skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of viral infections impact cortisol in humans. Infection tends to ramp up cortisol levels, but prolonged or chronic infection can both deplete cortisol (so called adrenal fatigue) and/or make the body more resistant to the effects of cortisol. This is seen in the extreme in the case of HIV. I assume cortisol resistance is analogous to insulin resistance in prediabetics. Apparently chronic stress can have similar effects. And chronic stress may be associated with chronic viral reactivation. [1]

Great comment! Interestingly, depleted cortisol levels from chronic stress may be associated with the development of long covid. [2] I wonder if down the road we will see that people who have had long covid are at increased risk of developing or exacerbating obesity.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8470332/

[2] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9519365/
Except that a lot of use third party code who have structs that aren't serializable.

I'm working on a project now where I'm maintaining half a dozen forks just to add a single line.
Hey both of these suck for everyone involved, I was just trying to point out that government work is not without its own issues. You may be right about government jobs being more stable, you're certainly less likely to just lose your job. They do tend to pay significantly less though from what I've seen.

I'm from the UK so while we do have layoffs, like much of Europe we have relatively good employment protections. The government here don't tend to do layoffs, but do tend to use contractors significantly more than most businesses and do flex their contractor base up and down.
Proof of Work is an energy-intensive solution to a very deep and old social problem: how do you verify transactions between parties over a great distance/online without a trusted intermediary?

Proof of work is enormously socially valuable and will change the world. Bitcoin may not be the PoW application to do it (although it also might be) but proof of work is here to stay because of the huge advantages it has over the existing system where individuals/institutions insert themselves between transactions to their own profit.

RE energy, not here to argue philosophy. Just going to point out that if that is your concern luckily the world is going over to renewables so that particular objection will be gone soon anyway.
According to the question they're already doing that and it's not working.
An ETF is a type of ETP
I disagree with CVEs like this that don't actually violate the security model of the product. Just because a product's security models is not tightening as fast as a competitor's (Office), I don't think that should be considered a CVE.
Good stuff indeed. (Can't even imagine doing that in standard notation, either!) Bell-sounding is a great choice for stuff in unusual scales. (A large part of the bell's charms are the inharmonics.)
I think your last paragraph contrasts and slightly contradicts itself but I agree with the failure part. If we consider a real-life PA performing tasks on our phone for us the question can be asked if it makes much sense or if it would be an interesting novelty.

Basic functionality has always been the key winner with this tech. Calling, setting reminders etc. nothing too complex.
Seems related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38930084
The two are more interconnected than you might think.
I kinda see it differently. There are these incredible use-cases for what they can do with this technology but still requires massive R&D and politics. They're taking the path of least resistance with these features. They should spin off R&D and let another division handle this low-hanging fruit garbage. But, maybe this is just how a business cycle works. You get a bite and you milk it for what it's worth and let the next generation organization take it to the next level.
For the past 10 years I've been travelling to Russia occasionally. Normally during a flight I like opening up my GPS app to check the location, altitude and speed of the aicraft.

About a year ago I noticed that shortly after crossing Russias border the GPS stopped working. Initially I thought it was a glitch, but after a few flights it became obvious that something was going on, probably the signal was baing jammed.

Interesting that close to landing when the altitude is lower than 200m, the signal is restored.

It's unclear to me how the plane is navigating though if the GPS is jammed. Very weird...
I saw this in the 80s when I worked in a psyche ward. Also knew people in college this happened to. Not a new thing just worse with more potent pot. People downplay these things but I wouldn't wish psychosis on my worst enemy.
> At the end of the day I wonder what openai's endgame is here

Sell AI products to fund making AI
Umm...no:

>Unwanted tritium exit signs may not be put into ordinary trash; they require special disposal. Tritium exit signs that are illegally put in ordinary landfills can break and contaminate the site. Owners of buildings are responsible for ensuring the safe operation and disposal of tritium exit signs.

