skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know and as the person above explains, you don't need to join an union; example with this one:

https://alfakassan.se/en/when-you-receive-benefits/

You can go through an union, because they managed to take over parts of the government system that distributes the subsidies, but you are just adding one intermediary to whom you pay a fee and encouraging that (which can be a good thing too, in case they are actively supportive and more efficient; someone local may know better).

Though, what I originally wanted to express, is that in some companies, if you are not member of a specific union, then you do not get access to promotions, to the most interesting jobs, or even getting the risk to getting fired because you suddenly do mistakes and be replaced with someone more union-friendly, etc.

This is the type of protection I meant. Protecting you from their own harm.
The ability to transact with people that card processors do not like. The ability to self custody.
New Docs Reveal US DHS Conspiracy to Violate First Amendment
I've been doing IF consistently for about a decade. I never needed to lose weight, I did it to improve my healthspan. This is just my experience so obviously YMMV

1) I drink coffee in the morning too. No stomach problems yet, but I'm completely dependent on caffeine. Last summer I did a 4 month hiatus from caffeine and at the end I determined the tradeoff for me wasn't worth it. The energy and focus is just too valuable, to go without.

2) If it's going well, I wouldn't worry about it. At some point your body will stop having a huge fat reserve to burn off, and you will find that your energy levels crater and recover very slowly if you exert yourself too much for a given macro load.

3) You should try an extended fast! My response to "you are skipping the most important meal of the day" is "I don't even eat every day, fasting is good for you". If they press the issue I'll tell them about fasting for 5 days and how good it makes me feel.

And extended fasts really do make me feel amazing after the fact.
Isn't it the law for a business in the US to accept legal tender?
Liraglutide has been approved since 2010.

It is a GLP-1 agonist as well and is considered a well-tolerated, long-term weight loss agent.
> Is your role to sniff this sort of thing out, a whole company, or part of your job on a team?

Internal [cyber]investigations. We branched off from cybersecurity, but there's a sister team that handles traditional cases (anything not involving digital forensics).

> We have MDE, which I am starting to dig into now.

If you're talking about Defender for Endpoints, that might be the same thing (I can't keep up with Microsoft's product shuffling). There should be a dashboard you/the admin can access at security.microsoft.com, with a cylinder database icon (Advanced Hunting) in the top left corner that lets you run KQL queries like the ones I shared.

> For the devs, a simple glance at their gitlab contributions tells you a lot. For remote folks the VPN is another like the logins. The truly lazy won't even bother to be on the VPN, but doesn't mean they are not working. Apparently one of our main sys admins is never on the VPN.

Again, kudos for your restraint. Divining truth from ambiguity is not easy.

Commit counts can be an inverse metric. Bad devs overinflate their commits ("typo correction lol"), and those diligently trying to iron out bugs and working on genuinely-hard problems will have less code to commit.

My own VPN usage is spotty, and I'm remote. I just don't always need to be on it-- I spend a ton of time looking at spreadsheets and logs locally. Email, Slack and OneDrive work when I'm not on the corporate network, so sometimes I don't even notice I'm not connected.

Your sysadmin...be careful there. I'm literally seeing the same thing wrt low/no logins of one of ours, but any number of witnesses could confirm he's actively working (attends meetings, available when needed, tasks are completed, etc.). It's just not clear to me how he's doing the job. The nature of that role also makes them a dangerous person to piss off.

No one data point means more than any other. It's all a game of how many red flags, in aggregate, does the individual raise?

> I don't think we have gone up against a real professional yet. If they are here, they are really good.

The single biggest facepalm of my career occurred when I live-demoed this concept to the rest of the team and outed one of our own.

I assumed it was a glitch, but others were harboring suspicions they couldn't justify raising until I presented numbers suggesting that the individual wasn't even logging into their computer. Still wasn't enough to take direct action on...but they did not survive the next round of layoffs.
Reducing pesticides in food: Major food manufacturers earn an F grade
yeah probably doing this, or using a secure vpn/tunnel or both.
They serve different purposes.

Without labels—i.e., with only traditional positional arguments—the example would simply be a function taking three string parameters:

replace(String, String, String)

Of course, the documentation should specify which arguments are which, but still at call sites it would be easy to accidentally permute the arguments:

replace("https://[^/]*", "", url) // wrong!

(In this case, the problem is exacerbated since different languages/libraries pick different orders here! For instance, the incorrect ordering above is correct for Python's `re.sub`, so it's easy to see how mistakes might arise.)

Labels solve this problem by making the binding explicit at the call site:

replace(each: "https://[^/]*", with: "", in: url) // now correct!

(Looking at the Gleam docs [1], it seems that labeled arguments "can be given in any order".)

