skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several controlled studies that show phenylephrine does absolutely nothing better than placebo for congestion, yet it's the #1 medication sold and available in the US for congestion.
I'm well aware of those audits and the typical auditor output. Where to start...

These audits check paper. They don't check what is actually going on, they will check that documentation is in place and that processes and various controls are in place and that periodic checks have been performed. They don't actually check any of the underlying tech. For instance: ISO27001 asks for 'regular pentests'. But it doesn't do anything to ensure that those pentests are of a good quality. There are plenty of 'check the box' automated pentest services that get you past that hurdle but that won't do much for your security. They might even give you a false sense of security.

So yes, there are all kinds of audits. But like with everything else the devil is in the details and the quality of the work is very important (obviously!). Many companies treat these certifications like a 'license to operate'. You need to have them so then you do the absolute minimum required to satisfy the auditors rather than to see the certificate as a minimum level of proof required that you have your house in order and that your intent is to deal responsible with your data subjects (and customers) data. The latter is extremely rare.
(October 27, 2021)
Yeah, when we got Windows 95 I taught this to my parents: to exit you "x it".
Surveillance capitalism is one of the most immoral things I can think of. Privacy and piracy are not only ethical but necessary
I opened a night club on a block in SF that had lots of other bars. Unfortunately, we also picked the one spot on the block that was also next door to a liquor store.

I can't tell you how much that cost us because people would just go next door, get a small bottle of something for cheap, down it while they were out on their smoke break and then come back to the show in my place.

It really sucked honestly.
The same problem occurs with almost any of the hundreds of "rev-share" or "lets build a game together" projects that show up, its quite difficult to find motivated professionals to work on some else's idea especially long term.

Games require a lot of consistent output and theming in their assets to make it work, not exactly suitable for piecemeal contribution built with different asset pipelines and quality.

What is interesting to see is how a lot of fan remaster projects have this problem to a much lesser degree. Having the touchstone of a shared love for the original makes it much easier to organize and get people to stick around and agree to someone's vision.
Dealing with cash has always been a pain in the ass, so I just pay the fee and get most of it back on my rewards card.
The thought leaders at my job had this philosophy and now we have a gigantic project that takes forever to compile. And you do always have to compile all of it because it's all one commingled codebase. Tough place to be.
I am a long distance rec runner, and I use merino wool throughout the year (4 seasons in Canada). Since I started running ~ 15yrs ago I tried various blends/synthetics, nothing comes close to reduced odor, nor performance in general.
Use vinegar in your washer, I’ve never had a problem with polyester
Ruby. Python. Go.
You mentioned malicious conspiracy, not me.

It's just business and I'd do the same if I was in charge of AWS.
Which is fine and fair, but it doesn't really refute my point that this behavior would personally make me disinterested in pursuing them as a romantic interest, and in my opinion suggests they would have compatibility issues for a long-term monogamous relationship.
For context, this study found that 30 minutes of midday summer sun exposure in Oslo, Norway was equivalent to consuming 10,000–20,000 IU of vitamin D.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19667143

Must be much higher in sunnier regions.
It's static dispatch when it's monomorphic, I'd say.
> We were told in no uncertain terms

By whom? I don't recall any actual authorities speaking in such absolutes. (Laypersons and journalists and politicians, on the other hand...)

> So I'm not surprised to hear that they lied about there being no side effects.

"We don't know of any side effects at this time" (even assuming that was ever said, which it wasn't; soreness, allergic reactions, fatigue, etc. were known and declared as side effects since pretty much day 1) is not a lie, even if it's discovered later that there might be some (additional) side effects.

> Just so you know, the FDA wanted 55 years to comply with a FOIA request related to the vaccines, so that seems a bit suspicious to me. Almost like they have some things to hide.

Or almost like going through 329,000 pages of documentation to redact confidential information (including PII) takes awhile, and that the FDA has other FOIA requests to handle on top of that.
It is enough to scare people away and that is all that matters in the grand scheme of things. I know this for a fact.
I have heard the opposite: that the United Kingdom was, as a rule, an important ally for the economic policies favoured by Germany and others. E.g., “So far the following EU countries have announced that they oppose Eurobonds: Germany, United Kingdom, Finland and the Netherlands.” on p. 186 in Schäfer 2012 = vol. 9.2 in EJCE = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255726169_The_Sover...

Further more, the UK was an important net contributor.

So I think, on the whole, Brexit was bad for Germany.
My apologies for the style I had ChatGPT write this haha
I always wash the synthetic workout clothes separately and add a tablespoon of bleach.
Again, what's the risk that a first time visit to a site is going to give you a fake certificate?

