skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm... the offending compound was lead acetate which was also used as a general sweetener, sugar substitute, and to preserve fruit/veg. So I think the scope for the influence of lead poisoning is a bit higher than suggested in the article. It's still a huge stretch to blame it for the entire downfall though ofc!
I am the founder / CEO of a company with 270+ full time employees and many more contractors. I have done exit interviews for years and find them extraordinarily valuable as a source for ideas to improve. You would be surprised at how many employees NEVER speak up during their employment, then share their thoughts after. I wish they would share them before they leave. I have never had my opinion of a former employee lowered as a result of an exit interview, even when they say they hate me.

I have had my opinions of employees INCREASE as a result of an exit interview. I recently had one salesperson who laid out a brilliant critique of my business that I learned a lot from. I offered him a senior position to stay and help me fix things (sadly he turned it down).
Pretty cool idea for an NFT project. I love all the different things artists try in that space.
Should we add something to the Hippocratic oath about this? Doctors should act in their patient's best interest, not set a minefield of privacy invasions and upselling to them. They should not allow 3rd parties to sleaze their way between them and their patients to subvert the relationship for profit.
Most companies can be SE'd. Think of a company that controls whatever you consider the most sensitive internet infrastructure - them too. Whatever you imagine is secure is probably not, because somewhere a human is in control of it.
Maybe the lispism are Stallman's legacy. He is a great lisp proponent after all.
Perhaps the closest I've discovered is AUR in Arch.
Just take care that K-9 development doesn't get bogged down in well meant feature ports/unifications that end up being negative value for anyone who isn't fully committed to running their entire life through Thunderbird and K-9, in the most synchronized way. For example the not really in scope but also not really out of scope nature of calendar in Thunderbird should better not spread to K-9 I think (as someone who has never used K-9, but is on Thunderbird since Communicator 4). But if you succeed avoiding that pitfall, if it's really just "we would love to do something on mobile, but we would hate to steal attention from K-9", then it's certainly just applaudable lack of NIH, nice!
Bravo. Anyone else destroy their friend's Commodore 1541 running drive songs?
The National Guard is however a state institution. You’d need the Texas Governor (in this case) to order it deployed. I V wouldn’t hold your breath. It’s more likely this is a job for the Feds.
Glasses tend to degrade vision.
What if previously it was impossible to afford glasses , so your eyes never got so bad?

Then again 2 out of 3 Asians I've dated wore glasses. My first girlfriend and mine's frames touched when we kissed.

The 2 were both Americans, so it would point to a generic explanation.

Then again a geneticist friend of mine pointed out the egg that made you was actually created inside of your grandmother. So bad nutrition, due to famine perhaps, can easily affect multiple generations.

Rather depressing to think about how the grandmothers of most people likely suffered though some form of famine. It's really great to see global poverty decrease to such a level this won't be the case in 100 years.
More importantly one less uniform slot!
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Why? I've been drinking a 250cal protein shake for lunch almost every day for years. When will I die?
> Wasn't the dole only implemented because land ownership had concentrated to a few extremely wealthy individuals?

It was implemented because it got votes. It's not a coincidence that it was restricted to people who could vote.

You get welfare whenever you expand the franchise too far.
What is peoples obsession with FAANG companies?
Dentists are the worst up sellers of all. Before moving, I had all of my family checked out at the dentist we had for years. When we moved our new dentist found a lot of 'work' that needed to be done. When we asked him to consult with our old dentist to compare notes it got real awkward.
yes, the movie definitely left it open as "you decide, and even if you decide she IS sentient, does it really matter". was a great ending.
here to give the solitary upvote lol
You're really on the attack, huh. That report puts North Carolina right in the middle on road conditions, with just 6% in poor shape. I've driven from the Cherokee reservations on the western border to the islands off the east coast without running into any bad roads. They were much worse when I lived in Pennsylvania, since Pennsylvania has actual winters to tear up the asphalt.
Homebrew an OS from Scratch
Not OP but in similar situation. Just my opinion.

