skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True story. I have been to SA a number of times and know have seen how dry it can get down there (though with what water you have, it is beautiful). We also have a lot of farmers and ranchers picking up the oil and gas royalty income in the U.S. Weird thing/something I have never really gotten over in terms of agriculture...Not frac water, but produced formation water (which is also usually reinjected for disposal - and that is a whole other topic that is concerning), is land applied in some areas for cattle to drink. Here is the thing - it is potable for animals but not safe for human consumption, yet we will eventually eat them. Produced formation water (ancient seawater with some heavier and sometimes slightly radioactive materials) doesn't strike me as something anything living could properly filter. The practice is common in Wyoming - where a lot of beef cattle live. Not sure about TX, but wouldn't be surprised if it was acceptable practice there.
Regulating Commercial Spyware
I applied for a job there, got to the personality test thing, said to myself "this is really stupid" and stopped replying to their emails. Just not worth it
But they are doing it and succeeding. No product is 100% perfect. The problem is that when it’s not perfect people can ostensibly (and arguably actually) be harmed if they can’t access content on the Cloudflare network. This is why we need more scrutiny around how large internet platforms deploy bot mitigation technology. We don’t need to tell people “sorry just suffer DoS attacks”.
Based on what I see in the <18s: tchotchkes attached to their phones, bracelets, pin badges (which, to my surprise, my kids are allowed to wear to school), custom avatars, Roblox skins/clothing.
We need the Seinfeld answering machine prompt.
It's weird but I think there could be a significant benefit for a company that makes an operating system that users are installing themselves. This policy means their staff will use a diverse set of hardware, some brand new, some old, some home-built. That leads to natural dogfooding and might result in a better product.

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Weapons grade plutonium is slightly warm to touch.
There was a study about that and there was a direct correlational between the size of you home and your desire to return to the office, people with small apartments enjoyed the office much more than those with larger houses. I'd also guess that the people with larger homes live father away from work than people with smaller homes so a longer commute comes into play.
If I read a book and learn something from that I have updated a neural network in my brain. You don't get paid for that (I am not, as an example, sharing any of my income with the people who wrote my college books).

If I write a non-fiction kids book about a boy who finds out that he is a wizard and goes to a secret wizard school, I don't owe JK any copyright money.
I find that more and more CloudFlare is so ubiquitous that we have to use CloudFlare tools to protect ourselves from other people attacking us via CloudFlare. Here's an example of a rule we had to put in place to block people using CloudFlare workers to scrape pages and bypass security. CloudFlare doesn't seem to care about this kind of abuse (or maybe they do but aren't talking about it publicly).

(!cf.bot_management.verified_bot)
and (cf.bot_management.score lt 10 )
and len(cf.worker.upstream_zone) gt 0 and not cf.worker.upstream_zone in {"<zone>"}
and (not ip.geoip.asnum eq <exception as>)
> but that shouldn't matter all that much (didn't matter when Apple bought PA Semi to work on ARM instead of PowerPC).

Apple is designing their own cores while Amazon is just using ARM Neoverse.

And Oracle is offering Ampere instance which IIRC are quite close to Gravirton cost/performance wise.
Chae observed a gravitational anomaly in wide binary star systems that challenges Newtonian gravity and Einstein's general relativity!!

Stars in weakly accelerating orbits deviate from standard models, aligning with the Modified Newtonian Dynamics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics (MOND). Suggests an alternate theory without requiring dark matter. He's calling for a reevaluation of gravity theories and potentially reducing the need for vast dark matter.
The argument I saw brought up when I was working at Canonical (before the weird hiring process thing, n.b.) made some sense:

They explicitly wanted you to buy a laptop in your country using what's available to you so as to artificially widen the laptops with good ubuntu support: the reasoning was that you being a Canonical employee means you're more likely to help get the bugs fixed.

In practice however I don't think the diversity of laptops in the company was that great, we ended up with the same bunch of thinkpads and dells you'd expect from any random group of nerds (with a few exotics thrown in perhaps, but not many).

One requirement was to use Ubuntu on your laptop. I think they relaxed that over the years, even if working on not-ubuntu would definitely get you looks and comments at get togethers.
I am currently using nordvpn and my subscription is going to expire pretty soon.
I have been thinking to switch to mullvad for some time.

apart from the price (nordvpn is cheaper) can someone please help me make a decision if to switch or stay with nord?

based on the comments in the thread I assume mullvad is better in terms of privacy, security and probably more.

in addition, I don't use streaming services so the netflix selling point does not apply to me.

thanks in advance!
>a reversion to the mean is going to leave these people obliterated.

