skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an extreme introvert that can go a very long time without human interaction but at a certain point, whether it be weeks or months, I get the urge to talk to someone, go out to eat with someone, do something with someone. This is a real bad place to be because you're fine being alone until you all of a sudden aren't and it feels 10x worse when you look around and see all the people smiling and laughing with friends.
> Sapolsky’s argument can be summed up like this: “We are beings caught in an unbroken chain of causes that dictate our choices. We lack free will and are wholly subject to circumstance. Therefore, we should choose to be better to each other.”

> This is a contradiction.

It's only a contradiction if you keep thinking in "free will" terms, i.e. thinking you have a choice in the matter.

The problem is that he has to use the language of persuasion and "choice" to explain why not believing in free will has benefits. But that's a weakness of our language around the subject, he's not expecting anyone to "choose" to change their position on the subject.

What he's actually doing is becoming part of your causal chain, and by voicing his opinion he's trying to change your future behavior. Ironically, in a world with no free will, we end up having more agency over others than ourselves.

Your behavior after reading the book was never a matter of choice. Either the past events in your life will lead you to modify your behavior upon adding the information in the book to your life or they won't. Sapolsky's entire point is exactly that, there is nowhere a choice _can_ be made. All we have is the illusion of a choice being made when we reflect on our behaviors and try to rationalize them post-hoc.
Preexisting conditions wouldn't have been covered (at least, that's my understanding)
That is similar to "well feel happy!" advice to someone who is depressed. It isn't exactly wrong, if someone can do that they should, but the suspicion is that there are other factors that need to be addressed first.
Like I said in my comment, they're all out of date and don't show the new version.
Oh, god. Yeah. With government contracting, it gets just plain surreal, like everything else about working in Defense.

Not disk encryption, but my personal nightmare happened a decade ago, when MIS found out I had a data background, and they needed someone to resolve network latency issues, they told me 37k on what was supposedly gigabit ethernet. They pointed me at their security doohickey, the DMS, and a giant pile of pcap files. I had zero idea what I was doing, but I came back with 80% +++ infosec garbage, like, everywhere, even the packets on the factory floor and other dumb metal. I must have checked and rechecked a bazillion times - as mentioned, I really didn't know what any of this stuff was, and relied on text mining and Wikidata. After ganking the entire DMS into my magic widgets, found that there were seventeen network packet analyzer / security products all spooging into the network, all - if I can trust my gensim skills - reporting on each other, because ALL of them were implemented completely separately. Each one was some idiot program manager parroting instructions - forcing network changes - from the customer based on who knows how many deadend procurement officers. And judging from the contract documents, the sniffers were the tip of the iceberg: it was across the board for AV, encryption, email settings, you name it - you probably need to review all of that.

It was a mess, but the guy who brought me in - damn, he was a really nice guy, realized that I was a pay grade above janitor at the time, tried to make my life decent - that guy . . he looked actually sick, like, "I-need-a-toilet-right-now" sick. Above him, no one wanted to tell the level above, so we kept getting kicked upstairs until we ended up at E-level and they're calling the Overlords in the corporate office. In the end, nobody wanted to rock the boat, for fear of running afoul of some random procurement officer or other (who could of course become VPs any second, or any quarter they needed a quick sale). And so it remained. As far as I know, their security setup remains unchanged to this day.

Ah, that wasn't even the worst of that kind of thing to happen, but that's another story, in an area where I was actually semi-qualified . .
What you don't realize is YouTube would rather have half the users if all of them watched ads vs AdBlock users, so they actually want you to stop using YouTube. Most people will just white list it, I mean the bulk of users use mobile anyway and cant really use AdBlock.
> a lot of health care policy wonks in 2010 were definitely expecting the exchanges to be where the action was, and were talking about future changes

Ok, but... how are the dreams of "policy wonks" relevant? What we got is what Congress passed, and what Congress passed preserved and enshrined the role of employers in providing health insurance. Thus, the fact that people who have employer-provided health insurance are not on the exchanges doesn't seem interesting, given the actual laws in place (as opposed to some imagined future alternative).

And I think you're underestimating the number of people who don't have employer-provided health care and who do use the exchanges, especially with the so-called "gig economy".

> This is why Congress and their legislative staffers are the only people who do have employer subsidies on the exchange

Congress granting itself an exception is just par for the course.
Show HN: Glyph DLP – a data loss prevention API
Hi HN,

Glyph DLP is an API that scans or redacts sensitive information (emails, SSNs, credit cards, etc.) from Base64-encoded files/strings. So far I have coverage for text files, JSON, PDF, CSV, DOCX, and XLSX files and may consider adding a few more in the future.

