skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen more than once people tinning their solder irons by add some solder and flicking the solder onto the floor hard.
What if $name is a string with quotes in it?
This is a text book example of why "blind studies" are important, because this result just smacks of people looking for something clever to say about Dracula so they can get attention. For this result to be at all believable, they'd need to demonstrate they they can find evidence of those diseases in known carriers in a blind study, and then pick out dracula as a carrier in a similar study without knowing who he is.
We're talking about humans, that's correct

Facts: Fruit only diet is unsuitable for the survival of human children.

nine month old girl died in 2000. The baby was severely malnourished after being feed a diet of water and tomato juice. Their parent rejected repeatedly any medical advice, thinking that just providing more sun would be enough.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/15/taniabranigan

So this diet can kill you literally in a few months

More food for your mind. Fruitarian diet can kill young adults also

Aug 2023. The food influencer Zhanna Samsonova starved herself to death at 39 Yo after subsisting exclusively on a diet of fruits, sunflower seed sprouts, fruit smoothies and juices for years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfE3peL1QE
But lots of people here talk positive about services like Heroku or Fly where you just push the code somewhere and it runs without you having to know a lot about the infrastructure.

Not every software development problem is a big scale problem and once you identify such a case you can start optimization work taking all the low level details into account. In reality most scalability problems revolve around databases, caches, concurrency and locks and you probably aren't going to tackle a lot of these in your average stateless service.
So what are practical solutions for the US? The rest of the developed world has already shown that socialized medicine is the only way. Details like private/public mix or not don’t really matter as long as there’s a guarantee of free-at-service healthcare for everyone.

The main question is how do you actually go about making the change in the US with so many entrenched vested interests in keeping the status quo? How do you get people to agree to effectively fire millions of admin and health insurance actuaries? Seems like an impossible problem, especially given the political state of the country.
I agree with all of what you said, but I would also still caution any friends and family to wait and see for a bit. A year or two isn't very long, and successful drugs do sometimes turn out to be killers. You can't stop people rushing to try it, but you can suggest that the people you care about let those people volunteer as test subjects first.
Well don't worry, we have a fully stacked Starship waiting up to half a year for a Fish & Wildlife survey. Take your time.
If you've seen the public videos of Amazon robots in action [0][1], then you know that totes don't get stored high, and they don't get moved around in towers. These towers (a.k.a., "pods") look a lot like bookshelves. Pods do get moved around by the Kiva-derived robots, but they have non-removable cubbies into which a human reaches to pull out the identified product, then the products get put into totes. The totes then get moved around on a system of belts. Ultimately, the totes arrive at another human workstation where they get emptied and put into boxes or bags. Those boxes or bags then get moved to the trucks, where they get shipped out.

Now, you could store totes individually with products inside them instead of having the towers of cubbies, and then have arms that move around to pull out those individual totes and bring them to a station where the products could be removed and put into other totes. But that's not how the typical systems work today.

[0] https://youtu.be/Jh27vjAhE-c?si=AvKBhbkUbbFgFIn2
[1] https://youtu.be/7SvTdW4OLUQ?si=Cf6GbLLDIgjV5qQP
What makes you think Google is running at a loss?
Sure, but there’s a whole dimension missing here.

Architecture is more than simply “what", it’s also "why". It binds the context to the requirements and the desired components< their relationships and interactions. Some other comment described architecture to code as a lossy process, and that’s exactly right.

A diagram is not "the architecture", it’s simply a view on it, or a "projection of the model" as the c4 folk like to express it as.

I just find the idea that we should automate diagram production because diagrams are hard to keep up to date a little quaint, because you hardly ever need to update just a diagram when changing the architecture. So your actual problem is that your design documentation is hard to keep up to date, and that’s a process problem. Generating diagrams from code won’t save you there.
This assumes they competed for the same jobs, is that true ?

