skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment makes me realise that better (than any of the examples) IMO would be to say I do know how you'll take it, you won't like it.

You're not going to like this, but

Bad news -

'I need to tell you something' [if you really must, but come on...] you're not going to like

are all better than:

I don't know how you're going to take this

(do you know me/how crappy the news is or not?)

and a million miles better than:

I am anxious you are going to take what I have to say poorly [or similar]

(making it about you.)
Must be just me but aside from the oldest guy, none of the faces from that Cheers shot look obviously older than I'd expect from their age. Which is not to say I disagree with the basic idea that the average 30yo today looks younger than someone the same age did 50 or 70 years ago, for all the various proposed reason here and in the article . It's that people are especially surprised by that Cheers cast post that surprises me...maybe I'd feel differently if I were <=30 myself!
Who of course, would be immediately obsoleted by the Chinese, who skip the unlucky number 13 and therefore have 14 skills.

If by skills, we mean this is something we rely on as a profession, I'm happy to let the robot take these jobs. As long as I can handle tapping, scrolling, and clicking, I'm good to go.

Edit: Or I can get better at Vim controls and toss out scrolling and clicking.
Not really true any longer, almost all modern browsers will background (unload) tabs when you get more than N windows (or memory % consumption). I think you have to turn that behavior off if you don't want it via about:config chrome://flags
Jobs had an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, a rare type of pancreatic cancer.

He decided to delay surgical treatment in favor of dietary treatment presumably because at the time there was little evidence for the effectiveness of surgical treatment (and obviously plenty of risk connected to it).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/
By whispers you mean the insane ravings of terminally online madmen.
Cruise Robotaxi Drives into Wet Concrete; Waymo Shows Off Same Route
Is exercise enough then?
The original paper is exhaustive and detailed, and very interesting.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06373-1

They do a lot of analysis of human cells, but they touch on the primary issue with mice in aging studies - the life cycle of mice are fundamentally different than humans. Their life span is too short to be a comparable organism when aging is the topic of research.
They also have a great Slack community and are rapidly turning out features. Everything I have seen suggests that they are competent and committed to the mission of making it easier to do good science.

It is easy to be cynical about the gold rush, but don’t throw the babies out with the bathwater.
Is it a thing like htmx and _hyperscript?
That and an arguably a better work/life balance, and lack of SAD from excessively dark/cold/long winters.
But those are exactly the issues people brought up when twitter was being sold to a single individual?

I guess we hang out in different circles.
> Are we using the same Confluence and JIRA - I don't see it being slow as we use cloud.

Well no we're not - if you're using "cloud" then you get randomly assigned an instance, some of them are fast and some of them are slow (presumably because of who you're sharing them with). Guess you're one of the lucky ones.

> Only times when it was slow it was long time ago when it was on premise and business always skipped upgrading any servers so admins had to run it on tight rope.

Nope, even on big hardware it was always interminably slow.
Those same terminally insane madmen called out CIA involvement in the Kennedy assassination decades ago.
30-year-old men dating/marrying 16 year-olds was common, especially among rock stars and actors.
that seems rather optimistic. more like plasma center/day care in low income neighborhoods.

would you blame a parent for taking their kid somewhere that gave them a good education, fed them well, and paid you, for just a little bit of their excess life force? you gotta weigh the pros and cons together. one man’s college education is another man’s immortality. everyone wins, just, not everyone wins as much.
> Edit: my theory however falls flat if there were multiple websites, since having a one large database would be in their best interest.

If they're all hosted on the same server -- which, to all appearances, they were -- there's little practical distinction.
They bought the website, they didn't "make" anything. That was in the OP. You also can't take their word at face value. They certainly knew what the site was in part used for, and accept bitcoin donations for that exact reason. They also linked to/sold ads(?) for suspicious file sharing sites, (their own competitors) which has been pointed out here. And even your claim that they shut down due to abuse isn't a given — did they shut down or were they shut down by their provider? Or did something else entirely happen? We don't know, and it's fair to have multiple views on the topic, and even to be critical of the developers. Telling "hn" simply to "do better," without any explaination of what you realy mean and why you think that, isn't actionable. As a (former) user of anonfiles, I am sad they shut down, but I am aware that they were very suspicious compared to similar sites like catbox, who have a blog, FAQ and patreon. Nor am I surprised at all by their end. I think many are in the same situation in terms of their thinking.
Like `style` or `input`?

People got so stuck on JS for decades that they've forgot that HyperText in HTML is there for a reason. It was always supposed to be more than just UI descriptor markup.

