skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People from the anglosphere comes with their own idea of health, which is for the most part originated by their past religious idea of purity more than rock solid science.

Many of them can't accept studies which prove that a good life can sometimes also come out from what they view as a "sinful" behavior.

Old Italians never saw meat eating and alcohol consumption as a negative aspect of life and enjoyed it just because it was part of their culture.

And, against all these calvinist principles, they still enjoyed a pretty long life.
> In my opinion, the issue is that all of the EE work went to China.

This is what I was thinking. There are few fabs in North America anymore, so SMD work requires a lot of shipping and patience. You can also outsource EE work to China very easily and they have a long history doing this stuff, but outsourcing software is not so easy for some reason (yet).
How is it wrong? And if safari does it without cookies, why not chrome?

Chrome is used by 65% of people, safari ~15% (<10% on desktop)
The United Kingdom like others are in a race to the bottom in terms of wages.

Contractor and Perm salaries in the tech sector to me are a good representative of the situation overall. Wages in these areas have stayed roughly the same because there's an illusion that they are already paid too much (5-10%+ over 3 years). Inflation + the race down make the UK job hunt seem less and less appealing to the extent I know a few people who've packed up and gone across the pond to Europe. The skills shortage is only going to get worse with an already stretched and dwindling pool of people and there is no sign of let off to undermine wages yet, and this is just in London.

The situation of pay falling despite a shortage of workers is bizarre but we can't forget the efforts to undermine and keep wages low.
> There's such a vast catalog of human-composed ambient music, that I just simply don't see why someone would prefer to listen to this algorithmically generated soulless muzak.

A lot of human-composed ambient music actually has a lot of algorithmically determined elements. One of the simplest examples is using several tape loops of differing lengths (which Boards of Canada are very fond of).

Similarly if you dig into the composition and ideas behind some of Brian Eno's pieces, you will find they are rule based.

Even using a computer for doing this automatically isn't very new. It's being done by modular synthesis enthusiasts since ages.

Many of these ambient pieces would actually generate different ambient sounds for a very long time, and the "soulful" recordings thereof (on CD or Vinyl) are merely short excerpts from the actual piece.

Generating and listening to it live is sometimes the only way to fully enjoy an ambient piece.
I think your chances of having a good conversation is higher on small accounts in the niche you are interested in.
Yeah, we do a bunch of fucked up shit, like fueling the civil war in Yemen, the banana wars, and much, much more.

We're less extractive than the alternative, and the US having an effective monopoly on violence has been a stabilizing force.

Europeans really don't deserve a voice in this whole conversation given that they rely entirely on the US for protection. Germany's decision to build Nord Stream 2 demonstrates how detached they are from realpolitik.
It looks like they're cheating the numbers by using the concept of "'core' of the kernel", whatever that means.

> Oracle is the #1 contributor to the "core" of the kernel, in terms of number of changesets.

While, I think most Intel and AMD contributions are very likely drivers related, it really feels like Oracle tried to find a statistic which fits their narrative.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1122/
> This is basically the poster child for a case when someone should be using 3rd party cookies: A single entity manages multiple domains and shares cookie auth across them.

If everyone would use 3rd party cookies like you're describing, there'd be no issue with users enabling them. Instead, they're frequently used to track users across domains, and the alternate flow used for Safari should be the pragmatic option used for everyone.

You're right to complain about how we're basically unable to use an otherwise-useful feature because of bad actors. It's a signal that core web technologies need to be created with potential abuses first and foremost.
Not with that attitude!

But seriously, at this point the best bet is to strive for accountability in governance both public and private.
It also seems to me that companies are unwilling to raise prices because they are concerned about a recession and that demand is not robust for their product. Therefore they don't hire anyone since hiring has a long lead time and commitment.

You end up in a situation where if supply is constrained but demand is strong enough and companies can, in the short run, raise prices but not have to employ more people which mitigates downside risk of adding additional cost structure and commitment of new employees. Not a great long run strategy though these are strange times.
> I had to provide a company email address

You mean you had to currently be working there, rather than formerly? I thought this lawsuit was about people who had already left Zuru, but I may have misread the article.
Every time I see an essay from Carson, author of HTMX, I upvote instantly!

Make sure to check other essays at https://htmx.org/talk/ (scroll down for Essays)
I don't really see a double standard - does the man not have choices over what happens in his body?

Lets say two people light a fire together, then one of them leaves. It's possible for the person remaining to take action and put out the fire, but they don't, and it spreads.

