skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people underestimate the risks from asbestos as the disease can take 20-40 years to develop after exposure but it shouldn’t be underestimated.

Asbestosis killed over 3,600 people in 2015. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestosis

Asbestos has affected all sorts or people, not just in the Navy. A close relative of mine who was a plumber has been diagnosed with it and it is an awful disease.

This woman is dying from cancer caused by inhaling asbestos dust while washing her husband's work clothes. https://www.thompsonstradeunion.law/news/news-releases/asbes...
single family home property owners
Corian isn't engineered stone under the Australian definition. It's explicitly mentioned as a safe(r) alternative.
Exploring a topic and then asking for specific book recommendations, getting it to argue both sides of an issue to see weak points, giving quizzes on topics. Also love using it to keep asking for practical examples of abstract ideas.
“This week on: American Greed”
Congratulations on eating and deleting all the things I had to add I leave it to you nothing else added you are welcome; the leaders of controversy. Enjoy.
Is this stuff really so loved that we absolutely must have it, even if we aren't entirely sure what in it causes these effects?

Is there really absolutely no other options available? That is we will now go hungry as there is no more tables in world to prepare our food on...
I have taken to running this anytime I start a jupyter notebook using more than a trivial amount of data. It has only fired off a couple of times, but I have been grateful for the safety net.

Anytime I can consume my 64G of ram, I was probably doing something stupid anyway.
> Nothing in life is unlimited and taking such a promise at face value appears to me as being willfully naive.

What are your thoughts on false advertising? What part of "unlimited" in the advertisement should be allowed, if the resource itself is not unlimited?
The perception of the past is different from the perception of the present or the future. Probably it has something to do with lived experiences as compressed information versus the guesswork of the unknown future.
It really feels like Google could announce the cure for cancer and HN would find a way to talk shit about it.
S&P 500's gains this year push past 20% as market nears all-time high
It's not zero risk, the risk is lower revenue with this offer vs the more competitive alternative
Well, the customer also has a lot of power. They can decide to hire a company (if available of course) that encourages/forces their workers to use PPE, even if it's a little more expensive (and maybe also takes longer) instead of just going for the lowest bidder...
I work for a startup that competes (in some sense) with Google Cloud. The resources Google can apply to identifying vulnerabilities are absolutely a competitive advantage they have over us. What's the point in complaining about it? It's a true fact, a very real reason to use GCP as opposed to other cloud platforms.
I'm just waiting for the pun headlines about SpaceX Mooning after announcing a Lunar mission
My personal setup (bash snippet in README) is throwing the split files (with track names via timestamps) to beet and let it import those.

I want to make youtube an optional dependencies so you could run this via stdin as well.
I didn't see that phrase and went there now to double-check - still not there. Maybe it's shown only to logged-on users or something?
You're missing the point that the freedom from and freedom to may be weighted differently for each individual.

For instance I lose almost nothing by not having the freedom to carry a weapon (UK) as I have no desire to do so, while gaining a lot from having the freedom to not risk my child being murdered at school.

It's an extreme example but applies to a lesser degree for other freedoms, and I've personally found I often benefit more from freedoms-from than freedoms-to.

I'd love it if no vehicle could exceed 30 mph in town as I gain almost no benefit from being able to do so, while taking on significant risk from others being able to.
Wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of Google employees hang out here and try to deliberately influence comments. Same for the other companies.
My cat.
How do you think our brains work?
I disagree. We always paid attention. Not to panic but to the part of the storm where tornados are as they go past.

One did take out the barn about 40 meters away. (it may have been a microburst, it was dark, anyway two buildings were translated one foot to the side and part of the barn roof ended up upside down on the ground next to the barn)

I don't know why people don't pay attention, I'm not surprised, but it puzzles me. When there's severe weather going past you pay attention to what's happening. There was always plenty of warning and plenty of information available.

