skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Millennials born in 1990—at the peak of the generation—are twice as likely to develop colon cancer as Baby Boomers born in 1950.

I understand this is not necessarily the point of the article, but how is this not considered a massive crisis? I have heard this stat mentioned before but never with much urgency or impetus to determine the cause of what appears to be a massive health crisis introduced in fairly young generation.

Is it our diet? It's hard to imagine that millennial diets are that much different than what was/is eaten by older generations. Certainly older generations also had their own major carcinogenic lifestyle factors to contend with in terms of smoking and chemical exposure.
> Looking back into the recent weeks, we observed over 14 million unique IP addresses communicating with Kaspersky update servers, making a total of over 100 million connections.

How is Bitsight "observing" here?
2024 must be the year of the speed limits (cue: Year of the <animal> in Chinese calendar), or something is in the waters. Right now, in the UK, there's an enthusiastic drive to convert roads to 20mph. And now this, from the EU.
I was about to comment something like, “you’re strange”, but then I remembered how I spent the last several nights debugging server issues that basically boiled down to badly set environment variables. I added code to the startup script to explicitly throw when the env variables are not set/empty, but this papers over a problem and just makes debugging easier. It doesn’t solve it.
> Some do

Which Operating systems do this?
These are great suggestions.

I'll write about it the next time I'm in a similar situation.
Can be deceptive: With low delivery rates as there are now, the backlog for 737s is more than 25 years. But nobody at the end of that list is going to take delivery 20 years from now, or maybe even 10. See also 1 million pre-orders for Cybertruck.

This is also why being on track to make 50+ 737s per month is the incentive that dominates, not quality.
Sorry, what individual privacy is being surrendered here? Note that observing the driver is in no way necessary to implement a speed limiter.
That and Apple should bring back AirPorts. They were easy to set up, performed well, had some advanced features, and got security updates for many years.

Two years ago or so, my office mate and I pulled out an old AirPort Extreme when our Fritz!Box broke. Not only did it still work very well, it was still pretty competitive as an 802.11ac router.
I wish Apple would get back into the WiFi router business again. I trust their privacy/security posture more than most other brands. Sadly they sell Linksys routers as the go to replacement for their previous products.
> We were interested in trying to establish an open-source solution space for a typeface

Don't overdo it.
Mopeds can only operate on streets, they cant go in bikelanes or sidewalks. They are subject to the same restrictions as cars (licensure, registration) except that they uniquely have a speed limit

Not having a speed limit is unique only to private car ownership
Multiple reports cite the controls issue as contributing to the incident, e.g.:

CBS News aviation and safety expert Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger explained that he believes that the disappearance would have been less likely to have happened if the plane had been a Boeing instead of an Airbus. This is because the control wheels are larger and more obvious.

<https://web.archive.org/web/20130608033135/http://www.cbsnew...>

(More in the previously-linked Wikipedia article.)
Id like to hear more. I've also felt this way but have fallen back on them (plus been too scared to question the conventional wisdom).
Early detection when treatment is easier is better treatment.
> roads where the legal limit is way above the practical limit

Can you give an example of such a road? At least in the US, I've never seen one.
I've actually worked help desk for about 3 years.

I've had calls lasting over an hour helping customers configure their email on their phone and computer.

I learned not to laugh when people called "the internet" either "that e-thingy", "mozarella foxfire" or "googlé charome".

I dealt with explaining to people why IE6 did not understand SNI when we decided to give all our customers websites HTTPS.

Just saying that I've been in that and seen that.
Would it be so bad to use concrete instead? Sure the up front cost is higher, but it has a higher albedo and lasts longer, especially since Phoenix doesn't have snowplows tearing up the streets.
Well...

I agree having a shared doc repo so anyone can commit changes/patches to docs, witch is well... Not much different than what most wikis offer already, and while useful wikis prove that's not enough to have good docs and little to no garbage in them...

But I will NEVER "host my docs" on someone else platform depending from their services (if you host code/docs as a mere repo, GH and alike are just mirror of something most dev have, if you use their features your workflow hardly depend on them) and I also never use MD as my default choice.
worth noting that longevity escape velocity is well-posed but typically badly miscalculated. You care about the right tail of ages, not the mean, and the tail has moved slowly if at all. Tracking rate of increase of max or 99th percentile will give a more reasonable (but sadly less inspiring) number.
Yeah, almost everyone has seen this self-test happen before, but most people don't realize that is what's happening.
what is wasm-console / what is a wasmshell?
Or narrow them down and plant trees?
the only way to catch pedos, if anybody really cared, would be with honeypots and "trojanlike" content, which could infect csam collectors devices and transmit data to police. It also work as a scaring tactic, so to limit diffusion of such material
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I know several companies relocated precisely because of the corruption and mismanagement. Stripe is a good example and their building remains unoccupied to my knowledge.

