skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's been known for decades, and knowing that is part of my job"

Mmm yeah not surprised, was already thinking your posts sounded just like the sort of things public health people say. But that didn't answer the question. How do you know?

"Most public health interventions do not make money [ - ] so COVID can't be generalized to other interventions at all"

That's a non-sequitur. Nobody mentioned money or corporations in this thread. You're answering an imaginary objection instead of the one we're actually raising, which says a lot. My prior that public health [-adjacent] people are all so left wing that they don't even realize how ideologically biased they are just got incremented again.

The problem here is not corporations or money or some people getting rich. The observation we are generalizing beyond COVID is that people who work in public health seem to lie a lot. Specifically, they lie any time they think a lie will make people act in ways that please them, and what pleases them is anything where everyone is forced to act in exactly the same way all at the same time.

By "public health" we mean here government officials, academics, researchers and the people who speak for them. Hey we don't trust Pfizer either but if it weren't for the public health sector forcing us to buy and consume their products, we could just ignore them, or make case-by-case decisions, so the root problem is not them.
If you’re managing the relationship with the customer you will also be expected to work with leadership. Lots of meetings and roadmap discussions.
Is being slow necessarily a bad thing? Google is a large cash generating machine. Maybe making large changes quickly would be detrimental to the over all health of the company. As a counter example one might consider Musk's takeover of Twitter. Although it is still too soon to tell the effects of his "nimbleness" are not looking stellar at the moment.

Having worked in Google like companies they always seem lure talent by dangling tasty projects in front of them. But successful projects at the scale these companies need are few and far between. The talent then starts complaining the company is not nimble enough etc and moves on. One might argue this is the natural order things. One of the reason SV has so many startups. Much of what startups do is likely not that appealing to large companies and far too risky - failing at a high rate.
But it wasn't the FAA that placed the blame on the SpaceShipTwo designers, it was the NTSB. Hopefully there's a similarly independent agency that can lead an investigation of the NOTAM debacle.
From the dBpoweramp CD Ripper forums, "CD Drive Accuracy 2019": https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?43786-CD-Drive-A...

Also mentioned elsewhere in this thread: https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/
What is your issue with people with autism?
Ask HN: How do you give back?
I’m looking for ways to “pay it forward” and make helping other people a bigger part of my life. Curious to hear what other HackerNews people have come up with. For context, I’m a software engineer (mostly front-end) and also have a law degree.
> > The bias is not 'pro drugs', the bias is 'why am I expressing pro drugs to you'

> I don't think that's quite right [...] there's bias [...] the fact that they select/pay for pro-drug pieces

You're basically agreeing with parent post here.

> I don't really see how that affects me

The difference is the commercial interest and the extent to which more readers are exposed to the opinion because of paying writers who are aligned with the message.

I'm pro drugs, but I don't write articles about it.

The author of the article gets paid to write it.

On the other hand, I'm also pro blockchain, and I do get paid to make blockchain, so if you see me write an article about how privacy is important and how Stripe and Paypal are screwing over people, you may agree with both of those, and they're honest expressions of my opinion, but because there is a correlation between my beliefs and what I get paid to do, I may be financially incentivised to express those beliefs.

So you could claim that the investors are, to some degree, channelling money into popularising a belief.

The evangelists are just pawns.
I re-drew the artwork based on the originals from the publications, it’s not copy-paste images.

This, plus the fact that the original source is cited, makes it work.
> weird iPhone document browser thingy

It’s a “Choose File” dialog, like from the “Browse” button of a file input. :)
I would argue the top down leadership has been blind or negligent to their Achilles heel. They've let growth in all areas but their single cash cow be needlessly duplicated, rudderless, left to wither on the vine.

To rephrase, I'm not sure that Google leadership has demonstrated the great insight to see what's going wrong and change it. I'd trust just about anyone else at the company to produce an equally plausible hypothesis. Especially if it rhymes with what we see from the outside.

We've discussed these same systemic issues at Google for over a decade now. Google is a dodo.
It's not Emacs fault that CSV is a garbage format. Anyone who has spent time dealing with CSV understands the hell that is lurking in it's shadows. I don't think the rants solution, though I did not finish reading it because I frankly got bored, is going to fix any of this, either.
#swaylife
morning:

- infusion: ginger + mint + lemon + green tea (or yerba mate)

- fruit: banana or dried fig

- seeds: slice of whole grain bread or almonds or any else you like, vary

middle of the day:

- eggs with spices and herbs

- vegies with lot of fiber or veggies pasta

- minutes later: infusion: ginger + mint + lemon + green tea (or yerba mate)

evening (only if hungry):

- toast with eggs and lot of different spices and herbs, put anything you got

night:

- infusion: what ever you want without caffeine, example: ayurvedic infusion

Occasionally: beer, wine or anything fermented with some alcohol

no sickness, no covid, no tired, fully awake, perfect for hunting propaganda online, every day, all day long, just read my post history, it enhances the mind and your senses

No meat, no added sugar, no added salt, no transformed food, no fridge, just spices and herbs
> I'm not even a "car guy" but I sure would love to have one of those GT40's from Ford vs. Ferrari. (With a working door :))

Ah... I looked into that.

