skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yah so they have this HEK cells I'm guessing and they subject them to fluids that were cooked in a microwave in a plastic container which thereby released a bunch of these nanoparticles. That fluid was applied to the HEK cells in vitro and they basically died and stoped dividing and migrating and doing all they would do. I suppose the connection would be lots of blood passes through the kidneys being a blood filtering tissue and what not that should nanoparticles enter the bloodstream they could take a toll on the kidneys. So if we were to be intravenously injected with these things it wouldn't be surprising to see stuff die I suppose. But the real world scenario never just dumps chemicals on certain tissues, they have to first reach those tissues and cross barriers and survive past the liver etc etc, lots of obstacles. But these in lab conditions kind of give a toxicity clue for what the outcome may be if the substance comes in direct contact with the tissue of interest.
It's really a form of rhetoric tailored for LLMs.

> Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations
The interface itself?

For instance one of those things I've noticed is that most Discourse instances have those nag banners if you're not logged in begging you to log in – and that's one of the least objectionable things they do IMO. I discovered recently that Discourse also blacklists all but the most recent browsers (because Discourse is designed for the next ten years!) and serves up a plain text version on anything older… but not without a nag banner of its own admonishing you for not using a supported browser.

The infinite scrolling… ugh. I'm not a huge fan of XenForo, but as a successor to vBulletin it seems to be far more user friendly.
I've been using braintree for 9 years on one of my projects, and while it does "work", there doesn't seem to be much innovation happening, sadly.

I use them for their direct integration with paypal, who owns them
Go isn't my favourite language, but I disagree with that: a language being being simple does wonders to reduce the possibilities of accidental complexity added by complicated features that are unnecessary for the business.

But of course it's still possible to make a mess: I've seen someone who created an ad-hoc object model (with its own structs, plus multiple inheritance and all) on top of Golang and wrote a few apps in that style. But not having the features in the first place can help.
Now imagine a carpenter who can build the most beautiful, elegant piece of furniture in 30 days, but you force them to make it in 10. Or you forbid them from using a certain tool. Or force them to use a tool you prefer. Or …

Yes, not every programmer cares about good code. But of those that do, also not all of them can agree on what good code is.

And not all good programmers can write good code, for one reason or another.

It is way less black and white than good vs bad/mediocre programmers.
Sure, but you have to admit the arguments in this article are really flimsy right?

You don’t think it’s a bit ironic to mention “This is the same tired argument we’ve seen with things like BitTorrent”, when the media empires of the world have proved they can, and have, and will indubitably continue to make a) people to write offending software (eg. Winny) and b) people who use that software liable for using it to infringe on their intellectual property.

Wanting that not to be true because it would be nice if it wasn’t true is unbelievably trite and superficial as an argument, when in the examples given it’s been proved that people can and will make it so, legally, it is.

Whatever you believe regarding freedom and intellectual property, it’s irritating to see a parade of weak arguments about it.
same with ceramics and plastics, too
I had an X10 setup too, and it was great. I was just a teenager, so my ability to control the "whole house" was limited. But I had several of those relay-based switches and dimmers too, for the lights. I had an RF controller and the timer that was like an alarm clock. I always wanted the system you could install on a PC with DOS. I believe you could design a program and then upload it to an autonomous controller.

X10 was exciting and unusual. It works by sending coded pulses through the household AC mains themselves. You have to set a "building code" in case your neighbors use X10, too, and their electrical system is closely coupled to yours. But obviously, it does not rely on the Internet, nor sends anything very far. I believe that once they hit a transformer, the code pulses will be neutralized.
> you've just been caught hiding inconvenient forum threads too

FWIW, I do believe them when they say this wasn't intentional. Considering how the Internet operates, they would be incredibly stupid to do something like that on purpose.

That being said, the way the entire affair was handled certainly leaves a lot to be desired.
> We can have registrars for global ids, and we can nest local ids inside them, we can have a hierarchy, and we can have local compact ids, 32, 64 or 128 bit, which will never collide, and be locally cohesive.

We have this. It's called OID (Object Identifier) and is used in X.509, LDAP, SNMP, and many other technologies. A global registry exists (I have an entry) and it's a giant tree.

> So why aren't we doing this? Is it ignorance?

The problem you are solving here is for durable, long-lasting keys. There is also a need to generate large batches of short-lived keys that need to never collide for security/identification purposes. A centralized registry will not work for that and it requires a wholly different technique.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but my impression is that Spack is more composable:

In Spack pkg A can say `depends_on("curl tls=gnutls")`, pkg B can say `depends_on("curl +nghttp2")`, and if you then request a package that depends on both A and B, you end up with `curl tls=gnutls +nghttp2` as a transitive dependency.

