skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like a lot of uninformed opinions in here.

As someone who has made a career consulting for supplement companies selling on Amazon, this does not surprise me. When Amazon first instituted testing requirements for supplements (something that already exists under federal law) they required all sellers to provide testing for all of their products. Failure to do so resulted in removal of your products from the marketplace.

Since then, two things have changed. Certain supplement categories have additional testing requirements outside of what is expected by the FDA. Companies have to prove the absence of certain illegal ingredients. But, Amazon has switched to random testing requirements. In the last 3 years, Amazon has not asked a single one of my clients to provide any COAs. I have seen other brands have to provide some, but the requirements are very limited. It is for this reason, unsurprising that illegal products are making it into customer hands.

It is my understanding that the individual who drove the campaign to get COAs, GMP certificates, etc for all supplement listings is no longer with Amazon, and nobody has filled that role since. That should be changed.

But Amazon has always been aggressive over enforcement of marketing claims, and some claims will always instantly flag a COA requirement. Sellers use careful wording to avoid these flags. The solution is to make a COA required for the creation of these listings.

I mean, let's take this one further. Most supplement companies are just marketing companies. They don't formulate the product, they don't manufacture the ingredients, and they don't even blend the powder. They make a brand. But, the FDA doesn't care. As a brand receiving product from a manufacturer, you are still required to test it. The manufacturer is also required to test the raw materials as well as the finished product. Yet, most companies I speak to are not testing product received. They rely solely on the manufacturer testing.

So we should be requiring these brands to do their due diligence. Show me the COA you are supposed to have for every lot you send in. It's already required by the FDA.

As is always the case with supplements, regulation is not the issue. It's enforcement
Regardless of the ultimate moral judgment, it is obviously not the case that a bunch of civilians dying during warfare is the same as an attack committed solely to target civilian populations during peacetime.

Even granting the premise of “paying is equal to doing,” none of your examples are anything like 9/11. The defining characteristics of 9/11 are obviously these: peacetime, intentionally targeted at civilians, killed a large number of civilians.

The best way to absolve a country of guilt is actually to make divorced-from-reality equivocations so that every less than ideal outcome looks equally evil, equally preventable, etc. The US has done plenty of truly atrocious stuff overseas and at home, silly arguments like “the US committed decades of 9/11-style acts” is counterproductive if your mission is accountability.
All ears? Really? Ok, the solution lies in the grid and demand flexibility, combined storage, mainly batteries, and keeping existing NPPs running as long as possible to allow the above to catch up.

Feel free to google all of that, because I am tired of trying to explain that to people by now, sorry...
Even if VSCode/other IDE had features that blew Neovim out of the water, I don’t think I’d move over. The customizability, modal aspect, and open-source-ness are huge for me. I can create macros on the fly for repetitive tasks, can navigate without ever having to stall my train of thought to touch my mouse, and customize every single key binding and the code that it runs. I can create custom commands to do every single thing I’ve ever conceived of wanting to do. I can upstream bug fixes and see those others have suggested that haven’t been up streamed yet. I will concede that for some, maybe this is too much work to set up “just a text editor”, but I enjoy it, and I spend most of my day editing or viewing text, so to me, it’s worth it.

If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years of software engineering, it’s that everyone prefers different workflows. Let people build their own, however they want, with whatever tools they want, and they will be happier for it.
Well, I believe the factual content of what you said, I'm just surprised you'd seriously use this as an argument in favour of nuclear power, because the fact that wildlife thrived is so intimately connected with the fact that a nuclear meltdown happened.
Increase the drag resistance on the bench appropriately, that's it.
> India targeting high-profile journalists with spyware: Amnesty

Only India ?
This is partially it, but it isn’t hard to calculate the CdA of a car and then add resistance to the rollers equivalent to the expected wind resistance, however the bigger reason is that cars operate in a dynamic environment and you don’t actually want to know how far they’d drive at 100kph with no additional wind in a straight line. It just isn’t helpful.

The driving cycles have a number of issues but they purposefully try and capture more of the range of dynamics to help consumers better understand what they should actually expect from vehicles.

It is like comparing CPUs only on their ability to multiply quickly vs a suite of software benchmarks.
This wasn't really my "finding" per-se (the original vulnerability was from June, after all), it was just something that came into my eyes and I thought it would be interesting to discuss the implications and some perceptions I have based on it.

>And do you have any pointers for someone which want to dip their toes into this vast sea of exploration?

Can you expand on what you mean by this exactly? I got into security by accident when I was a child and have never followed any type of routine when it comes to learning.

