skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, to chip in: try cardio, especially running. Men loose muscle mass with age, as you are already aware, resistance training is important, but cardio should be on top of your list.

I was there with you in terms of brain fog, general mental slowdown, what is called cognitive decline, and mind you, I presume we are healthy, without cognitive degeneration or serius injuries or conditions.

Running 3 times per week should get you on track in about a month. Try it and notice the difference. We are made for movement. If you're healthy and don't feel like running, in my case, i immediately know i should be doing the thing I don't feel like doing. Running. 1x interval training, 1x hill repeats, 1, long run in cardio zone 2. If you can, get s Garmin watch. Stats will help you maintain focus on the big picture. Streaks can help reframe for consistency.

I started training when corona hit, this is the best I've felt ever. Slowly progressed to cycling on off days for better recovery. Bought smart watches for friends, now we keep each other in check, we sometimes even meet at the pool at 6 am for a quick swim session. I now do some kind of activity 6 times per week. If i ever stop working on software, I'll help others train and get better to feel good and feel healthy - that's how much it gave me and i absolutely love it.

hint: optimize for training the next 20-30 years (I'm 39) which means injury prevention, recovery activities, everything else as nutrition and rest follows as you observe your own body and get in tune with what it needs. Honest good luck to you, I'm excited for you!
Well, it wasn’t wrong. The Internet has made people dumber.
No one is maintaining a list they just scan all. Scanning every IPv4 there is on a single port takes minutes.
Worth reading for historical context on Maslow and his re-interpretation of an existing framing https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-06-18/the-blackfoot-...
macOS had this right: dialog buttons read in ascending order of intent, with allowances for changing the default button to the one that's least destructive without changing the button order. Simply by reading, you were shown all available options and ended with the one you likely want to click.

Then they threw it away to match iOS.
>Maybe I'm reading this wrong but I see no indication that Russia signed.[1]

If you search on the page you linked, the Russian Federation signed it on March 12, 1997. As the other commenter notes, the US hasn't signed it.
Well, to this day one can consider this true, looking at tiktok et al.
> Let’s say you take your app down, but someone uploads it to other app stores.

Then it would be your Apple Developer Account signing it right?
Spoiler: There's no life on any of those planets.
>I don't understand the extreme amount of work that people put into works like this that could be shut down forever at the whim of the copyright holder.

Fun, passion, love, creativity, curiosity, so on and so forth.
Is that necessarily a bad thing? What if high quality isn't required to do the thing you wanted to accomplish?

Many other mass produced products we buy today are clearly lower quality than ones crafted by artisans 50 years ago, and yet they do what we need them to do at a fraction of the cost.
I do feel this is one of those "I don't like Netflix anymore so it must be dying" I see ZERO metrics to support Netflix is dying. If anything Netflix is doing better then others.

Netflix is extremely strong, and even more so out of North America. They have a fantastic regional catalogue, massive anime department, produce shows for all age groups, and their shows constantly do well regardless of what people think.
It seems like the principle of least power would apply here. There's value in restricting capability to no more than strictly necessary. Consider the risk of a compromised some-small-obscure-system.corporate.com in the presence of a mission-critical-system.corporate.com when both are issued wildcard certs.

Wildcard certs are indeed a valuable tool, but there is no free lunch.
It was claimed about writing as well. Oral experience passing was considered superior. The Quran puts great emphasis on decoration of it so it can be transmitted and recited orally.
Also Burger King for arrested development: https://www.looper.com/1211032/is-arrested-developments-burg...
It may be easier to hold the middle in countries that also have actual middle-whatever political parties. (which would seem to require having more than 2?)

But note well that TFA argues that, upon analysis, the silos do not appear to be as strongly separated as earlier reported.
Sure, but they are much smaller than the real "big tech": Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft. They are also still mono-product unlike the big tech that span multiple domains.

It doesn't make much sense to make a group of big tech companies with Netflix and leave out Microsoft.
Is it? What if you run a foreign app, a half-assed port, or an Electron thing whose developers didn’t check for the OS?

Nothing stops Web developers from flipping the buttons if they detect a Mac, but that would make things more confusing if someone is using the same Web app on multiple platforms, or if the docs have screenshots from different platforms (to each other or to the user).
Another issue is that an earthquake in one location can trigger an earthquake in another.
It's kind of funny to me that for the 2016 highlights they say

> Netflix expands to 130 new countries, bringing the service to members in more than 190 countries and 21 languages around the world.

(Emphasis mine)

Saying how many specifically would be too controversial for them :-)
What entertainment do you endorse?
Setting the with to 1200 in

<canvas id="pongCanvas" width="1200" height="800">

give flatter bounces off the long walls. This makes for some interesting 'drill' patterns
A compromised wildcard certificate has a much higher potential for abuse. The strong preference in IT security is a single-host or UCC (SAN) certificate.