It sounds like in Nix it's either/or: if you need both curlWithGnuTLS and curlWithHTTP2, what do you do?
I try to go that route, but for some items there isn't a good alternative. I have a Roborock vacuum which requires the app and an internet connection to use the smart features, but it can still be controlled by the physical buttons if the internet is down.

I'm hoping that Thread/Matter will change that, but most likely it'll still be the same walled garden - there are already some devices that use ZigBee but only work properly with their own hub.
American? That's the interviewed person view.

I don't understand how's that dishonest and ignorant.

If you said Carmelo Anthony was no Michael Jordan are you being lazy, dishonest and ignorant?
Thank you for revealing one more conspiracist troll for what they are. HN seems to be in danger of being drowned in a flood of them.
How is this relevant? Is it an ad?
>Given that we’re not seeing toddlers around the world have kidney problems

We're not seeing them having severe kidney problems - easily detectable ones. They could still have damage or accululated crap on their kidneys.

In any case, the article doesn't say kids kidneys die in 2 days. It says lab kindey cells die when exposed to such microplastics, and microwave setups produce those microplastics.

Meaning: kids are exposed to kindney damaging microplastics through this mechanism. The extend of the damage, as the article also states, remains to be evaluated.
The discussion goes like this:

1. RFK Jr claims he has been doing research on bio weapons and he claims that the advancements in this area are mind-blowing

2. He then starts talking about how Covid-19 allegedly targeted certain groups less (Jewish and Chinese people), and certain others more (Caucasian and Black people).

3. He then says we don't know if it was intentionally targeted

4. He then goes back to talking about how both the USA and China supposedly have research programs into ethnically-targeted bio-weapons.

The best possible interpretation of this is that he uses the Covid-19 example to only to show that a virus can affect certain populations more than others. However, he uses the word "targeted" for this, and explicitly mentions that it's possible that it was intentionally targeted [by someone]. So, the more plausible read is that he is implying Covid-19 may well be an example of such a bioweapon created by the Chinese to attack Caucasian and Black people.

I will note that I am highly skeptical of his base claim that Covid-19 had some genetic preference for Caucasian and Black people. Any such claim is highly suspect, since it typically conflates ethnicity with genetics without actually doing any actual genetic testing to check. While it is of course true that there are certain genetic differences between ethnic groups, there are also huge social and behavioral and wealth differences between all such groups, which can also explain differences in disease outcomes.

Also, especially when looking at these groups inside of multi-ethnic countries like the USA, the exact genetics of any specific individual may or may not match the general group genetics, since they have different heritability, and inter-group marriages are common. Just because someone has inherited darker skin tones (and would thus be part of the ethnic group "Black people") doesn't mean they also inherited a predisposition to sickle-cell anemia, for example.
it would loose the comic appeal though
I am an interested party in the process space, and I think that's ungenerous. When you work with a complex tool every day, and you have to find solutions for this or that issue, develop strategies for this or that business case, etc etc, you're not really shopping - it's more like you're in the trenches. At that point, finding people who have the same issues and talking shop with them, can be great for both knowledge exchange and camaraderie. Linux wouldn't be what it is today without the LUGs era, for example.
Yes, I tend to like this philosophy in database design, of internal sequential ids which are used for joins between tables etc. and an exposed "external reference". But I typically would use a UUID for my external reference rather than a hash of the internal id.
I've got a different personal perspective: Any code that helps achieve one's ends is good code.
Has anyone used Helcim or Stax? These processors pricing seems to be around $0.15 per transaction. If this is true why don't so many people use it?
"My, all your dinosaur research is looking particularly beautiful today."
There are really only two ways TC is used in practice in today's economy:

1. Clients verifying cloud VMs. The "user" in this case is not the same person as "his" in "his computer".

2. Games consoles being verified by PS/Xbox online services. In this case the users are in effect verifying each other, because part of why they need such tough security is to stop online gaming being wrecked by cheaters.

At a stretch you could talk about credit card chips and the ATM network as (3) but that's far enough away from general computing that it doesn't really count.

In both cases these are firmly pro-consumer use cases. Unless you want to pirate or cheat in gaming of course, but there's plenty of users who don't want to subsidize your fun with their own suffering, so they're happy to rely on TC to stop that. It's a big part of why console gaming dominates PC gaming. It's wrong for the FSF to imply all those people are brainwashed dupes because they have a different value system to Richard Stallman.
It really saddens me so read this type of comments on HN of all places.

Google has many issues, this is not one of them.
> But what level of signature is needed for what transactions is not regulated in the eIDAS.

