skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess my issue with your statement is that it seems almost impossible to disprove short of someone doing the unthinkable. We have history to suggest (note: not prove) that MAD works.

It’s kinda like economics. We can’t really prove anything in economics works the way we think it does, but we have a bunch of REALLY GOOD suggestions to support our hypotheses.

MAD isn’t a natural law - it’s a social construct, very much like economics.
I invite people to collaborate and can share monetary benefit if the report is accepted. It stands closed as of now.
Was dorm-mates with a T1D. Four of us total. His bunk mate and best friend basically saved his life twice in that semester.

How come the disease gets so little publicity??
The article appears to be simply wrong.

In May of 2023, Amazon reported that over 500,000,000 Alexa-enabled devices had been sold: https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/5/amazon-introduces-four-...

Now, of course: "Alexa Enabled" includes many things other than Amazon's own line of Echo smart speakers.

But at least one source suggests that Echo devices sold 0.88mm units the first year alone (2014), with tens-of-millions sold each year in more recent times: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/amazon-statistics/#Amazo...
I second that reaction to many Rust projects I've compiled.
Anything JS these days tends to look similar.

I think part of the issue is that it's just so easy to get a package included in "the" central registry, and for many programming adepts that's like a badge of honor. So you get many tiny libraries, and many turn into balls of mud. Then they learn about reuse and happily pull in all dependencies they can think of.

In Rust there seems to be a tendency to keep stuff out of the standard library, so everyone depends on their favorite solutions to everyday problems, which depends on their favorites and so on.

But it is a problem, because somewhere along the line one of those indirect dependencies is going to start conflicting with something else in the graph; the bigger the graph, the more conflicts.

And finally risk, because if a major indirect dependency goes belly up, that may well cause serious problems for your direct dependencies, which then makes it your problem. Also directly related to graph size.
Depends on Poland location. I moved from Warsaw to coast and my air filter is gathering dust in a basement. Due to natural windy weather here air is extremely clear almost whole year including winter. And 25 degC is considered hot here instead 35 in capitol city ;-)
Years of miscalculations by US/NATO led to dire shell shortage in Ukraine
Your tone implies you're unironically trying to compare 3% inflation to 20,000% deflation. That'd be embarrassing.
On point, and pretty good analogy
Congress has been taking a long hard look at Clear and might consider their practices and business model to be illegal, as they rightfully should.
And it seems to have had the intended effect: Several people here(1) have been reading it as if that was the "cause".

Weasel wording at its finest.

(1): Including, it seems, poster "isantop". Who is otherwise coming off pretty much as one of those secretive board members, here to defend their decision and procedures, so it's hard to think it's unintentional in their case.
Solaris was ahead of its time. They had Zones, which was a container technology, years ago. Likewise, FreeBSD way ahead with Jails. Only later did Docker on Linux come into existence and then containerization exploded in popularity.
> The Chinese can build track through your living room if they want to

They actually can't, leading to some pretty hilarious situations of lone houses in the middle of roads

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china...
The term “source code” can mean many things. In a legal context it’s often just defined as the preferred format for modification. It can be argued that for artificial neural networks that’s the weights (along with code and preferably training data).
Stay assured these guys are working day and night to make our world a darker place
Yeah, why should software companies ever be held to some sort of standard? Let the buyer beware! Oh but don't call me a programmer, I'm totally a software engineer and don't you forget it.

/s
Everybody thinks their philosophy is the best. Take for example C89 time library. You'll just say it doesn't satisfy your philosophy.
Interesting subjects, all :)

> airport book author

Wasn't aware of the "subgenre" ..
GraphDBs Pitfalls and Why We Switched to RDBMS
There is a subtle detail here in that there is an alternative to being invaded: you can surrender and become a puppet state.

All these words about "NATO expansion" and "western influence" are just a code word for what ultimately just means "no longer under former Soviet-block influence".

Just about any sovereign choice that a country like Ukraine makes that is not bowing their head to Moscow is by definition taken as a direct assault to their god-given right to rule their former empire.

So let's just cut all this crap about NATO or whatnot and let them say clearly:

"I want all the territories of the former Russian empire to remain under their former rulers. Ukraine. Georgia, ... are not free to do what they want with themselves, they are not really sovereign. We Russians have a god-given mandate to rule them. And when they don't want to be ruled by us we will leverage the Russian minorities we have planted in those countries to justify invasion"

It's a perfectly simple and honest way of framing what they really want. And they can claim that "the west" has already done much of that meddling with their imperialistic past and whatnot. Then we can discuss things. But you have to be honest about exactly what you want to happen.

There is no point pretending that the problem is NATO expansion and if it wasn't for NATO a former-soviet country could just do whatever they wanted. The desire of joining NATO is just a reaction to a threat of being dragged back into the Russian influence sphere against their will!
> Masks don’t keep you from getting COVID. They only help prevent you from spreading it.

