skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I haven't read the article yet so apologies in advance if this is just noise, but uh...)

A lot of people seem confused about "degrowth". (In quotes because it's a terrible neologism.)

Look, people, degrowth is going to happen.

It's not optional.

We overshot basic physical realities and a "correction" is coming.

The question is not whether we drastically change our economic and industrial systems, because that's going to happen no matter what, the question is how to soften the disasters so that billions of people don't die in the next century or so.

Just to hammer this home: things will change, because Nature will change them for us. We can try to mitigate the worst of it, but we will have to scramble.

The good news is that we know what to do and how to do it. We could fix things overnight (well, within a year or three) if we really put our minds to it, because we already have all the solutions (most of them were worked out in the 1970's!)

The debate about degrowth is not whether or not to do it, the debate is whether to cushion the blow or just run off the cliff.
Funny to think that the distillation of 16 years of Facebook posts is now considered "intelligence."
that he was not the first using that name in the US is a very good argument against a trademark in the US now that you've said that, but this is the first time that was said, is the point I was making
>but the tone

Who cares? Debates are about ideas, not tones.

>But you'll get downvoted when you type a post on HN that seems like you're getting excited while typing.

Unless you're getting excited about the same world views as the mobs'.
Excuse my language but I can't help but think this is anything other than a stupid, racist, and sexist article..

Literally all races on earth care about anti-aging and have historically done so. Most women I know care more about anti-aging than the men I know.

Blah blah blah rich white men blah blah blah
I have a quick mill QM67 from 2012...well past 10000 shots in that time and about 5 hours of "On time" per day. since I got it I hacked in a direct plumbing line with a solenoid, and have killed one $29 pump.

However, it is probably now in need of a teardown. the brew pressure bypass valve is seized, and there is some scaling/corrosion in the brew head. I've got a machine shop, so I'm tempted to tear the whole thing apart, rewire, and replace the core electronics, but I'm not sure exactly what to do.
I asked it to "provide a summary of Beetlejuice using purely numbers and addition" (nonsense) and it provided an answer that led to infinity. Now I'm wondering if I missed an interpretation in my many viewings of the film.
The risk of an accident or otherwise unintentional initiation goes up with the number of warheads deployed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59#Nuclear_...

(or of course Dr Strangelove)
Except the situations aren't really analogous, now are they.

The State of Israel (unlike the United States) currently seeks to expand itself into (and maintain its unlawful occupation in) multiple places which aren't, according to the international community, "Israel".

And on top of that -- it (more precisely its current ultranationalist government) even tries to use its own names (Judea and Samaria) in reference to a certain very large chunk of this illegally occupied territory, even in internationally-directed communications. As if it thinks that will fool anybody.

So as long as its successive governments insist on playing naming games with the international community (and in their internal propaganda) -- given this, along with its perfectly abhorrent conduct in these occupied territories, it shouldn't be in the least surprised to find its own name for itself is brought into question as well. In fact, this is exactly the response it should expect.

Additionally, understand this violent expulsion was quite literally in response to the population [or rather its non-elected governing polity] declaring war on their newly [declared] state. What would you expect?

The answer is obvious -- that the civilian population be allowed to return to their homes, and retain full title to their property, as in the aftermath of any post-1945 armed conflict. According to the principles of international law, to which the State of Israel is itself a signatory.
> I'd love to have Intel's cash flow while being on "life support", thanks.

Intel lost money the past two quarters. Revenue is still high, but having high "cash flow" doesnt work indefinitely if more of it flows out the door than in.
functional is not what i would call a PD that can be easily used for a criminal purpose.
Is this true for posts from people with deactivated/deleted accounts as well?
Why not use a different term? These are quite literally different products and product classes.

I'm all for easier access to medical assistance devices -- I am against the erosion of established terms for political points, especially when it leads to ridiculous statements like you just made:

"My parents just got absolutely robbed buying hearing aids for my great aunt that I’m sure cost in the tens of dollars to manufacture." -- this shows you know nothing about hearing aids and the absolute bleeding edge technology that goes into real ones.

I'm sure it cost a lot and it hurt to pay the price. I'm not arguing these products shouldn't be available -- I'm arguing it's essentially false advertising to lump them in with 'hearing aids' especially with the FDA badge of approval.

Give the consumers choice - but don't hide that choice behind falsely equating the product classes. Make it clear they are in fact getting lower end everything, and that's why the price is so low. And make it clear that without an audiologist, you are at risk of damaging your own hearing and eliminating or worsening additinoal frequencies if tuned improperly.

