skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer science PHD is to professional programming what a food science degree
is to being a head chef: the wrong credential to rely on, even though it sounds
related and is somewhat transferrable.

It a small company not specialized in education and examinations can set a test and deduce if I am good enough to code, then this can be standardized. And there could be many certs: 1. can code, 2. can code c++, 3. understands multithreading
… and so on.
Curcumin is actually a mild anti inflammatory. Not as effective as aspirin, but still useful for many things.

I found either of those as well acetaminophen significantly more effective than the opiates my doctor kept pushing on me for post surgical pain relief.
> Life is a quine.

Indeed.

And it even got it’s own commit: https://github.com/secretGeek/html_wysiwyg/commit/d4fe026fb7...

Somehow I feel this statement is more profound than we have yet realized.
The total truth is they didn't prove anything.

Dark chocolate could still be a great weight loss product, and this "study" has tarnished that line of research.
I’ve had people hastily publish (and print on merchandise!) my draft/concept graphics on two occasions. I’ve learned to deliberately deteriorate them now before sharing.
Yeah, the complete protein thing is bunk. Most plants are "complete" but can be low in something. Eating more than one kind of plant is all your need to counter that - so a peanut butter sandwich should do the job.

The sad truth is, though, that you'd end up with too many calories if you try to get all your protein from peanut butter sandwiches (unless you do some cardio to cancel it out).
"But studies come out and are later found to be flawed or straight up wrong all the time."

I didn't even think of this. You could be looking at a study that turned out to be disproven or even fraudulent (though maybe those are removed from journals). This is why there are experts in particular fields who keep up to date and should be the source.

The problem is the current wave of anti-intellectualism which turns everything into black and white easy to digest situation. A person lies once, don't trust them. A newspaper printed one or more articles that turned out to false, don't trust them. Doesn't matter how long ago or how many other truthful articles, they are done. However, like the GP tried, they don't offer any reasonable solutions to how are you suppose to get reliable information.

I wonder if the true goal of some people who push equal mistrust of historically standard sources of information is to make it easier for people to lie.
Aren't AWS ARM servers marginally cheaper than their x86 counterparts? Depending on the workload they could be useful
Unfortunately I get an access denied on that particular page.

If gas prices haven't gone up yet where you live, that's pretty awesome for you in some ways. But don't take it for granted. Enjoy it while it lasts, and maybe use the time to get a good price on replacements.
So what do you do when someone who breaks that trust for money/control/nefarious purposes? Like say hiding the fact that sugar is killing more people today than cigarettes ever did?
Maybe it was turned off on your device https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-ne...
Stargate?
Just press on the small album art, then it’s big again.
applies to everything in "news media"

> The key is to exploit journalists’ incredible laziness. If you lay out the information just right, you can shape the story that emerges in the media almost like you were writing those stories yourself. In fact, that’s literally what you’re doing, since many reporters just copied and pasted our text.
For me that's questionable. Yes, there's code which fits finely with streams and looks very readable. Yet there's code which looks like it was shoehorned into a Procrustean bed and looks much better with ordinary loops.
I also know this.

In my defense, I was like 9 at the time and didn't know about AC-coupling for audio signals yet. That smoked SID is still down in my basement somewhere, I wonder how much of it still works.
Yeah my impression of Apple at the time was that they leaked like a sieve - yet at the same time Steve was a petty tyrant who would jump on anyone who was caught.

I worked on A/UX at UniSoft, we got half of the first dev run of MacII boards (I got to find hardware bugs), I stopped attending BMUG and we chose our own internal code name (Pigs in Space), when the project finally leaked it was as "Eagle" Apple's code name (whew!)
> You’ll sometimes see these features pop up in life hack or “I never knew this hidden feature existed” tweets

I collect these: https://nitter.net/umanghome/status/1283074787175092224#m (Click Earlier replies to see all tweets, and then scroll down).
Dating is about compatibility. If it isn't working, it isn't working. Incompatibility does not mean either person is bad or unworthy. It just means there's no point to another date, and the faster you can make that call, the better for everyone.

I don't really know either of the two people from the article, so I'll let others decide who dodged a bullet there.
I think the whole point is that the hardware isn’t the same.
But anorexic girls/models use chocolate to quell their hunger... afaik.
> when people start viewing Software Engineering as a gateway to a "good life" it usually means we're at an inflection point where things (at least in the U.S.) are about to get a lot worse.

This has already happened in India, and competition to get into top tier tech companies is insane.
I think if you hacked a bunch of people and then were like, "see, look, you're vulnerable," it would be seen as a violation of privacy and professional ethics. You'd be in serious legal jeopardy.