???

Most masks don't have a one-way valve that only filters your exhalation, leaving inhaled air unfiltered. Any given mask is going to be roughly as good at filtering incoming air as it is at filtering outgoing air.
Funny thing with codine is that it's metabolized into morphine, and this happens at vastly different rates, from "not effective as a treatment" to "somewhat high risk of abuse due to euphoria"
Aren't you just asking for money for shadcn?
having come out of job search, i had to use the site regularly and i see why people have grievances.

to me, it seems like the facebook for the working class. a vast portion of the "500+" club might be those with that many followers and not connections. a lot of them post stuff that your grandma who also works in your industry might do.

if you filter the noise out, there is a lot of benefit to having some networking opportunities. but personally outside of job hunting, i would prefer not to partake.
I'd say it underscores its accidental nature.
At least for the next 2500 presidential cycles or so the chances of the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupting is considered quite low. We have some understanding of the physics involved, there's not enough lava and magma in the chambers currently for such an eruption. Even if a previously unseen phenomenon started to rapidly fill those, rapidly on a geological scale is still measured in thousands of years.

Also, similar things like "the Big One is due in the Northwest" are just sensational headlines. The Cascadia Subduction Zone indeed produces earthquakes every 3-500 years and the last one was in 1700 but that doesn't mean there's an equivalent of a hourglass. It just means there's a historical average of that.

And it's the concern of FEMA to act after something like this happens, not a matter of national security. National security concern, I imagine, would involve defusing these via some military ways and defusing such events are far beyond the capability of humankind at this time.
In JS it’s not an issue as long as you just fire and forget. Because calls to async functions essentially fork off tasks. No way to synchronise on them though.

Python (and rust) are coroutine based so calling an async function does essentially nothing, you need to acquire a runtime handle in order to run and resolve the coroutine.
They should pay. And then the CrowdStrike and their shareholders should pay to them. We really should just simply remove corporate veil. Make the shareholders at least pay monetarily if not in prison time.
Isn't it like banning Christianity? I don't think it can be done
Automatic Programming vs. Artificial Intelligence (pdf)
Dextroamphetamine (or lisdexamfetamine as in Elvanse/Vyvanse) isn't the only stimulant medication; there is also Ritalin (methylphenidate). You may also want to look into generic non-prodrug dextroamphetamine, typically called dexedrine - different brands, too; in my area there are Actavis/Teva capsules as well as Mallinckrodt capsules, and only the Mallinckrodt capsules work well for me.

There are also non-stimulant medications, such as Wellbutrin (bupropion; an atypical antidepressant that is known to help in certain cases of ADHD). I've also heard of SSRIs potentially helping, but I would not recommend them because of their long-term effects (they can damage serotonin receptors permanently).

Plenty of legal options if you haven't already tried them yet. Obviously, please discuss them with a real doctor if you intend to look into them.
The've said the crash was not related to those zero bytes. https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-h...
Nationalising the rail is one of their targets. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/24/labour-prom...
Krakow is amazing and I love it, but pollution levels are not a joke. In winter everything is black with soot.
Agree with the sentiment of not hiding behind vendors for issues, but in this case there were (presumably) major procedure failures at CrowdStrike which lead to this - I believe they are 100% at fault in this case.
I’ve never asked to be called an engineer. I guess I’m off the hook.
Yeah, I saw that too. Not about to get a posting
ID there, so I'll say here what I thought there:

> I worry that it could start unnecessary drama.

What that commenter apparently missed was the worse possibility (or probability), that it will suppress "drama" that would have been necessary.
I was aware of the autoimmune nexus but not that adult-onset type 1 is common or the likely mechanism that’d trigger them. Thanks
Show HN: I built an open source Chrome summarization extension based on Gemini
Hi, HN!

I built a chrome extension that summarizes web content based on the Gemini API. If you want to use it, just fill in your Gemini API Key in the settings.

In addition to customizing theme colors and summary prompts, this extension can also filter out information you don't want AI to know by configuring sensitive information filtering and Advanced Rules.

Thank you!
I mean just this solely person already could tick all those boxes or I don't have a way to access that information.

By glancing the direct dependencies of this project it is pretty easy to see why they have been selected. Yes, it would be more prudent to check all transitive dependencies as well, in addition to reviewing their source code, but frankly that's just too much effort. Does this mean the dependencies are random?

But it does seem like it would be cool to have a tool to collect as much of that information as possible.
Where is Clear considerably faster than TSA pre-check? It’s the same wait for either nearly every time I’ve seen them next to each other. I’m sure it varies by airport though.
At least America doesn't have an explicit "duty to work" clause in their constitution like Turkey has. It could've been worse.
In Germany usually they go to the normal network, they don't have a direct high speed connection to the city center.
I feel like the trend is going the other way in modern JS
Well, the Gnome Foundation sure seems to be sailing up as a candidate...
Photo != Biometric scan
I think ergonomics and practicality could use more consideration when discussing new languages. A language exists in an ecosystem.