From here: https://www.epa.gov/radtown/tritium-exit-signs
Undark – a SQLite deleted data recovery, corrupt database data recovery tool
Xilem 2024 Plans
Piracy*
I created a thoraway account, maybe I can't post yet?
I’m sure it’s totally unrelated to the increase of street junkies and urban crime resulting from the post 2020 “reimagined” policing in many major cities.
It's mostly fear mongering for Regular Joe, along with:

> Another important development was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Vastly outnumbered in jets and tanks, Ukrainians quickly jury-rigged a miniature air force out of off-the-shelf drones carrying improvised munitions

Lol, Ukrainians were watching videos from Syria and Afghanistan and implementing ISIS tactics for years before 2022.
It seems that many of the cities that invested in those ideas had improvements.

However, compared to 2021, 18 metros observed an increase in walking activity in 2022, with California metros dominating nine out of the top ten spots. New York City ranked 10th
I honestly wouldn't walk around in most U.S. cities, with all the street violence and homelessness plaguing the nation. Drug needles everywhere, trash, human feces. Why take the risk?
I am not anti-legalization but marijuana is a drug and needs to respected as such. Legalization has enabled people to consume high amounts of THC frequently and we're seeing adverse effects from it.

Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome was something unheard of a few years ago
Not part of the official language spec, but Ruby has Sorbet, from a company who employs Ruby core contributors and helped with the recently released JIT additions to the language, among countless other contributions over the last couple decades.

https://sorbet.org/
Wasn’t a personal attack by any means, more like “pick your poison” with a bit too much snark (which I apologize for). Google is great until it suddenly isn’t, and working for Uncle Sam has its own challenges. Happy to hear you’re in a jurisdiction where you’re not exposed to the US labor experience, I’m just trying to throw life preservers out because I’m not sure how long the market is going to be this dysfunctional for (and this will be my third “once in a lifetime” economic crisis).
So I'm a very experienced emacs user and I gave using vc-mode a real try, but quickly ran into some case where I would have to write some elisp for an important part of my workflow that magit already does.

So at least for me, it wasn't an option. Maybe I'll try again someday :)
What major cities have "reimagined" policing exactly, and in what way? Why would that be related to walking, especially as the first thing that comes to mind for you?
'A mouse for your mouth': New device allows users to scroll with their tongues
Can't you short it the same way you short all other securities?
Kinda feel like he just wrote this to make the rust folks seethe.
Sure there is. You have to look at the clock icon (analogue). ... Yeah it's bad.
I read the article and it didn't sound like any point they were making couldn't be explained as 'well we were in a pandemic during that time, and also people shifted to working from home more, so they weren't forced to move as much'.

Even the uptick in 2022 can be explained with 'well we were coming out of a pandemic, and there was an RTO push, but still bad habits are from before are hard to break'.
It has survived by changing the narrative and getting people to buy the stories.

It was going to replace money, but then it didn't because the network slowed down to the point where it was unusable. Nobody was going to wait 30 min for a transaction to complete.

So then the message was flipped and Bitcoin was now 'an asset', not a currency, further supported by IRS's decision to tax it like an asset, so it was advertised as a store of value, "like gold".

It didn't deliver on the currency promise, even with all the lightening and proof-of-stake talks.

It is actively hurting the entire planet at this scale by generating useless heat.

And last, but not least, KYC lets governments track all your bitcoin purchases forever to an extent impossible to do with cash, including deanonymizing transactions retroactively decades later.

A digital currency will not give us more freedom, it will only take more of it away, which is why I personally no longer support Bitcoin, and I don't think others should either.
The chart in this article shows it a bit, but CBD vs THC is a huge component of this. They are not only entirely different drugs, but they have opposite effects.

