skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m glad so many people are pessimistic because then I know I can do my best for humanity for myself and my loved and close ones.

Why do it for the masses who are ungrateful and only complain instead of trying to help? They’re welcome to come along for the ride, but they’ll always sit there and cry/complain/be annoying.
I Was Wrong About Trigger Warnings
Grandpa may have been amused by the fact his son didn't like it.
Matches my own spec quite well.
> If by "highly standardized" you mean "you don't get a choice in what you can do or how it works", I agree.

That is exactly what standardization means, by definition, both dictionary and colloquially.
> 8. Manage Blood Pressure

Anyone on here have advice on this? I eat primarily vegan and run for at least an hour a day (70-90km/wk), have a resting heart rate in the low 40s, have good (middle of healthy range) cholesterol, blood glucose, and A1C, and yet my blood pressure is persistently in the 130-140 over 70 range. I can’t figure out how to get the top number down and my doctor just sort of shrugs that it’s nothing to worry about but I suspect this is less about the science (which seems to support even lower than 120/80 is healthier) and more due to the baseline blood pressures he sees have been increasing over time due to obesity, inactivity, poor diets, etc.

Anyone in a similar boat who has managed to achieve improvements?
Correct, and no one needs to point out that China has folklore either.
> Cutting out gluten from your life also cuts out a sizeable source of calories.

I'm convinced of this as well. People say that they cut gluten but what they really did was stopped eating frozen pizzas and started eating Mediterranean style. It must be the gluten though. /s
You can't use trollish usernames on HN so I've banned the account. You're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com if you want to use the site as intended in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would pay for commercial support, an API, and maybe a webhook or some programmatic way to be notified of changes.
Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI
They'd sooner invent few new classes of dervatives you can't loose on (on paper) and gamle with them than do what you suggest or anything in any way beneficial for that matter.
It's extremely similar to the last couple of Zelda games both stylistically and in terms of game mechanics. The "climbing up a rock wall" mechanic is basically identical, for example.

It's like chatGPT took the prompt "make a game just like zelda but with microtransactions".
> (Do bear or typeguard allow you to do this using decorators?)

You can push some of this directly into Python type annotations thanks to https://peps.python.org/pep-0646/.

e.g.

@overload
def mean(a: ndarray[float, Dim1, *Shape], axis: Literal[0]) -> ndarray[float, *Shape]: ...
@overload
def mean(a: ndarray[float, Dim1, Dim2, *Shape], axis: Literal[1]) -> ndarray[float, Dim1, *Shape]: ...
"preserving privacy" : oxymoron
That would be a great amenity.
It's the software equivalent of looking busy at work.
I’m pretty sure the source engine has this builtin
Russia 'deploys 1,500 rusting mothballed tanks from Siberian dump'
Thats fast execution! You should get into the law industry.
0. sci-hub.st / libgen.is
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If the org has a clear goal and is organized enough, this sort of work can easily be distributed asynchronously.
No such thing.

First, blockchains are terribly limited capability-wise. You'd be much better off with a raspberry pi.

Second, there's no such thing as "no one controls". There's always control. Somebody is at the top of every blockchain in existence, and their interest probably doesn't align with your.

Eg, Ethereum being expensive is a problem for the users, but the people who get paid the fee love it, so there's no reason for them to be interested in decreasing costs.
Meh, I'd rather have lots of side quests with mundane rewards for the quest-enjoyers than a bunch of "not actually side quest" side quests with near-mandatory rewards. Side quests should feel optional.
Sixto Rodriguez has died
A Firefox equilivant: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imagus/
obsidian + syncthing on desktop + icloud on mobile
Said Jorji, of all people.
Secret Pakistan Cable Documents US Pressure to Remove Imran Khan (Former PM)
I’m interested. I don’t want to pigeon hole myself into a list of interests, but at a broad level it is knowledge management, computation, and cognition right now. My email is in my profile.
Should I need the publisher's permission to write a review of a book? Personally, I find that idea abhorrent. This sounds like an interesting project, unambiguously protected under fair use doctrine, both as analysis and as transformative, and the authors got their knickers in a twist because they are scared of that which they do not understand.
Response to “TunnelCrack” Vulnerability Disclosure
I think most games that use detailed physics include optimizations like this.
I work at Unity. Everything’s either in late beta or ready for launch.
So as a developer advocate and a tinkerer with a little home lab, I am often setting up and tearing down infrastructure to test things out. I use AWS because that's what I am most familiar and I try to be super careful about not running up a crazy bill, but I am still occasionally caught off guard. Now I am thinking about testing out Infracost to help prevent unwanted and unintentional spending.

