skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. If the argument is about energy efficiency, I agree. Any system that is less than 100% efficient at turning calories into calories will result in, well, fewer calories.

However, we shouldn't assume health and diet are simply a matter of calories as input. Even conceding that beef isn't a particularly good choice for human health given it's saturated fat content, I don't know that replacing beef in the diet with corn would necessarily result in better health outcomes.
I get the point of Qubes. What I am saying is that it doesn't work for my use case and if anyone had a better way of doing it. The solution of running every application inside a VM for security is nice, but also extremely resource intensive on CPU and RAM requirements and do not make the OS ideal for a laptop. Unless you have a pretty maxed out laptop in terms of specs.

While you could argue VM are more secure, other security tools like BSD Jails or containers could offer a similar level of security for a fraction of the resources that QubesOS uses.

And if I am really being honest, not many people need that level of security as the main goal of Qubes is to prevent a system compromise, but most people have cell phones, cloud accounts, and are getting their uses names and passwords leaked through security breaches all the time, something that Qubes cannot prevent.
I was going to say, I don't even have a windows key yet.
ByteDance shuts down its WhatsApp clone in Africa
I thought this as well, but I did a little research before responding, and it looks like even though this is broadly true, people still weren't living particularly long before the modern era. For example, in Ancient Greece, a man who lived to 15 would expect to live to 37-41 years, in Rome if a man made it to 20 they could expect to live to 60, in the late medieval if you made it to 25 you could expect to live to ~48 [0]. You still need to make it to 60 to be a great grandparent, assuming you and your kids are having kids at ~15 years of age (edit: and that might be a friendly assumption given how high infant mortality was).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
Apparently, I was wrong - they are reporting it as a "fully loaded" -- but that does not mean the TEUs were full of goods and services... but thats what they are calling it. So I have no Idea.

Unless ImportYtei.com can get the bills of lading for that ship....
I appreciate it when people post a link to duplicated stories

Can't help but think though;

Every comments entry in the HN database could benefit two extra nodes

The last comment would always point to (a list of) nodes subsequently
confirmed as dupes (future material).

The first comment would always point to previously confirmed as dupes
("previously discussed").

That could be fun to navigate.

(modulo debate on what is a dupe or update, of course)
This reminded me of The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, Over the course of several months between 2011 and 2012, the contents of 9,571 barrels, valued at C$18.7M, were stolen in a suspected insider job from a FPAQ facility in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec.

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-cana...
> It’s slightly paradoxical — in the past, I’ve thought about how since life expectancy is increasing, there probably will be more great-grandmothers. But on the other hand, people are having children much later too.

Apparently two or more independent variables create a paradox.
I agree with you up to a point.

The problem is that most people asking this question are already developers and what they really need is exposure to the things they haven't had to deal with before. Stuff like Marketing, making sales, customer support, staying profitable and general "business sense." A general introduction to small business book is probably enough to cover the basics there.
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They do this to increase their margins because otherwise... they eat the cost of interchange.
So ShotSpotter for drones...
I wonder why this is not yet more widespread technology for various applications. Or is it?
>I also just got asked to answer homework questions for cheap.

My exact experience as a tutor. The clients do not want tutoring, they want an afterschool homework program.
The idea of system 1 and system 2 had a profound impact on me. While specific conclusions in the book were reported to be based on low quality data, it doesn't take away from the fact that it gave me a new mental lens to look at things and understand people's behaviour.
ChatGPT – Computer Says No
ChatGPT has become so lazy that it's now quicker for me to research things myself. If I ask it how to do anything with any software it gives me generic responses like "log into the site and look for options related to security". This is even the case for their site where I want to switch from Google auth to self controlled.

You have to now really push it to research anything. I suspect this is not some kind of learned behaviour but OpenAI themselves tweaking the model to stop people overloading the service with things they can use Google search for. It's exhausting.

What are my options here? Are other LLMs following the same pattern?
> If the SEC didn't have a strong case he wouldn't have settled so quickly.

No one wants to fight the federal government wether they are guilty or not.

"Forbes lists Bechtolsheim's net worth at somewhere north of $16 billion. The SEC fine is less than 0.006 percent of his holdings."

I'd settle immediately too. 900k fine or 400k illicit gains means nothing if you are worth 16B.
Also the general level of confusion of students coming in to office hours can be a valuable part of the feedback loop.
That does not sound like a good idea to prettify code where whitespaces are significant and can make or break your layout. How do you deal with it?
The increase for a 40 year old is still nearly 14 years of extra life, though. That's a big difference.
There's a wide set of possible approaches between "let any employee validate any ID" and "never let someone into an account that they have lost the credential to."

