skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's frustrating that every single company seems to move away from building powerful software with high information density to gift-wrapped software with low information density. I make practice tracks for my band, and I still use Audacity to do it, which uses 2000-2010-style software design. I like it so much more than MuseScore 4, which recently adopted a lot of the modern conventions of sleek, button-less two-color design.
Why are you pretending like flexibility is something you cannot give freely ?

That's like saying all junior-level employees MUST carry a book on top of their heads all the time, and only C-Level executives get to skip that. If you give someone flexibility, you are not taking anything away from other people, so not giving it is only an unnecessary punishment for junior level employees.
When I was a kid, I always suspected a compiler or CPU bug when my program did not behave as expected. I heard similar stories on more than several occasions from other people, so being naïve must be a common thing among us software engineers when we make our first steps. Kudos to Mozilla, their finding is a real CPU bug.
It seems information dense, but I don't see their point.

Glad they talk about arythmia. This slowly killed my endurance and sleep training (I wanted to be a skipper) and it was too late to do anything about it. Still got the memo in time to change course without trouble, but young people should always get their heart checked.

Still have no idea why I developed arythmia though.
Did a google search for ups driver downsides and literally every result is “I have chronic back pain” and a workers compensation for physical injuries.

I’m sure there are downsides to swe but I’ve met swe/tech people who are 65+ and super sharp and innovative.

Have you ever met a 65 yo UPS driver? Most drivers seem young.
Celiac disease make up a minor part of gluten sensitivity. It's obvious you know little about the topic and are just spouting misinformation. Also you seem to have little respect for what your fellow humans think, all the while displaying very limited cognitive abilities yourself.
Somewhat related:
Terms of Service; Didn't Read https://tosdr.org
Life's Essential 8 from https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-lifestyle/li...

1. Eat Better (whole foods, lots of fruits and vegetables, lean protein, nuts, seeds, and cooking in non-tropical oils such as olive and canola)

2. Be More Active (2½ hours of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week)

3. Quit Tobacco

4. Get Healthy Sleep (7-9 hours of sleep each night)

5. Manage Weight (Optimal BMI is 25)

6. Control Cholesterol

7. Manage Blood Sugar

8. Manage Blood Pressure (Levels less than 120/80 mm Hg are optimal)
Uh, if you're reading off table 1 at section 5.3, that's across all chronically-administered SSRIs -- not this drug in particular. Zurzuvae was evaluated in much smaller clinical trials of 347 women 18-44 and as far as I can tell, did not have any incidences of discontinuance due to suicidal ideation.
There were several major issues.
Yes, especially with the shockingly high cost of housing this is a very real effect.
I'm currently going through interviews and I think "collaboration" and communication is a real thing WFH is missing. You say that people can collaborate real-time from any corner of the planet but that hasn't been my experience. I have had two companies in the last few weeks (out of like 5) where my recruiter had no idea what stage of the process I was in because at some other point some recruiter had picked me up. I had no idea what was going on and neither did they. And when they find out that there is a dual-recruiting process happening, they call me to ask what's happening instead of asking their teammate. So stupid, man.

It doesn't stop there. When I'm actually at work, I'm constantly waiting for hours for responses unless I pull in a manager to move things along. While it's true that with today's tech we can collaborate anywhere, that's not what I see happening in practice. I constantly see miscommunication and misunderstandings that normally would take 10 minutes at someone's cube to resolve that end up taking DAYS to resolve.
Which aside from office space if you feel you need to rent/buy a bigger place in an expensive area are utterly trivial for any decent white collar job and are almost certainly counterbalanced by commuting costs for the vast bulk of people who can't just walk/cycle to their jobs.
Most commercial products that include an installer on *NIX are written in shell. No other method allows you to have a universal installer on every platform that will always work.

> Especially for a company, unless you've got really, really skilled engineers on the scripts, it becomes a complete mess. And even then it can become almost impossible to grok.