As far as a solution to consistent tagging -- if I am understanding the problem space correctly -- something like Cloud Custodian could possibly help. It's open source and you can set up auto-tagging policies as well as use Cloud Custodian to backfill tags. These policies use lambda functions to respond to certain actions (ie, spinning up an ec2 instance, etc) and auto-tag with the resource creator/owner.
So could we use this with DynamoDB?
Seems to be hugged to death - every request I run ends in a 500/504 - and there is no error handling to display an error when it happens.

What is the backing AI/data source? I tried using ChatGPT for this, but given it's cutoff is September 2021 it doesn't really give you the most relevant hardware.
This is the thing I wish people would admit: it is all a preference. It's fine if some people want to WFH. It should also be fine if some people don't. Let employers fight to get their employees what their employees want or lose them to one that will. I wish I could work locally but it is no longer possible but I see a lot of benefits that you enjoy too. There is no absolute, just a preference for each person's priorities.
WFH is great for jobs where you don’t need to innovate _as much_ or do anything significantly meaningful but keep the lights on.

You really do benefit from being in person when doing something meaningful and impactful. It just works much better, and you only need a few people to do this and delegate the rest of the work to the WFH crowd.
Wonder how does it compare with DOS Navigator. Well, if DN would be implemented on a modern OS.
If you step into microcontroller land you run into hardware bugs all the time, at least if you have to write any low-level code. My very first major project I ran into at least 3 silicon bugs which wasted weeks of my life. Rookie mistake: check the errata. Though one of the bugs wasn't in the errata.
Just put them in the trash or donate. UPS has no validity in the bill, just ignore it. They can't send it to collections or anything.
There's still a "drive train" in an EV, it doesn't just magically move itself. The DC power from the high voltage battery gets inverted into AC with an inverter driven by logic from a computer. The AC output of the inverter goes to drive the windings of the motors which influence magnetic properties of the stator which interacts with the rotor to produce torque on a shaft. That is then usually connected to some kind of usually fixed-gear gearbox and differential system. That then finally turns the wheels.

And that's just moving the car forward. There's still a suspension, geometry of the wheels and suspension, balancing torque on front and rear wheels, weight distribution, steering, and more that all influences how a car feels as it drives.

Pretty much all of these things can influence a car's performance and how one perceives the car. A better quality inverter or better logic driving it can lead to better performance or efficiency. Tuning the windings and rotor magnet designs can change efficiency and torque curves at high speeds. Obviously, gear ratios can change things as well.

> Electric motors in the wheels - not so much.

Very few EV cars actually put the motors in the wheels. Tons of EVs only have a single motor in them, the extreme majority have 1-2.
Here's a 3 min audio version of Why heart attacks are rising in young adults—and what to watch out for National Geographic converted using recast app.

https://app.letsrecast.ai/r/d8ab058f-287f-439a-8deb-7269511d5bb4
I wonder what the mechanism is for that, it seems obvious that you do NOT have to accept any and all packages from any company (maybe you do from the postal service/royal mail?) but how exactly do you formally tell them to bugger off?

And is it a UPS yes/no or do they get more fine grained?
Nice, and I agree with you. In my line of work would not be so easy, as large corpos have a bunch of job safety and info sec standards, beyond internet connection.

