skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The description in the comment I replied to mentioned acquiring X users in Y months. Looks like a business or startup to me!

Engineers do not necessarily care about managing a startup themselves, acquiring users, etc.

You do not need to present yourself as a "founder" of anything in order to land a programming job.
> But experts say this doesn’t mean you should cancel that colonoscopy or mammogram appointment.

That can only be that these experts disagree with the study, because if it were properly conducted such that its findings are true, then in fact its conclusions do add up to skipping colonoscopies and mammograms.

The study is saying that the diagnostic procedures have no effect on outcome. You should not waste time on procedures that don't change outcome.
I love Rust but it’s not the time for it yet, especially with that enormous build time. That’s the biggest paper cut.
I personally don't think you should.

The EU authorities have stated multiple times that they won't chase small startups and mom&pop shops with this. They explicitly target big-tech with this law (can't remember where I got this from, currently looking for a proof-link in another tab... will update the comment if I find one)

Currently the fines do seem to correlate with the company size. E.g. Amazon Ireland has paid 750 million, Google - 90 million... While this one-man webmasters form Germany and Austria - $50 bucks and $100 bucks
Sigourney Weaver
i don't think that works. it should not matter who makes the modifications. you are running a modified version of X hence you must provide the source.

but the distribution requirement in the AGPL should trigger just as well as in the GPL. the only difference is that access through the network is added as a trigger.

so i don't actually believe that the AGPL distribution requirement only triggers on modifications. it should trigger on unmodified versions too, just like the GPL. whoever provides the program, is required to provide the source.

this certainly was the intent, and if the AGPL does not implement that intent then that would be a major flaw, which i can't believe they would allow to slip through when designing the license
well you have a hidden opinion here - that a centralized certification agency does better than alternatives. coming from an industry (finance) where the CFA has some bar but is widely known to be not relevant to actual experts, the weight of history is against this.

the better alternative is decentralized expertise certification - which already exists, in follower graphs, open source libraries, and word of mouth.
Ravynos: BSD-based OS with an experience like and some compatibility with macOS
Why? Why not just sell more fossil fuels?
my question was not about claims progression on website.
Doing a top down rewrite of an OS is an absurd task, so regrardless of merit, C is going to retain its place there by momentum. If it’s going to be replaced at all, it will be incrementally, and until recently, the powers that be have kept other languages out of that space (and for good reason, since multiple languages interacting have complexity costs, again regardless of individual language merits).

But we have started seeing just a bit of Rust support in Linux now…
> For all enterprise customers, it offers:
> Customer prompts and company data are not used for training OpenAI models.
> Unlimited access to advanced data analysis (formerly known as Code Interpreter)
> 32k token context windows for 4x longer inputs, files, or follow-ups

I'd thought all those had been available for non enterprise customers, but maybe I was wrong, or maybe something changed.
No one uses our nav either. Like I said, we produce content so we have >100,000 articles. Our nav lets your drill by broad topics, but really it's just window dressing. It's almost all google, social and direct traffic just looking for whatever is latest. You have to think about what use case search is solving. Usually, it's discovery. People discover through google first and foremost, social and peers secondary. Unless you're Amazon, nobody is using you as a primary source to discover facets of anything.
Extra appropriate to this thread, given one of the authors.
He’s thrilled because it’s good for him, not for the users.
Yeah, the dude checks all the red flags. He needs an enabler/management position with "senior" in the title (at 34), and of course we have the combo of remote + baby at home mixed in. When asked to actually sell software himself it "took a hit on his mental health". Not quitting was "a matter of principle". TBH it was a bit more than that; if not at IBM, where else could he have found such an entrenched position ?
If we decrease premature deaths from any cause, particularly a common cause of premature deaths, we increase life expectancy. Or just what do the authors think life expectancy means? It's an average. Every premature death drags down average life expectancy.

If we say that cancer screening has no effect of life expectancy, that's exactly the same as saying that it doesn't prevent premature deaths.

If cancer screening effectively prevents premature deaths, but the effect on the population's life expectancy is small, that effect is the wrong thing to be focusing on, potentially resulting in a harmful takeaway message.
This is The Best Economy Ever
Inches only use base-2 fractions down to 1/64", then they switch to thousandths of an inch (thou), with base-10.
Yep. Unfortunately great for the founders and (hopefully) for the team, but my first thought is always "another one bites the dust". Here's hoping we're both wrong.
Congratulations! I've been using it for about a year or so. Hopefully their product will continue to exist... that's what their blog says now, but that's pretty much what everyone says at first.
Author of the blog post here. I am limited to C++11 for this, and will be limited to C++03 for some related projects. I did say C++11 in that comment, as I am of course aware that C++ has "fixed" that issue, but I'm still entitled to my gripes. I find it odd that someone claimed I was not aware the issue has been fixed in later versions, when I specifically said a version. People seem to be very motivated to assume I'm wrong about C++... because otherwise they'd have to admit that their favorite language has flaws.