Why didn’t women entering the workforce lead to growth and more jobs being created ?
answered in the article: no. It's mostly useful for medical applications.
I think the theory is that an open ISA like RISC-V would promote a similar culture of openness around the software and hardware implemented with it.

I'm skeptical that is how it would play out in practice though.
It's not a silver bullet but PGO does subsume these hints. Consider what do you do if PGO conflicts with your static hints? My hypothesis is that in that case the static hint is most likely incorrect and contributing to slower code.

So either you aren't using PGO at all, which is fine if squeezing out these kinds of optimizations isn't that important to you, but then what's the point having these static hints?

Or you are using PGO, in which case there's no point in having these static hints because PGO will identify the likely and unlikely scenarios on your behalf. If PGO doesn't identify likely and unlikely branches, then the reason is because your profile isn't representative of how your program will actually be run in production, but in that case the solution is to provide a more representative profile instead of using [[likely]] and [[unlikely]].
List of Developer Conferences with CFP Deadlines
It's interesting that you have a local cult. What's it called?
Please allow me to suggest engineering fixes:

1. All vehicles with 12v starter batteries should also have deep cycle batteries to power the accessories. Chevy Suburbans had that for decades, but some people laughed at vehicles designed to actually run and drive. That's fine. Enjoy the vehicle you picked.

2. It's my car darn it. Any and all communication with it needs to be easily read by my in plain English. I also need to be able to veto any communication, in an easy-to-use, plain English system. This second option would require legislation. The new law should apply to everything made. If the owner is also the operator, then the owner can read and veto all communications.

3. In the interest of national security, all products made must have a minimum of reliance on the outside world. Those connections that do exist must be as standard as possible. Once against, this requires legislation.Any device that refuses to operate without an Internet connection should be illegal. Phone-home DRam should be illegal.

We get what we deserve. The only downside to my ancient pickup truck is that I have to clean the hybrids out of the wheel wells about twice a month.
No, an LHC beam has energies of over 6 teraelectron volts; this device is only capable of a maximum of 12 kiloelectron volts.

According to the article if they make it 100 times more powerful it would be useful for producing radioisotopes for PET scans, protons for proton therapy, heavy ions for heavy ion therapy, etc. Currently the particle accelerators used in medical facilities are big and expensive so this would make them far more accessible to hospitals world wide.
Its a good list, the only thing I would change is that I like a deeper workbench (30" is good 32" deep is even better) because I'll put a shelf in the back so that the test equipment can be vertical from the surface (and yet the probes can still reach the surface easily). For RF work, I've got a spectrum analyzer, vector signal generator, and an oscilloscope that are pretty much always there, and a network analyzer that I bring out when I'm trying to get debug RF networks.

And while modern (expensive) equipment is light and not so deep, if you're buying stuff used or surplus you'll end up with older gear that can be 18 or 19" deep and on a 24" deep bench that gets a bit crowded.
Cannot access the article, but I am not sure these ones can yet access the energies needed for LHC levels of collisions/ resolution.

IIRC, from earlier reports and articles, this will be more useful for biology and chemistry, and perhaps not necessarily for the kind of experimental physics being performed at the LHC.
Objective-S Language
If they weren't protected from discharge, they would be. That's why the rates are lower, because there's no loan maturity, it just keeps generating interest until it is paid off.

If the argument is "student loan interest rates should be higher" then 1) they should be dischargable, and 2) I'm not sure I'd agree. Though I'd hope that that (and falling applications to schools) would have a downward pressure on tuition rates, I'm skeptical that would happen. So now student loans just become more expensive, and less attainable.
I heard a bunch of conspiracy theories about Comex warehouses and gold repositories not actually holding the precious metals that they claim.

But AFAICT, the theories were coming from political extremist influencers. (Buy these silver rounds at large premiums, so that, when the dollar collapses, and people find the warehouses are empty, and Canadian tanks roll into Washington, you'll be the alpha male.)

