skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"J&J is facing more than 38,000 lawsuits alleging that the company's talc products, including its Baby Powder, were contaminated by asbestos and caused cancers"
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I am not a fan of the syntax. I'll just leave that here.
Do you have any recommended reading on critical phenomena? I’ve become quite interested in statistical mechanics lately, but my background is engineering / applied math. Thus, I learned information theory first and am interested in how physicists analyze statistical mechanics because it’s quite different from the rate-distortion theory I learned originally.
Ever try to cut wood with a dull blade? I really don't recommend it. Even a novice carpenter will benefit from taking care of his tools. Admittedly it's more important for carpenters because blunt tools can get you injured. Excepting RSI issues, the worst that will happen with a suboptimal text editor is very marginal inefficiency (typing probably isn't the bottleneck anyway.)
After using vim for more than a decade and slowly acquiring my personal config I switched to lazyvim. No regrets.

Also for simple chores like mass converting your config from vimscript to lua I'd really recommend bing chat, an LLM with the docs loaded works wonders on it, getting all my stuff ported and lazyvim set up took less than an hour IIRC
What I would like to know is how good is our ability to actually detect life from afar? For instance, we only discovered water on local planets and moons within the last decade or two. How loud do aliens need to be for us to notice them?

If we were near Alpha Centauri, would we be able to detect life on Earth? Would a SETI scan of Earth detect our radio waves or other signatures of life?
It definitely is, weed, nicotine vaping, and social media addiction are the replacements.

Right now, coming off of the pandemic it's trendy.

The bar / music scene took a hit and really hasn't yet recovered. Alcohol is the foundation of society though and humans have specifically evolved to be able to process it so the trend will inevitably reverse I'm sure.

Honestly as someone who enjoys alcohol and will readily espouse the many benefits, pre-pandemic it had gotten to be a bit much. The whole seltzers, wine-mom, craft beer, bourbon flights etc made it where there was almost nothing you could do that didn't specifically revolve around drinking.

I like to drink, but I don't like to feel obligated to drink just to do it. I want to drink and have the alcohol enhance other enjoyable activities. I don't want to drink and just talk about beer.

Going to a brewery IMO is about the worst way to spend an afternoon.
Cool but very preachy.

A repo isn't less healthy because it doesn't have a code of conduct.
Do you really think companies can just avoid all of their liabilities two days before something bad happens and protect all of their assets?

Bankruptcy law is hundreds of years old and is designed to protect creditors actually. That’s why there is a separate court to handle things and involved independent outsiders and judges that oversee things. It works and is used every time there is a financial crisis and thousands of times per day at the individual level.

This sort of thing is specifically prevented and handled by a principle called fraudulent conveyance. This principle causes the court to look back in time to what the assets and liabilities were closer to the time of the start of the financial difficulties of the debtor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudulent_conveyance
Aside:dashboard implies metrics, so becareful what you measure.

Be especially careful to measure only the actual thing that matters to you, not the proxy of it. Measure customer satisfaction, not the number of tickets closed.

Because you will become what (and only what) you measure.
Sounds like a just-so explanation and something something causation ≠ correlation. Like me saying "Countries that use imperial units are richer than countries that use metric. The inconsistency in the former make their citizens more adaptable from childhood and supercharge their productivity."
What is "TODO" supposed to stand for?
Show HN: Use DNS TXT to share information
dig +short TXT youpay.govorenefekt.com @1.1.1.1 | fold -s

You can base64 encode an image, split to TXT records and send over Internet. Useful in certain circumstances. Like when one of the communicating parties is under severe censorship.
I have a list of completed TODOs dating back to July 20, 2020. I keep a running, open TODO list in the Notes app on my Mac, check things off throughout the day as I finish them, and close out the day's completed items that night or the next morning. (or sometimes a few days later when life dictates that I have other priorities.)

Sometimes the completed todo lists are as simple and profound as recording the birth of my son. Other times, they capture a dozen or more mundane tasks that I needed to track and complete in a single day.

Either way, I find satisfaction in manually clearing out the previous day's completed TODO items, and have found that keeping track of daily tasks in this way makes it incredibly easy (if a bit time-consuming) to write year-end self-evaluations of my job performance. I regularly forget about several major projects that I was involved in, and only remember by dint of my TODO lists.

I should add that I use the Notes app because it's installed on—and syncs across—every computing device I use, and because my wife is happy to use it too, so we can share some TODO lists, like groceries or house chores.
In response to your sister comment: the implementation we used was the naive one from LangChain (https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/chains/additional/...). We've decomposed that to use as a starting point but early results are promising, yes, although it doesn't yet seem to be possible to get the necessary `logprobs` out of the GPT-4 API, so we're stuck with 3.5-turbo atm.
> one pretty practical approach [to how to solve this problem] is bankruptcy. This, after all, is what bankruptcy is for: It is a system to make sure that creditors are all paid fairly out of the assets of a company, rather than paying some creditors a lot because they are early and others nothing because they are too late.