Yeah, its the issue that germany decided that only the QES is as legally binding as a physical signature and then they made a whole bunch of contracts, especially work related stuff require physical signatures
I've had a bad experience with them (though that was a few years ago). Back then they manually reviewed each website before enabling payment processing (which is fine), but then just didn't get back to us. We tried messaging them for a status update, but only got a generic answer that it'd take another couple days. After three or four weeks and another back and forth we just gave up.

As I said, this was a couple years ago, so things might be very different now (we might've been an outlier even back then), but it left a bad taste, because the customer service was so unhelpful, even though they were much smaller than stripe.
I'll bite, your friend may be a professional scientist, but their response was simply "absolutely not". I had a biologist friend who had the same attitude toward eating raw eggs.

The fact is the science has not looked at risks of sous vide plastics. There's maybe no money for such research, unless like in this article the professor became a father and had to microwave food for his newborn baby. In their research, they showed that those particular nanoplastics cause kidney damage, but only in vitro (EDIT: Ah yes, a quick Google shows a horrifying 2023 study that says nanoplastics do get absorbed into the bloodstream...). That's like a doubly indirect argument for concerns about sous vide.

I think a more nuanced answer is that we just don't know, and so it is reasonable to invoke the precautionary principle. Other people, when made aware of the risks, might go ahead but that's their informed choice to do so.

So unless there's a series of studies that shows, "Sous vide produces X amount of polyethylene nanoplastics, and adult/child/rat consumption shows measurable harm", the best we have is precautionary principle and informed risk. It would be nice to have something definitive like "Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer", or more recently from WHO "Drinking alcohol causes breast and gastro/rectal cancer", but we don't have that scientific closure to an open question for sous vide yet.
I've never actually used Render, but did interview with them last year. I faceplanted at the end and didn't get an offer, but… hands down Render ran one of the best interviews I've ever participated in. Communication was on point, the process itself was well organized, and even though I disagreed with a couple of engineering choices, there was a distinct lack of bullshit.

If that carries over to their customer facing folks and how Render as a team has executed since then I'd absolutely recommend taking a look at them.
The interviewed article doesn't imply that he wasn't a good physicist, it says that his contributions aren't comparable to the kind of geniuses like Einstein or Johnny Von Neumann.

It also explains few of the reasons: lack of focus, timing, different scientific culture.

I'm not exactly understanding why so many people are taking the offense either.

The interviewer asks a very straight forward question multiple times: help the reader how does Oppenheimer ranks in his skills and contributions to other physicists of that era and it does just that.
you and the other poster are trying to seed doubt about vaccines

WTF? How did you get that from what I wrote? Are you under the impression that individual doctors decide on which vaccines to give to which patient?
CockroachDB gets real expensive real quick if you want to use any of the cool functionality though. The free version is OK for a cluster in very short range of each other, for example the same DC, but if you spread things out you'll need the enterprise features (follower reads, at minimum) to keep any kind of reasonable performance.

Self hosted enterprise "starts" (!) at $100/vCPU per month. So, yeah. Not exactly the hobbyist's choice.
> Usually the situation is someone has meticulously crafted some perfect system which can be extended and reused in many coherent ways.

Very rarely is that good code, even if you actually do understand the design. Most of the time, when you come to extend it, it turns out to be in a slightly different way than the original author had expected. Now you've got the complexity of solving the original problem (inevitably) and the new problem (also inevitable) and also some other problem that might have needed solving but didn't after all (not inevitable).

Most of the time, code that is easiest to modify or reuse is the code that does its current job in the simplest way possible. That doesn't mean you can't create reusable abstractions - doing so often does make the code simpler even for just its current job. And that usually ends up aligning quite nicely with what turns out to be (almost) what is needed for other tasks anyway.
But what is "good code", even? For some people that's thousands of two-line methods in hundreds of classes where each part is easy to understand. For others it is more direct code that is optimized for debugging, but not as aesthetically pleasant. Very often those two groups people dislike each other's code a lot. And there's even more other "groups" than those obvious two.
I use the 48gx.

I find that if I select and copy numerical data into memory on my Android I can use the "paste stack" facility to get it into the (virtual) machine.
That story only holds water on social media or clickbait news.
Fair enough, then it's not relevant and I shouldn't have brought it up. I think a lot of people in the rest of the world don't realize how much less totalitarian the restrictions were in the US.
That really strongly depends on your task. Lots of tasks can accept a non-zero failure rate in return for better results on the successful cases. I'm not sure I can think of any off the top of my head where you'd use a LLM and can never deal with a failure, particularly if you're using an external service where you're guaranteed to have to deal with errors or downtime at some point.
Not really.

Access to production and its data should be highly regulated. Ideally no dev machine has any kind of write access to prod - instead it's commit access to a (non-master) branch which needs multiple approvals to be merged into a release branch.

