skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a huge minus. The fact that all shell tools produce text is a basic tenet of shell programming which underlies the composability and interoperability of them all.

PowerShell is essentially a cut down .NET environment with some nice syntax-sugar for typical shell activities. The objects in PowerShell are marshalled to/from text the same as in any other programming language.

So you can still write your tools as normal. Any PowerShell specific objects would just be a wrapper, or extra metadata. If we're being honest we already have that for other shells to make them more convenient: autocompletions. PowerShell objects give you autocompletions, type information, and interoperability with .NET libraries _but for data in addition to commands_.

The shell to programming language continuum has enough space to permit richer interpretations of the base data tools emit. We don't lose composability.

> With something like PowerShell - you need a debugger, data viewers etc.

Oh, what I would give for better shell script debugging. This is right up there with better CMake debugging for me.
Absolutely. The rule and enforcement of the rule are entirely stupid, but the rule does explicitly mention Github, and that does make this disqualification strictly according to the letter of the law, despite the fact that it makes no sense whatsoever. It's busibody bureaucrats exerting power over something they don't understand.
I feel like there's also a paragraph missing explaining the product and the problem and how they were using LLMs initially.
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> People don’t suddenly have less self control.

That's what we get after decades and decades of marketing targeting kids... large scale behaviour changes.

Look at how tobacco was advertised, it was the same thing, now most of us know smoking is very detrimental to your health and addictive. I wonder when people will realise they're pulling the same shit for food
A nice callback to the "trap streets" used in actual paper maps to catch people violating copyright:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
I first heard about it because of this story:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-kaufman-sailing...

I don't think it's a commercial system, but there is great cost in diverting a US Navy vessel for a search and rescue operation, though I suppose that is ideally the reason that they're out there in some sense.

After just a touch more reading, it looks like the rescue locator beacon system is piggybacking on GPS and Galileo satellites for some functionality, but includes other satellite and ground based systems too. Pretty cool.
Self control is a statistically significant factor representing around a 4% difference in body weight on average. But it doesn’t explain why things have changed.
> Having kids is one of those things. For example, in the US a woman who is considered religious based on frequency of services attendance has on average almost one child more than a woman considered nonreligious.

Is all of this causitive? Could say similar about daycare, which incidentally churches also often provide.
> And it basically has to be paid for at a fair rate by you, otherwise there will always be an incentive for someone to manipulate it against you.

In other words, protection money.
> That it is currently labeled only for Type 2 diabetes is a marketing decision by the manufacturer, not a characteristic of the drug.

Regulatory approval. It is a diabetes drug because it has been evaluated as such, including understanding the primary effects and side effects at various dosing levels. Mounjaro is prescribed to diabetics from 2.5mg to 15mg in increments of 2.5mg and titrated based on needs and goals.

Typically, weight loss versions of these drugs (Saxenda and Wegovy) are dosed higher than their diabetes counterpart, and are just titrated to maximum dose over time to maximize weight loss benefits. So evaluation is based on this, and approval follows this.

Various drugs do get used for off-label purposes, but the drug makers can't promote this because their marketing claims are regulated. This is why the coupon terms were changed.
Windows does not have a native POSIX shell. Nor does it have most of the POSIX utilities that are necessary to make a raw POSIX shell script usable. So you have to install an entire suite of utilities to make Windows look like it is POSIX--there's a couple different such suites, each with their own quirks (especially as Windows' guts is pretty far from POSIX). And you still get to cringe because things like having to spawn a new process to compute a substring is expensive on Windows.
the point is not the speed, but the brainspace. the brainspace I would have used on this task would have tired me out quicker and prevented me from making progress on other tasks.

ChatGPT is literally 0 brain space for these simple tasks. If you had to code it you're at least thinking about edge cases etc. Plus there's 0% chance it would take you 20 seconds for 10+ tasks of these per day. if you're coding at 50 wmp these would take you at least 1 minute to type out, let alone implement correctly.

by your logic you should never use google or SO because it's quicker to just implement it instead of opening a browser, typing the question, looking at responses etc.
Do you have a source on this? Trying to do more research but couldn't find much mention of this.
I suggest editing will to is
Clear Linux is another great flatpak-heavy distro, albeit not with all of the security benefits of an immutable base OS.

Linux is a processing/AI tool for me. So performance is king, which means CachyOS (based on Arch) for Nvidia systems and Clear Linux for non Nvidia systems.
But Ryzen has to support a bunch of legacy instructions, and M2 does not.

That’s a huge advantage
I think the point is that these AIs will be far more convincing than one-off messages.
Your reasoning is speculation and your sources only really show evidence for your claim that religiosity is declining.

