skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's a good way of looking at it. We gradually remove technical constraints and move to a higher level of abstraction, much closer to the level of the user and the business rather than the individual machine. But what's the endpoint of this? There will probably always be a need for expert-level troubleshooters and optimizers who understand all the layers, but for the rest of us, I'm wondering if the job wouldn't generally become more product management than engineering.
WeKan has MIT license. As maintainer of WeKan, I'm adding major new features to WeKan. WeKan features are listed at https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Deep-Dive-Into-WeKan

Planka changed from MIT license to AGPL-3.0 license https://github.com/plankanban/planka

There is Planka fork 4gaBoards with MIT license at https://github.com/RARgames/4gaBoards , newest change one hour ago.
I've been on 10,000 IU daily for longer than that, its the only thing that brought me up into the normal range, and my doctor just does periodic blood tests (for either it going high or any signs of the problems that can come from it being too high) and has it listed with my current medication in my chart.

The miscommunication seems to be in her care team: symptoms associated with high vitamin D occurred, she was known to be on a high supplemental dose, but it was months of progressively worsening symptoms before anyone put 2 and 2 together.

Vitamin D seems less of the issue here than sharing and/or appropriately considering medical records
Doing ML Research: Gates Open, Come on In
I'll frequently get text messages from unknown numbers that I believe are part of this or a similar scam. I just ignore them. It's tempting to get angry at people trying to scam you like this and at the thought that more gullible and vulnerable people might fall for it. It's quite sobering to consider that the person at the other end of the line is literally a slave forced to do this.
> On top of all that, root veggies and leafy greens absorb a lot of toxins

Fantastic. I felt really good about myself starting to eat leafy greens consistently this year. There is no escape from the poison.
I can walk with my toddler and infant and post c-section wife. I can't bike ride with them.

Of course, I can also drive almost anywhere with them.
I understand that the MSM hates Elon Musk but it's sad that they have to spread misinformation about Ketamine Therapy in their lust for clicks.

It's had amazing results for treating depression -> https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/ketamine-for-treatment-r...
> I agree, but "1" must include all tasks where a mistake could lead to liabilities for the company, which is probably most tasks

If you hire a junior programmer and they make a mistake, they aren't held liable either. Sure, you can fire them, but unless there's malice or gross negligence the liability buck stops at the company. The same can be said about the wealth of software currently involved in producing software and making decisions. The difficulty of suing Microsoft or the llvm project over compiler bugs hasn't stopped anyone from using their compilers.

I don't see how LLMs are meaningful different from a company assuming liability for employees they hire or software they run. Even if they were AGI it wouldn't meaningfully change anything. You make a decision whether the benefits outweigh the risks, and adjust that calculation as you get more data on both benefits and risks. Right now companies are hesitant because the risks are both large and uncertain, but as we get better at understanding and mitigating them LLMs will be used more.
Same here. I'm pleasantly surprised when I try a new itinerary, and now it's mostly bike lanes. Even 5 years ago, it was 50/50 whether there was a proper separated bike lane you could use.

I also remember 20 years ago, when a car was a normal way to move around in Paris. It hasn't been the case for several years for me now.

Around 2019/2020, something important happened: the critical mass for bicycle infrastructure was crossed, and nearly overnight a lot of people started cycling (no doubt helped by 2019 strikes and 2020 covid lanes). Since then, bicycles are a common sight everywhere.
So 12,000,000 nanometre wires (in imperial)
Yeah but how will I get ~customized ads~ served to me? What if big-ad-tech doesn't know I'm tangentially interested in garage door opener content??
I'll take the other side of that bet.

It's reasonable to expect that sometime relatively soon, AI will be a clear-cut aid to developer productivity. At the moment, I consider it a wash. Chatbots don't clearly save me time, but they clearly save me effort, which is a more important resource to conserve.

Software is still heavily rate-limited by how much of it developers can write. Making it possible for them to write more will result in more software, rather than fewer developers. I've seen nothing from AI, either in production or on the horizon, that suggests that it will meaningfully lower the barrier to entry for practicing the profession, let alone enable non-developers to do the work developers do. It will make it easier for the inexperienced to do tasks which need a bit of scripting, which is good.
I am very uncomfortable with this paper to be called scientific research. It certainly appears the author had extensive life experiences, but does not demonstrate any of the data he collected.

> If you are a medical professional and have been trained in a “civilised” country you probably know next to nothing about the primate Homo sapiens and how they survive in the wild.

Starting off by insulting an entire population and making assumptions about what they do or do not know is odd. The disrespect continues on how an entire medical field "do not know that nature has provided". The author continues on to further disrespect by moving medical professionals in to "so called civilised people", and makes medical conclusions of "suffer[ing] unnecessarily from musculoskeletal problems".