That's a legit argument in favor of bankruptcy of the entire company! There's no good justification for creating a shell company to control the damages on the main company (who did kill people).
I'm excitedly waiting for electric velomobiles to become more common. Like podbike.com. It's still an assisted bike (pedelec) according to regulation
It looks like a great way to get rid of a loyal audience on your website
Subcutaneous ketamine efficacious and safe in treating TRD over a 4-week period
Suppose there were 500 known intelligent civilizations in the universe. I'm just throwing that number out there to prove a point.

With just 500 intelligent known civilizations, the frequency across time of each one achieving interstellar space travel for the first time is likely incredibly rare. Like, I'd figure every few hundred to few thousand years, assuming they're spread out in space and time a bit. That would make us VERY interesting, indeed... because on galactic timescales, I think we're quite close to that
> But I'd be hard pressed to be convinced that drinking in any form, at any given frequency- is going to be good or beneficial for the majority of people anyways.

The point of the article was that it's unwise to only consider health consequences of alcohol, particularly when they are so uncertain/ever-changing. Instead, it makes sense to factor in enjoyment (personal utility), which for many people weighs in favor of drinking sometimes. As for your point about pills, I think there are pills that contain distillates from certain types of wine, which supposedly are good for you.
The quote used is from excellent article here: https://bgr.com/tech/the-internet-isnt-free-it-never-was-and...
With no interference, wifi 2.5ghz can go several km at 100mbits.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230129101101/https://www.wired...
But then it's J&J as a whole that should go bankrupt, no a shell company designed for damage-control purposes…
You're attempting to introduce a tangential point to cloud the issue, a typical Red Herring fallacy. Bowyakka was 100% incorrect. It is indisputable that U.S. medical R&D spending makes European spending appear insignificant.
Americans’ confidence in technology firms has dropped
This. You see this effect to some extent in Switzerland as well. Switzerland, many seem to feel, is "similar enough" to the United States that the existence of its universal healthcare system "seems" like a goal should be similarly within our reach. But this is to discount cultural differences, among other things, and the mindset of the average Swiss is I think quite different than that of the average American.

Some time ago I read 2 different books on healthcare systems, both very detailed, the authors having compared in-depth the many styles of healthcare systems in existence in addition to having relocated for some time to some of the locations to get a personal look. And despite all the complexities involved in such comparisons, both came to the same very basic conclusion: Healthcare systems are a reflection of the mindset of the country's citizens; Americans won't get universal healthcare until the average American believes that other Americans deserve it.
I am unclear on the status of the project but here is the conversation that seem to be tracking it: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/discussions/201
It's not, tensor products are of fundamental importance in QM. Understanding them is a hard requirement.
It's a publicity stunt, like how Sommarøy a few year back declared it was the world’s first time-free zone. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/norway-sommaroy-islan...
LazyVim got me back into vim. After years of custom configs and/or heavily editing lunarvim and nvChad I was getting a bit burnt out but decided to give lazyVim a try, and I was absolutely blown away. For the first time a vim setup actually felt like a real IDE. It took about 60 seconds to go from having lazyvim installed to having a fully functional IDE that I could use at work in a real environment. That's the same amount of effort it would have taken me to set up a fresh install of vs code with whatever plug-ins I wanted.

If you've ever been put off by the complexity and setup of nvChad or lunarVim, then I highly suggest giving lazyvim (or astrovim, its similar but with more "batteries included") a try
Strictly correct, but also improbably correct, given the claimed performance envelopes and behavior of these craft (I'm talking the ones pinging on radar, not just the visual reports)
The film wasn't the point. The point was to show off the 3D geometry capabilities of the lisp machine, as well as the boids flocking algorithm which was quite innovative at that time.

It impressed the hell out of everybody in the audience when they showed it for the first time.
I am the opposite. The only time I use xpath is for scraping.
If you're smart enough to think you have something to say about this, you're also smart enough to know that "appeal to ridicule" is fallacious.