In any case, I revised that section to explain how even the "fixed" version in C++14 is still a paper-cut, and make the section hopefully flow a little better.

ETA: I replied to the right comment. I'm agreeing with you :-)
Here’s a link to a StackOverflow answer that gives a good example: “Is Fortran easier to optimize than C for heavy calculations?” [0]

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/146159/is-fortran-easier...
>...Rooftop solar is a "socialist" solution to power. Noncentralized, empowers the end user, undermines large corporations, bypasses government control of power. Oh wait, that's ACTUALLY almost purely libertarian, but of course it's going to be branded as hippy socialism to undermine it politically.

I don't think I have ever heard of anyone outlawing rooftop solar. The problem with rooftop solar is that it is very expensive compared to utility grade solar.

>…Rooftop solar photovoltaic installations on residential buildings have the highest unsubsidized levelized costs of energy generation in the United States. If not for federal and state subsidies, rooftop solar PV would come with a price tag between 147 and 221 U.S. dollars per megawatt hour.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/493797/estimated-leveliz...

If we want to subsidize a renewable energy source, why should we subsidize rooftop solar when we could subsidize utility grade solar or wind? Money is fungible and not unlimited - a dollar that goes to subsidize residential rooftop solar is a dollar that would go much, much further if it was used to subsidize utility grade solar or wind. Rooftop solar subsidies are also unusual in that much of the subsidy is often paid by less well-off households to subsidize their wealthier neighbors - sort of a reverse Robinhood scheme.
I Am Registering for the Distributed SQL Summit
The hard line limit length is at 1,000,000 characters not 10,000.
Also, all major compilers currently have flags to significantly extend the line limit length.
"It's Hard to be God"
nobody's forcing amazon to do anything they dont want to do lol

but it is true that this is a rare devtools startup acquisition by amazon. i cant think of many here (cloud9 was the last one i know, and that was 2016) but that could be due to my ignorance.
> If you have immediate better employment options, take them without doing your old company any favors.

Not sure about the US but here in Europe that's a very bad idea. If you change jobs willingly you give up your "seniority" meaning if your next job lays you off you will get no severance and also lower unemployment benefits. So caving in you would give up a huge chunk of social security.

If you have a mortgage in particular I wouldn't risk it. I have 15 years seniority right now. Meaning I'd get full pay for more than a year after being laid off. No way would I quit voluntarily.

But this coercion is pretty rare here because unions are strong. They won't put up with that shit.

On an individual level it's probably best to play the same game. They screw you just within the lines, you screw them back just within the lines. But again luckily this skullduggery is rare here.
What's the best way for a sighted adult to pick up Braille?
Which part of that could possibly make you think users regularly download apps for a single or limited use?
Sure! I posted a gist here, stripped of anything particular to our company: https://gist.github.com/mplanchard/07229d61bd32ce73624d9003c...
> besides the fact that there are lots of jobs around the Bay Area and LA, why would anyone want to settle down in California?

Weather and proximity to a beautiful coastline.
While we're at it, join me in pronouncing it like "sibboleth" (or "sibbolet")?
I've worked with / on an application like that, it had all form fields awkwardly configured in a database, plus a complicated database migration script to add, remove and update those fields.

When I rewrote the application I just hardcoded the form fields, nobody should need to do a database migration to change an otherwise mostly static form.
No, it's an aquahire. They're joining Amazon...
i never thought fig or warp would ever work. requiring an account and a subscription to use CLI tools sounds ludicrous. but they seem to have found a silver bullet with AWS since having an account is a requirement anyway.

good luck to them on what comes next.
Not that I support it in totality, but that's why I wasn't surprised when Twitter didn't fall over when Elon fired 80% of staff.
What part of "first-class" don't you understand??

ETA: std::variant is one of the least ergonomic user interfaces I've ever seen. std::tuple seems great until you realize that most PLs that support tuples just do "(,)"s for them, in creating, binding, and naming the type. C++'s versions are just unacceptable, and structured bindings only help on the binding side.

First-class support for these is important. There's no reason they should be in the standard library rather than built into the language itself, besides historical mistakes.
Those numbers seem really off. The US has 3,464,231 deaths per year with cancer killing just over 600k, so 17.3%. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-...

Also cancer screenings happen in the US. Thus 750k deaths without screenings and 80% of that = 600k deaths with screenings and 150k deaths postponed.

Are they using some unusual definition or something?
A bunch of friends and I wanted to get video of a balloon's flight as it approached outer space, popped, and descended. In violation of FAA rules, we used a cellphone which we had embedded in a styrofoam box with hand warmers in order to prevent the battery from freezing.