Dude. It's really not that hard a language. Is amateur shell script ugly? verbose? redundant? bug-riddled? Absolutely. But it works despite that, and has fewer dependencies than other solutions, so in practice, it's fine.

That said, use whatever you know. Wanna use Python? Use it. Wanna use a compiled language? Do it. Just make something. The biggest difficulties you will have in producing a product will not be the language.

You don't have to avoid shell just because people on HN (who've probably never read the man page) keep repeating that it's terrible. With Shellcheck, almost anyone can write good scripts now. If you can write a concise, bug-free script that works, then do it.
It feels strange to imagine using a chat service like Slack as a knowledge base - it feels so ephemeral! How did that work? Does it have an embedded wiki I don't know about?
awesome concept. Would love to try it out
Chuwi minibook?

https://www.chuwi.com/product/items/chuwi-minibook.html
Re colab: I am in a team that is split across 4 cities, 2 countries, and an ocean. It literally makes no sense to demand that we are in the office.
Can 'Mad Libs for incident response' prevent the next MOVEit?
I don't know what you're trying to explain. You cited J&J in your original post as a company who got away with it, they didn't, you were mistaken. They're trying but are not successful. The situation, as of today, is that J&J (through their subsidiary), will be able to be sued an held liable for any negative health effects from their products.

> Let's not act like J&J is trying to be in any way 'fair' about making sure claimants are taken care of.

Nobody is. The legal system, however, is currently doing it's part to keep them fair.

> When the judge initially dismissed their bankruptcy filing, they updated the number and refiled within hours. That's taking the piss.

Who cares, they can file whatever they want. The bankruptcy was dismissed because the company they created was not in danger of insolvency at all because they're wholly owned and funded by J&J who is not insolvent. That's what _should_ have happened in the GP case and what _is_ happening in the J&J case.

Your cynicism is completely unwarranted yet you seem very inclined to keep it up.
> However, the details of modern branch predictors are proprietary, so we don’t have authoritative sources on them.

I focused on Computer Architecture for a masters degree and now I work on a CPU design team. While I cannot say what we use due to NDA, I will say that it is not proprietary. Very nearly everything, including the branch predictors, in modern CPUs can be found in academic research.

Many of these secrets are easily found in the reading list for a graduate-level computer architecture course. Implementation details vary but usually not by too much.
You made me realise that Canada does not seem to have something similar - we just have a transportation safety bureau that handles trains, pipelines and the likes. And the Titan thing that happened a few weeks back.

I'm a little worried.
I can't read this comments as anything other than virtue signalling. You can call Mark Shuttleworth an asshole and still use Ubuntu without being a hypocrite.
the brevity with which you describe the life trajectory for millions if not tens of millions of people is ... sigh.
Personally, my experience is the exact opposite.

It's very easy to say "hey, can you share your screen" on a remote conversation. While in person that will require moving at minimum 2 people (often more) into a compressed setting with bad visibility at some random place of the building.
Fantastic, really takes you back.

My own voicemail has been degraded to being the "We're sorry, the number you have called has been disconnected" recording on loop to discourage spam calls. It works, but is not great when I'm getting a call from someone I don't know but would find the voicemail useful for.
Interpol shutters '16shop' phishing-as-a-service outfit
Are there any pointers you could share on what would be a good way to go down the electronics rabbit hole? I'm great with software, but still often notice a glaring lack of knowledge when it comes to hardware topics.
Why is it surprising they can wear pins to school? Public schools are required to allow speech in most forms, like messages on clothing.
I don't have anything to add, just -- another new dad here -- wanted to say thanks for sharing and I'm glad it's working for you.
We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs vs. Jackson
Disconnected thoughts (having just spent a couple of hours of fascinated reading around Urbit).

Thirty years ago I would have been on this train. No question. It's giving me early 90s internet optimism techno-utopia feels. Now I'm older and a lot more jaded, I think I'll give it a miss and set my sights lower with something like Gemini for my weird niche internet protocol needs.