Renewing a wildcard is also unfun when you have services which require a manual import.
Ah ok, that Georgia (state in the US). From the headline I totally thought it's about the "real" Georgia, and maybe related to Bitcoin mining :)
Here is the original work[1]. And not only the hierarchy is never mentioned. Also, the whole publication is just an essay that lacks any kind or form of research.

[1] https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm
The Northern Sea Route has been contested for decades:

https://warontherocks.com/2023/10/getting-sporty-in-russias-...

The US is also upset that Russia had been making its own Arctic ECS claims through proper legal channels:

> Russia has cleared the scientific burden of proof required to have its extended continental shelf claim legitimized. Decades of scientific research, Arctic missions, and information exchanges with Denmark and Canada have resulted in the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf dubbing the majority of Moscow’s claim to an extended Arctic continental shelf to be “valid.”

https://warontherocks.com/2023/05/russias-gains-in-the-great...
> I also disable DoH

Why? DoH is good for privacy.
When/if biomarkers come out, you should do a test for Long COVID. The persistence studies are pretty telling and it is very possible that lingering viral antigen may be causing these issues for you and a large chunk of the global population.

Other folks like me have more syndromic Long COVID where it affects many more organs and it is a bit more obvious that it was a direct result of a COVID infection or vaccination(post vaccination syndrome is absolutely a thing).
I hacked a BIG prize web game hosted by a popular supermarket chain
A few years back, a well-known supermarket chain, part of Delhaize Belgium, set up a prize game.

It was a web game where your prizes depended on your ranking.
Since it was a web-based game, you can guess what might happen With a few tricks, I managed to tweak the scoring logic.
I could award myself as many points as I wanted in each round.

The prizes were items worth more than $50 and there were over 100,000 items up for grabs.

After realizing this and placing myself high on the leaderboard with way more points than anyone else, I reached out to someone at Delhaize, via Linkedin, and let them know about this serious vulnerabilities in their game.

It's unbelievable, but they never fixed it, nor did they cancel the game.
Of course, I never claimed my prizes, but it's quite a story about how nonchalant they were about the whole thing.
Or maybe he just wanted to show how it worked, but actually not disable the toilet for others.....?

Holy crap, you and the person you're replying to sounds much worse and annoying than what this person did on the train. Get down from your high horses.
ChatGPT will become irrelevant if it stays on the same path.
Opioids are highly addictive and overdoses are deadly.

Antidepressants increase suicide risks for some while decreasing for majority, saving large numbers.

More people in US die of overdose than suicide.
Serves a somewhat different target but yes. Other one is a proxy, this one is made by NPR.
Are you sure it didn't?
DVDs exist. This hypothetical is answered.
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LOL. I did the same thing with a Coca-Cola site and their MD wrote me a nasty letter and removed my account.
Yet you don't know nothing, you believe in catastrophic scenarios.

We can measure anecdotaly that temperature is slightly rising. The reason why is it happening and happend in history multiple times is topic for debate that we can explore.

However your tone is not open for debate and use exactly same words as those you fight against.
I'm missing some actionable advice. Obviously "just leave the primary requirement in the chain unfulfilled" is the first step. Maybe it resolves itself later or will not be required at all. But I often see situations, where the solution would be to "shave the yak so you and everyone else can do X". But probably this is part of the "maybe it resolves itself later" strategy, just from the other perspective.
On a somewhat related note, it's my opinion that Slack could be using private DMs for advertising purposes. My friends and I were skeptical at first after they started getting ads in Instagram/FB and other platforms immediately after we'd mention a product. We figured it was coming from another source. We then started testing it by mentioning products in our private chats that we'd never searched or talked about elsewhere (Fish Food for example, none of us have pet fish). Lo and behold we'd start getting ads for them.
tl;dr the FT/HN reported data may have flaws; based on a slightly different data set TFA finds:

- Since the 1990s, both men and women have become more likely to identify as liberal.

- Women are more likely to identify as liberal by 5-10 percentage points.

- There is no evidence that the ideology gap is growing.

(in particular for the last point, TFA points out the wide error bands resulting from noisy data)
This is how everything goes.

To build a house, it used to be necessary to hire experienced craftsmen. Now most of it is delivered pre-fabricated to the building site and laborers hired for the day nail it together.

Cars used to be hand built by machinists and metalworkers. Now laborers tighten a bolt as cars roll by on an assembly line. Or a robot does it.

Computer coding is going the same way. We lived and worked through the craftsman stage. Now we're becoming laborers.
> Duolingo creates dopamine hits under the facade of learning a language (which you never do).

