skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The technical competence to pull off this attack is low, but being in a position of privilege is difficult. I could kill someone by adding some poison to their food, but more importantly I'd have to poison food they're going to eat. I can trivially add posion to food I cook in my house, but as my victim isn't going to eat that food, that's pointless.

Similarly, in order to "poison" someone else's Internet with a Monster in the middle (MitM) attack, you need to get in a privileged position so as to do that. For people using a smartphone on a cellphone data plan, getting in that privileged position is beyond the capabilities of most 12-year olds, as they'd have to have privileged access into your cell phone provider. If, however that 12-year old is running an insecure wifi AP that you're using to get to the Internet, you're a bit more at risk.

However, the poison in this metaphor is more difficult. A trivial script injection to open a popup is easy to do, but actually doing something harmful is far harder. Aka procuring a poision that only gives you a molds headache in this metaphor is easy, but getting arsenic/something that steals your bank account credentials is hard. Chrome is well hardened against attack, so while bugs do exist, they're not trivial to find and exploit. Which doesn't mean they won't by, but it does mean it's far less likely your 12-year old nephew has 0-days to burn.
You could also have a look at this paper:
"Utilising the Quantity Theory of Credit to Understand the Causes of the 2007 Financial Crisis"
https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/archive/starkey_banking2
What you should care is a behavior. You should be open about what is expected. People change behavior all the time depending on the situation/group/company/context.
In Oslo we import trash from the other European countries and then transport a bunch of our own trash to Sweden. Seemingly all because of some carbon emissions taxes in Norway.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/fyller-ovnene-med-importsoppel-samt...
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Email: henrique.godoy@sou.inteli.edu.br

Hello! I'm Henrique. I've been programming since I was 14 years old. I was approved for one of the most challenging math programs at USP (University of São Paulo) at the age of 15. At 17, I received a 500k scholarship at Inteli, working directly with companies such as Dell, Pirelli, Vivo, and more. I love mathematics too; last year, I achieved a top 200 ranking in OBMU (Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad for University Students), which is similar to the American Putnam Competition. I helped implement the first LLM in the largest Latin American Investment Bank, and I've already founded a company called Doki, where I developed a personal finance app for doctors in Brazil. I led the full development lifecycle, which achieved over R$10 million in registered funds. Right now, I am 19 years old and in my 3rd year of Computer Science at Inteli (only 3 hours a day at present). I'm looking for an opportunity to work with smart people solving cool problems; salary, language, or anything else is not a factor. :)
I’m not sure I understand your point here. The person you are replying to says that almond milk uses less than half as much water as cows milk to produce. So why would it be less sustainable if all cows milk production was switched to almond milk?
The enquiry closed around this time last year - and then there was basically no functional government in the UK from the start of this year while the previous ruling party tore itself to pieces in public before calling a snap election which it lost. And then parliamentarians all went on summer holiday, before Parliament opened up again yesterday. But now they all go away again for conference season until Early October. Plus all the committees basically have to reconvene and rejig themselves post-election, so goodness knows when there will be updates! Or when anyone in parliament actually does any work…
Windows 11 now ships with rwkv.cpp
what were you diagnosed with, in the end? I always thought you'd need medications for life, for conditions like this - are you 100% off them?
So we have a duality of fields and particles. Likely it doesn't make sense to give one representation precedence over the other.
You might learn, one day. Unless you already know everything.
>Don’t think the necessary electromagnetic spectrum analysis equipment (and people) are very common.

You don't think people are actively monitoring the electromagnetic spectrum, in a US embassy?

Why in the world do you think that?
An Optimization That's Impossible in Rust
> Except for the dozens of fetuses that are not brought to term and flushed because they would not survive to birth

One, zygote or blastocyst; it's not technically even an embryo until the amniotic sac develops [1]. Definitely not a fetus.

Two, "at least 40% of [natural] human pregnancies are lost before implantation" [2]. With assisted reproduction, that's 75% [3].

But "total loss from fertilisation to birth is 40-60%" in natural births [4]. About 65% to 80% of IVF implanted embryos result in a live birth [5], or about a total loss of 80%. (And improving.)

When ART results in a lower total loss from fertilisation to birth than natural conception, would you argue for banning the latter?

[1] https://www.medicinenet.com/embryo_vs_fetus_differences_week...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053685/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7670474/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5306416/

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5306416/

[5] https://www.pfcla.com/blog/frozen-embryo-transfer-success-ra...
I'm talking about the effectiveness and reasonableness of data, algorithms, and computation (with massively parallel execution, infinite precision analog, etc) in doing away with a need for "material".