More companies have moved out citing SF to be unsafe to operate in.

https://abc7news.com/1-billion-dollar-artificial-intelligenc...
Remission rates are higher the earlier you catch it
> They don’t operate like a single party

They basically operate like mafia at the table.
How close do you find yourself to the truck in front of you?

Safe follow distances are, At 65MPH, I'm assuming you're in the US, is approximately 300 feet. I'd be kind of shocked that you're getting stones hitting you and detectable fumes 300 feet away.
I thought this was going to be about layoffs (which are also traumatising), but it's about far worse events. Unfortunately you have to create an account to read the full article, so I'll just hope I won't be confronted with something like that (in the company or anywhere else).
If I understand correctly, if your WiFi chip comes with 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, it's "trivial" to connect to the network using the one band and provide the hotspot on the other one - it already has 2 antennas - at least the issue wouldn't be the hardware.
> Indeed, last year GitHub was said to have tuned its programming assistant to generate slight variations of ingested training code to prevent its output from being accused of being an exact copy of licensed software.

If I, a human, were to:

1. Carefully read and memorize some copyrighted code.

2. Produce new code that is textually identical to that. But in the process of typing it up, I randomly mechanically tweak a few identifiers or something to produce code that has the exact same semantics but isn't character-wise identical.

3. Claim that as new original code without the original copyright.

I assume that I would get my ass kicked legally speaking. That reads to me exactly like deliberate copyright infringement with willful obfuscation of my infringement.

How is it any different when a machine does the same thing?
Is now afraid to get on my motorcycle today. If you linked an external account, then most likely. However, it is my understanding that Mercury had a very relaxed KYC and I would suppose their user are not impacted by external accounts. The more likely victim of external accounts are B2B participants of partners of Evolve. This would most likely be true for Shopify. FWIW, routing numbers are public.
Other data included in the hack is Evolve's emails in the form of outlook data files. Affirm is another definite impacted individual. VA loan data is probably also included in this hack.
>> my feedback was “two weeks late” and “blocking a critical deployment.”

>> I’d forgotten to charge my headphones so Limp Bizkit started playing out of my laptop speakers. Fortunately no one else on the plane seemed to mind

Talent or not, managers commonly say that 10% of people cause 90% of the headaches. I guarantee the others on the plane minded very much, but were just to polite to say anything.
> People accumulate wealth and power, but only until they die.

And their descendants continue right where they left off. It's not much of a difference to them simply not dying.
Ai is ages away from being able to emulate the passion and intuition behind music, writing, and art that humans have cultivated for centuries. It can only emulate that passion even still, so it relies on a theft from human intellect & reasoning as it very basis. This is why in the long run it will become apparent that undermining the source of creativity, and by ruining the ability of artists and writers to succeed properly in innovating nw things, eventually Ai will become bereft of new ideas, and easily turned into a source for garbage, cheap, copycat, and undesired output.

There is also the looming risk that current creators may well turn towards corrupting their work specifically to hinder the corrupt idea theft currently occurring with Ai profiteers.
a partial vacuum of only helium, tightly sealed to keep in the helium. The tight seals will work to make sure that when there is leakage, only helium leaks in. and if there is no helium component to the air outside, you'll just get helium leaking out thus improving your vacuum.
Ask HN: AI powered feature ready to deploy. Tools I can use to evaluate it?
As the title says, wanting to test a new AI feature at scale. Seen enough of the "oops" from Google, Figma, etc on AI product rollouts to be nervous. I know it's never perfect, but want to do as thorough testing as possible.

Was thinking of running some LLM as judge workflows to create synthetic prompts and evaluate model outputs. Trying to do this at scale to test / predict edge cases, hallucinations, etc. Basically want to feed the model a huge set of prompts, have it produce output, and then have other LLMs eval the results. Then our team can dig in to areas the judges disagree.

What tools, services, stacks, etc may help with this? I'm sure it's a thing but I don't know how other teams approach this. Thanks!!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-is-painting-some-of...