OTOH SSL has done nothing for preventing phishing, since no CAs actually verify anything beyond you owning the domain.
The global entry line is not always shorter. You’re paying for a different process, not a shorter line.
A wafer of H100s uses far more electricity than a wafer of [Apple] A16s though.
For me, its always wool socks, but for shorts and shirt, polyester wicks the sweat away much better for me than cotton.
And why do you think that is?
> I wonder how true that is

An Nvidia A100 costs $10000 and consumes 300W.

It seems unlikely that anyone could afford the number of A100s needed to create an electricity shortage.

If there is an electricity shortage, far more likely that ageing infrastructure and rising demand for air conditioning and electric car charging are to blame.
The "inteligence" level is extremely hard to gauge overall since humans typically have a very deep understanding of a handful of topics, with lots of repetition and knowledge distillation while learning.

Whereas current LLM training focuses on getting as much diverse data as possible and training for very few epochs, so the inteligence we get is wider than any human could ever hope to achieve, but is also shallow in its understanding of each topic. Combining all fields of knowledge together does have its benefits in solving certain problems though.
I'm so used to empty boasts and humblebrags from tyros on HN that I overlooked the real McCoy. That's on me.
I'm sure he's influential, but D&D and MTG were around before he was drawing, and he didn't develop his style in a vacuum. There's a lot of similar work out there.
The obvious one you didn't mention is a 401k, if your employer offers a program.
putting the clothes in the freezer seems to work (once)
Reluctant sysadmin: story of my life.

Over the last 3 years I have gone from being a timid junior web dev to reluctantly and hastily having to be the guy managing the Linux web servers and keeping the operation running and being hardened along the way.

On the one hand, the huge salary increase has been nice but on the other hand I am constantly thinking one day I'm gonna fuck it all up. I feel like I'm not doing this job any justice and that I'm way out of my element all the time.

I try to get better by reading blog posts like this and documentation and asking for advice but I just feel like an impostor all the time.

But employers are happy with the results and I guess that makes it tolerable.

So thanks for these types of guides!
This is such an insightful comment - it’s exactly the kind of examples that wealthy (or even regular) people wouldn’t grasp without having lived through it themselves.
It goes to show how, adjusted for inflation, people just didn't earn much money a century ago, compared to the huge mid or even 7 figures for people in tech and other STEM fields today. Same for other professions, such as law, finance, medicine, consulting, etc. Those jobs didn't pay that well a century ago. People nostalgize about out how great the past was or how there was less inequality, fail to take into account how people overall were also so much poorer too.
Cool your jets there, Maverick. It's not even clear from the article what was illegal about the lab, much less that China was operating it. You can't just say "illegal lab," "COVID-19 virus," and some random Chinese name and jump to those conclusions.
I don’t think Clear distinguishes between domestic and international flights.
Let's see just how well that worked out, shall we?

>In June 2023, the surveyed unemployment rate of young people between 16 and 24 years of age in urban areas of China ranged at 21.3 percent, up from 20.8 percent in the previous month.

>In 2022, S&P Global Ratings found that corporate debt in China reached nearly $29 trillion in the first quarter, the highest in the world and roughly equivalent to the size of the U.S. government’s total debt.

US total debt to GDP: 118.6%.

Chinese total debt to GDP: 279.7%

Yes, very healthy. Very successful.
https://archive.ph/F9bE6
The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter
will we ever escape javascript in our lifetimes?
Huh, this doesn't seem right. Based on #s you seem to be referring to pods but even then I'm not familiar with such a configuration existing.

A single TPUv2 chip has 1 core and 8gb of memory. A single device comes in the v2-8 configuration with 8 cores and 64gb of memory.

Pod variants come in v2-32 to v2-512 configurations.
Ace Combat 7 was published by Bandai Namco in 2019.
It's quite naive that you don't think the EU is harmed significantly by Britain leaving. The EU would take Britain back in a heartbeat.
It's remarkable how I manage to get none of that on my body besides on the head and under my arms, and practically none on my clothes. My sweaty t-shirts build up smell only under the arms.
We have a cloud product you can sign up for, but it's more limited in what data sources it supports. It currently only works for Notion and Github indexing. If you're interested in that, send me a dm on Discord - https://discord.gg/BDgyabRM6e

But that would allow you to access Khoj from the web.
>One point I don't hear being talked about too much is how hopeful and stupid we were in the late nineties and early two thousands. We were supposed to have 10GHz processors by 2005, or I mean mass market for consumers by the end of the decade, at the latest?

I think a lot of those predictions came from a world unconcerned with cores and threading.

The jump from sub ghz to 1 ghz (p2 to p3) came about suddenly, the jump from 1ghz to 3ish ghz came about suddenly (p3 to p4); and then things moved to prioritizing chip real estate for cores/threading/parallelism.

The chips we have now are great, but it would be damn nice to have a 10ghz core somewhere.

