skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
13 years ago I started going to the gym because my hair started thinning. I was convinced a tall slim guy would look weird bald.
I still have my hair albeit thinner than it was then but still there. I wonder if a life style change helped with that.
I think digital sticky notes have a use but it isn’t for reminders. At work we use Miro and the sticky notes for group planning. It’s very effective to have everyone sticking ideas in to a board and being able to arrange them.

But I agree with everything you said. I moved away from check boxes in a notes app where everything had its own page and now I use a physical note book where everything is time sequential rather than sorted in to topics.

Now I never forget anything as it’s all on one page sitting on my desk always.
Yes, I know. But I don't know of any word that means "attribute personhood to a non-person". Humans tend to conflate humanness and personhood.
>the placement of the apple logo in the middle of the menu bar.

wait, what? when did this happen? I do not have any memory of the Apple logo being anywhere other than the upper left hand corner of the menu bar.

I do however remember the G3 PowerBooks with lit logo on the lid that was UPSIDE DOWN when open and in use
I'm unfamiliar with glucosamine aside from the quick search and comments I read now. Neat that they see a correlation, but are there any theories about why this would be the case? Do the lungs use glucosamine somehow?
Sears and Roebuck dominated mail order for nearly 100 years. Now, they hardly exist. Large corporations come and go. Unless Amazon starts contract police or military service there is very little to worry about.
> Anecdotally it seems these have taken over the majority of nicotine consumption in the US

Cigarettes have not. The drop in cigarette-smoking rate been basically linear.

Through 2018: https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...

Through 2020: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/adul...
Some kind of secret police force with balaclavas and chairs in dark rooms.
Famously, jazz musician Charles Mingus trained his cat to poop in a toilet. He even authored a pamphlet about it. Not that I'm advocating that people to do that of course. I'm just noting how intelligent cats are.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. I don't care if it's the Joint Chiefs and the whole United Nations calling me up to tell me an asteroid will destroy the planet unless I sign on [0]. If it's after hours, it'll have to wait until tomorrow, possibly Monday.

[0] Spoiler alert: it's not.
The question is irrelevant. It is claimed that this program is sentient because it spat out a string of text saying “I am sentient”, but the program doesn’t generate text based on examination of internal states, it produces a probability associated between words and spits out the most likely words to come after a prompt
Isn't rounding pretty much the same thing as throwing away some precision in this case? So if I drop some (enough) bits and add .5 then no amount of averaging is going to recover the lost precision. Or maybe I misunderstand?
His recent posts are all in war threads pumping up Russia while smugly mocking Westerners and the US/EU.

Probably not a troll, but a true believer. As a Russian/American following this sick war with abject horror, it really depresses me...
Reading from /dev/urandom requires a syscall, which can be extremely slow compared to running your own prng in-process.
Zero-Covid China Kept Me from My Wife for 662 Days
Squid Game Reality Series Coming to Netflix with $4.56M Cash Prize
They have far more than $205 million in debt. They borrowed far more than that to acquire 129,000 BTC.
This was about 10 years ago now, I think they offered around 65k.
I wouldn't worry about Minoxidil with cats unless you plan to feed it to them. It's not different with dogs and chocolate.
I also write my own; often the existing ones are not good enough, or I cannot find any, etc. But, sometimes I will find something suitable in the package manager.
Obligatory: I used to have some respect for them until I read about the union-mafia connections. Now I think mafia is completely irredeemable :)

Unions are basically the embodiment of misaligned incentives - combining the worst of medieval guilds' exclusion (e.g. unions were openly exclusionary against Blacks during Great Migration), ineptitude of a government bureaucracies (too many examples to recount), monopolistic power (e.g. healthcare supply restrictions by AMA) kleptocratic "nepotism" (whatever is the equivalent of nepotism for an old boys club - that's where criminal connection come in), and actual incentive to be inefficient that probably has no parallel in history (see e.g. construction staffing in NYC vs. almost anywhere else, and many more examples including from some union members I know where necessary work is postponed forever so the union could benefit, in the safety of knowing it is illegal for non union workers to do it).

