skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> propranolol [for] anxiety, stress and fear

I recall reading that propranolol reduces the physical manifestations of anxiety, stress and fear, but you still feel it internally. For example, when used for stage fright, you won't fidget, stutter, blush, sweat, and have a racing heart beat, but you'll still feel the anxiety inside yourself.
What about when you need to drill into or cut the vinyl for renovations, or if the house catches on fire, or floods? What about the factory workers at the asbestos-vinyl plant?

Maybe asbestos binded to vinyl is literally not a health hazard in any of these cases, but this needs to be shown in a positive way. The reason it's regulated/nearly banned is because the default way we treat materials is that they are assumed safe until data shows otherwise, and we obviously can't treat asbestos as a default material.
>The Chinese used practically slave labour to sift through US garbage before they ended the imports

Are we talking about actual slavery, or run of the mill "developing country with poor labor standards"?
I should get used to q macros, they are the right way to do what I like to do.

Unfortunately before hearing about them I mapped qq to 'quit' and I'm afraid the muscle memory is just stuck there now.
An Intel laptop can be had for like $200
I did. I moved over to linux mint for at-the-desk programming (though I still use a macbook while traveling). My linux desktop idles at 0% CPU, which is something macos hasn't been able to deliver for 5+ years at this point.

Current generation Intel / AMD desktop CPUs have similar performance to apple's M1/M2 chips. They just consume a lot more power. (Though apparently applying a slight underclock makes a huge difference.)

I'm not sure how recent intel / AMD laptop performance compares, but a PC with an x86 chip is still a great choice.
Maybe the way to go forward would be something in the vein of a book club? Delegating such a monstrous task to one person will just bury them in the sea of information, so parallelization looks like a good compromise (meet up once a week/month and share worthwhile books you have found).

Unfortunately, generation of garbage information can still far outpace such a system with few nodes...
> It is no coincidence that Mac users have hundreds of windows open while Windows users stay relatively organized.

Personally, I leave tons of windows open because I feel no need to keep things "organized". I rarely feel the need to constantly micro manage things that are running because cmd+tab and cmd+` along with mission control/expose/spaces makes it pretty simple to find what I'm looking for. My individual windows go into pretty specific positions and they rarely move, and I also rarely fully close applications.
We are in a similar boat from the b2b side - we sell a small % of our software in the Amazon and Azure Marketplaces.

Importantly, we don't compete in the Marketplaces for advertising, just work with them for final purchasing, and what our bigger users really like, easier self-hosting POCing. (Infinite trial, even.)

For channels, we instead work with graph databases (Neo4j, Neptune, ...), security/IT log systems (Splunk, ...), AI framework providers (Nvidia, ...), and federal partners so as their communities want to answer graph-y questions about their data easily, they know we do cool GPU graph viz and now graph autoML. Our demo blogposts, talks, notebooks, streamlit apps, etc, are useful tutorials for how to do these. At this point, we are lucky enough to have built a small community as well. Even in the case of Marketplaces, we do collaborate with those companies... But then database teams whom we help create more complete (complementary) offerings.

So the question is who are your communities, which depends on your app.

Btw, if interesting to anyone, we are hiring infra + backend :)
I agree sql is almost always better, but heard that many new students and programmers would rather have a piped Grammer. Eg. Unixish

https://github.com/opensearch-project/sql/blob/2.x/docs/user...
That's a better guess than mine. I'm surprised that a high quality site like AT would accept such a low quality user experience.
That doesn't imply it should be slow; that should imply it should be fast.

At least, given that macOS is using a copy-on-write filesystem such that you can share blocks between multiple volumes/snapshots — which it is; and that the OS base-image is a sealed "everyone has the same cryptographic checksum" volume — which it is; and that Apple are using a binary-diff-based "create aside" OS-image update process, like ChromiumOS/CoreOS — which they are. They should only have to write out disk pages for the changes, and then just link the existing pages in to form the rest of the extents. Like a `btrfs receive`.

But for some reason, despite all that fancy tech, it's still slow; and the install process still requires rebooting into a separate Recovery OS to do parts of the installation. Which, given the "create aside" part especially, is just ridiculous. You should be able to just run the installer in the background as you're using your device, and eventually be told "when you reboot, it'll be into the new OS."
I wholeheartedly agree :)
Is there a way to use this method to stash a crypto key inside the file that could be used to authenticate a nft against a Blockchain?
What's the difference precisely and why it matters? If the information is useful and it helps someone understand something, it shouldn't matter.