The deliberately impenetrable jargon reminds me of 90s-era Wired's reader-hostile graphic design. We're so cool, we can put barriers in your way and you'll clamber over them to get to us. That's a marketing technique - I've heard it called challenge appeal.

All federated solutions need some kind of trust model. Money is not, at first glance, a terrible answer to that problem (hashcash for email, and some web forums charge a few dollars for accounts just to keep the spammers out). Mastodon delegates trust to the instance admin, Scuttlebutt limits its web of trust to two degrees. But this elaborate tiered model is just unnecessary - they must have considered, and rejected, proof of work or many other possible solutions. It's sad that I assume bad faith because of someone's political position, but so it goes on the post-enshitiffication internet. The trust has already been eroded.

Isn't it interesting that a piece of software can be the concrete embodiment of a philosophy?
Everyone just does their thing and it sorts itself out.

The debate about all this is endless and companies are going to do what they feel they need to do and so will everyone else. Right now employment is pretty fluid and that's good.
this seems neat, I'll definitely give it a look. this seems like a very suitable trade-off for a lot of applications I have worked on.

does anyone know if there is a postgres-postgres version of this that is easy to run in ephemeral environments? ideally I'd like to be able to run Postgres sidecars along my application containers and eliminate the network roundtrip using the sidecar as a read replica, but haven't seen this being done anywhere. maybe it wouldn't be fast enough to run in such scenarios?
I think you might have responded to the wrong comment —- I’m not making any claim here.
While this is a provocative response and there is no excuse for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 2001 Ukrainian census[1] states 60.4% of the Crimean population considered themselves Russian and 24% of the Crimean population considered themselves Ukrainian.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea#Ethnici...
Do you even know the meaning of chauvinism? Because this is literally the opposite of chauvinism. They aren't stating their view is superior, they just want it to exist.
This doesn't feel like an archive to me, it feels usable.

When I was 16, my parents got a new answering machine. My dad's recording of the message was yelling into the machine "You have reached xxx-xxx-xxxx. Leave a message" It was aggressive. I re-recorded saying, not yelling, "You have reached xxx-xxx-xxxx. We don't sign autographs, but you can leave us a message." He did not like that I re-recorded it. His father, however, loved it for some reason. (never could figure out what Grandpa found funny.)

20+ years later, when my sister got them a new answering machine (yes, you can still get new ones, my parents still have their landline), the message has now changed to "... we don't sign autographs or send texts, but you can leave us a message."

We also buy my dad VHS auto-rewinders whenever we see them at thrift stores.
Odds on this total redesign of everything including incredibly basic features like syntax highlighting in code blocks? Or is that still on the roadmap for FY 2029
because nobody has seen the code, but everyone has seen what it does and can think of multiple ways to do it with AI
Ask HN: Who's Seeking New Friends?
Hello HN community,

I wanted to create a space for anyone interested in making new friends. Whether you're open to online or in-person hangouts, feel free to drop a comment below. It's a chance to expand our networks and connect with like-minded folks.

To start off, here are a few of my interests: computational biology, game design, nature photography. Open to online friends.
You can reach me on Discord where my handle is hyperific.

Looking forward to reading your intros and interests.
Good to hear I'm not the only one who finds that form of title unpalatable. IMO one of the most annoying headline trends of the clickbait era.
> And DNS of HTTPS, so we can't even get all our traffic to go over the same DNS server.

I bet there's a market for something like a user-friendly mitmproxy variant to plug that hole. It might even be able to be a part of pi-hole for pi-hole users.
I was inside the old Post building on 15th St. NW twice: once for an interview for a job that I didn't really remember applying for; once to buy copies of the election-night edition in 2008. But I think I recall still pictures from "All the President's Men" showing a newsroom that everybody at desks in a big open space.

Actually, I'd rather the Post reporters not sit in the same room all day--better that they should be out talking to persons who are not their co-workers most of the time.
> Sorry I did not understand that :-)

You seemed to be saying that the differences I listed (quicker and more specific feedback) were the only differences. Those are both positive.