Humans have an intuition for the existence of "material" because on our scale, we can reach out and touch something. But on the femto or atto scale, this does not happen, or when it does happen, we describe it with quantum collision math.

So why cling to this intuition?

I'm simply saying that an immaterial universe with the same properties such that it is isomorphic to the universe that most believe we live in is a better thought experiment to carry in your head. For one, you'll stop thinking "mind body problem, what is mind such that it is not body?" instead you'll say "well, body is not, so it must be the same substance as mind, it's not really that strange after all. It's VMs all the way down"
Yeah, I shouldn't've linked to the National Post, someone forgot to check a history textbook before publishing that article, which isn't exactly a shocker.

The original rainbow flag from Gilbert Baker had 8 symbolic colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Baker_(artist)#Flag
Show HN: I built an AI Interview Agent, Chrome extension for real-time prompting
Hey HN community!

As a software engineer who took an unconventional path (bootcamp graduate in late 2021), I've spent the last 3 years in the 9-5 grind, constantly dreaming of building something meaningful. After watching my brother struggle to remember his STAR examples in job interviews, I spent the last 8 months building Acedit: an AI-powered interview assistant Chrome extension.

Acedit provides real-time, personalised prompting during online interviews, helping job seekers structure responses and remember key points. It also offers targeted practice questions and interview simulations based on specific job listings. As someone who's recently been through the job search gauntlet, I built this to make interviews less daunting for everyone.

Key features:

- Seamless integration with in-browser video conferencing platforms

- Job listing parser for targeted practice questions and cover letters

- Personalisation based on user's resume and LinkedIn profile

- Free tier with GPT-4o mini, premium with GPT-4o or Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Tech stack: NX Monorepo, Express backend, React frontend, Playwright for e2e testing, Supabase (with RLS) for auth and DB.

What sets Acedit apart:

- Chrome extension format (less intrusive than a PWA)

- Generous free tier for accessibility

- Competitive pricing for premium features

I'd love your feedback and insights on how we can further improve the interview experience. Happy to dive into technical discussions or answer any questions!

Thank you for your time. As a newcomer to this community, I'm excited to engage and learn from your collective expertise and insights.
Suppose that infinitely many independent laws are active simultaneously in some region of spacetime. Then we can perform as many computational steps as we want, but our simulation will never proceed: it will just get bogged down in law after law for all eternity, assuming we have some way to enumerate them in the first place.
Again, it is rarely possible to quantify the productivity of a programmer. That's why we pay them according to how many hours they work. Contracting for 40 hours but only delivering 20 is fraudulent.
> Bit embarrassing for intel that they had to swallow their pride to get this one made by TSMC

This may become a new normal if the currently proposed plans to slash and burn parts of Intel come to fruition.
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Yeah I remember doing nothing but playing video games, especially these shooter games, as a kid, but now I only play games rarely and they tend to be of the “avant garde” variety—meaning, they’re often free or very low priced indie games from small developers (think of LISA, Undertale, Nikke Yumi, that sort of thing).
That depends on the type of tree.

An old growth redwood forest, for example, will often have large areas with no trees except redwoods. The bottom ten feet of the forest, where you walk around, can be nothing except smooth vertical trunks, with a thick covering of needles on the ground. No undergrowth at all, because the bottom of the forest lives in permanent shade, and the redwoods change the chemical balance of the soil in a way that makes it hard for other plants to grow.
I suspect many larger companies simply pay developers to contribute features. This is orders of magnitude easier than trying to make a donation as a corporation without getting an invoice in return.
I've seen it a bunch, FWIW.
1. Veganism is not a diet. It’s an ethical principle against the unnecessary killing and commodification of animals.

2. An exclusively plant based diet is hard to maintain but if you look at the research on why people quit plant based diets,

(1) it’s because most people quit every diet…even in this article the first “vegan” (he wasn’t vegan, he just adopted a plant based diet for health reasons) did not just quit his plant based diet but also his carnivore diet and will likely settle at a standard onnivore diet.

(2) even for people who are actually vegans (ie they are against the killing and commodification of animals), when they do exit veganism it’s because of social pressures. I’m pretty much all of the world veganism requires you to constantly go against the grain. The hardest part about being vegan is living in a non vegan world. If you flip the script, and imagine a hypothetical world in which everyone was vegan, I bet the 0.5-1% of the people who decided they wanted to start catching random sentient beings, torturing and murdering them, and then consuming their blood, pus, secretions and flesh, would not be able to continue doing that for too long either.

