skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this comprehensive reply. I suppose we just have to hope excellent tooling and other improvements to the rough edges of languages like Ocaml and JS arrive soon.
Triglycerides are a much better indicator of health. Cholesterol is not, and it comes in different sizes as well, all with their own significance.

In short, triglycerides should always be low, whatever your diet. Cholesterol depends on your diet: if lower carb, it is necessarily high, and is positively correlated with longevity. In higher carb, it means you are eating a lot of sugar w/ fat, which is terrible for your arteries and mitochondria, causing long term atherosclerosis and systemic metabolic syndrome.

It's all in the videos I've linked.
Something like Scratch?
I knew what you meant, but as I said, these type of exams are not at the end of a PhD program. At Princeton, it appears that the general exam occurs after year one or two: https://www.math.princeton.edu/graduate/requirements
It's not only about people, but some (big) companies are more keen to have stuff on-prem than as SaaS
Thank you 37 signals. Nice to get relived from writing JavaScript.
>> It was never intended to be permanent

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."

-- Rahm Emanuel

Something to consider the next time a politician proposes a "temporary" aid program.
I’m sure there are some devious plans taking advantage of the circumstances created.
The Win10/11 setup uses 640x480 resolution or such nonsense on my system with 4k monitor, RX6*** card, so I have a teeny-tiny view of the interactive elements. Gave me a good laugh each time.
https://archive.ph/c9Fjf

subtitle: 'Here’s how four startups are programming biology to develop new products in medicine, energy, food and more'

A related article is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37590195
how are small emerging social media platform are going to deal with these many laws and rules ?

government should release there own open source safety sdk, which others can simply include in there code, to adhere to minimum requirements.

otherwise this seems to me like Innovation killer bill, by eliminating small players out of equation.
All major political parties support it.

Many of the newspapers have campaigned in support of it.

Various major charities have campaigned in support of it.

Polls show the bill has high public support.

That leaves very little room for reasoned criticism of the bill.
Thank you for your insight.

Apple is one of the few FAANG companies with a decent number of open vacancies in the UK at the moment.

Can you tell me what you mean by shipped code? I've shipped plenty of code in my current job (none of it is that exciting, though). I probably don't emphasise it enough on my current CV, now I think about it.
Niall Ferguson and Azeem Azhar on geopolitics of technological revolutions
It's a security matter more than a performance matter, although improved performance is a nice side effect.

For assets served from a third party (a CDN), you don't want to send cookies that might include secrets (a session cookie that could allow access to a user's account for example).

You can trust that a third party won't intentionally log or make use of any sensitive information in cookies but you can't guarantee it. Best not to send it at all.
Then even within LDL there are different types. One of which there seems to be a strong consensus is bad, and the other (the 'big fluffy' pattern A) there is some debate about whether it's good or bad. Is that right?
Word of warning about Netatmo cameras - even if you buy the HomeKit Secure Video ones, they stop working if the memory card dies. And it dies a LOT on their cameras. I've got 3 of their outdoor security cameras, and two of them stopped working while I was away on holiday. I had a very long conversation with them about this massive flaw in their system, they kept just saying "it needs the memory card to save the video" - I pointed out that a) it doesn't, it's streaming to HSV, and b) with every other camera I own the memory card is optional. The quality of the video on them is also considerably worse than any of my other cameras.
> graduate students

As far as I understand, in America graduate student can mean both a M.Sc. student and a Ph.D. student.
Thank you for the great app! Feature request: integration with BRouter for navigation (like OSMAnd does). Currently bicycle navigation is not very good in Organic Maps.
Why do you think it's a horrible language?
Thanks! I've started working through LeetCode recently. Struggling to get an interview, but that might be a CV issue. After reading this thread, I think LeetCode + networking is what I need to focus on.
Having been involved in this directly for 3 years, as a search company CEO and based in the UK, I would say some (if not all) big tech companies were broadly supportive of this bill. It is almost certain that regulatory compliance will fall disproportionately on challengers. With one exception major exception, there is no indication whatsoever that they will boycott the UK because if it, nor has there been much resistance to it in public at least from big tech. The exception is about the potential threat to E2EE services.
Even in the first position? That makes it no longer be the claimed "superset of JSON", since (AFAIK) {"key":"value"} (with no whitespace) is valid JSON.
In the case of Google and McDonalds I don't think there was collaboration. The developers of the McDonalds app included root detection code and have their app refuse to load all on their own as part of some ill-considered security scheme. If apps on iOS are able to detect whether 3rd party stores/apps are enabled we may see the same thing play out. I wonder then if just providing the ability to detect other apps like that would be a violation of the DMA, as it gives others apps on the system the ability to degrade their functionality.
2019 was as much as there could be a single-issue election about brexit. It's an anomaly as such and shouldn't be used to make trends. That said, I don't think it was any different in 2017 and I don't discredit the trend. 2017 was also out of the ordinary as there was an actually left-wing alternative offered.
The person whose identity is used will be held accountable. This is more like getting paid to serve a jail sentence in place of someone else.
It's a shame that it needs younger doctors for things to change if the science and technology is already there.
I enjoyed the book Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning from Manning. It's written in a very accessible style and explains the mathematical formulas you will see in other RL teaching material.