When I was young and foolish I did similar things, and I regard them as mistakes. On one occasion I accidentally endangered an untold number of people, likely thousands, and I'll never know what the consequences were; they could be nothing, or I could've gotten someone killed, and I'll never know. (Please note that I have grown & matured, and don't engage in similar behavior anymore.)

The same goes for spreading bullshit. It's not proving a point about a potential harm, it is knowingly perpetrating that harm. And you have no way of knowing what the consequences are; what people do with the bullshit you've fed them.

You don't need to create bullshit to illustrate this point, there's plenty out there in the wild to choose from and write about.
To the last point: since it is a lisp, data = code and all that. Fundamentally I think that is at the heart of a lot of the power here with package definitions and the system itself being the same.
Before I checked the article, I agreed, but this is a bit more about calling out institutions (science reporters) who really ought to be doing at least the least amount of legwork before publishing.

Like, sample size 15. You can check that before you publish. You do have some responsibility to if you are a reporter, no?

I dunno compare it with someone releasing "left-pad-2", with the code actually printing that you should really audit you deps.

So yes, I agree, and might have hoped the plug was pulled a little faster, and the author really rides the newspapers into writing redactions, as it's really testing in prod. But like please, gatekeepers, publishers, trust the fad diet stuff a little less.
An election that could make the global internet safer for autocrats
It's main purpose currently is to provide an Intent-based API to Tasker and similar apps to play sub-GHz files.

In the future, file management and other features might be useful.

This has been contributed by dakhnod, who created the Fossil Hybrid apps SDK, which is what allows everyone to make apps for the watch.
Children's crusade. Methane unburnt is a dozen or more times worse for global warming than CO2.

What methane is not sold is flared off.
I reflexively viewed the source of this and then felt like a fool.
As always, you should measure and decide based on your own software and requirements. My personal experience has been that for throughput-oriented workloads the Graviton stuff tends to be cheaper than x86-64 EC2 instances, but the latest x86-64 instances have better straight-line single-core performance so they are more appropriate for critical latency-sensitive services, and cost more.
The only people who trust science blindly are those who have never seen how science gets done.

It's scientism pure and simple.

Or to quote a bunch of people who had a great idea: Nullius In Verba.
I think this is more niche to care about than you might imagine. First off, a huge % of the population barely knows what an HDMI cable is and just doesn't plug their laptop into anything. Second, office workers might have a nice docking station setup, but in that case you are probably basically turning the laptop into a desktop (with a keyboard, mouse, and nice monitor) -- why bother with the laptop screen at all? Finally, perfect DPI matching isn't really required -- a 1080p laptop with a 1440p monitor should probably be fairly reasonable looking for most normal screen sizes.
Why don’t you find a work that fills you ?
what is mycelia’s?
The biggest contribution of a PRD or spec, in one word
This is really cool and redefines ETL pipelines.
The current problem is scientism not anti-intellectualism.

The number of times I was told that I should shut up about covid because I'm not a epidemiologist was astonishing. What's more I was criticizing their _computer models_ something I do have a degree in.
I don’t think the length of the document indicates anything in itself. This is an entire operating system written from scratch. There should a lot of design documentation.
Millions read Bild every day, unfortunately, and other publications in Germany and the rest of the world also had the story. The hacker news submission is missing a 2015 tag.
Basically all the data is available with no oversight if you ask permission and have some allusion to a relevant $JOB reason to need it.

The fairly recent case of people's private conversations being shipped out to basically unvetted contractors for labeling and analysis (and subsequently leaked) should serve as sufficient evidence that "shit happens," and if private conversations without having even initiated an interaction with your Google devices are being tossed around and leaked, forgive me if I don't believe that when producing the tagging, timeline, and album features in Google Photos there wasn't some underpaid, unwatched contractor snooping through my photos without my permission.
unfortunately, developers will keep fight for building better machine. finally, company can just talk everyone go home, then starve and die. I hope something will but I'm hopeless.
Imagine someone posing as a fake construction worker, shutting down the road, and the city noticing and telling everyone the road is shut down.

Then the poser explains this is something people are doing all the time for personal gain, and the city is enabling them, and this is a problem.

That seems like a public service to me!
Fair. Your earlier post didn't mention you were also taking video; if you had, I wouldn't have brought it up.
Steve was long gone by the time Pink existed. Apple leaked (mostly from the top!) until Steve became CEO in 1997, and he clamped down on leaks pretty hard.
It's not "making fun" so much as work in science and defense is pretty boring but the passion for the field is typically by people who shared a childhood interest in the fantastical and mysterious components of it - and the associated stories.