And, this is just in the first paragraph. The second paragraph goes into the author's background how he lived amongst tribal people, commanded a platoon of African soldiers, and organized expeditions to meet native peoples and study their sleeping and resting postures.

> I tried to carry out surveys to collect evidence but they were meaningless

The author collected evidence, and the evidence was meaningless (alternative hypothesis false?) so... he discarded it? Would it not make sense to attach it and explain why it was meaningless?

One of the conclusions is

> Forest dwellers and nomads suffer fewer musculoskeletal lesions

but then...

> Arabs in the Sahara will sit in the position shown

How is the Arabs in the Sahara backing up forest dwellers conclusion?

NIH publishing this is odd. At least it was not written by ChatGPT.
Better safe than sorry... Absolutely. If you work with a company, where you cannot guarantee that no tracking will be injected into their users computers, then you better add the disclaimer.

Also, if you feel certain, and a ready to defend in court, that practices you have on your website does not constitute tracking. Then you don't have to show the banner either.

Personally, I am much more pragmatic about these regulations - with good reason. I still have to hear about some small innocent company hit with a massive fine. Empirically speaking, it is mostly huge multinational companies with plenty of resources to manage these things down into details who have gotten fines after repeat offences.

All in all. If you assume malicious regulators, then it is going to be stressful to work in a market. From US influence, I also do understand the sentiment, though it is rarely mirrored with EU citizens who generally don't assume hostile regulation.
I think about the logistics and shipping and manufacturing and packaging and warehousing and manual labor when I buy a $12 tea kettle made on the other side of the planet.

I don't really understand how it's profitable.
I think this is a good analogy and I agree that the intent of the law was not to force websites to have a cookie banner, it was just the side effect.

What I think we are missing is a browser option/API that lets the user choose the acceptable tracking level. Similar to the do not track header but more fine grained.

As we are missing that, extensions are doing a good job ATM

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/consent-o-matic/mdj...

https://addons.mozilla.org/ro/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

I found pretty late about Consent-o matic and it saved me a ton of time handling banners. It's exactly what we should have built-in the browser.
I'm not saying it's an either/or choice, but I'd rather trust articles written by obsessed old dude experts rather than articles written by "publish or perish" academics citing 100 other p-hacked "publish or perish" articles.
That's exactly what the comment I was replying to said.

An alternative explanation is that nature is some peaceful place where no animal ever gets hurt, for any reason... What would be a purely comedic exercise if people weren't believing this one all over the thread.
New Studies Find No Evidence of Brain Injury in Havana Syndrome Cases
I'm European and in a very particular sector, so YMMV, but some thoughts:

I do a bunch of interviews, just finished one about an hour ago actually. If you've gotten as far as an interview, great stuff! Most CVs go right in the bin.

There'll be a few things on your application that caught the recruiters' eye. No-one wants to waste time interviewing people who they don't think can do the job, on paper at least. You're doing well.

When I'm interviewing, I have three broad questions in my head, in pretty much this order of importance.

a) What is this person going to be like to work with?

b) What can they do that we / the other candidates can't?

c) Was this person honest on their CV?

On a) People want to work with nice people. At least one of the interviewers will be spending a lot of time with you. It depends on the role and company, but particularly with less experienced candidates where the need for some learning is a given, I'd much rather have someone nice than a highly-skilled arsehole.

You want to be relaxed and confident. Tough without experience, but don't sweat it, I have a practical suggestion below. Also smile and make some eye contact, and you're allowed to have a light bit of humour about you. You can use that bit before things get rolling properly for a _very_ light bit of banter. Get things off to a good start.

In terms of getting that confidence? Have you got experienced, professional older friends, relatives? In the sector is best, but not essential. You can ask them to help you out with a mock interview. I've done a bunch for friends and family over the years, it seems to help folks get over your exact concern. Bit of roleplay, they'll need to do a bit of research themselves (e.g, on technical questions) so it'll need to be someone who's will to go out their way for you.

On b) side-projects are good here as you suggest, particularly when you're young. You always want to be able to give examples of things you've done (check out the STAR method), and more projects means more to talk about and more chance you're bringing that X factor to the table.

Right now if you're into ML, others in the thread may disagree, but maybe give an LLM project a go? I'm recruiting for an ML-adjacent role (vis/analyst) right now, we're having ML practitioners apply, and only one or two candidates have any experience with LLMs. Total differentiator. We're too busy to learn stuff, would much rather get someone in whose time isn't yet eaten up to check it out. Have a head start.

c) Actually pretty rare and pretty easy to spot most of the time. I hope that's not you, I spent a while on this ;-)

Good luck!
"The N.I.H. scientists said they did not diagnose the patients with traumatic brain injuries or concussions. The diagnoses they offered instead, all so-called “functional neurologic disorders,” are often caused by stress.

The studies did not rule out a potential external cause for Havana syndrome symptoms. But if one was not involved, Dr. Chan said, stress “may explain more of our findings.”