Now, how does the implementation of this function look? The obvious first approach is to require the labels to be the same as the local variable names, but this often leads to awkward "grammar", because (in the convention of Gleam and some other languages, like those in the Smalltalk/ObjC/Swift heritage) good label names tend to be more like prepositions, whereas variable names like to be nouns:

pub fn replace(in: String, each: String, with: String) {
// variables `in`, `each`, and `with` in scope...
in.split(each).intersperse(with).join() // hmm...
}

Now, of course, the implementation can simply re-bind its arguments to new names:

pub fn replace(in: String, each: String, with: String) {
let string = in, pattern = each, replacement = with;
string.split(pattern).intersperse(replacement).join() // better.
}

And labeled arguments are sugar for precisely that:

pub fn replace(in string: String, each pattern: String, with replacement: String) {
string.split(pattern).intersperse(replacement).join()
}

[1]: https://gleam.run/book/tour/functions.html#labelled-argument...
Yeah, that's a lost fight. "Crypto" is ambiguous now and you have to figure out what is meant from context. Personally, I try to avoid using the abbreviated term because it causes confusion.
> Straight up burning methane is the same whether it is via flare or generator.

This isn't correct. Flaring can be fairly inefficient. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/oil-industry-flaring...

Even if you can make flaring more efficient, you're going to need a fairly hard stick to keep oil producers in line because flaring efficiently is a pure cost. On the other hand, running it through a generator presumably earns money, so is a carrot that businesses can pursue.

The big stick approach might work fine in the US with a strong handed state, but methane emissions are a global problem, and most poor oil producers in regions with no big stick may not even bother flaring at all and just vent, whereas they might pursue more money.
Agreed! It's backed by solid economics if you believe a load of things that aren't backed up by solid economics.
I took this class when Professor Evans originally taught it in 2014(?), and really enjoyed it. Just a note that Rust (the language) has changed significantly in the past 9 years, and many of these code examples will likely not run today with a newly installed version of rust.

More college courses should lean-forward to teach skills that are on the forefront of industry adoption. Learning about Rust and getting familiar with it in 2014 was incredibly helpful with my organization (Amazon) starting to adopt Rust for memory-critical applications in the late teens.
> There's always only one at the highest level of quality at a fine-grained enough resolution.

Of course, but right now, there highest quality level option is an outlier, far ahead of everyone else, so if you need this level of quality (and I struggle to imagine user-facing products where you wouldn't!), there is only one option in the foreseeable future.
> We do not vent unless an emergency situation arises.

I've flown over west TX at night three times since spring and there were hundreds of flares blazing. It looks like Kuwait in 91.
Of FDA approved medications for weight loss, tirzepatide would be the current gold standard.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2107519

I think retatrutide might be the current leader for weight loss from clinical trials.

If I remember correctly, you lost the same amount of weight on retatrutide vs tirzepatide, but over a shorter time span.
But the fact remains - we are predictable. LLMs do nothing other than predict the next tokens. I recently met some candidates who are looking to join our team, and I found it really amusing how some of them were "hallucinating", not knowing the answer to the question, instead of admitting that they do not know the answer.
Chromecast has ads now?
I just bought one because it was cheaper to buy a new chromecast 4k plus ethernet adapter, than replace my apple tv remote
I think in most organizations/teams, there are a small number of people who are doing most of the thinking, so yes, it is probably the same in all kinds of professions. My objection is mostly to the idea that jobs that aren't physically demanding are all comfy and not exhausting.
Lost 35 (I didn't start too high so this was all I needed), and actually side effects almost entirely positive. Stopped all smoking, better quality sleep, less immune system issues.
Maybe it's analogous to school-age-me in a stationery store, browsing all the fancy writing tools and binders and label-makers:

"Surely possessing these neat shiny tools would somehow improve my lifelong habits of (dis-)organization and (un-)tidiness."
Buybacks count as profit.
>* About 10 years after a drug has been approved, they will seek approval for a replacement version which is very similar, but different enough to qualify for a different patent.

Why are other companies not jumping on this opportunity before 10 years?

>Then, when the patent for the first drug expires (year 17), there's "no market" for it, because nobody is currently prescribed that drug, so no manufacturers will bother producing any generic versions of it.

So the cost of educating consumers (marketing) is not offset by the difference in cost of selling the generic and the cost of selling the new patented version?
I guess that's one reason I can't fully trust Wikipedia. Because of its beauracracy, primary sources can't make much headway. If I had an entry and they got my birthday wrong, I can show them my birth certificate and they wouldn't accept it. But if I talked to Fox News and said I was born in X, suddenly it's "a good source for wikipedia".