I'd recommend at least 5:1 CBD to THC for people who don't want any psychoactive effects. However I think many people do want those effects.
The timing is surprising if this was the main motivation. Rates have been flat for nearly a half year and are projected to come down later in 2024 -- https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...
Hard not to see these recent stories about backchannel deplatforming and social media accounts getting accidentally-ed and not recall the warnings that this behavior won't stop with just the people/views you prefer not to see. It was all great fun when "election deniers" and lab leak "conspiracy" theorists were getting ban hammered right and left. But now we're where you were told we'd get, and the righteous defenders of establishment narrative have you in the crosshairs.
If you want it to happen automatically, I think you want display-buffer-alist. Here is a good video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H2nU0rsUMY
I'm not sure why this article would prompt you to call out bike lanes.

> there’s a noticeable rise in biking trips while pedestrian activity is dwindling as a portion of overall trips.

Beyond that, this seems highly relevant:

> Alarmingly, pedestrian fatalities rose during this period

Maybe we haven't actually made any walkable cities
> interesting about the engineering layoffs - was Musk right?

Yes and no. Twitter was started before so much of the common “web scale” Open Source projects existed. Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, etc didn’t exist yet.

So versions of the aforementioned and then some were completely done from scratch at twitter, who has continued to maintain those projects despite them not being the premier open source offering in each of those categories. They also never achieved the scale of some of the largest tech companies where it makes economic sense to have say, a custom database or queue system.

Finally, Twitter has been using GCP for some of their new projects in the last few years, but they still had old legacy systems and teams to maintain that software, so they couldn’t fully reap the rewards of the cloud.

So, if you rebuilt twitter today you could likely do it for a fraction of the engineers they had at peak, by leveraging either cloud or popular existing OSS solutions. But that’s from scratch, not porting millions of lines of legacy code.

What Musk should have done was migrate various systems, then wind down teams. That probably would have worked, but been expensive in the short term.

So I think they cut too much, and I also think they honestly thought more engineers would be up for “hardcore twitter”, instead of quitting.

Musk forgot that all his very loyal Tesla employees may have also factored in their 10x RSU appreciation. It’s a lot easier to put up with insane working hours when your next years stock grant is 500k or million or something. Doesn’t apply at twitter.

Tl;DR: not a Musk hater at all, but he fucked up at Twitter.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947224
Probably related: "Google reorganizing Pixel hardware: Fitbit’s James Park leaving, layoffs hit AR team"
https://9to5google.com/2024/01/10/google-reorganizing-hardwa...
Is "much worse" a SV or coastal phenomenon? If you in, or willing to go to other parts of the country I would think the ups and downs aren't as severe, but I could just be naive.
Ok then. If we take the hypothesis at face value, what is to be done about it? Prohibition obviously isn't a solution as that's the status quo - it's already illegal for teens to buy and consume cannabis.
Ask HN: Which tool I should use to talk with my Beta users?
I have 72 Beta users and right now I am finishing my MVP and want them to try it.

My requirement is to have a closed space when I can share progress with them and get early feedback. Can you suggest me should I just email them or use any tool like discord?
I think Free Pascal has the best syntax, it's clear what's what, and it has an insanely useful set of string types that just get handled for you. No malloc, free, etc.
GPS isn’t the only navigation tool. INS is pretty accurate if you zero it correctly, and VOR is good enough to keep to a specific airway.
It reminded me of studies on walking and cognitive function https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15383516/
I think the standard library has some bugs too.
I think that context makes a reasonable difference for some people.

(The following is a tangent.)

To put it another way, using a slightly different kind of situation, I don't want BigCorp's AI watching everything I do to "serve me better", but I'm very interested in the idea of a local AI that watches everything I do and helps me be N times more efficient, while I maintain full control. I don't care if the local AI uses the same data-gathering, data analysis, etc. concepts as BigCorp's AI to accomplish the goals I want it to accomplish.

Caveats include:

- The local AI is Skinner-boxing you or similar. This isn't about the AI having conscious malicious intent; it could be a design defect. Also, a local, offline, open source video game can still be addictive.