Would be funny if someday we learned that the demagogues were accidentally correct about the warehouse shenanigans.
Totally agree - TikTok is the most addictive app on your phone. You can download the Unhook chrome extension which blocks related videos and shorts. That really helps to improve your youtube experience.
This might not necessarily be a bad thing. Will create manpower to create new companies more future proof.
I don’t think they suggested avoiding the checks, unless I’ve missed something?
Widows/ers would also be a good control.
Whoa. This is heavy.
OpenTelemetry at Scale: Using Kafka to handle bursty traffic
Surprise, surprise but a huge chunk (maybe even the majority of?) of drug research is conducted by academic institutions using government funded grants. Then the drug companies come swoop up the research, refine it, mass produce, and market. They shouldn't be able to get such a free ride from all this government funded research imo. The taxpayers already funded the research so why are they getting the short end of the stick?
Circadian rhythms are also worth taking into account when thinking about this stuff. There's a bactrian-camel dip in the middle of the day. Siesta time.

Most people have highest energy levels between 9 and 12, and then 4-ish to 7 or 8.
The federal government has been doing this since the depression/WWII, before which there wasn't enough of a tax base to support these kinds of programs at any level of government.
It's also an attack on everyone's right to privacy.
I can back this up. I regularly go car camping in the middle of nowhere in the Rockies. Absolutely no service for miles.

I hadn't gone camping for ~4-5 weeks, but still drove my car every day. Suddenly had the battery issue, pulled the plug, and the issue is gone.

I don't really know how to debug this. Something recently changed, but I don't know what. You'd think my battery would've died during all the time that I was out of service.
We Don't Ship Software as Fast as We Used To
> Open source firmware for what though?

The conference's scope is open source firmware in general, as implied by its name.

> I'm gonna assume this is PC firmware based on the list of players, but I haven't been able to find any conclusive information on the website.

The landing page lists ARM as one of the sponsors. The same page also features a list of projects that are represented at the conference. Quotes from their landing pages follow:

- coreboot is ... on modern computers and embedded systems.

- Trusted Firmware provides a reference implementation of secure software for Armv8-A, Armv9-A and Armv8-M.

- The OpenBMC project is a Linux Foundation project whose goal is to produce a customizable, open-source firmware stack for Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs).

- "oreboot for ARM", "oreboot for RISC-V HiFive Unleashed"

- Welcome to TianoCore, the community supporting an open source implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).

- u-bmc is a Linux OS dist ... tailor made for baseboard management controllers.

- U-Boot mentions on their landing page too many architectures and vendors to list here, but here's a few: ARC, M68K, MIPS, Xtensa.
I think that everybody should instead read proposal that introduced this feature, P0479R2[1]

[1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p04...

and look at code in the wild

[2] https://github.com/search?q=[[likely]]+language%3Ac%2B%2B&ty...
In fairness to the algorithm, Autism, ADHD, and OCD have significant core presentation overlap, and often get talked about in the same spaces online. There's probably a high relation in their searches for the topics.

Doesn't stop the Youtube algorithm from easily being the worst of the major social media sites though.
Research is the least labour- and time-intensive part of the system.

Trials are punishingly expensive.

Edit: protocol development. Drug interactions. Poisonings, Doctor education -- er, marketing. Incorporation into manuals. There's a lot that happens after the research talent has strutted its stuff.

Edit edit: oh, yeah developing manufacturing and logistics as well. The 'D' part of "R & D" is usually over 95% of the total for a reason.
I've been using PeerTube recently. After spending a ridiculous amount of effort, I have a server that pulls down indexes from other servers and mirrors content both for me locally and to share bandwidth with other users.

As absolutely awful as this experience has been, it's still less painful than dealing with google ads. The amount and variety of videos on there is much lower, but I've managed to federate with enough servers to curare a fairly interesting list.