They are literally the most harmful organizations invented by man outside of those dedicated to violence explicitly.

Yes, they were a major factor in achieving something good, once, in very specific historical circumstances. So were nuclear strikes on cities...
Your line of thinking follows that of Peter Singer. I'd imagine that his brand of philosophy would appeal to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer
? Amazon lockers already accept returns where I am in the USA.
Caterpillar Inc. To Move Global Headquarters Out of Chicago Area, into Texas
It was years ago, but as far as I remember here's the hard parts.

Efficient synchronization is hard. Tasks may spawn more tasks, i.e. the pool has multiple producers and consumers. With a few cores simple ways work fine, with a few dozen of cores a global queue is a bottleneck.

Dispatching too many tasks, fire & forget style, may consume too much memory with pending tasks. Thread pools often need a backpressure, i.e. a way to stop posting tasks until some are finished.

Many articles on the internets promote lockless data structures, they have 2 issues. (1) very hard to implement and especially debug (2) the locks are still there in hardware, only their API is much worse (compare+exchange atomics), and the performance ain't necessarily better because reading from a cache line recently modified by another core is expensive, even more so than a cache miss and system RAM latency.

Good automatic scaling is hard. All operating systems have APIs to find count of hardware threads which is good, but they all run multiple programs at once. Just because a computer has 8 hardware threads doesn't mean it's always a good idea for a particular program to spawn 8 threads to compute something, depending on the environment could be too many.

Another notable mention is a tradeoff between CPU overhead and latency. Ideally you'd want neither of these things, but that's often not really possible. What's worse, optimal tradeoff varies: for large count of short tasks latency can be important, a background task which take a minute to complete doesn't care about latency at all, on a laptop it should ideally depend on plugged/unplugged global state.

As to what helped, kernel APIs for sending messages across threads did, an important piece of the puzzle already implemented in the OSes. For Linux see mq_overview, poll, epoll; for Windows PostQueuedCompletionStatus and GetQueuedCompletionStatus.
Thanks for taking the time to write this out waste_monk. I also use physical notes because theyre in the physical and cant avoid them. We're looking to give users a tool that anchors them to a goal rather than simply saying "lets do this now and hope it leads me in the right direction."
It may not change his lifestyle, but it’s still a motivating achievement.

If a world-class marathon runner is 4 minutes ahead in a race, and can see the finish line, do they start walking? Or do they try to push themselves even harder to see how much more they can win by?

People are competitive, and are always motivated by achieving “more”, even if it doesn’t change the outcome for them. Does society benefit by billionaires pushing for more? I’m not sure, but I don’t think that the answer is clearly “no”.
> Be the person that has the answers no one has.

I think (hope) you’re misinterpreting this. Try to be the person everyone comes to for info and then give it to them. You can be the most fun person to work with because you’re the most helpful, have knowledge about systems/processes, will help those who need it to develop the knowledge you’ve gained over the years, and are reliable. You can thrive being very average at your job if you do this.
> it should make incident response features (on-call rotations, escalations, multi-channel notifications) and best practices more accessible to the wider audience

Is that a net positive?
I'm amazed that the authors haven't released any of their data or questions...
Rumors Swirl About Financial Stress at Three Arrows
I always find these kinds of articles hilarious. Its fun to go back and look at the ones when bitcoin died at $12k, or $3k, or $1k, or $300, and nobody can forget the terrible drop from $100 to $20!

If your time horizon is a year, bitcoin isn’t for you.

Bitcoin is the hardest money known to man, but not everyone heeds that and there are tradeoffs.

If you look at bitcoins price history, %95 of the time— maybe %99! - it’s down from its all time high.

But buying at the exact peak is even harder than buying at the exact bottom.

But places like vice assume that’s what everyone did.