Another correlation with birthrate is wealth. Wealthy countries have more expensive costs associated with raising children, such as housing and childcare. Given that children can't effectively work for 15-20 years, they are a financial burden. In poor countries, children become another set of hands that can be put to use from only a few years old.
I use sendgrid to send mail I host on Linode I manage with Cloudron which works with sendgrid and others out of the box. Cloudron is a cool paid server management app but their free tier includes email. Literally give the app your DNS provider details and API key, your sending service details (or internal smtp if you hate it when people actually recieve your email) and the rest is 100% automatic. The free tier limits how many one-button-press apps you can install. They're all regular open source apps, but they nicely maintain docket images for them all and the setup, including DNS for subdomains, is automatic and really smooth. I havr nothing to do with them but I was surprised by how smooth it was.
Yeah. You think social media is bad now? You just wait until the bot farms have full personas with personalities that can argue with everyone constantly to convince them of whatever nonsense someone is trying to push.

Marketing has already forced people to become defensive about communication. We don't answer phone calls, we throw out half or more of our mail without ever reading it, we scrutinize our email, we ignore the first 20 results of a search query, etc.

Now marketing has a new tool that will be much more difficult to distinguish from an actual human being. Society will suffer greatly and trust will erode even further.

What a bright future we've built for ourselves with technology.
1. Are the chemicals of heat breakdown the same as what's being described in the article? I find it strange that everything teflon related is lumped under "PFAS/PFOA", from precursor chemicals[1], the coating itself, its combustion products, to various other applications (eg. firefighting foams or paper takeout containers)

2. The "high temperatures" in this context is above the smoke point of most cooking oils. As long as you're not using it for high temperature applications (eg. searing meat), you're fine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Fear_River#Suspended_soli...
The engine and rules are the same, but the track is different. You change enough things you get a different game - you don’t change enough, and people get bored. I’d compare F1 to NASCAR. Building a new track isn’t cheap. The rules change every season making the cars require redesigns and try to use the available rules to eke out their own advantages. Part of the fun of hearthstone is its deck building, and if the available card pool never changes or updates in large ways, that aspect of the game dies.
what is the correct way to cook eggs?
I highly suggest that technical people like HN readers use the https://workaround.org/ispmail tutorials instead and set up postfix/dovecot from their OS repos. You'll learn enough on the way to fix things when they do go wrong rather than relying on some turnkey stuff who's internals are obscure and hard to fix when the inevitable problems happen.

Setting up a proper mailserver this way does take a few hours (from VPS setup to sending mail) but once it's set up it's good to go for a decade. And when the time comes to update the distro you're running it on you'll know how to port your data/config to the next VPS.
The documentation (B1_Using) does explain that:

> npt was developed with the intention of embedding it in the C language.

Kind of like Guile, but Common Lisp rather than Scheme.
Reaching top in Google Hash Code by playing games
Not quite. When you have a front end that spits an instruction into micro-ops that's a fixed mapping of 1 to 1-3 instruction and your decoder can handle many of those every clock. When you a micro-coded instruction you can have that instruction turn into a whole subroutine of indefinite length and on most current designs you can only decode one at once and it takes over until it completes.
A company the size of Microsoft making some peripheral investments can dwarf what entire startups might be able to invest.

But it was clearly not central to Microsoft's strategy for a long time. It's not like this is a whacky theory; their plain lack of focus on the Internet is matched by their own corporate statements about how they weren't focusing on it particularly. They got there, but they were slow to the party. They had to be forced. They had to go through some phases of attempting to embrace and extend the entire Internet, which they mostly failed at but did have a pretty good run at with Internet Explorer (though they still lost that one eventually).

Their core strategy was to focus on Windows and Office, but at the time they focused on the network as a threat to those things. They perceived the web as a threat because you don't need an OS if you just have a browser, and for as much as we today do on the web, including Office, they were afraid we'd do even more, like, do literally everything in a browser, and that the future was Chromebooks; specifically, machines with no Windows and no Office. Existential threat to a two-legged Microsoft. Prior to the internet being able to sensibly run an office suite they were also afraid that we'd all switch to some inferior product that was based on what the web could run, and they wouldn't be able to charge anywhere near as much. They saw the internet as an existential threat for a long time, not an opportunity.

