skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re not in it you don’t see it but after seeing sufficiently faked fluorescence studies I believe nothing. On the Internet some expert HN user will tell you how “it’s worth noting that there is some evidence” and it’s probably some faked science on photoshopped fluorescence study. Useless crap in a worm. And it’s not even real.

But you can’t tell anyone this because they’ll circle the wagons. “Oh yeah, you think science is blah blah blah”.
> If your telemetry tells you that a _very large number of people_ are using it, and you have complaints from a number of people who have _never used it_ (or disabled telemetry), that tells you there's value in what you're doing.

This is how you lose thousand seats enterprise licensing deals without even realizing it.

> That's a false equivalence to OP's point - there's a _stark_ different between telemetry and phoning home with training data.

Yeah, arguably the former is worse. In the latter case, the data is actually relevant to the product and there's a chance of the user directly benefiting from it.
Stack technologies tend to bound contexts based on technologies and not on domain boundaries.

This is why we see all these products targeted at companies with 24 microservices with 26 developers who have to run end to end testing on everything.

Architectural erosion is primarily a cultural issue and any tool that helps people discover and call out architectural violations is potentially useful.

Many companies can't just do the inverse Conway law, and if you look at the state of devops report, note how they call out CAB forums and controls being problematic for even high performing companies to become elite.

This product as an example, which just really means you want to keep k8s but have given up on loose coupling and high cohesion.

https://www.signadot.com/blog/how-uber-and-doordash-enable-d...

Throwing products at structure problems typically doesn't work.
> language necessitates code degenerating into spaghetti

I'm by no means a thoroughly vested expert, so my speculation has little merit here.

However if I had to guess code becoming spaghetti is more a symptom of collaboration between many individuals over a span of time rather than an issue with a specific programming language.

Everyone has preferences and different backgrounds, various "best practices" they've been taught or adhere to.

So when all those little differences merge together over time you get globs and hard to follow code due to changes in conventions or just being lazy when meeting a deadline.
This is gonna sound weird as hell, but I would really dig implementing this on a doc repo with CCS (component content), where you re-use document modules[1]. Why do I care? Because some modules support way too much complexity, and entropy is a pretty good measurement of that.

[1] Asciidoc/RsT (include directive for both), XML (DITA/S1000D/DocBook/etc, each with different transclude mechanisms), any markup that supports transclusion.
That’s what progressive did when our older car was totaled by hail.
It wasn’t just Craigslist but it was some similar ones available- and averaged. They’d go buy one for us, or give us the cash, or (what we did) is give us back the car and most of the cash.
Could be, but the #1 reason for sickness is moving in VR while not physically moving. Like on the Oculus moving with the stick which the VP doesn't have.

This is simply a requirement for most games, there's a really tiny subset with the user in a small space where they only move naturally by actually moving. Like Beat Saber. I think this is one of the reason it's so popular. I personally don't care for this kind of game, I love exploring complex environments.

It's true that some people still get it, often due to low framerate or vergence accommodation conflict. But these issues can be avoided with high framerates and not sticking stuff too close to the user.

The remaining users that are still experiencing some nausea are really few and far between.
>This is a huge problem. When fraud is rewarded over legitimate research we lose so many times.

I’d generalize this further and say we have an underlying economy and society that rewards fraud over what should be happening widespread. It’s happening everywhere and lying seems to be one of the best strategies to success. With competitive pressures increasing, it’s often even worth the risk. This may have always been the case but the population at large seems to be more cognizant of it and taking action on it. Politics, business, everywhere deceit is rampant. It may in some cases be “allowed” forms of lying or skirting around the truth but underlying behavior is the same here: avoiding the truth for one’s own self gain. There’s few if any establishments I trust anymore. I just assume everyone everywhere is lying for their own goals.
I think he was at UC Berkeley at a time in the 90s and dropped out into industry when he would have been exposed to a rosy, elitist, R&D tilted view of programming. Where one might both hear myths and have social contact with some 70s-80s giants.

This would be very different experience than someone bumping around in the equivalent of b2b/enterprise software of that era...
Remaking the App Store
everything is an 'epidemic' these days....
> The lack of documentation, testing, and reviews comes from the top down and hasn’t really ever existed.

There's youranswer. No one believes these things are important and - surprise - their behavior aligns.

If these things matter to you then it feels like it's time to update your CV and look to move on.
If you have the cash you might as well just skip the loan, unless it’s unconscionably low.
You're really not saying anything meaningful. Whether something is a "natural aspect of humanity" doesn't mean anything at all about how we should discuss and handle it.

Humans have murdered each other for as long as we've existed. Would you advocate for "thoughtful discourse" on how to better integrate this fully natural aspect of humanity into our society? Has all of our generations of telling people "just say no" to murdering each other just conditioned our society to reject thoughtful discourse on murder?
> In my opinion, this process is not designed to improve the employee.

