skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. This should be the top post.

Summary from your article:

> xylitol consumption is that diet isn’t the only source of circulating xylitol. This compound is also produced by our own bodies through a process known as the glucuronate pathway, one of the pathways by which we metabolize glucose. So how did the authors ensure they were investigating the relationship between dietary xylitol intake and MACE risk? They didn’t.

> This research group followed the same flawed design and ended up with the same flawed conclusions. SSDD – same [study], different day.

> At best, this work shows that endogenous xylitol correlates with – but doesn’t necessarily contribute to – cardiovascular risk. Far from condemning xylitol as an ingredient in foods and beverages, these data provide no insight whatsoever on potential negative effects of dietary xylitol intake [...] xylitol may even offer advantages for health.

> So in summary, this work should ring a few bells – but there’s no need for it to ring any alarms.
Regardless of the impetus of this, I'm happy to see a 8/10 repair score. I think we've proven that thin and light and repairable are a false dichotomy. I don't expect every manufacturer to go Framework levels of repairability, but if we can get more laptops to at least this level that will be a huge win for consumers. Even just renormalizing repairing devices will be huge.
> This is something that you should ask the people that worked with him.

No need to ask around, lots of people who worked for Jobs have gone on the record as saying he was the worst person they have ever worked for. If you ran into him (or worse, had to present something to him), you never knew if you were going to get Nice Steve or Angry Steve. Nice Steve would thank you for your work and politely inform you of changes or refinements that he wanted you to make. Angry Steve would verbally berate you in front of your manager and peers.

He had a set of close associates that he never or rarely treated badly, it is not hyperbole to say that most everyone else got the brunt of his wrath.

Straight from Woz, if you don't want to take my word for it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/08/steve-woz...
Yes, sometimes he may happen to see it and doesn't ignore it on purpose.
If gig work is such a good job perhaps you should consider doing it.
I saw Sun Ra back once back in the mid-70s in NYC. Easily the most memorable jazz concert I've ever seen. My recollection is not 100%, but what I do remember is the Arkestra lined up in a row of chairs facing the audience. There were 2 dancers female dressed in filmy clothes that were essentially circling the players and dancing around the stage. Sun Ra was basically directing the entire performance. I don't believe he was playing anything? (I could be mistaken there though. it was a long time ago) Maybe he played keys at one point?

The most amazing part were the solos. Sun Ra would point to each player in turn and each would stand and deliver the most blistering solo for about 5 minutes each, barely taking a breath. Then Sun Ra would motion to the next and this would continue until everyone had a turn.

The music was incredibly spacey and so good. "Space is the place"!
ISO C only specifies minimal requirements. It exists because people sit together and agree on those. If people do not agree we can not standardize it. We are also not the ones making your compiler miscompile your code. The compiler people write the compiler that miscompiles your code! They same people sit in the committee and do not agree to changes that would specify other behavior. So if you do not like what your compiler does, this would be the place to go to and complain.

For realloc, different implementations did different things and clearly said they will not change. There wasn't really any other choice. If your program was written for one implementation where it works, it can continue to do so, but it was never portable to other implementations. The standard now simply reflects this reality.
I hear this all the time, but so far every time I've met a home schooled kid they show that lack of socialization. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it is so rare that I doubt any home schooled kid is.

Sure they will have a lot of kids, but that is not the same. Do they interact with kids that are different? Poor, rich? Different religion? Different political background? (note that many private school suffer from the same problem - generally not as bad as home schools, but it is easy to find private schools that don't really socialize kids well either.)
With leaking secrets being such a big concern, it seems wise to require that secrets be encrypted to use dotenvx. That is, it will only work with encrypted secrets. As others have commented, this doesn't eliminate the risk entirely, but I think having a tool that doesn't support unencrypted secrets at all, although a bit less convenient, is a win.
The top Google result on xylitol is from WebMD and states: "Overview. Xylitol is a natural sugar alcohol found in plants, including many fruits and vegetables"

Why should anyone worry about this substance in low doses?
https://gavinhoward.com/2023/08/the-scourge-of-00ub/
In fact, afair react was made to make the page faster. (as dom manipulation was WAY slower back then)
That's what I've read, about $150-200k: https://blog.dshr.org/2023/11/robotaxi-economics.html
So it's better that I need to pay for thicker bags just to put in my wastebasket to collect trash? How is that better than getting a t-shirt bag from the store to carry my items home, then use the bag to line my trash, then throwing the mess away?

By volume I throw away more diapers in a month than an entire lifetime of plastic bags. Fighting plastic bags is what the rich companies making actual pollution want you to focus on so you aren't fighting real pollution.
Any recommendations for learning it?
Windows has first-class support for Linux with Windows Subsystem for Linux. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and Nature of the Universe
Can you clarify what “evidence” your link provides? And what exactly are you suggesting “has been going on”?

