skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
D-arabinitol does indicate fungal overgrowth somewhere in the body as it's not produced by human cells. This isn't quackery, it's a common test done for yeast infections.
Companies can employ whoever they want wherever they want. No one is stopping Apple from hiring that Afghani shepherd. The primary purpose of work visas (and visas in general) is to regulate who can visit and live within a country's borders. Why is that not acceptable?
I'm a long way from 12TB, but I was relieved to see the new plans since I know I will eventually pass 2TB. As you mentioned, I consider iCloud basically for syncing and short-term backup of convenience, but I wouldn't trust it as a single point of failure for anything.

Photos I take with my real camera are backed up separately on a computer, separate drive, and off-site (Arq Backup to Wasabi). Photos I take with my phone are synced through iCloud to a computer with "Download entire library" enabled, which then has the same local and offsite backup.

The iCloud syncing has gotten more reliable over the years though in my experience. So I'm increasingly comfortable with it, but I'd still never fully trust my priceless data with any of the easy-but-no-control mainstream services like Apple or Google Photos.
I actually agree with most of this. I tend to use Marcel for ETL sorts of processing, quick database access with data munging on either side, cluster access, etc. it works fine for basic shell usage though.

As for a more complex example: yes, the website has better examples, but they are also more involved to explain.
Fascinating! How's that jive with the nominal tax rate being way higher back then? The highest bracket was 79% in 1940, and it's 37% today. Did we just get significantly better at taxing the middle class, or is there more at play?
The prices seem high, but I haven't been able to find something comparable and also cheaper. For instance, at $6 per TB per month, BackBlaze B2 is a budget option:

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing

Also, unlike Amazon and Microsoft's consumer offerings, BackBlaze and iCloud have never intentionally rug-pulled their customers (as far as I know)
bypass paywall : https://archive.ph/5oX5Z
i'm on the opposite side regarding these matters.

cloud is nice for sync.

but my backups I would rather have them on my own personal drives.

ssd's. + flash usb's. recently got sandisk flash drives 128gb / 12 GBP.
There’s a real physical human being making that decision. Corporations aren’t amorphous blobs. What a scum, to abuse the society they live in.

Corporations exist to make a profit and that’s fine, but they don’t need to claw and steal every penny they can find. Why do we perpetuate this idea that the appropriate behaviors for an organization are these horribly antisocial actions.
The EPA isn't calculating the range displayed on the dashboard.
> Can someone explain why work visas are an acceptable thing?

Without something that functions like work visas, you have no mechanism to control immigration. And while racism is perhaps the main argument against employed against immigration, there are a few non-racist arguments you can make.

One of the primary reasons that work visas specifically exist in the first place is to ensure that immigrants do not become indigent and net drains on the state.
Other fields can get an O-1 Visa to get extraordinary talent. H1B is the bottom rung and should have a floor set by marketing conditions. Body(Tata, etc) shops aren't the only ones abusing it.
Change the password to the account that has 5 BTC?
I wrote/ported a single file Java implementation of another of the post quantum signature schemes - sphincs+ here:

https://github.com/Peergos/sphincsplus
I raised exactly this possibility with them when they announced their new model. Their support would not engage with this even as a possibility. Just assertions that everything would be completely secure.

Getting access to this data is the holy grail for attackers - it is preposterous not to have a local-only or "saved on iCloud only" model. Clearly the only reason they removed this ability was the juicy, juicy subscription revenue, which requires them to hold the data.

They may have avoided a breach this time but have they previously been breached? Will they be breached in future? The possibility of each is non-zero.

Needless to say, I'm still using the older version and am planning how to transition once it stops working after an OS update.
I put together something in a similar vein but attempts to build up an audio tour like experience from the ground up.. old fashioned web scrape then summarized through LLM's: https://summer.ai

Ah I see the creator is in here. Will reach out!
Now you're making me want him to go genuine white fascist so I can get a Tesla for half-price ...
Drugs? Before Musk was first seen smoking pot, he seemed to be sane. It's been downhill since then. Now he says he's using ketamine and may be bipolar.[1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...
Big shout out to the kind people keeping things running on the internet.

