skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And if this was studied and proven to be true then all you contrarians would again reverse the arrow of causation saying that "no no no, it is not the iron supplements it is X".

The point here is that this study didn't prove anything - it's an observational study. The results are consistent with a range of possibilities, not just the ones the study authors were the most interested in promoting to the public. Academic guesses about causation are often wrong, and they're often biased towards what's interesting to academics and what raises the profile of their research. So it's important to highlight other possibilities, especially the "boring" ones that wouldn't get as much attention for the study authors.

There are high-quality studies that actually prove things. For example, we know the impact of lead on IQ because of direct interventions (children who have lead above a certain threshold undergo chelation therapy, so you can compare those right below to those right above).
My SO has a related issue. They were taking depression medication specifically for the side effects. As in, they had a disease and the side effects of the drug were the point of taking it.

Thing was, the actual effect made my SO go nutters for about a year. Because, again, my SO wasn't supposed to take the drug for the effects, but for the side effects.

When my SO, drug free and many years later, finally told this to a therapist, the therapist was aghast that my SO wasn't given therapy to help manage the actual effects too.

It seems so blindingly obvious that if you take drugs that effect your mind that you should also get therapy to monitor that effect. But it wasn't to us for some insane reason.

So, dear HN reader, take these stories to heart:

If you take mind altering drugs, get a therapist for the entire time that you are on that drug.
> Maybe a high-autonomy low-powered KaiOS smartphone that can be attached as a strap?

May I introduce you to the concept of scissors?
Yes, it is driving people away. I lose one dev every two or tree weeks.
Surprised they don't mention the "occupation" of Königsberg too - try to get Germany on-side in their nuclear war as well.
Serious: not having kids way earlier. Less serious: not playing soccer and generally avoiding all those kind of activities with the "cool kids"
My impression has always been that, at least online, there was quite a bit of criticism to Apple for switching to USB-C so soon. Or was it because now dongles were needed?
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/archi...

Actually secure enclaves exist?!
Is this domain excluded in Google Scholar searches.
I think it's worth noting here that the passive resistance to the idea of a national ID among Democrats has a lot to do with Republicans regularly hijacking voter ID bills to specifically make things harder for the poor and minorities, and the expectation that they would absolutely do the same for any national ID program that actually got Republican support.
you don't even need the extra user: use a network namespace.

- ip netns add vpnonly # create an empty namespace

- ip netns exec vpnonly wg quick ... # connect to your VPN

later, launch transmission inside this namespace:

- ip netns exec vpnonly transmission

has the nice property that as long as you do that exec step right (or even half right), the failure mode is no connectivity rather than accidentally sending traffic in the clear.
This part I could have been more thorough with. Facebook and Google business pages had high, aged reviews including pictures. Googling the company name didn’t come up with any open BBB claims even though BBB is a joke.

It wasn’t until I started joining and searching through all of the local Facebook groups to find others swindled.
> These fears ultimately proved unfounded, since corium began dripping harmlessly into the flooded bubbler pools before the water could be removed.

That line in the Wikipedia article seems to conflict with the book I read by Andrew Leatherbarrow "Chernobyl 01:23:40". In the book he states that if the water hadn't been drained and if the molten core had reached the water it "would have done unimaginable damage and destroyed the entire power station, including the three other reactors."

It's a shame that the Wikipedia article doesn't cite it's source on that claim. It would be interesting to reconcile the seemingly conflicting information.
Most following a vegan diet don't care about that, and still consider themselves as such
Yeah, I think his dismissal of the book in the article is pretty typical of people's approach before they read it:

> I’m simply not sure I have the will to face 839 pages of cowboys by an author I don’t know.

I don't blame him, I was the same way, but that book subverts expectations in the best possible way. The reason it won a Pulitzer despite having the baggage of being a "cowboy book" in the world of literary novels was because it's an undeniable artistic achievement, full stop. Part of that achievement is sustaining its effect throughout an epic length. In other words, the page count is a feature rather than a bug.
> One, has forced password changes at 6 month intervals (not as good as 90 days, but better than many!)

Forcing password changes reduces overall security, especially for infrequently accessed services. It only normalizes the reset workflow, and enables easier social engineering.

The NIST standard (800-53?) was updated to reflect this reality, and it no longer requires periodic password rotation.
I hope I'll get to fly on a real one at least one more time. Some airlines that stopped using them during the pandemic recently started using them again.
Makes a lot of sense.

Built-in economics (subscriptions, tipping) is awesome but I think the platform agnostic stuff is really interesting...

