skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that were the case, wouldn’t that point the paranoia towards the USSR and not UFOs from space?

But I agree, it is a possible explanation.
As a cave diver it just pissed me off when people take completely unnecessary risks and then after they die we can't discuss that they were idiots after the fact. I've read so many accident reports of people dying while scuba diving on dives that should be easy.

James Cameron has been down on the Titanic 33 times. It can absolutely be explored safely over and over by human submersibles.

The only reason for this entirely avoidable accident is the hubris and overconfidence of the OceanGate CEO.

The fact that it imploded on a dive to a monument to engineering hubris is almost like Nature is trying to put a period on the end of the sentence here.

And there's a lesson to be learned here about silicon-valley-esque "move fast and break all the rules" counterintuitive/contrarian decision making. The blog article on why Titan isn't Classed is a good example of this kind of thinking, which has now been decisively marked-to-market:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230619161930/https://oceangate...

And there's a lesson here about the fact that otherwise smart and intelligence people (which he must have been to found the company) can be utterly stupid at times, and even over the long-term. There's a very common fundamental attribution error / correspondence bias / actor-observer asymmetry going on here where people cannot decouple someone's traits from their actions. You see this as well in some of the recent discussion around Prigozhin where people assert that he is not a stupid man (okay) therefore it is impossible that the whole explanation for the recent coup-attempt-whatever was that he got angry and make a dumb mistake--so it must be some kind of overly-complicated ruse. Also that buying Twitter could be really dumb, and that invading Ukraine could be really dumb. Lots of intelligent men being royally stupid in public lately.
Creating new avenues for immigration is one way to try to plug the housing bubble problem (fresh new capital flowing in). Problem is I don't think it will work, and they'll instead attract even more extra mouths to feed and bring further social problems.
glass is hard to pack around and easy to break.
Overt, no?
Is there a list of the tests worth taking to get as full a view as possible into my health?
iirc it's `-C overflow-checks=y` to rustc or

[profile.release]
overflow-checks = false

in cargo.toml.

I would probably use the flags with RUSTFLAGS to make sure that it goes to all dependencies and not just the crate you're building, if what you're building has dependencies.
DOJ charges 78 people with $2.5B in health-care fraud
This is the way!

Introduce all the constants you need.

Don’t redefine functions and operators for syntactic sugar.
Fyi, I'm building an open source block-based editor @ https://www.blocknotejs.org that uses one large contenteditable and doesn't have those downsides you mention. It's built on top of Prosemirror.

Would be interesting to see projects going beyond contenteditable for sure!
That lends itself to the notion that they think writing software is akin to an assembly line, which is quite predictable by comparison. But we aren't writing the same thing over and over and over again. It's like they see the stakeholders describe what they want to the BA and the BA gives the requirements to the SWE and then the QA tests it... and they just envision an assembly line.
> There are hundreds of commercial and open methods for obfuscating a program during compilation.

Obfuscation doesn't make reverse engineering impossible, only a little more difficult.

> It's perfectly rational. Apple already does this in China.

Does what exactly?

Remember, the original claim was "Apple can remotely execute any code they want on your phone at any time."

> Taking Apple at face value

I never said to take Apple at face value.

> It will be irrational once we know for certain that Apple doesn't aid spying on their users.

Which you claim is impossible to know forever, making your belief totally unfalsifiable. How convenient.
What are you talking about? This is an ongoing global public health crisis: https://www.who.int/news/item/23-10-2022-almost-1-million-pe...
Interesting read. I'd argue the most successful AI-based products are the ones that settle for 80-90% accuracy and “Create a fault-tolerant UX.”

Then, the question becomes: how to create a great fault-tolerant UX?

There are some nice recent cases... Github Copilot is one...
LOL Chill with the Land hate.
As a Canadian who moved to the US for tech, I strongly advocate for any young Canadian with capable means who is reading this to leave Canada.