- The risk of the system being compromised / manipulated, and all that data on you being exfiltrated.
I seem to recall Google saying that they don't hire for a specific position; they hire good developers and then find the right position for them. This idea is directly countered by the act of firing developers in a specific position because that position is no longer viable.
The link is dead and won't work for anyone without [showdead] enabled; for posterity here's the content:

Leads across Google are sending coordinated emails within their orgs announcing layoffs. They've all gone out in the last 2 hours or so.

They've fragmented the layoffs on purpose to make them seem more localized, but it's affecting the whole company.

Orgs that I've heard/I'm part of that have been impacted so far include Ads, Search, Assistant, Maps Android & Core.

I'm sure there are more, but I can't confirm.

I can't find WARN notices yet, so I assume they haven't been filed yet in any state.
The failure of grep/ripgrep to display the newline character contained in the context in match #178 could be characterised as a "false negative".
The article is one sided, but still mentions that biking is up:

> Despite this, there’s a noticeable rise in biking trips while pedestrian activity is dwindling as a portion of overall trips.

They cite StreetLight Data as their source. Per GCN (which cites the same source)

> bicycle trips in the US have increased by 37% from 2019 to 2022

GCN is obviously also going to have some kind of bias, but the TTI article clearly does as well.

https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/general/news/in-the-us-...
This? https://www.defenseone.com/defense-systems/2023/12/russia-ja...

As for planes, can they do GLONASS?
It's kind of funny how easy it is to find someone who hasn't set foot in a US city in years based on comments like these.
Y'know, now do alcohol. Psychoactive substances ruin lives and should be avoided unless there is a great reason to use them.

The issue is that criminal records also ruin lives and are socially self-inflicted wounds.
As with all research, the point is not so much the explanation as the collection of data.
I mean, without those rudimentary building blocks they wouldn't have a lot of data and talent ready to investigate LLM's (and ofc, lots of polish on the NLP framework. Not as flashy, but very important for the UX). I don't see it as a failed experiment so much as a raw prototype if we believe LLM's can realize the true potential. Heck, for all we know, we were actually just training the model for this past decade.
My typical grocery store these days has

- Kraft and maybe a couple other brands of “not cheese” slices and blocks

- A larger selection of real cheese blocks and pre-sliced, pre-shredded options (I know dust parm and some shredded have filler that we’d probably also not count as real cheese)

- A whole deli counter on the other side of the store of all “real” cheese options.

Now, maybe consumption is 80% those Kraft slices, idk the stats, but just in terms of shelf space, it’s like 80-90% real cheeses.
Dart went from a full dynamic system to a statically verified traditional system with null safety.
A perfect use case for public key cryptography. Digitally sign the GPS coords!
Won’t have the space/time to respond fully, but the allusions to bipolar disease and, especially, schizophrenia need to be viewed quite cautiously.

I do not believe these disorders are thought to originate from environmental factors present in late teenage years. Thus, we should expect a large increase in these diagnoses if cannabis is indeed a causative agent that is now more attainable than it used to be.

Also, individuals will instinctively self-medicate (think about a pet favoring a wounded paw). If these disorders reflect structural brain abnormalities - which they do, in large part - we then can’t distinguish whether cannabis use is a compensatory mechanism or a causative mechanism
Frozen vegetables take a really, really long time to cook. 99:99 in fact.

This is great. What a fun project
With the number of VPs sending emails, I think it's much larger than "hundreds".
This is called image computing and Lisp/Smalltalk did it. Emacs has a form of it called undump.

I dislike it because it violates the "rule of least power". Basically, if you never have to validate your internal data, you can never tell it's corrupt.
It's absolutely insane to trust that they won't do this.
I literally live in Miami. I deal with it everyday.
Pedestrian fatalities are up in pretty much every metro, so this isn't a meaningful signal. It's still worth pursuing banning high-fatality vehicles from urban areas.
> wholistic

Holistic. It derives from the Greek Holos meaning whole, while ‘whole’ ironically derives from Germanic for ‘hail’ i.e. ‘well’ or healthy.
I’m noticing that these sorts of articles are always from the WSJ.
Yeah, I really don't see it. I think it's just because systems don't come with tmpfs.