The information is there, a whole lot of people who do get hurt by tornados are hurt because they're not paying attention to available information. It's not always enough to survive, true.
Yeah, I agree with this.

Not clearly written in the original article is that "many" (I'm not sure what actual percentage, but vaguely "most") packages already have frame pointers enabled.

The problem packages that don't are exactly all of those upstream projects that intentionally compile with -fomit-frame-pointer because of those small performance gains. And those are also usually the exact same projects you end up wanting to profile or otherwise analyse :)

I work in the Support organisation at Canonical and the two most frequent projects I run into this with are Ceph and Openvswitch - they both compile with -fomit-frame-pointer by default upstream (and currently in the Ubuntu packages) which makes using perf (which I often need to do with both of those) a pain.

While you can do it, you have to record ~8kB of stack extra for every sample (times 1000 per second, times the number of CPUs...) and then unwind it later with the DWARF debug symbols. The resulting perf exports are multiple gigabytes for 0-2 minutes. Compared to maybe 25-200MB for frame-pointer enabled cases where I can usually then easily captured.

The problem is the product or upstream project wants to claim the absolute best performance, even 1% better, but the end user rarely needs that last 1% and both them and their support team would like to be able to easily use profiling in production to fix the random much more significant 10-100% performance bugs that inevitably crop up when actually using it and not benchmarking it :)
It sounds like you're saying that it's preferable to buy from a retailer whose net profit (as a % of sales) is as low as possible. Because that means the price you pay is as low as possible (relative to what you call 'true cost').

If that's the case, then you could do even better: don't shop at profitable retailers. Only shop at places with really low net income. Better still, shop at places that are so badly run that, even though they have high gross margins, waste so much money on overheads that they lose money overall.

(I'm not suggesting Costco is poorly run, or is a bad place to shop. Just trying to illustrate why focusing on total costs instead of COGS can lead to absurd conclusions.)
And, the isles are deliberately[] designed to be hard to see down. You can't just easily spy that 20lb Krusteaz pancake mix, you have to walk through all the baking isle products in order to find it.

or so I've read, heard or maybe made up some fiction
Thanks for the comment. The point I am trying to make is similar to what Karpathy says in this tweet - https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1617979122625712128 - but applied more broadly than just programming. I don't think this is an exaggeration or overselling.
A lot of restaurants place a limit on the size of the container you're allowed to use, and there's a cultural expectation that you won't loiter just to fill more soda. Assuming you bought food and are continuing to buy food, the unlimited soda is more of a hook to keep you there and has clearly outlined terms. Your bladder will also give way before your stomach does.
The thing about dependencies (regardless of ecosystem) is that it’s easy for them to spiral out of control, making it difficult to have a solid grip on all the things going on under the hood. Over time this can be a real problem because it makes tracking down breakages and fixing them that much more difficult, especially when dealing with deep fractals of dependencies.

In short, they’re fine in moderation but each added is another liability. As such, it can be beneficial to take a judicious approach and only add them when the value they bring outweighs that liability.
Hmmm...

if the cure for cancer is offerred as a subscription model, that requires an active Google account, well...
I wholeheartedly agree with you in theory.

But I, personally, am happy to accept the 'Human Factors' side of reality.
To each their own, I guess. I don't see how "serverless" makes any sense when you can set up a cloud instance for a few dollars a month, or free on AWS/GCP/Aurora with their free tiers. If you have even a tiny Raspberry Pi-scale cloud server you can serve APIs or web pages and store JSON files or run SQLite or Redis. And you will pay the same $0 - $7/mo regardless of API requests, unlike the serverless model where cost scales directly with traffic (leading to unpredictable bills every month).

I get that not everyone wants to install packages and SDKs or look up the two or three lines of code needed to save a file to S3. But if you do need real data storage, or everything a real server can provide, I think it's good to know how to do that. I think starting with serverless is like starting with instant microwave meals -- you get stuck with low-quality and high-cost food and never learn how to cook.
> and at least 25% of its members basically don't believe in the power of... evidence.