An already broken system is being stacked against you

Housing prices are more expensive in Canada.
Health care systems are crumbling within Canada.
Wages are lower in Canada.
General cost of living is more expensive in Canada

I was frankly shocked after a lifetime of watching CBC just how much my quality of life improved by moving to the USA.
This is exactly what I have been thinking since 2016. If Aliens/UFOs are real, we will hear about it soon. However, if it's true that parts of the government are secret from the president, even the last one, then that is a real problem.
> CSAM does carry emotional weight.

I never argued it doesn't.

> Your entire argument is that since privacy measures are already loose then its okay to make them looser for "the children".

Where did I make this argument? (hint: I didn't)
I have single datasets with trillions of UUID. Collision probability becomes a thing.

That aside, UUIDv4 is banned in many orgs because there have been several instances in the wild where the “random” number wasn’t nearly as random as advertised from some sources for a variety of reasons, leading to collisions. It is relatively easy to screw this up so many orgs don’t risk it.
Usually people make your point to criticize any social/worker movement that "divides" people or is "anti" something
This is a good, related opinion article: https://davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/in-defence-of-ozempi... In defence of Ozempic - Why the weight-sadists hate the new drug
> If you want to move away from Sudo

Is there something wrong with sudo?
It's not as false as some might want to believe.

The issues are complex - but one of the side affects are indeed artificial suppression of wages for citizens.

We have software titans bursting at the seam with imported labor - yet our domestic universities are also churning out more CS graduates than ever before. Some of these graduates are indeed from foreign countries - but not all.

It's very hard to believe companies need to import labor for commoditized software engineering positions when there are plenty of available workers already here.

We should be importing top-tier talent - the types of folks that are working in complex fields, inventing new fields, developing things that haven't been done before, etc. We should not be importing basic CS graduates and filling basic SE jobs.

H1B's are often cheaper to hire, and do not enjoy the same mobility freedoms a citizen does. In some ways, they are beholden to their sponsor company, and whatever wages that company offers - which may not necessarily be market wages.
There are similar comments in OP about salaries and changing expectations/demands by labor discovering its negotiating power, but it's buried at the end so no one is reading that far.
That's a bad enough issue!

I lived in a San Jose house framed in old Redwood. A century of drying and hardening made in virtually impossible to drive a nail. The 'dimensional' lumber (sawn to no particular standard) made it hard to fit any modern fixture.

Having been modified several time over the century it was a warren of misshapen rooms and awkward hallways & stairs. Had a single 15 amp circuit for the downstairs and nothing upstairs. Wire run in conduit instead of inside the walls - and not stylish office conduit, galvanized pipes hung from the walls with nailed-in hangars!

My neighbors had it worse - no foundation! Just built on the dirt. He jacked it up and used a skid loader to build a basement and foundation, get the wood away from the termites. Lived in it the whole time! An amazing couple.
Laboratory developed tests (LDTs) don't require FDA approval. However, this test is specifically referenced in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine PFAS exposure report (sort of the go to document for PFAS exposure and management). Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK584705/

We have a doctor we work with and a Quest account.
Tip: you can express (city) time "zones" in the type system e.g. London time and New York time.
Back In Time: Vintage Maps of Akihabara (1976–2001)
I've been collecting these on and off since 2019, and there are now more than 20 maps covering almost every year between 1982 and 2001, and the earliest map is from 1976. These show a fascinating transition of shops catering from radio electronics through early microcomputers to consumer electronics and video games of today.
> And maybe there's more a percentage of "childish things" enjoyed now

At some point we have to adjust the scales and say that since so many adults are enjoying "childish" activities and media that those things are just for adults now, and maybe always have been if there wasn't so much shame around it. Adults enjoy Bluey more than their kids do. Craig of The Creek and Gumball are some of my friend's favorites. Ted Lasso took all the formulas from children's media but put them in adult situations and it won like every award. Marvel is now more a hit with adults than kids.
As for Glean, you concede "some semantic understanding". All I know is as of 2 years ago I couldn't do "Find Usages" of a particular C++ method where I could Google cs 6+ years ago.