Today if you wanted to have your own blog front-end, you have to couple that with figuring out your own distribution and giving up the audience of major platform (medium, substack). Love the idea of a future where the content, comments, likes, followers, etc. preserved across platforms. I could publish today anywhere, and know that I could build my own frontend in the future without starting from scratch. very cool
It seems a bit of a weird political move for Ukraine to draw attention to dubious post Second World War territorial annexations, a large amount of the territory of the country was acquired after what was basically a war of aggression against Poland - that's just ignoring the stuff acquired from Axis members or co-belligerents.

I know it was all rubber stamped after the war, and modern European countries are very unlikely to push it any way, but given how the communist regimes are viewed now I don't know how much people would accept that.

Again, I don't think it'll cause any problems, but right now I would be avoiding anything at all controversial given that support for them might wane over winter if things get bad in Europe.
My Ex. Fucking cheating self centered whore. I said it.
I would love to know if any of these have the oomph for running Dolphin with hi-res texture packs. That sort of "going beyond the original experience" is the main reason I'd bother to use "real hardware" for emulation over something like a Pi or a jailbroken Switch. (Or, for that matter, a MiSTer.)

I know that the sweet spot for "enhanced emulation" of (N64|Gamecube|Wii, XBox|XBox360, PSX|PS2) is somewhere higher than "my M1 Macbook Air", but lower than "Ryzen 4 and an RTX4090" — but figuring out exactly where this sweet-spot is, seems to be left as an exercise for the player; with the assumption that anyone who wants to do this already has a beefy gaming computer laying around, and wants to play on a monitor, rather than on their TV.

It'd be nice if there were prebuilt appliances for playing enhanced early-3D-era games, that had been tested and shown to achieve a smooth 60FPS playing them at 4K or 1440p.
Goog did it to me too. I was using a burner phone, and logged into the Goog account. Next thing I know, after I chucked the burner, Goog is demanding I authN using the burner phone.

If you are wondering how I authenticated the first place onto the burner, I used TOTP, but she would not let me use it again; she wanted my burner.
I wholeheartedly agree. It’s very very sad.
No, still not there, but perhaps running in conjunction with that wundergraph API gateway will get me most of the way

But I also like the simplicity of just REST and feel like the postgrest people have figured that out
>Oh, and Signal is based in the US. That fact by itself pretty much means all bets are off when it comes to security or anonimity.

It has to be based somewhere right? Would you trust it if it was based in China or Russia? Or even mid tier countries like UAE or Singapore? Even "neutral" countries like Switzerland isn't safe, as we've seen with Crypto AG.
My favorite old Mac has to be the iMac G3. IMO it was the first truly user friendly computer, requiring almost no setup or technical knowhow. I know people who are hard core Mac/Apple users for life because the G3 was the first computer that ever clicked with them.
My credit union was in Seattle, I was living in SF. For most services I could go to an affiliated CU, for this I could not.
You usual target a wordcount for a market, as I understand it. You can't sell (to a publisher, I mean) a YA book that's 600 pages in a mass market paperback. You can't sell a 220 page hardcover to a publisher that wants big fat doorstop fantasy novels.
My problem with the songs is that, how on earth can they be songs without any indication of how they’re meant to sound? My internal monologue tries to apply rhythm and it just makes for awkward reading.

That said, the only poetry I really get anything out of is John Cooper Clarke, and I’ve heard him perform and so have a very clear mental sound of how the poem should be delivered. So maybe it’s just me.
Yep. I switched career fields at 36, stayed for 14 years and then switched career fields again at 50. Still in this new career field but just changed companies in August at 52.

It took me a relatively long time (6 to 9 months) to land this new job. I'm pretty sure my skills weren't where they needed to be as a software developer played more of a part than my age for other companies to not hire me. I had some great interviews but it all worked out. Really happy with the new company.
This is my fear about my homelab lol

Fire extinguisher nearby, smart temp sensors, but still...
>fraud liability repayments (if the bank agrees to help) will take as long as the bank takes to recover funds

What's your source on that? As far as I know, Regulation E generally requires banks to make good on errors in electronic fund transfers (including ACH transfers for which the customer is not liable) within 10 days of being notified. That can be in the form of a provisional credit while an investigation is ongoing, though.
lol, and then you add an exception for spreading:
/* eslint-disable react/jsx-props-no-spreading */
> Why the bible and not other religious text?

> Why include religion at all, which to me did more harm than good.

Well, The Bible has the small advantage of being true.

> Why not include books about how to cooperate and collaborate with other ppl and why it’s necessary for societies to survive.

...like The Bible? I defy you to actually follow the teachings of the NT at least and not get cooperation and collaboration for free.
We use a limited depth of field for a few reasons. One is that even at f/8 on a decently long lens with a large sensor it’s still going to happen, and you’re not going to be at f/8 in a dimly lit environment.

The main reason is to draw your eye to the subject instead of the background. It’s also how our eyes work.