Research is research ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The first noticeable breakage was settings for VINO (vnc server) got reset and vnc was my only way to remote desktop in. I had to hook up a monitor, mouse, and keyboard to fix this. It also broke python somehow (I can't remember exactly what happened here) and caused a bunch of my build scripts to break. Fix was to re-install python3 and set alternatives.
> The difficulty of shooting down an incoming missile is broadly overstated. We routinely play sports (baseball, cricket, skeet shooting) where an unaided human has to intercept a ballistic target, and while those humans don’t have a perfect success rate, they also don’t have radar, computers, or multiple chances.

This is not a serious argument.
No, you just don't understand him. Putin and his guys threaten whatever, and will do whatever they think they can get away with.

Again, you're in dangerous delusion that Putin doesn't evaluate first strikes.

I don't think China is relevant here.
The State of U.S. Early-Stage Venture and Startups: 3Q22
I think Guywithabike is saying that phys.org doesn't want to have to pay Greenpeace for citing them, should that future come to pass of Google paying news sources for snippets.
I think it’s generally easier to get a promotion and/or a big raise by hopping. I used to think frequent hops would yield a sketchy history on the resume, but my sense is that it’s becoming less unusual.
You can run Java in the browser now but at least you can't touch DOM...
> If you're Framework, please just hire a dedicated Linux person, preferably a kernel developer.

Cathartic rant, or best cover letter ever?
Is this why when picking up a skill I always head to YouTube and forum posts?

Because someone taking through a problem informally always reveals something that wasn't clear in text/literature.

Anything from DIY projects to tech to cooking, it's always something important
Maybe I'm ... fatigued, but the article only mentions less than 5 vs greater than 7. Where's the headline coming from?
>Bitcoin-bugs

Might I suggest: bitbugs.

(Also, "Don't let the bitbugs byte")
Their turnover is high though, a hiring freeze will reduce their staff by a lot (compared to other companies). Or is it one of those hiring freezes where they still hire replacements?
try

systemctl enable --now xdg-user-dirs-update.service

and just to be safe I have a snippet that parses that file and exports the variables in my login shell like .profile

(fish in this example but would be similar for other shells)

sed -nE 's/^([^=#]+)=(.*)/set -gx \1 \2/gp' <"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs" | source
> I mean honestly you sound like a pretty difficult person to work with. I wonder if this, rather than job hopping, is what’s limiting your upward mobility. It’s important to be able to learn how to work with things that aren’t perfect, and how to go about making them better or more tolerable.

It could go either way for GP. I've seen people that bounced from place to place before finding a 'happy spot'...

In smaller shops it is easy to either be non-insulated from general corporate culture (which can be far better/worse than IT, often worse in smaller orgs) or just have to work with 'that guy' too much.

Large orgs with a good strategy will often try to fit a candidate to a team. Sometimes that means interviews with multiple teams. Sometimes that might mean a group interview with leaders (Yes, this leans on the leader more, so risk might go up.)

Devil's advocate; I have -some- empathy when it comes to terraform infrastructures that are so rigid you are -forced- to deploy thing 1 to an environment, then update thing 2 with some token/IAM you got back from deploying thing 1... A worst of both worlds situation I have encountered (or an analogue of) more than once.

> It’s impossible for everything to be 100% perfect even if you run everything, because you’ll have to deal with your own mistakes from when you lacked context or experience. “Dealing with bullshit” is part of the job, no matter how you slice it.

One more DA: There's bullshit on the level of (1) 'fill out a Capex/Opex Timesheet', (2)'do this task that you know you could do differently now and not have to refactor 1-6 months later, but I want it -this- way', and (3) 'hey we just finished standup and we have a meeting in 10 minutes, I said you were the SME of %ThingYouhaveSecondLeastExperienceOnComparedToTeam% and would help answer questions' or 'hey you didn't invite a BA to an engineer-only meeting. I'm going to invite them anyway and talk to you about it in a passive aggressive tone while you are outside'.

I've done all of the above. I don't mind 2 overall, my answer to 1 is a teeth-grit 'Is there a column to track the time I'm doing the timesheet', 3 is an obvious power-play or sign of toxic corporate culture.

I regret the time I didn't leave over #3. I don't regret the time I did.
> So we’re doing this? Instead of acknowledging your statement was incorrect, now it’s about how supposedly late Apple was in supporting the formats you said they didn’t support.

I think you should re-read my comment. Fyi I already knew that Safari now supports vp9 webm. As a web dev I keep up with this stuff. In my comment I said that they are so behind.

There's another list of Safari's failures here: https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/safari-is-killing-the-web/. In fact from the article

> According to Can I Use's metrics, Safari is lacking about 10% behind Firefox and 15% behind Chrome in feature support.

And if these were only features that Google cared about, then Safari wouldn't be behind Firefox. But they are.