Then let the consumer decide. Simple.
AI is a variable in the equation but it's hard to tell how much actual impact it will have. Many jobs in software engineering go beyond taking in requirements and outputting code such as understanding business concerns, technical limitations, trade-offs, maintainability, etc. Today AI is just barely okay at the outputting code part, who knows when and how much it'll be able to do the rest.

It's definitely a tool I use though, but as a centralised documentation. And I keep up with it to somewhat understand how it works under the hood. But even this does not answer the question of how to prepare should it actually help making most software engineering jobs obsolete.
This could be done using a system cron job which runs

clace app update-metadata conf --promote container.idle_shutdown_secs=180 /myapp

at every 6pm and then runs

clace app update-metadata conf --promote container.idle_shutdown_secs=0 /myapp

at 8am. idle_shutdown_secs being zero disables the shutdown. Using all as the last arg will update for all apps.
Employment Outcomes and Fulfilling Promises
>What toll exactly do you expect people to have to pay?

That depends. Ask Erick Adame[0] about the toll being outed took on his life.

[0] https://www.advocate.com/media/erick-adame-weatherman-webcam...
Some of these stories reminded me a bit of the stories of the religious scholar, trickster and scoundrel Nasreddin Hodja, who uses his wits to get the better of kings and sultans.

Nasreddin is AIUI originally a Turkish figure but whose legend exists over the whole Turkish-influenced world from the Balkans to China. Some of the stories have been translated to other cultures- I've definitely heard the one about the time he offers to teach a horse to sing told about a rabbi and the Tsar.
I have the opposite experience, I've found the MSDN docs for dotnet are very helpful both at the conceptual and implementation level.

GUI might be special a case because there are so many flavors of it, and half of them are abandoned dead-ends.
At least they aren't forcing all of us to build pyramids for them yet
>though I doubt they'll pay a bounty on something they've already fixed.

CVE-2022–46723 was reported 2022-08-08 and fixed later on 2022-10-24, which the author of this post was credited by Apple for reporting.
Fantastic work by everybody involved - they're really keeping the dream of BeOS and "small" computing from the 90's alive.
Knowing When to Ask – Bridging Large Language Models and Data [PDF]
Years ago I experimented[1] with a similar concept (wanting something like JavaScript source maps, but for HTML). I didn't manage to find the time to expand on it, but I think web developer tooling would really benefit from this sort of full-stack attribution.

Integration of any solution like this into existing frameworks feels like a big challenge.

[1] HTML Source Maps - https://github.com/connorjclark/html-source-maps https://docs.google.com/document/d/19XYWiPL9h9vA6QcOrGV9Nfkr...
Building an app with a single index.php file
> because he feels they amplify things he doesn't want to hear.

Could that be your mother-in-law telling him things to do?

Is he afraid of losing plausible deniability - "Sorry, honey, I didn't hear that, you know how bad my hearing is."
One might also argue that political economy (tax policy) should be a field of engineering as well. I'm very sympathetic to this; I like the idea of using control theory to make a stable society with stable distribution of wealth and income.
I've been using one of these semantic classless CSS systems for an application I've been developing for the past ~6 months with a team of ~3. It's working great so far. We didn't even install it from a package manager. Just copy and paste the file straight into source control. (attributions intact, don't worry licensing enthusiasts) Customizations go right into the original file.

Feels amazing.
No, I'm saying that (some) zionists characterise the use of 'zionist' as anti-semetic, more so today than in the past, but cool straw man.
Considering my city Is still running 16 bit Operating systems Off floppy drives For some of the infrastructure... Well I don't know, Maybe that makes it more secure? I have no idea How These systems haven't been hit yet. Or maybe they have?
The real safe assignment that I want to see is for optional chaining to be valid in LHS of assignments:

foo?.bar = 42;

This would not perform the assignment if an optionally chained value was nullish. It downlevels to

foo == null ? undefined : foo.bar = 42;

Given that the assignment is a SyntaxError now, this should be possible.
I believe parent's point was that if ones management is clueless as to how to measure output and compensation/continued employment is unlinked from same... one is probably working for a bad company.
1.5? What happens after 1.5 years? Had mine for 5 years, no issue and sort of the same battery life or not noticeable to me (15% degradation is what I would not notice ) still charge very quick in a case.
> In Russia-Ukraine war it works simply because neither side has a viable air force.

This is wrong. What happened is that the amount of anti-aircraft systems deployed prevents both sides from deploying a viable air force.