( I eventually upgraded my RAM before ditching the Presario, too, but I think it's because at the time I wanted to play Dark Age of Camelot without lagging to death in team fights.)
I don't know anyone who does laundry every day, so this seems like a reasonable thing to try to figure out.
- TSA Precheck is a different process to “regular” security. It is not getting to the front of the line at all.

- Clear does not allow you to bypass either regular security or TSA Precheck security, just to get to the front of the line.
It’s forever a tainted name, I know about the owners, still feels bad.
hmm, you should name the environment where things should happen ? Could be e.g. inside the Java-VM, .Net, maybe some mobile-OS or a Browser-Engine ?
Once that is clear, it's a bit easier to recommend a/some language/s.

greets
But they don't necessarily say what those confounding factors are in the abstract (I'm assuming they do in the full paper but I don't have access).

It's easy for me to imagine tons of confounding factors that are associated with vitamin supplementation, e.g. wealth (wealth is associated with better health outcomes nearly everywhere you look), diet in general, exercise levels, etc. I highly doubt they accounted for all of these.
It takes me back to the early 90s DOS flight sims I loved, like Aces Over Europe. It was the style at the time!
But it seems like a huge amount of work to achieve that goal.

I suspect a large proportion of the realistic target audience are bilingual.
There's a better argument for Global Entry and TSA Precheck since at least in theory they're not about paying money, but about reduced scrutiny in exchange for submitting to a background check. The fee is (supposedly) to cover the costs of running the program.

Of course, I'm cynical enough to believe that they, too are about reducing pushback against security procedures from the sort of people politicians actually listen to.
There are enzyme based washes that work well. They are sometimes marketed for sporting equipment (hockey pads and the like) but I’ve used them for other types of garments that have persistent odors after stabsard washing. Mirazyme Odor Eliminator being one.
Can you tell me what brands and styles you use in the different seasons? I'm also in Canada, run a lot, and have a hodge podge of stuff. Always interested in what other people have found good.
So much this. I feel that many developers have some fear of writing simple code. Probably because that is the way newbies do it, i.e. straight forward big functions that do stuff.

Reading function pointer dispatch code, disguised as whatever it is called when not C, can be hopeless.
Sometimes all you got is port 443, and adding subdomains is a non-zero hassle, especially if you serve all off the APIs from the same code anyway.
Nobody is going to give OpenAI or X or Meta access to their models but frankly Google/Amazon are at a scale where they’ve already bypassed this trust issue. People already give their code, their operations, etc to large cloud providers, it’s been that way for 10+ years now.

Your shit isn’t so good that google is going to peek under the covers and steal your shit, because that would actually implode their business when they got caught doing it. The net present value of all of google’s future decades of operation is a lot higher than your hot dog detector app, or even critical F500 business operations.
China also restarted several coal plants after rotating blackouts caused some domestic issues.

You can replace China with Russia or Venezuela.

And it is caring about the future of humanity. You can give up eating meat, dairy, driving, planes and go live in the woods and we may still have the exact same problems.

If you want to propose a solution, it's on you to show it works.
Thank you for making me aware of BattleBit.

It looks like Roblox Battlefield.

The only real complaints on an otherwise ridiculously overwhelmingly positive Steam page seem to centre around the anti-cheat.

The MinSysReq also suggests it'll run on a potato, so it sounds worth a shot!
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 30, 2023
> The most plausible reason is that the scientific peer-reviewed result is correct, not the tiring "correlation does not imply causatian" commenter on HN who at most skimmed the paper.

Quite the odd take given the last sentence in the abstract of this paper is essentially "correlation is not causation":

> In conclusion, regular use of vitamin D associates with fewer melanoma cases, when compared to non-use, but the causality between them is obscure.
The difference in deodorant application frequency amongst participants was the most interesting take away for me. Some tracked as many as fourteen applications to their counterpart's zero. That alone should create a subcategory.
Devil's advocate: Is WEI not tackling counterfeiting of a different kind?
Over quite some time I've become convinced multiprocessing module is better than an optional GIL removal.

It may leave many useful bits on the table (compared to pure multithreaded coding, like C++/pthreads) but I've still been able to get it to scale my application performance (CPU-bound, large-memory) to the number of cores of even large boxes (96+ vCPUs). IIRC the future/concurrent library was key to being productive.

