skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I thought the current science is that "knee extensions" and "leg curls" were considered to be particularly bad for you and highly prone to injury.

2) Did this go out of style and come back? I remember hearing about the benefits of "isometric overload" like this the whole way back in the late 1980s.
I'm pretty sure that's just how the badging system works. Amazon is orders of magnitude too big for 'everyone has access to everywhere' to make sense. When I traveled I sometimes had to talk to people (or send email) to make sure my badge was activated in a new location, even for offices in a different city but the same business unit. There were also restrictions based on whether you actually worked on a particular thing, even for non-acquisition parts of the company.
I feel similarly. I'd much rather use JSON for an HTTP API, but XML syntax turned out to be the perfect thing for HTML!
Lotus 1-2-3 used an epoch from 1900-01-01, but it had a bug where it considered all years divisible by 4 to be leap years.

When Excel came around, it needed to be compatible with 1-2-3, so it used the same date format, and to be compatible it considers 1900 to be a leap year.
https://matthewwilson.website

i'm pretty new to web development. i made this site with react as an excuse to practice using react.

i'm interested in your feedback about how to best make myself contactable via this site. do you use a contact form? just post your email address?
> When … wifi cards stopped having good blob support it became less tenable. Maybe that all improved after I jumped ship.

The work to modernize the wifi stack has been underway since 2020. There was an update on it in 2021.[1] Based on the wiki, this work is still happening.[2] But they can probably use help.

[1] https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wifi_project_status_update

[2] https://wiki.netbsd.org/Converting_drivers_to_the_new_wifi_s...
I'd love to see a *BSD based OS where they're willing to get rid of the 30 year old cruft, meaning grep & friends, x servers, all that antique shit, and focus on the fundamentals. Something like a modernized AmigaOS UI and object oriented command line on top of a solid API and kernel.
I had the exact same experience and have recently given up. Tried to lift less, eat better, etc. No matter what, I would randomly get really exhausted for 3-4 days. It just wasn't sustainable.

My new years resolution is to quit lifting and find any exercise routine that's sustainable and doesn't drain my energy.
oh dear, another HN post on diet. no doubt someone will start a comment saying you can eat what you like provided you go to the gym every day.

why are americans so obsessed with these things? you can't live forever, and the older i get (nearly 70, now) the the less i feel like carrying on, and the less i worry about things like oils.
Good stuff. I also like this author for coining the term software-archaeologist.
Are there photos?
>Neither is the computer field, really. "kilo" by itself isn't affected.

Yes, it is. When software measures in factors of 1024 but reports these using metric prefixes (kilo, mega, giga, or their shorthands KB, MB, GB), it's wrong. Imagine if a chemist had 1024 milliliters and reported that as a liter. People would be up in arms about it.

>If it depends on implementation, why are you insisting a gigabyte is exactly 8 billion bits?

I didn't. I never set bits. Bytes.

A gigabyte is always 1 billion bytes, and a Kilobyte is always 1000 bytes. How many bits that is is implementation-dependent.

>What if I said a "byte" could be 8.59 bits?

...there's no such thing as fractional bits.

>I don't see it that way, because I'm only making an argument about "gigabyte" as a single unit. (And kilobyte, megabyte, terabyte.) The vagueness of both applies.

There is vagueness in how many *bits*, but not how many bytes. That is a critical distinction.

Again, the prefixes aren't up for debate. They always mean the same thing. Using them to mean factors of 1024 is just factually wrong.
Quantum Entanglement Explained Simply
The problem is that you have to pick an alternative. The default is probably cash, because that's how you get paid. If you can't even make an argument for an alternative then I think the overwhelmingly historically best option is the obvious decision. Gold is something people often make an argument for in this case but it's historical returns are pretty bad.
> I did write an XSD to JSON Schema[1] converter in an afternoon which does an almost perfect 1:1 mapping of a non-trivial XSD ...