Good news: Ford sold the rights and the tooling for the GT40 (and hence lost the right to use the name "GT40", which is why their modern "GT40" is called simply "Ford GT") and a company called "Superformance" still creates new Fort GT40, which are nearly entirely compatible, parts for parts, with the original ones.

The Superformance cars are more than "replicas": they like to call their cars "continuation cars" (for they're made with the original tooling and they do own the rights to produce the GT40 and AC Cobras).

It's not the "real" thing in that they aren't from the 60s/70s, but then you can have one for 100 K (Superformance AC Cobra) or 200 K (Superformance GT40) instead of millions.

I've got a few cars and may buy a Superformance AC Cobra at some point. They even have the old Carroll Shelby chassis number starting with "CSX". The other AC Cobra replicas don't get to have a chassis starting with the elusive "CSX...".
Erasure coding drops the drive requirements massively; they talked about it at reinvent 2021.
Airbyte
It's way, way toned down these days. Like most things, "back in the day" was much harder and hobbled by poor tech and whatnot. Early Tour de France editions had stages far longer than now, on dirt roads, riders carried their own spare parts, and some had to weld bikes back together.
You can't have good leaders who perform as such in a world where cooperate process always strives to flatten the deviation and make people interchangeable in the name of business continuity.
I look at stuff like this, amazed at the efficiency, and then realize I scoff at a new 32 bit cortex MO chip for shipping with only 64K of ram and 12K of flash at 48 Mhz.
I wouldn't try reading too much into the pithy poetry I added at the last minute to make a broad, perhaps not particularly clear point about how copyright has been twisted to only serve established conglomerates rather than individuals.

My main beef with the approach being taken by a lot of artists towards AI art generators, using copyright in an attempt to kick the tools in the shin (notably not actually kill it, only perhaps slow it down a bit) could set legal precedent that would make it worse for individual artists and smaller groups by putting the most useful and powerful variations of the technology exclusively in the hands of intellectual property hoarders like Disney. As opposed to a more open approach where the possibility exists for useful generators to exist for free.

I'm not anti artist, I do genuinely think that this outcome would make things worse for them and better for the companies that already exploit them.
I really wish there were options like this for mobile (iPhone specifically). Most of my YouTube browsing is done on mobile or chromecasted.

I go through phases of deleting the app, which works really well, but then I’m not able to chromecast for the odd time I want to watch the occasional video with my partner.

I’d also still like to be aware of when videos from certain creators come out, so deleting the app just cuts that off entirely.

I would absolutely love to have an option for a YouTube app that only has a sub box and no recommendations.
"Number go up" is weirdly powerful, psychologically, whether it's the number in your brokerage account, or the number of karma points you have on Hacker News. Well, there's a number that people in Alcoholics Anonymous keep track of: The amount of time since your last drink. "Number go up." So how about keeping track of the time since you last watched a YouTube video?
I would think that centralised refrigeration would be a big win. Maybe there's LCA on this.
Thought that one would be contentious. In a past life I had a product owner whose hallucinations drove development direction. I have zero faith he represented what customers wanted accurately, not least because as far as I can tell he never spoke to them either. That was not a good time.
Shameless plug - the place I've been at for the last 2 years has the best culture I've seen or heard of (I've been around since the 90s). It is so good I changed my plans and went from contract to Full time a year ago. Transparency, pragmatism, solutions over blame, remote first, learning focused, rational hours (4.5 day work week), approachable C level, solid feedback process up and down. CEOs drive this.

https://www.flywheelsoftware.com/post/why-flywheel
When I have a choice I always download directly from the developer so that they get to keep the extra 30%.

But for my aging parents, my kid when he was young etc I was glad the App Store was the default and that apple normally warns you the first time you run something downloaded. It helps stop drive by downloads.
> but to facilitate natural logistics for these hugely impactful, ubiquitouly embedded service providers.

What does this mean?
Sure, but my point is: You need seL4 underneath to build a system with actual capabilities.

Nothing else can be trusted. (and non-seL4 would be slower, anyway ;)
Diagnostic Solutions performs the actual GI MAP.