So while they knew they couldn't kill the internet as a whole, and they put down some small side-bets that even if they paid off could never have sustained a company the size of Microsoft, they generally were attacking the internet and trying to embrace & extend it. Now they don't do that anymore and they generally understand it as an opportunity as well. But there was a long run where Microsoft saw it as a threat overall, even if they invested here or there. This seems to have come from Steve Ballmer, but that approaches the limits of my knowledge; people who were there could speak to that better.
We will work to fix this
I don’t think there’s a sleeper train between Gdańsk and Kołobrzeg. It’s too short a journey, and it’s not on the way to anything. AFAIK, the sleeper trains start from Gdańsk (or actually, Gdynia Główna, which is not far away), and then head south to Warzawa, Kraków, Wrocław, etc.
I noticed the purple streetlight phenomenon after the big freeze last December. I wonder if it's not just heat, but extreme cold also damages the phosphors.
I think it's going to be an interesting fight. By the standards the drug companies want to use, at least 1/3 of the US population might be diagnostically suited for a GIP prescription, which, as current understood, they would have to take every month for the rest of their lives. At $1000/month, treating half that cohort would add 15% to the US health care bill. That ain't gonna happen without a fight.
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried hit with new criminal charges
GPT-3 Siri Shortcuts Marketplace
A few weeks ago, I saw Alex Kolchinski's post about using the Shortcuts app to talk to GPT-3. I was intrigued, so I started hacking around with a few different scenarios and quickly found myself using them on a daily basis. Shortcuts are pretty useful for automating tasks, and the direct integration with the OS makes it easy to copy/paste and run keyboard shortcuts in any app or website.

I shared a few of my Shortcuts with our team, and others started remixing them and creating their own to share with us. We had so much fun making and using them that we decided to create PromptPlays, a website to share them with the public.

PromptPlays makes it easy to share and remix Shortcuts. You can copy/paste and run keyboard shortcuts in any app or website, and the marketplace allows you to browse and remix Shortcuts for your own purposes. All of the Shortcuts are available for free (BYO key).

We hope that PromptPlays will become a hub for people to share their ideas and create useful automations. Would love to hear your feedback on ways to improve or other ideas for ways this could be used.
Oh, you're right! In Chrome developer tools, they're all #D8BFD8.

I assumed they were subtle differences because elsewhere there are colors with subtle differences: Flood Warning is #00FF00, and Flood Advisory is #00FF7F.

To state the obvious, it should be usable without needing developer tools.
Is React still the right choice for Owncast in 2023?
Hadn't really looked into seasteading. Fascinating rabbit hole you've dropped me into here!
How much longer will the post-2021 malaise last?
I know asking for financial advice online is kidna dumb, but 2023 was going well, but now QQQ down 5% over the past 3 trading days over the usual concerns like inflation, interest rates, economic weakness, and so on. How much longer do you think this will continue? It's like "this again?" Why can't the fed figure out this inflation problem? There is over 100 years of data to go by, why does nothing seem to work?

I think it will probably take another financial crisis to get interest rates back to sub .25% and then the cycle can repeat...
Ah, I was looking at the wrong quote.

However, I think techies are too nitpicky.

In casual use "everyone" or "anyone" do not mean: "I literally asked everyone on the surface of the planet".

And he's not wrong.

Unless you have a preexisting commitment to Lisp and ecosystem or your needs are so specific that you need this precise piece of software, you won't use it.
Also I’m not a chemist but Wikipedia directly names it as a PFAS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene
I'm looking forward to the new Brussel–Amsterdam–Berlin sleeper line. Not sure if I'll manage to book something this year (the site was overloaded when it opened this week), but still cool.
Also, it is not legitimate to have this recursive reason for arrest: Interfering with the activities of the arresting entity. This almost allows to arrest people for interfering with their own arrest.

About confiscation of money - reality is stranger than fiction in the US in this respect, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

and particularly, administrative forefiture.
Ukrzaliznytsia (https://www.uz.gov.ua/en/) are heroes. There is a nice piece on the NYT about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/world/europe/ukraine-war-...
You can't simultaneously argue that price gouging events are rare and not rare. Pick one.

I was referring to the volatility of oil being factored into the price which is why Exxon Mobile's stock doesn't go up significantly when the price of oil goes up.
I'd he interested in some facts ? And cost/ benefit discussion? I know nothing about PFAS but the above comment reads like a lobbying screed. It sounds like PFAS has been in use for a long time. The above makes it sound like people are dropping like flies left and right. There must be a reason why it's still on the market and used widely.
Timothy Snyder has a great set of lectures about the making of modern Ukraine and he goes into great detail about the impact the Vikings had in the creation of Rus and their interactions with the Byzantines
When I have left previous jobs, I feel as if the severance was given in exchange for signing something saying I would never tell anyone of the horrors inside the company. This leads me to believe that within a few years we'll see that there will be no more severance.
I'm still struggling with conveying, "you have to get the stainless pan hot and lay down some fat before you add the food, or it will stick". Add the tendency of cast iron to unpleasantly flavor acidic foods (which is lots of foods) and it's hopeless, as far as convincing goes. At least stainless doesn't do that. I might win her over for stainless, mostly, but cast iron's going to remain only for me.

No denying that it's a lot easier to make eggs or pancakes or whatever on teflon, while distracted by also trying to get the kids dressed and such, without ruining the food or making a mess, than it is on other materials. Even if you know what to do with other pans, you still have to do it, and that takes more attention and care than teflon.