I made this app mostly for fun and learning and to scratch the creative itch over the past few months. I am using FastAPI in Docker hosting it on Fly.io. I originally wanted to use SQLite/LiteFS on Fly but ran into some issues with concurrent writers when keeping track of rate-limiting on the API. I am now using managed MySQL on Planetscale which has been awesome and would definitely recommend both Fly and Planetscale to anyone making small hobby projects.

Even though the API functions are relatively simple, this is definitely the hardest I have worked on an app. I put a lot more effort into design and getting things how I want them, learning how to write better tests, documenting the API, etc.

I also want to mention that Glyph DLP does not store any content from files as they are scanned/redacted or use the information from uploaded content in any way.

I have no users to speak of at the moment and appreciate any feedback!
> The EU commissioners are the biggest fault with the EU and it's disheartening how no one addresses that

> but a reform that makes it more democratic was out of question.

Because the existence of commissioners, and their strange position in the EU is both very deliberate, and incredibly important to the continued existence of the EU.

The EU isn’t a federal government, it’s a super state entity that exists in an uneasy balance with governments of each member state. The consequence is that “more democracy” doesn’t help the EU, or make it more attractive (at least not to national governments, and they’re the ones that sign treaties).

Balancing the powers of the individual EU states, with their elected governments and different democratic processes, with the powers of the EU as a super state entity is hard. No national government wants to hand off their own sovereign power to an external entity they have little direct influence over, so the EU commissioners exist. Their explicit purpose is to allow national governments to place a heavy thumb on the democratic scales in Brussels, to provide assurances to those national governments that their own state can’t be dictated to by other states within the EU who may hold different cultural values.

The result of all this mess isn’t perfect, and is hard to understand as a random citizen. But simply getting rid of commissioners, and introducing “more democracy” which implicitly reduces the power of national governments, doesn’t provide a practical solution for the EU. The real solutions will be convoluted, nuanced, and slow to develop, that’s just the consequence of trying to get 27 very independent nation states to get along.
It's more about the disease vectors' ranges changing, the UK now has tiger mosquitos living here for a large portion of the year, bringing the possibility of dengue, zika, west nile, and other diseases that it carries, which would have been scoffed at as ridiculous 50 years ago.
I mean even my own currently-alive ancestors (farmers, the majority of them) don't look at livestock as living, conscious beings. They obviously care for each animal and give them a swift and as-painless-as-possible butchering when the time comes, but they're not the bleeding hearts that many people these days are, they're mostly just vehicles for vital necessities.

I don't find it difficult to imagine my great-great-great-great-(fill in the appropriate number of greats here to qualify for ancient ancestors) grandmother butchering a pig and not really giving it a second thought at all, having grown up on a farm myself. Hell, my current grandma is probably much gentler and gives the pork a much better time than my ancient ancestors did
That is the difference. People in Gaza also have nowhere to go if they wanted.
https://archive.today/2gM3z

Direct link to the goods:

(warning: cubic poopy pic)

https://archive.today/2gM3z/106eb6129ecf07a4af55c0338fb9ce00...

> The wombat intestines have an irregular shape. Yang observed two distinct ravine-like grooves, where the intestine is stretchier, which she believes helps shape wombat digestive tract contents into cubic doo-doo [sic].
The book from twelve years ago?

I carry no brief for Ruby, and method_missing (and its extensive abuse in early Rails) is a major reason why. If you can find no more recent advocacy for that pattern than this, maybe it's time I took another look at the language in earnest.
It's a bit of both. The people maintaining the A15 are in a jobs program[0] as you say but the engineers at lockheed could work almost anywhere.

And I wouldn't take any lessons from Russia except what not to do.

[0]https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-10-warthog-why-is-america-sti...
I don't think it's OK to steal. I do think it's OK to copy, because the person I "stole" from still has his/her original.

Property laws exist because property is scarce. But if I copy your idea or your data, all I'm doing is wiring the neurons in my brain in the same fashion as yours, or arranging the bits on my own computer in the same order as yours.

"Intellectual property" is a contradiction in terms. I'm open to arguments that there might still be reasons it shouldn't be OK, but arguments from property rights or analogies to theft just don't work.
That's cool, although different to what I was referring to. I could totally have used this in a previous role.
Why not:

assert(someObj && someObj.data);
Nvidia Wouldn't Exist If CEO Could Turn the Clock Back 30 Years
Any mine went down.

There are some charts of health insurance costs over time [1] here. These charts look the same pre-ACA and post-ACA. Costs continued to rise at about the same rate has they had before.

[1] https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2023-section-1-cost-...
In my experience, Sunnyvale cops aren't better than cops anywhere else.
Yes, I was writing a two part comment, the first part a longer point about slippery slopes but then I realized it wouldn't necessarily develop into one, so I deleted it. I'm surprised it got published though, it couldn't have been more than a few seconds between button clicks.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by the last paragraph though.

