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Mobile web designers are doing a much better job than Apple or Google could ever dream of when it comes to creating horrifically unusable mobile web sites and applications.

It’s almost like they’re in cahoots.

When they are so bad, either maliciously or not, that one would rather download an app or wait until a desktop browser is available, one has to wonder.
Your doc was probably referring to purchasing semaglutide from a compounding pharmacy, which is usually in the $200/month range (depending on dose). Compounded versions don't typically come in the user friendly "injection pen" format that brand name versions do, so not everybody is comfortable with that option.
Old image slicing is new again!
Sounds like a good exercise for a libnotcurses port!
First two paragraphs of History section found on DragonFly web site[1]:

> A technical introduction: The ultimate goal of the DragonFly project at its inception was to provide native clustering support in the kernel. This type of functionality requires a sophisticated cache management framework for filesystem namespaces, file spaces and VM spaces. These and other features eventually culminate in the ability to allow heavily interactive programs to run across multiple machines with cache coherency fully guaranteed in all respects. This also requires being able to divide resources, including the CPU by way of a controlled VM context, for safe assignment to potentially unsecured third-party clusters over the internet. This original design direction, although no longer the primary goal of the DragonFly project, has influenced many of the design decisions made in the intervening years. While full cache coherency is no longer a top level goal, filesystem coherency is, and that direction continues to guide the project in a number of ways.

> DragonFly BSD was forked from FreeBSD 4.8 in June of 2003, by Matthew Dillon. The project was originally billed as "the logical continuation of the FreeBSD 4.x series", as quoted in the announcement, but this description has long since become obsolete. From a performance perspective DragonFly's only real competitor these days is Linux.

[1] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/history/
An untrusted sftp account can be confined to a chroot().

This would be more difficult to do with rsync. I'd also be concerned with the account getting a shell, even if the command= option is set in authorized_keys.
Lex Fridman's Reading Plan in Numbers
Curious if you can share more about the stack. From another comment it sounds like you're using Whisper to generate the text from audio.

My default out of the box way to approach this would be something straightforward like a BERT-alike encoder to embed each target sentence in a FAISS index (hell, podcasts aren't long -- it could be brute force lookup, I suppose) or similar, with the same encoder running on the queries.

Something I've been playing with is Flan-T5 (https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/flan-t5), which has really strong out of the box question answering capabilities. I could see chunking in larger blocks and using the blocks as a context passage and the query as a question-oriented prompt. I've run some fine-tuning experiments with this setup for text generation (e.g. write me a summary of Huberman's key takes on dopamine) and find that the Flan-T5 model forgets a lot of its other capabilities when subject to fine tuning.

In any event, understand if you're not inclined to share, but love talking shop on this stuff.
“A senior CISA official said Easterly has devoted town halls to workplace issues such as mental health, burnout prevention and inclusion and diversity.”

While the organization suffers from a massive talent shortage, congress very publicly breathing down their necks, and a lack of measurable results.

CISA Priorities seem to be personal branding and marketing the department rather than actually doing anything of substance.
I just wanted to point out that probably 2000 of us (in robotics/AI) were "laid off" in Q4, but were paid through the end of the calendar year "To find an internal position". Almost none did, and I don't think that was really the intent, but what do I know. They're in this batch. I expect a Q2 announcement of all those people who in Q1 were "transitioning to new positions" that were eliminated before they could move.
I am not an archeologist, but to provide some relevant context to your later questions, there are at least thousands of Dead Sea Scroll fragments, located and taken by many different parties, from many different locations, over the course of a decade or more in the mid-20th Century.
I mean the question we are both trying to address "what alternative to globalization is there that doesn't have x and y issues but still keeps the world running" is really trillion dollar question at this point. If one of us had the answer I would hope we would out trying to implement it and not on HN.

I would argue that the slow progress on human rights/labor issues coupled with the failure of globalized supply chains during covid really point towards us needing to rethink our current system. Maybe modifying the current system will be enough, I do not know. However in my eyes our current form of globalization is problematic and that needs to be addressed.
BASIC and the Microcomputer Revolution
> Netflix on macOS does not work in Firefox

Is this because of DRM crap, or some other reason?
I don’t think they’re stretched too wide. I suppose that’s the benefit of constantly shutting down projects.
Damn, I wish I'd known this decades ago

I specifically asked doctors and they were like "I dunno. Well, that was a fun 5 minute conversation, give me $300"

I guess it's never too late, though. I've been slacking off on getting in shape, since it does take raw willpower 20 times a day every day in order to get there and stay there, and it's not that compelling to think that I'm going to be stuck rolling willpower checks all the time forever.

If I just have to get in shape and force myself to stay that way through raw willpower for ~4 years in order to stay that way for free afterward, though, that sounds like a more worthwhile goal
I love ChatGPT for simple tasks. It is currently wreaking havoc on some communities tho. Including one I created on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pinescript/comments/1029r7p/please_...