I'd suggest getting a good book or other teaching resource and solve a few Gymnasium[0] environments. Unlike supervised machine learning, you don't need someone else's data, you generate your own data.

[0]: https://gymnasium.farama.org/
Wal*Mart also accepts SNAP EBT.

There exists a Restaurant Meals Program to help people get nutritious meals if they're unable to prepare them: https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailer/restaurant-meals-prog...

Don't forget Meals on Wheels and other programs for seniors and the disabled.

It's been proven that every dollar SNAP injects into the economy stimulates it enough to make a difference. So it's a very good thing that programs like this for people whom you may consider to be lazy, stupid, or euthanasia candidates.
> to question the fact that since we introduced low-fat dieting, obesity has gone from being a circus attraction to common place

I don't really know about keto, but the problem as widely understood with obesity is calories, not just calories from fat. And the easiest way to onboard calories without realising is to snack on sugary food and drinks.

Also, your point relies on the idea that the population is doing low-fat dieting. They may not be in the first place.

The only sensible diet I know of is the No S diet[0], which is so simple (and free) that it fits into the hover title of its web page.

[0] https://www.nosdiet.com
Shoot sorry I totally missed this comment - if you're using a docker logging driver, you can use the same thing but just configure it to point towards us via the fluentd logger [1].

Otherwise you can use the OpenTelemetry collector[2] to do the same[3].

[1] https://www.hyperdx.io/docs/install/docker

[2] https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/

[3] https://www.hyperdx.io/docs/install/opentelemetry
How anybody can look at the past few years of the Tories and go "there is a group of people clearly capable of planing and executing a genius level long term strategy with finesse and subterfuge", is beyond me.
It's definitely both.

Not that our other options at the moment are a significant improvement.
You still need the Hue hub for that though right?
> When all the men got together and voted for women to also have the vote, that was toxic masculinity at work. (this is a joke, but also not really. Women shifting the political map towards larger government and more socialism seems to be the root of most of our current problems.

This seems like a really flawed and backwards take. What evidence do you have that supports your incredibly vague statement that women’s ability to vote is “the root of most of our current problems.”

The American socialist movement began in the early 19th century and peaked in the early 20th. 1900-1920 saw the height of socialist sentiment in the US. The Socialist Party of America began to lose it’s influence in the 1920’s as socialism began to decline in popularity. Women gained the right to vote in 1920.

Would that not then indicate that women gaining the right to vote led to a decline in socialist sentiment? Saying this is just as disingenuous as saying that women gaining the right to vote massively shifted the political spectrum towards socialism.

A rise in socialism is historically very often a reaction to some sort of societal upheaval (i.e. war, economic crises, high levels of inequality, exploitation, etc).

Forgive me if I’m wrong in assuming that you’re speaking about the US, but my point stands regardless of what country you’re referring to because blaming a century’s worth of problems on women gaining the right to vote (regardless of the country) is not a serious nor intelligent argument.
I've had to do some research into various health issues this year and I've been shocked by how poor some of the original papers are.

Tiny studies of very limited demographics, studies with questionable premises (like this one), in vitro being generalised to in vivo, conclusions that say "This effect could go either way" turned into "Don't ever..." advice, and so on.

This isn't anti-vax nonsense on YouTube. These are medical papers in mainstream medical journals which define medical policy.

Of course "poor" does not mean "worthless" so there's often still some signal in the noise.

But "you should lower your cholesterol" is a perfect example of bad research leading to bad messaging.

The science actually says you should manage LDL, HDL, triglycerides, and blood sugar and keep all of them in their healthy ranges.

Some doctors will tell you that, but many won't - because many don't even know.
Have a look at Shelly.
One of the classic lessons of the Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Time is that in general you can't correctly do better than simply storing the user's input (and the instant and place they entered it from) verbatim, unless you know something more about what they were entering. It's usually fine to store times in the past as a timestamp since the epoch plus a location, but the meaning of "2025-01-28 15:00 in Europe/London, for the purpose of a meeting that's being hosted there but is accessible by video call" is much more subject to change when e.g. countries change time zone. It's also not necessarily the same as "the absolute point in time 2025-01-28 15:00 assuming London's time zones stay as predicted since I entered this on 2023-09-21" or "2025-01-28 15:00 in Europe/London, for the purposes of a meeting that's being hosted in Lisbon but which I'm accessing by video call from London" (because then the Lisbon local time is the source of truth, not the London one, if Lisbon changes time zone).
Ask HN: Why are Websites trash can we do better?
I am frustrated by how really bad consuming content via websites & browsers is so bad.