Access to dev environments and their local code? Who cares, let them explore. As long as all code is reviewed prior to deploying, they could even be developing on a compromised machine and the live system will still be secure.
They require passport or some sort of ID on registration, and it is weird when compared to others. I was not happy with that part, but I am happy customer since (almost a decade now).

As far as I know, they do not require any ID when canceling the service.
I learnt a technique of poking holes in them and wrapping them in paper towels. Hopefully tiny pieces kitchen paper towels are safer to eat than nano plastic particles..
Indeed - it is pretty easy to "get" the language as it is (for Europeans). But I'm sympathetic to the suggestion of ditching those distinctions - not everyone has a Indo-European language background. My Japanese wife still can't distinguish those sounds, even after a decade of trying. She has to watch me closely to separate those sounds. Plus F/H, which is also a problem.
What an incredibly productive way of idling away your time.

Wonderful!
Not sure why so many people are offended by the fact that the interviewed person says he was no Einstein. There's also quite much context added as to why his contributions were in some ways not comparable to the likes of these other scientists.

I mean, if you have a great developer who's even better as a manager because he has both the ability to manage and understand technical problems, is it an offense to say that "he wasn't John Carmack?".
> Conspiratorial or not that's enough for me to never use it

Well if it's not true then that would be a silly reason to pick to not use them.
Yeah, but in social psychology you need human subjects ethics approval. What’s the plan for that? No oversight, a public IRB, etc?

Admittedly, is a huge impediment to scientific research—you have to jump through so many hoops before you are allowed to talk to people. It’s kind of crazy.
other colleagues not caring is one thing, your company not recognizing the value and giving you the adequate compensation is another.. I don't mind if colleagues don't appreciate as long as I don't have to either lower my skills or be underpaid
I feel like starting your role by discovering a crucial service wasn't being paid for and therefore was at risk of suddenly going away should be a pretty positive thing.

However 'should' is pretty load bearing there and actual results are probably heavily dependent on management culture and the current state of office politics.
It's 128 bits vs 64 bits - not really that much of a difference.
I like the “open source will be enforced” nature of GPLv3 for that reason. Yes,it does mean that a developer some some huge company will have to write their own version of your project instead of just using yours and thus your code would be less widely used than if it hadn’t, but on the other hand if I choose to work on something for free and available to everyone you making the thing you made also free and available to everyone is completely reasonable, benefitting open source projects and community use while also making it disproportionately harder for people trying to hide the software in a different evil program of some sort. Obviously it’s not perfect but I’ve always viewed the relative exclusivity of the GPL to be one of its pros.
The rack also comes with built-in security features to ensure all hardware and software are genuine Oxide products:

purpose-built hardware root of trust (RoT) – present on every Oxide server and switch – cryptographically validates that its own firmware is genuine and unmodified
encryption of data at rest via internal key management system built on the RoT
trust quorum establishment at boot time to ensure the cryptographically-derived rack secret is verified before unlocking storage

https://docs.oxide.computer/release-notes/system/1-0-0
... that we know of. Who knows how many people of Einstein's caliber grew up in some slums who never got the chance to develop and to prove themselves.
Adyen is a good option, however they have a monthly fixed fee ($120) and looks like they might not onboard small merchants with less than $50M ARR
> Now imagine a carpenter who can build the most beautiful, elegant piece of furniture in 30 days, but you force them to make it in 10. Or you forbid them from using a certain tool. Or force them to use a tool you prefer. Or …

Some of these are not like the others. Not allowing a carpenter to use the most suitable tools is petty. Not allowing them 30 days may make sense depending on the business context. What if it's a stool that's going to be sat on once and then thrown away? Or there's only 10 days salary in the bank but then an invester will see it and may pay for 100 days work?

Good code usually takes more time than bad code (depending on the reason!) and often it is worth that extra time (and the fight to get it). But sometimes it's better not to and that's OK.
> I need a service that’ll let me just build my goddamn project. This was a small static site built by Node, so nothing spectacular happening

(Cloudflare|GitHub|GitLab) Pages should do you nicely!
But if you HAD done bad things and they WERE documented on KF, you might try even harder to get it shut down. And if you had plenty money and influential contacts, and no moral qualms, you might succeed. Only temporarily though.
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." -- Douglas Adams
> DocuSeal can be self-hosted on-premises or used in the Cloud for free.

Charge something for the cloud product. If you feel your product is good, then don't give it away for free. Your product charges will help sustain future development down the road.
Thank you for that little nugget. I learned something today :)
Overweight and obese men are more likely to have lowered sperm counts[1] and obesity has tripled since 1970[2].

[1] https://www.healthymale.org.au/news/obesity-overweight-can-i...

[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and...
agree. good code is a code easy to read and easy to modify. thats all.