At a glance to me, Scrapscript looks very traditional and easy to grok from a regular programmers perspective, there are build steps, you can use an IDE or editor etc.

Unison feels more like "Smalltalk Squeak" and Scrapscript feels more like "GNU Smalltalk". Come live in our new world, or integrate new stuff into your existing world kind of vibe.
You don't know that for sure. There's a bunch of city-hating pro-suburbia people in this discussion who might be downvoting you because they're angry you're calling the US "basically undeveloped". But there may also be many downvotes from the walkable city lovers who read your lengthy first paragraph and didn't get to the second one.

Personally, while I agree with your overall point, I think you shouldn't write that way. Expecting people to read a somewhat-long post before getting to the "twist" on an internet forum full of hundreds of posts is a bit much; people aren't reading everything fully here. You need to make your main point in the beginning, then expand on them in the subsequent paragraphs if any.
God I hope so!
I think you answered it yourself? It’s coming soon, so it is not available now, but soon.
There the infra is only technically not through their living rooms, for all practical purposes those buildings are no longer usable.
I don’t get it; in most professions, if you deliver crap, you are liable. Why is this different? How is the onus on the buyer who got told this product protects them and then the product actually screws them? I think CS should pay damages and go bankrupt, so others might think twice in the future.

I wouldn’t want to live in a world where people can get away with mistakes like this: as far as I have seen, if one person in CS had actually tried this file on their local windows machine, it would’ve crashed. That’s not a small thing is it? That’s a Boeing like culture which should be terminated today.
From the "Why Open Source AI Is Good for Meta" section, none of the four given reasons seem to justify spending so much money to train these powerful models and give them away for free.

> Third, a key difference between Meta and closed model providers is that selling access to AI models isn’t our business model. That means openly releasing Llama doesn’t undercut our revenue, sustainability, or ability to invest in research like it does for closed providers. (This is one reason several closed providers consistently lobby governments against open source.)

Maybe this is a strategic play to hurt other AI companies that depend on this business model?
AFAIK, the word "breached" can also be interpreted as "brought up in discussion". So maybe that was what the GP meant.
Yes, it's deeply worrying. And the source is Less Wrong of all places, an author with what seems like a solid track record and lots of karma. Really makes you wonder where we're heading.
Yes, Crowdstrike is yet another opportunity to feel vindicated that (when I was a CTO) I made sure our information security policies mandated people to use only the macOS/Windows built-in AV tools.
I‘m T1D and using Freestyle Libre + Omnipod Dash and iAPS + Apple Watch. Apple Watch is for me primarily to automate physical exercise detection and target adjustments but also works great with iAPS to control bgs and inject insulin from your watch without taking your phone out of pocket. All built as a homebrew closed loop.

While it was somewhat difficult initially to make it work I managed to get over the last year to 85% in range continuously over weeks with a (for me in comparison to before) very low amount of hypos (3 or 4 per week).

Happy to share more and the challenges I had if someone is interested...
Naming it after something known for its slow speed is an odd choice.
IIUC, what they mean by "migrate" is the client thread is paused and the server thread given the remainder of the time slice, similar to how pipe(2) originally worked in Unix and even, I think, early Linux. It's the flow of control that "conceptually" shifts synchronously. This can provide surprising performance benefits in alot of RPC scenarios, though less now as TLB, etc, flushing as part of a context switch has become more costly. There are no VM shenanigans except for some page mapping optimizations for passing large chunks of data, which apparently wasn't even implemented in the original Solaris implementation.

The kernel can spin up a thread on the server side, but this works just like common thread pool libraries, and I'm not sure the kernel has any special role here except to optimize context switching when there's no spare thread to service an incoming request and a new thread needs to be created. With a purely userspace implementation there may be some context switch bouncing unless an optimized primitive (e.g. some special futex mode, perhaps?) is available.

Other than maybe the file namespace attaching API (not sure of the exact semantics), and presuming I understand properly, I believe Doors, both functionally and the literal API, could be implemented entirely in userspace using Unix domain sockets, SCM_RIGHTS, and mmap. It just wouldn't have the context switching optimization without new kernel work. (See the switchto proposal for Linux from Google, though that was for threads in the same process.)

I'm basing all of this on the description of Doors at https://web.archive.org/web/20121022135943/https://blogs.ora... and http://www.rampant.org/doors/linux-doors.pdf
But surely you wouldn't call it open source if sentry just gave you a binary - and the source code wasn't available.
> I agree that the easiest and safest way to deal with this is to just legalize all drugs. IMO that will have at least two desirable effects: you will know exactly what you are consuming instead of betting on a derivative, and the race after analogs will stop: people will just consume what is known to be safe and effective, as it happens with alcohol.

