skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My team has been developing against a fully remote environment (K8s cluster) for some years now and it makes for a really powerful DevEx.

Code sits on our laptops but live syncs to the remote services without requiring a Docker build or K8s deploy. It really does feel like local.

In particular it lets us do away with the commit-push-pray cycle because we can run integ tests and beyond as we code as opposed to waiting for CI.

We use Garden, (https://docs.garden.io) for this. (And yes I am afilliated :)).

But whether you use Garden or not, leveraging the power of the cloud for “inner loop” dev can be pretty amazing with right tooling.

I wrote a bit more about our experience here: https://thenewstack.io/one-year-of-remote-kubernetes-develop...
Diabetic mother-in-law is on it. Lost a ton of weight, is moving around better, and when I saw her over the holidays last week I felt she was mentally sharper than before.

My wife has been worried about her mental acuity declining over the last few years and I kept saying I felt like the diabetes was taking a toll on her brain. Perhaps it was? And perhaps it's slowly reversing a bit?
Potentially, lots! Whenever your computation allows for some small error, or is performed on fractional values (e.g. floating-point) - you could instead imagine doing it analogically. Think of the possibilities of zero-cost atomic addition in parallel, for example. Think about having "semi-real" neuronal responses instead of simulating neural network layers via precise binary computations. And then you can go into more exotic things like computing by wave interference patterns and such.
Burn Cycle
Docker makes it really hard to do anything with cgroups. Unless you mean letting Docker manage everything about them, in which case you can configure nothing.

Systemd did the cgroups thing right. Apart from the v1/v2 thing, but if you can use only v2 then you do not need to think about it.
does this support WASM?
I'm particularly interested in zigzag capability because I want to make some sails for my boat. Are there any older machines you can recommend for this? In general I much prefer older machines--I have a lathe from the 1930s and a drill press from the 1960s, for example.
I'm curious if an 8GB MacBook can run a macOS VM, and if so how much memory can be allocated to it.
I'm glad you noted programmers; as a computer science researcher, my reaction was the same as yours. I don't think I ever used a CDF for data analysis until grad school (even with having had stats as a dual bio/cs undergrad).
>Saying that Germany and Japan were “bombed back into the Stone Age” is a wild exaggeration

Japan was firebombed pretty ruthlessly. McNamara openly stated that he would have been tried as a war criminal had the US lost the war. Here is a list of 67 Japanese cities that were firebombed with their destruction % and their US size equivalent:

http://www.ditext.com/japan/napalm.html#google_vignette

Source: The Fog of War (Documentary)

I guess this all depends on one’s definition “bombed back into the Stone Age”. I’m sure descendants of those that lived in Dresden might argue that they, in fact, were indiscriminately bombed to the point of ruin.
the article is new. the product dates to 2021
Pretty old vid
Very similarly to yourself, but I would say backdoor and vulnerability are mutually exclusive (kinda? I guess a backdoor is a deliberate vulnerability but I think you know what I mean) yet both can be exploited (the exploit being the client side code, if you will).
Type 2 diabetes is known to raise your risk of Alzheimer's and some people think that Alzheimer's is really "type 3" diabetes.
Years ago before it was popular my doctor gave me an rx for it and I tried it, I knew it was a game changer, but those side effects? Might have just been me but I could not tolerate the nausea.

In the end I didn't need Ozempic, I just started working out several times a week and holding myself accountable to my eating habits. I think for the majority of people diet and exercise is enough. But for those who need more help, even Oprah, it's a miracle drug.
Always used Firefox and always will while it lasts. But this year I found out that Google Maps is getting really broken to the point where I have to run chromium just to use it. Anyone having the same issue / knows how to fix this ? Pretty sure its just a case of Google wanting me to migrate but that won't happen.

(While OSM and alternatives are probably quite good I'd like to keep using GMaps though)
It’s clearly something, or it wouldn’t cheat the test.
Well written. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Is PRISM more or less the state of the art as far as software to analyze/model probabilistic systems?
Maybe they are "carbon negative" in the same way as many datacenters or international flights are "carbon neutral": by buying it off: e.g.
planting more trees than they cut?

