skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can top that: For one of our customers we have to

1. Enter a Windows VM on our native Linux Laptop to use the Citrix client

2. Use the Citrix client to access customer's terminal server

3. Use RDP to access a special Windows laptop

4. Enter a Linux VM on the Windows laptop

Coming back from lunch I have to enter credentials four separate times to unlock everything.
I remember Kevin Smith talking about his first stab at dieting, following the instructions of the "guru" that got Penn Jillette lean: basically, he ate nothing but potatoes for something like 3 months.

The point wasn't that potatoes were particularly good for you, but to "reset" one's attitude towards food, eating only when hungry rather than for pleasure or to deal with stress - because after a few weeks, one is so tired of potatoes that they'll forego unnecessary eating.

In this sense, the potato diet is probably useless in itself, but might work in that "reset" role.
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An apple from the grocery store can last upwards of a year before rotting. I.e. when you buy an apple, it's probably 10 months old, from what I've read. So if your reason for storing them is some doomsday scenario, there is no real advantage.

You can also freeze them or store them yourself in some jars, if you want to.
To me, the files are in the filesystem of the OS on my computer. I can edit, build, and debug with a toolchain that is running on my computer.

I may or may not have dependencies in a development environment that I call over the network, but the thing I’m looking to change is running on my machine.
Huh TIL
How a 'Refund Fraud' Gang Stole $700k from Amazon
I have to respectfully disagree with all of this. Should the monetary system be offline, then the internet and access to ledgers will likely be offline as well. Banks and bitcoin exchanges will be offline. The ledger servers run by whom? will also be offline. Even my fiat monetary cash on-hand will be worthless after a few days. Anything I do not already have in my storage rooms will be out of reach short of bartering or pillaging and given I am in the most heavily armed state the pillagers will be expeditiously removed.

Regarding the storage room comparison, storage rooms and money are orthogonal to one another. The closer comparison would be banks as that is where digital money is stored and physical currency is extracted. Digital fiat US currency and digital wallets will be equally useless to us in a grid or monetary down incident. Additionally bitcoin is an unregistered speculative investment and the numbers in crypto are less real than the fiat numbers in banks as it depends on organizations with no oversight. There is no insurance for such investments and this will matter more if and when we get just beyond a monetary collapse. To get money out of the ledgers requires exchanges which are basically banks with far less regulations and they are equally subject to a monetary collapse and do not insure investments with exception to the traditional banks that got involved in virtual currencies. Even if the internet were still viable I have no way to verify that an exchange isn't a bucket shop like FTX. The only value I could envision in bitcoin and their ilk is if I needed to do wash trading which is illegal. I've had enough battles with the IRS without virtual speculative unregistered unregulated investments being a part of the picture. I will be staying very far and away from such things. I could go on for hours why I would never use virtual speculative unregistered unregulated investments but that really belongs in a blog write-up and will just irritate the agency that created it who shall not be named.
As Vincent Van Gogh once said, "I'd rather die of potassium than of boron."
Careful, it’s gatekeeping to prefer that your game journalists have ever played a game at all other than when researching for an article.

They write like this because it’s how anyone writes on a topic about which they have no experience. If you embed me as a wartime reporter, I’ll talk about the weird food and noise, not what most people reading the article want to read about.
Lead salt is (unethically) compelling in cinnamon to make it more vibrantly colored. It's not being added as a sweetener, assuming it's being adulterated at all. The less unethical, but still harmful possibility is that leaded gas powered machinery is being used in/near the processing of this cinnamon and the exhaust particulate is contaminating the product. There have been cases of tea leaves being contaminated this way as they were driving a leaded gas powered truck back and forth over the leaves to help dry them with the wind.

Guanabana is quite sweet on its own. Certainly enough for kids. It's got a slight tang, but there's plenty of sugar.
> Part of the redacted material pertained to Maine’s treaty obligations to Wabanaki people.

The motivation is very obvious - they wanted to conveniently forget their treaty obligations.
The Phind CEO talked in an interview about how their own model is already out ahead of ChatGPT 4 for the target use case of their search engine in some cases, and increasingly matching it on general searches: https://www.latent.space/p/phind#details

I use it instead of Bing Chat now for cases where I really need a search engine and Google is useless. Mainly because it's faster, but I also like not having to open another browser.
I agree. It would be so much easier if everyone had a government bank account just like a SSN, that they could use (or not use), and also have other private checking/savings/etc accounts like now if they wish. It would also help teach people how to use them.
Eh, it's a fine theory but I have twins. One is the pickiest eater ever and getting her to eat is like an on-call sort of situation to be handled personally by mom or me. Her twin sister, these are 4 year olds, ate like 8 pieces of plain, steamed broccoli with her dinner last night. Her 2 year old brother is a great eater, too. The only difference (in routine and exposure to others) between the twin girls is that they're in different preschool classrooms. I've long suspected that she gets a lot of this behavior from other kids in her class.
As opposed to raw information surfaced by the search engine, which we all know is perfectly reliable, unbiased, and up to date?