Why do you say that?
This kind of behavior leads to the growth of small stores where you can get in and out quickly--Dollar General and other dollar stores in the case of Walmart.
Most are carcinogenic to _breathe_
Sounds like a good read. I finally got around to reading the Long Telegram and found it worth the time
Our business model revolved around referrals, so lack of users directly translated to lack of revenue. While its true that even if we had millions of users but none of them were buying sponsored items we would have had a revenue problem, that wasn't the problem we were facing, as the few users we did have were in fact purchasing sponsored items.
High Scalability has always been a very fun read, and I've enjoyed it a lot over the years. I hope the site still stays up.

Does anyone know any other resources that are about similar topics?
Sure, if you don't buy one of the main benefits of more competition - lower prices - and only imagine the bad parts of the alternatives, it's natural that the picture is bleak
> Is prediction differs from information about future?

Yes, prediction doesn't and can't contain information (in the technical sense) from the future, since by definition it's based only on what we know in the present.

> Do we have some ideas why rules of physics will be different in the future?

No. It's perfectly reasonable to assume that the rules of physics will be the same in the future. Just as it's perfectly reasonable to assume that they're the same inside a black hole. But in both cases we can't know.
US tax dollars at work
So obey me and obey my command upon what is good and right and acceptable; this is surely some sort of authoritarian on consensual pressure pushed upon people that might otherwise have a contrary opinion. Good to see you lay it out so sordidly and so sorry in terms of your own prior biases which you yourself must necessarily deny even exist. Isn't that right?
I think anything without more data for context seems "profound."

Compare with pre-Walmart US for a huge shift in size. There were some large stores before that, but they weren't as prolific as Walmart. Or as successful in closing smaller competition.
Why not use other materials?

Modified acrylic or compact laminate?

That will save lives.
here in boston, market basket is my goto store.
Engineered stone is cheaper than "real" stone (granite) and sturdier than other alternatives (mostly wood-based materials). But no, the world won't end because of this ban. What people are getting worked up about is that stone has been worked on for centuries, and will also keep being worked on in the future, and there are proven methods of preventing silicosis while working on it (wearing PPE, vacuuming up the dust ASAP etc.), but the Australian government chose not to do anything about the culture of ignoring the dangers and instead took the short-sighted alternative of banning just one of the many possible causes of silicosis...
Sorry, "shamed" is a bit hyperbolic. But I was more or less told on one of the sysadmin subreddits that there is no pride to be taken in work accomplished with the assistance of LLM's, even if that work is good.
Hi, I am the author of this piece. I fully agree with your take here, and I end the essay with a short discussion of the lump of labor fallacy and demand for skills other than intelligence.
I want a tea pet that's a lucky cat with a samurai plate armor instead of those spikes.
Engineered stone is easy to cut on site. Real cheap to work with that's why it beat Porcelain.

I don't think Porcelain is as dangerous.
I agree short comments are hazardous - feedback received!
Obvious trolling, so I’ll spell it out for you. IAmGraydon and I live in the same neighborhood. Obviously, Costco only sells wives in packages of 8 (Kirkland brand). We went in with 6 other friends on this one.
My favourite interegnatory chapter is the one advancing the argument that the cobblestones of Paris are the guarantor of democracy: if le regime too much offends les miserables, they dig them up for barricades and missiles! The notable fact in that regard is that following the 1968 student riots, the authorities paved over the cobbles of the left bank. (Or so I'm told.)
Wow, this was a pleasant surprise. Now need 2way integration, so that Threads can see posts from Mastodon instances too. But what's the real reason for Meta to do that? Other clients will not show their ads like the official Threads client in the future... Maybe they just need to be "good guys" now, 3rd party with "< 0.1%" share are "OK". Anyway: good to see distribution here.
Bread flour is 60% cheaper at Costco Business Center than at Safeway. (~$0.40 per lb vs ~$1 per lb.)
So is this a sign of panic by the Fed as they're reading signs of financial stress in the system (things going to get bad), or are they capitulating to political pressure from billionaires and they now have a "low rate mandate" (things are gonna get pumped to the moon), or are they really going to pull off the soft landing (things going to be just okay without getting too crazy)?