Amen. I'll be happy once I can pick up, say, LSD, from a pharmacy, and know that it's dosed accurately and unadulterated. Right now one would kinda have to buy it from either some guy or some darknet vendor and the only way to know it's safe is to test it with reagents. Those who don't test it run the risk of dying or suffering permanent damage from overdosing on some adulterant or substitute.

It would probably also help with the current opioid crisis where people are dying because their doses are adulterated with fentanyl. Just offer doses that don't have fentanyl in it! Let people buy it from a safe regulated source.
That is indeed an exception, but IIRC it's not the only event with that exception: I think the world, continental and national championships also don't allow team radios.

Another exception is that the Olympics and world and continental championships are ridden with national teams instead of the various commercial teams. That makes quite a difference too.
If you want security, use a secure OS. But it's not so easy, often decisions are made not to have the best technical solution, but to fulfill business agreements.
Yeah same experience here aswell, I found Sonnet 3.5 to fulfill my task much better than 4o even though 4o scores higher on benchmarks.
The strangest thing with Alexa is how it seems to have gotten worse and worse over time. That is, my Alexa right now has issues doing the most basic thing, it can't even play music right anymore.

I remember when my friend in LA first showed me Alexa, playing music was all we used it for and it worked great for that. Somehow it's degraded over time and now it barely every picks the song or band I asked for. There was a time when I used Alexa for managing every light in my house, now I just gave up on everything except music, and I'm almost done with that part now too.
What do BC and DR mean in this context?
Hi I am seeing a lot of good resources in this thread already but I might have something to add. I am also learning Haskell at the moment, and the thing that really helped me push through it was this MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) by the university of Helsinki which is completely free and online available.

https://haskell.mooc.fi/

It's a structured, has a lot of excercises and so far (I am on Lecture 5 at the moment) very clear. It wont make you an expert, but will get you writing code quickly.
Yes, there is trust involved in assuming that others also include useful dependencies. So far I have not seen it being brought up as a concrete example that there is a single useless dependency in the project. Seems like it should be easy to show, as between the lines there seems to be the claim that there are many.

I agree that having a great number of sources needed to build your program is worrying from the point of supply chain attack, but at the same time most developers enjoy focusing on the core problem they are solving, not problems that others have already solved for them.

Vendoring dependencies might be a partial solution, though practically speaking it seems locking dependencies via git hashes would be effectively the same.
For sure, less than 104 week's service means no entitlement to statutory redundancy payments. However, the redundancy process affords other protections.

The major one is an unfair dismissal claim against the company on the basis that the redundancy is not a genuine one - you can't just re-hire for the same or an equivalent but differently named position.

The other ones relate to fair procedures and fair selection. The Twitter Exec in Ireland who got an injunction is a good one;

https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/big-tech/2022/11/25/du... {Incognito or no JS for paywall}

Or the Wix developer who was paid out €35,000 compensation when she was fired after she labelled Israel a “terrorist state” on social media, because the manner in which Wix had dismissed her had been “procedurally unfair.”

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/israeli-tech-firm-ordere...
> Linux has eBPF which can provide most of the capability that Crowdstrike needs, by using an "in-kernel verifier which performs static code analysis and rejects programs which crash, hang or otherwise interfere with the kernel negatively". If MS had this functionality, it is likely this incident would not have happened.

It didn't stop Linux machines from being down so it is clearly not as easy as you put it. The reality is that writing software is hard yet devs often trivialise it to their own detriment
I make frequent bike rides to work on my ebike that I would never do on a regular bike since the last stretch is uphill and I don't want to arrive sweaty. So that's 5mi vs 0 in that specific example.
Singapore has the death penalty for drug offenses.
It’s not just COPY … TO/FROM PROGRAM. IMO all variants of COPY are a mistake — the server should not be opening files on behalf of the client. What is actually wanted is the rough equivalent of:

psql … < file

Where < could be > or | or piped the other way, plus all the FORMAT goodies, plus perhaps some optimizations to make it fast, but keeping the fact that the client opens the file or executes the program.

If you are trying to write a table to a CSV file remotely and you want it to land in a file on the server, then (a) that’s weird and I struggle to come up with a case in which you actually want that and (b) use SSH or some other bespoke protocol to do what you actually want, rather than having the database server kludge it up for you.

On the occasions where I’ve wanted anything resembling this functionality, I have always actually wanted psql’s \copy.

COPY … STDIN/STDOUT is fine, but it takes some potentially awkward code that is, as far as I can tell, not particularly portable between languages or between database protocols.
The way this is written makes it feel like a scam. I'm left wondering, what's the catch? I wouldn't trust this company, not based on this page anyhow. Seems dodgy.