That aside, this particular admonishment was worn out a couple of months after ChatGPT was released. It does not need to be repeated every time someone mentions doing something interesting with an LLM.
The rich have morals, irrespective of what others have said. Sam Bankman-Fried is coming from wealth, but not incommensurable wealth, and he did a crime so self-evident and destructive against the morals of money that there is no way to strike a sweetheart deal out of that.
I've never not had this since 1997. Many different companies, domains, tech stacks. Even in an embedded system we had emulators we could run on our own machine.
The day traditional software died
Startups will die. How about incumbents?

OpenAI devday launch was the Iphone moment for not only SaaS but for services businesses.

A lot of conventional wisdom focuses on startups that jumped on the AI train to build accompanying things to LLMs. Now it is all about how vector DBs, agent startups and PDF readers died.

This is missing the point. As a startup, you are noone. Noone cares.

The big change is with incumbents. Ask yourself: How often do you use AI in Notion? Not much. Or copilot in Excel?

That is because Notion now is a traditional deterministic SaaS product with solid product market fit. Integrating copilot into Notion is a defensive strategy, not a progressive one.

The bet is if users and consumers are going to opt in for software with natural language management as well as slightly uncertain probablistic outcomes.

Are the traditional sweethearts of SaaS crash their product into ground and rebuild it with this design thinking in mind?

No.

Will a startup do it?

I would take that bet. Because we are nobodies. Noone cares, until someone does.

OpenAI devday launch was the first time I felt wonder and concern at the same time.

This is the beginning of a new way in building software.
> one article I clicked on was literally the writer bitching about how the coffee machines were depicted in Starfield. I miss the gaming sites of the 90s and early 00s, you could expect to read passionate articles from gamers.

You and I have very different memories about what "passionate articles from gamers" were about in the 90s and 00s.
Judging by the other two sections redacted, it seemed more to get rid of the establishment cruft than any nefarious purpose. The full text of section 5 is rather long and contains a lot of things not really relevant after they were an established state. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Maine#Text_of_...
> From what I understand the more you increase multithreading with ffmpeg the more you get quality issues...

No. If you don't max out your CPU, you will not have quality issues.
> So why did you get them?

Most likely, they didn't know what would happen. Sure, "everyone knows" this stuff is not the best choice, but also every parent knows that at least half of what "everyone knows" is pure, unadulterated, value-negative bullshit.

Or, perhaps their well-meaning friends or relatives got the first pouch.

> in rare cases you do whatever works to get them to eat anything. But most children can be reared without ever touching anything like that

Sure, until the first time they taste the stuff.

We held off with sweets until our older one was ~3 y.o., but this is a feat you can't repeat with a younger sibling, unless you run some kind of ridiculously efficient home prison. Our younger one got up to speed with everything in terms of food and entertainment with her older sister, by then 4 y.o., simply because the latter was always happy to share.

I mean, we probably could've stopped it if we really tried. But this stuff isn't even particularly dangerous, unless someone leaks lead in the production, which is a failure mode you can't avoid even with homegrown vegetables. Otherwise, there's only so much effort we'd want to expend over bullshit fear-mongering.

Oh, also, a funny thing: we tried early on to substitute the shop-bought pouches with DIY ones - making various forms of smoothies and sludges and putting them in reusable pouches. Guess what, neither of our kids would take more than one sip of anything we made like this. Not that I blame them - obviously anything home-made tastes like shit compared to commercial equivalent, and even a 1.5 y.o. is able to tell when you're trying to substitute something they want with a fake.

> Unless your partner isn't on the same page, you are in control, right? The toddler certainly isn't buying groceries.

I wanted to say, "tell me you don't have kids without telling..." but I see you do, so let's use this as a reminder that parenting is high-variability occupation. We both have kids at the same age, and where for you this is a perfectly reasonable remark, it made me burst out laughing. I mean, 4 y.o. is the age where whenever two kids meet for more than 5 seconds, chances are they're sharing whatever food they have on hand...
I’d you all you talk about is games, eventually you’ll have to talk about the fucking coffee machine in the video game.
That's good to know!