20 years ago I would said different, as at the time, IronPython demonstrated a real alternative to CPython that was faster, and fully multitrhreaded (including the container classes).
> The real key to minimize the pain was writing effective integration tests with high coverage

I think this makes it really hard to do comparisons: I’ve done Python 2 to 3 migrations which took an hour or two because the code had tests and was well-maintained, and PHP migrations which were painful slogs without tests and sloppy code (“is this ignored error new or something we should have fixed in the 2000s?”). Most developers don’t have enough data points to say whether the experience they had was due to the language or the culture.
The new astrology: Economics based on Mathematical models is a pseudoscience (2016)
Yeah, ISO 27001 is paper pushing, but TISAX audits can be pretty painful and detailed (I've been tangentially involved in one, but can't say more). I think insurances are the player to watch the most - they have actual leverage on their customers and really really want to avoid having to pay out for claims, so their demands start to get more and more intrusive, to the point where they can and do collide with stuff like employment laws (e.g. monitor all employee communications through a mandatory proxy service, even if the device is not on-prem).
My biggest beef with the apt/deb-based distros for container images is that apt-get updates installs take frustratingly long, whereas apks always tend to be near instant. I wonder what it is in the postinst and related scripts that just take so long and can't be parallelized!

Most of the reason I switched from Ubuntu -> Arch is that working with alpine allowed me to realize that installing packages and their dependencies don't have to take so long.
Feigning ignorance? I am explicit in pointing how minorities tend to get a special deal when it comes to supremacist talk. I just don't condone it. I don't believe that glorification based on race is something you can keep to certain races. I am simply not racist about racism.
Which is the one you feel yourself most productive in?
New SEC rule requires public companies to disclose data breaches in 4 days
So did you play Linux Air Combat and what are your impressions?
The consoles at big hosts typically require good 2fa to log in to the web management console, which typically can open a command line on the instance. This is a nice authN layer.
The question then becomes is that security really doing anything, or is it just to make people feel like it is doing something

I maintain it is latter, at the expense of multiple very real and often dismissed constitutional issues
if someone is faking user agents they often change agents, before you can build an extensive profile
E.G.
How to fake and rotate User Agents using Python 3

https://www.scrapehero.com/how-to-fake-and-rotate-user-agent...

its also good to be able to know if its a toxic or abusive user agent string

Ethical hacking and penetration testing How to use User Agent to attack websites

https://miloserdov.org/?p=5346&PageSpeed=noscript
Not any single environment, but general daily computing tasks. Updated the submission for clarification btw.
I have a theory that there is a kind of dual-think going on around AI 'hallucination'. Specifically that the only meaningful difference between imagination and what people are calling hallucination is whether or not the outcome is useful.

Complete lay-person viewpoint here of course, outside of toying with some neural networks back in the day.
My experience has been different. Considering how easy the application is I think they're still being fairly generous as I've been offered multiple v3-8s and v3-32s x 30days as well as pre-emptible v3-64s x 28 days for a few different projects within the last 6 months.

Are you affiliated with an academic institution? Otherwise I'm not sure why they're been more generous with me, my projects have been mildly interesting at best.

They're certainly a lot stingier with larger pods than they used to be though.
You have to manually set up shared memory with its own API that has its own limitations, right? I thought some seamless integration was a new feature, but AFAICT, transfers between multiprocesses still leads to things being pickled and copied. Am I wrong?
> The lack of Russian milblogger reaction to a Ukrainian strike on the Chonhar bridge represents a notable inflection in Russian reporting on the war in Ukraine and may suggest that the Kremlin has directed Russian milbloggers to refrain from covering certain topics.

This happened less than a day ago. Jumping to conclusions much? Every mil-blogger/analyst/etc I know that doesn’t work for a 3 letter agency does this as a hobby or part time job.
Ice sublimates after freezing, so they would still dry.
Oh for sure, if you're going to try and replicate 'the classroom' at home it's going to be pain. It needs some different thinking, especially around what the child does and doesn't actually need. As I said, it's not perfect, and people get it 'wrong,' but we're comparing to schools here (generalisation, there are of course very good schools and teachers around), which I don't think represents 'good' to compare to. It is a parent's prerogative if they wish to instill religious dogma and ignorance into their kids, unless we think we should enforce social conformity broader than what is created in the classroom?
Schools are certainly not busy ensuring kids have strong critical thinking skills. Just look at the way universities are shutting down troubling topic debates for the mindsets arriving there.

I'm curious what does 'enough socialising' mean?
This is fantastic! Just downloaded an iOS client and really having fun going down the rabbit hole.
I wouldn't doubt it. I'm in both cohorts. (Family history of malignant melanoma, fair skin, and moles and freckles.)

Most men never use sunscreen, including those who spend a great deal of time outdoors. I seriously doubt that cohort takes vitamin D.
IIRC, optparse was going to be be removed in 3.5(?) but outcry was large .

It has a depreciation warning in the docs since 3.2.

It was in the "please just use argparse instead" state for a long time, this "just" adds an actual code warning.
Realism doesn't work in business. Business success requires 10 people to try for 1 person to succeed. If those 10 people were realists, they wouldn't try.