We lost contact with the payload almost immediately and never recovered it, but lost enthusiasm to try a second time.

We had bought two balloons just in case we needed a second. Waited for a rainy day and took the second one camping. I wish I had grabbed a video, but some among us were overly paranoid about creating evidence.

It was just a big blue orb and a whooshing sound. Presumably there were some flaming bits of rubber involved but we weren't able to recover them (we made the tether too long, out of fear for it being more dramatic than it was, that it was hard to get a good idea of what specifically went on).

Has there ever been a burning man effigy with a lighter-than-air component? That would be a good venue for exploring the dynamics of baloon fires (it could tethered such it wasn't above anybody when it went up).
Did you reply to the wrong comment?

I was just saying that being stuck on older versions is more common that most people think.
Alan Pope says that he sees fewer Zoom crashes these days because he's doing more work in Slack. Weirdly, most of the crashes I see are in Slack.
The ability of Google's internal code search to jump between declaration, definition, override, and call site is miles ahead of what Intellisense can do.
Seems like they are quite startled with LLama 2 and Code Llama, and how its rapid adoption is accelerating the AI race to zero. Why have this when Llama 2 and Code Llama exists and brings the cost close to $0?

This sound like a huge waste of money for something that should just be completely on-device or self-hosted if you don't trust cloud-based AI models like ChatGPT Enterprise and want it all private and low cost.

But either way, Meta seems to be already at the finish line in this race and there is more to AI than the LLM hype.
The iPhone also has a speak screen functionality (separate from VoiceOver) that’s great if you want your phone to read a website or book to you.
> Still: This is like saying home insurance is a bad deal because on average the insurance companies make money. Screening is an insurance policy (not a free one, to be sure) against a catastrophic outcome.

I'd say this depends on the nature of the diffuse negative effects you mention - if it's car accidents on the way to the doctor's office that's one thing, but if it's people dying during surgery they actually didn't need that's another
This was supposed to skip to 0:59 but HN stripped the timestamp off the URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfGnmA3GfY&list=PLaEYPgNFlk...

The talk is ~ 15min (remainder of video is Q&A).
“Call a Spade a Spade”: Miley Cyrus and the Ancient Greeks
Wouldn't having separate databases (with separate users (per organization)) make more sense from a security point of view? I have no knowledge of these things, I've never actually worked with more than one database in a mysql instance.

edit: I tell a lie, I separated the forums and wordpress databases on a website I run.
I forgot about that chemistry! I’m excited about it as well. It still seems to be unobtanium for my use-cases :)
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were pretty prolific during this time (often writing in secret, and reciting their works only to trusted friends).

"The Doomed City" is one of the best pieces of philosophical scifi I've ever read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doomed_City
Poor example! In my country (UK) only a qualified electrician with up-to-date certifications is permitted to work on my house fuze-box.
Seems like I dodged a bullet. When I interviewed there the founder asked very generic questions that may as well have come straight out of an Amazon leadership principles pamphlet. I bet Amazon will be a good fit for them. I feel bad for the employees who likely wanted to work for a startup, not Amazon. I’d be surprised if they got much from the acquihire either.
The OTEL official project libraries don't work well on the web frontend yet. No way of correlating errors to source-maps for instance, at least out of the box.

The web browser collector published by the OTEL project uses Zone.js to hijack just about everything in the browser into contexts. If you used modern Angular before, you may recognize zone.js, its a real pain sometimes, and messes with globals, which isn't great, as it can create situations where behavior isn't predictable.

I don't know that OTEL has any standard around things like session replays either. Lots of telemetry platforms support this (Sentry, Rollbar, DataDog etc)

I think alot of backend teams have really like it. I do like the cross boundary nature of spans where you can follow them by a unique tag across your entire system.

I personally find its extremely verbose at times, in terms of the payload it generates, some logging platforms are more compact in this regard, but in practice, I haven't noticed it to be an issue
Ok.

I haven't published it yet, and will probably do so in the near future so if you read HN regularly you'll see it sooner or later.
Do you shoplift as well to stick it to Walmart?
How to debug Linux syscalls with ftrace and eBPF
An example of debugging mount(2) issues when mounting sysfs filesystem inside of the user namespace to demonstrate practical usage of ftrace (perf) and eBPF (bpftrace) in addition to reading of the Kernel source code for debugging syscalls behavior.
Yep, and this is another way in which it reminds me of vacation policies. People have trouble imagining when they'll be able to take time off when the foot is always on the gas. So even if managers are truly bought in to the idea that time off is actually critical to a productive workforce (and I think most leadership I've worked for actually does buy this), it's still easy to create an environment where that doesn't happen.
I was joking, because the title reads like they’ve finally “cracked it”.
Why .ai?
Hi, could you please share your notes with me? I've put my email in my profile.
I've used "wet-bulb event" as a shorthand for the scenario where the wet-bulb temperature rises above human survivability. That's why I used "event" instead of "temperature."
The constant is that NVIDIA has been investing in CUDA for the last 2 decades, and has built up an enormous lead in terms of mindshare and existing CUDA code out there.