Or that El Salvador isn’t continuing to buy.

Dollar Cost Averaging is the way to go.

Don’t be expecting bitcoin to hit any particular price target at any point.

I for one just started out buying the equivalent of real actual monetary inflation as a percentage of my net worth. Until my net worth was too high to keep doing that.

El Salvador is booming. Bitcoin is unlocking value in its economy that have nothing to do with sitting in the government treasury.
“Lots of tiny tasks” workloads, mostly. For more coarse-grained parallelism the cache thing matters a lot less. I still favor work-stealing schedulers as the default, since robustness across different types of workload is a very good thing, but they’re definitely not always needed.
> What if Bill Gates stopped and never did any of the philanthropy that he does?

Not sure what your point is here--Bill Gates is not getting paid to do his philanthropy...he is in fact trying to give his money away. Are you arguing that it's a greater benefit to society for him to acquire his billions and then give some portion of it away after the fact?

It's an interesting thought experiment--how might the world be different had Gates's assets been capped at $1B back in 1987 or whenever, and whatever earnings he made been allocated to a social wealth fund?
Amazon has already rolled out the go tech at a few Whole Foods in d.c. funnily enough my parents don’t like to shop there, they claim to like the small talk with the cashier.
"Never happening" is way too harsh imo, but it definitely is still decades away.
I can’t speak for people, but I did notice meaningful improvement in my dog’s joint pain when we provided glucosamine supplements.

Inflammation is correlated with many conditions, so I would not be surprised to see other correlations, or that it was combined with other inflammation reducing agents.
It was all of the above. Some doctors were prescribing them at higher doses than necessary; others were prescribing them in normal doses for longer than is safe. I am sure that at least some of these doctors were driven by compassion for their patients.
Much smaller POV, but when I was dealing with ISP things in past I've found that on many networks v4 might have a nice, redundant blend while frequently v6 is some mix of HE+something or singlehomed HE, which disappoints me. But then the fact that their ports are basically unused other than for the usual G/YT/FB traffic makes the v6 pretty uncontended.
From the AMD advisory, it seems like desktop Ryzen 5000 series aren't affected, nor 3rd gen and later EPYC. Pretty much everything else is:

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security/bulletin/a...
yeah, I thought the same. It seems like nerf was a bit pointless if people are going back to voxel grid.
Did the companies that have 95-100% layoffs shutdown?
Not sure I understand your comment. If they are so good why would you exit the trade?
Places I've worked, I'm not aware they ever had severance, stock options or RSUs, or free snacks. One job had free keurig cups, and one job had free coffee in the form of a couple of pots in the morning that got pretty burnt tasting later in the day. Government and government contractors have had zero free stuff - there's a keurig machine where I work if you want to buy your own k-cups.

Then again, I've never been laid off. The most "office space" like jobs that pay the worst sometimes are aware that they can't easily hire people and so shrink by attrition over time. "Good times" mean a non-zero 401k match. Not so good times mean they remove the option of buying company stock in the 401k, because you might sue if it ruins your retirement hopes.

I'm not saying this is all that terrible, because I don't think it is. It just puts the tech layoffs that get publicity in perspective. If you get laid off at a normal company, you might - gasp - have to file for unemployment!

People who need stability do trade it for salary. The union where I work can't even strike, but our pay is up over 10% from a year ago.
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Related, glucosamine treats had a quick positive impact on the mobility of my aging dog. I recommend these: https://stratfordrx.com/products/max-strength-joint-support-...
This is crazy…only the central government should be able to run a deficit
Last update was June 10. So it's still pretty recent.
Ontario did not release data on death rates to the public. I don't know why.
I briefly read on twitter that UK is showing startling differences now, with the vaccinated having a much higher all cause mortality rate. If true, I don't know if its this effect at play or if some of the conspiracy theories were right.
You forgot front-running.
It's all so obvious, which makes you wonder if it's intentional.
"Science" must mean what pharmaceutical giants can convince governments to buy and mandate.