Sorry, but no shit. The boss wanted her husband gone. Period, full stop.

Look, no matter how charismatic/great/competent you are, there's always going to be someone that doesn't like you. The article gives no history or indication about how long her husband had worked for his boss or their relationship prior. Maybe the boss is a psychopath, just came in and decided he didn't like the husband and wanted him out. Maybe it's a genuine personality conflict. Being put on a PIP is the way to do that.

Is it fair? Is it good for the company? Of course not, but this is Amazon we're talking about. There are plenty of people lined up as replacements.

Soft skills matter. If you can't please you're boss, if you're not aligned, you need to sense that and start looking for other options. Sometimes, though you'll still get blindsided.
That was merciful. You went easy on that guy, mentioning only items of cultural and religious significance. Next time hit him with the big guns - Ethiopian contributions to theoretical physics, chemistry, architecture, engineering, philosophy, industry, computer science, and pure mathematics.
You want a real DIY MBA?

Start a company.

That's it. :D
I googled "plastic harm", immediately hit this Wikipedia page (linked to relevant section):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_pollution#Effects

It's fairly well sourced. Some examples of harm from plastics, mostly on the environment:

> Degradation (changes in the ecosystem state) and modifications of marine systems are associated with loss of ecosystem services and values.

> in 2019, production and incineration of plastic will contribute greenhouse gases in the equivalent of 850 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere

> For example, in Bangkok flood risk increases substantially because of plastic waste clogging the already overburdened sewer system.

> Marine wildlife such as seabirds, whales, fish and turtles mistake plastic waste for prey; most then die of starvation as their stomachs become filled with plastic. They also suffer from lacerations, infections, reduced ability to swim, and internal injuries.

> When analyzing the effect of polyethylene microbeads (origin: cosmetic exfoliants) on the aquatic macrophyte L. minor, no effect on photosynthetic pigments & productivity was found, but root growth and root cell viability decreased.

But this one's about humans:

> By affecting the thyroid hormone axis, BPA exposure can lead to hypothyroidism.
crypto-shilling? you can easily enable/disable the wallet feature.

no offense, but this is an ignorant comment. we're in 2024. come join us.
We have a whole grifter-industrial complex built around milking your own $10k PIP for any little thing that happens.
It's baffling even the police don't care enough to enforce this.
We have, but we didn’t try enough types of medication to find an ideal fit. I suspect the right medication would be helpful. The more extreme the ADHD the higher the concentration of medication is required to achieve normal functioning which means high side effects.

To understand the complexity of brain medication requires an understanding of the problem. For ADHD the problem is both dopamine and low serotonin. Dopamine is complicated and moderating for it has second and third order consequences the ill cannot see. Solving for serotonin is simple and the results are crystal clear. So it seems many of the medications attempt to adjust for both with various degrees of success. When a person with ADHD attempts to self medicate with drugs, stimulants, or bad food choices they are solving for serotonin up take and it doesn’t work.

Another problem with medications in high concentrations is body tolerance which eventually eliminates the value of the medication and medication can run out.

Currently we are working through behavior modification of risk/reward. If you lose something you don’t have it anymore so perform a deep dive on that emotional consequence to think of solutions and planning to address that moving forward. This is working but it’s supremely and requires overcoming lots of adversity.
If all in house…

Samba is typical.

However I have heard that Windows can support NFS too.

And in fact I have read that you can setup both over the same files.
It's just soooo cynical that the guy stoking the crazies and trying to burn it all down wants personal protection. Absolute fucking douchlord.
Same for Lifestraw pitcher
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2631/0778/files/Performanc...
Visa Europe had an outage for a few hours in 2018. see https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/1/17418684/visa-cards-europe...

Canada's payment network had an outage for over an hour last year, 2023 Sep 23. see https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/moneris-network-outage-1.6976...
> My anecdotal experience as a user is that softwre used to crash a lot more than today. I rarely experience crashes these days. Maybe once a month at the most.

I presume you don't use Windows.
Here (New Zealand) all wine at all price points, have screw caps
It used to be, but there's a pandemic of the blue flu going around. Cops have been quiet quitting for 4 years because they want to be able to murder with impunity again.
> people opt for that less and less these days

Do they? Could be my bubble, but I’m hearing stories how moving away from clouds to bare metal dramatically lowered costs, even accounting for having to hire some sysadmins who know how to deal with this stuff.

And those who aren’t that brave are still fed up with cloud nonsense and are rebuilding cloud stuff themselves (like setting up replacements for insanely overpriced AWS NAT Gateway.)

Clouds were definitely the way to go just a few years ago - and still are, but I believe folks are more and more wary of their drawbacks. And they understand they’re not Google so they don’t really need all those insanely complex but highly scalable solutions for their stuff.

