skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is you and I don't wanna test potentially dangerous drugs, even for lots of money as we have other choices for an income. Most of the people willing to test drugs will be desperate, poor people who need to feed their families. Say what you will about testing on monkeys-- but testing on poor people instead so that the people making the rules don't have to feed bad about testing on monkeys, is as dystopian as it gets.
In my opinion, its successor, the S200, has a cleaner design.
One thing that is rarely mentioned is that weight control is a life long pursuit. There's no such thing as a weight loss fix. You have to do it for life by developing healthy habits that lead to proper weight control.
Daily standups. Open office plans.
site: https://www.superkeys.app
github: https://github.com/nilooy/superkeys
More effective than Facebook or Google? Last I checked they didn’t have their “pixel” or SDK embedded in every web page or mobile app, beaming data back to them.

Not saying that TikTok is benevolent or not a surveillance operation, just that they are not yet as big, insidious, or effective as Facebook or Google.
Severance, an Apple TV+ show, has a good take on this. It does s tremendous job mocking the corporate "culture" and it's infantilization of the workers.
> Imagine a life dedicated to saying "No." Your mind is disoriented, deteriorating. The world is spinning, and your insides are churning, throbbing, and burning with the pain of a thousand suns. Your skin is peeling, your muscles ache, your bones dull with a hollow pain, and your body feels like it isn't even yours. Implants and incisions, scars and scabs, your body riddled with pockmarks.

> It sounds laborious and awful, more than nightmarish.

Powerful stuff. I agree this suffering should be reduced.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200203215527/http://www.xenosy...
Because those particular experts were on Russian payroll.
I pick it because it is widely installed and does not require additional packages or configuration to be useful. And I like the syntax. I write "basic" no-frills Perl which I can read next month, and I can copy it to another machine and be sure it will work.
Maybe we shouldn’t be pushig that hard towards reducing the size of processors/transistors?
Hi, author of Replibyte here. Feel free to open an issue and explain what is your use case. I will be happy to consider a solution with the community.
This killed my spirit at one of my previous gigs at a stupid megacorp. I needed the cash and told myself it was worth a shot, even though I had a hunch thay had ADHD and it just wouldn't work. I needed to isolate myself to get work done, but I was looked at almost in horror when I brought my laptop to a quiet space away from my desk. I didn't use spare offices because those were reserved ahead of time like you say. So many wasted resources. Back at my desk there was the constant clacking of keys and jackass on his bluetooth headset making sales calls from his open cubicle, and typing away on his mechanical keyboard, or buddy eating chips.

It could have been a really interesting technical experience, because the frontend was an absolute nightmare, but it serviced millions of people daily and billions in transactions annually. But I just couldn't catch up with so much bullshit. The best time was when nobody was there, so sometimes I'd work later, but then I'd be chastised for not showing up to the fucking standup on time.
Is that not just their logo's font?
Actually Apple announced a deprecation in 2019, so in some ways it’s surprising to still find Perl installed by default in macOS. From the Catalina release notes[0]:

Scripting Language Runtimes
Deprecations

Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default, and might require you to install additional packages. If your software depends on scripting languages, it’s recommended that you bundle the runtime within the app.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...
This is a classic SQL injection bug/security flaw
For people remaining religious: People often double down on their own arguments when they feel their beliefs are attacked.

For people remaining or becoming religious: there are obvious benefits to being part of a community (assuming that the community isn't harmfully dysfunctional in any apparent way, from the perspective of the person considering it), and giving that up or turning that down can be very undesirable even if someone has considerable doubts.

Religious traditions can also provide narratives that make various parts of living seem more meaningful and satisfying to people who buy into them. And again, even if someone has considerable doubts, they may choose to ignore them simply because they find a religious story more pleasant to consider.
I'd be way more worried about the general populations ability to buy groceries and keep the house warm in the winter.

Globally a lot of harvests are falling through because of floods and heat waves. Combined with the inflation that's just starting to take off... Paying for life's necessities will be challenging for a lot of employed workers
I don't use CPAN. If I need something I don't want to write myself, I use the command line.

To use RSA as an example, instead of trying to use a PGP module from CPAN, I use the gpg command-line program, write its output to a file, and use that.

It's not as graceful, but it is also highly compatible with just OS packages.
Could someone explain to a layman what this article is trying to say?
> Last I checked they didn’t have their “pixel” or SDK embedded in every web page or mobile app, beaming data back to them

Oh you might actually be surprised about that one

https://ads.tiktok.com/help/mobile/article?aid=9663
If it makes you feel better (or worse), signal "fingerprinting" is used in laboratory science to verify things like purity and identity. Detecting a lack of divergence from a known chess bot seems like a good fingerprint to me.
For people who don't know SAFe, here is the diagram: https://www.scaledagileframework.com/wp-content/uploads/deli...
Take note that Lofi Girl is an music label using their stream as main advertisement for their artists. They definitely have the rights for the respective tracks.