But I guess you are right and they're just doing short-term bookkeeping here.
Show HN: RFUI – a Minimal, DX-focused component library
Thanks for the feedback. Very helpful. I’ve added a note about the spaces but I like your idea.
Yeah it's a great technology and we should absolutely pursue it but I think they are overstating the benefits a bit.
New Jersey Will See More Than $1B in Marijuana Sales in 2024
Ok, but the trade off of that is that we are not super rich in benefits. Europeans may not earn much or get to be digital nomads easily, but at least they have good healthcare and social services. Isn’t that usually seen as a fair trade off?
The 'physics' behind potential interest rate cuts
Yeah it would show that, which might make it easy for some but harder for others.
My puzzle word has four vowels. My two guesses each four vowels, but not the same four (e.g. "AAIO" and "AEIO"), and I got four vowel matches for each guess. I know how that result can pop out of a particular way of scoring, but it's not what I expect from a word guessing game.
According to the documentation that's exactly what the "planning mode" is supposed to do.
True, future levels get more interesting :) like today’s.
Depends. I don't work much on data analytics these days so only a few of the systems I've put in place (using SQLite + bash scripts on a workstation) are still in use. Most have been shut down for organizational/business reasons. They did their job and typically the entire project was put out to pasture, not upgraded to other technology. Further reaffirming my suspicion that investing in such complexity up front was not warranted.

The biggest risk is that your software is successful and you're stuck with a ball of hacks that no one except you knows how to run or debug! Good documentation and automation can keep it alive, but not indefinitely. If your project is successful, you can expect it to get more complex by default.
So you're already doing curation of what the source history is! Us rebasers just do a little more, and we aren't afraid to rewrite history (before merging to master) to do it.

What happens when you're a few commits deep and realize one of your prior points of coherence could benefit from revision? Perhaps an extra live of documentation. Or a small bug fix. Or a new helper routine. I would go back to the commit where it belongs and put it there. Or, if it deserves it's own commit, then create a new one. But the point is that the source history is itself a tool I use to communicate with others (including my future self).
Mostly x86 virtual machines for Linux and Windows. ARM ports of both platforms exist but don’t always meet use cases (binary apps, etc).
see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

I believe WMM(F)vB once narrated a clip on space exploration for Disney that, inter alia, explained the astrogation used by ICBMs.
I’ve been following the road to OCaml 5 and the effect system is nice, but getting to have effects without bringing in a garbage collector seems quite special. I’m working on a C-WASM wrapper library, and one issue I struggle with in C code is dealing with async IO outside the WASM module. I haven’t looked deep into the FFI story of this new language but it would directly solve this problem that currently needs the ASYNCIFY Binaryen transform which adds a 2x size increase and 50% performance penalty. Can Koka call C in an effect? Can it suspend a stack if C calls into it? I can presumably drop koka into my existing C-WASM project with a few new Makefile rules. These are definitely places OCaml can’t go; by compiling to C Koka makes these advanced FP features much more attainable (at least, for me).
> scientists at Novo Nordisk developed their own GLP-1 analogue and, in 2010, released a once-daily injection called liraglutide, or Victoza, for Type 2 diabetes. The GLP-1 drugs had another effect, too: people taking them lost a little weight.

A lot of people miss the fact that GLP-1 agonists have been on the market for 13 years. That’s still relatively young in drug terms, but not nearly as young as some of the GLP-1 critics would suggest. Just because you didn’t hear about it until last year doesn’t mean it’s a brand new drug without a track record.