In that scenario, because the first person (who left) could have reasonably foreseen that the fire would spread, they are responsible as well as the second person (who stayed).
Basically none these days. But therein lies the problem. The actors can't be trusted. In part because the state-actors in which they reside can't be trusted and they can (and do) issue gag-orders to shove backdoors down their throat.

But the problem with backdoors has always been that other people will likely eventually figure out how to use them too.

If you can't audit the microcode, you have a massive gaping security problem.
"If it is protecting older people against hospitalization then we can expect it to protect younger people from severe effects too."

The effects of COVID are so extraordinarily age skewed that this inference doesn't hold.
Naive question about getting “dumps of microcode”

Getting a dump means getting access to a memory controller of sorts and asking it to read you back the contents of addresses, right?

But you’re really getting what the memory controller decides to give you. There could be more indirection or sneakiness, right? Ie. I could design a memory controller with landmines, as in “if you ask for 0x1234 I will go into a mode where I send back garbage for all future reads until power is cycled.”

Is this a thing?
I believe they're suggesting some code is executed based on the user agent. So Safari gets treated differently. Safari is defacto zero 3rd party cookies but Chrome isn't which is possibly why that site is treating them different.
Glassdoor is different from most other star-ratings because the reviews are really of a bunch of different products. Even in the same department, different bosses can produce wildly different experiences.
I hear religion is one hell of a drug, although that doesn't really explain all the atheist historical figures.
> I've read through most comments, and it's what you would expect from a group of largely white, upper class, men - a philosophical debate that HN seems focused on the definition of life and drawing tortured analogies because seemingly no one here can actually relate to what it's like to need an abortion to save their own life.

This is a site geared towards philosophical discussion. What were you expecting exactly? I would add that your claim regarding the people here being "unaffected" is disingenuous and presumptive. That no one here is on a moral crusade on your behalf, does not mean no one cares about the issue. We wouldn't be talking about it otherwise.

> barely even touches on the real experiences of women and minorities who will be the ones whose lives are most affected as a result of the new laws being passed.

Firstly, the absolute and relative populations of biological females on this forum are low. How exactly do you expect people to comprehend the "lived experiences" of a demographic that one is unlikely to run into on this forum?

Secondly, women and minorities are not ideological monoliths. Polls indicate that there are about as many women against abortion as there are for them across all ethnicities, levels of wealth, creeds, and religions. The lived experiences of a female South Korean Presbyterian or female Ugandan Anglican are going to fall closer to that of the stereotypical Christian male Republican than they do to the stereotype of the disenfranchised single mother-to-be.

> The second and third order effects of the recent court decision will change many aspects of our lives and our society, and it seems that has not actually caught up with many people here yet.

If you had taken the time to read a number of the comments, many have touched on the same point by way of the very philosophical discussion you disdain. Of course, this ruling has long-term effects. However, your approach to it ignores the hows and then whys and isn't conducive to discussion.
Unrelated, but there's also an online playground for ngn/k (the only open-source implementation of K6 AFAIK):

https://ngn.codeberg.page/k/
If something goes wrong with a property, the landlord foots the bill, right now construction costs are out pacing inflation.
As mentioned in the github page that this post links to, it's impossible to make a custom microcode update because the updates are RSA signed.
Forced obolescence FUD. Nothing more, nothing less.
I (somewhat unhealthily) keep an eye on Glassdoor reviews for old jobs. There was one that was both absolutely damning (about the CTO in particular), and almost completely factually accurate - the only inaccuracy I spotted was inconsequential to the overall message.

I took a screenshot, it was gone a week later. To this day I don't know who wrote it, and whether they get scared into taking it down. But i've never trusted the anonymity of Glassdoor, which is why i've never personally left a review.
Bad name. "Fedi" is used by millions of fedizens to refer to the Fediverse. And there are many Fediverse-related websites with "fedi" in the domain name.
Yeah, so all you need to do is ask Chrome to report a Safari User-Agent.
How long did it travel at hypersonic speeds while operating it's air breathing engine? I'm going to guess it was shorter than the thermal soak time of whatever material they were using for the inlet. The non-simple conical form of a scramjet means shockwave impingment has to happen in there somewhere and you can bet there's no material on Earth that's going to last more than a couple minutes.

Hypersonic air-breathing craft that generate lift just aren't a reasonable thing to make. Hypersonic "gliders" and other rocket lofted things that get up to speed outside of the atmosphere and then just briefly travel through it make sense. But all this 'research' towards lift generating air-breathing hypersonics is just a trap to get nation states to dump money and effort.
If US or other nations can’t run a social media app in China, I see no reason the US or other nations should allow China to do it in their country.
> In what way.

There's some discussion about this in the article.