It is JS who is out of place in web. A little script in form of DHTML that grew into becoming a cancer that it is now.
Going public and being legally beholden to growth at all costs has ruined far more.
It's mostly true AFAIK, according to Walter Isaacson's biography.

I don't think he disappeared for weeks in orchards, but he would reportedly eat only apples for weeks at a time, or carrots. He was a "fruitarian" for a period of time. [1]

And he didn't eat only apples to cure his cancer, but he did choose things like "dietary supplements and juices" specifically to cure his cancer, instead of modern medical recommentations. Which he then regretted when the cancer progressed. [2]

It's not a random coincidence that he named the company Apple. He was really into apples, like more than anybody you've probably ever met.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/strange-eating-habits-ste...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-j...
After some troubleshooting, turns it the JVM i.e '17.0.7-b1000.6 Jetbrains Runtime with JCEF' that ships with IntelliJ IDEA 2023.2 is the problem.

Switched to using '17.0.8 Eclipse Temurin Java Runtime' and it's fast as before this release.

Hope this helps someone.
Open Build System and OpenQA, for automated building and testing of packages. This is what gets updates to their rolling release Tumbleweed faster than Arch, but with no instability ever. I can't emphasize enough how rock solid Tumbleweed is. OBS also doubles as their own AUR equivalent - you can make your own repo and do your own builds and install from the command line, or browse and install what other people have done.

Leap is their stable distro, and shares binaries with SLES, their enterprise offering.

Both Leap and Tumbleweed have BTRFS by default, with Snapper for automated snapshots at upgrade and boot. Update messed something up? System won't boot? Just run an old snapshot until it's fixed. Zypper, the package manager, has state-of-the-art dependancy resolution, personally the best I've used.

They have a number of extremely interesting spinoff projects: MicroOS and MicroOS desktop (recently renamed, but the new names are escaping me) which use immutable root filesystems with automated updates and native Podman support. Snapper integration shines there, as well. If it fails to boot after update, it'll automatically roll back.

They're doing quite a bit, and it's all culminating in being very useable. Tumbleweed is the crown jewel, though.
Weathered skin doesn't kill you.
I'm not saying search engines will be considered the same as LLMs, but given that LLMs are pushing the tolerances of Fair Use, should that get limited through litigation or legislation, the things search engines get away with like caching or summarizing, AMP pages, etc may cease to be legal and search engines may have to adopt less rich means of communicating relevancy, perhaps by showing the keywords that match or something else indirect but still true about a source, without pulling content straight from it.

As it stands right now, yes, Fair Use. But where do we draw the line? That line's been blurry for a while. Mostly limited to no more than 30 seconds of a performance, and no more than what's needed to quote literary works. Not sure about lyrics.

The issue is on some level, most things we create are derivative. Someone had to have the idea first, but once an idea is unleashed upon the world, it seems very difficult and unwieldy to put the genie back in the bottle.

I'm not really pro-LLM since it enables business to leech off of FOSS even more efficiently. The disruption of LLMs seems to be accelerating our philosophical re-examining of copyright and licensing terms in FOSS. We will inevitably need a GPL in the future that disallows remixing via LLM or other generative text algos, due mostly because ensuring all of a result is freely usable is not easy. Limitations could be built in to only 'fetch' code licensed under permissive terms, like MIT or BSD, but the tendency of these models to 'hallucinate' means you really cannot know the legal standing of LLM-generated code, at present.
Nothing FUD about pointing out Musk's consistently petty nature
This was tried, w/ a 4-star general for marketing purposes:

https://www.electricbike.com/tidal-force/

(really regret not picking one up off eBay)

and other folks are trying again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SilentHawk

https://leedsbikes.com/electric-bike-reports/darpa-electric-...
I have used it for several weeks, I would recommend a more specific question. On the UBI front, I had somewhat more success (though no consensus) with a concrete question on employment : https://consensus.app/results/?q=Does%20UBI%20decrease%20emp...
Fascist corporations have more to do with unions than they do with business corporations:

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/corporatism.htm
I read one of his books years ago and had to put it down when he said if you run a company and it runs out of money, "pay yourself first" (before your employees). Yuck. No.
This story fleshes out some of the details of the ride - 2017 article [0]

[0] https://www.historynet.com/us-armys-25th-infantry-bicycle-co...
> This comment feels a little conspiracy theory-ish.

Is conspiracy theory-ish code for true or obvious? Strange how 'conspiracy theory' ad hominems became popular recently.

> If a sufficiently big block of customers likes the idea of 'minority, lgbt and women's rights as you put it, they you're gonna see a bunch of companies trying to present themselves in a way that if favorable to that block.

Playing dumb I see. The country is majority christian and white. Using your logic, all commercials should be christian themed and advocate for whites.
C++ shares ubiquity with C and it's not because it's easy to parse.

