skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a Black guy who lived in Forsyth county from 2016-2022 and I still own my home there. I know it’s very red and I know all about it’s history (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rSqMiqZsCiY). While none of my family including my 6 foot 3 very big step son has had any hint of overt racism, when I walked into the school, they automatically knew who I was there to pick up. His friendship circle is like the rainbow coalition and he has often been the “guess who is coming to dinner” guy and hasn’t had any issues with parents.

On a side note, one of my sons best friends (a white guy) did help me prank the school administrator in high school when I went to pick my son up and they assumed my (step) son was my son because “he looks just like me” and I said I “didn’t know who that guy was (my son)” and his friend overheard the conversation and ran up to me and said “Dad!”

But back on topic as long as you stay out of the inner part of Forsyth (Cumming) you will find a lot of northern expats and professionals moving to Forsyth and while it’s still conservative, it’s more of a Bush/Romney “conservative” than what is the Republican Party today.

I haven’t seen any MAGA signs, any mention of the culture wars, and none of the “we see a strange Black man breaking into a house by using a garage door opener and driving in”.
when i click "about us" you look pretty young for 77!
It seemed not so long ago most homes in NZ were going to auction too.
Rabbit Remix (block-based AI API flows)
China should be made an example of
I saw the same. Assume this is why he didn't pass the Google interview :)

The calculator he is using defaults to "semi-monthly" which I guess is twice a month. So you can double the money available before expenses which means a lot more after expenses.
Needs "2013" in title.
By modelling the previous location of groundwater (under the ground), and the new location of groundwater (on the surface of the ocean) one can calculate the change in the earths rotational axis that is expected. The measured change matches predictions only if this effect is considered.

The location changes the axis because most land is on one side of the earth (centered around Europe), and most ocean is on the other side (centered around the south Pacific). Move mass from one place to another, and the axis changes.
++ triggers AI autocomplete; a whole wall of text of autocomplete.

So the question was likely: how to write the word "C++" in your prose (as opposed to writing some C++ code)
> Whoever sent this email should be reprimanded.

I have never heard/used this product. Maybe there were layoffs and no one cares...or an uninformed individual sent the mass email with short notice.

Either way, very telling! Also bad press is good press, I guess?
https://archive.is/HTtKs
You are forgetting concentration. C14 isn't a significant issue because only one in every trillion carbon atoms is C14 - the rest is stable.

Meanwhile, high-level nuclear waste is a densely concentrated soup of spicy elements, all neatly packed together to provide a really bad day to anyone stumbling onto it.
Generations 1 through 9 don't really need to do anything. Generation 10 will have a bit of work to do, but much less work than it takes to deal with it now. The really radioactive components of the waste (the fission products) decay away after a few hundred years.
Hey,quickthrower2. A lot of my friends think I'm crazy. I certainly agree with you. Thanks for the compliment. Richard
I think the point he was trying to get across in the interview was they're much smaller than Google and Meta, and you can run a company at Twitter's scale with a smaller cheaper team. It felt like it was aimed at shareholders, but poorly articulated.
I think the VCs blame Reddit leadership for not somehow developing ChatReddit and becoming instant bazillionaires.

And management is scrambling to show they can still have a profitable exit.
As much as possible, the specifics matter i think, so i'll weigh what script(s) offer in terms of UX compared to load time/bandwidth/etc. In general i'm just trying to stay super lightweight, only giving in when necessary.

Also, focusing on CSS first means - hopefully - that the UX is "as good as it gets" for JS-less individuals. If i add a small JS framework on-top of that it's likely fine.

edit: I'm sort of experimenting with how good i can make modern websites. Both on UX, accessibility, low bandwidth (folks on satellite connections appreciate this), etc. I'd like the site to "look like any modern site" (minus obtrusive crap), but suffer as few flaws as possible.
> _Hypogonadal_ men (n = 823) with total T ≤ 12.1 nmol/L (age: 60.6 ± 7.0 years) participated in an ongoing registry study. Among these men 474 (57.6%) were obese, 286 (34.8%) overweight and 63 (7.7%) had normal weight.