Some high end products I buy will sometimes carry a link to a lab report quantifying the concentration of some critical component in that batch - curcumin in tumeric, for example, or polyphenols in olive oil - or highlighting the lack of such testing. Likewise, some supplements will bend over backwards to prove the purity of the product to consumers. But I guess only the super health nerdy market demands that. I don't imagine a typical consumer even reads the nutrition label.

The libertarian in me thinks Consumer Reports is enough for people who care. The liberal in me says if I wasn't health nerdy enough to navigate that hazard, it's a bit much to file under caveat emptor for random toddler mothers. I don't normally support regulation, but this seems like a worthy case.
What is the root cause here?
i don't understand what you're trying to say here, of course anybody who loses weight by changing their diet will gain the weight back if they go back to eating the way they were before, isn't that just common sense?
I don't know anything about Kotaku, but I read that same article and thought it was pretty clearly a tongue-in-cheek faux investigative article and laughed at it.
And some education. If you force it hard enough, any quantum forbidden state is just a stern suggestion.
They spun that part off as Kyndryl in 2020.
One possible riff: cook, chill and reheat all the potatoes. That is known to increase resistant starch.
Interesting. Why would they present it to the user? Are they presenting captchas to sites they're trying to scrape to their users?
I'm all from banning passenger vehicles from private consumers and companies.
I used to have a nice black gloss mug with only the word THINK engraved on it in nice white letters.

Someone took it away from me at my new job though.
Oh my god this reminds me of one of the worst consulting gigs where the customer had some ancient Windows NT server or something that you could only access via some screen sharing application and that production environment was the only place that could actually run the thing correctly. They also didn’t know of any way to roll things back if anything broke. Seemed like all the devs that knew what the thing was left 10 years ago
"Nobody could have known": behaviors to counter short-termism
I very much enjoyed RPS in the days of the original four writers, and also when Quinns was contributing, though I haven't kept up so much in the last eight years or so.

Eurogamer seems to cover the games news and reviews in the way I like best right now, and Digital Foundary's writing and videos that lean on the more technical side of games are just excellent. (I believe DF also have an arrangement to do some content for RPS, so it's probably being shared around as it should.)
For a few years, at my office in the UK, they charged 8p for the hot water to put your tea bag in.
If memory serves, they had a push to maximize developer happiness, and then changed tack and decided that doing this was too expensive.
Manufactures like to do it in firmware because then they can use the same hardware worldwide. If they find sales are higher than forecast in Europe say, and lower than forecast in the US they can just flash more units at the factory with EU firmware and less with US firmware.

A good middle ground would be to have two blobs, one for low level radio control and one for everything else. The low level radio blob can be locked down so that only blobs signed by the manufacturer can be loaded. The everything else blob can be easily replaceable.
Yeah, eating and sleeping loads helps.
I feel like the only reason people are losing weight is because eating 20 potatoes in a day is insane and no one on this diet is hitting their BMR. Of course they will lose weight and they will with any variation that keeps them under their BMR.
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You'd also need to load the source code from disk. At the point where you're doing that, the 512-byte limit isn't really relevant anymore, and adding "loading code from disk" within the 512 bytes isn't exactly realistic.
I agree, restriction-based diets (restricting food choice, amount, or timing) virtually always yield positive results initially. If that phenomenon is a given, then digging deeper into the variations could help us understand why that is the case.
Interesting strategy. Can't amend a legal document? Just make the portions you dislike illegal to print!
* The nazis had a functioning society

* The nazis wanted a functioning society

* The nazi beliefs weren't based on religion

* The nazis weren't anti-science and made scientific progress

* The nazis were well dressed

I think that is the gist of it even if I probably could think of more points. Never thought that I was about to defend the nazis but honestly even if they were evil af Hamas and other groups are worse because I think it boils down to there is no logic behind any of their reasoning
I don’t think it’s the phones, because a lot of us here were hooked on the internet (cellphones, laptops, forums, message boards, Usenet, email newsletter, rss, etc) from a very early age and we didn’t come out thinking that monogamy was debunked, community is passé, friends are obsolete, gender is like…just a vibe and communism is unicorns and rainbows and capitalism is the devil. Also religious people are trash (except for astrology) and the more promiscuous you are the more your moral virtue and all opinions are valid and equal no matter the source or the content

It’s this myth that gen z if the fist generation growing up with modern tech that goes unchallenged