People have taken to asking ChatGPT to create entire scripts to trade money. When they don't work, they go into chatrooms or forums and ask "why doesn't this work" without saying it was made by ChatGPT. It causes people to open the post, read it a bit and only maybe after a minute or two of wasted time, realize the script is complete nonsense.
I built a similar open source app recently that you can use with any YouTube channel / playlist. The demo uses the All-In Podcast.

https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/yt-semantic-search
I've tried many things and I prefer intermittent fasting over diets and calorie counting. Changing diet a bit is still important (cutting carbs and focusing on stuff that keeps me satiated for longer), but it's easier to manage say going to event (just fast day before/after), or when having some bigger meal for whatever (socializing etc) reason I can always just eat later tomorrow.

Usually one big meal after noon and that's about it, plus occasional coffee or cup of cocoa. If I have event in the evening I just don't eat during the day or get a milky beverage to get me by, then depending on how much I ate I either delay dinner the next day or skip the next day altogether.
You might enjoy the ChangeMyView subreddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/ChangeMyView), they have a post relating to gender ideology pretty much every day, it's probably the most popular topic.

Here's the most recent if you want a taster: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/103dm24/cmv_g...

If you decide to use a throwaway account to avoid being sitebanned on main, I'd recommend commenting something that will get you upvoted to +20 or so first before writing your gender critical opinions, as otherwise you may hit the negative karma threshold for shadowbanning, as those who disagree downvote you.

Also, the OP will probably be interested to know that incest is also a fairly common topic of conversation there.
That's in stark contrast to my opinion about YouTube. I have a huge list of highly trust worthy subscriptions / reference channels and no other social media platform comes close. If you live on your subscriptions channel, you never need to worry about content being thrown at you, or radicalization rabbit holes.

I can easily find upper graduate university lectures for complex topics. YouTube makes it easy to link first sources unlike other image/video platforms. Also, since they appear on official pages of reputed sources (conference channel, university channel) there is a certain level of reliability irrespective of who the speaker is.

Lastly, search for any popular video on YouTube and you will see just as many 'response' videos. While not intentional, it helps avoid echo chambering as the counter argument is readily available .
Amazon did a lot of stuff. Most of the engineers weren't really fungible, they were more specialized. The robotics project set was really hard hit, and frankly that's good for the industry as now there's more talent floating around. Robotics has been super dry for a long time.
On Mac I just use CMD+space to pull up spotlight which very quickly opens anything matching what you type from there. Usually within a single keystroke after CMD+space pulls up the desired app and typically takes under a second. It does a lot of other neat things as well but I use that feature daily.

Windows is similar in just pressing the windows key allows you to type the name of an app or file but in my experience is much slower and inaccurate compared to OSX.

It's easier for me to remember the name of the app I want than that+the key binding with muscle memory I've then had to set.
Same - Mounjaro / Tirzeparide is nothing short of life changing.

A question I often get is "how effective is it?"

The SURMOUNT-1 study released in April 2022 showed 22.5% average reduction in weight for people on the highest dose of Mounjaro. For a 250 lbs person who should weigh 150 lbs (so 100 lbs of extra weight), this would result in them losing 56 lbs or 56% of their excess weight.

For context, bariatric surgery has the following success:

- Gastric Band: 35% - 45% of excess weight lost
- Gastric Sleeve: 60% - 75% of excess weight lost

The fact that a once a week injection is having results similar to bariatric surgery is insane, and this is only the early innings of this shift. Lilly has another drug in the works (will likely be released in late 2025) that is reporting better results than Mounjaro.

Wild and exciting times!
The bases of garbage trucks seems to just be a truck platform. So I don’t think they are much different from other equivalent vehicles.

Given these trucks almost never get highway speeds, I would assume it’s even as good as 3mpg because heavy idling uses less fuel than highway speeds, but stop and go is much worse.

I assume EVs would have some of the same stop/go efficiency issues for stop/start but that would gain somewhat on idling and breaking.
What would you consider a misleading about its description of the behavior as a “backdoor?

The write-up describes it as a persistent executable payload and goes on to enumerate the C2 commands that it reportedly received from a remote server, for which some IPs are provided.

Whether or not it’s a trojan depends on how it got onto the system in the first place. There isn’t more information in the article about how the system was infected, but maybe the author didn’t have evidence to share. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong, just that more details would be needed to substantiate that aspect of the attack.
In my experience community managers are in the actual offices of the companies whilst support are a 3rd party overseas. So the CM is able to walk to someone's desk and get it fixed while the support can only try and escalate through their system.
You can't find that information in the article? It's very long and detailed.
Be overweight, bust out your healthy lunch at work. People will flat out tell you "Oh, it's so good you are trying to be healthy." So already you are being told that they thought you didn't care before and you have finally decided to make the "right" decision.
I find fasting depressing. It makes me incredibly anxious.
Perhaps a bit too scandalous (I don't know), but my understanding is that there was also a falling out of sorts between the DragonFly lead and BSD people, largely caused by allegedly abusive behaviour form the DragonFly lead while they were still working on BSD main. As I understand it, DragonFly came after this. Maybe doesn't answer your question, but it contextualises (however accurately!) part of how it came to be.