As a regular lofigirl listener, i wish youtube dies a painful death. Their claiming/strike system is bringing so much pain to content creators.

As for now, you can also listen on https://lofigirl.bandcamp.com.
Recursive Compression
I came across this earlier today and I can't seem to wrap my head around the claim it makes at the top. Is this real??? or is there some trick here, my bullshit senses are tingling.
Yes, that’s what I meant, thanks
BTW this is not the intro stanford cs course. Take CS 106A! It is the best intro to CS I've ever seen. This course is like AP CS Principles whereas CS 106A is like AP CS A.
Doctors, nurses, wet nurses, ...

Anyone who works with people whose health condition can change any moment.

Night shifts, holiday restrictions, inflexible hours.

Anyone who is married to a health professional will plan around their schedule.
Some naively said that it was 'The best thing to have happened to the Internet.' [0] This is an example of a user under the spell of the glorified algorithm that dictates what is seen and unseen.

So given that this [1] is the general capability of what the algorithm can do, it looks like that it is the largest and the most dystopian controlled experiment of the 21st century. Even worse than Facebook.

We have hit a new nadir on screwing with 'users' with this new digital crack / cocaine invention that Bytedance has created.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151067
People are buying because they used VC money to undercut the competition. Until They owned the market and raised their prices.
That's a harder question to answer IMO with less clear trade offs. It gets into pedagogical style. I think for me, it depends on what's being done, but I can see how it might be a decent recommendation by default. I think you can afford a sentence about its cost though, so I'd suggest including that. When in doubt, present the trade off.
Ironic since I always thought one of the coolest features in perl was taint analysis, which allows keeping track of all unparsed user input:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/perl-taint-method/#:~:text=Tai....
but perhaps we could have had the foresight to do something else? its time to admit that our elected, due in no small part to the electorate, have not been very smart, and have basically fucked up. again. This is allowed because the regular joe is sedated with crappy television, gorging in grotesk amounts of crappy food, and washing it down with unlimited amounts of beer. at no point does the average european (or american) care at all about what happens
Since almost all of the early, 'good' Universities including the entire Ivy League (and of course the much older European schools) literally started as 'Seminaries' to train the Priesthood, and expanded from there, and the very notion of 'University' education in the US and around the world is based on this framework of higher learning, with integrated spiritual aspects, I think the material reality of the situation is a bit more nuanced.

Yes, there are issues of Separation of Church and State, yes, the current SCOTUS is a scary in terms of their willingness to bend the constitution ...

... but it's also given that our colleges are by some measures a grift, that communitarian values may not be directly taught as many would like, that far-left ideologues dominate the social and political language, and that many people would like their colleges to at least have some kind of Religious Affiliation though maybe not outright 'Religious School'.

This school seems to be really heavy on the 'Catholicism', but I can see something like it where there aren't any 'religious studies' directly, but rather with some affiliation, as resonating quite a lot with people.
My HP laptop has Toshiba SSD. I'm not sure about other models. But I think only enterprise SSDs are affected.
for programming, I totally agree. for science, it seems like it's a different story. there's numbers of famous teams of spouses who work side by side in the same field/lab. universities will even find a faculty position for your spouse if they want you enough.

I'm biased perhaps, but I think science is fundamentally more interesting and rewarding than doing engineering for a FAANG. (disclaimer: I work for a FAANG but on more and more pure math stuff.)
Don't women in tech already struggle with unwanted sexual advances? It's hard to imagine them voluntarily signing up for a service to be surrounded by even more tech bros... (sorry, guys...)

It's hard for me to even imagine "coder" as a dating persona; why would anyone care? Income bracket, maybe, but there are already matchmaking services/filters for that. Passion for technology? Maybe, but there are already communities for that where you can meet others without the overbearing expectation of romance.

In general I think dating and social loneliness is already heavily lopsided against hetero men; women don't need a "find me a dev who wants to date me" app, their existence is constantly bombarded with that. Why would they ever sign up for something like this?

I don't know how this would play out for queer devs, so I won't speculate there.
We know what effect emitting CO2 has, we have a choice how much we emit, and we're choosing to emit a lot of it. OK, we've decided we have other objectives that take priority, and to an extent that makes some sense, but we have choices in this. We can't just throw our hands up and say we have no control over this, and therefore no responsibility. Yes we do have choices we can make, and yes we do have responsibility for the consequences.
Why not do the same with other companies? Do you totally assume that it's just economic war?
Tweaking start times can reduce emissions from training small ML models by 80%
Thank you.
That saves me from having to spend time to figure out the same thing.