Thank you.
You rephrased exactly what I was saying. Use rigorous science to determine which parts of traditional medicine work and which don’t.
but the companies are picking their chosen employees-to-be. the companies are literally the ones submitting the H1-B forms asking the government to approve their choice so they can employ them.

the government does not say "this person is not the right choice for this job." the government does however do the necessary criminal/education/security/background checks etc to make sure the candidate (or company) isn't lying. some of these checks may be difficult for a company without government-level resources (maybe?) to perform.

so if the checks are passed, and the company has performed the labor cert properly and there are visas left (quotas), then a visa is issued to the candidate that the company picked.
Almost forgot: I also switch from bash to Python at a low threshold. In that case, I find Marcel’s API useful. I can then do shell-like piping inside of Python.
I never get these type of articles, if you don’t like X (no, I mean as a variable, not twitter, goddamit Elon!), just don’t use it. Social media been and still the worst type of interaction you will get on the internet, that’s why I barely use any and I have a healthy mindset, I do join and be part of other communities that I can relate to in my field, your discussion will be mostly focused on your and their interests, sure you might argue about stuff, but it’s still within one goal and interest, social media on the other hand, is everything bad in society will be surfacing and shoved into your face.
Apple can’t employ whoever they want. They have to ask for permission from the government(the actual logistics can differ, it may be framed like that employee which Apple wants to employee has to ask the government, but it’s the same thing).
I remember hearing a radio 4 version of this in the 80s as a kid, and the bit about peeling his skull like an orange really freaked me out, was just thinking about this the other day.
Companies don't force their cloud hosting solutions because it's good for users, they do it because they can make more money. Unfortunately I think things will have to get a lot worse before companies have to reverse course on this.
The Supreme Court case didn't find the dog toy satirizing Jack Daniels was infringing, just that it was possible and a jury should decide rather than the case being dismissed.
Nah, I didn’t read the article so you can’t possibly be right. The ice will just fill previously occupied space.

Unfortunately said space will be peoples communities.
Mind sharing what area you're in?
It's an RNA that has no homology to any part of the human genome. What is the danger here?
> It might possibly be a bad idea for everyone to consolidate all of the credentials and all of the auth flow mechanics for all of the things to a small handful of companies.

People have long lost the difference in meaning between "security" and "convenience". They now believe the two are interchangeable.
I am NOT anyone with relevant credentials, just a lot of running over the last 40 some years in a lot of shoes. That said, I no reason to think that VaporFlys would help with plantar fasciitis. I hypothesize that it's the energy return (which is energy not pounding the legs) is what saves the legs, and I don't know that help plantar problems. And the shoes are designed around running, not walking.

Mainly, though, is they're $250 a pair. That's a pretty pricey experiment without some bit of evidence, even if anecdotal, that they might work for your problem.

Good luck, though. I know plantar fasciitis is a tough one to treat.
> In the US, the trend leaders when it comes to having kids out of wedlock are the poorest parts of the population, mostly blacks, where "unmarried" and "unpartnered" tend to go hand-in-hand.

I know you’re talking about “trend leaders”. But you must have forgotten about Native Americans and Latinos. Native Americans and black people tend to have children out of wedlock at about the same rate. Latinos have children out of wedlock at a high but lower rate. But there are more Latinos in the United States than there are black people, so there’s actually more Latino children born out of wedlock. And Latinos have the highest birth rate too.

Same goes for white people in the United States. If the rate for black people is about 70% and the rate for white people is about 30%, there are still hundreds of thousands more white children born out of wedlock than black children each year in the United States.

(Sorry, the whole “trend leader” thing rubs me the wrong. It’s like when people talk about welfare recipients based on race. Someone always says “X percentage of black people are on welfare, tsk.” But then when you look at the numbers, Native Americans have the higher percentage within their own race. But again, most welfare recipients are white so there are literally hundreds of thousands more white people on welfare than black people lol. Why doesn’t that fact get a “tsk”?)

Someone replied to you saying/asking “aren’t black people religious”. Your “mostly black” comment limited the discussion. Imagine if you had said “mostly Latinos” instead. There could have been a discussion about Catholicism. There could have been something more, something else at least.
Are H-1Bs the "best and brightest"? Or just for companies willing to game the system to get qualified candidates they can treat like garbage?

As far as I know, the system usually relies on essentially phony job postings made specifically not to get filled (despite, in general, plenty of perfectly qualified applicants who'd otherwise apply). Then, the employees are sort of tied to the employer and can be made to work long hours for substandard pay. Nowhere in the process seems to select for "the best and brightest" as far as I understand.
Dupe: "1Password detects 'suspicious activity' in its internal Okta account" (107 points, 74 comments, 2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37991863
The main problem I see with this kind of debates is treating 'humans' as a single homogeneous entity. As with all technologies in the past, there will be few humans with more access/influence and there will be a lot more who wouldn't have it. A better question to ask is, how can we ensure that agency/freedom of the people who do not have access/affordability to this technology remains intact? For instance, the rights of the Artists in case of generative AI.
10 years ago, 100% on Windows.

Today, 100% on Linux (Arch btw + KDE). (It's been years since I booted into my Windows drive. I don't even know if I remember the password.)