I did spend way more time doing www than C++ though and Hack was specifically written to facilitate regex searches like being able to search for "SomeClassName::someFunctionName" to find usages as well as the other examples of prohibiting namespacing and type aliasing (in Hack). Google cs doesn't have that constraint.

> SrcFS and ObjFS aren't what solve this problem at Google

It's a mix. You can't just pull out one piece of the Google dev infra because it's all connected. In a P4 client, you'd list some paths that were "local" allowing local modifications. Forge, SrcFS, ObjFS, TAP and Sponge are all pieces of this puzzle.

> This is wrong since at least 2015 FB's build system had the build artifact caching

First, there's more to FB builds than infra C++, most notably iOS and Android, which are all built locally. It's why iOS/Android engineers have big, chunky machines like the iMac Pro or the trash can. If this has changed, it's a fairly recent change. Google builds mobile apps on Forge. There are literally racks of Mac Minis to build iOS. With this you can build artifact cachincg like you do with, say, Google3 Java or C++.

Second, "local" requires some further explanation. Typically, things are built on a devserver (although this was transitioning to on-demand VMs, for which the Google equivalent was CitC). But a devserver build required a full checkout and build with artifact caching. It could then be incremental until an hg pull forced a larger rebuild. There were sparse checkouts but I think the support was pretty limited and only worked on certain infra projects.

Either way, the whole FB C++ build experience was fairly primitive and even worse for iOS/Android.
It seems that is the case. I've never actually visited that site.
Oh yea fish, did you also have above average mercury?
I share the sentiment. It was my wife's (then girlfriend's) explicit wish that I don't chase my passions in such an environment, and I'm really grateful for that after the years.
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The same can be said of the tech world, but with a different constructed reality.
> I wonder what the liability waiver said that made the father think this wasn't a terrible idea.

Fathers often subject their sons to unnecessary risks in the interests of making them more "manly"...
I've taught people to juggle or even (barely) ride a unicycle after a lesson or two. That doesn't mean those aren't difficult skills to acquire.

Plus, many people who are learning do not have the privilege of an experienced teacher. Relying on instructions, videos, and trial & error takes more time and energy for most people. I agree with you that it's worth the effort though.
CAMA is one of the few I can think of thats still around.

SS7 is newer than TCP
Sounds good in theory, but fails to account for the cost of uncertainty in understanding how much it will cost to get somewhere. Good chance people say "screw this, I'm taking a car".
Honestly, the dental floss is the most fucked PFAS application out of all of them.
Guess I need to up the dose.
Right? Enheduanna was trans
Please Kurt!
It's ironic that the pilot gave us one of the best characters: Q. You can bank on TNG Ferengi episodes being terrible, DS9 Ferengi episodes being fantastic, and any Q episode being good enough to watch more than once. Like some of them were meh but they were all okay. The Q episode on DS9 was probably the weakest one, but that was Season 1 of DS9 so law dictates it is weak.
> Okay, so when the bird flu hit and suddenly there were way less eggs to go around, what if companies had kept egg prices exactly the same? The result of that would be that all the eggs would sell out and we'd have empty shelves, since there literally weren't enough eggs to go around.

> But that didn't happen. Eggs became more scarce, and therefore more valuable, and thus prices universally went up. People who still wanted eggs badly enough and could afford the high prices paid a premium for them. Other people bought and ate something else instead.

So the egg supply went down. Yes, you'd expect to see empty shelves, because there were fewer eggs to buy, and they're useful. Instead what we saw were shelves as full as before, because of prices went up. What that means is, people were already buying fewer eggs, because the supply was so much lower, but because of prices going up, people bought even fewer than that. There were a shortage of eggs, and yet because of prices being raised, they couldn't even sell through on the eggs they had.

How much of the reduction in egg consumption was due to reduced supply, and how much was due to raised prices? No idea.