It's like when they labeled missile defense "Star Wars."

This happens more than most people might think.

There's nerds in government jobs too.
Super typhoon Noru barrels towards Philippines with ‘explosive intensification’
Is it having to pay, or the hassle of having to set up payment that's maddening? If I knew clicking on a link to an article I believed was worth reading would cause my credit card to be charged a few cents, I honestly wouldn't be bothered at all. But I am bothered by the hassle of setting up an account (often with some significant minimum spend, or ongoing subscription you have to remember to cancel), filling in my details, worried about whether my payment details are being stored safely etc. etc.
Doing a legit study is hard, and expensive, because there are a million things to control for. Finding even 30 people who live basically identical lives, and are physically identical, and who are prepared to actually do something specific to themselves is a major barrier.

But 30 is a bare minimum. 60 is better (ie 30 active, 30 control) and the ideal is in the thousands.

Even the fact of taking money to be in a study is already non-normative, and has to be controlled for.

So, take any study on human behaviour with a huge pinch of salt.

That said, some studies can be replicated, and correlate well with what we experience. Dunning-kruger and loss aversion are easily (and often) replicated, but also correlate well with everyday experiences.

When it comes to diet and weight-loss though, well, consider it all rubbish IMO - 99% is rubbish, and figuring out the 1% is hard.
> scenarios of what could happen

What could happen?

In my case the home address is old, not my current one, so I dodged a bullet there. That leaves name, DOB and drivers license number. How can those 3 things alone be used?

Email and phone were taken, but nobody can use those if verification is needed. And I can easily change those details in the various places they are used.

I'm quietly confident that because my home address is my old address, and therefore not associated with my drivers license, I'm in better shape than millions of others in this breach.

I'm still angry about it! The email from Optus was tone deaf. They worded it like they are the victims, downplayed the importance, and even ended with "warm regards".
Interesting. Can you elaborate on why CMD is more productive than Ctrl?

On windows, usually it's easy to guess what modifier would be assigned to a task. But on Mac, I only need to use memory. In vscode (well that's not an Apple program, but is my main application), Opening documents is CMD+P, but opening terminal is ctrk+backtick. Now, options, is it CMD or Ctrl + comma? You have to know specifically.
I'm a seasoned software developer and UX specialist and iPhones scare me. I have no idea how to use them and try to get them out of my hands as fast as possible. Interfaces like that give me serious anxiety.
Please check the messages in response to the comment from andrei_says_
Start taking a lot of sick days and don't do anything you aren't explicitly required to do.
Fasting people can miss this sometimes, so I'll keep it simple:

I like to eat
This seems like more organic chemistry research, not a giant breakthrough. Still, we need sustainable fuels in aviation for the foreseeable future. Given the physics of flight on this planet, batteries just won’t cut it.

Unfortunately even with a 100% renewable fuel, you still have additional greenhouse effect from the condensation trails. I doubt there’s a reasonable way to capture jet exhaust, and even if it did it would increase the weight of the aircraft.

So basically, the future is steampunk dirigibles, and don’t let anyone tell ya different.
they need money to keep research or it never come true.
Walking freely into an alley with a mugger isn’t “being green”. Their foolhardy decision to become dependent on Russia is the cause of the current crisis, being green doesnt mean go buy Russian fissile fuels.
I agree with you. I can’t stand people like this, but it’s only slightly above people who create comment systems like Reddit or this site.

These scumbags do it once, social media does it at scale.
This definitely resembles black-hat much more than white-hat hacking. At the end of the day, the author is still spreading fake news, getting people trying to lose weight to eat more chocolate, and giving tabloids more advertising dollars. A white hat hacker doesn't cause any harm.
You mean the company that bought Navionics, blatantly ignored lifetime licenses that had been granted, force pushed broken app versions, and staffed multiple people to police the app stores and try to spin mandatory internet access and ongoing subscriptions in lieu of the aforementioned lifetime licenses as being for the users' benefit?
so FoundationDB is user as a file system for storing SQlite files?

In this case, the write contention performance would not be much better than using SQLite over SMB.
The OAuth protocol involves someone else storing and verifying the password (e.g. Microsoft authenticated you already), and then you trust that whatever the provided token says is true.

> OAuth is an authentication protocol that allows you to approve one application interacting with another on your behalf without giving away your password.
I've driven non-photo resistors to the point you could see the glowing in time to the music ;-)

And smell the smoke.