What if we're the new kid on the interstellar space-travel block? What if we have more water than any of them have ever seen on one planet in their lives, and they want to start trading? What if one of their species is dying out and needs genetic input from us to make longer-lasting hybrids (this was one claim from all the butt-probing abduction reports)? What if our music (if it turns out that music is a universally appreciable phenomenon by any intelligent species with sound detection/"ears") is actually the most popular in the universe right now and they actually owe us a tremendous amount of galactic currency from "borrowing" our recordings, and just want to settle up? What if we are actually headed towards a worse climate catastrophe than we think, and they are desperate to warn us? What if they feel an intellectual kinship with us but are frustrated by our lack of accepting them, but can't land on the White House lawn without risking incurring an immediate armed counterattack because (as it may turn out), "being deeply initially afraid of aliens" (xenophobia) is a fundamental fact of the universe and the only way to acclimatize us is AVOIDING leaving hard physical evidence behind (which would be too shocking/abrupt a worldview shift) and instead doing systematic desensitization of this xenophobia by using an increasingly frequent pattern of "indirect evidence" (which by the way, looks a heck of a lot like what's actually going on)? (by the way, this is a real thing we're already aware of in human psychology- systematic desensitization is the only known way to cure phobias) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_desensitization

The point is, you have no fucking idea what the reason(s) might be, dude. Or how interesting we'd be to others, or why.
I've personally been enjoying this sane, profit-free system so much I'm going to be adding RSS feeds and email to it.
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I don't understand the oxymoron "suicide drone". Yeah it seems like a hybrid of a missile/shell and drone/UAV sort of thing. But just because it explodes and obliterates itself does not make it a Japanese Zero with a human pilot.
> It's essentially self-induced negative reinforcement on a platform you cannot really ignore as an adult working in technology.

I have tried this, but it flirts with a worse outcome: alarm fatigue. If I start ignoring one task, that risks bleeding over to another task. If I reflexively snooze "call mom" today then the chance that I snooze "write report" tomorrow is nonzero. Which, like you say, is unworkable as an adult in tech.

For me, physical notes work better than electronic ones. Push notifications are a pox on productivity, and I find that if I limit their use to (would-be) emergencies, they're super effective. But if they become noise, my entire computer risks turning into a work-free zone.
Based on what
I appreciate it, I'll try to remember this acronym, I had previously heard it referred to merely as lane assist.
Now it all makes sense! Brilliant guy!
So go to literally anywhere else in the planet. This is a great idea I really hope it sets a trend.
I was going to suggest the Banana Pi BPI-R3, but that still doesn't have 6 GHz. The successor to that one is going to have Wifi 7, but might not get supported by mainline OpenWRT.
You can do you at almost every place on the planet. Why can't there be one place where you don't choose to go?
Forth was created to control the aiming of a radio telescope. It was used in the original Star Wars movie to direct the complex motions of the model space ships.
> If indeed the researchers did conceal that the subjects had other exposure to asbestos, that would be pretty bad?

It depends. Were the subjects actually exposed in a meaningful way to another source of asbestos, or did the corporate lawyers go fishing through past address history, purchases, etc. and will argue things like "Subject A visited Australia ten years before the study and was in a city where some older structures were made using asbestos-infused concrete. Did the researchers think to ask their subjects if they'd traveled to Australia?"
Probably what I like about my NeoVim setup (an organic, home-grown completely from scratch mess of .vim and .lua files) the most is universal containerized language server for any project.

It gets me go to definition, peek definition, etc. in TypeScript, Python and probably anything else LSP-compatible without polluting my main machine with any of those development environments and only requires Docker.

The editor detects a special INI file in project directory and launches a Docker container that runs a language server. The INI file can specify a common Dockerfile (works for zero-install Yarn where it mounts repository root as read-only volume and just works(tm)) or a project-specific Dockerfile that does some system setup (useful in case of complex Python/Django backends, for example).

I’d be curious to try a configuration like LazyVim if it supported something like that out of the box, but last time I checked most of these were written in mind with LSP running directly on your host.
I've been using vim for years, switched to neovim, and at this point I'm ready to throw in the towel and just use vscode for anything beyond simple text editing.

The amount of work needed to get a basic IDE up and running for your languages of choice, even for commonly used languages such as Python or Javascript, is far too much for someone who wants to get on with their day job or hobby coding and doesn't want to spend precious hours fixing obscure issues in Lua.

Furthermore, the community does not have a good culture of documentation and learning: too many plugins have very sparse docs, and other online resources such as the Neovim subreddit are hostile to newcomers with "RTFM" a common answer. The community is also fragmented, with too many ways to do the same thing in the name of some platonic ideal of personal freedom over practicality.

A simple question like "How do I set up Black with neovim to format my Python files on save?" will yield a dozen answers, each one with someone's favourite plugin. Setting up that plugin will require another plugin, and so on until you end up with a Jenga tower of dependencies that doesn't quite work the way you want, but is too fragile and time-consuming to tweak correctly.

In the meantime, I can just Ctrl+P and install what I need in vscode and be on my way in a few minutes.

I don't particularly like vscode. It's heavy and slow and janky, particularly on older laptops. I don't like being sucked back into the Microsoft ecosystem after spending years getting away from it. But ultimately, I want to just get on with my job, and my job is not Lua Developer or Neovim Plugin Expert.
Dec 2010: Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-live-the-web...
If you prefer to work with the dirs under pgdata (well it makes sense...) you can just make the list of files (maybe even write it to the file, maybe even write a batch file which would move them) and use it for moving the data from pgdata to old. This saves an unnecessary move.