“It is important to note that individuals with functional neurological disorders of any cause have symptoms that are real, distressing and very difficult to treat,” Dr. Chan said.
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, Average Citizens
> We replaced documents with PowerPoints because it allowed lack of structure and emptiness to look professional

Boy, that's good.
> there's nothing special the attacker can do with your machine that
they couldn't do with their own machines.

Any obtainable CPU power, memory, IP address or storage is an asset,
so they could:

Run processes such as password cracking on your machine while still
having their own to use.

Store sensitive or illegal data encrypted on your disks as a dropbox
for themselves or others.

Launch recon scans or attacks from your device, using your IP address
while staying hidden and leading the authorities back to you.

Set up your machine as a proxy for routing other traffic, leveraging
your geographical location.

Set up your machine as a node in a distributed compute farm for
mining, cracking or other tasks.

Sell access to your assets to other bad hackers.

... we could literally go on for hours with ideas about how using
*your computer instead of their own* gives an advantage and thus
presents a motive.

> So this is just fear-mongering.

Two points I'll make:

Maybe you *should* be afraid of all the ways contemporary
cybersecurity is an absolute shitshow. Fear is not the best motive,
but *is* a motive for making changes. There's a reason we have that
part of our brains and the emotion it provides.

I'm sorry you feel worried about what I said. Even though the
threats are real I don't believe in scaring people. I think a better
way is through education and empowerment. That's why I produce work
like the Cybershow [0], where we try to make cybersecurity a little
bit fun and irreverent. Come and listen to some shows if you care
about computer security for yourself and people you love.

[0] https://cybershow.uk
No, they weren't under extra security. The thieves seemed to not understand or not care about the value of what they stole versus what they left behind.
I had the same reaction when bike lines were rolled out over London.

The influx of slower and less inexperienced riders with the (correct) mentality of "I have the right to cycle as slowly as I feel safe to", vs the previous (incorrect, but accepted) mentality of "keep up with traffic or pull over" amongst riders, made my cycle commute less efficient.

But it's better now. People learn, the city adjusts, attitudes change.
We usually use anti-tick spray on our skin and clothes when hiking in tick-infested areas, and then check for ticks in the evening. Also important to long pants and shirts if possible.
A long time ago when I worked on a seismic crew we found ourselves cutting lines through the brush in a river bottom. Millions of ticks would swarm up your pant legs in a red-brown cloud looking for any opening to your skin. It was not unusual to see someone strip down in the field and burn the ticks off of their clothes. I carried a large knife and used the blade to peel them off my pants by the hundreds. It was crazy how thick they were. They seemed to be hanging on every pecan leaf and on the grass under the trees.

We began treating our boots with diesel to try to repel them. That worked to a point. It didn't take long to reveal the shortcoming in that method - diesel fuel soaks through the leather and easily enters the skin. It ruins the boot leather and burns your skin so that wearing anything on your feet is very painful so we abandoned that method.

After looking at options we decided to use cattle ear tags because each cow only uses one and it keeps them tick-free. After reading all the warnings about safe handling - wear gloves, avoid skin contact, potential reproductive harm, cancer risk, etc. - we decided that it made no difference. We realized that this had to be absorbed through the cow's bloodstream from the puncture on the ear and since every cow we had ever seen had an ear tag, this meant that this chemical was present in every steak or burger we had ever eaten so wearing one long enough to complete the part of the survey with the tick problem wasn't going to increase our risk of any adverse effects.

We bought a pack of tags and each hung one on a boot and never had another tick.

I don't have any known health issues to report here 40 years later. Totally anecdotal information from what is likely to have been a low-dose, short duration exposure event.
It is. This subthread is clearly ironic.
Thanks again; added that (and fixed up previous edit fat-fingering).
Most of the SDRs are receive-only. The ones that do transmit have really low power. The LimeSDR is 10mW and most are in that range. That means need amplifier or two to make it usable.

Packet radio is done with amateur radio. There is both VHF/UHF ones that use normal radios, and 2.4GHz ones which usually use Wifi with dishes. There aren't BBSes because there isn't much point with Internet, and there isn't much point to Internet access when have mobile. Plus, it isn't allowed to provide non-amateur Internet access.
Unless you count stored procs...
Thank you for your feedback, both issues have been added to the project tracking.
My dream is to get a farm and start doing a lot of things which already exist and explore them by myself.

Doing pottery, art, music etc.

I do call myself a hacker and what i do for a living is very aligned with one of my biggest hobbies "computer" but that doesn't mean shit to me tbh.

I will leverage AI to write the things i wanna write but know that i don't have the time for doing those 'bigger' projects.

Btw. very few people actually write good software. For most its a job. I'm really good in what i do because there are not that many of us out there in a normal company.
It’s profitable because the supply chain is made of robots and of people who can’t afford a $12 kettle.
You are proving my point here.