Can it do the reverse?
This is one of my favorite HN comments. Thank you for writing about music in an interesting way.
I initially misread this as being about a monkey with a toolsheld.
> We share a common struggle within the BSD community, and more broadly among Unix-like OSs that aren’t Linux. Think Minix, illumos, heck maybe even big iron UNIX. Linux is now perceived as the default

Linux and Minix are the only two "Unix-like OSs" mentioned here. Everything else, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Illumos and especially, but not exclusively, "big iron UNIX," are not "Unix-like." They're Unix. We don't need to apologize for that nor tip toe around the fact that GNU/Linux is not Unix. It's literally what the acronym means.
> I'd love to see a BSD based OS where they're willing to get rid of the 30 year old cruft, meaning grep & friends, x servers, all that antique shit

Isn't that macOS? BSD-based where useful, replaced with something else where useful.

Granted, macOS only has a BSD userland, not a BSD kernel, but that still counts it as "a BSD" IMO.
All of the traffic leaving China goes over the CCP's network. Do you think they should be able to keep censoring the whole country? Or if Comcast started censoring municipal fiber websites, would that be okay since the traffic was going through their network?
Of course if the timer is implemented in C as a signed number, overflow is undefined, so who knows what happens. I've not seen an embedded compiler that does anything too strange though.
> but even vertical concrete can benefit from reinforced bars, to prevent spalling. (I believe).

I liked your comment but this bears correcting. (Corrosion of) rebar is actually the biggest cause of spalling in vertical concrete structures.
If I go far away on holiday the assets in my home are no longer under my control.
Yeah, the evidence seems more like "heavy deep frying is bad" than a general "seed oil is bad".
> [...] but in businesses where there are old, legacy systems run by people who have a modern attitude to software ownership, things will fail because those businesses won't see importance of the threat.

How common will that be, though? I would expect that "cheap and disposable" software would mean most software in the year 2038 would be recently written, which would mean the programmers would be aware of the impending 32-bit rollover issue.
How would spending 100% of their income be hedging their bet?
Not a control panel story, but I was in an elevator once with a small group and a voice came from the emergency phone.

Voice: "Hello?"

Us: "umm... Hello?"

Voice: "Hi, this is MCI, you can save money on your long distance plan ..."

Us: LOL, "This is an elevator, we can't help you"

Voice: "What, an elevator? what do you mean?"

Us: "Yes, you are calling an elevator!"

Voice: "Oh! Wow, this is wrong, sorry for calling!"

As soon as they dropped, a thought came in and I tried to yell out, "What number did you call!?!?". But they had hung up. Oh, the pranks you could do...
FYI your link doesn't go directly to the specific table you are using, which I believe is B25026.

I am using S2502.
Are there any actual alternatives? Keeping your valuables at home or places like Public Storage aren't the safest of places either.
Access to a market that can reach $15M in revenue very quickly.
If a world war causes the US stock market to crash you can be damn sure that the rest of the world is going to have bad time starting from a worse place. Not only are other countries so connected to the US's global economy, but many literally cannot secure trade without US security and US lead organizations.
Many people, myself included, thought the "TSLA valuation > other automakers" wasn't a reasonable comparison, because of the "Secret Master Plan" to be an energy company. But, over the last year, that master plan has gone MIA, making Tesla just another car company.
Is it better than Smart Pipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ ?
Yeah used to get spam calls all the time in my apartment’s elevator. All automated messages.
> bringing my mouse to the edge of a screen

Doesn't work on Linux.

The keyboard is great, but you have to physically pick up the mouse and press a button on the bottom.

It's way easier to just have 2 or 3 mice at $100.

Switching to bluetooth has a seconds long delay. Regular wireless is instant.

Android apps (not the YouTube app, but definitely jellyfin and some others) tend to shit themselves when you connect the MX keys via Bluetooth.
Unless they are exceptionally talented and seeking an either high level, high impact, differentiated or early role, jobseekers don’t have the luxury of researching every company to which they apply. Especially, when that company will not return equivalent courtesy.

Unless interested, such companies will not respond to every applicant with a personal letter.