My source on that is a LinuxConfAU talk I can't recall off the top of my head (the same speaker gave a somewhat notable talk in defence of SystemD)
This may be a nitpick but Ruby’s naming seems inconsistent. If `filter_map` combines `select` and `map`, why is it not called `select_map`?
Your take is what I recall as well.

And not just Jobs and Apple on the HTML apps kick, Jon Rubenstein (aka 'the Podfather' for producing the iPod) left Apple to make Palm into a web app powerhouse, developing the webOS platform and the Palm Pre.

This is how mobile devices were supposed to work. The "native apps" jag is a disaster I'd argue was mostly generated by devs not users or manufacturers, and set mobile web back a decade.
Plows running on overhead lines makes for very bad failure cases. Power outages are common in heavy snow storms. Emergency services and repair crews usually need to reach areas without power urgently. With plows run by overhead lines, these would be the areas not plowed.

Even if you kept a percentage of plows gas, you'd be risking the scale of power outages not overcoming your back up capacity
Individual consumers aren’t paying nothing. The cost is just being hidden from them so they don’t flip over the tables.

They pay via premiums - mine went up to $2,792/month this year - or if their employer pays those, via the resulting wage impact.

And, as a result, we spend 2-3x what the rest of the OECD spends on healthcare - public and private spending - with roughly the same health outcomes.
I enjoy such etymologies as much as anyone but not sure I agree with you or Fowler's on this one. I mean, if you want to police grammar around HN, fine, but you're going to wear out the tips of your fingers. But aside from that there is also a kind of linguistic luddism in refusing the accept popular usage of idioms. Imagine demanding the same scrupulosity of someone learning English. They would be deprived of such lovelies as "begging the question" without being handed a dog-eared copy of Sophistical Refutations. Or how about "the proof is in the pudding"? No "alright" for you. You must promptly declare yourself when leaving a voicemail for your spouse: "Hello, it is I." So much lost, so little gained.

"The exception that proves the rule" is a saying whose meaning is contested."

I don't find the objection here very credible. The usage you object to is "unfortunately the commonest". The common usage has the advantage of being the most obvious. The valences offered in the article don't seem that significant when it all boils down to what people mean by it, which is pretty well-understood. De gustibus...
Demo gif & video please! You'd have more adoption if I knew what I was getting upon install.
Good luck with your Linux keyboard?
Based on the Wikipedia page, HammerFS does basically everything.
I’ll take “survivor bias” for $1,000.
Finally, I've been waiting quite a while for something like this. Now if only I could use an open source local version myself.
My favorite function key trick is to first move the number keys into a “virtual numpad” and then move the function keys down onto the unused number row. That way the function keys are easy to reach without looking and always available without conflicting with the laptop’s media/utility keys.
Looking forward to try it out! Sounds like a great thing!
Personally, I do not fear death.

I don't fear death because I'm utterly curious. All of your thoughts are functions of a brain, a brain that will stop functioning. So what will you experience? Religious people will say there's an afterlife. A non-religious person might say you experience a void. You see, hear, feel, smell nothing. But if experiences are a function of the brain, and the brain is dead, you can't even experience a void.

It's not possible to imagine a true nothingness. So it brings me back to the original question, what do you experience after death? It's an impossible question to answer without experiencing it. Sure, people have had near-death experiences and talked about them, but I question how many of those experiences are merely hallucinations created by a mind panicking about its demise.

To die is to finally get the answer to the question. I do not fear dying because I will finally have an answer to the unanswerable.

That said, my bigger fear is aging and becoming decrepit. I don't want to survive, I want to live. If I ever get to a point where I'm merely surviving, unable to walk without assistance, unable to wipe my own ass, then I think it'll be time to say I've had a good run and end it.
I agree, but this is literally the world we already live in. On my coffee break walk I past 12 Amazon-owned front door cameras alone. I know there are pictures of me on Facebook , even though I’ve never had an account there…

I don’t disagree at all with your privacy concerns - but I disagree that it will be a problem. I think the population of people that care about not being on other people’s cameras enough to complain and make those people stop using their camera-laden devices is very, very small.
It's a way to strengthen and formalize a long-term relationship. Very good if you're having kids. But you should probably live together for at least half a year before you get married.
I think sexuality is different to violence. I've heard plenty of stories about people developing weird kinks from porn, or having to turn to weirder and weirder stuff to get off. But I haven't heard of any cases of video games turning people violent.