If you're using duolingo as your only source for learning a language, yeah.
It's a flashcard app when you get to brass tacks. You won't learn a language by only use flashcards.

As a supplemental tool, it's great.
Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5B Valuation in IPO
The full paper is here: https://gitclear-public.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Coding-on...
> spends most of his time playing video games

... badly. This to me is one of the funniest parts of the story. He wasn't even good at it[1][2].

[1]: https://milkyeggs.com/crypto/what-happened-at-alameda-resear...

[2]: https://www.ft.com/content/23ab2258-ce03-4fbb-a9b2-7d9ec6e3d...
I'm not sure optimizing for interesting would help - it's hard to find genius in a story about building a crypto exchange then lying about it's financials.
The real news here is that the authors have apparently found an objective and universal measure of code quality.
A blog explaining the idea and steps to simulate the diffusion equation using p5.js
I think it's even more precious that the boy has learned how to learn and has developed a taste for achievement based on a dopamine loop that doesn't employ sugar or special effects in 4K.
Nothing in this article pertains to actual research - development has always included elements of design. Interesting article otherwise though.

I've been in an organisation that was actively winding down the research side of R&D. Lots of chemists and physicists let go, or at least not replaced. Projects that had gone nowhere for years canned; people with no output for years canned. More focus on product roadmaps. What's really weird is that every step seemed pretty reasonable, but the overall capability was much less in the end. It's really tricky.
World society is just a bunch of individuals so some have to do something.

Re global regulation you need to get the main players like the US, China and Russia to agree some sort of policy which is tricky but might be possible if people lobby their politicians.
I decided to use ChatGPT to build a clone of Yourls using Django/Python. I gave it specific instructions to not only allow for a custom shortened URL but to track the traffic. It didn’t properly contemplate how to do that in the logic or data model. I had to feed it specific instructions afterwards to get it fixed.

AI tools are akin to having a junior developer working for you. Except they are much much faster.

If you don’t know what you’re doing they just accelerate the pace that you make mistakes.
Glad to be corrected re: the composition of the vestibules! I've not only tried to read up on the topic, but also had chronic labyrinthitis and had a doctor try to explain what was happening there — and in neither case was the explanation anywhere near enlightening as the one you just gave :)

> You can only feel, via these organs, the 2nd derivative of position (0th derivative - position, 1st derivative - velocity, 2nd derivative - acceleration)

Well, sure, but the thing that I meant by "builds a picture" isn't just what you're feeling (which, indeed, is acceleration, not position), but also the information the brain has available to predict with.

IIRC, I've read about "hardwired neural logic" (i.e. a brain function outside of our conscious awareness that we have from birth) for flow-state obstacle avoidance in known environments, which involves the brain doing internal dead reckoning based on integrating over its acceleration-picture of the body — thus allowing a person to e.g. make their way home through a forest they've walked through a million times, with their eyes closed, yet stepping over tree roots at just the right time.

Dead reckoning over an integration of the acceleration-picture also seems to come into play with proprioception. Thus why people who are given a local nerve block in an arm, might end up smacking themselves in the face with said arm when trying to e.g. adjust their glasses. They're missing the feedback signals† from the arm that would allow them to compute the acceleration of the arm, and therefore the moment-to-moment position of the arm.

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† I'd love to know how the brain figures out what the acceleration forces being applied to the extremities are. I'm guessing you'd probably be almost the right person to know the answer to that question! (The perfect person would be one of those "prosthetic arm you can feel" researchers.)

I know the brain is getting signals back from the muscles in the extremity — how flexed they are, how much work they're having to do to keep in position — and that's probably a majority of the information needed... presuming you are flexing the muscle.

But we still know where our limbs are in space even when we have them "loose." So there's likely an additional component — the one that allows people without numbness in their extremities, to avoid being smacked in the face by their own hand when someone picks their arm up and drops it above their face while they're asleep.

My naive guess for what that data source could be: pressure on blood vessels. As you move the extremity, the blood drags behind the limb, and so some blood vessels feel an temporary increase in pressure, and others a temporary decrease in pressure. The brain then takes the derivative of the blood pressure data; builds a map of blood pressure deltas; and then "recognizes", in each extremity's picture, the accelerations upon the extremity.
I like Matt Levine's take on Going Infinite:

> Many of the reviews that I have read of the book complain that Lewis does not sufficiently explain that Bankman-Fried is Guilty and Bad, Actually, but that is not the book that he wanted to write or the one I want to read. He wanted to understand and explain Bankman-Fried’s psychology and tell a good story. If you want to read a moral condemnation of crypto theft, you can get that anywhere. You go to Michael Lewis for character and story.

Michael Lewis does characters, not subjects.
Maybe it's worth reevaluating our definition of quality?