I hope soon some technological development will allow VoIP or any virtual
type phonenumber to pass as a SIM verified number (or however it is done).

Everyone wanting your phone number is a huge privacy issue and it makes
tracing you across platforms is more trivial than it should be.

Which of course is a good part of the reason companies do this.

In Norway, as far as I have figured out, anonymous burner phones is not
possible due to laws requirng the buyer to show valid governmnent id
that will be registered at the time of purchase.

You can pay someone else to buy it for you, but that has other issues,.
>given that abortions were forced to maintain the one child policy until

[citation needed]. Various accounts I've seen claimed it was more like a financial fine; forced abortions sound like Zenz-type fabrication.
While I can see why that tweet leads you to categorize them as "woke", I don't personally see how that has anything to do with their actions matching their stated stances, particularly as it relates to free speech.
>> More broadly, I’m interested in getting things done quickly – especially things that are important for society.

>> We should lower the barrier for human clinical trials and use simpler endpoints. For many vaccine candidates, we could run human trials concurrent with primate trials (once basic safety data has been obtained).

What could go wrong...

How can you make human trials concurent with primate trials if you don't have the safety data in the first place...

>> Patrick Collison is a co-founder of Fast Grants and the CEO of Stripe.

Another guy who thinks that the human organism operates determinsticaly as a computer (which might be true assuming we'd fully understand and have the ability to observe and fully predict even all of the smallest molecular reactions in the body, which we don't even remotely have the technology to do so).

We hardly understand anything about the global-level interactions of the stuff you put in the body.

Move fast and break things works well in tech.

Not so much in real humans where the side effects of unknown unknowns can be fatal or permanently crippling.
> as well as testing the drug on a real creature

Please re-read my original comment. In particular, the 92% bit

> you have to test on a full organism

Are you suggesting testing on humans? Clearly that's the only way to clear those "surprises".

> Organoids just don't have the complexity of living creatures

I think the gist of my argument against animal testing is that animal models aren't very good at predicting outcomes in humans.

Furthermore, there have been some disasterous human clinical trials where drugs have passed all the animal model testing but left many of the human participants dead.
What an enormous amount of words just to say: When you die you are not there anymore to experience the nothingness that you often picture death to be like.

I kept thinking that something profound was coming but no.

Edit: Perhaps it is interesting that so many non-theistic historical figures do reference death as a nothingness and suggest that that nothingness is somehow experienced by some remainder of one’s being, which is of course bit of a spiritual stance. A paradox in their worldview perhaps? Or just a sign that to drop a believe in god does not mean to drop believe in a soul, for some at least?
The water analogy is perfectly fine to use to talk about the bulk AC transmission grid (which is low-frequency alternating current).

photochemsyn speaks about how the hydraulic phenomena is not adequate to describe some electronic aspects (e.g., modeling p-n silicon junctions). These issues are irrelevant to how well the hydraulic analogy works to describe the workings of the AC transmission grid.
>The same is true of the time after death. There will be no future personal state of non-experience to which we can compare our present state of being conscious. All we have, as subjects, is this block of experience. We know, of course, that it is a finite block, but since that's all we have, we cannot experience its finitude.

Yeah, you just re-invented nothingness after death, just with more words...
so there's no way to get a refund???!!
Accreditation is not necessary, but it matters. Also the reputation of the college, particularly in professional fields.

For trade school, it probably does not matter at all.
Thank you, Now I get it. Its the US bullying that was the cause for Ukraine invasion! This and Germany.
You can learn a lot about how a watch works by getting a few old inexpensive pocket watch movements off eBay and playing with them. They’re bigger movements than a wrist watch, and thus easier to work with, but most of the concepts are the same.

I did just this a couple years ago and got hooked on horology, although I actually moved the other direction and now have a big collection of 18th and 19th century clocks.
I guess I'm being nitpicky but...

> Python is an out and out object-oriented paradigm.

Is this true? I thought it was considered 'multi-paradigm'. You could write a program without using a class for instance which is difficult (impossible?) in Java or C#.
People weren't necessarily buying in a fair market, hence the secret lobbying operation.
Ubisoft will disable online services and paid DLC for other games too.[1]

[1] https://www.techspot.com/news/95177-ubisoft-disable-online-f...
Also a POC and never had an issue with NYC taxis.
Is this even legal everywhere? Can they just pull the game people had paid for, without providing a refund in countries with consumer protection laws?
> The mustatils themselves look like efficient pens

From the article: "initial theories suggested they were used as territorial markers for ancestral grazing grounds. Yet, as more and more were found, all dating to the same period, a different understanding emerged."