DirectLabs is a reseller that has a physician on staff that approves your GI Map. So contact direct labs, order the kit, poop and vial it, drop it in the mail, wait 15-20 days. PDF of your results will be in your DirectLabs account online.
If you pre-order them and wait, you pay MSRP. I did.
I'm replying to the parent, who was talking about selling and distributing iPhone apps. Moreover, this discussion started with me highlighting which things should be in the subscription (CI/CD time, VPSes, direct support) versus things that shouldn't be in it (freely managing arbitrary software). Conflating the iPhone's capabilities with the developer program is Apple's fault, not mine.
I save maybe 10 minutes an hour with Github Copilot. Especially when writing tests, it will auto complete things like 'I expect these two numbers to sum to X' , except those numbers are buried in a list in an object, but somehow it creates the correct sum , that I use for the expected value. The danger is, sometimes it just creates completely wrong code, and you have to diligently be checking its generated output. They should maybe include accuracy ratings with the suggestions.
This analysis doesn't take into account increased wealth/productivity generated by people with debt forgiven.
What if you like sports cars not for the status but because you find them more fun to drive and we're scarred during youth when you received an incredibly frustratingly slow first vehicle?

I suppose it's only a link, not a hard and fast rule (bad pun intended).

Also, are people really so dimwitted / easily manipulated / insecure they can be reliably made to question their manhood based on a single data point, and while participating in a study, no less? This aspect seems a bit suspicious to me. For those who are concerned with such matters, extensive comparative information is abundantly available on the Internet.
For me most surprising thing is that when you do ls and ls|cat it gives you different result. It feels weird that ls knows who's reading it's output.
I had not realized that you wrote the fine article. As I told scruple in a sibling comment, I've been working in a pretty similar system for... some time :)

So I have some reading to do about that Mage Project...
On mobile there's still unmaintained Vanced until Youtube breaks it by changing the API, and also Blokada 5 and a few others for general app/web ad blocking.
What I appreciated most about 'abcde' was that just prior to the rip it would open up the CDDB output in 'vim' and allow quick and easy edits to what are, sometimes, horrific titling and track entries ...

It's a very nice workflow and avoids a lot of cleanup ...
The Book of Secret Knowlege
Not particularly surprising to hear that HoloLens may have moved into the "oh well, dump it on Uncle Sam" phase of product development.

It's good to hear that the government is demanding fixes to the eyestrain/nausea/headache issues before they commit to deploying them at scale.
It's not that complicated. Eating more leads to greater body mass, which requires higher caloric intake to sustain. Eating less leads to the opposite.

If you gain 20 pounds, then you need to eat more relative to your previous weight in order to maintain your current weight (including that extra 20 pounds). If you lose 20 pounds, you have to eat less to maintain that new weight.
Can the "product owner" actually program? Otherwise it won't work.
I'm addicted to the internet the way I'm addicted to electricity. It powers my quality of life: I don't feel any shame about it.

Wanting and expecting to use electricity and being reliant on having it available to me doesn't make me pathetic (although arguably it does make me weak).
Can't atomically assign a pointer and increment a counter

You can do that in multiple ways.

First you can use the extra bits of a pointer for a counter to fit it all into 64 bits.

Second, you can use a 128 bit compare and swap which has been supported by CPUs for about 20 years now.

Third, you can not use pointers and use indices of whatever bit resolution you want, using the extra bits for a counter.

Finally, how does a garbage collector change this ?

If make a long list using shared_ptr will overflow the stack when the head destructor executes.

If we set aside for a second the insanity in making a linked list where every pointer destruction calls the next pointer in the list's destructor, how is this unique to a shared_ptr ?
What you're bringing up--particularly the actions of the Senators, Representatives, and lawyers--are legitimate and legal avenues to pursue if one disputes election results. Democrats have used those avenues in the past, too. Don't twist that into some grand conspiracy that coincidentally just happened to not work out at all.

> He told the audience to go to the Capitol and "fight like hell"

You're using the quoted part with the first part of your sentence to spread false information. Anybody that reads the full quote and context of the speech [2] knows he wasn't talking about fighting at the Capitol. Biden and Harris have said "fight like hell" many times, but nobody uses their quotes out of context to insinuate advocacy for some theoretical coup.

Everything the President said related to the activities at the Capitol was about keeping it peaceful.

On Jan 6, 2021, the President tweeted:

"Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!" [0]

and

"I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!" [1]

In addition, at the rally prior to the protest at the Capitol, he said:

"I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." [2]

> The Jan6 committee found that Trump knew the audience were armed.