Specific applications may vary over time, and it's NVIDIA's investment in GPGPU and CUDA that allows them to be a leader in each of these. But it's also worth noting that one of these, neural nets, have been big on NVIDIA hardware for a decade now, so it's not exactly a "trend".
Life expectancy is really only one dimension of "health," and it's probably the most shallow dimension. If I'm quadriplegic and confined to a ventilator but I live to 80, that's the same in this metric as if I'm not paralyzed and able to breathe on my own until I die.

What if some people in the group that didn't get screening had fewer high-quality years? It might simply be that the last 5 years of life for people who are screened positive early on and who subsequently receive treatment is a better 5 years than the last 5 years of life for people who aren't screened positive early on and who subsequently have to undergo brutal hail mary treatments at the last minute.
I don't think arguing for some safety standards proportional to the life of the thing being used is arguing for stopping all invention. I think the most charitable reading of your critique is that you are using the Slippery Slope Fallacy to argue that any restrictions on invention means no invention at all. I do agree it's impossible to prove a negative which is why I qualified it, but you can demonstrate a few negative results like "Doesn't substantially increase the risk of Cancer X" for various types of cancer. Etc. I'd leave it to the experts to choose which risks should be tested for and shown to not be an issue.

On the other hand you're arguing for a very unfair world where people are unfairly exposed to hugely damaging chemicals and don't get any remediation for those damages because we don't ensure the profits from those chemicals actually offset their long term consequences and we don't require companies taking on such risks to adequately fund future lawsuits. I agree that's kind of been the norm in US-style capitalism, but I think there is a strong case it shouldn't be.
>notice how many Westerners today respond to big families; instead of joy, it is often disgust or horror

I don't want to live in a world where everyone is forced to be excited that you wanted spread your seed 10 times. Bringing more mouths into the world is not automatically incredible, magical, or special.

A lot of people showcase cynicism towards family life because family is a very personal thing, no one should be expected to jump for joy except hopefully the family, friends, or small community.
Will be interesting to see what happens to this long term, but hopefully means good things. I use the tool personally but really for largely basic things.

The dropdown for autocomplete is far from necessary but a nice addition. Helping with completing commands that I don't use often but know the basics of like "aws s3 cp" is nice. But because of that I could just never justify spending money on it.

Hopefully it isn't abandoned, but maybe this will also mean they don't have to try to find artificial reasons (or bloat) to convince people to pay and can just focus on the core offering.
> from a users perspective having it on a public blockchain seems like exactly the same product but better in terms of more options

What options? What advantages are there? Better for who, the scammers pulling the rug?

Keep in mind, the oft-repeated promise of being able to move assets from one game to another is a bald faced lie, and that's pretty obvious to developers and even players, just not crypto bros and NFT shills who have never developed or played games, apparently.
> who knows when I'll die?

That, you can insure against by buying a lifetime pension. Quick math: say that you retire at 65 and expected life expectancy is 85. Then, you’ll need 240 months of retirement money, and an insurer will probably pay you around 1/200th or so [1] of what you pay them when you’re 65 each month for as long as you live (they can pay you a bit more than what you pay them and still make a profit because they get your money, on average, 10 years before they have to pay you)

That’s costly if you happen to die young but a good deal if you happen to live long, but moves the risk of you running out of money to a third party.

The more difficult questions are how healthy you’ll be and what inflation will be after you retire. If you happen/manage (that’s partly under your control) to stay fit and healthy, you’ll probably spend more on activities and hobbies after you retire.

If you happen to get a chronic disease, but still live long, you’ll have to spend more on healthcare.

[1] depending on whether you want your partner to still receive a pension after you die, how much investment risk you’re willing to run, etc.
Is this something that your optometrist can easily identify? I’m scared shitless of losing my eyesight and I’m already on -6 glasses.
Is this true? Have others here had success with it or hire based on it? (I'm asking honestly since i'm not in software industry)
one thought: my dad lived in Hillsboro, shared your boredom with the long overcast and drizzly months, while I lived in San Diego, and later east bay norcal (as they call it), and found that it was EXACTLY as annoyingly monotonous, just the too many sunny days version.

I'm just sharing this because you could move to around Vallejo and you'd just get a sign-error on the monotony, and realize it after moving.

Just my 2 cents...
The lack of engines for one. So far they've been unable to match the Ukrainian drone production, the trend I assume will continue.
Starting from scratch, Rust is a fine option there, but it lacks publicly available platform integrations, or any engines as powerful as Unreal. It’s to be seen if that momentum advantage can be overcome anytime soon.