I was saying that some people may think there are negative differences as well.
Russia's stated goal (according to Dmitri Medvedev, former president and now "Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation") is also to "build a united Eurasia from Vladivostok to Lisbon", yet it is very unlikely that any European nation would preemptively invade Kaliningrad over those existential threats.

Also, Mexico entering a military alliance with China is extremely far fetched, how did you even arrive at that idea?
Wait, how are they almost at break even if they’re losing 32k per vehicle?
Yes! I was reminded of this book looking at the website.

I bought it 15 years ago and my eyes glossed over the CPU arch section, but maybe I am ready now. I bought 2e recently.
It looks like this could have been discovered by simply having (anonymised) crash report telemetry? I don't know about others, but that sort of telemetry doesn't sound so bad.
Four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure
In my long (too long) experience, technical debt is never solved within old schlerotic companies, it is only solved by competition between companies.

New successful startups with cleaner tech, and none of the baggage, out-compete the incumbent.

If your innovative spirit is stifled by tech debt, don't die trying to fix it, move somewhere with less.

You can run away.
Such crash data can be collected with an old fashion 'Firefox has crashed, send a problem report to Mozilla [OK] [Cancel]' dialog, which is much less privacy-intrusive than telemetry.
Pair programming is also easier.

Today I pair programmed with a junior engineer across the country, he was in his own 21x9 setup, with his colour scheme, and I was on my laptop at the office with my light theme. It was perfect.
Sorry, I don't understand your comment.
I'm with you. But a lot of people still want to live in the city and not go to the office. So, I'm suggesting that, for that cohort, dedicated private offices might be compelling. It means that you probably have a short commute; you can reclaim space in your home that might have been used for work; still live in city and have access to the social offerings there; and that you retain your privacy, and potentially have even more if the case that you're co-habitating.
You can fix it by creating the file `/usr/local/bin/xdg-open` and putting this inside:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [[ "${1:-}" = slack://\* ]]; then
exec /usr/lib/slack/slack --enable-crashpad "$1"
fi

exec /usr/bin/xdg-open "$@"

Granted it's not perfect, but at least it fixes the issue on KDE
It's not about what the office looks or feels like or what the amenities are for me but about a lifestyle. Once I got a taste of this lifestyle I decided that, for the kind of work I'm doing right now, ordinary software development, I will never go back to the office unless absolutely necessary (recession, war, etc). I'd be happy to go work from my employer's building where the job requires it, where I need equipment I can't reasonably expect to have at home (factory) or where I have to work where the customers are (service), things like that.

The kind of software job I'm in though, it's absolutely possible with the right policies and technology to have the same kind of productivity as in the office, it's up to the employer to fix whatever they think is missing.
Hi from the Cloudflare Product team - blank stares shouldn't be the response there. Can you send me a note, srhea AT cloudflare, and I'll make sure you get a response?
https://archive.li/h2sNk
Downfall: New Intel CPU Attack Exposing Sensitive Information
Indeed. Telemetry is often used for good purposes, like improving features that cause trouble to end users and to fix crashes.

I'm not saying bad actors don't exist, just that telemetry is often used for good, with no nefarious goals.
This could be extremely helpful for conveying trig or other math concepts in an education setting. I know a lot of visual learners that struggle with mapping the math to the visual space. Sprinkling in interactivity is a great way to help cement understanding.
The wag who dubbed various false alarms of room temperature superconductivity in the 1990s as USOs (Unidentified Superconducting Objects) got it quite right.

First there is the condensed-matter equivalent of blurry photos of floating saucers (or small disks like here) and lots of excitement, followed by investigations either not seeing anything or identifying the objects as weather ballons. The social media reaction is also similar.