Clean desk policy, no take-home printouts, clear whiteboards with confidencial information, etc…

I had a WFH employee who once burn himself at home while making coffee with his own coffee pot, and sue the company as he claimed was a job-related accident. We had to settle and pay him, or have Unions making a big fuzz.

There are all sort of people in the workplace, and policies try to accommodate not only CEO whims, but also to manage a crowd full of many different types of people.
Well, be careful how you word it. At the core of the problem, nobody has control over their devices. If you beat a drum complaining about Nvidia having DMA access then you have to go after Apple and Microsoft next, which would probably lead to most people getting confused. If they found out about PRISM or XKeyscore, they would probably feel hopeless and give up.

Treating privacy in the abstract is how you help people meaningfully resist it. In the literal sense, we can do very little to ensure our privacy on consumer hardware.
Wikipedia has a pretty good summary of climate proxies (1). E.g., tree rings, coral, pollen, forams/ostracods/coccolithophores/radiolaria, varves/lake sediments, water isotopes, membrane lipids, etc. See also Wikipedia article re. temperature proxies, 'Paleothermometer'(2).

So, yes, we do have proxies for past climates and rates of change. Yes, there have been some pretty spectacular excursions in climate (e.g., the entry into the Younger Dryas happened within 50 years, and brought the climate of Nome, Alaska to San Francisco). However, I saw a research presentation that compared the rate of change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) to Homo sapiens' injection of CO2 into the atmosphere, and the rate of our injection beat the PETM, and it may very well exceed any such injection in Earth's history (the latter is my speculation).

(1) Proxy (climate), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_(climate)
(2) Paleothermometer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleothermometer
There are other mechanisms for dealing with vanishing and exploding gradients. I (maybe wrongly?) think of batch normalization as being most distinctively about fighting internal covariate shift: https://machinelearning.wtf/terms/internal-covariate-shift/
Looks like it's covertly suggested in #5

5. Install Browser Extensions

Browser extensions can help you check the web for free versions of academic articles.
The Unpaywallbrowser extension gathers content from more than 50,000 journals and open-access repositories worldwide.
The Open Access Button searches “millions of articles” from sources that include “all of the aggregated repositories
in the world, hybrid articles, open access journals, and those on authors’ personal pages,” according to its website.

If the Open Access Button does not find free versions of the articles you’re looking for, it will contact the authors and
ask them to share their work by putting it into an open access repository.
Well, maybe because the 3rd party service is not reliable or you want to send an additional mail.

But okay, fair point - password-reset is maybe not the greatest example. But it doesn't invalidate the general point (I gave a couple of other examples).

> Otherwise... what on earth am I doing with users in the first place?

Maybe just making sure that the user is known and has paid for plan X (if the 3rd party service offers that).
> Mounting evidence shows that more young adults are experiencing heart problems compared to decades past, and that worsening lifestyle habits—namely, poor diet and lack of exercise—are to blame. And some research suggests that COVID infections are adding insult to injury.

> Perhaps the most alarming trend is that, despite declines among older adults, the proportion of heart attacks among younger adults is increasing across the globe—which many doctors who spoke to National Geographic consider a public health emergency. (Young adults are loosely defined as those between 20 to 50 years old.)

COVID is much more than an "insult to injury". There are more and more studies published every year regarding the cardiovascular complications associated with it in young adults. Speaking from experience of "long hauling" for 2+ years and likely having a mild case of myocarditis from an acute infection, I live most waking days with uncomfortable chest pressure and anxiety-inducing heart palpitations. Not very normal for a 31-year old man who eats well, exercises regularly, doesn't smoke/drink, and manages stress more than most. You can follow the essential 8 all you want, but COVID has serious implications here.
They don't state it clearly but this was a "we are capable not to mess up" audit rather than a "we are keeping your promises" audit.

I believe it is relevant to the threat model of an attacker gaining (partial) access to a production server (eg no accidental logging), not to the threat model of mullvad deploying malicious code.