Armed with what? Firearms? And how could he know that? Exactly zero protestors at the Capitol were found to have been carrying firearms.

> That's where the insurrection comes in.

"insurrection" | noun | a violent uprising against an authority or government

Surely an actual insurrection would have involved at least one protestor bringing at least one firearm.

> Trump knew he lost the election very early on, but wanted to stay in power nonetheless.

The whole claim that he tried to stay in power is facially absurd. He didn't try to stay in power... he willingly handed over power as evidenced by the fact that there was a peaceful transition of power.

It's fine to disapprove of Trump, but this rambling unproven conspiracy stuff the January 6th Committee did was on a whole new level. Their entire goal was to get Trump disqualified and tarnish his image, no matter where the facts actually led.

[0] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469041109693153...

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469127807005777...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-s...
Try plinking around on a sample size calculator a bit, the results might be surprising. For example:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/sample-size-calculator/

If you are ok with a 25% margin of error and a 95% confidence level, 16 people is good enough. You have to make sure there isn’t some skew in your population, but if your method of sampling the population produces a skew, adding people won’t really help there.
In the Stacks (Maisie's Tune)
The Boston globe reports the app sent and received data without activation.

So while the blog may be wrong in the strict sense that the app was not automatically activated, it seems to be using a 'activated' in a different (and IMO more a accurate) way. Most people would consider something active if it's communicating via bluetooth.
Under capitalism everyone decides what to reward, even the poorest people in first world countries make tons of decisions what to spend their money on, that is how we decide merit, if people decide to give you their money you have merit. We try to regulate so it doesn't get abusive but there will always be some holes, but that system is as close to an unbiased merit function we have gotten.

The other good merit function we have is one vote per person, that is how we elect national leaders, this doesn't have some of the abusive loopholes as the capitalist merit function, but instead it has other abusive properties which is why every modern country choose to do a mix of both.
8051 is the basis for many microcontrollers today. They aren't compatible since vendors add all kinds of custom instructions or modifications to the original design but some vendors do still make drop in replacements. You can also get soft core versions for FPGAs that can run original software.
The problems with LLM are numerous but whats really wild to me is that even as they get better at fairly trivial tasks the advertising gets more and more out of hand. These machine dont think, and they dont understand, but people like the CEO of OpenAI allude to them doing just that, obviously so the hype can make them money.
Anxiety is certainly part of it but I think it's simpler than that. We can't be "on" all the time. We need hobbies, distractions, and escape just as much as we need productive work.
As the author notes though, this escape can become all consuming and ultimately hurt the person.
The presentation is 170 slides, and involves statistical arguments modeling work.

- Small projects can tolerate collaborating specialist pools (CSPs).

- CSPs attempting large complicated projects are quickly disastrously unlikely to even be completed due to the network effects of uncertainty and disagreement on commitment efforts, even with a hierarchy stuffed-in (assuming each specialist is necessary)

- One solution is to minimize team size.

- Another solution is planning projects better.
Agreed. This is just a random employee bemoaning that his large, bureaucratic employer is slow to move, and the opinion document he wrote got leaked for some reason. It doesn't "explain" why Google has become slow. Anyone can work out why Google is slow. Most likely because, like a lot of other large companies, Google has a lot of bureaucracy in the way of getting anything done, and a lots of people and lots of teams leads to mismatched incentives, which aren't necessarily aligned towards shipping product people want.
So you're suggesting that because it can tell the current date, it should have said "had not yet occurred" instead of "have not yet occurred".

That's kind of subtle.
Yeah, having watched twitter be flooded with this shit the only one that I even had to pause for was the landscape one. Though I suppose this could be some weird hoax article and next week they'll tell me it was all ai, even the text.
Here is Go version. works exactly as expected, no surprises. People just need to grow up and use a modern language, not a 50 year old out of date language:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
var i, iterations, meters float64
for iterations = 100_000_000; i < iterations; i++ {
meters += 0.01
}
// Expected: 1000.000000 km
fmt.Printf("Expected: %f km\n", 0.01 * iterations / 1000)
// Got: 1000.000001 km
fmt.Printf("Got: %f km \n", meters / 1000)
}
> has users reporting 15-20% weight loss within a year with minimal side effects.

That doesn't seem suuuper effective for a weekly injection type drug. If you reported 15-20% weight loss after a year on /r/keto, nobody would be very impressed.

I suppose it could work for everybody whereas diets like keto typically only work for a subset (25% or so?) of people who try it, but I'd wait for a bit more than 3 anecdotes to draw that conclusion.

We've had miracle fat loss drugs announced before. While I'm open to the idea these will work, I'm not holding my breath.