Laravel is pretty amazing, and with modern PHP the languages are pretty comparable. PHP still has a reputation problem though, and hiring has been tough because so many PHP devs haven't used Laravel (or Rails) so they have a bit of a steep learning curve. The tooling for ruby/rails is also still a bit better than laravel, but that may not be true forever.
I was “fired” from a company once.

Somewhere along the way between two companies who were bad at everything we were given access to our customers intranet to use some tools.

An internal website that announced new policies once announced that a product now had a 2 year warranty, not 3. Including products already sold.

Tech support (me) agents were allowed to ask questions via a comment section. So I asked “Is that legal?”

The CEO (a childish man child) saw this and was horrified to find out someone dared ask… and that person was from some outside contractor.

One thing lead to another and I was told I was fired for hacking their intranet (CEO didn’t now we had lawful access), but I should still come in the next day anyway. Supposedly the CEOs of both companies were told I was fired (so I was told to keep a low profile ).

The next day my login was changed to a new name ;). I was a nobody support drone so it wasn’t like anyone would notice.

And yes it was illegal, lawsuits and much expense was wasted on a dumb policy.

CEO of our company did jail for unrelated actions. Man child CEO, I don’t know what happened to him, but he was creepy and supposedly had ties to Epstein.
GCC really needs to get it's act together if it wants to not die. Basic things like onboarding and spectating on other people's code being reviewed is pretty hard to do from a mailing list.

GCC is already basically non-existent in academic research now, although the inner essentials of the compiler are still pretty damn good and is the benchmark for open source compilers, the stuff around the outside is suffering.
Hey congratulations ! Keep at the Leetcode thing though. You already turned your situation but why not go for another thing in your arsenal ?
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It sounds exactly like what Alex Jones would say. It sounds exactly like what happened after pretty much every other event like this.

Yes, there are people that 100% believe this. They have drunk the whole damn pitcher of kool-aid
I will very much contradict you on this. Religion is absolutely not a philosophy.

No philosophy ever had immutable scripture that must be defended.

No philosophy ever had a hierarchical social structure with the aim of preserving the purity of that philosophy.

No philosopher ever sentenced other people to death for not complying to their philosophy.

Religion is a much more perverse disease.
Excellent book on just that subject, if you're not already familiar with it:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/748807.Mathematics
Yes, of course, ‘intentionality’, that clears everything up.
Your snarkiness is inappropriate here and your politics a symbol of unhelpful political discourse everywhere in this country.

I don't care what a few politicians wrote in a bill, it doesn't rise to what "North Carolina wants" or what their local party wants. You shouldn't take idiots so seriously or focus on this "ha! gotcha!" kind of political nonsense.

The bill is stupid, the people sponsoring it are stupid, let's not inflate that to saying that everybody in their party is a hypocrite because of a bill they introduced. You want to go on a crusade against these individuals, go ahead, but it's generally uninteresting and unhelpful to anyone.

If we focus on making broad generalizations based on stupid statehouse bills around the country, we will certainly never get anything done besides a lively bit of insulting each other.
Stable job. Good pay. And let's face it seems most startups these days is some crypto bullshit.
LLVM: Lots of documentation for frontend authors, not so much for backend stuff.