The fact that many philosophers and thinkers across the political spectrum, even those who aren’t vegan themselves, can admit the ethical value of veganism (for example Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Ben Shapiro, have all publicly said it’s the morally correct principle, and they’re hypocritical to not be vegan themselves) is a promising sign that the principle itself is sound.

Also, the closing of vegan restaurants is overstated. Most places where vegan restaurants are closing is because most non vegan places now include vegan options. Setting aside that the restaurant business, especially in the wake of the pandemic sees tremendous turnover anyways, it’s much harder to survive as a vegan restaurant when over a span of 5-10 you’ve gone from having almost no competition to having competition from 50% of the restaurants in your area. And non vegan restaurants offering vegan options benefit further because they can accommodate groups with non vegans whereas it’s more unlikely for a group with a mix of vegan and non vegans to pick the vegan restaurant.
I (literally) literally LOL'd--I was expecting more depth.

TL;DR

1. Monetary value
2. Resume scan issues
Title is sort of clickbaity, as the article is about implementing said "impossible" optimization in Rust. I wasn't sure what a good alternative title would be, though, if this is one of those cases where using an alternative title is acceptable. I'm open to suggestions!
I was also interested, but according to MTA Train Operators the computer that runs it is often out of service, and some who did felt it required a very exact placement:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nycrail/comments/1ezw72n/does_mta_h...
being a parent changes your perception about the challenges other parents face. it is one thing for me as a parent to realize that my kid is disruptive and step outside unprompted, but quite another for someone to ask me to leave. the latter would make me very uncomfortable, and needs to be handled with extreme tact and consideration.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41324905
A tank of gas is still a tank of gas, regardless of what it gets used for.

Energy in = energy out + waste + energy stored

The truck is barely storing anything on average, so what you've described is energy out and waste, but the calculations to compare the truck to the landfill was done on Energy in - the amount of gas that it needs to be filled with.

For the same total job, you could raise or lower how quickly the truck goes through a tank of gas, but that variance has already been averaged out
Sun RPC — the official name was ONC RPC — was probably the first modern RPC. It's an Internet standard. You've probably used it without realizing it; it's the protocol that NFS uses. If you've ever had to deal with the NFS "portmapper", then that's because of Sun RPC. Some other protocols use it.

It uses XDR as the schema definition language. XDR is basically analogous to Protobuf files. It has structs and tagged unions and so on.

Another technology from around the same time was DCE/RPC [2]. Microsoft adapted wholesale as MSRPC. Windows used it extensively around the time of NT 3.x for protocols like Exchange Server, and I believe it's still in wide use. DCE/RPC has its own IDL. You used the compiler to generate the stub implementations, just like Protobuf/gRPC.

Microsoft COM uses DCE/RPC under the hood, with lots of extensions [3]. CORBA emerged around the same time as DCE/RPC and COM and is roughly analogous in functionality.

COM and CORBA are explicitly object-oriented. While protocols like DCE/RPC and gRPC return values that are pure data, such as primitives and structs, COM and CORBA can return interfaces. An interface pretends to be a local in-memory instance, but its methods are "stubs" that invoke the underlying RPC call to execute them remotely. Methods can also return functions, which means you have whole trees of objects which are remote. Adding to that, both COM and CORBA use reference counting to hold onto objects, so if a client has received a remote object and reference counted it, the server needs to keep it around until the client either releases the refcount, or the client dies. COM and CORBA called this referential transparency, in that any object could be either local or remote, and a consumer of the interface didn't need to know about it. Of course, while nicely magical, this leads to a lot of complexity. I developed a rather complex distributed DCOM application in the late 1990s, and while it did, inexplicably, work quite well, it was also a nightmare to debug and keep stable.

While COM is alive and well in Windows these days (and interestingly enough, some APIs like DirectX use the COM pattern of defining interfaces via IUnknown etc., but are not actually true COM), DCOM turned out to be a mistake, and CORBA failed for some of the same reasons, although for many reasons unique to CORBA as well. CORBA made tons of design mistakes.

SOAP and WS-*, and of course XML-RPC and JSON-RPC, came later. The wheel has been reinvented many times.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oncrpc/about/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE/RPC

[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol...
reducing trash is useful. Recycling of trash is sometimes worse than throwing it in a landfill. There are many different plastics and many different grades of used paper so there is no one size fits all. People often want to think I recycle so I'm good - but effort is needed to reduce packaging and things that break early.
Came here to say the same thing. Excellent book, a thought-provoking read for sure
certainly it's absurd! nobody would deny that. on the other hand, the problem to solve is also an absurd problem

and i wasn't suggesting trying to bill for doing it, but rather, if you were frequently in this situation, it might be reasonable to spend non-billable time between clients doing it
If Linux is to remain exclusively in the terrible memory unsafe language known as C, then I'm afraid I'll have to switch from Linux, which I've been daily driving for a decade now.
Allowing a SFH to be knocked down to build 10 units is a good thing where additional housing is needed and it will reduce the cost of housing.