And in terms of webm/webp support, imo this stuff does matter. Webm/webp is much more efficient than gifs for audioless video content. But if a startup is moving fast and they see Safari doesn't support webp, they simply aren't going to use it. They're not going to bother storing two formats for everything. So now everybody's page load speed is impacted.
Exploit archaeology: A forensic history of in-the-wild NSO Group exploits [pdf]
A technical analysis of six recent NSO Group zero-click exploit chains was also presented at Virus Bulletin. Full talk available on Youtube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvS67qiq8bw&t=1s
Counterpoint, I am also a senior engineer. I was hired as an L1 support specialist talking with end users almost 20 years ago. I was promoted through the ranks of support followed by software development. Over that time, my salary has increased more than 4x. My current salary is comparable to what I could get elsewhere in my area. Could I have done better had I jumped ship every couple of years, maybe. But I love my job and the people I work with. I’ve been working with some of the same people this whole time.
Friendly reminder that modern, well regulated landfills are actually fine and there is plenty of space for them.

Also, most of the ocean plastic comes from a small number of rivers in the less developed world. [1] Rich countries aren't really the problem.

While we should try to reduce waste as much as possible. This is far more effective at the front end of the process when they're designed and produced, the vast amount of carbon is from direct carbon from production and follow on carbon from the carbon intensity of the products under use.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...
I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to get their ODBC driver to work as a linked server from SQL Server. I opened tickets and tested various versions. Finally I just gave up because I moved to a company that wasn't using ES.

I wonder if they ever got the ODBC driver to work.
Here are some of the thoughts behind my reasoning that I posted previously in HN. Hope the are insightful!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27158187

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271806
"Operation National Sword" or "Green Sword"[1] from China in 2017 killed most recycling in North America and Europe. But no municipalities or governments wanted to acknowledge it because they spent decades training the population that recycling is important and they didn't want to undo those years of hard work.

It's only been in the last year that things are sort of coming back, but landfilling happens for almost all plastics and paper products, unless your muni does multi-bin sorting and not single-stream.

Now that petroleum is more expensive, maybe plastic recycling will make a resurgence, but I'm not holding my breath.

Recycling boils down to a really really really big and messy sorting problem, and hopefully someone clever can come up with 0-marginal effort waste bins that handle the sorting so Americans can remain lazy and provide a pre-sorted pickup for recyclers.

Multi-stream recycling at the source yields the lowest contamination and best recapture rates for material. [2]. The single-stream wave worked when china bought everything, but now that material quality matters, the volume benefits from single-stream are now a liability.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_National_Sword
2 - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-era-of-easy-recycli...
That can't possibly be a useful benchmark. There are hundreds of Android models with different batteries and power characteristics. Was it just CPU power efficiency?
A huge portion of the comments are specifically about licenses and Copilot as license laundering to access GPLed code.
It's 5% of the children in houses they search, not 5% of children. And they're searching the houses specifically because there has been an allegation of abuse or neglect.
For the record, talc doesn’t seem to be dangerous on its own.

The problem is the geology of many talc deposits. Anywhere talc has formed metamorphically, it naturally co-occurs with asbestiform minerals. [1]

As a result, talc mined from these sources is unavoidably subject to asbestos contamination.

[1]: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70027257
Recently I wondered what the name of the site formerly known as gamasutra is. Maybe it's just my bubble, but it feels just dead since the renaming :( A pity.
What a lame article.

It's like a sentence spun into 1000 words.

Why not show us a photo of these parts? Surely that would help apply pressure?!
I just bought a new 14" M1 MacBook Pro because they stopped doing OS updates for my 2014 Intel MacBook Pro. Kinda sad, as the 2014 MacBook Pro is still, STILL - in 2022!, one of the best laptops I've had (including for running Windows via Bootcamp). Being it had no trade-in value, I'll keep using it as a test machine for Intel builds of my app.

But yeah, the new Apple Silicon laptops are incredible, and I'm happy with the new purchase. If I get 8 years out of this one too, I'll be more than happy. To me, that's a reasonable length of time to support OSes on old hardware.
There are only a handful of mainstream keyboard layouts. Mostly ISO and ANSI.
I'm getting close too, starting with the cancellation of my YT Premium subscription. All I wanted was to be able to watch my subscriptions in peace on my tv (e.g. bigclivedotcom) but instead I get random breaks (e.g. only the home page shows on the yt app, no access to subscriptions), daily reset of my playback speed preferences, etc. I hope the people who think it's cool to experiment with paying customers get to experience the same for the rest of their lives.
Because I'm not already rich. Instead, I could seek to spend the majority of my time working on something that may or may not actually pay for my rent, but why would I? Not to say that I wouldn't work for a startup, but if that startup can't pay me a sustainable income, they can get fucked.
To me this is definitely it. Using non-technical people's computers is eye-opening. Thousands of files scattered around on the Desktop, Documents, or wherever they just happened to go. Finding something in a specific directory would be a completely foreign concept.
Appreciated by whom? "The company" can't appreciate anything: it's just a corporate structure. In a privately owned company, the owner may appreciate it, or they may just want you gone. Depends on your performance. Working for a large corporation, I got the promotions and the every 5 years gifts but they were by and large meaningless.