That said, these also aren’t quite as free of side effects as some people want to think. For most, the minor side effects are more than worth the benefits of significantly reduced body weight. I do worry about the people who are using these to drop weight and then throwing all caution to the wind with the content of their diet, though. There’s more to eating healthy than body weight, and I’ve watched a few close friends go from planning their diet to eating pure junk and fast food because their GLP-1 agonist will keep their body weight in check. That’s not a problem with the drug, though. These people would be eating junk food if they were “naturally” skinny too.
Irrelevant. It’s virtually the same risk, the only minor difference between 240V AC and DC is a hypothetical arc is harder to extinguish in DC (AC benefits from the oscillation slightly), but if were to the point that wires are arcing we’ve already got major problems.
I’ve seen more than a handful of acquaintances that I follow on social media in the past year or so who have lost incredible amounts of weight. I wonder if it can be attributed to Ozempic. Suspiciously I don’t really see any other evidence of them adopting new workout regiments or something like that. It could be that they keep that stuff private… but I doubt it.
> With each version of macOS it's getting harder and harder to load kernel extensions. Apple strongly discourages it thus making software distributions that use 'macfuse' difficult to install.

omg that's terrible, Apple is so evil

> Additionally, the 'macfuse' kext is unstable, may cause frequent system crashes and kernel lock-ups.

oh
IIRC, the battery discharge increases again in the early morning hours to compensate for the morning load peak.

That's exactly what I'd expect to see, if the goal is to replace peaker plants.
Great analysis! Thanks for writing it up and sharing.

Logistical question: did management move some deliverables out of the way to give you room to do this? Or was it extra curricular?
Dropping tables to see what happens or resetting DBs every hour is fine with a small dataset, but it becomes impractical when you work on a monolith that talks to a set of DB with a hundred+ tables in total and takes 5 hours to restore.

As you point out rebuilding small test datasets instead of just filtering the prod DB is an option, but those also need maintenance, and take a hell of time to make sure all the relevant cases are covered.

Basically, trying to flee from the bulk and complexity tends to bring a different set of hurdles and missing parts that have to be paid in time, maintenance and bugs only discovered in prod.

PS: the test DB is still reset everyday. Eorse thing happening is we need to do something else for a few hours until it's restored.
I’m not sure that narrative on “forgetting how to build quality cars” is fair. Germany and Japan introduced a lot of new technologies and processes that would naturally be a little rocky from time to time. It is the nature of immature services.

Once those matured, the new stuff quickly caught up. But it needed time.

What makes you think it was the increase in executive or shareholder comp that caused the degradation in quality? Do we even know if there was a degradation between a 1960 ford and 1985, or is it because the Japanese and German automakers raised our standards?

This is a situation where a lot of narratives fit the evidence.
https://archive.is/2023.12.28-182823/https://www.economist.c...
Ozempic (semaglutide) and Mounjaro (tirzepatide) are the main peptides gaining popularity but there's a big following of other peptides that help produce growth harmone naturally such as sermorelin, ipamorelin and cjc-1295. There's also BPC-157 which helps with angiogenesis and healing. The reddit peptides sub has a lot of user content and opinions, as does podcasters such as Andrew Huberman.

Since these are not fda approved, you will most likely get turned down by your primary doctor if you start asking about them. HRT clinics seem to be leading the way to trying these out. FYI - generic semaglutide is very cheap if you get it via HRT clinic as opposed to name brand and pre-mixed ozempic.
I did some reverse engineering of binary file formats myself in the past, wrote some beginner notes and a collected some links. No idea if any of the links are still working.

https://www.iwriteiam.nl/Ha_HTCABFF.html
Just because the US got a useful ally in the long run doesn’t mean that the military objective was met. That wasn’t the objective of the war.

The objective of the US once they pushed back the initial invasion in the Korean War was to destroy the DPRK, force communism out of Korea, and unify the country. They failed. The war became a stalemate once China got directly involved.

If Vietnam becomes a stalwart ally of the US over the next 20 years that won’t mean the Vietnam War was a success just because the US ended up eventually having a useful interest in the region.
yes, use `--target=wasm`
they can't, or else british clocks wouldn't be ahead :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bij-JjzCa7o
Nonsense. I have 600v DC from my solar panels. It’s not magic, just needs proper insulation.