The single largest contributor to performance degradation on websites is that very industry.

Look JSON has it's advantages and is a fine tradeoff, performance isn't a place it's good at, that's not something that makes it a bad format, it's just if you want to optimise for performance I would start by reducing the sheer amount of redundant data being passed around in a JSON blob long before I would hyper optimise on a C++ JSON parser.

Sure if you are using a JS or python json parser there are massive gains to be had by calling into a lower level language to do the parsing but picking between the choices in C++ parsers is probably bikeshedding.

Now if your use case truely needs to absolute most performant JSON parser and you will trade off usability and portability for it then sure but another one of hose axioms apply. The solution for the 99th percentile is rarely the correct solution for the 50th percentile
I don't know if AIs will ever get really good at QA in general, but I do think that AIs can get quite good quickly at regression testing.
It's just the opposite of a well-done Vermeer.
> I should clarify by what I obviously meant that doctors would not recommend that as a DAILY dose - daily implying long-term use is okay.

Yes, and I'm saying that this does in fact happen.
According to the bug tracker changing it from a WRITE to an EXEC avoids the SIGKILL issue.
>I like how most people blame bosses or scary big companies.

It ALWAYS starts at the top, no matter how you slice it. Why are the incompetent devs there in the first place?
I tried installing OpenProject on my homelab (for tracking tasks related _to_ my homelab), only to find that it was missing the one feature I really wanted - identifying dependencies and blockers (i.e. "I can't install X until I install Y, but Y needs a feature that requires an update to Z, and updating Z requires I tweak config in A" - where I'm perfectly happy to manually write out X/Y/Z/A as tickets myself, but I want a tool to tell me that "A" is an unblocked task I can pick up). Any suggestions for a tool that can do that?
I tell my junior engineers; that humans took rocks and struck them with lightning, and now they work for us.

Still blows my mind sometimes.
Go register it with IANA Well-Known URIs. I don't think IANA demands you have it all figured out to do so! Good idea! https://www.iana.org/assignments/well-known-uris/well-known-...
Why was C slower though?
Motherduck.com has a pop-up promotion to get the book for free.
For terminal, for example this, made with Rust: https://github.com/yashs662/rust_kanban
> much as it did in th WWII.

People tend to forget they were our allies back then
“Quantity has a quality all its own”

He probably just realized SK priorities are completely different given that the north would never spend valuable industrial resources to produce a mundane item such as this instead of feeding the war machine
Suggest checkpoint goals for an early career designer, aspiring to be lead
Hey y'all. I am an early career UX designer, and an aspiring design leader. In my workplace, we write yearly goals about what we want to achieve. These are usually a mixture of many tangents like design skills, eminence, domain knowledge, crafted & applied work etc.

Suggest me few advancements that I can bring in my practice, or ideas for initiatives, proposals for team workflow.

Few examples are - Get trained with motion design, introduce agile practices in my team, document domain learnings for new hires, etc. Such as ideas for initiatives one can take in design orgs.
I've heard about the lay offs thing but does giving it the name Dan matter? Can't tell if joking or that's been claimed to improve output.
John Oliver recently did a good piece on these scams if you want to understand how they work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg
Sometimes I have similar thoughts, and it makes me realize... there are a lot of humans.

Imagine we evolved on a planet with only enough land for 10,000 people. We would never have most of this stuff because people's work would not be specialized enough to get us there. One person would be responsible for so many different things that they wouldn't go into depth on each one. For example, maybe we'd have a library, but one person would be responsible for both printing the books and running the circulation desk. We would have technology (someone would have invented, say, a wood stove), but we wouldn't have anywhere near as much of it.

But instead, we have billions of people now, and it was at least 2000 years ago that we reached 100 million. When you have that many people, although most of them are still working on the basics (growing food, building housing, etc.), in absolute terms there can be millions of people working on specialized tasks.

It also makes me realize how prosperous we are as a species. Although we haven't eliminated poverty and hunger (and should and probably could), as a species, we are far from being on the edge of survival. We have enough resources that we have people working on niche stuff that will pay off in the future if ever. We have projects that require hundreds or thousands of person-years (in other words, equivalent to multiple lifetimes) of work, and the end result of the project is (say) yet another action movie or romcom.

Humans are smart and creative, but the reason we have what we do is lots and lots of people over a very long period of time with way more resources than what we need for subsistence. Which is pretty cool because any of those things could have not happened, but they all did.
Big corp is doing big corp things. I wish we outlawed the practice.
Many of the “majors” had a factory in which the “master” or headline figure might sketch out a painting, have it filled out by someone else, and then perhaps be finished off by the master. Sometimes multiple versions of the same painting were produced.

The Vermeers and Van Goughs didn’t have all that infrastructure (and Vermeer painted little, or at least little survives)