Hypogonadism means the gonads don't produce enough testosterone naturally.

So yeah, if you give testosterone to a bunch of old, fat, unhealthy [1] men with hormonal problems, it might help them lose weight and keep them alive longer.

[1] No offense, just calling it like I see it
Red Delicious is now a grotesque betrayal of its original version and you know it.
The reason you are getting downvoted is because we have been told we are the good guys and the other side are the bad guys. American exceptionalism to the fore.

Every group in power acts exactly the same way as they want to keep the power. It is just human nature.
https://archive.is/bG4eV
Maybe Google operation north woods?
> These artifacts exist.

Not according to the original writings, as asserted in the article itself which it appears you did not read.

To quote (the article quoting the Ganguli translation of the Mahabharata)

The fact was duly reported to the king. In great distress of mind, the king (Ugrasena) caused that iron bolt to be reduced into fine powder.

Paraphrased as:

Note that the supposed “bomb” is actually a bolt (like a scepter), that the king feared the bolt, and the king destroyed it before it could be used.
What a waste. The goal is important but so is the journey. Sacrificing your youth for money by living at the edge of poverty is not worth it to me. But to each their own.

Society is what it is. Most of us will need to earn a living at a company and have a life in addition. Our goal should be to make the best of every day. Believe it or not having a job is a actually a plus but you have to balance it along with the other parts of your life. Too much of anything is a problem. We need balance in our lives.
Those ELO albums with Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison et al. where pretty good.
> That was a paraphrased quote, made by bill gates

The quote was "640K", and Bill Gates probably didn't actually say it, at least not in a general context, vs "... to run MS-DOS and Visicalc" or similar.
Thoughts on making Tildes groups more independent
You have to look across a span of time.

Day 1: 16 hours, 16 work units
Day 300: 16 hours, 2 work units

Burnout comes in when your pace is unsustainable. We are debating where the sweet spot is. Maybe it's 8 hours a day for you. Maybe it's 10 for Carmack. Maybe it's 6 for me. I don't know, but I doubt it's as obvious or linear as you seem to be thinking.
Tod's Workshop on Youtube has a couple videos of both the production and use of a rondel dagger. Really an effective weapon.

https://youtu.be/7iU3q23jGX0
I don't think Steve Huffman is that dense. I read what he said. My impression is he is trying to be clever, and in the end, look like he executes better than Elon.

It's still smarmy.
It's while in use. It's always checking if you are looking at it...
I've got another one. Many people think that privatized prisons and their incentives to profit are a major part of the reason we have such high incarceration rates in the US. However, only 8% of prisons in the US are privatized. Also, some states do not have any privatized prisons at all.
I'm positive there's some exaggeration for effect, but I've run into some Powershell scripts for that have grown into 1000+ lines and I'd guess roughly 2/3rds of them were in functions never called.

The call is removed, but the function remains. Fields in a form stay, unused and unpopulated, but the validation is disabled and left behind. Things like this.

No version control meant it was hard to go back, and people are afraid to break things.
"Sure, you can overclock that CPU, but why?"

I dislike questions that challenge pushing the limits of our existence.
So - this feels like a convincing refutation of the article! You should have said this first! I'm naive in all aspects of the details here but I'm glad to see that you had something more in your coat than "there are bigger energy eaters than these." Thanks!
I have worked on a lot of complex systems but my favorite project was a Memcached compatible server for Windows written from the ground up.
It also lists previous versions of things that still exist. They have Angular listed as killed by google because Angular 2 replaced it..

Or listing the lite versions of apps which became obsolete when phones were able to run the full app.
What bothers me about it is that the false narratives created by these shows, and the inaccurate sources that they frequently cite, make it much harder to learn real information about these ancient cultures and their belief systems. I also suspect (but don't know for sure) that it may create a hostile environment for academics trying to research these topics -- once a topic is associated with quackery, that taint is hard to wash away.
Going to the bathroom is productive. It is not “fucking” around.