Let’s be practical. I am a sysadmin/network engineer/developer. I am very good at what I do. I honestly don’t care where I work. My work will be largely the same. If I applied as a product manager or a sufficiently senior developer, then yes I would be far more selective.

There’s another word for receiving resumes in the personal mailbox, which is spam. If the company has a jobs@ email address, it should have a workflow process attached so there’s no need to spam the unpublished email address to get someone’s attention.

So, items 3,4,6,7,9,10,12,13,14,15 are invalid.

Item 8 is a cliche. Item 15 is out of the sender’s control.

Let’s review.

1. Questionable. Corporate marketing is different from social media marketing. They have social media professionals on their team.

2. Agreed. Applying for work that creates portfolio without said portfolio makes no sense.

3. Personalizing email greetings is not a good use of time. You can get to know each other on second contact.

4. They are following your process. If your hiring inbox is not used for hiring, then solve your broken process. I would hate to receive resume spam as a team member.

5. Agreed.

6. Applying to companies is inhuman. Setup a process to automatically process blank emails with attachments. Many of them will be pure spam.

7. You’re asking for a marketing document from people who are not trained in copy writing. I can tell the article is written by someone in marketing for whom communication is second nature. It’s a difficult skill that people outside marketing rarely possess.

8. The seeker is asking if you have unadvertised openings. It is an annoying cliché, but they don’t know any better and are likely following someone’s advice.

9. See point 7. The original meaning of information technology still means just that. It has been hijacked to mean something else, but it remains valid and frankly irrelevant to hiring.

10. That’s just someone trying too hard. See point 7.

11. There should be no emails sent that cannot be replied to. Stop using no-reply@ when responding. That’s the number 1 thing I hate.

12. That’s actually a positive signal. The person took the time to find you on LinkedIn.

13. Attaching a document preserves formatting and eliminates copy/paste errors. Attaching a traceable link lets me see you opened my resume. In light of point 1, you should be welcoming this.

14. There’s nothing wrong with taking a cue from Elle Woods about customizing a resume. You can see that the person is creative.

15. Email virus checkers are often out of the sender’s control. You can at least be certain they will follow your endpoint security policies.

So, setup a workflow to process incoming resumes, respond to every applicant who took the time to personalize their application, and you will miss fewer hires.
Sounds like an opportunity for a generic UI/management tool. The pre/post boot thing could be mitigated by a rebooting into a special stub that just verifies intent/signatures, applies the settings and reboots back into the OS.
COT is so yesterday! SOTA is LAMBADA[1] aka backward chaining also from Google, that significantly outperforms chain of thought and select inference in terms of prediction accuracy and proof accuracy.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13894
Salesforce bought slack for $27B. In the span of two years, its market cap came back to pre-pandemic levels. If slack stayed as in independent company, its worth would have been $9B. If Slack wants to impart its culture across Salesforce, it has to prove itself as a heavy profit generator.
So you agree it’s grotesque!
You don't have to do any of that other than change the zoning/permitting/building process (which you would need to do for your plan above as well otherwise you won't be building much of anything). The problem in San fran isn't lack of builders or even lack of labor to build. The problem in san fran is the government forcing the process to permit and build something to multi year approaching decade timelines (if it is even approved).

Basically all they have to do is set some basic, reasonable rules (heights, setbacks, etc) that, if you stay within them, you get your permit in a month or two the problem would be 70% solved within a decade. They might have to rezone some of san fran to allow denser building construction (with the same fast tracked permit described above) to get to 100% but that is literally it. They aren't doing it because the nimbys like the system the way it is (and the increased house value windfall it has given them).
I installed NetBSD on a 68k Mac sometime in the late 90ies. It wasn't...useful for anything, but I was impressed that it was possible.
The most important part of a resume today isn't the formatting, but getting past the "applicant tracking systems", or ATS. They are all generally horrible and wildly different, so formatting your resume in a unique, well designed way that humans can parse is actually a disadvantage. I wonder if anyone actually sees original resumes any more.