Could be just my bubble, though. I’m most definitely biased here.
Why does Isreal have such a high birthrate?
Quora also comingles ads with content, and the ads look almost identical to content. Quora has become unpleasant and unusable in the past decade, and I only end up there on accident.

I just logged in out of curiosity, and I have an avalanche of “notifications” that are just pathetic — “Dark Psychology Facts posted in a space you might like: ‘Can a human win in a battle with a hyena?’”
Patroni or pg_auto_failover work well enough.
https://archive.is/gZxkD
How Much Water Is There on Earth? (2019)
3D bioprinting of human neural tissues with functional connectivity [pdf]
As for those refunds, Californians are still waiting for about $3.5 billion of the $5.5 billion that Consumer Watchdog estimates policyholders are owed for pandemic-era overcharges.

The matter still hasn’t been fully resolved, say the state’s insurance officials, who argue that rate hike decisions aren’t interfering with unfulfilled rebates.

“These are separate processes,” said Michael Soller

Don't forget fraud isn't covered in econ 101.
Its not always about whether your direct boss wants you gone. I've seen the decision made from higher up in the org and/or HR based primarily (if not entirely) on compensation. The company needs you gone either because they want to backfill with a lower salaried hire, or you are in line for a large stock vestment.
> AD&D (accidental death and disability) is the closest you’ll come. It’s most commonly offered by workplaces I believe, and is not expensive. On the flip side the situations it pays out are pretty narrow.

This is the problem. Those policies usually cover “unable to work at all” which is extremely narrow (some won’t pay out if you can do any job anywhere, even if you were a doctor lawyer 10 programmer CEO before).

You can find a policy to cover stay at home spouses, but they’re often somewhat custom, expensive, and only pay out until children are X age. Long-term care can also be added, even more.
Self-hosted Nextcloud would be good for this
I have a quick question, maybe someone can help. They talk about a yearly income of 10 million Yen, so roughly 70 000 US$.
Where i live i pay pretty high income tax. Do these 10 million Yen refer to the money that actually ends up on my bank account, or the amount before tax and health insurance is deducted?
Because if they take the amount of money, before i pay tax, it would work, otherwise i am not even close.
I have not found any information concerning this, did i miss something?
I got a Quest 2 mostly for entertainment, but using it for productivity reasons is basically a no go for me, due to the lenses (blurry near the edges and some light streaks for any off-center text, not sure what the correct name for that is) and overall resolution (can't even have my actual 4 monitors present without having to make them so big that each takes up like 90 degrees of my field of vision).

I feel like I really should have waited for Quest 3, not have gotten a Quest 2 because it was cheaper. Then again, I quite like the concept of VR and if some of the software wasn't so buggy (currently I need to run GPU drivers from 2020 for my RX 580, since the newer ones cause driver crashes), I can definitely imagine myself spending more time in VR! Except for eye strain and basically staring into super bright screens close to my face.

Once I eventually get there, just chilling in space, with a few floating windows and getting some work done will be a pretty zen experience. Just have to wait a while until the hardware becomes more affordable.
I've worked with similar systems in gamedev. To be exact, we downloaded 2d images and then managed image atlases with them — so we needed to update renderers not only when image they required was downloaded and included in an atlas, but also when an atlas with their image was rebuilt.

To be honest, the system that we designed wasn't that dissimilar from promises. It was a dynamic collection of callbacks (using built-in C# events), not unlike then/catch delegates. I've worked on it about 10-12 years ago, exactly when JS world had discussions on what flavour of promises was the best, and it was one of the main sources of inspiration.
Don't Call It a Sellout
Looked in several places, but I can’t figure out exactly what sort of microcontroller they aim to support… are we talking ATmega? ESP32? ARM Cortex M? All of those?
> will triple in the central Paris districts to €18 ($19) per hour. For six hours downtown, the charge will be €225

that doesn't math out
lol yeah. I am fucking stupid
Engineers are under more pressure to cut costs than make things long lasting. Imagine if businesses were in control of evolution.
i have been thinking about using a real city map as a grid. each building and each open space is a block. that would make for some interesting challenges, especially when the blocks are colored like a real map. would fit well with the bomb squad idea. although i would design fictional cities, as a real city might make people feel uncomfortable given real bomb threats happening in some places
They mentioned Aurora. That's AWS's solution to database clusters and it can do fancy HA.
These people usually have no assets.

They own nothing and are happy. Or in jail.

It’s called being judgement proof and basically lets you ignore civil penalties.
Reminds me of [HCL](https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl), but without all the providers to deploy the config?
Good and safe fully fenced playgrounds away from cars are important - both open-air and closed for the rainy/snowy days. So a bunch of families can leave there children and even a single parent can look after them for an hour or two. Children like playing with each other, just make it available, so the parents can read a newspaper/work on their Macbook without being scared to look away from their child for a minute.