I did not expect the Fed to ever start talking rate cuts in the absence of any looming recession or heavy signs of financial system distress. For at least the past 20+ years the Fed has viewed rate hikes as "reloading the gun" to have more "ammo" for recessions and haven't really spent any of that ammo if nothing worrisome was going on.
You could, yes, and probably many are doing this, but you now have to git pull on all of those if you want to, say, know which LLM libraries are currently trending, or how quickly PopularLib v0.2 is being used in codebases related to Y, etc.

IMO It's much less about the legacy code (there exist already terabyte size datasets that take in a lot of things on github) and MUCH more about how up-to-date your LLM/AI is with new repos, "best practices" (or most common practices), etc.

Plus you often get "LLM Code poisoning" from older training data as it attempts to use functionality which has experienced breaking changes versus the current stable release. Current is King.

Also there's the whole goldmine of github discussions, issues, etc that a repo just.. doesn't have.

Right now you can still easily index those (though iirc they sometimes ban datacenter IPs), but they may also fall victim to the loginwall.
> A writer’s life is highly competitive

I wonder how it is in US. Are there obscure writers living only from writing ? Where I live, a lot of writers have a daily job as journalists or NGOs so they don't seem to make much money from writing. And the bookstores are filled with "cheap crap" noone reads.
This object menaces with spikes of golden plastic and silver plastic
I really don't get why people keep inviting this kind of abuse in their lives. Regardless of who owns it, oligarch.net doesn't deserve your eyeballs.

Luckily, my instance put an end to it faster than one can say "domain block".
This is similar to DMT:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218949120

> Consistent with previous DMT study findings (32, 39), static analyses revealed widespread decreases in alpha power under DMT (P < 0.01, cluster corrected), and increases in both delta (P < 0.05, cluster corrected) and gamma bands (P < 0.01, cluster corrected).

DMT and otherpsychedelics are also influenced by glutamate:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7547711/

> Following a double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group design, we utilized an ultra-high field multimodal brain imaging approach and demonstrated that psilocybin (0.17 mg/kg) induced region-dependent alterations in glutamate, which predicted distortions in the subjective experience of one’s self (ego dissolution). Whereas higher levels of medial prefrontal cortical glutamate were associated with negatively experienced ego dissolution, lower levels in hippocampal glutamate were associated with positively experienced ego dissolution.

Other forces seem at play as well. When I almost drowned I definitely experienced positive ego dissolution -- you feel at peace with the idea you might die. So it can't be that simple.
Yup that's right!
Many shops do double list, this is true. However, I don't think its a solved problem. There are many people who do not want to shop on Amazon for their own reasons. There are also people who want to shop locally, and Amazon provides no mechanism to do so (that I'm aware of). There are also many smaller shops who simply cannot afford to list on Amazon, as there are considerable fees associated with running a successful business there. It was these smaller shops who we were initially building to serve, to provide a funnel for them.

Still, there were problems with our solution that if addressed may have provided a better market fit. If we had had more runway, we would have worked to address them, but that simply wasn't in the cards.
While ActivityPup is endearing, can we fix the typo to ActivityPub? :)
What tax properly emulates gains from holding stake?
I agree with this. But perhaps a lot of it is just perception? In my country pedestrian deaths have fallen dramatically since the mid-1980s, by about 80%, despite the size of the vehicle fleet getting much larger. Were there more pedestrian deaths in the 1980s because more kids played on the streets? Or because cars and drivers were less safe and less aware of the risks? It certainly wasn't because there were more cars!