It would be nice if the major job boards would define a meta-data standard for resumes that could be included in PDFs, docxs and web pages so the automated systems could process them more accurately. There's a lot of semantic-web style attempts out there, but there's not a set of definitive rules that are widely used. Instead there's custom fields, categories, keywords, etc. on every site and "general guidelines" on document format types - for example, docx is better than PDF because it's more easily parsed. (Which is silly... PDF files are semi-sentient bundles of data, so I assume it can embed meta-data if there was an editor that bothered adding it, but I doubt any common word processors will ever bother.)

This seems like such low hanging fruit for standardization.
PLEASE DRINK A VERIFICATION CAN

https://twitter.com/d4rckh/status/1477397475837325312?t=ox_j...
Related reporting is: Musk's antics are turning off disproportionately Tesla buyers. Not sure if the inventory increases talked about in this article are related, but turning off customers couldn't come at a worse time.

edit: Link to one of the articles: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/8/1/musks-antics-turn...
When you have DTrace, eBPF isn't as urgent.
Apparently not related to kitfox, the aircraft.
I didn't have any good experience in college. Could have skipped, I don't want to work as a developer anyway. Ended up playing poker professionally...
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about the benchmarks?

I run `cargo clean` before each benchmark. That should clean up changes to third-party crates, right?
> massive, inefficient structures

How does a building, an aqueduct, or a bridge still in use after 2000 years manage to be inefficient?
Nope, they're one of the alternatives in the OP.
Check out APEX (apex.oracle.com).

Its been doing server side rendering for 20 years. If you got vaxxed in the USA, there's a good chance you used APEX to book your appointment.
https://atuljha.com/blog
Daily ramblings.
The difference being, pre acquisition, they had their own CEO. Now they have another CEO of a different company.

It’s a fundamental change in dynamic.
Wikipedia is the last place to consult for current scholarship. Pages are typically "curated" by retired professors with an ax to grind, who carefully scrub anything that contradicts their grad-school thesis.

The criticisms that have been thoroughly debunked keep surfacing again. Most egregiously, BS about construction machinery.

The only legitimate criticism I have seen is that they didn't find flakes from stone blade maintenance, or a hearth. Of course, that work could have happened 50 feet away, or 500, and not been found. There is way more than enough evidence without.
I am using a small hygienic shower with the button for more than a 15 years. It is really easy to install, a skilled plumber will do it in an hour, putting a T-connector where the toilet takes its water. Did it in every place I rented since. 10/10, highly recommend.
> However, the list of URN namespaces is very lacking

Because ontology is fucking garbage.

All ontology fails, it always has.

Why are we still discussing this?

> Why are URNs not more popular?

Wiki - "URNs are globally unique persistent identifiers assigned within defined namespaces so they will be available for a long period of time, even after the resource which they identify ceases to exist or becomes unavailable"

Why do I care about this for data? Why would I constrain myself? It's bureaucratic nonsense for people to have meetings on. I'm not a library putting angels on a pinhead, real world data is messy.
That study also shows that a diet high in chemically-extracted high-oleic sunflower oil did not have increased urine metabolites compared to control. So that study actually works against the hypothesis that seed oils or chemically extracted oils are inherently bad.

And here’s another study that directly tests the hypothesis that linoleic acid consumption causes damage via oxidative stress and concludes “our results provide no indication of increased oxidative stress or genetic damage as a result of increased dietary intake of linoleic acid. Therefore, we see no scientific basis to reconsider the public health policy to stimulate the intake of polyunsaturated fatty acids aimed at the reduction of coronary heart diseases.”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12504167/
I went to college and didn't have a social life. Maybe it's on us
Is the joke that every one of those is an acquisition?
A tree being chopped down is only bad news if you built a treehouse in it. Be loyal to people instead of companies, sell most of your stock, and it won't be a huge problem.
You're right about it being macOS. I think the kernel can be viewed as BSD too. It is based on Mach 2.5 which was based on 4.3BSD.[1] It's just been heavily modified since then but that makes it fit parent's description all the better.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
Yeah, I read the first study because it seemed crazy.