The reason is the same though: ISA authors know how to write backends for GCC, which is what they've done for 30 years when they want to get people to use their chip.
> Good ideas speak for themselves.

That is not how the world works.

Each one of your responses indicates that you don't understand the dynamics of social networks. I suggest you read more into them before trying to make your own to compete with Facebook.
So I just installed it yesterday on my new home PC. Switching from Windows after I sold my old PC. (I do like gaming sometimes).

Installation worked flawlessly. Hardware was detected on the spot.
I could install NVidia's official driver through YaST. Installing Steam from the package manager.

Now I am sitting with a switch pro controller and playing Hogwarts Legacy.

All around a solid experience. Their biggest competitor in this space might be Ubuntu. For me Suse has a more solid feeling to it. Also supports KDE better.
I'm still not sure! But I could absolutely believe it, it's plausible.

A good explanation should account for the fact that Russia and China produce proportionally more female GMs. I wonder if the level of toxicity / harassment experienced by female players is any different in those countries or to what degree parents are more supportive of their daughters learning chess.
Ira Levin's 'This Perfect Day' has that as one of the central themes.
I was working on Distributed Services for AIX in 1986 and 1987, a distributed filesystem to compete with NFS. As this was being developed by a dev team, my colleague and I pondered how to test the system that we had architected.

There were so many possible states that a system's file system can be in. Were the conventional tests going to catch subtle bugs? Here's an example of an unusual but not unheard of issue: in a Unix system a file can be unlinked and hence deleted from all directories while remaining open by one or more processes. Such a file could still be written to and read by multiple processes at least until it was finally closed by all processes having open file descriptors at which point it would disappear from the system. Does the distributed file system model this correctly? Many other strange combinations of system calls might be applied to the file system. Will the tests exercise these.

It occurred to me that the "correct" behavior for any sequence of system calls could be defined by just running the sequence on a local file system and comparing the results with running an identical sequence of system calls against the distributed file system.

I built a system to generate random sequences of file related system calls that would run these on a local file system and a remote distributed file system that I wanted to test. As soon as a difference in outcome resulted the test would halt and save a log of the sequence of operations.

My experience with this test rig was interesting. At first discrepancies happened right away. As each bug was fixed by the dev team, we would start the stochastic testing again, and then a new bug would be found. Over time the test would run for a few minutes before failure and then a few minute longer and finally for hours and hours. It was a really ingesting and effective way to find some of the more subtle bugs in the code. I don't recall if I published this information internally or not.
Depends on the meat. If it’s western raised pork or chicken, they bioaccumulate omega-6 from their feed that the percentage of their fat that’s omega-6 can rivals or exceed that of “vegetable” oils. Ruminants seem to resist this bioaccumulation.

So the wrong meat give you all the same lovely effects of systemic inflammation, paradoxical immune suppression, metabolism suppression, and the pile of strange effects from the metabolites and free radicals. Which normally don’t matter much, but start to do when modern consumption of omega-6’s end up significantly more than historical exposure, all year long.

This is one thing to watch out for in rodent studies involving “fat”. In addition to having a very different relationship to fat than humans, the fat they are given is generally very high in omega-6, often being lard (from western raised pigs) mixed with some amount of vegetable oil. Thus because “animal fat” was used, the generally negative outcome then gets wrongly associated with saturated fats. If the study doesn’t give a breakdown of the fatty acid profile, then it’s basically worthless. Unless someone feels like trying to track down the researchers and find the chow product they used. Which is sometimes viable.
Call the CPSC and tell them what's happening — specifically, that the compressor is overheating due to a stuck relay — and ask them if your model is included in the recall, or if not, if the recall involves stuck power relays.

They will, of course, warn you that your dehumidifier could overheat and kill you, which is completely valid. You should stop using it immediately. Accept that going into the call, or else they'll take a lot of time trying to convince you.

But they will also have more details about how, exactly, the dehumidifiers fail, and they'll have more leverage to pursue your concern about a design defect problem with Toshiba.
It all comes down to attribution of emissions to producers vs consumers, and has been debated adnauseum.

Is the rancher emitting or the hamburger consumer. Is the plane passenger emitting, or a shareholder. Ect
Llama Index must be getting some pretty good use
I bet the prolonged antibiotic therapy was more of a factor.
I mean specifically in the context of STEM degrees. I was curious about my intuition so I did a quick look. Used Stanford as a baseline and their sample plans if available. CS looks on par with many but slightly south of the median since several engineering degrees require more math. The ones that require less are "Management Science & Engineering" and "Materials Science and Engineering". But typically similar to chem, bio, and most engineering degrees, which all have more science courses which can teach additional mathematics (generally in calc and stats). Being close to the median I wouldn't call this "a lot," even if there is low variance in that distribution. Where I'd probably draw that line is beyond the general 3 calcs and linear algebra. Personally I'm generally unimpressed with most intro stats courses.