The third (related) reason is that the background often isn’t super controllable. If I’m taking portraits of someone in the woods I don’t want branches “coming out” of their heads, and those branches being blurry helps with that. At weddings if I’m photographing candids of a group of people blurring out everyone but the subject(s) is handy because people often make stupid faces. And don’t get me started on how messy bridal suites are where the girls are getting ready…
Superseeding (and whatever you would call it from the client point of view) allows for peer-to-peer broadcasting.
> When studying statistics, I never understood the apparent conflict between frequentism and bayesianism.

I remember a statistician once saying: There are two types of statisticians: Those that are Bayesian and those that are both Bayesian and frequentist.
> They didn't design it with this use case in mind.

Where on the gmail page does it say "not for homeless people, sorry"?

Adding (and forcing) 2FA was a recent decision from Google, which came a long time after Gmail the product was already introduced. There are millions of accounts which were created long before anyone had an idea what a smartphone was, let alone phone-based 2FA.
>>Hire good people and get out of the way.

If you hire good people, it won't matter what framework they use, is my position. Give me a good team and I will deliver a good product agile/scrum/kanban/SAFe/waterfall - doesn't matter - thats all window dressing if you don't have a good team.
People are welcome to challenge the banks in court. It will be no skin off my back if they win. But I guess the banks have good reason that believe that they can defend their practices successfully. If not it will be the end of Venmo, cash app, and zelle -- or at least the free transfer features of those apps.
you got a lot of catching up to do good lord. even a month of break already sets me back with a bunch of backlogs to digest on both frontend and backend development.

1. the one youre familiar with

2. check then hn Whos Hiring threads

3. we now do everything in javascript. theres actually rule # 3434 of the internet: if you can think of it, there's a javascript version of it (maybe with some wasm)
These services may not "shut down" but they might change (or have already changed) so much that many would not have signed up knowing what they know now. This is kind of a danger of an open protocol too (for example, IRC users who signed up in 1998 to talk about Britney Spears gossip are probably not well-served by most current IRC networks), but not to the same extent.
As always your team matters the most. I went into SRE to learn how to make gigantic and complicated systems reliable. I've learned a lot.

1. It was an interesting adjustment. The work is qualitatively different but it's still software engineering. Just at a higher level.

2. On-call is the best I've ever had at any company. It's 12h a day max and overtime is compensated. You won't be woken up in the middle of the night. There's different tiers as well. I'm tier 1 so that means a five minute response time. That's too much for some people and I don't blame them.

3. My team is ramping up people straight out of university. You'll be well trained and have half a year or longer depending on how critical the service is.

4. In my org it's something like 25% of your time on-call at most. Depending on the size of your team it's less.

5. Not applicable. My first SRE job.

6. None so far. Google is very nice to work for. Like all jobs it'll be stressful at times but it's better here than anywhere else I've worked.
Yes, some of them -- but not most of them.

Most homeless people do not have a severe mental illness (around 70%) [1]. For most homeless people, it's primarily an issue of housing affordability. The solution is to reduce the cost of housing.

For the people who need more support -- due to mental illness or otherwise -- the affordable, effective solution is permanent supportive housing [2].

[1] https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/evidence-and-researc...

[2] https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/proven-solutions/
If the solution is unique then there is a logical path to it, though maybe not one feasible to discover for an agent with bounded time and (especially for humans) bounded working memory.

Consider the search tree of a backtracking algorithm operating on a SAT-based representation of a puzzle. A leaf of the tree corresponds to some clause that becomes empty after eliminating literals assigned on the path to that node. If you flip the tree upside down and start from the clauses at the leaves, then two leaves with a common parent represent two clauses with complementary literals that can be resolved upon. So any branch of the algorithm's search tree can be viewed as a tree-structured resolution-refutation proof eliminating some value given a set of prior assignments on the path to the branch, and the tree as a whole can be decomposed into an ordered set of proofs for each elimination in the path to an overall solution.

Or, if you prefer, start again from the SAT-based representation and run a prime implicates algorithm like Tison's. Such an algorithm never advances a "guess" or generates a clause that is not entailed. It simply finds one logical consequence after another until it has found all of them, throwing away subsumed clauses along the way until all that's left is the unique solution.

Either way you will always produce a path to a solution and proof that the solution is unique using elementary rules of propositional logic that anyone can recognize. That, I think, is what your parent means.

Of course, the existence of a proof doesn't mean that a human can find that proof, and that's what we usually mean when we say there's no logical solution. That is, nothing new can be proven by scanning the puzzle looking for pattern matches against a fixed library of known proof templates taken to be the universe of logical techniques, and nothing can be proven from less structured heuristic search within the limits of human working memory and patience.
My current favourite computer is a Fitlet2 that runs Debian.
I have two of that computer: one server and one desktop.
It's tiny, silent, beautiful and with an operating system that doesn't try to do anything other than letting me do what I want.
I can get the same feeling about that computer as what I read in this article.