Your claim is vague and spooky. Please clarify what you think “they” have been doing.
i have a bunch of NeXT stuff on my backups somewhere, but the oldest files with a legitimate timestamp are from a backup of the G.R.E.A.T. Desktop environment from 1995.

from the README:

G.R.E.A.T Version 0.92

GREAT is the Graphical Environment and Desktop for UNIX.
It is developed by the Free Software Assiociation of Germany
with Ruediger and Michaela Merz.
GREAT is a free binary distribution.
Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995 FSAG

this is interesting, because it appears to be the first FOSS Desktop Environment. i used it on my grandmothers computer. unfortunately the sources appear to be lost. i was only able to find this binary release, and because of its historical value i am holding on to it for dear life.
> None of this really matters, the interviews took place in the first half of Assange's stay in Ecuador. If the interviews were the sticking point, why would he stay after them?

He entered the embassy in 2012. He was interviewed in 2016. His asylum was withdrawn in 2019. Mentioning "first half" of his stay while avoiding to mention that means he's been there for several years at that point comes across as attempting to downplay how long they waited.

Can you explain why they didn't try in 2012? Or why she didn't try while he was in UK custody prior to his bail?

The prosecutor was criticised by at least one Swedish legal expert at that time for failing to attempt to interview, and called out because she flat out lied and claimed it wasn't possible (and she herself proved that to be a lie when she several years later arranged to interview him).

By the time he was interviewed, he'd already spent far more time in a combination of English jail and stuck in the embassy than he would've spent in a Swedish prison if convicted.

By the time the rape case was dropped, the Swedish Prosecution Authority gave as a reason that "the evidence has weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question", but the bulk of that delay was down to the prosecutor choosing to hold off on interviewing Assange for 6 years claiming she could not do what she eventually did anyway.

The less serious parts of the case were dropped due to the statute of limitations in 2015 before the prosecutor interviewed Assange, because the prosecutor chose not to do her job.

You see why people question her motivations?

As I've said many times, I think her own political/ideological motivations are more likely to be the reason she acted this way than US involvement, but to me it appears to be a clear failure of justice intentionally caused by the prosecutor - whether to Assange or the woman in question depends on what actually happened, and we will probably never find out because this prosecutor failed to do her duty.

> I want you to take a moment to imagine your own outrage if Assange was tried in absentia in Sweden and found guilty

If the trial was conducted fairly, I would take no issue with it. Whether they'd be able to carry a case to conclusion in a fair manner without his presence is a separate matter. The issue is that they failed to try.
As it turns out, pretty much everything. Individual neurons are imprecise and adaptive and they form networks that show chaotic behavior.

Basically I'd turn the question around - what makes you think brains are exact?
Schools seem like a poor place to learn social skills unless one plans to live out Lord of the Flies later in life.
That would be a great way for Biden to blow the election for no reason.
**or decrease the quality of life of vast numbers of people in response for arguably insignificant returns.
>the Democrats adhere strongly to free enterprise, private ownership, other austerity politics

So does every mainstream political party in every country in the world (except for North Korea. Even supposedly "Communist" countries like China accept that you aren't going to be a prosperous nation without them these days). Nobody is a Bolshevik any more -- everyone wants a market economy and private property. What makes the parties in other countries different than the US is that they generally support more social programs and a heavier tax burden on the rich to support it.
I can’t speak for “traditional” learning methods, since I’ve long been out of school. But I find chat gpt is about as good at first pass research as google was circa 2003. Google is no longer good for research. Used to be I didn’t know much on a topic and I could start googling and page 3 or so would start to have key words necessary to blow open the topic. google no longer even populates page 3.

So I start with basic questions in chat gpt. I know it’s lying to me. But it uses words and phrases that seem interesting. I can iterate over that, and in a short time I know a phrase I can actually search for in google to find authoritative content.

I wouldn’t quite call it a game changer yet, as all it’s done is give me back what I once had. But it is a bonus in that it can do an ok job synthesizing new examples from content that already had lots of disperate examples on the web. It can also give some clues when you find conflicting information as to why the information is conflicting. It’s making stuff up a lot, but there are always good clues in the output.
> nuclear power plans by Russia not so much

Why? Any lunar base without nuclear power plans is not a serious effort.
The worst choice he made in this period was to be a terrible guest and eventually be evicted. However he had going through psychological problems and honestly I'm not sure if he wouldn't be evicted regardless (the new president was aligned with the US and wanted him gone)
In AWS and other clouds, you application can use an infrastructure provider API to create a secure session to access infrastructure APIs with per-application-instance credentials that are automatically rotated and can be used only by that instance. These APIs are how the cloud provider themselves provides environment variable injection features, but if your application consumes these APIs directly you can avoid having decrypted secrets hanging out in environment variables as a middleman between your app and the cloud runtime.