Probably the only pointer that may help is: take something that you know and use often (some piece of software) and ask "what if?" or "why can't I or someone do X?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I would hope that all memory outside the known ranges is denied by default... Apple should know all the memory mapped hardware in the SoC, so why would they allow IO to something that doesn't exist?

It's just a few lines of code to parse the memory map and deny all undefined regions. As well as being good for security, it also helps find out-of-bounds write bugs, and ensures you can't accidentally ship an out of date memory map.
>It seems like up-front monetary 'cost' is continually used to bash nuclear.

We certainly still need to get a handle on the cost of deploying nuclear because it is not sustainable the way we do it today

In 2022 Georgia Power got 23% of its power from nuclear, 1.9 gigawatts of capacity.

Since construction started, Georgia Power customers have been paying the construction costs (about 6%) and now that construction is complete the rest of the costs are now being added to customer bills. These are surcharges in addition to the actual cost of fuel and operations at the plant, so they're going to be paying per kWh as well.

At the same time Southern Company (parent of Georgia Power) shareholders are now receiving profits from the operations of Vogtle 3 while capital costs are recovered--IE they are not paying for the asset that they will own

This 10% increase in customer bills will result in the nuclear percentage as pat of GPC's mix increasing just a few percent. It would still be lower than either Gas/Oil or Coal as of 2022's numbers (in 2023 I believe it will be higher than coal, but that is because GPC is replacing coal with gas at a rapid rate)

If you replaced all fossil fuels with nuclear at the same cost structure, power bills in Georgia would increase many fold

I'm completely on board with nuclear, but we have to absolutely and totally rethink the designs we build, how we manage the projects, who owns them (private vs. public) and more
I don't doubt that homebrew has a greater selection of packages than pkgsrc. pkgsrc works for me, though: I don't install that much from it.

But we're getting off-topic. The bitecode author's primary point is how to install python for people who just want or need to develop in python for some specific reason (thus "the bare minimum you can get away with"). Many of these people aren't professional developers or even expert users of whatever platform they're using.

They just want or need python for some specific reason related to whatever their actual job is.

For people like that, an answer to the question "how do I install python?" that starts with "first, install homebrew/pkgsrc/macports/pyenv/anaconda/whatever" is really not helpful. It introduces a whole bunch of unnecessary complexity and has a lot more potential points of failure than what he recommends, which is "get an installer from python.org and install that."

I think he makes a good case, although you have to read more than one article at his web site to get a good sense of the complete argument.
The 500 mile range is a pretty standout feature. That beats basically anything currently on the market aside from the eyewateringly-expensive Lucid Air.
Something I quote regularly, regarding how C was hardly impressive in terms of performance quality in generated native code.

As anyone coding in the 1980's home computers knows, any junior doing Assembly could easily beat those compilers.

It was the abuse from UB in optimising compilers that eventually made the difference.

"Oh, it was quite a while ago. I kind of stopped when C came out. That was a big blow. We were making so much good progress on optimizations and transformations. We were getting rid of just one nice problem after another. When C came out, at one of the SIGPLAN compiler conferences, there was a debate between Steve Johnson from Bell Labs, who was supporting C, and one of our people, Bill Harrison, who was working on a project that I had at that time supporting automatic optimization...The nubbin of the debate was Steve's defense of not having to build optimizers anymore because the programmer would take care of it. That it was really a programmer's issue.... Seibel: Do you think C is a reasonable language if they had restricted its use to operating-system kernels? Allen: Oh, yeah. That would have been fine. And, in fact, you need to have something like that, something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks because those are key problems to solve. By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are ... basically not taught much anymore in the colleges and universities."
So is bitching about nuclear while ignoring the much worse coal.
beat me to recommending this LOL. has good search and pretty feature rich. thorough documentation makes it easy to set up/customize.
An Utterly Incomplete Look at Research from 1823
It is great that the FDA does these random checks and can identify supplement and food items that contained erectile dysfunction drugs in them. It is a tough call to try and completely eliminate such products from all the marketplaces, especially when some approved US drugs may be not controlled in other countries. I’d trust Amazon as more able to do so than a random pharmacy or internet store. Let’s see how this story develops.
Some Firefox extensions are provided in the Debian repositories, maybe that's a start? I haven't tried much to use them, but maybe I should (though I'm not using Debian on the desktop right now).
I apologize.

The tangible difference is the "noncommercial" part, where if you offer your instance for pay, that would be violating the license.

The Open Source Definition includes this:

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

(Emphasis added.)

People interpret that as meaning that Open Source cannot restrict a business from using it for any purpose, including making money.