GCC: Lots of documentation for backend authors, actively made difficult to being used for frontends for many years (although things have improved dramatically)
Perhaps the question is not why the empire fell, but why it took so long to fall
Worst Housing Affordability“ since 1991 excluding Bubble
While Macs did have the same specs and connectors for SIMMs as PCs, they were much more picky in terms of which modules they'd accept. You could do some research and find out which cheap modules were 100% compatible, or you could buy special Mac compatible modules for a quite notable markup from Crucial, Kingston and the like. This might explain the price difference.
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Similar experience in PE a while back, know a lot of people who still do it, and yeah a lot of small business owners are cashing out right now as boomers retire. Between that and all the dry powder PE has on hand after recent massive raises there will be a lot of buying businesses going on, lots more than even a decade back. Especially now that inflation is stressing retirement savings and costs of everything are rising so fast while people will be looking more to private markets to up returns in bad economic conditions.
It's like a new kind of pipe organ. I love it. :-)
Why do we label people as complainers when they’re just giving (negative) feedback? Why has it become bad practice and a no no, to point out bad things? If someone is giving genuine feedback, with some kind of evidence and is doing it with good intentions (to fix something in the company), why is he/she finger pointed and we say that he/she’s burning bridges?
Please start giving honest feedback in exit interviews, avoid sending spiteful goodbye emails and be considerate to your ex-colleagues :-)
Is this because those other authors are the "peers" that get to peer review the paper?
Glasses tend to degrade vision.

This seems suspect, and a quick google search disagrees with you. Where did you get this information?
I saw a fix the other day. I've only used it once or twice, and it appears to work. (But I've only got a couple of items in my own experience so far.)

Change the URL by adding a '.' to the domain's name, as in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<whatever the serial number is>

to

https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=<whatever the serial number is>

^
|

Seems to work. Try it yourself. (I couldn't find an actual video with ads in the few moments I spent searching for an actual example. Murphy's Law strikes again!)
ApplePay is literally a payment system.
Where is anyone saying that? They are saying Cartels are bad. Artificially capturing the market so you can dictate pricing or can push hard upsells and no longer worry about customer good will because there is no longer an alternative decent vet to deal with is not creating 'public good'.
So you're saying they'd prefer to lie to the people?

It's number one because the admin tried to bury the issue by cliaming it was transitory while many outside DC and the Whitehouse were saying, you can't print money, do the BBB to the tune of trillions (where even Yellen balked) send out stimulus cheques, press for a $15 minimum wage (this should have been gradual), keep rates low AND expect there not to be inflation. But they said, nah, you're being chicken little, relax.

Covid did stress the economy, but it would do the opposite of inflation, if they had not stepped on the gas. It dampened demand. It also put some people out of work and also encouraged some to leave the workforce early.
> never drank $25 of beer per day(while camping), never bought cigarettes

A bigger problem with the itemization of cigarettes is that listing them as a camping expense implies that you smoke more while camping than you would otherwise, which makes no sense.
Probably a sovereign citizen type who thinks that the existence of government is a crime to humanity. Gotta have some windmills to tilt at.
Think it depends on if the chatbot can pass the turing test. That would be step one.
getting paid?
I think the Euclidea game is broken :/
I think that, in understanding LaMDA, it is important to understanding that this thing is definitely not sentient.

Note that, when told to be Mt. Everest, it pretends to be the mountain in a way that is just as convincing: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.08239.pdf
Mathematicians remain obsessed with the foundations.

Computer-checked mathematics is growing very fast.

Stuff like category theory ("Not real maths" - Kevin Buzzard) is also extremely popular.
It's the job of the PM to decide what to build. It's your job how to build it, which includes taking time for an appropriate level of quality.

It's easiest to improve the codebase where and when you alter it for feature work. This is also a good control for yourself to stick to relevant refactorings. This should be your professional autonomy.

The remaining like, 5 to 10 percent of the time that you need 'dedicated' tasks, should be explained to and supported by the PM because he trusts you due to having a track record of delivering.

Of course, reality isn't always ideal
I bet he was referring to the endless documentation around it.
Rational self-awareness, sure. But I believe higher animals and babies have self-awareness in that they are conscious of their own perceptions. It's difficult to put it in words without falling in circular definitions, but the key feature would be higher brain features working on top of the low-level automatic reflex information processing.