To me, using monitors of the same size (not that I've ever not done that) is a tiny price to pay for an OS meant for engineering and that doesn't fume with spyware and condescension for me. (That said, I wouldn't've survived long without Valve supporting Linux. :p)
Why Olive Oil Is So Expensive Right Now
Im the Marcel author. Get in touch, I’d love to do what I can to assist.
Rarely flagged, but when it happens it’s often by someone overly upset about some comment that was not a completely mainstream opinion (but not extreme either) that I made on some innocuous topic that they feel the need to be the zealous self-appointed content police.

However, I see it nearly daily because I consume HN using a feed reader and don’t rely on the HN homepage at all. So in my list of HN stories I see nothing flagged in my reader and will often pull up a post that should be totally appropriate for HN and hardly controversial at all just to see it now flagged and every so often interesting commentary completely shut down.

But I am not worried, because if this site gets to the point where we see these self-appointed censors make this place an uninteresting I’ll just move on.
Measuring temperature is not trivial. There's convective, conductive and radiative heat transfer and they all factor into the measurement. And that may not accurately reflect the "cabin temperature," particularly in a parked car.
https://archive.ph/L6fub
Have you ever heard about the concept of visa rejection? It’s a real thing that’s why there is also a visa lottery.

That’s why for companies it’s not the same thing to hire someone who has a foreign passport and the local one. H1-B it’s not just a form that you fill when you’re going to employ a foreign national.
I really don't get this argument. Israel has easily 100x more military power than palestinians. If you come to the conclusion that the only path to freedom is violence and you're up against someone 100x more powerful than you who has imprisoned you terrorism is pretty much your only option. Anything else will just lead to your immediate annihilation. It's easy to say "follow the rules of war" when they assure your victory.

Now I don't believe Hamas is actually fighting for freedom, but if they were and israel was unwilling to negotiate it's easy to see how they decide to massacre civilians.
That's a huge improvement. Some existing aircraft will be able to convert to LSAs under MOSAIC, many existing manufacturers will switch to building LSAs, and we'll see many new developments as well.

The current crop of planes in general aviation is deteriorating with nothing to replace them. The average age of a GA aircraft is over 50 years old. They were never designed for this lifetime. Many people are flying aircraft that are closer to the Wright brothers in time than to today. The most popular engine, the Lycoming O-320 was designed in 1953.

50 years ago planes were affordable, maintenance was not prohibitive, and an upper middle class person could easily fly for fun if they wanted to. These rules are hopefully going to make general aviation dramatically cheaper.

The fact that electric engines are included, that you can install new experimental avionics, do some of your own maintenance, etc. while lifting the many restrictions on current LSAs is pretty amazing. Just getting past many of the certification requirements, which are overkill for GA applications, are going to make everything insanely cheaper.

MOSAIC will also give new companies a path into the market, now they can start in the LSA category, develop their product and sell it, and then eventually go for certification. Otherwise you have a massive startup cost with no idea about product-market fit.
And they wanted to cancel the Bolt too...
Docker is definitely a problem, although newer versions have implemented new functionality that may have significantly reduced this. I can't really tell however, as I'm stuck on too many Zoom calls all day long and Zoom absolutely murders my battery life.
Above water, below radar.

https://menu.miami
What makes you think Apple has to ask the government for permission before hiring someone?
And people occasionally die biking and skiing from their own accidents hitting unmovable objects — something virtually unheard of with runners.
It causes latency issues on SMP machines with multiple processors for sure; I don't know whether or not that same issue translates to a similar scheduling problem across the same die, although I imagine it would, the context switch and scheduler itself isn't costless.

gamers have been binding to single processors/cores for years for that reason, it's a huge cause of microstutter type behaviors -- but who knows if its perceivable with all the magic going on with processors nowadays.
My point was that I have never heard anyone describe a server or serverless in that way: as simply a process. I agree that thinking about server as a process/Daemon is a great way to frame serverless.

I've also not considered that wireless headphones have wires so it's been fun to think about that too.
> no need to make life complicated for adult people.

I like that it's the main goal for all these huge and pervasive legal changes.

I know there's all the cultural "can't show a nipple to my pure innocent girl", but it still amazes me our societies as a whole have to deal with the radicalism of a few.
What it is actually about is cheaper labor. Without H1-B companies would have to compete more for talent and invest in more education and promote their in demand careers to young Americans.

I would much rather see FAANG invest in opportunities for inner city and poor rural high schools… programs to support bringing up people already in this country. Rather than siphoning off the best and most ambitious people from poor countries who need those people’s talents.

I can’t blame anyone for chasing the best opportunities for themselves and their families though.

I do not like how H1-B alters the game and who loses as a result.
> after you swear to them that it's not copyright infringement. But it's not very clear how much evidence they should request.

Should they? I thought the whole point of DMCA Safe Harbor is that third parties (such as providers and hosting services) don't have to figure out what's infringing and what's not but merely accept statements from all the involved parties.

If removal on notice is one-click process, restoring on counter-notice could (should!) also be an one-click process.