Not if they 'made hay while the sun shines' and are now financially independent
For the most part, yes, they are clones of the mother [1] or father [2]. It gets way more complicated in some frogs though… [3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynogenesis

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgenesis

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybridogenesis_in_water_frog...
This also means that choosing to stay a bit late[1] because you're working on a hard problem becomes an easier choice, because you know you can stop any time and be on your bed in under 15 seconds, no bus no car no bike no commute.

[1]: If your employer doesn't like if you take a longer lunch break or something to get this time back, then it's time to start looking for a different one.
It really depends on how you use them. Email can be just as chaotic. I disable notifications on both and check for updates on my schedule. In general, I find Slack more focused on a topic. Email has too much dross.
Assuming you are correct in your translation (it's difficult to know), there are no benefits to the language they've chosen. The only reasons to use it are to:

(1) maintain the tradition (mistakenly) established by Urbit

(2) create an artful and amusing atmosphere for the ingroup

(3) filter and keep curious normies out

None of these are reasons I can get behind.
> Four hours of knowledge work a day is actually a lot. The average corporate worker probably does far less. Meetings, small talk, answering emails, etc. feel like work, but most of the time it isn’t. Four hours of focused knowledge work can produce exponential more value that four hours of meetings.

No idea if I should be rolling on the floor laughing or extremely saddened reading that. I might advice taking a reality check before spurring this kind of non sense in public if you want to avoid sounding both entitled and utterly disconnected.
BTW, dead thread, I should note that the certs Conveyor generates aren't CA certificates. They have your chosen identity name in them, so you can't use it to sign for other packages.
A few years back, I actually made it all the way through to Mark, who interviewed me while having dinner (on his end).

My essay focused on Ubuntu on ARM and how critical it would be for hyperscalers, which at the time wasn't really a thing at all (that should date me).

I ended up declining their offer mostly because nowhere during any step of the process but the very end they pointed out they could only contract, not take me on as a full-time employee.

I don't regret giving it a go, but it was one of the weirdest hiring processes I've ever gone through (including FAANG, MBB and think tanks).
- 5 of them have no need for discrete graphics; of those 3 are laptops, which (for many years) were basically going to be intel CPUs unless you go out of your way to buy AMD. One other is a NUC (I wanted the Pulse8 CEC module which is available internally only for NUCs), and the last one is used largely as a server; the only low-power mITX board I could find that supported ECC was a Xeon-D.

- One was built before AMD sold GPUs.

- One was built in a time in which AMD GPUs ran much hotter than Nvidia GPUs at the same performance level, so I would have only bought one if I was more price sensitive.
> how many people do you see opting out of full body scans at TSA

They're all in the pre-check line.
Enterprise plans are somewhere in the $20/u/m region, I think Ubisoft got extremely mad that people were making small slacks- so they unified them all under one majorly huge slack and then closed it shortly in favour of teams. Which, was smart since it killed off all the little slacks.

For Ubisoft (24,000 people) it was in the region of €5.8MM/y (I saw the bill).
MongoDB | Tech Lead Manager opening| NYC - Hybrid | Base + RSUs

MongoDB's Insights & Telemetry team is looking for a Lead Engineer to manage their team of six engineers that focus on time series based metrics and high volume ingestion pipelines.

This is a backend leaning full stack team (90/10 Java, React, Typescript) but the team hires language agnostic with a preference for a strong backend background.

Job description here: https://grnh.se/a0d2a1051us

Additional openings here: https://www.mongodb.com/careers/positions
To put some numbers on it "Associate" is a $150-$250K TC role vs DJ CEO making $25M.
The Mercury Protocol
That's a more general question as plenty of non-gluten containing crops will be grown with pesticide use. I believe this particular experiment didn't use whole grains, and so the pesticides are likely irrelevant.
I would disagree. Just because you don't quite understand something, doesn't mean your concerns are not worth consideration - consider the recent zoom TOS issue. I doubt that many of us have a deep understanding of how that data's being used, or the internal guidelines that zoom follows for its data use, and most people aren't lawyers specializing in IP law to know exactly how the law would treat zoom if they were to accidentally (or "accidentally") leak IP. We just see that they are putting in a clause in their TOS to allow themselves to do so, remember our own heuristics of how LLM have behaved in the past, and understandably start raising questions. For all we know, zoom's AI might be something constrained to a framework which doesn't allow for such data leaks to occur, or it's generative capabilities might be constrained in some other way. They're just demanding legal permission to do so, but that still rubs a lot of us the wrong way. Our concerns are still justified, even if Zoom never actually touches AI.
Artists lack as concrete heuristics as the technical crowd. But they still have concerns that need addressing, and those concerns about the effects of AI still should be considered and respected. If the details of the situation don't match their concerns, care should be taken to explain how they don't match to the people in question, in a way that isn't looking down on them (admittedly, trying to be the calm voice is often a waste of time on the internet)
That said, if you were to make an informational video which succintly summarizes the technical details that are relevant to artists, it might become sufficiently popular to influence debate.
A more interesting counterfactual would be:

What if Rome did not Christianize?
I posted a reply to your main link. I think you overestimate the ability of the tests to rule out issues caused by strange interactions with food and/or constituent components of food. I think you are referring to 1) genetic tests for celiac genes, 2) IgA tests, and/or 3) biopsies for flatten villi. These can rule out celiac specifically, but cannot rule out a variety of other issues that can be a result. (My evidence of that you may not find convincing, but it comes from discussions with several gastroenterologists and rheumatologists that I've worked with).
I specified reduced need for a certain type of labor.
I can't resist pointing out that LWN (https://lwn.net/) has been dedicated, for many years, to the production of operating-system information that is not terrible. Have a look, and perhaps consider joining us :)
Platform Fee for Charitable Organization Donations
Hello there,

We are currently building an android and iOS app for a handful of registered charities. They want to collect donations from the app.

I see there is a 30% fee on what is being collected. Want to know if someone faced this and what are best ways to avoid it.

One quick solution that I see is PWA. Any suggestion would greatly help.

Thanks
I've seen some employers try to get people to take a 50% paycut for WFH and then STILL bait and switch them back into the office.
With all due respect, this is the kind of speculation I was complaining about earlier.

>Almost nothing is strictly necessary to just serve content when a URL is accessed

That's not what the law says.

> 3. Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned is provided with clear and comprehensive information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia about the purposes of the processing, and is offered the right to refuse such processing by the data controller. This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order to provide an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user.

Emphasis mine. It's not to just serve content, but to provide a service requested by the user. This should clear up the confusion.

Full text here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Anyway, I provided a link from the ICO that explicitly says it's OK for user IDs, user preferences, etc.

The CNIL agrees: https://www.cnil.fr/sites/cnil/files/atoms/files/lignes_dire... See point 49.

The EDPB agrees: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
No, I'm not missing anything. I am aware of the data (questionable as it may be). There is no valid justification for your proposals. Time to move on.
This is beautiful work. You have a very bright future ahead.
The last two paragraphs are key, reminding us that replacing gluten carries its own health risks.
Crystal balls? What is the most profitable american car company? You let me know.
I have not run into this attitude in tech from executives. Finance is much more of a heiracy culture I guess.

I have run into this at a peer level though. I've negotiated WFH and extra vacation and have learned to keep it in the down low. They get mad at me, but I'm not the one that is their boss and I couldn't care less if they WFH.
Humans have been genetically engineering plants for thousands of years. Let's not reduce that to a boogeyman.
On what planet is the Arch Linux install process the same as the Ubuntu install process.

As someone at the time who didn’t know anything about Linux and had dialup internet, it was extremely handy to be able to pop in a disk and get running like I was used to with other OSes
Currently we have ceased all work due to lack of funds - there are multiple reasons behind this, but we are still bullish on the tech. Our university partners may develop it further, or I may come back to it in a few years when my situation changes.

A core takeaway from our investors is that we should have tried harder to demonstrate strong market pull for our reactors, or the microalgae itself. In this respect it was a kind of chicken and egg problem, in that microalgae can be used for many different things, but no one is doing it because it is too expensive, and the existing markets are supply saturated.
Steam Deck Certified Refurbished
A lot of people at my workplace use the office as a second "base" where they can settle for the day and is close to a lot of things.

Since I live close to it, I never even though about doing this. And of course, the people that live the furthest away get the most value out of it. So, yeah, it's probably a very strong correlation, and not only for negative reasons.
Your custom voicemail prompts are useless because after the prompt, you get another prompt from the system asking you to leave a message after the beep.
> [I]t is common sense to a _celiac_ that gluten causes inflammation throughout the body and brain even of _non-celiacs_

(emphasis mine)