What would I expect to see? If the egg supply dropped precipitously, I'd expect a company which makes their money selling eggs to make less money. Or raise prices so that they make the same amount of money. Instead, they raised prices so they made way, way more money.
And how does it compare to OSC (Open Sound Control)?
Modern operating systems are designed for three things:

1. Serve ads.

2. Consume content.

3. Compress audio and video input and upload it to someone's servers.

None of these requires a responsive UI. Ticket closed, works as designed.
I believe that any doctor is able to order any Quest tests, like this one.

Quest doesn't do the analysis on this particular test - Quest and LabCorp both send them out to NMS Labs in PA who performs the lab work.
> if the government is forced to reveal it

The government isn't even revealing the existence of search-warrant-type documents. Who do you imagine would have the ability to compel the revelation of a secret of this magnitude?
Your argument is wrong.

Any physical quantity, for instance length, can appear as an argument of a nonlinear function that can be developed in a Taylor series. So your example would be identical for any other quantity not only for angle. I can make an analog computing element where a voltage is equal to the sinus of another voltage, so after your theory, voltage is dimensionless.

The reason why this is possible is that the arguments of such nonlinear functions are either explicitly or implicitly not the physical quantities, but their numeric values, i.e. the ratios between those quantities and their units, which are dimensionless.

In the case of the nonlinear sinus function, what is usually written as sin(x) is just one member of a family of functions where the arguments are angles implicitly divided by units of plane angle:

sin(x) is the sinus function with the angle implicitly divided by 1 radian

sin(x * Pi/2) is the sinus function with the angle implicitly divided by 1 right angle

sin(x * Pi*2) is the sinus function with the angle implicitly divided by 1 cycle a.k.a. turn

sin(x * Pi/180) is the sinus function with the angle implicitly divided by 1 sexagesimal degree

It is very sad that the logical thinking about angles of most people has been perverted by what they have been taught in school, which is just a bunch of nonsense copied again and again from one textbook to another.
Thank you for this list! Some of them have excellent quality in terms of processing time and output.
The reason we shipped this library is that it's now possible to run the background removal on the client, which can save a lot of costs. Especially, if this is not a one off feature, but used frequently by each user / customer.
We also believe that client side processing will only get better and even more optimised, so we're happy to kick this race off with the library :)
Really cool, had never heard of this before. I just watched the documentary on James Cameron and his Deepsea Challenger and was similarly impressed by the extraordinary lengths the team went to in engineering it. My takeaway was that OceanGate likely didn't have anywhere close to the same level of design and testing.
I'm not eating fish at the top of the food chain. Mostly sardines, lake trout, mackerel.
Who else would be willing to sell? Nobody who has a 3% mortgage will be moving anytime soon, not if they can possibly avoid it.
That's a really good answer.

And justification in general for "why radians" vs degrees, gradians, turns, whenever
I like the structure of that thought experiment, but if anything I’m surprised that the median Apple engineer (pay around $200k?) has within a small integer multiple of the leverage of NBA stars.

I’d expect the latter to be much harder to replace than that.
Your numbers are way off

>30K on rent

Not unless you're living in luxury towers in rich areas. A 1 bedroom or a studio will rarely go above 2K, even in Vancouver or Toronto.

>2500 on food

If you're cooking, and not being frugal at all, you're spending 500 per month at most.

>gas

Canadian cities are walkable and have public transit, you don't need a car. If you do need a car where you live, then you're likely saving on rent.

>electrical

Electricity is dirt cheap in Canada. Never paid more than 60$ even in winter. Other utilities are similar to the US, that'll add up to 200-300 dollars.

>insurance

Not a thing. Welcome to modern society, baby.

I'm sure you can spend that much money if you want to, but that's a choice to live a certain lifestyle. This lifestyle is not necessary.