This is extremely unscientific, I know.
I was looking at LiteFS docs yesterday as it happens.

Does it support snapshots?

From what I could work out, when you start a non primary instance it catches up from the primary? So if your replica is a fresh instance it replicates the entire db from the primary?

I was wondering if it’s possible to snapshot somehow, so if I have a fresh server that comes online it grabs the last known snapshot from somewhere like s3 then the delta changeset from the primary is much smaller (less load?)
This is very helpful. I’ve needed to search AppleScript-related questions occasionally and I’m usually disappointed. Nice to have more resources like this!
But insurance covers most of it?
There is nothing to justify though. Stock prices are external opinions based on market factors, and other companies making staff cuts is their own problem.

If the voting majority of the google board is happy with the revenue/profit/growth/staff then why would they cut
I'm not following the article. It makes a point of distinguishing between 'corporate workers' and warehouse/delivery/logistics/etc folks. Then it claims the reason for this rif is because they expanded to meet the demands of the pandemic, most of which would be in the warehouse sector, and now that that demand is gone, they need to reduce the workforce. If so, why are they reducing the corporate workers?
Yeah open source is all about working for free for other people and not about anything else. We can read the story of why RMS came up with the idea of copyleft and it boils down to "I wanted to work for free for other people" and definitely not anything else.
How much do you pay per month?
As a guy in his 20s, I'd like to note that certain Amway branches disguise themselves as "life coaching" and "mentoring" programs so definitely do a gut check about the motivations of anyone you take on as a coach/mentor.
Is there a way to run linux binaries on macOS and Windows with qemu-user? As far as I can tell it only runs on Linux (and I guess BSD). Performance considerations are nice, but I think the most interesting thing about Blink is the promise of running small linux binaries on these other platforms.
Originally it was planned to be a distributed OS. The main reason for the fork from FreeBSD was disagreement about what the threading primitives and their semantics should be, IIRC. One major early goal was cache coherency between different machines, though that seems to be abandoned or indefinitely on hold. Other projects have been HammerFS(a filesystem similar to ZFS, and I believe it started before ZFS was ported to FreeBSD), moving more towards a microkernel approach, and dropping support for all platforms other than x86_64. This makes the implementation of things like threading much simpler.

In short, DragonflyBSD is Dillon's experimental OS with ideas he would never be able to get into FreeBSD. It's never really found a niche for production use as far as I can tell, but I'd love to be proven wrong on that.

Source: FreeBSD user of several years either as a server OS, workstation OS or both. And I've dabbled with Dragonfly and love reading about obscure unices and their quirks.
Funny. I was working on an RSS reader inspired by Newsboat too. Although my project's goal was to avoid the C's rough edges that Newsboat has: better parsers, richer feeds file syntax, more configurability (done in a nicer way), less segfaults. I chose to implement it in Haskell, even got a working prototype, but then didn't keep working on it consistently (and I was unsure about the concept).

Newsboat's authors are rewriting it in Rust. They concluded (last time I checked) that C and some early design decisions were bad for its development now and they want to rewrite it in Rust because this is something that can be done gradually (and, I think, because they liked Rust). Before they settled down with Rust, they even considered Haskell, but Rust won.

Surprising that this project is in C. Given a chance to start fresh, why not choose a better language? Even Rust, I think, is unnecessarily low-level for an applied, not performance-critical program like an RSS reader. That's why I chose Haskell. Any other high-level programming language would be a better choice than C.
That OxyCOntin turned out to be a mass killer does not imply that these drugs are disasters.

Similarly, that Penicillin turned out to save millions of lives, doesn't mean that these drugs will be very beneficial.

Every day is a new day, every event a potential surprise...
What about welding the small blades together end to end? Bandsaw blades are welded, so I wouldn't think there would be a big concern about hurting the heat treat on the blades. Is this a one-off/prototype-type project? GTAW/TIG welders are getting to be really inexpensive these days. I could see it just being a single pulse at the joint between blades.
Most of the tech companies are letting a mix of recent hires, corporate middle management and in amazon’s case some logistics warehouse workers and specialty project engineers were let go. It’s a pretty eclectic, diverse group of people so its not as hard as it sounds to reabsorb into other companies. If they were all engineers or all HR there might be issues but in an already over-employed economy already 17k jobs won’t even make a dent in just about any sector right now.
Maybe you should? It would be interesting to see if the results line up with your expectations.
“as well as real estate price increases in densely populated areas.”
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A refreshing take
I'm finishing up a concentration in Neuroscience. I am proficient in MatLab and Python as well as several libraries and frameworks relevant to scientific computing (scikit, tensorflow, etc.). I was wondering if in-office part-time or remote full-time positions are available to graduating seniors?