation. And in most apocalypse scenarios that you'd prepare for, you can't count on transportation remaining available.