I think it’s of more what the adults are teaching the kids that’s harming them. Ideological stuff, not tech.
You run out of fucks eventually. One day everything will just be an inconvenience before the next pay day anyway.
This seems to link to an article titled "Start using GPT-4 Turbo's API in 5 minutes", no mention of AI agents.
89% of Workers Use AI–Far Fewer Understand the Risks
Bigthing apps
Track your wife or girlfriend's period and moods and see how they're related. Get alerts when PMS is coming.
Intellij has DevContainers feature, sounds like exactly that.
Microsoft isn't in charge of this though. It's the wifi card vendors.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is Intel shenanigans because they have always segmented their OS driver support dating back to Windows 7. Anything from laptop gpu drivers not getting updates after 2 years to chipsets suddenly failing the compatibility mode flags on newer windows that has never changed since older windows. Intel just literally doesn't care. They shovel their crap out.
Absence of Color Is Better Than the Wrong Color
Agreed 100%

Never disable ABS when riding on the street. You never know what you're going to do in an actual emergency situation (most riders only use the rear brake in such scenarios?!) so it's good to have ABS to back up your lizard brain.
This article is making something really complicated out of a situation that has a really simple solution. As soon as your kid is old enough to actually use a phone which is like 4th grade get your kid an iPhone, set up the parental controls to your tolerance, and then gradually take away the parental controls as they get older.

Swear words / explicit music is fine around 4rd grade, violence and explicit music videos 6th grade, porn around 8th, buying things for themselves is around freshman year, screen time lifted and sending and receiving nudes is sophomore year.

You're not going to fix social media being awful by depriving your kid of it, you'll only socially isolate them and make sure that when they're making their first mistakes with it they'll be old enough for those mistakes to matter. Also in the same vein ffs people give your kids alcohol in a controlled setting, both casually like with dinner and letting them go to or hosting parties where you can literally take all their keys. The number of people I knew in college who had to get their stomach pumped because they literately didn't know how alcohol worked/affected them was too damn high. The gap between what's legal and right is huge when it comes to this because we still haven't shaken off our puritan roots.

This article is so out of touch it's hilarious, teenagers not only can handle the news just fine but are a group that's more politically active than your average adult. I am constantly shocked at just how much people forget what it was like to be a teenager. Let me tell you who I'm surrounded by at protests, it ain't 30yo professionals.
Does anyone remember a meta study that showed ANY even slightly reasonable restrictive diet works because they almost by definition dramatically reduced sugar and HFCS in the diet, and if you just controlled for that, the individual types of restriction didn't matter?

I can't find it on PubMed or in my bookmarks.

If memory serves - high/low fat, high/low carb, high/low protein, etc - didn't matter as long as the restriction is stopping sugar/HFCS.

And it also explained the rebound effect - e.g. after the extreme restriction, the participants start re-introducing sugar and HFCS back into the diet, and since that's the real culprit, weight goes back up.

No taking away from this super cool citizen science - deep kudos on testing things like this out! I'm tempted to participate in something like this. Self-experimentation is a lost art.
> The older I get, the more I blame the internet for most of our current societal ills.

I watched a lot of star trek when I was young. At some point it became hard to go back and re-watch because of the advent of social media and the 'modern' web. Social media was so obviously going to be a massive part in everyone's lives that it felt weird that it wasn't present in our star trek future.

Sure, star trek had a world war 3 that would have knocked out current existing social media platforms, but it seems like the natural progression of technology. At some point you get networks, then you hook computers up to them, then you get muggle friendly UX, then social media. Because star trek was a product of its time, they didn't consider the inevitable social media future, and now the suspension of disbelief is too great.

However, then social media continued to exist. Now I feel the obvious natural technological progression is something like: networks, computers, easy UX, social media, large scale societal disruption due to social media, continued technological progression without social media because everyone agrees 'never again'.
As a fledgling coffee nerd, that article is very clearly a coffee nerd being a bit tongue in cheek. The thesis is not "Starfield is bad because the devs made bad coffee machines", instead he's connecting the lifeless NPC's to the strangely designed coffee machines in a way that should make it pretty clear that it's not entirely serious. Totally fair if the humor didn't land, but I thought it was amusing. Those coffee machines do look absurd.
I am not sure what the OP mean by "The way that they code is to make changes to the code by guessing. "

Looks to me that this person is not a developer but someone who is used to copy paste random stuff from stack overflow and see the change live on the dev tools console of his browser. I don't even know how he got that job to begin with.
We already know you can rapidly lose weight eating nothing but Twinkies. Why bother with this?
And they take it to the extreme. If the wireframe says the button is labeled "Sign Uo", you can bet that's what it'll end up labeled in production.