Utility poles are 10’s of thousands of volts (AC), I guarantee you that will cook your goose AC or DC.
Appreciated. How can we get in touch?
I wonder about this - is it possible to “defeat” the drug? People eat for other reasons than pure hunger; there may be social or other reasons to over-consume. Perhaps an even a “clean your plate” ethos that many people were raised with and combined with an American tendency for over-large portions?
For the pricing they propose both a saas model and one-time fee

I'm curious what's the opinion of people here about both pricing model

Is there a multiplier or an absolute number that will make you switch ? (Not specifically for this product)
> Should I soon expect to be defending legal threats from random strangers who ran this code only to gasp find that it deleted their files?

Yes. The developers of software have a fiduciary duty to users of their software.

The UK court of appeals already determined that the MIT license does not eliminate these duties when it found the authors of Bitcoin Core liable for billions of pounds of damages to Satoshi Nakamoto when they failed to change the Bitcoin protocol to return the coins that hackers took from him.

If you don't want to get sued and end up homeless and bankrupt like those Bitcoin Core developers you need to learn to obey the law and act in the best interest of your user.
Who wants to take bets on it getting extended?
> very likely the UK already contributed to the EERP but *got nothing out of it*.

I for one am swimming in all the surplus cash not going to the EU any more, as well as all those upwards revisions to GDP and employment, and our pound soaring to new highs improving my purchasing power.
Tbf this year we could comfortably return to the gym and burn off the covid 19.
It's called tidelift.com
Kind of a edge case, but we were attempting to migrate from Docker to Podman, and found running x86 container images in Podman Desktop on M-series Macs to be unacceptably slow. Docker Desktop supports Rosetta 2 virtualization which performs fine, but Podman Desktop does not.
Arc Roam is my holiday project this Christmas. I wanted to create an online, browser-based, mobile-playable "destilled" alternative to the old classic PC game Elastomania, (and it's unofficial multiplayer mod Elma Online). I used to play Elma religiously, but it stopped working on Mac (via Wine) last year, so hopefully I now have a way of getting my fix again! Now all I need is someone to complete against

The tech stack is pretty simple:
- React / canvas (2d) frontend
- express / ws backend
- Fully ephemeral, no storage (to save money)
Getting Started with Fail2Ban on Linux
As a complete laymam, wouldn't stimulating cell growth also be prone to increase cancer risk?
Moving from DynamoDB to tiered storage with MySQL+S3
> I think for the majority of people diet and exercise is enough

As far as I understand it, in the wild for the majority of the people there’s very little evidence that obese people can diet and exercise themselves to a healthy weight. It just statistically doesn’t happen very often. For whatever reason, they need the hormone regulating drugs.
Slows down your gut motility, can't wait for the epidemic of new SIBO/IBS cases.
My budgeting app (Monarch) has a system with a lot of parallels. It tries to automatically profile your transactions into a sensible category based on the statement text, and also allows you to set up persistent rules on top to categories it may have messed up. It still has a “we couldn’t categorize this, please help” list it gives you, but I find its recommendations fairly good and I get maybe one transaction a month it can’t figure out.
I'm guessing it is because docker runs a linux VM when it is running on macos.
But then they'd have to factor in the engineering time invested in the analysis of the analysis?
I work in the tech side of Humanitix [0]. We’re a self-sustaining not-for-profit software business.

https://humanitix.com/au/reports/nov2023

Companies like Patagonia and Thankyou (https://thankyou.co) have been role models for us, but it’s been pretty lonely in the tech sector!

… AMA?
Doesn't seem to be working too bad so far.
Reverse engineering data formats is one of the most fun and satisfying things to do in programming.
I put the symbol on my shell prompt line, when there's a readme file found in the current directory. Just a reminder, especially for directories, in which I'd put the readme file myself, but then forgot about it.

https://github.com/rybak/scripts/blob/master/config/ps1_noti...