I feel like this is a meaningful audit but would have liked if they had stated this more explicitly
> What if your VPN is the true adversary here?

They're not. Spectrum is my true adversary. My VPN may also be an adversary but that's a possibility, whereas Spectrum is a certainty.
Halfway through part one and I'm hooked! Thanks for writing this. It's something I didn't know I needed.
This was unambiguously fair use under American copyright law, too.
suggest it to the article author :)
does a nuke do the same damage in space, in a vacuum, with zero gravity, and no oxygen and other factors? would it do anything to a rock that's essentially as dense as earths core adjusting for size?

I think it'd be a cool test for them to do though.
It depends on what the threshold for 'planetary defense worthy' is I guess. If you shattered an asteroid, but all of the asteriod pieces still entered the earth's atmosphere, then you're going to end up releasing pretty much an identical amount of energy.

At "city buster" size of impact, this would probably be beneficial. But beyond that? Probably not hugely beneficial. Probably effectively the difference between a ground detonation and a partial airburst.. so maybe less ejecta (reduced global dimming after). But... probably not a meaningful change.
Ugh so embarrassing, thank you
You'll need someone to let you borrow their switch and dump their bios/firmware keys. I am not aware of any emulation that works without this ritual having been performed on real switch first
Agree. I was born way after the C64 came on scene and never touched one until I bought one ten years ago. I'm in it for the perspective it brings (and I like fixing things).
Imagine there was no standard for electrical appliance outlets, no circuit breakers, etc, so every toaster wasn't automatically protected, etc.... That's the situation as I see it.

We need Operating Systems that default to no access, and only explicitly make resources (like power in the above example) available when the user decides to do so.
The cave paintings in France have been studied this way, starting with Leroi-Gourhan's work and then accelerating with the use of computers. It's defi itely shed some important light on the artists who made them tens of thousands of years ago, and I don't think it made the paintings any less wonderful.
Exactly.

The guys who get to choose the office locations happen to choose ones that are good for the locations of their home(s).
Also, a reminder that C-suite guys that have multiple homes do in fact actually use those multiple homes.

How do they do so? They have flexibility!
Oddly enough I removed Gnome last night ... perhaps that is part of the problem.

I am on Debian 12 with KDE/Wayland and it will launch and then just go "unresponsive"

lots of bad reviews pouring in... https://tinypic.host/image/VhJMX
My personal favorite? #2: "Ask"

It is truly astonishing what you can get when you ask (of course, the answer could be "no", but asking is free - why not do it?)
Slack Gets a Makeover
That makes sense, but never underestimate how easy it is for a throwaway script or tool to become production-ized and a dependency for other production processes.

We've all seen that obscene production workflow built on a Google Sheet or Jupyter Notebook that now needs to support this or that new feature or integration... Add AI-generated tools to the pile.
We already do have research into it which is why anti-seed-oil orthorexic influencers wave their hands over narratives rather than research.

Here’s a good round up: https://www.the-nutrivore.com/post/a-comprehensive-rebuttal-...
> There is a reason why we have multiple communication medium.

> Public articles - Pull requests - Issue trackers - Internal Wiki - Emails - Chat - Phone calls - Visio - Face to face

I believe this to be absolutely true.

Yet at the same time, it creates its own set of problems.

If I could only tally up the lost hours I've spent trying to track down whether a comment was made on the wiki, or in chat, or via email, or in the PR.

Even using Github alone has this problem. Does something exist as an issue, a discussion, a wiki, in the code itself, a comment on the PR? What's the right place for something to go? These aren't trivial questions, especially for large orgs.

To a certain degree this is an indexing problem as much as it is a problem with the communication medium, but if you bring together all of your communication into a central hub you solve this issue plus many others.

You just annoy a small, yet outspoken subset of people while doing it.

> So we have hours longs Slack discussions that spare us minutes of reading a wiki page or discussing on a phone call.