I just can't/won't tolerate ads anymore. It doesn't have to be this way, and I choose to simply not use these ad platforms wherever I can. It's much more pleasant online when you go to spaces that aren't constantly trying to sell you something or spy on you so they can sell you more stuff.
Allowlist/blocklist is more clear and accurate tho?

The software community loves to complain about this stuff like the change from master to main branch but I always get the sense that people just liked to complain rather than any meaningful objection.
That should just be in the README.

Like my ideal readme is:

- 1 screenshot, even if it's a CLI app or web server or something

- 2 sentence elevator pitch

- pip install / cargo install line

- Command line examples
> I noticed a lot of the creators I was subbed to
> where also on Odysse, alas not enough of the tech related ones

I had never heard of Odysse, thanks. I just checked some of my top Youtube subs, but absolutely none of them are there. Ave, justrolledin, Practical Engineering, nothing. It seems that some of the usernames are taken, with subscribers but no uploaded videos. It seems that the site has been ruined by spammers and squatters already.
I feel like this is it. I camped hundreds of days in areas with no service for miles and never had this problem. My battery ended up dying in my driveway in town.
As it should be. Musk's "To Mars!" shouldn't just get to say "fuck Earth, we have grander plans".
How to build your own CDN using BIND, GeoIP, Nginx, and Varnish (2010)
Mobile-first has become mobile-only, especially for apps that love to abuse smartphone permissions to collect data about you. This just feels like a natural extension of that priority.
> Back in the old day, when men were men, saying "toilet paper" wouldn't cause a room full of people to faint in shock at the dirty word. People were hard then.

Pardon? When was this era?

"Toilet paper" was embarrassing in the late 1800s when it became available in the US. Quoting https://www.heatandplumb.com/blog/history-of-toilet-paper :

"The next significant American innovation came in 1890, when brothers Clarence and E. Irvin Scott marketed the first toilet paper roll. They found more success than Gayetty thanks to negotiating trade deals with several hotels and local shops, Despite the steady income they generated, the brothers struggled to sell their toilet paper to the wider population; many Americans were too embarrassed to purchase it in public."

Or from https://community.oerproject.com/b/blog/posts/a-splinter-fre... :

"But many people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were reluctant to talk openly about poop. They were often too embarrassed to walk out of a store carrying an armful of toilet paper. People would instead order something like “wrapping paper” with a wink and a nod to the shopkeeper. But marketers eventually found a way to fix this problem. Have you ever wondered why so many TP brands have pictures of baby animals or baby humans on them? They used to have images of beautiful women on the packages. Advertisers wanted to emphasize softness and to avoid talking about the fact that these were rolls of paper designed to remove excrement from the human body."

You can see one way marketers worked to calm this embarrassment in a 1922 advertisement:

easy to ask for - easy to get
Ask for Northern Tissue. You don't
even have to say toilet paper. You
will get the most thoroughly safe,
pure, salutary product, fine and soft,
yet firm, 650 sheets to the roll, and
surprisingly low in price.

AND YOU CAN GET IT WITH-
OUT EMBARRASSMENT. SIMPLY

Ask for
Northern Tissue
at any of these stores

(Fifth page of the PDF at https://archive.org/details/lincoln-evening-state-journal-an... .)

Here's a quote from a 1947 short story at https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl... :

Jolan's wife came from the house and to the gate, a child in her
arms. "Here, Lora" she called in a loud voice. "You'll need this. It's
going to be all day." She handed Lora a small roll of toilet paper, a
precious article here. She spoke without modesty, for in a house with-
out windows if one blushed at such things one would bleed away into
blushes.

Yes, someone more well-off would be expected to blush about using toilet paper in public like that.

The idea that "toilet paper" was something improper existed until at least the 1950s. Here's a 1958 use from https://archive.org/details/ucladailybruin36losa/page/n127/m... :

One of the entries — the winning one has not yet been
chosen — is written entirely on Seppi paper (it's so
crude to say toilet paper) cutely bound with a feminine
pink ribbon.