Simpler animals like wasps and worms don't seem to have those, or have really simple versions; their behaviours look more like following hardwired programs reacting to specific conditions, not influenced by some inner "mind state".
Will the drones be recording?
> This isn't a matter of narrow-minded computer scientists incapable of conceiving of emergent phenomena, it's the uninformed filling in the blank spaces in their mind with "here be dragons".

Well first of all, an important thing to understand is that there BE dragons. The fact that anything exists at all means there be dragons, both literally and figuratively. Let me explain:

In the world we have various 'symbols', whose main characteristic is that they can be told apart from one another, like the color yellow and the pitch of your voice. Now look to the very edge of existence, at no symbols- it is clearly impossible for there to be nothing, because there are obviously at least one symbol, even more than that in fact. However there is something key we can derive from this, and for an analogy look back to the laws of physics. In our universe, there is some configuration of symbols that somehow constrains the logic of configurations/interactions of symbols within this place. Without some symbols to do some local constraining of other symbols, nothing is constrained. So look to the edge of existence- at 1 symbol, what constrains its nature, what constrains the quantity of symbols, or even the arbitrary configurations of those symbols? Absolutely nothing constrains them, so it is only logical to assume that every arbitrary configuration of symbols exists right 'now', always 'has', and always will (quote marks because time only exists in our local configuration).

So if(*) there is some fundamental aspect of reality, some force that performs the experiencing of these infinite phenomena, perhaps it experiences infinite, arbitrary configurations of everything- anything from receiving sensory data equivalent to the smell of a strawberry whenever the bottom 1/3rd of your toaster touches a carbon atom between 16:13 and 16:14 on a Monday, to an arbitrary I/O mapping to the configuration which we call the human brain in a totally arbitrary 'universe'.

Effectively, what I am arguing is that it may not be off-base to argue that machines can be conscious. The truth may very well be the opposite, that absolutely everything to ever exist is conscious in every way that can be conceived! That is, if there is no fundamental rule that makes my configuration the only possible conscious one, but I doubt that.
Good god this entire article is saying the quiet part out loud.

Every vote counts*

*wait, we should have put this transportation bond on a ballot without a recall to drive up numbers. Next time, we should hire a different consulting firm to suggest we hold on a bond for an election where the “right” people vote.
(Trying to) Run Windows 10 on M1 Mac with a UTM Virtual Machine
Agree with you in principle. However, it sounds like OP was doing security theater, which is demoralizing to perform.
same company, yes, but major updates since our demo:

1) Quality: the underlying model is much, much better, and so is the quality of the Voice Clone.
2) Productization: previously we just had a stand-alone demo, now we've launched the product (user accounts, multiple voices, etc.)
Well that's disappointing. Thanks for the explanation!

I never have to worry about such low level details in my day-to-day work, so this is all new to me.
I've worked on some huge rails apps, and I don't agree at all that performance is poor at scale. You might need an extra instance or two to handle the same traffic load, but in every codebase I've seen, the problems of slowness are related to database access, slow/unoptimized calls to other services/APIs, etc.
Human attention has become a commodity
Interesting. How long did it usually take you to ship stuff vs your coworkers? And now are you on par or even faster?
The OP could mean that the security-related tasks added zero benefit because they were unnecessary tasks that didn't result in increased security.

There are plenty of security-related tasks that have zero, or even negative, benefit.

- Obtaining EV certificates for your websites.

- Enforcing password rotation every 90 days.

- Adding a webapp firewall in front of your static file hosting (e.g. S3).
Yes, sampling means ‘reading the value at a particular time’. Same sense as in signal processing.

If everything goes to plan, you are sampling at 1/60, 2/60, etc.

But if the previous frame took a bit longer to render, you might be at a different time. What you want is the value for all of those curves at whatever time it is, not at some fixed time.
Yes Man by Danny Wallace.