I don't really think anyone cares about long term commitment. I was asked once to stay at least a year because recruiting me was very expensive and they wanted to get their money's worth. I appreciated the frankness of the request.
>> US federal law says it will invade the Hague if the ICC, or any other international court the US doesn't choose to consent to, is used against US or allied personnel.

Please cite the exact law and related text within it that states the US will invade the Hague based on an ICC action.
Although a great game, I’m not sure it can be considered a roguelike.
> and it will experience repulsive gravity that will push it back to the original region, but then it will experience the pull from the singularity again and will repeat this process forever.

If the observer had a charge, wouldn't this create radio waves, bleeding off energy?
> You don't need top shelf performance for browsing the web, checking your emails or writing some docs

DIDN’T

Until electron
Clive James wrote a book — Cultural Amnesia — that comes at this concept from a slightly different angle, but still very interesting.
It depends. I work in an industry (automotive infotainment) that makes very complex products where entire product cycles take 2-4 years and projects run for 6+ years. There's valuable stuff to learn from experience in every phase of a cycle. Having seen at least a full cycle can be a very useful flag for seniority. It's not a requirement per se, however. Fresh/outside thinking can also contribute much.
Despite much FUD spread in Linux nerd circles online, Linux can run just fine on it.
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Yeah, that helps, but overall the Music app is worse for me than it was in the iPhone 3GS days when it was centered around iPod features. Not a big deal.
Well sure it's a confident answer - that's just how physics works. You generate heat in an enclosed area, it's going to leak out. The hotter it gets inside, the faster it's going to dissipate through the material containing it.

The question is how hot will it get for some amount of LED on-time.
Maybe reducing their staff by a lot is the point.
A majority of software already does this. WASM seems more like a direct attempt to run binary blobs and to simply "trust" the intrusive binary sandbox while leaking all kinds of information when trustworthy sandbox solutions and multi architecture compilation are nothing new and not a new problem that needs solving. It seems if anything the problem people are trying to solve with WASM is how to get people enthusiastic about handing over more privacy.
> So, they have no understanding of making longer term decisions

Disagree. Coming into a new company and seeing the results of decisions that were made before you started can be quite informative.
I see someone has asked one of my classics for low code (how to test it thoroughly) - I'll ask the other: how is change control managed? Can another person review a change, be it in behaviour or visual, in a diff, as well as running automated tests, before a change goes live?
Regarding the latest Assassin's Creed, that reminded me of a (long) blog post [0] by a historian, though it deals more in themes than all the historical inaccuracies present in the game. He then did another post on Expeditions: Rome, a game that claimed historical verisimilitude and all the mistakes it made [1].

[0] https://acoup.blog/2020/11/20/miscellanea-my-thoughts-on-ass...

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/04/15/collections-expeditions-rome-a...
Even in academia, I would say that it is appreciated in a way that, from your perspective, is indistinguishable from not giving a fig. Would The Company like you to stay where you are? Yes! Will it be acted on in any way that you may discern it from complete indifference? No!

I mean, who knows, we currently can measure gravitational waves via LIGO, so scientists may eventually create instruments sensitive enough to measure something as miniscule as a company's actionables toward its long-term employees, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
I sympathise with that. But C is a bit low level to do a lot of messing about with strings. I'd use JavaScript myself. Python is a decent, but slow choice as well. C# and Java are also serviceable, but they're not trendy any more. Even a bash shell script would be ok.

You'll be doing a lot of tedious, error prone work to do this in C.
Despite modern techniques being superior, I share the sentiment of the author that the lost knowledge is something to be mourned. Even though that process wouldn't be used in a rocket today, it is possible that technique could have inspired a breakthrough for some other new process. Like how Gorilla glass, originally developed in the 1960's, was seen as a dead-end and largely useless, until the iPhone was being designed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass
Cryptomator for cloud-based storage, as it allows my to encrypt each files inside the vilolume separately, which makes it much more bandwidth friendly to desktop synchronization software.
At that point you’re cleaning up other people’s mistakes, which is a very different beast than having to clean up your own.
EFI updates are sometimes included with new versions of macOS.
Roguelike games are one of those major events that happened that I completely missed. It's hugely popular and I still don't know what a roguelike game is. lol