Corporations are holding these homes because they are such a safe investment because they know there is so much pushback to building new housing. Those corporate owners will sell housing just as quickly if there is downside risk, look at what happened in Austin.
I've heard this claim recently elsewhere. Do you have a source for it?
Can someone explain why offsite, offline, multi-timescale backups don't help in these cases?
A thing that is kind of glossed over is: what is "ownership" when we talk about worker-owners at cooperatives?

> The profits generated by each cooperative are put to work for the benefit of the greater whole. Each cooperative gives 14-40% of their gross profits to their division (depending on the division), and another 14% to their parent company. The rest are invested back in the cooperative (60% of net profits), distributed among their employees (30% of net profits), and donated to social organizations in their communities (10% of net profits).

> Workers buy into their cooperative when they become employees, investing up to €16,000 into a personal equity account. They pay 30% of that investment upfront, with the remainder taken out of their paychecks over following 2 to 7 years. After two years with the organization, workers become “members” and start earning interest on their investment at a rate of at least 7.5% annually. If the cooperative does well, they might earn much more than that. Workers can pull this money out of their accounts when they leave the cooperative or retire.

... so it's not ownership, right? It's profit-sharing while you're an employee (the "interest" the worker gets is out of that 30% of net profits discussed previously), but you don't own shares in the company that you can then sell, like an employee who receives an RSU or receives and exercises an option.

In some sense, corporate employees that get some form of equity as part of their compensation are more literally worker-owners. I think the problem with American companies that have an employee stock plan is that the employee stock pool is a small slice of the total ownership, and employees don't participate in any real democratic governance. Despite being shareholders, they get far less information about the financial health or strategic position of the company than investors with board seats. Real partial ownership doesn't lead to real power or access to information. And the aim of the company is still to serve the larger investors, not the workers.
Been vegan for almost 7 years and don't see myself ever going back to consuming animal products. From what I've at least seen personally it's more people going vegan for potential health reasons as the ones less likely to stick with it, compared to people who did it for ethical reasons (which is why I did). There does seem to be evidence that vegan diets are healthier, but that's more of a bonus than anything.

And many of the people who come from the health perspective don't really do it on any scientific basis, but weird fads that are very restrictive and not sustainable. You will have people only eating fruit or raw vegetables which is just generally not healthy.

It's far easier to change a fad diet than to change ethics.
Once it's cloned can't the attacker create a new one for you that looks like the previous one you had?
>extra diesel-guzzling truck

At least where I live, the garbage trucks have split compartments which means there's no additional trucks.
Does normal mean great or just OK?
and the energy investment is so drastically lower that my brain can afford to finance the pre-revenue charges of rinsing, cutting the ends, and pulling off a paper towel, so I eat way more of them.
It's kind of hard to tell from the article, but given the timing and the linkedin response about 2024 (and the picture), it seems like this is actually about bringing a 3 year old to conference, not an infant.
I argue with my wife, maybe, once a quarter. Together for 6 years.

The important factor is working together to work things out, as one of the other commenters said.

But I don't believe arguments should be considered normal. We stop 100% of the time and say "ok hang on, we've got different ideas here, let's figure something out" - sometimes we will have to leave it and come back to it later.

I was abused by boomer parents early similar to the OP. And I am not going to continue that for my family or kids. My wife hasn't been abused but she's woken up to how awful her own parents are at arguing
That's also my question. In general, can someone explain why offsite, offline, multi-timescale backups don't help in these cases?

Yes I get that insurance paid the extortion, but besides just capitulating, why doesn't restoring from backup work, assuming you can spot the vulnerability that caused the ransomware attack?
My understanding: The Higgs field, uniquely, has a nonzero vacuum expectation value -- so, when it's in its ground state, it's "switched on", it has an effect. In the early universe, it was in a higher energy state; for most fields, that would cause them to have an effect, but for the Higgs field that instead allowed it to take on a zero vacuum expectation value and to be "switched off". The Higgs takes on nonzero values at low energies instead of at high energies like other fields, so it "switched on" as the universe cooled.