The employees themselves signed up, received compensation, and then spent that, partly, on self-interested things, without exception as far as I know.

So it would be pretty odd for them to hope that the owner wouldn't also have some self-interest.
> Both is not really on the table
Incorrect.
> Getting rid of the Gil will slow down single threaded code
Correct.

But that's before fastercpython improves single threaded performance closing that gap if not reversing it.
Any comparisons with Databricks Spark. When we started experimenting with Spark, we initially used AWS EMR. But then the same code was way faster on Databricks than it was on EMR, which resulted in us ditching EMR.
Use -ng (no-gil or next-generation).
Yup. The CBO have in the past even estimated a generic public option as being revenue positive due to replacing ACA subsidies for private insurance plans.

https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/2013/44890

Single-payer is unlikely in the US for many reasons, if you're interested in the topic though the CBO did a thorough look at all of the different things that would be required for such a system:

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-05/55150-singlepayer.p...
So the latent to pixel space conversion is made with another diffusion model?

This is kind of refiner used in SDXL?
Happy to read this. I just put my MacBook up for sale on eBay. The phone and the computer are way too much. But I find myself more and more trying to leave my phone in my car when I go places. I can’t believe how quickly we’ve became dependent on these devices, when we don’t really need to be dependent on them at all. What kind of witchcraft was it?
Because it is not high skilled? That is EB visa? The fact that it is paid at least the average wage for the occupation means you need more proof to claim there is wage repression?

Please read what I wrote. They are required by law to pay above average salary for the occupation they are hiring. Not all industry has the profitability of big tech. Unless you are arguing a software dev job is somehow more skilled than a semiconductor engineer or a biopharma scientist, you have no argument here.

And which visa they are going to be hired for? EB visa? Which take 2-3 years to vet? Which company will wait a year to fill a position instead of just scaling down? If you take down the H1B, there will be shortages and reduced productivity. If you need proof, just check how many of your coworkers are on H1B.
and if you use and async framework it's even more capable
Hindsight is 20/20 but if the Python folks knew how long and bad the 2 to 3 transition would be, they probably would've committed to a much bigger facelift on the interpreter internals too.

12 year transition and single threaded performance is still abysmal and it has a few painful transitions left to get to real multi-threading.

As kind as one should be with opensource development, at some point is it fair to call it a very poorly managed language?
Yep and when the faster cpython team gets to implementing advanced JITing (which GVR has said is planned) that'll be huge.
https://research.swtch.com/coro might be an interesting read.
I track everything as only three accounts regardless of where they are. Debit, Savings, Investments. Credit charges are just uncleared debit charges until I pay the bill.

I use tags to categorize recurring charges and on the 1st of the month I will sit down and pre-enter all of last month's recurring charges into the next month, as well as check the statement to make sure that last month's were really what I expected them to be.

I enter new charges on the day that they happen. It's 5 minutes a day instead of an hr or three at the end of the month.

What I end up with is that I know where everything has been going, and I have a good forecast for where it's going to go in the near future. If I need to answer a question like 'how much of a rent hike can I tolerate' or 'how much car can I afford' I have a good basis for deciding it. I also have a single 'available spending money' number that I can refer to if I need to, but honestly im a casual minimalist and not buying things is a great way to keep your finances afloat with minimal stress.
> Trying to correct these articles is some times like going to war with editors who refuse to admit they were wrong.
> A business model can be described in code as an integration test.

A business case can be described in code as a test. Period.

A small unit of business functionality can be described in code as test that tests that "unit". A unit test, if you will.

I don't think that the way that you're dividing out "integration tests" is a useful one.

> Wouldn’t an integration test work in that case?

Wouldn’t a test work in that case? Well, yes.
That’s the truth. I’m trying to save up for a pixel six a or seven a so I can get off of my iPhone and use Graphene OS instead. But I still have about $500 left to pay off my iPhone so I don’t know how to do it yet on my current state of financial existence.
> I've changed the URL from https://www.geany.org/news/geany-20-is-out/, which doesn't explain what the software is.

Really? Quote from the second paragraph of the present news:

> Geany aims to be a fast and easy to use code and text editor (some may call it even IDE).

From other comments, it seems the link to the news has low accessibility for those who enable JS by default. So a direct link may help.
That's actually pretty amazing. Thank you for the link.
one issue is that most hosting providers don't display ssh host keys anywhere in the control panels so unless you have a... lot of fun (and spend time) with the virtual console... (or maybe a custom cloud-init script?) you're SOL for the very very first connection
Have an upvote to counter the downvotes. Everyone loves to crow about "democratizing" so-and-so as a positive development, but look at you like you've got two heads when you propose democratizing our feudalistic corporations. Employee-owned companies are a thing, and before anyone asks, no, that's not what communism is.
What captivated me was how good looking this PDF is lol!