Does anyone else hate websites? What can we do to improve this?
> Von Neumann(an Austrian aristocrat)

Usually Von Neumann is thought to be Hungarian. Born in Budapest, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
This only works if the judge actually cares about what is written in the law. Might work in the USA but hardly anywhere else.
Distribution Confusion in PyPI
You forgot about widening of the wealth gap and massive wealth transfer in the last couple of years.

That's not incompetence. The rich are in charge.
I’m not sure when that happened, but you probably better used a 3rd party app to fly it, they are usually more feature richer and more hacky too
Please take a look at the course.

The courses from Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, MIT are quite good.
There is no paying, just knowledge.
I do. YAML can return to the rotting hole it's from.
The First Word War, was a British/European war though. You bet your bottom dollar, Australians are going to protest being sent to fight in Europe (unless they like the hunt, then it's a whole 'nother story).

The Brits do internal confrontation, behind closed doors in private, and in negative inferences/sarcasm/irony in public.

What Brits don't do, is go against the establishment, which is what most foreigners bump into on day one. And brits have the concept of something being 'not the done thing'.

So you end up with a society that agrees on most things and has a fine line of disagreement that is invisibly negotiated...

Good luck!
Yes, but this is the best example of how the plural of anecdote is not data.
„A branch“ - so we are back to trees then?
> oddly enough, [Windows] lacked drivers.

This is the situation with the upcoming 13-inch AMD Framework, by the way: apparently the official Windows 11 installation image doesn’t include drivers for the AMD/Mediatek RZ616 Wi-Fi card (2021), so they’re going to have to tell people to use Rufus to inject one. Fedora reportedly works out of the box.
This is frustrating. I have invested a lot in the Hue ecosystem and have also recommended it to my friends based on the facts that you don't need an account to control it, it integrates easily with HA, and you can block it from the internet.

Now after one announcement it's something I want to get rid of fast and am ashamed of recommending it to my friends. I already block my Hue Bridge from accessing the internet, so that should keep it from updating so that the functionality stays the same.

Does anyone have any good app recommendations for Android? I use HA, but last time I checked you weren't able to configure the actual Hue scenes in it (and using HA scenes triggered Hue's spam limits).
I'm surprised no one has come up with PORN:
Portable Object Reference Notation.

Then we could have endless debates about the relative merits of our preferred styles/layouts of our favorite .porn files.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
All parties have supported and encouraged this bill. There have been a few individuals in each party willing to question it, and improve it, but they have been more or less ignored by all sides.
At least it's not crypto and it's not actively hurting anyone.
Thank you! No specific industries in mind. I am keen to move to a tech company like FAANG or similar not just because of their prestige but also because I want to work with the best engineers. In the jobs I've had outside tech (especially in the public sector), I've had pretty limited exposure to engineers who are passionate, and I feel I can learn from.
"But it's only anecdotal". Then one learns that most of nutrition research is nothing more than that. No one is doing double-blind randomised nutritional studies for any significant amount of time. Who's got money, time and patience to take thousands of people, lock them in a room and control everything they eat for 2 years? And how would you do double-blind food testing?

Of course the entire field is dubious, and then there's the commercial interests.

This is to say, actual success stories are probably the best we've got. In my experience, carnivore is excellent, albeit very restrictive for many.
Ask HN: Resignation after offer letter or contract
Company X is offering me a job. I currently have one, but I would like to switch. So, company X asks me "When would you resign from your current company?" I say "As soon as I receive a formal contract signed by you". One day later, company X sends me an offer letter (signed). I tell them, "Thanks! Could you please also send the formal contract signed?".

Haven't received a response yet (a few days have passed). I'm not very "trained" in these kind of scenarios, but I won't resign from my current job unless I receive a signed contract by company X, and afaik, an offer letter is not a contract (at least in western europe).
What do you think?
The US has significantly higher rate of car fatalities than peer nations, which you're correct in this case shadows its (far more significantly higher than peer nations) rate of gun deaths.
The Children Leaving the Mafia
The Origins of Lisp
Child safety is what is pushed in the press, the act itself is filled with "content harmful to children and adults", see section 46 for the details.

Nice to know that Bravermen and the rest of them are protecting us from harm.
That’s intentional, I think. An internal faction made false smears to get the progressives out of positions of influence so their right-wing faction (who are as conservative as any Tory) could take power.
> assets served from a third party (a CDN)

Won't that naturally be on a different domain anyway?