This also comes from Freedom 0 of the Four Freedoms, where the software may be used "for any purpose."

So if I put out a license that only allows noncommercial use, people say (and probably rightly) that it is not an Open Source license.

SAMS is different from FOSS because it accepts a noncommercial license under its umbrella when FOSS does not.
The (intentional or unintentional) contamination of dietary supplements with performance-enhancing drugs is a widespread problem.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5691710/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.8682...
The product reviews would be interesting to read.
It seems reasonable to assume that's it's instead something like 10 simultaneous 2:1 battles, and you need to win a majority of them. That's very different odds than a single 2:1 battle.

He seems stuck on interpreting feedback through the lens of a linear-odds, one-shot model. The player feedback is that it shouldn't be linear, and there should be less randomness for larger numbers.

That all makes sense to me... and I suspect makes sense to him when he's not giving a talk for comedic effect.
yeah they are kind of the last resort for me at this point when buying online.
That's the size of the current app which doesn't use flutter.
Best depends on what you're looking for.

If you want an easy-to-use interface, useful insights and privacy (self-hosted analytics platform), you could check the one I'm building, UXWizz[0].

Do you need it for product analytics or website analytics?

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com
This shows how life is emergent from simple rules.
Mitchell Baker needs to go. I hold her responsible for much of Firefox's slide in use over the years. She keeps pulling in a larger and larger salary for doing less and less.
This article is speculative trash. Gaming on Apple hardware is a nothingburger: it doesn't exist & it likely never will. At best, they'll continue to get ports of a miniscule fraction of existing games, years after they first release. Gamers will go where the games are, and they aren't on Apple.
I sank countless hours in the level editor.
> India targeting high-profile journalists with spyware: Amnesty

Only India ? I heard a lot of (western) countries do this.
Firefox falls flat on its foxy face when it comes to chromebook tablet support. I am so ready to ween myself from Chrome but when I open my chromebook, they pull me back in. Arrrgh.
Correct. You are the only one. We've got front row seats to an amazing train wreck. The death of Twitter. A space spruce goose. And a car drawn by a 10 year old boy using crayon. It's going to be fun.
I agree. I was there a month back and the EV adoption is incredible. From small scooters, delivery vans to sedans. EV is roaring there and from the little I saw, innovation growth is crazy. Went into a small factory for making solar street lights and it was full of solar panels and EV battery cells… note that this was a small factory with container loads of cells!
I know this is a little controversial, but I wish our software development culture would discourage patents as taboo, something to not be proud of. Software patents are a truly terrible arms race, and they essentially aren't protecting anyone except the big boys.

"Having N patents" should be something that gets frowned on, not something you highlight on your resume. When asked about this myself (during interviews or whatever), I proudly boast that I have zero patents to my name and that I actively avoid being part of the problem by participating. I see it as an opportunity to 1. help steer our culture in whatever tiny way I can and 2. get up on a little soap box about the problem.

In the past, I've been asked to help out with patent applications for these so-called "inventions" that I developed, and I always tell my manager "If you want to patent this, I can't stop you, but do not put my name on it or associate it with me in any way."
> If you don't want your image looked at, don't put it online.

Same with writing. The inability to effectively prevent stuff being used to train AI is a serious problem that is why I (and at least several other people I know of) have removed their content from the open web and likely won't put new content on until/unless there is some effective way to control bot access.

I find it incredibly sad that this issue is making people stop using the web in this way.
Could be genetics, could be low T, could be depression, could be some other uncovered issue. Should probably discuss this with their doctor.
It's funny you mention chelation. The most common method (cheapest) of chelating some metal is with EDTA, which is such a strong bond that it makes it completely bio-unavailable. In fact, if your body was somehow able to break the bond and absorb the metal ion, EDTA would happily go along and find some other metal in your body to bind to. You literally take EDTA for lead poisoning, but it'll happily take calcium, copper and iron out of your body while doing it, it doesn't give a damn.
OpenAI see.

OpenAI ignore.

OpenAI train.
Also, even a very stable project that is "done" will receive a trickle of minor tweak PRs (often docs, tests, and cleanups) proportional to the number of its users, so the rate of change never falls to zero until the code stops being useful.
Two not-so subtle paragraphs about the "partnership" between Microsoft and OpenAI:

> 15. Microsoft Corporation is a Washington corporation with a principal place of
business and headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft has invested at least $13 billion in OpenAI Global LLC in exchange for which Microsoft will receive 75% of that company’s profits until its investment is repaid, after which Microsoft will own a 49% stake in that company.