So the cult idea wasn't the archeologists' default description and their initial ideas were the same as yours. There aren't many hints in the article on why they revised that idea, but the following paragraph says this: "They've uncovered large numbers of cattle, goat and wild gazelle skulls and horns in small chambers in the heads of the mustatil, but found no indication that these were kept for domestic use. Since no other animal's body parts were found, it led the team to deduce that these were sacrificial. It further suggested that the animals were sacrificed elsewhere. This is important because it is evidence of a highly organised, cultic society, much earlier than was previously thought – predating Islam in the region by 6,000 years." Any theory will need to explain away the piling of animal skulls, and absence of the rest of the animal bodies, in the mutatils.

"Cult" should not be read negatively. It's probably a way to describe a proto-religion. Not as organised and consistent as modern religions, but enough similarities to indicate common worshipping practice. Certainly the most interesting part is the common culture across a large geographical area, which is quite sophisticated for the times.
What kind of content creation are you make? Where are those many? I would really like to know.
My spouse also has PSC w/o IBD, 13 years now since diagnosis. We were given a poor prognosis 5 years ago but Vanco has stabilized her MELD score (indicator for transplant) and has been somewhat stable since. The Mayo Clinic in AZ has been very helpful after many hospitals rejected our desire to use experimental treatment.

NOTE: There are some generic equivalence issues having to do with the coating, make sure you research the manufacturer (ANI seems well tolerated, Alvogen not so much).
Looks cool. Seems a little similar to https://kinopio.club/
Something akin to: "When you die you're dead, so you can't "experience" nothingmess, hence death can't be nothingess".

In other words, he just means "death is not an experienced nothingness".

Well, big deal. It's still nothingness, as far as we're concerned as living beings now (when we consider our death).
>There isn't one rational reason why a human should be worth more than any other animal.

Simple-- because the one pondering it is a human. Expecting humans not to have a bias for their own species is like expecting a lion to choose to go vegetarian; in general they that's not the nature these animals are endowed with.

If we're all animals, why is it okay for a lion to violently follow its nature, but humans cannot?
Why is this charlatan of an author showing off poorly written scripts they wrote 10 years ago that are riddled with SQL injection vulnerabilities?

That kind of goes against the point of Perl being modern..
If platform licensing arrangements don’t protect customers from losing access to purchases, they should be forced to advertise them as rentals or leases and not something the consumer is buying.
I have a 1960s Omega that's honestly one of my favourite possessions. Nothing fancy, steel, handsome face. It's comfortable to wear, because it's a fraction of the size and weight of a modern status watches; and it keeps good time. So I wear it most days. It's not just an affectation: glancing at a watch when I want to know the time is a better experience than pulling out my phone. And it turned out not to be a gateway into more and more expensive mechanical watches. It's being used for what it was made for 60-odd years ago.

First thoughts on seeing this were: that looks uncomfortable. Oh, but it's so expensive you'd hardly ever want to wear it so... that cancels out? Finally: the sheer amount of concentrated money in the world where that makes sense as a business proposition still astonishes. To be so rich to go past comfort or function and into a realm of pure envy.
> The "water" moves near light speed effectively

This is not how the hydraulic analogy works. The "speed" of the water is irrelevant. The analogy is used to understand losses, energy balance, energy conservation, reactive power, etc.

The hydraulic analogy is very sound.
for reference, a quick duck duck going shows there are currently about 130 refineries, 210 pipelines, and countless wells and storage and transport facilities all over the country. i could not confirm a cause for any of the incidents posted by OP but it seems totally reasonable that there could be a dozen or so accidents within the first half of this year. it is unlikely that we have entered the cool zone unnoticed
That law wasn't the last word… it didn't prevent extending the allowed lifetimes of the already-built reactors a year or so before Fukushima.
Well yeah, Nice isn’t particularly nice. It’s a budget holiday destination.

There are nice places in the vicinity, like Cap Ferrat, but people going there mostly avoid Nice.
So. Many. Words. What was the point of this article? I'd rather die than read it.
I don't think it was ok anywhere. Even in SF I think it was beneficial but not "ok" in a general sense of fairness. The ends justify the means, I suppose. I'm not saying that Uber overall is a particular ethical company - I don't think they're great on that dimension.
USSR is not Russia. Afghanistan was a not a "core interest" or existential threat to any of the USSR nations.

If we use the Afghanistan analogy, Ukraine is on the border of NATO too. Interestingly, then NATO would be the overextended multinational entity trying to expand even further in this scenario. If we expect an "Afghanistan" scenario to repeat itself, then logically one would expect NATO to collapse.