> Surely there is a shutdown button to press if TikTok go rouge.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "going rogue". The idea is that the company is already closely connected to the Chinese government. Are you saying the Americans should wait until they have undeniable proof that the data is being used for the political purposes of the CCP? Would they even be able to find that out (and if they did, would they be able to tell the world how?)?

> Dissidents should rather use the social networks the gov. or establishment wants to ban than the one they control (e.g. FB).

That makes some sense, sure, but we're not talking about security from the perspective of dissidents, we're talking about national security from the viewpoint of the government and the mainstream population, which is the one you'd expect the FCC to act according to.
Irrelevant.

a plainly false statement was made: "it's the only truly global pandemic in a century", your goalposts movements notwithstanding.

Lack of knowledge around basic facts of the field (public health) is a clear and immediate disqualification from any further consideration.

Do you really make suggestions on changes to public heath and epidemiology based on "a quick google"?

Best of luck to you.
Meaning people will have a lower budget allocated for a mortgage, meaning real estate prices should drop. The rise in building material costs should in theory push prices up, but if there's no one to buy then there's not much room for increasing prices.
Xs is a dynamically typed, dynamically scoped, concatenative array language
If you want to maximize the energy efficiency of a rocket, you want variable exhaust velocity, and make the exhaust velocity = - the velocity of the rocket. That leaves the exhaust motionless in the initial reference frame, so it will have no kinetic energy (in that reference frame). Therefore, all the kinetic energy being generated by the rocket is being retained by the rocket.

(This ignores potential energy from changes in altitude.)

This is one reason why it's better to use a lower Isp propellant on the first stage of a multistage launcher (also, those propellants are much denser.)
Hi, it's not a cash-grab, been working on it for almost 4 years now, just trying to make something useful that helps people save time.
My understanding if you ask a university of Chicago economist is that you need to follow the playbook of Paul Volcker, and raise interest rates above the rate of inflation. The fed is slowly working their way there, but they are doing it super slowly because they worry about shocking the market too hard and stopping all investment. But many believe that inflation will continue until interest rates are much closer aligned to it.

This is also a failure of the Fed to raise interest rates when times weren't bad. Interest rates should have been at 2% before inflation started taking off, but people were addicted the cheap, almost free money but they didn't want to give it up.

This works because having interest rates at the rate of inflation will cause more people and businesses to slow down their spending as they feel like they aren't losing money by not spending it.

I believe the Keynesian approach to fix high inflation is to just raise tax rates to get money out of the economy.

I believe this doesn't work as well because the extra tax dollars are then spent by the government, which are them competing for goods and services, though probably in different areas, but it's still keeping that money in the economy which will keep prices high. The only way I could see this working is if the extra tax money was used to pay down debt, which I doubt anyone in the US government would do.
Cant the intel ME already bypass the OS and connect to the network?
I think things will move in the right direction. Next we should see Europe ban meta apps in Europe. Let's own our data again. Make the apps store data locally only.
Nook – A small esolang. Influenced by GNU dc
Does anyone have any advice for how a newcomer to this field can start trying things out?

What's a good arm brand and model that's affordable and versatile enough to do interesting beginner projects with?

What are the development tools like? Is there some kind of industry standard that's approachable for mere mortals or is it some esoteric set of low level APIs?

Any YouTube channel recommendations that cover these topics would be great too!
Thanks this sounds exactly what I need! Pretty much only use Chrome for Google Meet.
The timing is a very obvious reason to pin it on the vaccine because that's what was changing at that time. Omicron emerged later (end of 2021) and is much milder.

But yes, one way to answer that question definitively would be to do a cohort study on conception rates. Split the data by vaccine status. This can't be done because public health agencies systematically refuse to do this sort of study, nor do they expose the necessary raw data. They don't want anyone being able to answer these sorts of questions. Most data that is available has to be forced out via FOIA requests and the courts.
> I’m not sure you know what 0 sum is.

“Zero-sum game is a mathematical representation in game theory and economic theory of a situation which involves two sides, where the result is an advantage for one side and an equivalent loss for the other”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game

> Zero sum doesn’t mean you can’t exchange money for goods and services.

Zero-sum means that when I win, the other party loses. It means that there cannot be a voluntary exchange, because to agree about an exchange both parties need to see an upside.

> Yes, you go shopping and exchange N dollars for N dollars worth of goods. The net change is 0.

That is not what it means, though. In any case, I am better off after the exchange because now I have something to eat. The merchant is better off as well because now they can buy an iPhone or something. We are both better off at the end, and nobody has to lose. A zero-sum game in this instance might be the farmer who was pressured to sell €10 cheaper so that the merchant can take these €10 as margin. There was a net transfer from one party to the other with no other upside. But it is far from the only type of situation in life.