This is just a blog post of a guy fawning over John Carmack and dealing with feelings of not measuring up.
See this: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/the-chin...

"At the same time, the Chinese government is seeking to become the world’s greatest superpower through predatory lending and business practices, systematic theft of intellectual property, and brazen cyber intrusions."

And just recently:

https://apnews.com/article/korea-samsung-china-copycat-semic...

"South Korean prosecutors have arrested and indicted a former executive of Samsung Electronics suspected of stealing trade secrets while attempting to establish a copycat computer chip plant in China."

There are literally hundreds of articles like this - and it's been going on for decades. But the behavior alleged in this article seems even more blatent and aggressive than the past, and perhaps a foreshadowing of what is to come in the near future.
It depends on whether or not you count pretending to be busy as work.
Ask HN: Is Kick.com somehow using Twitch to not have to pay bandwidth costs?
For those not involved in the whole streaming scene, Kick.com is a huge rival to Twitch and they recently paid an insane amount of money (read $100M) to sign a contract for a streamer called XQC to stream on their platform.

I headed over to their site and saw that the user was doing their first stream and had >60k live viewers so I was curious to see where they were hosting their servers and when I looked the IP up (99.181.66.216), it said Twitch to my surprise.

Now I'm honestly baffled and are they somehow exploiting Twitch's embedded player to serve the content from them (do not that this streamer [XQC] is not streaming on Twitch at the same time, at least not using his regular account).

This is honestly the only theory I could come up with, but this shouldn't even be possible since CORS should stop it, right...?

Anyway, immensely excited to see if anyone here on HN knows what's going on because seeing a rival stream using their competitor's servers is mind-blowing to me.
The FBI has a bunch of professionals learning how to convince mentally unstable people to commit to doing criminal acts. They have a long history of weird political interference [0]. How are we verifying that they are only doing morally offensive but legal things? What is the safety valve if they slip into morally offensive illegal things? The Snowden approach didn't work, he just ended up hiding in Russia and the security state shrugged hard. And that was just spying, if they're assassinating people, who is going to take the fall? It looks like the people on the ground are already self-selected thugs so probably not them.

It is possible that they don't always using their skills legally and under supervision. It is like computer security researchers - some are law abiding, some are a bit dodgy and do things that aren't legal. With FISA in the mix we can't even be completely sure what is legal in this area anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...
Yeah, they are the ones with hundreds military bases all over the world, constantly invading/bombing other nations, staging coups, sponsoring terr^H^H^H freedom fighters...
Chelsea Manning and Reality Winner both accepted the consequences, by that measure. William Binney attempted to go through channels, with little success.

Snowden (veteran though acting in a civilian role) has had far more impact.

What Ellsberg and Snowden both managed to do was to make the story compelling and the information unescapable.

Consequences (your argument) or civillian status (raised elsewhere) are both exceedingly red herrings.
> one that customarily means "pass the rest of arguments on to a subprocess".

It's convenient for passing options and args to a subprocess, but it customarily means "don't interpret anything following this as a short or long option, just as a positional argument". For example:

touch -f # error
touch -- -f # creates a file named "-f"
rm * # oh crap we just passed "rm -f" a bunch of files
rm -- * # don't treat that "-f" as an option, just delete the file named "-f"
Can RIF and Apollo stand up a clone of reddit in reasonable time and point their clients that way?
No, I think it applies to public forum conversations, like the one we are having. You shouldn't have the right to prevent future generations from seeing how I zinged you good.
I'm conflicted in this. Ok the one hand, a lot of things here ring true, and AIC (Ass In Chair time) is a relevant indicator for work except... When it's not. Quality is definitely a thing, and it's hard to measure. Sometimes you work for a couple hours on something, and your revisit it later and realize the quality just isn't there and you have to do it over. Then how much did those hours you put in really count.
What was even the point of this service anyway?
I hear the compression tends to attract lots of 'out of the box' thinkers. So you'll have company.
I got the email and was confused because I've never heard of it, but I see another comment in this thread that it's related to Picasa, which I certainly did use, and really liked. So this really just serves as a little salt on that old wound.
You made a claim, gave zero evidence whatsoever for that claim, and the grandparent response included a retort with at least a mention of anecdotal evidence. Now you’re getting pissy because they didn’t provide a study?
No there is no baseline reversion for exogenous testosterone. What happens is that your natural ability to produce testosterone disappears.
THIS!!!*!
I don't think it will. There isn't any good way to incrementally fetch remote nix files, so to use nixpkgs it all has to be downloaded and unpacked.
Oh, is that true? Either way, certainly not an efficient compression scheme.
Aside from Ellsberg's own comments on that point: <https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=36366462>
How bad are TN prisons if you don't mind me asking? As a resident of the state, I have heard that there is one in Middle TN that is absolutely inhumane in many ways... like the state was/is investigating as to why a slightly abnormal number of inmates are dying while incarcerated.

I can't remember the name, but it's one of the CoreCivic ones.
For the purpose of feeling a lot better. Why are you so hostile to the idea of men having a better quality of life in old age?
>I wonder if global warming could make it into one of the most populous countries in the distant future.

Unlikely. The parts of Canada that aren't settled (and aren't actually in or near the Arctic Circle) are that way not because of temperature, but because the soil is almost entirely unsuitable for farming: Either rocky Canadian Shield, or "swallows locomotives overnight" muskeg (plus infinite numbers of mosquitos).

>Would be funny if there is some canadian cabal trying to speed up global warming.

Canada will net benefit from global warming, yes, because the Northwest Passage will become navigable. But it is not true that temperature is the only thing keeping Canada from being able to support as many people as the US, which has almost identically sized geography.
> I don't have a lot of sympathy for the idea of making laws uniform for the convenience of large companies that operate across many jurisdictions.

What makes you think that only large companies operate across many jurisdictions?
Yep! The only problem (if you consider it problem) is when protonmail started the service, in addition to the password and 2FA, there’s an extra password for the mailbox itself, which they “merged” later both the email and mailbox passwords when they introduced the .com one, so all new email needs one password, old .ch ones need two passwords.
I bought Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Quit Smoking. And it really helped me quit.

So there is a market for books on how to quit smoking.
It is China and therefore thou shall be outraged.
I think he strikes a chord with a common theme around programmers. We’re talented, and it’s easy for us to abuse that talent b/c what we’re doing is often hard to track for more functional folks. As such the burden of responsibility falls on our own internal mechanisms (i.e. self-discipline).

Early in my career I had an issue of not getting things done. I later learned about myself that I just have some needs to make sure my values are aligned to the work which required a pivot to another company. But everyone has their own reasons for not being “better”!
It's interesting how zstd can use a shared dictionary to compress small amounts of data.

It's a more practical ( then my idea ) shared dictionary.
Lots of comments about how hard of a market it is to get going. Of course it is but just wanted to point out it is possible. Here in Quebec there is "du proprio" [1] which is pretty successful and are getting significant market share. Anyone I know looking to buy is looking at both MLS and duproprio listings.

But I can tell it must be a very tough business. For one they have run continuous TV ads for years. The ads are targeting sellers only almost, and the main message is to save on realtor fees. So I'd suspect it's the listings that are the challenge, in a seller's market, the buyers will come.

Their offers/pricing for sellers is very thorough. Yard signs of course, but also pro photographers sessions, 3d virtual visit thingy (check it out its neat), full legal services to complete the transaction... Their online listings and overall experience is much better than MLS/Realtor websites.