I think it's a good rule of thumb to not have people edit articles too close to them, but for some objective facts you may as well let it in (and remember: "facts" means "can be proven OR disproven". I can make a fake birth certifricate but you can objecively prove through later talks that I lied. Or the hospital realizes they messed up and my own birthday is a lie to begin with. Much easier to reason with than "am I a good person?")
Just curious—why do you lump Jordan Peterson in with Sam Harris, other than that they both write popular nonfiction?
Oh yes, you are right, in my mother tongue safety and security are the same word. It is still embarrassing, I should have been more careful.
I think a major problem that is going to become more and more obvious is that AI is actually pretty expensive compared to good old deterministic computing. If there's a way to solve a problem without resorting to sending an inference request to a gpu cluster, we should do it that way. Otherwise you're wasting electricity.
it's a genre issue. these types of games will never be popular to most people given the alternatives now available
I am an american with libertarian/conservative political views and I rarely see outward political bias toward the left on the articles I visit. I think it happens on contentious issues but it is really mild compared to every other media outlet.
Amazon, Apple and Google all fab custom X86-64 chips for their data-centers. (Or rather, they get intel to design X86-64 chips specific to their needs and have intel fab them. And create their own ARM designs and have someone else fab them. Not saying Amazon, Apple and Google are running fabs.) Amazon bought Annapurna Labs presumably so they would have an in-house ARM design team. As best I can tell, they (all) use X86-64 and ARM for slightly different workloads and seem to be happy to not have to own the cost center responsible for cranking out X86-64 core designs. They're happy to BUY that capability.

I take umbrage with the statement the big guys are chafing at their inability to control their on architectural future. They do. They just don't want to have own the team that designs their high-performance / high-cost parts.

That being said... at some point that will change. I think we've started to see the beginning of that change as FP8 got a surprising amount of support. Maybe some day RISC-V will leave academia and join industry.
yeah, really good point. I've noticed on some topics a few users come out of the woodwork and post a lot.
I have illegally ordered generic pharmaceuticals from overseas and I will do it again. Sometimes the right answer to unreasonable market constraints is simply the black market. See also: recreational drugs, sex
did HN become generally more negative over the same time?
Ada does not have any formalized FFI with Rust at this time; just C, COBOL, and Fortran:

http://ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-B.html

AdaCore has a Rust toolchain:

https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro-rust
If you need determinism, and the standard library is deterministic, it seems reasonable to use the standard library.
I've noticed this anecdotally over the past few weeks in my town. After a couple of years of houses being listed on Thursday, shown over the weekend, in-contract for above asking price the following Tuesday, houses have finally begun to sit on the market for several weeks. And I've seen gasp a couple of asking price reductions. Too soon to tell if this is the beginning of a minor correction or a major bubble burst, but it definitely feels like we've entered a new phase.
from the article:

>>> According to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is “axiomatic” that the US government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.”
Feels lick click bait. I think we're going to see a lot of "Is X the Next Crypto?" articles for a while.
Kinda interesting ... inaccurate (put a contraction in the text box, it broke it into "don" and "t") ... but mildly interesting

Punctuation is always a difficult corner case - dealt with various rules for managing them when I did assignments like this in college years ago

A quick pair of shell lines that replicate the site:

`tr [:punct:] " " < tmp.txt | tr [:space:] "\n" | sort -u`

`tr [:punct:] " " < tmp.txt | tr [:space:] "\n" | sort -u | wc`

This converts punctuation to spaces, then spaces to newlines, then does a unique sort (and a word count (with bytes, newlines, and individual words listed))
It was sugar.
as a Pixel 4a owner myself, I was caught off-guard a bit that updates were EOL this fall "already"—the past three years have really flown by.

While I'd always previously driven either a pre-owned model or a new, on-production mid-grade, the announcement of the Pixel 8 road map with seven years of updates sealed the deal for me. I went the full monty for the Pixel 8 Pro with 1Tb storage.

It is a little big for most of my back pockets when I'm on the go, but since it's very close in dimensions to the Nokia 7.2 that I used prior to the 4a, it's already feeling quite natural in the hand.

And having the flagship optics package is pretty cool; something I'd always given up with the previous scheme.

But if the SLA had just been four or even five years I don't think I would have made the same choice.

(And don't even get me started on how the non-flagships have crap options for storage: 256Gb is not enough for active mobile users, but that's usually the cap unless you pop for the flagship. Grr.
The last graph shows decreasing sentiment over time for all metrics. I wonder if HN has become more negative over time…
I understand their position, I recently had a chat with a guy in DevOps, I'd made a request I knew would take at most, 5 minutes. He said he'd try to get to it by the end of the week. That would potentially have caused my story to carry over to the next week.

I opened a Teams chat and asked about it. He said his manager told them to manage expectations. He said he'd cut me a break since I was technical and would understand and got it done in 2 minutes.
but MQTT alone doesn't solve the challenge for some Internet server to push messages to a Home Assistance instance running inside a home network / behind a router / behind a firewall / NAT unless a port is opened on the router, or long-polling is used.
Link-Time Optimisation (LTO)
No, buddy, it's the reverse. The sparsest provinces with rural backgrounds (the Castilles [except for maybe Zamora-Salamanca-Leon] , Aragon, Extremadura)... are the poorest. The most populated ones are the ones with the most quality jobs and people has much better salaries and ofc the cost of everything it's on par: Bilbao, Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid...