The initial assertion was “life is a zero-sum game”. Not by a long shot.

> However, how those economic gains are distributed probably is 0 sum.

Again, that is not what it means. Game theory does not need the concept of currency.

Besides, even assuming that it were the case, the fact that the amount of most currencies in existence just keeps increasing is a proof that it does not work like that. Someone, somewhere has to generate that money, therefore there are net emitters.
Right. But the issue wasn’t whether you can interface with one via other applications, but whether you can do so while adhering to the REST principles Fielding gave, which require that you not have any context to interpret a response other than the response itself. So no out-of-band communication like documentation or your previous use or the site.

At that point, you do need a human at each point, and you can’t program against it. Programmatically interacting involves precisely the things REST principles prohibit, hence this point in the discussion.
I decided to make a Wordle clone for a joke. About 1/5 of the time it took was figuring out the CSS.

I’ll have to try this, but I’m a bit surprised how hard it is in Chrome Dev Tools to figure out what the CSS was for the card flip animation.

I dunno if this is my own incompetence, or CSS, or Chrome, but there’s just a rats nest of styles and classes to try to unravel to figure out what styles are actually relevant to a certain effect or element.
How does Apple’s removal of IDFA affect this? The ad companies no longer have a cross-app identifier that would be of any use in correlating data from a specific phone/person?
Personally I have no problem with generally addressing privacy…. AND taking special note when significantly less free nations are involved.

Less free nations are worthy of special attention.
You're describing the method they used to try to (roughly) "track the cost of living".

You can argue that it is or isn't doing a good enough job in terms of the choices made but that's specifically what it's doing (and while it may not be doing it well enough, it obviously does need to be done based on sampling not based on producing an exact % for each individual that the things they bought over the past year have increased).

(You're not the person who wrote "neither RPI or CPI try to track increases in the cost of living", but that's the context of this comment chain.)
EE is more like a bag of tricks kind of profession, where every problem you encounter is quite localized.

IT is the opposite. Writing code is quite simple, but once you get to bigger systems, things can get really complicated.
I can't help but feel that many aspects of manual low-skill manual labour have seen managment drift along with plasters with some dream that robots that will do it all are just around the corner and soon. Which has lead to just plicating enough and getting away with what they can to tick along the current labour they hope to replace soon. Certainly decades of fruit picking robots been bounced about as if it's how it will all be done very soon. Indeed, been many aspects of that which have fed into this mindset in upper managment. More to the extent that the relationship with the employer and employee has seen the employer view employee's as an assit on a balance sheet along with their anual cost of MS Word. Indeed, may find with the EULA that MS Word is better protected than some employee's. After all if Microsoft increases it's rate, users don't go on strike or have a uninion to say stand up and voice concerns. Some employees do have unions and yet, the media will only jump upon their strikes which are born out of failure of the employee to act and always end with them changing their views to some degree.
I know of at least two security-related workshops that explicitly call for "negative results". So, even failures in this research field are definitely publishable, if accompanied with adequate insights.
I think that microelectronics engineering is treated as a separate subfield from electrical engineering. I went to RIT which AFAIK is reasonably well-respected for MicroE, and while it wasn't my major, I have some friends who were in it, and they're all getting paid pretty well at Samsung and AMD and Intel. Even 15 years ago, anyone who graduated would be insta-hired somewhere for a reasonable salary. There were a lot of specialty courses for MicroE that weren't in EE, in addition to projects in the teaching fab and such.
I recorded video for classes with distance-learning students as a student job, some of which were MicroE, so I basically got paid to audit Semiconductor Metrology taught by Dr. Lynn Fuller (who founded the MicroE program and apparently retired last year).
Wrt rent, what other options do people have? Living on the street?
For the first time ever, 40 Celsius has provisionally been exceeded in the UK
Chores - cleaning the dishes, vacuuming the house, washing clothes. It's one of the things I love about being able to work remotely, chores get done during work hours instead of recreational time.
Back in the python 2.4 days you could run ImgSeek and do content based image retrieval on the desktop easily. ImgSeek had a little MS Paint-style window to crudely draw colors like the image you wanted and ImgSeek would find it. It really sucks it was never ported to later versions of python since there's been nothing like it since. https://sourceforge.net/projects/imgseek/
> Counting commits or lines of code changed is a crude approximation of the activities of developers

so we came up with our own instead that just co-incidentally happens to reveal that we're #1!
It's less true in the modern world, but traditionally, "The US" doesn't run any kind of business. It's like the anecdote where Gorbachev saw a supermarket and asked which government official was in charge of making sure it was stocked.