If it comes out that teflon pans are, in fact, a major source of ingested or inhaled PFAS, I'll probably kick up my efforts to convert her. In the meantime I suspect a lot more of it comes from other household materials (clothes, carpet, furniture—plus stuff in cars) that've been treated for fire and stain resistance, so I'm not super worried about the pans.
I'm not saying that the feelings are unjustified. I just thought it was interesting to see the article confirmed so quickly. If I needed a medication intendeded for my illness and couldn't get it I would feel the same way.
There's also an enjoyment asymmetry. I'm 6', 175 lb. If I were 5'2" and ate the same way I'd be fat. My structure gives me the ability to enjoy life more than a smaller person (at least tastewise), and if they eat exactly as much as I do I can tell them they lack self-discipline.
In Android, it's not possible to request a permission unless it's defined in the manifest, and a large number of permissions are granted without a permissions dialog.

This leads to a situation where app developers must unconditionally obtain permissions, even if they're only used on a certain code path.
After using cast iron for years, I bought a few de Buyer carbon steel pans and I love them. They're thinner and lighter than cast iron. They're more responsive to temperature. They season better than cast iron and are incredibly non-stick. They might be a bit more sensitive when it comes to care than cast iron though, and are certainly a lot more expensive.

I still use my cast iron cookware for times it is appropriate, but highly recommend carbon steel as well.
Of course, healthy food taste bad and the only good tasting food is junk food, gotcha

It tastes bad compared to junk food the same way caffein is bland compared to cocaine, ie. you have to be addicted and in denial to believe it
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I am curious over what eventually happened to Jeffrey Snover. Was he justly compensated for his work ?

Did a search, and seems he was eventually promoted:

https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/tech-general/news/jeffrey-sn...
Ask HN: Why is NPM still so buggy and slow?
So NPM is on version 9 or so, and it is still as buggy as ever. All kinds of weird errors, which I don't get when I use yarn or pnpm. It's also comparatively slow.

Why exactly is NPM still buggy and slow after all these years? What are they doing wrong?

For some reason I'd really like to stick with NPM, but the fact that its competitors manage to be consistently better means I might have to bite the bullet and make a permanent switch.
It's more like a spam filter or a body guard.

"Protection money" is a term used when the threat is coming from the same agent that is collecting the payment. In this case they are two separate agents.
I expect we will see a capitalist generative dystopia of some 1-2 decades before regulation hopefully steps in.
If a server was misconfigured OpenAI could have been trained on non public information. You can also poison OpenAI's dataset if you know it has been pulled by the service.
The metaverse is exactly the wrong place to flee to if you want to avoid AI that are native to the digital world.
It also has a hell of a lot more footguns.
hey, we are not learning from slack history. The Slack bot takes your knowledge base as the input (markdown, docs etc) and answers the queries asked by the user.
Frankly, Bellamy's utopia still sounds miserable and far less believable than Orwell's or even Huxley's. The organization of society in Bellamy is laughably naive of both human nature and economics. Honestly it reads like a children's book more than an achievable goal or prediction of things to come.
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I would like to see regulation that continues to allow more beneficial uses of PFAS while restricting the high-exposure, low-benefit uses.

For example, your phone screen is likely coated in a very very thin, factory applied coating of large molecules that are perfluorinated at one end and covalently bonded to the glass at the other end. It might even be applied by a CVD or similar machine without the use of solvents. It makes the screen easy to swipe and much less smudge-prone. And there is very little of it, and only the tiniest amount is likely to come off in your fingers.

Compare to essentially any anti-fog goggle spray. You spray it and probably inhale it. And it is made out of soluble PFAS [0] that don’t stick very well to your goggles, and you put those goggles on your face, and probably get some of the chemicals in your eye and nose, and then you do it again and again. (Seriously, what’s wrong with gel toothpaste for this application? Good old sodium lauryl sulfate is an excellent defogger, and any gelled version sticks to glass or plastic well enough for a long swim, and the entire formulation is extremely non-toxic. And in the tiny amounts needed for goggles, it doesn’t even irritate eyes.)

PFAS are everywhere, and it’s uses really do vary widely in how problematic they are and how useful they are!

[0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.1c06990
Ceph, Minio, or some other S3-compatible system.
Micro ops are a level higher than microcode.
HN is probably just a single basement dweller with 100,000 accounts auto posting stuff using a mix of GPT and comments stolen from Reddit
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1. Work with a recruiter in parallel to your own job search.

2. Email your resume to hello@taylor.town and I'll review it for you.

3. Do you have side-projects? Do you have a personal website? Both of those might be helpful.

4. Are your social skills problematic? There's no easy path to becoming likable, but it's an incredibly valuable trait. Charisma can be learned with hard work.

5. Be searchable! Post on the monthly HN job threads.