I run `pdfinfo` and found out it was created with LaTeX...I need its settings so bad...I adore good looking, elegant PDF files!
You assume A) that the set of interestingness values is both finite and discrete and B) that it's cardinality is extremely low. Both things can be remedied by defining a more comprehensive kind of interestingness that lets you compare more articles.
Does not sound any better than Graphcore's chips which had 900MB of SRAM and 1000 cores a couple of years ago.

The problem is that even that amount of memory is tiny by today's LLM standards.
Having worked support for an infra company that requested similarly sensitive information, it is _wild_ to me that:

- customers wouldn't scrub sensitive details from support HARs, unless those details were required for the issue

- if customers weren't required to submit sensitive details, that Okta support wouldn't have a tool to scrub any accidentally included from the support system (looks like it's SFDC-backed)

- if sensitive details were required, that Okta support didn't have an extremely tight data retention policy, in terms of hours not days, with active enforcement

These kinds of things were hard requirements just as presales demands from fintech and healthcare customers, much less for certification.
I really want to however i am always on-call and the fall through for my team. Although it rarely happens i always have to have a phone with me. It will likely be like that until i retire because of my position.
So don't use tmux then. The entire reason most people use something like tmux is because they want a window manager in their terminal.

This is one of the great joys of FOSS, if you don't like a terminal-based utility then you can bet there's a dozen other options available for you to use.
> I, for one, hate working on projects where there is no clear leader. One thing that managers do is be the clear leader for the people under them.

In my experience, the one thing managers don't like to do is take responsibility for projects. They are extremely averse to technical stuff.
Nope I don’t think there were supposed to be any images, just the pixel art people as a form of data visualization.
In most cases, the ammunition you buy at a gun store is not the same ammunition used by the military, unless you are buying surplus military ammo. In this case, the word 'surplus' is very important, as it tells us we're not talking about a military shortage caused by commercial sales. In any case, the article is mostly about artillery, tank shells, guided munitions, and so on, not small arms ammunition.
Introduce competition into the electoral process by doing away with First Past The Post voting in favor of Ranked Choice voting/Single Transferable vote/STAR voting/Alternative vote.

People should be free to vote for someone that best represents them, without worrying about a spoiler effect or strategic voting practices.
Your case shows exactly this: you can march into a brick and mortar bank with your lawyer in tow and chances are everything will be unfrozen in minutes. So it is a kind of guarantee.
I’m a teen of the 70s as well, and I’m currently trying to recapture that sense of liberation. But I can’t believe is how quickly it captured even myself. The fear and anxiety I have of not having even a cell phone is disturbing. Not to mention a smart phone.
You can only have evidence for things that have already happened. So warnings from "conspiracy theorists" can all be dismissed with that reasoning. Life is not a court of law however, and we as humans can use our common sense and intuition to discern what is right and wrong and plan accordingly.

When law enforcement publish a bulletin about how they've thwarted a terrorist plot, they act before there is complete evidence, instead judging the intentions of bad actors and the likelihood that they'll act on those intentions. We have to do the same with all bad actors, while realizing there will usually never be any evidence accessible.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37955264
I had similar to this. Dumb phones had only become popular in late highschool.

I remember sneaking out at 2AM and just hanging out a few streets over in the woods on summer nights. The feeling of walking out of the house at 2AM, full of energy, looking up at the stars, about to begin an adventure, has been forever matched.
It's a trick question, reality and conspiracy theory are orthogonal. Some conspiracy theories are true and are backed by evidence. Some conspiracy theories are true but nobody can find the evidence. Some conspiracy theories are false and have no evidence. Some conspiracy theories are false but there is nevertheless some evidence that seems to support them. Explanatory examples:

True conspiracy theory backed by evidence: Criminal prosecutors present a theory about a gang of bank robbers conspiring to rob a bank. They have a lot of phone records and surveillance footage as evidence.

True conspiracy theories with no evidence: Crimes with two or more participants which have successfully evaded discovery. Somebody smells a rat but has nothing but their gut to go off of. Distinguishing these from false conspiracy theories is impossible (so no example), but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Sometimes people get away with it.

False conspiracy theory with no evidence: wolverine876 is in league with Martians to take over Earth.

False conspiracy theory with some evidence: To understand how this could happen, you must understand that evidence is not the same as proof. Circumstantial evidence and eye witness testimony can often point in the direction of something that isn't actually true. In the case of the Second Gulf of Tonkin incident, radar and sonar evidence lead the Navy to believe that it was under attack from the North Vietnamese. Turns out they were almost certainly shooting at shadows. They believed something that the evidence then available to them supported, but it turned out to be wrong.
Well I search a lot and it has this before after cursor radio button that I find absolutely annoying.