I don't follow how this is common sense. It looks like extrapolating from your condition (celiac) and projecting it onto those that don't have your condition (non-celiacs).
As a fellow (very nearly) 17 year old, good job! :^) Just 20 minutes ago I was trying to figure out how to extract the first byte of a 16 bit integer and finding out about Endianness, and you're writing a whole book about CPUs! I'll make sure to read this once I've finished Crafting Interpreters, although it may take a while since progress with that has certainly slowed down (as it does with many of my other projects lol).
In my experience, VP+ level also maybe spend half the year on the road and are commonly on 10pm calls with e.g. customers and general managers in Asia. Certainly they're usually well-compensated but they're not spending their days by the swimming pool in their villa either. I suspect that a lot of people reading this would hate the job even if they could do it well.
Someone stole torrentfreak's twitter handle
Sure enough, if you scroll through old posts you start seeing torrentfreak articles.

https://nitter.net/EthereumFDN/with_replies
The MNT Pocket Reform might also be interesting - https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt...
Well I remember going around to friends houses and them having 8 bit consoles.
I've heard the phrase "you have to know the rules to break them" (or something similar). The next generation of creators may look at that and choose to change their story telling on purpose, or exaggerate the curves, or something else ... that's what creativity is about - trying variations.

Just because Hollywood is pumping out movies you find unpleasant doesn't mean art is dead.

You and I probably agree more than this conversation suggests. You're right that people can and likely will stick to patterns that are successful, and that will mean there may be more copy-cat cookie-cutter stuff out there. But I strongly suspect that it will allow other creators to rocket past old mistakes or common tropes towards something novel.
Not orthogonal, maybe diagonal.

Sizecoding productions are an exception, because they tend to use really slow and memory hungry unpackers (can take up to gigabytes of RAM to do their job, for a 4k intro!), and they tend to lack all optimization techniques that could improve speed in exchange for more code (ex: culling, etc...). And flooding memory with millions of generated objects is no problem for these productions, as long as they are not stored in the executable.

But in general, larger binaries are slower to load, simply because there is more bytes to copy from disk to RAM. And although it is not always the case (ex: sizecoding), it usually means a larger memory footprint, resulting in worse CPU cache efficiency, less memory for other apps and filesystem caches, etc... Also, large binaries tend to be a symptom of inefficient code, with too many abstraction layers, poor optimization, etc... Another very common reasons for bloated executables is that they bundle all their libraries, which means that they don't take advantage of shared libraries, requiring the OS to maintain multiple copies of the same library, possibly including some outdated or poorly optimized versions.
I've not used the product, so it may already do this, but does it ask you for the data it needs in the Pull Request?

I have experience interacting with a logging system, where any diff to the logged data would need a tag like `log_size_increase=3 bytes` – the CICD system would then turn this, with the data already available, into an estimate of the overall extra storage needed.

Perhaps the same could be done. Rather than figuring out "usage" of some serverless systems, which is a very vague question and therefore hard to answer, perhaps it could be more specific. For example, how many requests per second is it expected to receive? Or, which other serverless functions call it (and therefore which will it necessarily have the scale of). Or, what increase in usage would be expected for this change.
> Anyway, I'm thinking more about city dwellers who generally live in apartments.

That’s a lifestyle that makes significantly less sense for remote workers in the long run though.
But your solutions imply things that you would probably not accept to do if you were the one having to do the work for these solutions.

You are saying that people will be blamed for taking too much time to an example saying it would took 10h of someone's time instead of 5 minutes. Why the company will value more "your" deadline than "the operation" deadline? You are basically saying you are okay with "operation" being the target of people unhappy as long as they are not unhappy with you.

You are saying people should escalate. But on the example, the person who has the solution is the person you say should not be disturbed. So you are just asking to disturb uselessly people who cannot help, so your solution is even worse.

You are saying more time is needed to develop a more comprehensive knowledge base. But who should take the time to fill up the knowledge base if not the people who have the answers, which, in this example, is the people you say don't have time. (and moreover, funnily, those people complaining to be distracted are also very very often not doing any effort to share their knowledge somewhere accessible).

I'm slowly getting very irritated by the whole WFH debate: there is way too much arguments that boils down to "the problem is that _I_ am the one that people distract, so let's do my solution that is sooooo much smarter, let's do something where _I_ am happy even if it makes the situation worse for everyone else". That slowly creates this impression that a lot of pro-WFH are just little kids.
Permanently aroused to look for any injustice.
> do we want to incentivize that young people aspire to this?

Honest question, why not? Someone has to do it for society to function. We can't all be software engineers and CEOs, why shouldn't the person driving the UPS truck feel satisfied with their accomplishments instead of constantly being told they are doing it because they either didn't put in the work to "better themselves" or couldn't hack it, as certain parts of our society currently seem to do when it comes to "unskilled labor"?
No, you create a parallel one. It executes sandbox escape after a couple femtoseconds.
I wonder if this is filled out automatically by browsers like Chrome when doing auto fill...