How much performance hit do cookies really have in 2023?
The Heroes of GraphQL
In general I am sympathetic to whitespace - I find the argument "whitespace insensitivity means the code now contains two conflicting sources of truth: whitespace which the programmer uses, and braces which are the only one that matters because that's what the computer uses" to be compelling.

But the whitespace sensitivity of YAML is particularly bad because of e.g. Helm. Templating a whitespace sensitive language with string interpolation is such a terrible idea.
Yes, but also this very easily turns into shipping absolute crap, that in itself can cause a good concept to flop. There is a balance to be had, and at least some decent minimum requirements on what is good enough to ship. You neither want to overdosing, nor ship the first draft that sort of kinda works, and that second thing happens way too often.
> config-as-code (and you want to!)

No, you don't.
Any program that generates a config will itself want to be configurable. Now what?
Scam-based cybercrime is an offshoot of the BPO and Call Center industry. This is why cities with a weak software scene but strong BPO scene like Kolkata are highly represented.
Thanks! Yeah, my CV has a big financial organisation on it and a medium-sized university. I think getting a job with better recognition in tech is the biggest hurdle.
You have to (I believe) acknowledge that this is a next level situation though.

I've never seen it this bad in the UK.
This smells of pseudoscience, somewhere between LK99 and cold fusion.

For example, they reference an experiment so bad that I as a layperson could find a dozen glaring flaws in the associated published paper.

The referenced "result" was about changes in a Johnson-Matthey purifier when deuterium and/or hydrogen was cycled through it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03603...

This experiment is destructive, so the team compared two different palladium-silver hydrogen gas purification tubes with months worth of gas cycled applied to them. They then assumed that the tubes started out "the same", and hence they wrote up any differences as changes that occurred because of the gases they used. This blithely ignores the differences in the tubes due to manufacturing variations!

That's shockingly bad science, and I very much doubt that sincerity and honesty of anyone who chooses that specific "result" as something worthy of referencing in a journal article.
Compared to who? Modern day, of course they weren't. 1500's Britain was quite poor, but not more so than many other places.

If you look at the general populace for basically anywhere before modern times, they all had bad hygiene nutrition and medial aptitude by modern standards. Looking at what the 0.1% could manage doesn't tell you much about a society.
As the saying goes, a long-term investment is a short-term one that went wrong.
Well, we might not have had Brexit if Corbyn had had a little spine and/or actually was against it himself.
The distance from Philadelphia to Boston is not much greater than Paris to Lyon which takes two hours by train today.

If the US had reasonable train service, you’d get from central Philly to central Boston in the time it today takes just to get to the airport, go through security and board the plane.
A difference is that the FreeBSD has to maintain two versions most of the time and sometimes three versions.

At the moment there are 12.x and 13.x. 14.x is in beta, so soon there will be three. But 12.x is expected to be dropped at the end of this year, so in 2024 it will be back to two versions.

As far as I can tell there are a lot more Linux kernels in LTS at the moment.
I’m from India and have workloads at Hetzner.

Also, you can always pay the £20 fee; especially so if you’re running a company.
A customer's DSL connection dysfunctioned every evening during December - but worked fine the rest of the year... Culprit: interference from nearby Christmas decorations leaking EM all over the place.

A customer's DSL connection dysfunction's frequency increased mornings and evenings. Culprit: the lift's electric motor leaking EM all over the place.

A bunch of DSL connections degrade when traffic increase... Crosstalk in big cables of course !

The sort of fun incidents that take a good while to troubleshoot... I'm glad we are migrating away from DSL to fiber: either it works or not !
Does it matter if the worst happened? It will be irrelevant 24 hours later.
Disgusting.
Can the UK still be considered a democracy if the state has this access to private communication?
I have a degree from a good university, it's just not in CS. So hopefully that won't be a problem down the line. Referrals seem to be important. I lack the connections at the moment. Need to try and find ways to network with people in the industry.
wow seriously cool idea here, i think it could be expanded on.

currently my only tool is "jump to definition" & docstr tooltips, but if i could expand those definitions in place... i'd imagine i could grok the code much faster, because i could expand multiple functions and even nested functions, and read the code in one linear flow.
Honestly, they might have just filled their quota. I've interviewed at companies where it wasn't that I wasn't good, but they found an acceptable candidate before I completed interviewing.

A lot of times you're not interviewing for "Google", but a specific team. If that team has all it's members, then well, sucks to be you.
Where is the vast majority of advertising now? on websites.

If you are not going to websites anywhere near as much to get info, then the cost per click goes through the roof. Money drains from the system, those websites disappear.
Nix is JSON + arrow functions + variables.

The only difference between Nix and a hypothetical JSON++ is that Nix is lazy by default.

I.e., it is nothing at all like any Lisp.
The interesting question of course, is who is paying for these services.