It's being tested but is very expensive.
It's a company blog, not a newspaper
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Before. That’s why I bothered to look it up. And that’s when I discovered that the “savages” were actually employees of the Tongan government acting with the authority of the Pacific Forum.

You’re not very good at this “good faith” business are you, friend?
Pedantry is the cure for dying of old age
No, because the GPL is already more permissive than the GitHub TOS.
I have seen it. I like to run an open wifi AP. The way I have it set up it sort of sucks, throttled about as low as I can get it, you could read HN on it but most websites are very unpleasant to use. Anyway, the point is, for the most part my only customer is my neighbors samsung tv sending some sort of click and navigation updates back to the mothership. Now I don't "know" that it wasn't attached to intentionally. but I suspect the tv was just happy to attach to anything it could find.
Is the source of cancer usually something from 20 to 30 years ago? I can't imagine childhood food is causing cancer decades later? Don't our cells mostly turn over constantly?

Doesn't lung cancer risk basically drop off after quitting smoking? I thought skin cancer could be caused by just one burn?
Because there are several issues with it?

Terrible cli user experience and having to resolve the same rebase conflict again and again for instance.

And maybe because other tools do things better?
That's a very good idea, something that can be tried with some attempts. Thank you very much for sharing.
That wording is not correct. Recommended speed is a mechanism that is employed in many countries (in the Netherlands you see it on highway exits). The only rules that apply on a highway without signs is a recommended speed of 130 km/h with all the legal consequences this entails (e.g. if you have an accident you are at least partially at fault because the traffic situation obviously didn't allow you to drive as fast as you did) but speeding is not decriminalized as THC products are decriminalized in the Netherlands. There just is no speed limit. Period.
I don't understand your proof. It would make more sense to me if I add the additional idea that there is some p* where p* = h , where p* is part of p = 1 to infinity. So you have tried to define the halting program, but this led to a contradiction.
tl;dr: commit index.md to github repo and use github pages to host it.
In mere existence terms... It exists, my cars almost detect correctly all speed limits it see around, almost because sometimes it detect wrong one or for a wrong road tract (like a temporary limit due to some road works, kept after that just because there is a missing end sign), but in mandatory (present and on by default) means that we will get wrong actions, as per phantom breaks (I got three in three last days, for instance, in one case exaggerated and too hard, the other two for not valid reasons though not hard).

That's aside the mere fact we should been able to ignore speed limits under specific circumstances that's are typically emergencies so we do not have time to dig in the vehicle tablet menu to deactivate some ADAS...
you win! well done!
any idea why some videos get marked as private? I too have experienced this, but only for a few videos, and I thought it was the video creator who marked them as private. but are you saying that it is actually YouTube who does this?
71°C
As a safe driver, I am comfortable with this tradeoff. I estimate the chance of me getting killed/maimed by some other speeding/dangerous driver is much greater than getting killed/maimed by a software error.
Phoenix "city planners" (do any cities actually do any intelligent planning?) must be the most pointless job in the world. "How can we design something so awful that it is nearly uninhabitable?" must be their design philosophy. Or perhaps I should give them more credit; it may be a high quality experiment in Martian landscaping and terraforming.
but how is this not considered a massive crisis

Base rate up but total numbers still low. Google says 150k people/year (of all ages) get colorectal cancer, out of 333.3 million people.
> Wouldn't this be trivial to defeat by pulling the playlist multiple times (maybe via a proxy to get a different IP), and only showing the chunks which did not change?

Since the YouTube marks ads, I guess pulling the playlist twice won't really be needed. YouTube's player should somehow know when the ad starts and when it ends after all.
> With a home network you can obfuscate so much with little know how, and further you ultimately are "aware" of all packets being sent via examining your own traffic.

While I do still encourage people to do this as any security is better than no security, it is worth noting that you can entirely bypass things like a DNS block (i.e. pihole). For example, your browser probably does. Idk where it is in Chrome, but in Firefox you can go to Settings > Privacy & Security[0] and down at the bottom is "Enable DNS over HTTPS using:". Which, in general, I'd also encourage people to use. Cloudflare suggests this feature is available in Brace, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox[1]

So I'm saying there's an extra step to be aware of because if you rely on only DNS to perform the blocking, then it may not catch everything because there might just be a host file with the IPs manually specified. Which isn't unlikely.