"They can put a man on the moon but they can't cure the common cold" had been an expression since they put a man on the moon. This is not new.
There was a massive push, “pain is the fifth vital sign” and all that. You were made to feel like a bad doctor if you weren’t in on it.
Yeah. I have no idea why Biden tried to govern as if he had a strong majority when he had a 50/50 Senate. He's from the Senate himself; he absolutely should have known how weak his hand was. He could have done some things with it anyway, but by playing it as if he had more than he does, he got shot down time after time, and wound up looking quite ineffective.
Right, because this single person takes all of the credit for SpaceX. Musk didn't found SpaceX. He just invested money. Big difference. He's also, despite what you're implying here, not a rocket scientist. Nor should he take sole the credit for thousands of scientists' and engineers' work. Do you attribute all of your company's achievements to your CEO or principal shareholders? Are you not concerned with being drawn up into a cult of personality?
WhatsApp can't inspect your messages, but they can look at messages another person sends them, including ones from you.

Anyway, if you check the original post, my wife only had a handful of contacts, all family. So some kind of mistake was made, but who knows what. Agreed that Signal is better, but if the people you want to chat with use whatsapp...
Apple, WhatsApp add iPhone migration feature
Nope. The GBA was a 32 bit console, much more powerful than the SNES/Genesis. It was halfway between an SNES and a PSX.
This is kind of a meme. I'm not sure what you consider to be "surgeon money", but senior engineers at FAANG nowdays net ~450k/year (annualized). As a single person you can retire at 40 with ~5m in the bank by starting at FAANG at 22 and plateauing at senior (not staff) after 5-6 years. So you're hitting that 450k/year level at, like... 27? Earlier if you're working at a company like Facebook, which promotes aggressively (many people make it to senior in 3-4 years), maybe later if you're at Google (where it's non-trivial getting to Senior in 5 years; many take up to 8, some don't break through at all). At 27 you're just starting your residency, working 100-hour weeks for less than six figures. Lol.

FAANG hires way too many people to hire exclusively (or even primarily) from Ivy League schools. Jointly they employ probably 5% of the software engineers in the country! Master's degrees are likewise totally unnecessary; I almost never see anyone who isn't here on a visa getting a Master's. (PhDs are a different story, but I know people without even undergrad degrees working at FAANG too.)
> The real question is: why is anything other than randomised studies allowed to be published in the first place?

Because things other than randomized studies produce the results that generate the funding for randomized studies.
Where do you see Geoco was involved in the $5.2M arbitration?

The news coverage about this case has been quite confused, as is common in insurance cases, like the "aunt sure her nephew" story.

The parties arbitrated with each other, possibly in an attempt to scam GEICO. GEICO tried to preemptively scuttle it, as extra protection against a potential claim.

GEICO's involvement as an insurer is separate. They have a separate lawsuit regarding whether the insured has a valid claim for coverage.

People are spinning this as "GEICO forced arbitration and got screwed", but that's not what happened at all.
The reason GEICO wasn't allowed to intervente in the arbitration was because the arbitration didn't involve GEICO in the first place!
Sorry mate, but I'm going to call bullshit on this. I've grown a home-based eCommerce business from nothing to 400k sales a year with 5000+ active SKUs.

Once you've hit around 5-10 sales per day, there is absolutely nothing physically stopping anyone from doing same-day delivery apart from poor inventory management or a simple unwillingness to do so (which is valid; some people can't work every day due to family commitments).
nickelpro did not blame researchers, but I will point out researchers are under a number of incentives to push this out and hype up the potential threat level of their work because it boosts their works' credibility and thus citations and ultimately funding. Researchers are better than most bad actors but they are not and cannot be completely pure actors not harboring even a tinge of potentially bad incentives.
I am ever increasingly a fan or just manually generated SVG. Creating DSL abstraction layer on top is fine, I guess. But ultimately I know what I want and it’s easier to just make it directly instead of fighting a tool to try and induce it to make the thing I want.