This preprint identifies a weather balloon that was conspicuously close the site of the original photographs.
Be careful about that second point. I have seen people posit themselves into positions of critical design decisions only to position the business around their core strengths. That is toxic. It will buy you increased job security for a time, but if your strengths are out of alignment with common sense it’s only a matter of time before you and your team are crushed by tech debt. An example is imposing all business logic goes in Kubernetes because you good at Kubernetes. Be aware that you will likely encounter this at least once in your career.
> further research shows they haven't tested for it's presence in breastmilk yet.

What? This claim is easily falsifiable. Section 8.2, Lactation:

> Available data from a clinical lactation study in 14 women indicate that zuranolone is present in low levels in human milk.

> A steady-state milk study was conducted in 14 healthy lactating women treated with daily oral administration of 30 mg of ZURZUVAE for 5 days. At steady state (Day 5), the calculated maximum relative infant dose for ZURZUVAE was < 1%. The daily infant dose was low (approximately 0.0013 mg/kg/day), reflecting a mean relative infant dose of 0.357% compared to the maternal dose. Concentrations of ZURZUVAE in breastmilk were below the level of
quantification limit (BQL) by 4-6 days after the last dose.
Think of it this way. We are all accumulating plaque. Three things play a large role in the rate at which we accumulate plaque: bodyweight, diet, activity level. (Yes, I'm aware there are more variables, but these are most pervasive and influential)

It used to be that we managed these variables quite well until middle age. Now, we flout them at an early age, setting the course for early heart attacks.
If I could walk to an office I'd probably do it now and then. But at a 30 minute drive (to an office where I wouldn't know anyone at this point) I'm not going to bother.
Lightning is standardised across my friends and family, so being the weird one out with usb-c doesn’t improve my user experience.
> everything is to blame, but that obvious thing that everyone took

They're an antivaxxer spouting off antivax nonsense - completely ignoring the data was collected from 2000 to 2016.
I get it now!

you're a comedian!

thanks for the laughs - anyone who can straightfacedly deny what they wrote, and people referencing it such an obvious manner that you still deny must be in it for the humor value
"People will never ..."

Ai: "Hold my beer".
An airline put me in precheck a few years ago due to FF status. Now it requires an application to government and fingerprint. And global entry (immigration) wants an eyeball scan. Biometric collection to avoid a TSA massage is not privacy.
i2p, tor. whonix distribution of linux, tails…
Ah yes don't want a repeat of Genshin Impact
Another learner here, one clarification that I think is useful even for beginners:

> A token is a unique integer identifier for a piece of text.

A token is a word fragment that's common enough to be useful on its own - for eg., "writing", "written", "writer" all have "writ", so "writ" would be an individual token, and "writer" might be tokenized as "writ" and "er".

An embedding is where the tokens get turned into unique numeric identifiers.
My dad ran his own business, and I remember his answering machine recording well, because my room was right next to his office at home: "Hi, this is Dennis, I'm sorry that I can't come to the phone right now, but it's a jungle out there, and I'm trying to make a living. So please leave your name [...]"
>Aside from saving them rent on the office space, you should be able to expense several office-supply things that they would have provided previously. Office chair and desk, internet bill (pro-rated by usage), maybe printer ink.

Let's not get carried away. Back then you were paying for your own transportation costs and your commute time. Which is more valuable? Commuting to work every day to enjoy free office supplies and coffee, or WFH but paying for your own chair and desk?

I'd take the latter any day of the week as the chair & desk is a one time cost anyway and lasts 10+ years.
It is insult to injury that the charity Coeliac UK is completely unwilling to assist those who are 'only' gluten intolerant, that is, those for whom the blood test comes back negative. At least here in Britain, the general attitude towards allergies and intorlerances has improved, but the majority of establishments still have no gluten-free menu, let alone an isolated coeliac-safe kitchen.
My wife works for a big university and when the first "return to the office" pitch was happening, the head of HR for the whole org was on a Zoom and basically said, "If you are not back at work, you should be already. I love coming into campus and mingling with the students..." etc, etc. RIGHT at the moment, you could hear FedEX ringing his doorbell at his home. Insane.