Add: are sure about "${NEW}"/* in this?

444 mv -v "${NEW}"/* "${PGDATA}"
That’s all well and good until you discover that you were affected by something else they did but you can’t sue them any more because they went bust servicing the talc powder claims.
J&J is certainly no stranger to discovery considering they’ve been sued hundreds of times over this product.
"The Cukoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage" [1] by Clifford Stoll. The author's first-person account on tracking down a computer hacker as a sysadmin. This 1989 book was definitely influential to me as a teenager; first time close encounter with the idea that the world of computer networks can also be "scary".

@CliffStoll is also on HN. Fond memories; thanks again for writing that book!

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
At least their SQL documentation is public - I remember (at least a decade ago) that only Postgres, MySQL, and MSSQL made their documentation public, while info on IBM DB2 and Oracle was scarce.
Do you use the Internet for work? Perhaps you can negotiate a business connection.

Consumer Internet contracts have no Service Level Agreement (SLA) and so, you can call Support all you want, but it's not their problem what sort of speeds you get to third-party sites, not even across their own backbone. The advertised speeds are signaling rates and not download/upload speeds. If your modem is displaying the correct lights on the front panel, then your connection is trained up at the correct signaling rate according to your chosen connectivity package, and your ISP won't care about YouTube.

If you obtain a business service, then you can negotiate a particular SLA in your contract, which won't necessarily make them care about YouTube, but you may be able to specify a minimum bitrate and uptime.

speedtest.net and the like, by default, will make use of a co-located server as close as possible to you, in terms of network topology, and so the speed results you obtain will be under ideal conditions, and indicate the maximum possible performance.
These guys were pioneers, bringing out the first LMS pre-popular-web (Aug/2002). The founder lives right here in sunny Perth (also the birthplace of the founder of Canva)!
Bad management will be bad management regardless of the tools involved. I don't think Zoom is the issue here.
Potentially hurting themselves only is okay: ride some extreme mountain bike, lift extreme weights, ski on risky slopes, consume strange substances, etc.

But on a road people don't just hurt themselves by reckless conduct. A collision usually has a second participation vehicle, and sometimes many more if a pile-up occurs on a busy road. The other participants did not sign up for hurting themselves, and can be hurt more than the original reckless driver.
> Further, if your company produces products that kill or injure people, then why should we show any interest in maintaining that companies existence with odd legal hacks like this?

> This seems fairly debatable.

To be fair, we might not have some of the drugs many of us are prescribed to us if we just cancelled every company that ever hurt anyone with experimental drugs.
I don't understand the classical liberalism part. How do a bunch of empires, that don't operate on market principles, going to war with each other show that classical liberalism is a 'colossal failure'?
Credit came before currency. The oldest civilizations we know of (Sumerians, Babylonians, etc.) traded on credit on the daily to be later settled come harvest. "Okay, I owe the bar for 100 barley beers, it's harvest time and they have to pay their taxes too. I'll pay 100 barley beers in grain to the taxman in their name when I go pay mine."
It's working as a proxy, I suppose? Do you have some set-up information beyond building it?
It’s two different projects run in two different ways. I don’t think that looking at git is useful or insightful in this case.
Real title: Google is testing new Rewarded Ad Gate beta program for publishers
The converse is also true: If someone likes to be without phone, couldn't they go literally anywhere on the planet, and just choose to leave their phone at home without that place they're going to officially encouraging them to do so?

Or is it about the disturbance caused by other people using their phones? ...or maybe to have a plausible story to tell the people who tried to reach you? ("Sorry you couldn't reach me at the weekend, boss, I was at this island in Finland where ...").
Send execs and board who looked the other way or were negligent to jail? Impede them from similar roles for life?

It is a reality in some licensed industries (eg banking)in Europe
The Swiss are big into responsibility: you must buy health insurance because we don’t want to pay for your healthcare when you need it (and lots of other mandatory insurance, eg bike and gun insurance, things that hardly exist in the USA ). They will give subsidies to those that can’t afford premiums, but otherwise you must buy it or else you are being a burden to your neighbors. It isn’t about people “deserving” healthcare than it is forcing people to take responsibility. The market is made even by disallowing group plans; you aren’t allowed to get it as a benefit at work and must pay for your premiums with post tax money.

The USA is weird in comparison: you get immediate healthcare even if you can’t afford it, with everyone else just paying for those who can’t or don’t want insurance. If Americans don’t want universal healthcare because they don’t think some Americans don’t deserve healthcare, they are doing that really wrong.