Cars and streets have also been getting safer here: advanced pedestrian and cyclist-aware AEB is already in many cars - and becomes mandatory in all new cars in Europe from July 2024. Streets are getting safer with better designs (more choke points, raised pedestrian crossings, etc), and speed limits being reduced in urban/residential areas.
I learned it the hard way, too.
Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
Say I have around 1 hour daily allocated to developing AI/ML skills.

What in your opinion is the best way to invest the time/energy?

1. Build small projects (build what?)

2. Read blogs/newsletters (which ones?)

3. Take courses (which courses?)

4. Read textbooks (which books?)

6. Kaggle competitions

7. Participate in AI/ML forums/communities

8. A combination of the above (if possible share time % allocation/weightage)

Asking this in general to help good SE people build up capabilities in ML.
A daily digest email for HN, and ArsTechnica (two separate projects, same idea).

It gathers top 50 stories from HN (and all articles in case of Ars) for the previous day and sends me an email with the links (along the number of points/comments for HN and the blurb for Ars).

Each morning I have an overview of the tech news from the two sites I read the most, and have completely removed my compulsion to check them every now and them.

(I've just found this Ask HN thread by clicking on the link in the digest email for yesterday which is why I'm 20ish hours late to the party :)
At least those are supported by national social healthcare.
One of the (among many) reasons I stopped using GH code search is that the default ranking algorithm is extremely poor. Search relevance is awful, especially when it comes to surfacing forks.

90+% of the time I'm executing a code search, I'm looking for example uses of a library API in open source code. But most of the time, Github code search just surfaces pages upon pages of the same exact code snippet across the origin repository and hundreds of forks.

For example, one search I executed earlier today: https://github.com/search?q=load%28%22%40rules_foreign_cc%2F...
I’m anxious but hopeful for this. I’ve left Twitter and enjoy Mastodon. I’d hate to see Meta destroy it, intentionally or not.

I want to believe federated systems can work even with extreme asymmetries in participants. I think if federated systems can’t, they’re forever doomed to obscurity.

Don’t get me wrong: obscurity has its benefits. Mastodon feels a lot like 2010 Twitter, and I love that. However I’d also love for federated systems to work for mainstream audiences.
Is there any real world benchmark about using 7945wx for inference?
I understand in some sense that the job market really tightened up. I've survived a few downturns in my long programming career (40 years now). I have a son facing a terrible job market. By "in some sense" I mean that senior people with lots of experience and professional contacts aren't having the same problems finding jobs.

Recruiters and agents will only take on candidates they believe they can place. If they can't put a candidate (or freelancer) into a job quickly they lose money. That means recruiters will focus their efforts on the highest-quality candidates they can find (which individual candidates will perceive as "ghosting"), and agents will only represent people they can consistently keep busy. Analogously, Hollywood and sports agents don't represent everyone who wants to act or play basketball, they represent people who already have careers, and a few people who look very likely to succeed.

In this market that means, unfortunately, that people with less experience and fewer marketable skills, fewer professional contacts, will struggle to get jobs. And those same junior people got laid off at higher rates. That increases competition for fewer jobs (for the time being, anyway, mainly because of interest rates), which will affect both the juniors and the people a little farther along who have to compete with a large number of less senior people looking for jobs who may cost less.

Disclaimer: 10X Management, an agency for tech freelancers, represents me. My opinions, not theirs.
I forced myself to read it, to see what the fuss was about. I found the fact chapters annoying because I wanted a story and got an outdated biology lesson.

I still don’t understand what the fuss is about. It didn’t seem like a profound story to me. Maybe the themes just don’t intersect with my own life.

Just goes to show that reactions to literature are highly personal, I guess.
> Obviously, for that last several years, things have been quiet around here. This has always been a one programmer show, and for everything, there is a season. The season for me is changing.

2000s: web scalability was an emerging field.

2010s: web scalability was a maturing field.

Scalability feels mature now. Maybe we'll see shifts: CRDTs, global SQL DBs?

Growth/investment seems to be in AI.