Typically the application instance sessions are automatically rotated very frequently, AWS’s sessions are limited to 6 hours for example.
Special thanks to Donald Trump for spooking the current admin so much that they actually did something good!
I would also be interested in some more detail on this bullet:

- *qq* is not a full *jq/\*q* replacement and comes with idiosyncrasies from the underlying gojq library

what is qq missing that jq has? Is that the same question as "what is gojq missing that jq has"?
> Is there enough gravity on the moon to prevent the long-term health problems from the space station like bone, muscle and vision loss?

Nobody knows. You might think scientist can science up answers to any question but it is impossible to know this without long term data which is simply not available.

There were some experiments done in parabolic flights [2] but those only last for a very short time.

There is this literature review [2]. They are not optimistic: "It
can be anticipated that partial gravity environments as present on the Moon or on Mars are not sufficient to preserve all physiological systems to a 1 g standard if not addressed through adequate countermeasures." Which is space speak for "you will need to go to the gym on the moon". But they are willing to admit how little there is to know for certain: "The methodological quality of the vast majority of the available/included studies is too low to generate a compeling evidence."

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10411353/

2: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10....
Can you give an example? This is surprising, and I can't imagine such… but then, I never wrote a compiler or needed to examine the assembly from one.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/pointer Nullptr section is not directly linkable, but:

"A pointer whose value is null does not point to an object or a function (the behavior of dereferencing a null pointer is undefined), and compares equal to all pointers of the same type whose value is also null."
It does not help you having a perfect and exact rule from initial conditions to future prediction... if you cannot have a complete and exact description of your initial conditions.

We might never be able to get this exact description of the internal state of a brain, this is what makes perfect prediction impossible.
Thanks Jon, that's exactly the idea. About $12k worth of free compute on a box that costs as much as a Ferrari.

Funny that HN doesn't like my comment for some reason though.
This point jumped out to me as a pretty significant limitation of the study.

The investigators did not collect any data on xylitol intake from their human cohort, so we have no way of correlating consumption with MACE risk because we have no way of knowing which participants were regularly consuming xylitol-containing foods. And although xylitol is currently a very common sweetening additive, Witkowski et al. note that the majority of their study participants were enrolled prior to xylitol’s widespread use, suggesting that circulating levels measured in their observational cohort may not be attributable to dietary intake.

Alas, as with all human nutrition studies, it is all garbage and mostly funded by Nestle or similar.
Roblox Chief Scientist on the road to 4D GenAI
Sweden is a country that enthusiastically supported the Nazi regime. If we are comparing crimes I think Sweden should also stay within it's own borders.

Yet the calls from Swedes for the US to provide more Ukraine aid are deafening at this point. Swedes want the US to intervene when it benefits them, regardless of their chest-beating.

Where is the criticism from Swedes when Russia murders its own journalists or China restricts freedom of speech?

Please, if you are so anti-american, impress upon your countrymen to stay away from NATO. You people are clearly not interested in allying with the US.
you should shop around. I see the heavy plastic bags in the US$2-5 range. Check out Trader Joe's if you have them. I've been using the same couple of TJ bags for years.
Ah. You point at a pile of shit that’s long been festering but the selfish bastards that left it have long since departed. Some people are still around adding to it here and there (brexit, etc) but the malaise and disconnectedness of the proletariat are what protects these problems from being solved because they still benefit a small group of powerful people who would very much rather their wealth, lazy existences and the like be undisturbed. A key hurdle for the proletariat is to find a way to unite across cultural boundaries - a very difficult problem in any country.
If we're extremely lucky they might invest in SYCL and we'll see an Intel/AMD open-source teamup
I find this astonishing.

I worked at Automatic (in Support / Spam blog hunting / Akismet) in 2011 and after some bad plugin updating from various sources Matt asked me to start vetting wporg plugin updates.

I cannot code in PHP. Lots of reading later I could recognise dodgy code, or code that looked odd.

I set up a gmail account where _every_ new plugin commit was sent to, and I create a ton of filters, each looking for certain code. Those filters were then sent to me and were filtered again - think "Nasty, Maybe, Check"

When something bad happened, I'd review the commits, see the nasty, remove it, update the version, commit to the wporg repo and at the same time take over the account. (Again I can't code PHP but I'm listed as a developer in the plugin repo). That way plugin user was protected.

That was 13 years ago .. why the hell doesn't WP have a better system?
If we were torturing people, I sure hope someone would leak it.
> What is a Micro-Reactor?

> The Rolls-Royce Micro-Reactor has a high-power density, which means that it can reliably, flexibly and sustainably support a range of operational demands, providing power and heat output, as required.