I think the bigger problem is the complexity of all of this and how we're all being spied on unknowingly and in unexpected ways (you might know that you're being spied on in some ways but I'm willing to bet there's also ways you don't know). It's pervasive, invasive, and quite difficult to escape for even technologically adept people. And we shouldn't have a society where people are victims of things just because they do not have domain expertise in that subject matter. No one is a domain expert in all domains and it would be ludicrous to suggest one could be in even several of the critical ones.

[0] or about:preferences#privacy

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/encryption/dns-ove...
I think that very much depends on what the chip in the car does. If it effectively broadcasts your movements to the government, I very much think that does have human rights implications (on the right to privacy).

However, if the chip just limits your car's speed, I have trouble imagining what rights that would violate. Your right to speed? C'mon.
You can't copyright a mathematical operation. Only a particular implementation of it, and even then it may not be copyrightable if its a straightforward and obvious implementation.

That said the implementation doesn't appear to be totally trivial and copilot apparently even copies the comments which are almost certainly copyrightable in themselves.

https://x.com/StefanKarpinski/status/1410971061181681674
https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/dbe4ddb1...

However a twitter post on its own isn't evidence a court will accept. You would need the original poster to testify that what is seen in the post is actually what he got from copilot and not just a meme or joke that he made.

Also the plaintiffs in this case don't include id-Software and there is some evidence that id-Software actually stole the fast inverse sqrt code from 3dfx so they might not want to bring a claim here anyways.
I have heard that we age, primarily, to prevent ourselves from dying of cancer even faster than we already do.

Animals that don't really age like the lobster, giant tortoise, bowhead whale, elephant, etc - also get cancer much less than we do.
> But I knew that jewelers are not magicians.

No one is! Magicians are just tricksters; they get copied all the time.
Considering the paper does not specify that it has no conflicts of interest in the usual place where it would, we should assume the author is involved with such manufacturers
> If all vehicles are limited in the same way I am uncertain how this could even happen

This won't happen unless it becomes illegal to drive un-limited vehicles entirely though

People will drive older un-limited vehicles, or import un-limited cars from elsewhere, or buy limited cars and jailbreak them...

You're starting with a flawed premise and then concluding what you prefer
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The raw words written to the drive are actually re-encoded into slightly larger codewords with nice properties like not having too many zero or one bits in a row, and error detection/correction.

Plus I think that the 0/1 bits are not encoded as "no magnetism"/"some magnetism", but instead as "north magnetism"/"south magnetism" since magnetic fields have a direction.

And I don't think the magnetic fields on the platters have any appreciable effect on the head besides the electromagnetic effects at the sensor.
SSDs have lots of moving parts and friction, all the electrons are zipping around the circuits with friction. This creates heat :)
Is PipePipe also affected?
> unless the bar for "bad company" is a lot higher than I see it.

Yes, the bar is higher (higher means it's harder to qualify as bad, right?) when talking about needing to quit.

> I already asserted at the very beginning of the comment chain, almost every company is bad. That went unchallenged

Because you went on to say it didn't matter anyway, so I focused on the latter part of your post.

Though I'm confused. You showed an argument that sorting companies into good and bad results in absurdity, but it only results in absurdity when the bar is super low. Why is your conclusion that sorting is impossible, rather than "the bar is too low", if you were already seriously considering that the bar needs to be higher?
The total cost of ownership differences between asphalt and concrete roads is astronomical.

A single pothole in concrete is a very invasive fix with significant amount of debris, but asphalt can be almost infinitely recycled.

Replacing asphalt means eating up the debris and putting it right back in the ground. Replacing concrete means toting truck loads of the stuff _somewhere else_ to sit
Related conversation from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917358
Can you post any evidence for this? I somehow have it in my mind that it's the other way around (i.e., mean doesn't grow anymore, but 99th percentile still does).
I don't think so. For instance, one basic technique in low-latency C++ is running specific code periodically even with no-op parameters just to keep it warm in the cache.

It's one thing to claim that you can cherry pick some directly or indirectly pieces of information from an unrelated source. It's another entirely different thing to claim that unrelated source is an authoritative reference in an unrelated field, specially when no one recognizes it as such.
Ask HN: What apps do you use to plan travels? Maps, itinerary, routes etc.
I’ve always used onenote but it seems that my trusty travels planner template lacks some of the more handy functions available in other travel specified apps. Wondering what others use to set their plans out effectively.
Weird take as Git is making things much more complex than they need to be, which is proven by Mercurial and Jujutsu that are much more intuitive while being as powerful.