Indeed, my own grandmother would say "TP" instead of "toilet paper".
> it's a disruptive event that well-adjusted people will recover from.

Some of us are not well adjusted. Some of us are barely hanging on, barely able to manage the demands of our lives and our society.

Being laid off at this point for me would be worse than disruptive it would be an outright disaster.
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Sounds like a 'feature' to drive people to the inefficient native app. What chiselers.
Yeah, that was all marketing nonsense meant to confuse laypeople.

TCSEC Level C2 was intentionally designed to be a “baby’s first security certification” level meant to allow existing known insecure products to get a (low) rating so that commercial vendors could get familiar with the concept [1]. It, at no point, was ever meant to indicate any meaningful level of security was achieved, just that you filed the paperwork. In fact, Level B1, the level above C2, was meant to be the “training wheels” level. Microsoft has still never achieved a security certification in the successor standard, the Common Criteria, that has reached the “training wheels” level.

Microsoft security is a joke now and was a joke then, nothing has changed.

[1] https://www.stevelipner.org/links/resources/The%20Birth%20an...
EPA fast-tracking of gene-altering pesticide sparks concerns
I would also question the framing because the systems the specialized hardware is running are the most general software systems we've ever created
The government has been directly interfering with this industry since the ACA (“Obamacare”) was enacted; forcing everyone to purchase health insurance.
Too many microservices where 90% of the weight is service scaffolding, and 10% is actual meat/product.
> As it happens, most people understand easier a standard notation that can refer to, and get a book at the library, than NIH boxes and lines.

I do not believe this for a second. You're possible arguing against a straw man.

The alternative to UML isn't a "NIH UML" which uses a different array of arrows. It's labelled boxes and lines. You don't need to go to a library to understand the diagram because the diagram is self-explanatory.

Here's a really good example:

https://buck2.build/docs/concepts/concept_map/

Every arrow is labelled. No tedious textbook needed.
Don't forget the interest for x years, where x is your current age. You probably think student loans are bad. Student loans aren't in it. It now costs around $300,000 to raise a child to age 18, and that's just out-of-pocket expenses by the parents. That doesn't count all the schools and societal infrastructure that are paid for either by taxes on the parents (and non-parents!) or by direct payments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/cos...

Also don't forget that you, too, will be old. A lot sooner than you probably think.
I can't really say why I got interested, it just happened. History in general is fascinating, and I find Meoamerican history extra special.

I don't have any concrete plants for more, but who knows!
CSAM I'd put in a different category - just based on the flow of the conversation I'd guess some people have deep seated emotions that trigger when children get hurt. There is a reason that authoritarians use children for cover when pushing their agenda - the topic hinders people's ability to argue rationally and engage the part of their brain that that can spot obviously bad ideas (war is similar - having an enemy seems to do similar things).

"CSAM" is useful because it is so drained of any colour. It makes it much less likely that emotions get triggered because it gets discussed as an abstract thing instead of something related to children.
> Premium does not have ads.

Yet. The keyword of the times seems to be enshittification, and the only companies that take a step back from it seem to be doing so just to double down on it the moment the outrage calms down.
There are several retrospectives on Habitat in Vernor Vinge's tech anthology True Names.
For the net impact to the economy it depends on few things.

What did suppliers do in response? If suppliers believed there was a nickel reserve that could potentially enter the market, they would be less likely to choose strategies such as constraining supply in order to increase prices which helps consumers of nickel. However, they also would be less motivated to store up surplus nickel of their own that would help alleviate natural shortages.

The other thing to consider is that we think the nickel did exist at some point in time, so in this case crime did pay. Therefore the thieves' ill-gotten gains will have increased their capacity to carry out future scams.
> Whether a branch is likely or unlikely will frequently depend on information the compiler doesn't have (sans pgo),

Exactly! Often it is simply impossible for the compiler to know. In this respect it is similar to std::unreachable.