That said, I’m weird. My blog is artisinally hand crafted HTML, JS, and CSS for the same reason.
If you have items running in the threadpool that are submitting more work to the threadpool, and you care about "high-performance", you probably want those items to run on the same thread for better cache (and memory locality) behavior. Really you want the same/nearby CPU, but in pure C++ "same thread" and relying on the OS is the closest you can get.

It's not that you need "work stealing" but rather that you need separate queues per thread rather than a single central queue. At that point you need a work stealing story to keep a single long running item from blocking the work queued behind it.

This matters less on systems which are "less NUMA" -- a single socket 6 core Intel home computer isn't going to care nearly as much if work migrates between CPUs unnecessarily, but the cache/NUMA effects are quite large when dealing with multi-socket servers, especially if you have a threadpool that wants to utilize the entire machine.
And if they get to say, 10 billion they get to replace a president's face on a mint. I'm for it.
You're right that it is depressing how divided people are lately. Being more objective and less of a hater might help fix that.

It won't be a good 6 months for people that bet their retirements, or houses, or savings on the stock market either. Maybe they shouldn't have done that. They are both zero sum games. Both have scams. What's the difference?

I may be pro crypto with a long position, but I still told all those around me to be weary when they were all wanting to buy the peak. None of them were interested at all when BTC was at $4k. Human nature.

Just like it's human nature for the haters to jump out of the woodwork with "I told you so" every time the market wanes, which was my point. They loved it the last go round
Court Limits Ban on Speech for “Substantial Emotional Distress”
So then, just like a marathon, instead of a timeclock to beat, the government can have an agency that tracks lifetime wealthy -- then the wealthy can brag over who would have had the largest pot of gold if they didn't dispose of the money immediately for tax reasons.

Does society benefit by billionaires pushing for more? I’m not sure, but I don’t think that the answer is clearly “no”.

I think the correct question is "Is there a net benefit to society", not any benefit at all.
"4. Build a personal brand

Create value for people."

Thanks, but no thanks. Brand myself? It takes a type.
Well if they are forced to sell their shares to pay taxes, what happens to the stock market then? Now this causes the company’s stock value to go down due to dilution of shares, since each share is worth a smaller slice of the company, and there are more shares available on the open market.

How do we compensate everyone who was holding that company in their 401k hoping to retire? The government billionaire taxation has actually hurt the middle class (& upper class but non-billionaires) too in this case, by taking away value of their retirement funds and personal investments.

Do we pay the shareholders the money that was taken from the billionaire to make up the difference? Because then you’ve just created dividends, which already exists, but just with more steps and beurocratic overhead
Yes, both RedHat and Fedora used a free association-like naming scheme.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/name_history/

(Vouched for parent comment since it was on-topic.)
Certainly true, but start ups pivot and find success all the time. Or redefine what success is if they're early enough and wind up in great lifestyle businesses that'll never be unicorns or deca unicorns or whatever.

I guess the moral of the story is really be sure that you are holding a losing hand, and that you can't play go fish instead of poker.
Went kayaking in Lake Powell last year. Locals were saying the lake was down 30 feet (!!) from the past couple of years. I have no idea if that sort of fluctuation is common but that was enough to make me feel very concerned about the water situation in the southwest
"Tasks to do tasks dont necessarily lead you to accomplishing your goals. I built a tool with my team that makes [tasks to do tasks] . . . "
I hypothesize that invasive species will come to refer to those species that we just don't like or whose function we find annoying or dangerous. Some invasive species could be endemic and fill an ecological role which had been unfulfilled by human intervention or habitat destruction.
Heh Heh Heh. If you're into Science Fiction, then Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" might be your kind of thing:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316452505

It's really, really good. :)
So, for example, if it's simply illustrating factual aspects of an API or other resource then it's outside of the license.