> Crucially, the Micro-Reactor is scalable to be easily transportable by rail, sea and even into space, making it a versatile and credible power source for a multitude of applications.

> The Micro-Reactor uses an inherently safe and robust fuel form. Within its core, each particle of uranium is surrounded by multiple protective layers, allowing it to withstand even the most extreme conditions.

You know that reality has long since left the building when...the FAQ doesn't even pretend to answer its own questions.
Here in the UK it was pretty common up to say the 1940s for plasterers to curve the corners on outward pointing walls in hallways. This usually extends from the skirting up to the picture rail. There is a lovely transition from the curve to a point just below the picture rail, which is very elegant, but a total pain if you are hanging wallpaper, well, that's my experience anyway!

I've always felt it was one of those details that a plasterer could show off their skill, and you are right, it softens the corner in a very pleasing way.
How about self improvement? There are lots of new skills to learn. Or how about running a charity or a humanitarian political advocacy group? Loads of people need help.
Happy 18th Birthday, 1Password
> The United Kingdom went from a country with enormously outsized global influence to just another European nation.

You should read the book Treasure Islands by Nick Shaxson.

The UK may not be the global military/political power it once was (and that's probably a good thing), but it is still very much in the middle of the global economy (and not in a good way).

This isn't to refute any of your points, but it was an eye-opening read.
> Very few restaurants want to pay a premium for the deluxe eco groovy stuff, in my experience (as a customer only, but one who frequents such stores). They're almost like a lifestyle / branding thing to go along with organic / vegetarian / sustainable / local themed restaurants, but most don't do that and just want to keep costs down.

Restaurants can be perfectly sincere (and branding isn't incompatible with sincerity), but they have tight margins. It's their customers who really have the choice, and there are very few customers willing to pay extra for the eco stuff. It reminds me of this evergreen Onion article:

https://www.theonion.com/report-98-percent-of-u-s-commuters-...
All eyes are of course on AI, but with 192GB of VRAM I wonder if this or something like it could be good enough for high end production rendering. Pixar and co still use CPU clusters for all of their final frame rendering, even though the task is ostensibly a better fit for GPUs, mainly because their memory demands have usually been so far ahead of what even the biggest GPUs could offer.

Much like with AI, Nvidia has the software side of GPU production rendering locked down tight though so that's just as much of an uphill battle for AMD.
> Soldered CPU

What altenative would you like to see?
I'm not sure it's apples to apples on property; the average US house might be slightly more expensive, but it's also three times the size!
>and a good thing that was too, exposing our government's wrongdoing and lies

What exactly of value was exposed?
> The armies of homeless in American cities don’t exist across the Atlantic.

Are you assuming nobody here has lived or visited the EU or UK?

There are tons of homeless in London, Berlin, and Paris. It is equivalent to the worst American cities.

London is definitely a better city for the super rich though. It is essentially a butler economy - most residents are involved in the industries that cater to super rich foreigners.
Trump had 4 years to free Assange but did nothing. He will say anything to get elected. It's surprising how people don't see it. In Texas we call that 'All hat, no cattle.'
Yeah, you've got it. It's the inability to see oneself as a part of a larger harmonious whole they have responsibility to nurture.
Is there a pre-existing demo page.
I wrote a pipe-objects-instead-of-strings shell: https://marceltheshell.org.

Not piping strings avoids this issue completely. Marcel’s ls produces a stream of File objects, which can be processed without worrying about whitespace, EOL, etc.

In general, this approach avoids parsing the output of any command. You always get a stream of Python values.
I feel like these huge graphics cards with insane amounts of RAM are the moat that AI companies have been hoping for.

We can't possibly hope to run the kinds of models that run on 192GB of VRAM at home.
I do not know for a fact, but I wouldn't think there is a single chance in hell that living in an environment with 1/6th of the gravity we've got on earth would not cause long term effects in your health, specially to the bones and muscle.
The joke in 2008 was “there are no atheists in foxholes and no libertarians in banking crises.”
> the chemical that makes my teeth hurt when I eat ice cream

Does ChatGPT give you an authoritative sounding answer about chemicals, or does it point out the possibility of having sensitive teeth and that it's the temperature of the ice-cream, not any chemicals, that are making your teeth hurt?
Since reusable bags have so little mass, I am not so concerned about the energy use to produce. More about the amount of bags and micro-plastics that escape into the environment.
This is really cool. Feels like the future of app development.

But also I’m getting old, and I had the same feeling when RethinkDB came out. Do you guys have any thoughts on how your system compares to what they were doing and what eventually happened to them?
https://github.com/getsops/sops
Thanks! Found the perfect video. He talks about the depots here, there are some that are full service and some that are not. These are actually a lot bigger than I was expecting and have a bunch of staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZ3e7mWD9E