> 16. Microsoft has described its relationship with the OpenAI Defendants as a
“partnership.” This partnership has included contributing and operating the cloud computing services used to copy Times Works and train the OpenAI Defendants’ GenAI models. It has also included, upon information and belief, substantial technical collaboration on the creation of those models. Microsoft possesses copies of, or obtains preferential access to, the OpenAI Defendants’ latest GenAI models that have been trained on and embody unauthorized copies of the Times Works. Microsoft uses these models to provide infringing content and, at times, misinformation to
users of its products and online services. During a quarterly earnings call in October 2023, Microsoft noted that “more than 18,000 organizations now use Azure OpenAI Service, including new-to-Azure customers.”
There is a repeat action toggle.
I do a lot of scuba diving and have read many incident reports. While improper skills are usually the primary cause, equipment is usually a contributing factor. Not so much equipment failures but just bringing equipment that is poorly designed or unsuitable for the conditions.

Most of that equipment selection problem can be traced back to poor quality instruction and conflicts of interest in the industry. Unlike flying, there is no legal licensing process for diving. Training is mostly handled by a few different private agencies which set course curricula and certify instructors. Some agencies have minimal quality standards and will give an instructor card to almost anyone. And then most training courses are run by dive shops which also sell equipment, so instructors are pressured to not criticize anything the shop sells even when it's total garbage.
I did have IBM's C compiler and a full set of printed manuals. Never clicked for me. I did however get turbo pascal, it was amazing. Compile/edit/run cycles measured in seconds. Online docs/examples, etc.

Ended up reading PC Tech journal, wrote an EGA driver for Turbo pascal, and even a few games. Had some silly mine based game written in Turbo Pascal that showed how many mines were adjacent, with the revolutionary idea that you didn't have to hit enter after every move. It floated around as shareware on BBSs, someone even binary edited it make amusing changes to the text when you died. I allowed mines to cause chain reactions, people were amused that past a certain point increasing mine density made the game easier since the chain reactions got larger.

Certainly a different world back then.
Probably this case...

https://pharmaphorum.com/news/novartis-in-political-row-afte...

https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/belgium-all-news/heal...

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/07/health/zolgensma-data-man...

https://www.lalibre.be/economie/entreprises-startup/2022/01/...
We have that problem in the medical world, but for some reason, we don't have it in the engineering world.

Why? I don't know. Is the medical world just messed up? Or is there something wrong with licensure?
This really sounds like victim-blaming. The community is vulnerable to somebody publishing asinine modules, which should be addressed. However, this individual is still the perpetrator.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229
All my numbers above are including load factors... And I never said nuclear projects don't exist, only that their net added capacity is negligible compared to wind and solar. And that those historical numbers show us that the investment money is mainly going into wind and solar instead of nuclear, and did for years now.

You could accept these facts as reality, which would make this whole discussion a lot less frustrating... Or at least engage with the numbers, which you didn't neither...
On the contary i dont think businesses big or small should do it I think the government should do it as a public good. Free carbonless energy for the people.
There are also a bunch of recent immigrants on threads like these who have the 'close the door after me' mindset. They also support hard restrictions on immigration, as soon as they get the green card or citizenship.
holy crap, that’s insane. You don’t just accidentally add sildenafil or tadalafil to your supplements. Unless the FDA is misidentifying compounds present in the herbs in these supplements, which seems unlikely but I’m no pharmacology expert.
> Much like Volkswagen, Xiaomi already knows that car owners still prefer to have some physical buttons,

Despite decades of experience in the industry, until very recently Volkswagen weirdly thought the opposite was true. It's incredible it's taken them this long to U-turn on what's been a blindly obvious problem with their current interior designs. It got the point where every other manufacturer, that did the (old) sensible thing, was praised.
It looks like a Taycan to me, albeit with McLaren-esque headlights.
whisper.cpp works fine on CPU
The literary form is just the Deliveroo package for the actual contents: the ideas. And that's what hard sci-fi is in its purest form: the literature of ideas
Not just Amazon. It’s very obvious that much of e.g. YouTube and Instagram’s funding (and that of creators) comes from ads for fraudulent and/or potentially dangerous medical supplements (not to mention other things like financial schemes or fraudulently described products).
No matter how many maintainers there are, the policy to eagerly deprecate and quickly remove things is something common to all of stdlib. And I think that’s not a good policy for a programming language. If you look at Java, for example, only very few APIs were removed between Java 9 and 20, many of which minor or broken/useless (Pack200, RMI): https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/migrate/removed-ap...
It's not normal. None of my over 40 friends have the same experience. And in general, I doubt that turning 40 is a clear biological threshold regardless of one's lifestyle, diet, fitness level, etc.