Same thing with kids rooms in cafes/restaurants/public places - they should be mandated by state for big establishments
>Maybe make it harder for your company to footgun your golden goose?

As someone who has started a "content contributed by users" website recently (golfcourse.wiki), I've thought long and hard about why the enshitification creep happens. I really think it happens because most of the people who start these businesses either need to take venture capital to survive, or are looking for a way to sell the business to retire rich af.

I thought long and hard about a monetization strategy, and I've got a few in my mind that don't suck. However, to achieve those goals, the project has to stay a side project and it has to run on a shoe string budget.

Call me an optimist, but in the long run, I think we will replace our enshitified websites with more open ones, the slow but steady growth fediverse shows this is happening, it's just that it won't happen fast enough for most of us to be satisfied consumers.

I just think we are looking at this through the lens of consumers, not generous creators. I occasionally help edit Wikipedia, and it looks like about 10,000-to-1, at best, people who contribute to my dumb little site. If we're all willing to waste a bit of time we can build some pretty cool sites, but there always needs to be a way for users to capture that good if the company turns evil instead of the company trying to capture the users for profit.

I see it as, well, a sort of mexican-standoff relationship that Wikipedia has built for itself (for lack of a better term). Basically, we won't enshitify the website because you'll just copy-paste it, but you won't copy-paste it because you know it's a waste of time right now. If you don't need to squeeze revenues, that's a very good relationship for long-term success.
Author summary

Contrasting continental signatures of positive natural selection have been previously found in the human SLC30A9 gene encoding the protein ZnT9, which transports zinc across cell membranes. Here we investigate the genetic variants that have been targeted by natural selection in the surrounding region of this gene and which molecular and whole-body changes may have brought about. We found that two major SLC30A9 variant combinations (haplotypes) that are extremely frequent in Africa and East Asia, respectively, are expressed differentially. These two haplotypes also differ at one site that creates an amino acid difference at ZnT9; the version most often found outside Africa avoiding zinc overload in the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria and directly influencing mitochondrial activity. Moreover, we found that this substitution, which is known to be associated with greater susceptibility to several neuropsychiatric disorders, is present in the Denisova and displays accompanying patterns of variation that could be suggestive of adaptive introgression. Since mitochondria play an important role in skeletal muscle energy metabolism, we speculate that adaptation to cold may have driven this selection event outside Africa, while also impacting predisposition to neuropsychiatric disorders in modern humans.

Abstract

SLC30A9 encodes a ubiquitously zinc transporter (ZnT9) and has been consistently suggested as a candidate for positive selection in humans. However, no direct adaptive molecular phenotype has been demonstrated. Our results provide evidence for directional selection operating in two major complementary haplotypes in Africa and East Asia. These haplotypes are associated with differential gene expression but also differ in the Met50Val substitution (rs1047626) in ZnT9, which we show is found in homozygosis in the Denisovan genome and displays accompanying signatures suggestive of archaic introgression. Although we found no significant differences in systemic zinc content between individuals with different rs1047626 genotypes, we demonstrate that the expression of the derived isoform (ZnT9 50Val) in HEK293 cells shows a gain of function when compared with the ancestral (ZnT9 50Met) variant. Notably, the ZnT9 50Val variant was found associated with differences in zinc handling by the mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum, with an impact on mitochondrial metabolism. Given the essential role of the mitochondria in skeletal muscle and since the derived allele at rs1047626 is known to be associated with greater susceptibility to several neuropsychiatric traits, we propose that adaptation to cold may have driven this selection event, while also impacting predisposition to neuropsychiatric disorders in modern humans.
LEDs are often straight swapped into housings designed for halogen bulbs. Doesn't matter if it's a tiny sports car or a huge F350 truck, replacing bulbs this way to going to throw light where it shouldn't be. For vehicles with headlights higher up from the road, they're more likely to end up shining in the eyes of other drivers, but it's still a problem of wrong bulb, wrong housing. Larger vehicles can have LEDs that have a beam pattern that casts light the appropriate area but this usually means a whole new headlight assembly instead of a bulb swap and even then, many of the aftermarket products aren't designed with property beam patterns in mind.

While there are guides available on adjusting headlights, they can only help so much when there's a bad combination of LED bulb, halogen housing, and high headlight height. Merely angling the housing downwards won't solve the problem of improper equipment combinations. Wish places like AutoZone offered free or inexpensive a beam pattern analysis service like they do with checking batteries and error codes. Lots of people don't even know their bulb swap is causing problems for others.
I was hit by an incompetent driver and burned through $40K in medical expenses of the $50K mandatory PIP in my state. It is a nice thing to have when it's needed.
I know some teams that are hiring Rust devs. Please feel free to ping me if you would like to know more.