No chance any F-16 or Migs can defeat systems like the Patriot or the Russian S500, that converge to targets at Mach 10. The only systems of the US Air Force with any chance of surviving on this type of environment, would be the most sophisticated stealth systems, that would not be deployed for regular operations. The future belongs to drone swarms working in tandem under the control of an AI....Sadly....
Neat idea. The ball frequently passes through solid lines though.
If it's publicly posted, it literally means that everybody can read it. What's exactly the issue here?
Was "public" ever the default setting? I remember it as being opt-in if you ever wanted something to show beyond your friends-of-friends.
I'm curious. So this company basically only hires newbies and trains them from zero to any role they might need? That's kinda cool.
Have you ever heard of WooCommerce? It’s the market leader. It powers more stores than Shopify.
CS Career fair cancelled at community college because no companies reached out
Would you mind explaining your rationale for such a conclusion?

To my mind, a very clear message is being sent: the state is willing and ready to exercise its power against anyone who supports the initiative.

I'm open to other interpretations so long as they can be reasonably explained, though.
She's had essentially zero chargebacks that I know of. She's tried to figure out if it is just guys in relationships who want to check her out and then clear up all the traces?
Continuing to operate a Tor node after being informed by the government that it's being used for illegal activity means the operator did this "knowingly". It's even more egregious than a drug mule transporting an unmarked package:

Imagine the government tells the mule that their employer is shipping dugs in these packages, and the mule still tries to claim that they didn't know that they might be transporting drugs.
Unlikely:
>We don’t use posts or comments with an audience other than Public for these purposes.
Yes. If you’re a small country with little army, don’t throw 7,000 rockets on a bigger country’s living neighborhoods between Jan 1st 2023 and Oct 7 2023. This is not Dresden here.
I always wonder who these folks who graduate with excellent STEM degrees are who can't land a job.

I had a similar experience with my graduating class in undergrad computer science at a no-name state university. Of the graduating class (significantly smaller than when we started), I don't know of a single person who couldn't find some kind of gainful tech related employment - including the few folks who somehow could not code! by the end of our program. My experience is circa 2014, so only shortly after the great recession.

Where are these people who just can't get any kind of work with real CS degrees? Even the many hardcore cheaters I know of found ways into the FAANG (some have been promoted several times now too!)
I am very likely in the minority here, but I think AI SHOULD be trained on everything that is in the public sphere. I'd be disappointed if it wasn't trained on everything they had access to.

If it is trained on private information, then I would have issue with it.
A DIY grinder project might be interesting, but I'm not sure if there are reliable sources for burrs and those would be pretty difficult to make.
Are you one of those creeps who asks prospective employers about their work history before hiring them?
I don't know about you but thinking about living forever (either alive or in an afterlife) gives me more of an existential crisis than the thought of post-death non-existence. Forever is an overwhelmingly long time.
As usual, I'm stoked to see I'm not the only one using Flatcar. :)
That's not surprising...I remember after the dotcom crash was in full swing I went to a career fair and there like 20 companies and 4,000 people searching for jobs.
NetWare NFS Gateway 1.1
Nit: they do not say whether they tested the grandparents' cognition to make sure the two groups started from the same baseline. The sons had increased neuron density; the grandsons did not, but still had moderately elevated cognitive ability.
Seems like fun, nothing more nothing less.
That actually sounds like a smart system. It would also increase the barrier for those who log in just to scrape the whole profile and upload it elsewhere.
I wouldn't want to live in my flesh and blood through many more wars, collapses, depressions, dictatorships, invasions, extinctions, etc.

On the other hand, I hope it was all a simulation so one day I will get unfettered access to insert myself into any time and place in the simulation with god mode access and no_clip.
how is _anyone_ surprised by this?
That’s literally the only route fungwah operated. This is why nobody likes coastal elites: y’all think y’all’s is the only experience.
> Is there actually any reason he might've pissed off bunch of rustbros or are these just more baseless accusations?

His stream from 2 weeks ago does not appear Rust-positive:

¡ The Rust & Cargo ecosystem is so BROKEN, even Debian AGREES it is IMPOSSIBLE to maintain STABLE ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdMQwDtumJ8
> No. Total energy dissipation is at best a crude proxy for progress, because efficiency.

I'm not so sure about that. Let's say humanity finds a way to build a sophisticated torment nexus and the infrastructure to power it. Then, one day a way is found to make it 5 times more energy efficient. As a result, we will have 5 torment nexuses (nexi?), not less energy consumption.
So aside from agriculture, nothing that average Americans get material benefit from.
Untagged union types.
You know of a way to quantify and measure “productivity” of programmers? Of code?

Programmers make claims about productivity and throw the word around, like we all understand what it means.
What are the downsides? I had one for about a decade (a heat exchanger machine) and never had any issue with it. I've been thinking about getting back into espresso and an e61 would be something I look for mostly because I'm comfortable with it.
Just require a doctor’s note one time?
yeah I'm surprised that anyone didn't see this coming. The amount of times i've heard, "this is all our customer data, perform <xyz transformation> on it," I would have about $5.
Ah there's your problem. Don't use IIS on Windows Server 2008!
Example of NotebookLM converting obscure PDF into realistic podcast audio
> It's too bad so many people think they're just mics and amplifiers. Modern hearing aids do a lot of signal processing.