Here's at least some flow charts for engineering degrees (which has a CS program): https://ughb.stanford.edu/plans-program-sheets/program-sheet...

Additional note: I can at least attest that in my university Calc 3 (multi variate) is not a requirement and this does not appear to be out of the norm. Interestingly side note, same with ethics which is exceptionally common in other stem programs (I believe a federal requirement in engineering).
The state there is more supportive. Kids are tested and if they show promise in some sports domain that gets full power behind it because that is international prestige.
Nearly half of environmental users went inactive post Musk's takeover of Twitter
Original title: Elon Musk is killing ‘Environmental Twitter’ / Nearly half of environmental users went inactive after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, research finds
An operating system is a means to run useful programs. It's not a goal.
Wow, that's quite the accusation. I did some quick searching and couldn't find anything, but it's not the sort of thing that I would expect to be easily findable.

What leads you to believe this?
> It's glorified to-do lists with an opinionated cadence on how often features get deployed. Do we really need an entire discipline to communicate those simple things.

Apparently we do, since we still get people who want estimates months in advance (and then want to punish you if those estimates were wrong), who want to commit to a plan and then follow it and then change it without changing the deadlines, ....

> My experience tells me that the system gets sub-optimally molded to suit the implicit development style of the team whether you like it or not.

Isn't that precisely the proof that the development processes haven't been communicated clearly enough and got enough buy-in/consensus?
I remember how proud I was as a new, young programmer, to have something I created get added to the fish disks (ProjMot disk #453) :)
When the project I was working on had this problem, the request to build a DSL was based on the idea that each client ought to be able to make their own changes.

The client shouldn't have to know a "full" programming language, but a "sufficiently simple" DSL isn't that much more than a config file format, right? They can learn how to make small changes themselves if the language is easy enough, can't they?

I tried to convince management that this wouldn't work. If nothing else, because our DSL was invented in-house, there was no-where else the client could find answers on how to make the changes they wanted. There would be no hits on Google, no answers on StackOverflow, no random client employee who happened to have some relevant tech knowledge. If they had any questions at all, they'd need to come to us, and we'd end up writing the changes for them anyway. And, as you point out, we already had a perfectly good programming language - the one everything else (including the DSL) was written in.
If you’re approaching someone and have judgmental thoughts about them, it’s probably leaking out through body language, tone or other social cues, causing you to have to be extra careful to compensate.

If you don’t like having to use these techniques, respect and appreciation also goes a long way. Instead of judging them as “thin-skinned colleagues who need little pats on the head”, maybe try getting to know them and how their childhood might have played a role, or how their personality benefits them or the community in certain ways.

For example, maybe you see it as a chance to practice gratitude, which is a virtue in many cultures.
Vampire bats create a slit in the ankles of sleeping livestock and lick the wound. Their saliva contains an anticoagulant that keeps the wound bleeding. Humanoid vampires are not real despite the goth look still being a thing unless you are referring to the group of people that transfuse blood from young people for a lot of money which I suspect is a scam due to the short life of blood cells especially when stored outside of a human.
Standup, backlog/planning and retrospective are literally the only meetings you're supposed to be doing. I'm always baffled how people manage to do the exact opposite of agile and blame it on agile.
Not really envy? I am extremely impressed. Most people I feel are jealous of billionaires, I certainly don't want that kind of stress.

Do I care that Turing was gay? No, I don't typically care about these giant men's personal lives as long as they're not insanely evil or something.

JFK and Musk being womanizers? Meh. Cool guys, for the most part, imo.
With every haphazard decision we're getting a very public experiment demonstrating the value of "giving people what they want" vs "everything else". It's astonishing how resilient the network effects behind the product in this case are against sabotage. Good lesson in startups there. You just need to laser focus on creating value for the customer – everything else doesn't matter as much as you think it does? Maybe even by power of 10 factors?
The decade in which countries have decided that they want to require companies to invest significant amount of money into ensuring they are protecting user's privacy or other rights if those companies want to operate in those countries. The countries enforcing those policies have a lot of defenders here, though I think most of them are ignorant of both what those policies require of companies and of what they guarantee to users. I may be portraying that negatively, but I'm not sure that I think those policies are wrong (certainly the common understanding of them is wrong).

I think it's either naive or disingenuous to claim that there's no reason for companies to block regions with these policies.