In a world where AI can read our codebase, ingest a prompt, and quickly output "correct" if not clean and concise code, and then be able to iterate on code with more prompt, do we need all the same patterns we used to adopt when humans were painstakingly writing every line of code?

This reminds of of the CISC to RISC migration - now that computers are in the loop writing the tedious parts, we don't need to burden our codebase with patterns meant to relieve humans from the tedium.

I find myself, for instance, writing more long form, boring configuration files that once upon a time I would have built some abstraction reduce the boilerplate and verbosity. But now that co-pilot can just auto-complete the next section for me, why bother?
I'm a junior, and I have Codeium installed in VSCode. I've found it very distracting most of the times, I don't really understand why so many people uses this kind of assistants.

I find stuff like Phind useful, in the sense that sometimes something happens that I don't understand, and 60% of the times Phind actually helps me to understand the problem. Like finding trivial bugs that I didn't spot because I'm tired, dumb, etc.

On the other hand, with Codeium, I guess it may be useful when you're just churning boilerplate code for some framework, but in my little expericence (writing scrapers and stupid data pipelines & vanilla JS + HTML/CSS) cycling through suggestions is very irritating, specially because many times it doesn't work. Most of the times for stupid reasons, like lacking an argument or something like that, but then it's time you have to spend debugging it.

Another problem I have is that I find there's a common style of JS which consist in daisy-chaining a myriad of methods and anonymous functions, and I really struggle with this. I like to break stuff into lines, name my functions and variables, etc. And so many times code suggestions follow this style. I guess it's what they've been trained on.

Codeium is supposed to learn from this, and sometimes it does, to be fair.

But what I worry the most is that, If I'm a junior and I let this assistants do the code for me ¿How the hell I'm supposed to learn? Because giving Phind context + questions helps me learn or gives me direction to go on find it by myself in the internet, but if the only thing I do is press tab, I don't know how the hell I'm supposed to learn.

I found a couple days ago that many people (including devs) are not using LLMs to get better but it's just a substitute of their effort. Isn't people afraid of this? Not because companies are going to replace you, but it's also a self-reflection issue.

Coding is not the passion of my life, addmitedly, but I like it. I like it because it helps me to make stuff happen and to handle complexity. If you can't understand what's happening you won't be able to make stuff happen and much less to spot when is complexity going to eat you.
> In every case it turned out to be a known vulnerability that we had been too slow to patch.

Yes. This is why relying on "patching" is a bound to fail at some point. Maybe it's a 0-day, or maybe the attackers are just quicker.

The solution to this is defence in depth, and it's very easy for most services, especially when self-hosting personal things. Few tips most people can do is.

Put up a firewall in front or put it behind VPN/tailscale.

Hide it in a subfolder. The automated attacks will go for /phpmyadmin/ , putting it in /mawer/phpmyadmin/ means 99.9% of the attackers won't find it. (This is sometimes called security by obscurity and people correctly say you should not rely on it, but as a additional layer it's very useful).

Sandbox the app, and isolate the server. If the attackers get in, make it hard or impossible for them to get anywhere else.

Keep logs, they allow you to check if and how you got attacked, if the attack succeeded and so on.

Depending on the service, pick one or more of these. Add more as necessary.

The key thing is that you should not rely on any ONE defence, be it keeping it patched or firewalled, because they will all fail at some point.
When do these values get into memory, shouldn't they be in registers generally? Maybe it's when the program loaded to memory to execute, but is that part rowhammerable?
Behold, the lightning is the ascendency of Man.

- Zarathustra
I burned out, quit my job, travelled a while and in the end fell in love with coding again. Coding doesn't burn out, boring coding does.
My mother is Sicilian and she always keeps some of the pasta water aside to add if the sauce ended up too dry.
Train toilets have become complex systems since the days of there just being basically a hole the floor. This is due to many factors such as not having to prevent people from using them when at a station or people getting hit by sewage in the country side when a train passes. Additionally the toilets need to be accessible and environmental friendly nowadays.

Sadly all of this adds complexity and more possibilities for failure.

In Switzerland we have bioreactors [1] in newer trains which are like a mini sewage treatment plants. These are still very new and still have bugs that are being worked out such as how much oxygen needs to be provided etc. Until recently it caused a bad smell at the main station which is ironic since that is what we used to have in the 80s with the old dumb toilets.

[1] https://news.sbb.ch/artikel/114447/unangenehmer-geruch-aus-b... (German)
Coding and software development are an amazing outlet for creativity. Software developers have the potential to do truly amazing, fun, useful things.

I think that's why coding on the weekends is such a prevalent "problem". Of course, I don't think it's "the" problem at all.
I've always considered this Malcolm in the Middle scene to perfectly explain Yak Shaving (a number of years before Yak Shaving was a thing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

But as you mentioned, No Yaks included however