TFA:

"The group consuming more vegetable oil had a 62% higher rate of death during the seven-year study compared to the group eating less vegetable oil. . .To put that into perspective, of the commonly cited diet and lifestyle risk factors, only severe obesity and heavy smoking are more dangerous"

The study in question, emphasis mine:

n=458
"Eligible patients were men aged 30-59 years admitted . . . for an episode of acute myocardial infarction (86%), or acute coronary insufficiency or angina (14%) . . . The intervention group received instructions to increase their PUFA [PolyUnsaturated Fatty Acid] intake to about 15% of food energy, and to reduce their intake of SFA[Saturated Fatty Acid] and dietary cholesterol to less than 10% of food energy and 300 mg per day, respectively. To achieve these targets. . . Liquid safflower oil was substituted for animal fats, common margarines and shortenings in cooking oils, salad dressings, baked goods, and other products, and was also taken as a supplement. . .Safflower oil is a concentrated source of [Omega]-6 LA and contains no other reported PUFAs Therefore, the intervention oil selectively increased [Omega]-6 LA without a concurrent increase in [Omega]-3 PUFAs."

TFA represents it as a population wide conclusion about all people consuming "more" "vegetable" oils, and then has the audacity to directly compare this misrepresentation to the results of large scale longitudinal and prospective studies, comparing it to a sedentary lifestyle, smoking, etc. Absolutely ridiculous. Like I actually think that's a valuable study to have read, but the Author's article is being sensationalist and dishonest with their representation.

FWIW as someone who reads a fair amount about nutrition to the point I consider it a hobby; I don't find this result on Safflower oil surprising, but the sensationalism in TFA is insane. There is a lot to unpack with that study–are people in that group predisposed to having biological processing or other confounding factors that make high Omega-6:Omega-3 diets particularly unhealthy? Is there something specifically bad about linoleic acid, or perhaps about a fatty acid regimen of specifically and primarily linoleic acid?
Are you thinking of the Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar
https://thundergolfer.com

My site’s content is most heavily focused on books, ML infra, and small projects. My most popular stuff is probably the Designing Data Intensive Apps flashcards mini-project and a post about K8s being a misfit for data/ML platform teams.
Becoming more intelligent isn't necessarily the final outcome of evolution.
This reads like the classic “tech people try to build an X company as if it were a tech company and learn that they know nothing about the X industry.”

I’d love to know more about what drove the mismatch of hiring unskilled labour for the unproven production line. Or rather, what went into the belief that the production line concept would cover for a lack of technical skill.

If lesson 2 was, “we should have taken the short-term more painful and expensive path of hiring experienced leaders for each trade or station” then that seems to suggest there were no experts.

So then how was the line designed and tested? Who were the people who built the first few houses before the unskilled workers were brought in? Who was training them? Where did those trainers go? How were the founders so confident in the absence of any expert authority?

I suspect I am misunderstanding the situation, and that there were skilled experts who know how to build houses, but they weren’t appropriate to be actual builders?

But that leads (and I recognize I’m layering a lot of assumptions to get to here) to the issue that you’re not building a house, you’re designing and tuning a production line. That already exists: construction crews. Ever see them build like 20 houses at the same time in a new subdivision? A big part of their value is not just that they know the details of their trade, but that they have honed the production line aspect. (tangent: I once watched, from my workshop, roofers across the street redo an entire roof in an afternoon in what I would describe as a ballet set to the score of nailguns)

I think lesson 2 actually feeds lesson 1: hire a pre-existing team of experts and give them the blueprint. Then watch how they design the production line.

Gosh this is fascinating. So many questions. I wish the post was longer.
Vegetable here means "not meat" (definition 1 on Wiktionary), as in "Animal, vegetable, or mineral".
Trust No One (2005)
That's true, I'm not giving any credit at all to the fact the article isn't written by the paper's authors, and is at best a summary.
This is an absurd take. What would you have them do aside from call out a publicly bad actor explicitly? Seems like you are bending over backwards for a bad take.