It works together with very dumb script in $PATH, which prints a readme file if one is found in the current directory.

https://github.com/rybak/scripts/blob/master/commands/readme
Every law has subtle problems. This is about introducing subtle but serious and exploitable issues on purpose, and I wouldn't say the eighteenth amendment is anywhere near that territory.
I thought bullshit too. After all, why would chemical reactions in the brain stop? But after a bit of thinking and Googling, I stumbled upon this

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/aug/energy-demands-limit-our...

Not saying that only X% of our brain is being used, but what it essentially says is that our brain is power-limited, and therefore, it has to be selective in which parts to "turn on". It makes a lot of sense, there are few things in life more important than energy and power management, and human brains already need lots of both.
It's a good guess that if you see someone who has lost a considerable amount of weight, they are on ozempic or mounjaro. There's nothing wrong with that. American diet and lack of activity is a hard thing to turn around for a solid 6 months. Losing weight safely happens slowly with a caloric deficit, but not too big of a deficit that negatively impacts metabolism. Success stories like Ethan Suplee usually involve a consistent ongoing training program involving resistance training. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7SLwIDyYrk
When I was eating my most on the drug, I maintained my weight but it never went up. I'm sure it's possible with an extremely calorie-dense diet, though.

Regarding social reasons for overconsumption - this drug makes you totally full with small servings. Even in social settings you will not overconsume unless you fancy throwing up.
> [Gila monster] venom helped to turn an obscure hormone into potent diabetes medications, and then into the most promising weight-loss treatments in history. We’re still discovering how much they’ll change our lives.

How many times have I heard someone complain about the weird things we spend our research dollars on?

You just never know what discovery or insight is out there, so we have to go look everywhere. Remember this the next time we’re voting to cut research dollars on some gross bug in a jungle you’ve never heard of.
Are you working with Robert C. Martin?!
My view into the issue like this: Until this is part of state education (i.e. nutrition, exercise, stoicism, personal care, hygiene - Whatever - are 'appropriately' into syllabuses), we can't expect everyone to take care of themselves.

1. There will always be parents/guardians that are unable to teach this - That's why the education and children arm of government exists.

2. Ignorance IS an excuse here (people can't know that they don't know, if they don't even know that they SHOULD know!)

3. Even if we were to clamp down on unhealthy food advertising etc., our bodies still crave sugar binging etc. So regardless of success in that area, state education is still the keystone.

But that's it... I just don't know where to go from there. Is state education getting better at teaching these life skills over time? (Personal finance too, while we are at it). Are there things I could be doing to amplify this message? Is this the correct angle, even?

Congratulations on such a massive achievement by the way!
https://www.walmart.com/ip/OREO-Chocolate-Sandwich-Cookie-Pi...
The mullvad browser defaults would get it chucked in the bin very quickly by the average web user.

The extreme bent towards privacy and not retaining any identifiable or fingerprint-able behaviors is exactly what its target audience wants, of course. But it leads to a markedly more inconvenient experience than Chrome or default Firefox or Safari.
That is correct, taking the GHRP/GHRH peptides will increase growth of any EXISTING cancer/tumors. This is a known issue.
I’m actually sort of impressed it recognized its mistakes and was able to do some rudimentary math at all.
Actually posted here 2 years ago, but inexplicably overlooked at the time. I had forgotten about this but am glad of the reminder, since in the meantime I've gotten into embedded systems and microcomputing thanks to the ESP32; this suddenly looks a lot more useful for prototyping. Their pro offering seems very expensive in an age of very affordable modular synth tools, but I guess you're paying for the linearity and calibration, which aren't always a priority in devices aimed at the musical market.
I always wonder when I see things like this: how many cures are gone forever because the animal that could have shown us the path is now extinct?

It saddens me the number of folks on this planet that completely disregard animals and plants that they don’t get immediate enjoyment or sustenance from.
Well tbh, failing to deliver after over committing is also a good experience.
I feel the need to point out that this is why mechanical TV never scaled. From very old memory, if you wanted a 40" screen then the wheel needed to be two stories high.

Ben Heck[0] and Technology Connections[1] videos.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI0TtyVEcs8
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5OANXk-6-w