I think Slack sees these problems and attempts to address them, even if it isn't perfect. See Huddles for example.

Disclaimer: I hate using Slack too and personally wish it wasn't a part of my day to day.
I've always just used Slack in the browser I already have open. What does the Slack app have in terms of functionality over that?
There are other dimensions than number of millions; money might be an universal measure, but people are different.

Who is more upper class, a relatively impoverished Prince of the Holy Roman Empire or a billionaire by marriage and luck? Managers like the mentioned bank CEO, or someone who can rent them a house in the Hamptons because they have lived there for generations? An intellectual who has never really worked, or a wealthy rapper who didn't finish high school?
I mean, if Mark wrote that in 2004, he was dunking on an administration that was widely believed to be the worst ever.

(Obviously, we had NO idea what was coming.)
It is wild how good of a company and team you’ve proven to be. The world would be a much better place if everyone operated this way
When I consider "the cost of the buildout", I consider that to be the cost to do the buildout, nothing more. Productivity gains/losses are outside the scope of that.

I.e., the claim, as I read it, is that construction of an open office is more expensive than a non-open floorplan, per employee.

(If you consider that, yes, I think open office is the long-term worse option, and the parenthetical in my comment pretty clearly denotes that.)

> I didn't say it wouldn't cost one penny more than an open office, I said it wasn't wildly different.

This still isn't clear to me. An office is probably, what, 10' square, at least? Google thinks, "The North American office size average is currently 150-175 square feet per employee. Open office spaces for tech companies typically use even less at 125-175 square feet per person". That's considerably more room than an open office floorplan, which is probably closer to 4'x4', maybe 4'x5'.

> So many buildouts go halfway already with the tiny "phone rooms"

My company had 3 of those, back to back to back, occupying what like 30–40 sq ft total? That's hardly "halfway".
This minor issue that also is not Firefox’s fault is not enough to sacrifice anything let alone privacy.
I don't know about the mechanics but the cel shading look of Breath of the Wild has been around since at least the Dreamcast with JetSet Radio.

Making a shader using normals for the color values has been around a long time.
So many of the comments are acting as though the underling employee actually is of a different class.

I'd bet anything this young person is used to having his family name make him welcome at any table he wishes to join, even in the Hamptons. He's on the well-worn path through a brief stint as a junior analyst before he's running some bank or hedge fund somewhere and the CEO of GS hesitates to approach his table.

This isn't the action of someone either boldly or naively misunderstanding his place. This is the action of someone who has grown up knowing his place is wherever he wishes it to be.
MichaelZuo is defending an unnecessarily precise definition of the word "quote" and you are refusing to acknowledge it.

I doubt that either of you are in this for the humor; that simply emerges from the duration and pointlessness of the argument.
Did you mean "commoditized", like work that used to be hard and custom is now generic? If so, totally agreed... we've moved up the ladder of abstractions quite a bit and there's less of a need to build up from the ground these days.

To me, though, that calls less for private offices and more for effective async collaboration. With 11 teams, nothing is going to get done over meetings except some basic alignments. The actual work of integration needs to be fully documented and agreed upon in writing in a way where provider and consumer can look at while actively developing, like a living API spec with specific schema, response and error codes etc. all laid out. If any team fails to adhere to the spec, well, the spec is right (as of any given version).

Even if we were all in person in the same conference room talking for hours one afternoon, none of that is going to stick around more than a week or two before some detail diverges.

The meetings are perhaps good for managers to walk away with some basic summary of a decision, but the actual engineering and IT work can't happen in them. I wish more managers would realize that and give teams more time to actually collaborate through individual async contributions, not just sitting together in a room -- there's a big difference.
I'm not sure how that protects you though. ISP sees your traffic going into WG1. They know all of Mulvad's IPs, so isn't it just as easy to correlate that traffic when you exit through WG2?

/question from ignorance
A Decade of Papers, Please
Very cool.

What a novel way to show your skills to employers.