E.g. you could make it costly to attempt, require a notarized proof of identity -and- showing up at the Apple store, and enforce a n-day waiting period. A different employee does the unlock (from a customer service queue) than accepts the paperwork.

We don't lock people out of financial accounts forever when they forget a credential. It could definitely be solved for other types of accounts.
Maybe...

https://www.astronomy.com/science/ask-astro-blobs-in-image-o...

https://www.astronomy.com/science/blob-of-hot-gas-swirls-aro...

...or the elongation might be due to the fact that it is spinning at 60% of the theoretical maximum:

"Sgr A* is spinning so quickly that it is warping spacetime — that is, time and the three dimensions of space — so that it can look more like a football."

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/telescopes-show-the-milky...
> but there's some amount of extra stuff deployed (ingress controller, for example) that is documented in a text file

Out of curiosity, why just the "readmeware" for those components? I can't think of a single thing that requires clickops in a modern k8s setup, so much so that in the beginning we used to bring up the full stack from nothing based on a single CFN template - roles, load balancer, auto-scaling group, control plane, csi driver (this was back when EKS was a raging tire fire), and then lay the actual business apps on it. The whole process took about 8 minutes from go

If nothing else, one will want to be cautious about readmeware components in disaster recovery situations. If no one has run those steps in 6 months, and then there's some kind of "all hands on deck," the stress will likely make that institutional knowledge leak out of their ears
I am still not 100% convinced they didnt just let it happen on purpose (and then were surprised just by the scale), having an excuse to raze the place down for good, which is exactly what they are doing. The signs were there, everywhere, and mosad aint bunch of clueless paper pushers.

The guy in charge is former spec ops, murder of anybody without battling an eye is part of the deal so dont expect some humanism from that direction.

If I didnt read similar stories from other times and places, where it played almost exactly like this... AI is not going to solve political issues, just make them more complex than they already are
BlueBubbles app developer unable to notarize builds after Apple flags account
Youtube Content ID is based on a specific agreement with the individual content owner that permits the specific use. Which works for Youtube because its for UGC, not content Youtube generates.
Ticket2Ride Number9 is a fixed function GPU from the late 90s that was completely open sourced under GPL
> That's not to let everybody off the hook

But you are.

The only flaw in your argument is that the entire aerospace industry has managed to pull off what you claim is a miracle we shouldn't expect to be the standard... for decades. Only when Boeing lost their engineering culture that they and only they have been failing to this extent. Whatever Airbus is doing is working.
Well, it depends. If your project uses Zig, you obviously use the Zig build system.

If your project uses C or C++, you also use the Zig build system.

Advocacy - Maintain it With Zig:

https://kristoff.it/blog/maintain-it-with-zig/

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35566791

Reference:

https://ziglang.org/learn/build-system/
Minimum Custom Theme in Nextra
Sure, but why does something being illegal in the past matter without the reasoning of why it should be illegal again? There are plenty of immoral and unjust laws in the past.
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Well, destruction of a competitor is always good for owners of the company, not for workers.
If you’ve only read Thinking Fast And Slow, try grabbing a copy of his 2021 book Noise. It’s a little drier but I found it to be a much deeper and more insightful read. Less pop sci, more hard research results.

And if I recall correctly he addresses the replication issues from Thinking Fast And Slow and discusses more recent research that disproves or adds nuance on the older studies. I think it’s also more practically useful and applicable to everyday life. Where TFS gives you a “these are interesting facts about life” vibe, Noise is more “here’s the problem and this is what you can do about it” style.
Flyway and Alembic are imperative, not declarative.

Imperative tools express schema changes as a filesystem of incremental "migrations", whereas declarative tools use a filesystem of CREATE statements and can generate DDL diffs to transition between states.

The declarative flow has a lot of benefits [1]. It is much closer to how source code is typically managed/reviewed/deployed, which is especially important for stored procedures [2].

However, using a purely declarative flow (as opposed to using a declarative tool just to auto-generate incremental migrations, which are then run from another tool) isn't necessarily advisable in Postgres, since Postgres supports DDL in transactions. So there's potentially multiple paths/orderings to reach any given desired state, as well as the ability to mix schema changes with data changes in one transaction. This means in Postgres there's often manual editing of the auto-generated incremental change, whereas in other DBs with fewer features this isn't necessary.

Disclosure: I'm the author of Skeema, mentioned in the GP comment.