And if DMCA doesn't prohibit proactive counter-notices, marketplaces that care about their sellers should let them preemptively swear that all their products are not infringing on anything, and save the counter-notice, so takedown requests would be immediately served with "we took the content down for a femtosecond (as legally required), but we got this counter-notice, so we restored the content - now you can go to a court". Not sure how legal this could be, but giants like Etsy's or Amazon's legal teams surely can test those waters if they would want to stop the DMCA abuse.
Here's the relative risk of pedestrian death per vehicle mile, broken down by vehicle type.

(all ages)

cars: 1

buses: 7.97

motorcycles: 1.93

light trucks: 1.45

heavy trucks: 0.96

(age 0-14)

cars: 1

buses: 11.85

motorcycles: 3.77

(age 85 and older)

cars: 1

buses: 16.7

source: https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/11/4/232
The DOJ is supposed to be independent. Even if you don’t think that it is, it consists of mostly civil servants who remain across administrations.

Our institutions are not perfect but there are enough good people working for them that I think it’d be tough to do what you suggest at a large scale.
In the real world they often are—complicated-but-secure processes usually lead to work arounds that are worse than if you had just planned for convenience from the beginning. The classic example of this is the sticky note with the password on it.

Securing a large organization populated by regular human beings is extremely difficult, and is an exercise in balancing theoretical security with convenience.
Don't we just call those "businesses" ?
the market is behaving like the ETF is a done-deal. Hardly. The SEC has until the 12th of jan. and can find another reason to reject. I still think 24k is in the cards soon.
Apple can employ whomever they want. They might not be able to employ whomever they want in the US (or insert any other specific country here), but they can employ whomever they want if they're willing to put up with the paperwork to have employees in other countries.
Whenever I've been on the interviewing side of things if a potential applicant lists their GitHub profile I checked it 100% of the time for interesting side project, open source contributions, etc.
Having seen MongoDB in use in an enterprise context, I may have to disagree with you about its fitness for purpose there. :-/
Why do you reject working people then? Then the visa requirement should be something like “if you find a job you’re welcome to stay”.
They just have their state sanctioned and militarily protected settlers do it for them. Totally not government sanctioned.
Android likes to do things to check off boxes and in mediocre ways
Given a github profile, most people (not developers), will not read commits. Hell, I'm not convinced most developers would either.
I read in some blog that, ever since 95, Windows's DE has been attempting to copy Apple. I guess I never had as much perspective as the author since they seemed like two opposite poles to me, but, with the look of 11, it's starting to make more sense... :D
The gaming of H-1 visas affects other sectors than senior devs in tech!

I was on the board of a school that teaches in a foreign language. We used to recruit teachers from countries where that language is used, because we followed a foreign curriculum too.

Teachers look for new jobs in April/May to start in August. We used to get them H-1s. But once the H-1s were exhausted in October it became impossible to bring teachers over.
on the tesla, they are as the baseline, the multiplied by estimated capacity remaining
To me this sounds like reason for more empathy.

These are not the actions of someone who is well.
All this gyration is too late for my son’s partner: they have decided to move away. I guess that was the intention, eh?
The left prefer people don’t have to migrate, but that they can seek asylum when they need to
As sad as it makes me, I believe you.

I'll think about what to do.
Because that’s the law, they can’t employ illegal immigrants. They need to go to the government to make that immigrant a legal one. The government has to give permission for that immigrant to become legal.
Mortgage interest costs have gone up, and rents have gone up alongside them. I live in a 1-bedroom flat in Zone 2; before Covid, we rented a 1-bed with garden for £1450; when we moved a year ago, cost went up to £1600. Now we're moving again, and it looks like prices have gone up to £1700-1800.
It is a bit more complicated than that, car makers do the test themselves, EPA can spot check, and manufactures can choose between two methods, one of which comes up with a bigger number, and is reflective more of city driving than highway driving.

imho, I fault the EPA for not having a sensible highway range/city range as a standard, then none of this would be an issue
I say that like I think that GP thinks it's a bad thing. I think it's a perfectly normal/natural/understandable/healthy thing and that it's well within the rights of a sovereign nation to decide whom to let in, take up residence, and work within.
So the term “hit by a bus” reflects reality
Why not transcode the data after use to significantly reduce filesize? If the videos are uploaded elsewhere (e.g., YT) they're most certainly transcoded on such services anyway
"gray market" here means stolen right?
Your first point is great. But I don't think the second one is relevant.

The government shouldn't fight for lower paying jobs at the expense of higher paying ones. There are a limited number of visas granted each year, and higher pay is a signal from the market that a particular position is _actually_ more difficult to fill. If startups can't afford top talent, then surely they can hire American workers instead?
Considering how important networking is to startup businesses, you'd think a startup founder would put a little more weight on an employee referral than only considering their GitHub profile.