Now with a 1500W space heater as a dummy load on a 1000W amp, you hear a little music come out of the heating elements without any speakers.
Yeah but he was around while we were working on A/UX, I remember visiting Apple and people hiding from him (or rather keeping their heads and voices down in a cube farm when he passed by "shhh Steve's coming")
Perhaps the UFO employs a Somebody Else's Problem field to cloak itself.
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“Bitter chocolate tastes bad, therefore it must be good for you,” he said. “It’s like a religion.”

This is exactly what I think too.
If I read the fake article, I would easily fail his trap.

Fast food tastes good, and it's bad for health
because a huge amount of money has been spent on how to make it addictive.
Use addictive and unhealthy ingredients like sugar, salt, and fat
as much as allowed by regulation.
So it's tasty and unhealthy.

But this doesn't necessarily mean not tasty food is healthy.
They didn’t do anything to make the journalists “report” the nonsense findings.

This is a media problem through and through. Journalism is in trouble.
This, you should open the fd in O_DIRECT, non-mmap'ed

You have a lot more control this way
Why do I get the feeling there's a "true Scotsman" diet lurking behind the scenes here...
There are systems that replace the shower drain with something like a heat exchanger, the water is warmed with the drain water right away, no need to store the heat. For example https://www.oeko-energie.de/shop1/de/eco-shower-duschrinne.h... (in German, but the image is simple to understand.)
> "Even CLI querying is not possible because CloudSQL has a private IP [...]"

Uh, wat? https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/configure-ip

# "You can configure your Cloud SQL instance to have a public IPv4 address, and to accept connections from specific IP addresses or a range of addresses by adding authorized addresses to your instance."
You don't think there is any use for programmers on The Worlds Great Problems?
Bizarre that this is the top comment on this thread right now. I agree they've done some damage, but you seem to have dismissed their justifications without any explanation. Do you really believe we should trust random tabloids just because "trust is a beautiful thing"?
I was already plenty aware of fake news and p-hacking, but this article still proved useful to me by demonstrating exactly how far you can go with it and which sources to not trust.
AFIK, that’s because the CDN provides the ability to make the original images as WEBP. I will let maintainers know this case, may I know which browser you’re using?
You should read up on FDB, I doubt you’ll have issues like that until extreme scale. I guarantee it isn’t just like sharing a file over SMB, lol.
For real. I admit I'm a simp for nearly anything Latin-American with chocolate in it. From Milo to yeah, homebrew-style copycat recipes of something my neighbor's grandma brought over to try.
Thanks for your comment, for this part I will try to let the author knows this case.
Whoever told you electric water heaters are 60% was either mistaken or a gas lobbyist.

The minimum efficiency for electric water heaters, required by federal law, is 90%.

Electric heat pump water heaters have efficiency ratings in excess of 100%, often over 200% when measured by the same standard as “traditional” heaters.

https://smarterhouse.org/water-heating/replacing-your-water-...
many places don't work like that - ie you fly out early and the office is not opened yet. Happened to us many times, last time a week ago from Sicily, we were returning the car before 7am and rental office opened 8am. You have to leave keys in keybox and hope all will be fine (which it was)
Maintain social health and get exercise. You should be doing these already, but now they're more important.

Talk to a therapist. No shame.
> What motivation is there to attract non-technical users? Particularly ones who require lots of effort doing uninteresting polishing related tasks to keep them happy.

First of all, adjusting scrolling speed is not an "uninteresting polishing related task," it is a basic standard of usability.

Secondly, if you don't think Linux on laptops should be broadly usable by the general population, you are in the wrong thread. The central point of the HN post we are all commenting on is the usability of the Linux desktop ecosystem on commodity laptops.
Myself included. All data listed, though they couldn't specify if it was my passport or driver's license number. I haven't been a customer with them for over 5 years.
As Europe is demonstrating right now, in their case using fossil fuels means being prone to blackmail by dictators, and worse: subsidizing some of those same dictators to wage war against Europe.

Like so many people, the nations of the EU thought they still had time.

Now, belatedly, European governments see it as a direct national security imperative to switch to non-fossil sources as quickly as possible.

If as many people as possible switch, the price of fuel goes down (due to people not using it), and the cost of replacement systems also goes down (due to increased efficiencies of scale in production). This is thus also the best way to mitigate the consequences for the poor.

It's still going to be an interesting winter.
I've never used TypeScript, and your comment has me intrigued. Please clarify something:

As I understand it:

1. TypeScript is a language (super-set of JS).

2. Code completion is a feature of an IDE or editor.

So how does this language enforce code completion? Or is this something in VSCode? If I were using Notepad++ to code, it won't have code completion, correct? Thanks.