[1] https://www.skeema.io/blog/2019/01/18/declarative/

[2] https://www.skeema.io/blog/2023/10/24/stored-proc-deployment...
> Recently I had to set up a zero-downtime system for my app, I spent a week seriously considering a move to k3s, but the entire kubernetes ecosystem of churn frustrated me so much I simply wrote a custom script based on Caddy, regular container health checks and container cloning. Easier to understand, 20 lines of code and I don't have to sell my soul to the k8s devil just yet.

I'd say it depends where you're coming from. For me, setting up a Kubernetes cluster (no matter which flavor) with external-dns and cert-manager will most likely take 30m-1h and that is the basic stuff that you need for running an app with the topics you mentioned. To navigate through k8s just use k9s and you're golden.

I never get where all the "k8s is the devil" comments come from. There is nothing really complex about it. It's a well defined API with some controllers, that's it. As soon as I need to have more than one server running my workloads I would always default to k8s.
You're maybe proposing another line where no spying is legal at all and we should just submit ourselves to the whims of terrorists or other lunatics? Surely there is actually a line where there are tradeoffs between security and privacy and its probably not 0% security and 100% privacy.

Perhaps you think all FISA rulings should be public and any sufficiently savvy malicious actors can just read them to know exactly how to avoid suspicion?
Can anyone please explain what happened to the idea of making static sites the old fashioned way?

Pure HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS. And a few files organized in a few folders. And upload.

Why must even a static site in 2024 require Python, libraries, framework dependencies, build steps, etc?
Hydroelectricity is a hidden source of methane emissions
Just a little point that the life expectancy given there is "at birth" and unless I'm mistaken, it's the mean. Which means infant mortality contributes enormously to this figure. It's a misconception that in the past you would only rarely see someone much older than 50. I'm not sure how this would affect the analysis. But it's worth bearing in mind. I'm sure there were plenty of great grandparents before 1900. That usage of great seems to stem from the 1500s. https://www.etymonline.com/word/great-grandfather#etymonline...
Maybe, but that classification by itself doesn't mean anything. Gold is a commodity, but having it is still very desirable and valuable.

Even if all LLMs were open source and publicly available, the GPUs to run them, technical know how to maintain the entire system, fine tuning, the APIs and app ecosystem around them etc. would still give the top players a massive edge.
Exercising at least twice a week significantly cuts insomnia risk
that’s not true. Serious accounting software let you assign an invoice to a project, program, cost center, groups… you can even do that on at the invoice item level.
Sunken British Warship That Left Crew Marooned for 66 Days Has Been Identified
Safari has support for "is" attribute now?
New design prolongs the lifespan of plasma torches
Indeterminate tomatos constantly produce too and if you don’t have frost you can just keep it going.
Maintainers are also the ones breaking software so, realistically the difference is basically moot. And for a containers to fubar the system you have to really mess up. At worst that specific container fubars itself and you rollback a tag.

There are just fewer things that can go wrong when you get to a sufficient number of services. And lastly moving to a new host is infinitely easier too, export the volume, import of new host and off you go. And stuff like Kubernetes will just handle this for you (and more).

And as for those linux conventions, they vary a lot from distro to distro, you can never be quite sure where that specific version of that specific distro puts its files. So having them just not be able to touch the host ever is a good thing.
Big Fig Wasps!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql5_q_33wqY
I once read that the significant growth of life expectancy could be attributed to lowering rate of child mortality, and that life expectancy for adults has changed less dramatically. If that’s the case, the point that overall life expectancy going from 47 to 72 affected the “grandmother window” is probably inaccurate.
I've been working on an open source project on/off for the past couple of years called ssh-sync, written in Go. The goal is to securely share SSH keys across multiple machines (avoid copy-pasting) and auto-generate new SSH configs based off of the user's current operating system (so your key paths are never wrong again).

There is still work I have to do before a v1 release but definitely interested in feedback. https://github.com/therealpaulgg/ssh-sync
I don't really have any comments about the insider trading (other than whyyyyyy?) but I'll never forget Andy driving up in a ferarri at the old SUN executive briefing center (now part of the Facebook's HQ) in 2007 and giving us a presentation on the Sun filesystem hardware they had just released (Sun Fire) and he was really, really keen on telling us just how many power you could stuff into a single rack (like, kilowatts power, as well as CPU heft).

He was absolutely thrilled to geek out on the speeds and feeds and we also gave the ZFS author Mike Shapiro a bunch of crap about ZFS merging the logically distinct layers of storage (volume and FS management) while also strongly suspecting that ZFS's model would end up replacing Veritas or whatever it was people used in those days.
This is some fell-off-a-truck stuff. Aren't the weird part numbers with infix letters custom made for large customers (Amazon, Google, et al.)?
data engineer here, offtopic, but am i the only guy tired of databricks shilling their tools as the end-all, be-all solutions for all things data engineering?
There’s a difference between being the owner of a construction business and being an employee. The business owner assumes the risks and upside if real estate is to become expensive, but the employees are mostly affected by supply and demand of other workers - I.e. even if there is high demand of workers in the real estate sector, if there’s a high supply of workers to satisfy the demand, there won’t be a big increase in salary for them.