In the end the platform was bought by PurpleBrick which is a slightly different business model I believe, and PurpleBrick was bought by a large credit union that might simply advertise mortgages? They never attempted to expand much outside of the quebec market afaik, but the platform looks like it's here to stay and going strong here.

[1] https://duproprio.com/en/
Show HN: Github project to create directed agents (Seeking Feedback)
I’ve written a few command-line utilities in Swift lately and really enjoyed working with it. The type system I find especially appealing, being an enabler far more than an impediment, and coming from writing tons of C and Ruby there’s a lot that is familiar. Thus making the current multi-platform story a real shame, it’s a massive barrier to ever choosing Swift for a significant project.

It feels like Apple’s reflexive parochialism is limiting their influence, and that is something only leadership could overturn. I doubt they feel any financial incentive to do so.
So many family members frantically texting me worried that their Google Photos are about to be deleted.
Maybe the biggest offender should be made an example of??
> The most likely reason for such deviations from what conservatives would consider, "normal sexuality" is endocrine-distrupting pollution. The kind that causes amphibians to change their sex, for example.

Ironically, conservatives as a voting bloc will be the first to vote to reduce environmental protections and regulations attempting to reduce this (or any) pollution.
Agreed. An Australia same. In NZ most people live on the Northern Island. Because better soils, less rugged terrain and milder climate.
This is exactly the why and how of "travel broadens the mind". You only have to visit countries and socities that do not have well-developed financial markets to directly see and appreciate the value financial markets bring to your own society.

Visit a part of the world where most people do not have access to home loans, health insurance etc. and you will not have to ask how mere redistribution of risk and capital adds to productivity ever again. (I happen to have been born one such part of the world.)
The parts of Canada that aren't settled (and aren't actually in or near the Arctic Circle) are that way not because of temperature, but because the soil is almost entirely unarable: Either rocky Canadian Shield, or "swallows locomotives overnight" muskeg (plus infinite numbers of mosquitos).
Ex-Samsung exec charged stealing secrets to create copycat chip factory in China
"South Korean prosecutors have arrested and indicted a former executive of Samsung Electronics suspected of stealing trade secrets while attempting to establish a copycat computer chip plant in China."
Outside of a handful of special ultra-unlocked iPhones Apple sells (or loans maybe? Don't remember the details) to security researchers, no, you cannot reliably boot your own OS on iPhone hardware. Apple's secure boot ROM only trusts bootloaders cryptographically signed by Apple's private signing key.

Short of finding a flaw in that ROM or a jailbreak good enough to take over from the booted iOS, there's no path to booting something else. While people have found such boot ROM and jailbreak flaws in the past, recent hardware and iOS have no known vulnerabilities good enough to take over (AFAIK). (and note also that Apple guards against rollback attacks on iOS devices - once you've upgraded a device to a new iOS version, there's no going back to an older version with a jailbreak.)

The complexity of Apple's hardware is not a barrier. Apple Silicon Macs run essentially the same hardware as iPhone, only more complex (because there's more stuff to support in the bigger SoCs they put in Macs). When Apple updated their secure boot to work well for Mac, they chose to explicitly support that which is forbidden on iPhones: they give users an interface allowing them to locally sign a bootloader and store a cryptographic hash in the Secure Enclave so that the boot ROM will trust it just as if the bootloader had been provided by Apple. Because this path exists, people have been reverse engineering Apple's SoCs and there's a working Linux distro (Asahi Linux) and a BSD port. Not everything works yet, but a surprising amount does.
Ellsberg was one of the greatest Americans of my lifetime. He was a true believer working in the belly of the national security state and had the courage to both admit that he was wrong and to make his proof public.

"We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side." -Daniel Ellsberg
It’s not odd at all, it’s a common saying in situations like this or even less “serious” situations.
Twitch uses AWS to encode video, so the IPs may be identified as Twitch even if they're actually assigned to generic AWS address space. That's by best guess, I highly doubt this is a case of malicious abuse.
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