Also, as they stated owning a flat in the center of your city or town it's expensive as fuck, while owning a 'villa' in the outskirts in the middle of nowhere in Ye Olde Farmtown it's dirt cheap.
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All Smartphones are PDAs
It's true, under our current legal framework, the free market is supposed to allow customers to choose to buy more user-friendly alternatives sold by competitors if they aren't happy that one offering is DRMed to hell and back. In practice, how well does that work?
I agree entirely. We give police extraordinary power over us, and it seems completely reasonable that they have little expectation of privacy when using those powers.
The accusation of racism is an interesting take. There were strong links and crossovers between jazz and classical music until serialism happened. They didn't develop independently. It wasn't all that unusual for black jazz players and composers to be as classically trained as white musicians.

But serialism was too far for most people. And still is. Failed composer/critic Adorno, who adored serial music and is a Big Name on the scene, absolutely loathed jazz and popular music.

It's not really atonal. It's antitonal. Truly atonal music wouldn't care about standard pitches or notation at all, because they're still based on the harmonic series. It's antitonal because it pretends that's not true, while also trying its best to avoid the usual paths through harmonic space.

As for the quality - there's an opera called Wozzeck which is performed fairly regularly. The rest is mostly museum music - relegated to special academic festivals. Not mainstream at all.

It's actually very structured, and if you know what's happening you can hear the patterns and components going by.

But as music it has a very limited emotional range. And intellectually, most of it is pure crossword puzzling for the sake of it.
I thought rust was supposed to be backwards compatible?
The cheapest iPhone (SE) for sale is $429 on apple.com

Not to mention you can get slightly used iPhones that work well for potentially cheaper.

I don't think the "can afford" point is relevant anymore unless you're talking about the latest/greatest/high-end versions.
I understand your broader point, which is that progress in this space will be discontinuous and hard to see until it’s already happened.

But two years ago, GPT-3 was already astounding. ChatGPT made some pretty huge gains, and GPT4 more still, but the thing that exists today was relatively predictable, compared to a world where human effort is no longer important.
> Even as someone who pays for Prime, it's hard to escape the "ad carousel" interface when you just want to watch TV.

I've recently (last week-ish) started to get the ads, too (I'm in France). But they don't seem to have made their way in the actual Prime Video app. I actually always used the "app" because I much preferred the organization.
Disagree. If it is currently invalid to click the button, disable it, that is what it is for. Disabled buttons should be focusable, that resolves the issue with disabling the focused button in response to a click. How you achieve this in any given environment is a different issue, if the out of the box disabled functionality does not work properly, you will have to find workarounds.
Has anybody here taken this category of drug, lost significant weight, and kept it off after dropping the drug?

I've seen great success stories, but I'm kind of nervous of the long-term effects of taking a drug like this for your whole lifetime (i.e. what's implied by the "chronic" in "chronic weight management").

It seems like it might be a great off-ramp from obesity to a body weight where the risk of injury in exercise is greatly diminished and the degree of enjoyment in exercise goes way up. If you could go off the drug and then use exercise to maintain the caloric deficit (instead of under-eating, as the drug induces you to do), that sounds like it would be kind of miraculous.
With these drugs, is there any mechanism at work beyond "patients have a lower appetite and eat less food"?

I've only read a few papers and articles but what I've seen is that all of the hormone triggering leads to 1) decreased appetite 2) slowed gastric emptying which also decreases appetite.

Patients lose weight due to eating less but usually regain the weight when stopping the drug since they then go back to their normal level of eating.

---

Are these drugs fixing/replacing a system failure where people don't feel satiated normally?

Can the same effect be replicated by eating a higher fiber and higher fat diet with more whole foods to feel full longer and slow gastric emptying?
What does that do to your battery life?
The cycle of these technologies is always the same:

1. Initial introduction or release
2. Major hype and influx of greed money. <- AI is here now
3. Failure to live up to the hype, resulting in the tech becoming a punchline and gobs of money lost
4. Renaissance of the tech as its true potential is eventually realized, which doesn't match the original hype but ends up very useful
5. Iteration and improvement with no clear "done" or "achieved" milestone, it just becomes part of society

The bombardment of charlatans taking advantage of the term, coupled with commercials everywhere suggests we will soon hit stage 3 for AI. The Super Bowl commercials are usually the tipping point.

Crypto is at stage 3 now.

Not all technologies make it to steps 4-5.

Hell, I remember when social media followed the same path. And ecommerce before it. Or the web in general before that. And on and on it goes.