Not only was it a terrific read, it changed my life for the better and I believe it has made be a better, happier person.
The criteria are interesting. When you’re hopping around New England it will show Bridgeport, CT and Taunton, MA which don’t have commercial service and they’re trying to shut down, while leaving off Martha’s Vineyard, MA and Worcester, MA which do have commercial service.
Well, it's also dependent on "something you have", i.e. your phone, which is really "something Apple has" because they can send firmware updates to change the functionality whenever they want.
Step 5) lift themselves out of poverty
Interestingly enough, scientists have been able to induce myopia in all sorts of animals by making them wear contacts.

My suspicion is that staring at objects closely and under dimly lit conditions causes pseusdo-myopia which is later exacerbated by wearing glasses, causing actual axial elongation in the eyeballs through hormesis. Especially since this is what seems to happen in other animals when we dissect them.
Lots of money
OT but my favorite car dealer story was when I was in for routine maintenance. Some salesman was going around the service area talking to people trying to drum up interest.

So he came to talk to me. Asked if I had looked at the new cars and told me how reliable they were, and I should consider one.

So I asked (not loudly but not quiet conversation volume), “Is my new $model I bought from $this_manufacturer last year not reliable?”

Boy did he backpedal and move on to find something else to do real quick.

I found it hilarious.
Stanford’s war on social life
who cares, just enjoy it
The whole point of the term "middle class" was to refer to very rich people. Modern use has somehow forgotten that.

But the idea of being "middle class" is that you aren't upper class (because you're lowborn), and you aren't lower class (because you're rich).
It might not be zero, but in some cases it could be lots of additional work for some marginal benefit
Gives me PTSD to my operating systems class in university. Once upon a time I knew how a linker actually worked under the hood, but those days are long gone.
This is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_pedal
And resume points, bragging rights, exposure.
To clarify, the comment in question was

> Note that Mozilla has nothing to do with Thunderbird anymore.

which fails to claim anything about the Mozilla Foundation or Corporation in particular.
I think it's for liability or legal reasons?

Or maybe it's just a way of punishing you for leaving.

Usually the company forces you to go by withholding any severance payouts, so literally skipping them isn't an option.

The advice sounds good to me.
Tutorial on the Physics of Inertial Confinement Fusion for energy applications [pdf]
That's one of the things I think about. I figure there's a non-zero chance that various groups or interests may have hacked Yahoo and stolen (a copy of) the data before they erased it. I wonder if, out there in some spy agency or pirate kingdom, the legal and illegal and lost-to-public databases linger in a kind of limbo. Perhaps one day some team of archeologists sussing out the tomb of some unknown king might find a hoard of data...
Is it really an exploit when you're explicitly running code that you expressly trust (even if you probably shouldn't necessarily)?
https://physicsworld.com/a/praising-alexandrians-to-excess/

Lucio Russo thinks rather it would have been the Greeks, but makes clear that neither of them approached things with the modern scientific method.
It sounds like they want k9 to be a client for thunderbird, so when you read email in k9, thunderbird marks it as read; when you fetch email, it goes through thunderbird. Thunderbird would be a caching proxy as well as an email client.

If you keep your desktop on 24/7 as many people do, then you might keep your email client (thunderbird) open in the background, checking for mail every 5 minutes so you know when you get new email. Since your storage quota is only 250mb, you delete email from the server automatically on download. Now suppose you want to take an email with you to a community meeting. You can print it out, or you can email it to yourself at a different address. Or if you were able to link up your phone with your computer's storage, you can just search up the email on demand, find related messages, and make changes to drafts for your community mailing list.

If you could connect to thunderbird with an IMAP client, then this would be possible.
Writing Cross Platform Machine Code
> It’s not like everyone died or disappeared.

Except it's exactly like that. Huge numbers of people died; population cratered.
But that’s not really what’s happening. The administration prevented the creation of the Keystone XL pipeline which everyone has known is a terrible idea for years. Meanwhile, they’re pursing alternate options to increase oil supply.
Funny, my Apple ID still has a password. So does every site I use. This has the potential to be great, but it’s an unrealized benefit at this point.