My first job in Canada I made 53K, 37K after taxes. I lived a normal life, studio downtown, going on vacations, drinking and eating out, and still managed to save 13000 dollars in a single year. Later I got a raises to 80K, 120K, and eventually 250K, but my (again, definitely not frugal!) lifestyle never cost me more than 25 - 30K per year.
I can direct you to answers I got a couple weeks ago when I asked a similar question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261100
Spaceflight has an inherently different set of requirements from the types of applications people on here mostly build. NASA doesn't need to run 2GB of javascript dependencies on their rover. They have people who can write lean real-time code in a low level language. They need to be sure a bit flip doesn't turn a 3 billion dollar project into rubble. There is no 'fix it in the next sprint' in spaceflight; after you hit the red button, it must work. The RAD750 that Perseverance runs on has some impressive specs, they are just specs that don't matter in a datacenter.
The selling point for tech is often that it makes you more efficient. But law firms don't want to be more efficient because their income is tied to the billable hour. Partners, who run the firm, know that if you make their associates more efficient, they will literally make less money doing the same amount of work.

There are some firms that understand the value of efficiency (especially those that do fixed-fee or value-based billing), but most of the largest firms aren't especially interested in increasing efficiency.
We do have those Starlight Tours ...
I had the exact opposite experience moving from Canada to San Francisco. While wages are much higher, the cost of living is not even comparable - anecdotally much, much higher in SF than either Toronto or Vancouver (both of which I have lived in). Healthcare has been a horrible experience here too, with Kaiser putting my through endless levels of bureaucracy in an effort to avoid paying for my medication.
In this case, that's because he's got rid of his Linkedin account since that article footer was written (I follow Neil via Mastodon, he discussed it there).

(edited for missing word!)
The easiest way to improve cybersecurity is keeping your critical hardware off of the public internet or even keeping it air-gapped. Something that doesn't require leading edge tech but operational care. I suspect the military is pretty good at the latter, certainly much better than the typical SV company.
I think a lot of tech companies that spout this nonsense don't understand how law works. Routinely I see products based entirely around reducing lawyer's billable hours. They'll only implement that kicking and screaming if clients force them to bill less. If clients aren't putting pressure on them to be more efficient they will happily bill more hours than are truly needed in discovery rather than using state of the art tools to reduce billable hours. If you don't understand your market is billing hourly and come up with ways to work within that framework you aren't going to be successful.
So the "what should I do?" was the big question.

Even in your OP, you said you didn't know what to do about it. Neither does the website say much other than basically "lawyer". If there is something I can do to help me, then there is a purpose to the test. This chelation you mentioned.

But again, this should be a "See a doctor first" situation. What are the risks of chelation? Is it safer for me to have PFAS than go through chelation?

The lawyers ( https://www.pintas.com/pfas-class-action-lawsuit/can-pfas-be... ) say there is nothing I can do. So I should sue.

The news says there might be a way soon ( https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/new-way-destroy-p... ) to get rid of PFAS, but nothing about from the human body.

At least the EPA has some suggestions about how to reduce your risk: https://www.epa.gov/pfas/meaningful-and-achievable-steps-you...
If there is a bug in the screen reader then that's on the vendor.

However the overwhelming number of cases where a website is unusable with a screen reader are due to lack of proper semantic tagging, like alt text and so on. The last thing a screenreader user wants to hear on a site is "button," "button," "button..." There's certainly room for tooling to help though. I definitely think it sucks that many accessibility linters are nonfree and thus will never be used by site devs who aren't worth suing.

It's worth remembering that accessibility helps everyone, not just the disabled. In fact one of the more popular arguments against accessibility is that it allows non-disabled persons to do more than intended.

So while there's a good argument to be made for being charitable to those with a frankly really lousy condition, if you just want to be self-centered you still benefit from properly tagged data.
Is there already something like that in the markets? As an API?
> exp(sqrt(2pi))

Now, this is a number that I don't recall having seen before. The letter é seems strangely fitting for it

é = 12.2635111...
> forever chemicals

Sorry, but that phrase really annoys me.[0] What does it actually mean?

[0] full disclosure: PhD in organic chemistry