That said, it does seem people generally are implicitly bullish on housing prices becoming more expensive over time. That’s how to interpret the fact that the first significant investment of many people's savings is a house.

If people held the contrary opinion (that real estate in general are going to deprecate in value) then the idea of buying a house may not be so ubiquitous .
I've convinced the CEO that Elixir/BEAM/OTP is a good choice for a fairly large, multi-application project. It wasn't very hard, factors like high availability, the same programming language and runtime in the entire system, extremely fast prototyping, battle tested in absurdly demanding settings, sounds very nice to a business strategist able to understand at least some of the implications.

The drawbacks are basically in recruiting and a few other areas and quite manageable.

Edit: There's a book for this particular purpose, convincing the suits, https://pragprog.com/titles/tvmelixir/adopting-elixir/ .
Absolutely ridiculous to not be suspicious here. Yes, stressed people kill themselves often, but not during a deposition that could accomplish everything they’ve been working for and putting their job security on the line for over the past decade. That is not when people feel hopeless.

There are plenty of recent examples of murders to cover up corporate crimes. This would not be particularly out of the ordinary. Unfortunately we’ll never know for sure because for some reason no one is going to do a serious investigation into his death.
I'm pretty sure it was the 2008 ISMRM meeting (small chance it may have been 2003). I don't think it was actually submitted, because I couldn't find it in the proceedings even back then. I think whoever it was smuggled the poster into the hall and hung it among the others as a prank. I'm pretty sure the dead salmon fMRI poster was also there at the time but I can't remember if that was in the proceedings. The dead salmon fMRI did end up being published though and making quite a stir.
What the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve, as they used to say
in the pie factory where I worked. But the belly knows. Yes, it's a
dangerous, cavalier idea. But from an endlessly complicated and
interesting thinker.
We should find out what it is about Japan that makes certain things work there.
The poors have been doing this for millenia [...]

Why the poor? And is poor the correct label or is this just strongly correlated with the actual reason? In the past children were desirable as sources of additional income and for support at old age, is this still relevant? Otherwise it seems that you would want fewer children if you are poor because they obviously come with additional costs. Is it the cost of contraceptives or abortions instead of a deliberate choice? If it is not poverty directly but worse education because of poverty, how exactly would that work? How much education do you need to realize that additional children will cause additional costs? What other mechanisms are there? In the end it will probably be a mix of factors, but the phenomenon seems more complex than it looks like at first glance.
I remember that scene. But I think it’s more about neurosis bias: thinking that there will ever be a perfect time to have children. Which never comes. So it just never happens. Contrast that with having children young. Maybe you might be financially worse off in the long run. But most people seem to make it work.

So if the goal is to have children eventually? The young parents win.

In any case. Shouldn’t people be a bit embarrassed to embrace such an upper-middle class sneerfest in current year? Idiocracy? Christ.
As in you loose agains „the elites“. IMO the current dopamine and consumption driven culture only benefits a very small slice of the society. While externalized costs ruin many lives. Mental and physical health is going down the drain and nobody cares. E.g. obesity pandemic, drugs abuse and so on. People don't abuse junk food because of happiness and content. And yet we all end up paying, at least in countries with state health insurance :)

We as a society are at a loss when people think OnlyFans is a viable career path. Or a hobby, which is even worse. OF is the same as prostitution. Vast majority (if not all) people end up there for very sad reasons and we as a society should strive to eliminate it. Normalizing such abuse of the vulnerable is even worse.

Many cases of gender „change“ are similar symptoms of long running abuse we as a society normalize. E.g. trans athletes. Or over-sexualized display of how some people envision what it is to be a woman.
I'm not seeing 1.9% and that sounds way off.

US produces about 27 billion pounds of beef, roughly half of that weight comes from feedlots where they eat ~80% of feedlot calories comes from grains.

There's a bunch of numbers tossed around but it's something like 60-70 billion pounds of grain to get those 27 billion pounds of beef.
Why? Their business is ads, not services for users
> While your friends are mulling over the ideal age and economic circumstances to have children, there are plenty of other families not thinking about this. They're having kids in their late teens and early twenties.

On average, birth rates have been shrinking virtually everywhere on this planet over the last decades.