Of course tmpfs storage does get written to disk via swap.
Generally to boost numbers for the quarter, it takes a while for the damage to propagate through the system after a mass firing (in terms of new code/features/products) but the profits increase instantly, appeasing investors who think only in terms of weeks and quarters.
How do we even fix car-dependency in the US? It's almost like a mind virus, in that people are so utterly convinced on the need for cars, they cannot even conceive of a world in which they're not necessary.
Rational Unified Process
I have no context on what's happening in this particular case, but Google usually indeed does not layoff straight up: teams get "defragged" and the people working on them have some time to try to find new roles.
No, Google did not give people that chance last Jan. Even if it had been on the table, imagine 12,000 ppl looking for an internal move at once.
The article says that biking increased and walking decreased. I don't think I can explain those things simultaneously with just "well we were in a pandemic during that time."
I think you could fixup the pointers if you tried. It's more or less the same problem as compacting GC.
> In the context of HR, a "Job" is a collection of similar positions, an Job Analysis is "a family of procedures to identify the content of a job in terms of the activities it involves in addition to the attributes or requirements necessary to perform those activities".

Why would you think this is relevant?
A "bundle" and "merger" are a very different things.
This impacted far more orgs including Maps/Search in addition to HW, AR, and Voice.
>> democracies a private citizen can knowingly say false things about public figure

> That is not true.

President Biden kicks puppies and secretly owns $2B in BTC, and the SEC manipulates the price for him. Can Biden sue me? Can I be arrested?

The Constitution provides special protection for the press, as do many other laws, precedents, etc. What are your claims based on?
Grow per capita nominal GDP by a 6%/year level target. (NGDPLT.)
What effort? Most US cities are complete garbage for walkability.

When I lived in Germany, I'd see little towns of a few hundred people that were more dense and walkable than US cities 100x their size.

And bikability is even worse, sub-garbage level. People don't do it because it appears to be insanely dangerous because our infrastructure is generally shit tier, like painted bike lanes (though off street trails are often okay, where they exist).

People are mostly rational when choosing day to day transportation options. If biking was supported well they'd do it. But it's not, so they don't.

All the "Vision Zero" announcements were mostly politicians doing politician things with no real oomph behind them. There are things that can be done quickly and effectively, but the political will usually isn't there due to our horrible cultural momentum.
Hey Metahead. I wonder if you guys would be down to collaborate? We have a project that might plug in nicely. Let me know: sam@less.build

Or, feel free to drop a GitHub link?
Less common with things that are directly "customer passwords", but common with other credentials and customer data. Those laws require reporting about breaches and I know I get notifications about breached data somewhat often.

Keep in mind, a good first step to improving security is to hire a pentester. So pentesters have a unique view into companies that are trying to improve. Often the starting place is quite poor. When I leave those contracts, to my knowledge, they are all on track to fix these sorts of defects.
Merge or bundle? Merge is a company thing, bundle is a product thing.
We provide an alternative that is better than cars
You're right, a cheap GPS isn't going to do that.. however, it is well within then realm of possibility to design a GPS receiver system that uses beamforming to lock onto satellites and ignore everything else for orders of magnitude better jamming resistance.
Google style guide is good tbh.

You should use the right tool for the job.

std::unique_ptr is just a move-only ergonomics type over a bare pointer, it doesn't have extra state. std::shared_ptr is basically no different than Rust's Arc.

Closures specify capture semantics explicitly, so you will always know, and default to copy.

And yes, you can capture local references and leave. Don't do that, or return references to local variables, or lots of other fun stuff.