I want there to be more nice computers.
> I used to use those ad-supported dial up ISP’s and found one that worked with a standard PPP dialer so I didn’t need their software

Juno? Netzero?
This is one of my favorite things in computing.
yes my technique is take notes wherever and however. then organize it once you sit on a computer.
The key is to make nothing for months and then make $90k in one go.
I taped a tote bag to my imac and traveled with it as a carry on once. https://twitter.com/alana31415/status/1578492366201098240
Can they be said to understand the images if a style transfer model they produce is image dependent with an unstable threshold boundary?
Or when they make an error similar to pareidolia all the time, seeing faces where there are none?
When they do not understand how to paint even roughly fake text?
It becomes a question of negligence / due diligence.

If a bank has zero physical security measures and leaves the money out in the open, that is negligent.

But, even if a bank has all the state of the art, "best practices" physical security measures, they can still be robbed. No bank is going to stop a nation-state army attacking them, for example.

I think the same is true of cyber security. Nothing will ever be 100% secure. The question is whether the company has followed reasonable best practices and due diligence. Everything else is up to the government to maintain law and order.

> companies that cannot keep data safe shouldn't be storing my data in the first place.

If you're expecting absolute safety, either physically or electronically, there is nowhere in the universe you could deposit your money. Otherwise, the FDIC already has regulations in place to make sure banks are reasonably secure.
> Wikipedia math has competition and they are generally much harsher than Wikipedia, which indicates the direction which communities of volunteers wish to go when they disagree with Wikipedia's execution.

Okay, but I don't think those communities are relevant to this conversation.

> The use case of someone who (1) does not wish to consult the vast and well-discussed pedagogy of math and (2) is not an advanced math student and thus wishes to have stand-alone math definitions is a Very special case.

Number 1 is a weird assumption! Unless by "consult" you mean spend weeks studying a textbook, the problem is that consulting is too difficult! And if I understand "harsher" correctly you just said the other sites are harder to use, didn't you?

So then it's just "not an advanced math student", which may or may not be a majority of people on these pages but it's a very significant amount and it's the more important target for a general encyclopedia.
They will question your decisions and directions instead of blindly following them. You can have curious employees, or obedient employees, but usually not both. You can somewhat pave over this with comp (tech does this), but most of the economy cannot.
> I can't! That's the only thing you provided.

Quotes aren’t editorializing. I’m referring to the quotes + the fact that he has yet to provide any proof of those assertions.
But many people consider LBJ to have been an empathetic president? I don't see how it's supposed to be self-evident that, because Johnson liked bragging about his johnson, that his focus on the Great Society must have been driven by hard-headed pragmatism. U.S. presidents have a wide array of problems to solve. LBJ didn't have to pick causes that are commonly associated with empathy for the downtrodden.
I rent a storage unit so I can have spare sewing machines on hand. Without that where would you keep your spare oscilloscope, your various antennea, and your guitar projects?

The guitar I put them in...I made that too. To be fair I got some of the parts from a kit (cheap way to get some parts), but I modified it in a number of ways, and changed all of the hardware. It is a lot of fun. I did think about blogging about it, but I didn't think anyone would care
(Here "cluster" means "copy of the system being developed", whether or not that is one or more machines, virtual hosts, containers, whatever, ...)

It's a requirement I think that one developer be able to work without disrupting what other developers are doing. If sharing clusters is a reason why they can't do that, then sharing clusters gets in the way of doing work.

Some developers might be able to work without a cluster some of the time (sometimes unit tests are enough), other times a developer might need two or more clusters. In some cases a developer can work with a partial cluster (for most of my current job I was able to run a "cluster" that was missing a certain service because I never worked on things that needed that service... until I did)

Whatever technology you are using you ought to have some scripts that make creating a cluster a simple and reproducible procedure, particularly if you are using cloud technology, in which case a developer should be able to create a cluster when needed and destroy it afterwards.
Police and teacher unions are terrible not because they are public servants but because our capitalist system provides them with no way to extract additional value.

Teachers don't have qualified immunity or get the privilege of shooting your dog, making it a pretty poor comparison.
This depends on the use. For a complex web app, React may be a good choice. For a web page with interactivity (There is a grey area between), native HTML/JS/CSS provides a much more responsive experience to the user. Faster load, lower latency, and reduced RAM use. It also makes it easier to develop and maintain, due to not relying on a build process or DSL.
I definitely agree with the spirit of the article: you can take this too far.

The real benefit of destructuring isn't really brevity, per se, IMO, but easy extensibility. You all of a sudden need two or three properties from the same object at the same level? You just reference the additional properties on the left side without any fuss.
Adobe didn't create Flash. They bought out Macromedia.