This is what I'm still trying to convince my dad of, after he found the pair he was fitted with ~20 years ago absolutely useless. He found that they simply made everything louder which did nothing to help him pick out what he wanted to hear.

But he's always been picky about his soundscapes, wanting the TV muted during ad breaks etc etc.
"You can now buy hearing aids (as defined by the FDA) for $250" is an objectively true statement, so unless you think the FDA is filled with Apple fanboys I have no idea what "pass" you think Apple is getting.
So he likely got the bounty, then, or will get it. Any idea how much it is?
Browser Jam
This study shows the combination of Metformin and Everolimus( Rapymyacin) is more effective at cancer than either alone. More research is needed.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7464161/
I have NET cancer and am taking Everoliumus. I am thinking about recruiting other NET cancer patients to do an informal test of Metformin and Everolimus( Rapymyacin). Is there any structure or web site or other tools to help us with this?
OK fair point, but all the other creators she speaks to say the exact same thing. Nobody talks.

But that really reflects the Internet in general. How many people browse HN vs. vote vs. comment?
The post looks like it's SF area. Given that employers want 4-year credentials and there's a big Stanford/Berkeley/top-tier bias, what was the representation by companies prior to this at the community college level?
It's also not used to learn facts about stuff: it's used to learn how language works and is used to describe the world.

The sum of all variants of human communication in text is pretty good for this and examples of wrong or different also matter: there was that article a few months ago about how a chemical prediction model performed better when it was also trained on invalid SMILES representations compared to totally sanitized datasets.
The sad part is that most people seem to be happy when businesses fire people for things done on personal time - as long as the person doesn't agree with the thing in question. I remember when Mozilla fired Brendan Eich, a lot of my "liberal" friends were all for it. They didn't care the least bit that it set a dangerous precedent for businesses to fire people for being gay, or being a sex worker in the past, or whatever else. They just were happy that someone they didn't like was being punished, damn the potential for collateral damage.
I don't think we'll ever see this. At least I hope we won't. Even specifying its behavior seems to be a nightmare. And you can basically just write it yourself.

[val, err] ?= maybeThrow(); // instead of this
[val, err] = wrapErr(maybeThrow); // you can write wrapErr yourself and use it forever
[val, err] = wrapErr(maybeThrow, arg1, arg2); // you can even provide args
They are looking for specific recommendations. There are lots of resources out there and Sturgeon's Law means it's still difficult to find really great sources.
Looks cool! Just a heads up: a couple of the demo links in the main README lead to 404s.
Need to test how good facebooks sanitization was, maybe you could find some PII in llama responses with the right prompt.
>what has America gotten in return

The ability to retake a small shred of moral high ground, I guess, given its role in turning Afghanistan in to a failed state.
In your profile it says you work for some company, do the founders know you want to expropriate their company? Those damn kulaks, feasting on the fruits of your labor.
Definitely not received yet.

>2024–09–12: Still no bounty [...].

Apples bounty payouts are ball-parked here:

https://security.apple.com/bounty/categories/
You also need to factor in that Mars has 1/3 of Earth gravity.

I have no experience in low gravity climbing, but it has to be a substantial help!
They did get sued successfully recently by an AG for the autotag faces in photo feature, so maybe another lawsuit is in the cards.
I would like someone who understands both backcountry hiking and Ultima Online to discuss the term trammeling, please.
"If they can, they will."
I'd assume that was one thing they were extremely diligent about ironing out, doing this at scale.
Stories of startups that did things that don't scale
SQL is a declarative language for working with relational databases. The concept of composability doesn’t apply.

SQL does support code reuse and building layers of abstractions. If you only use SQL through an ORM you won’t get to use things like CTEs and views and user-defined functions, because ORMs by definition deform the relational model and SQL to fit OOP.

In 40+ years programming SQL expertise has paid the bills and kept me employed more reliably than any other language or tool I have mastered.
This isn't really that groundbreaking of a story...

Of course they'd do this! How did people think feed ranking worked?

The only reason this is being reported now is because there's a chatbot and I guess that feels different to people.
"on the stomach"?

More like "the asshole! They're not called "Metfartmin" for nothing! If you want to live a long smelly life with no friends and certainly with no bed partner then Metformin may be the pill for you.

I told a friend about this drug's life-extension possibilities. We set out to meet at Starbucks but, prior to leaving, he took 2 x 500-mg Metformin (he's a diabetic and so has a prescription). An hour later he arrived and confessed that his tardiness was incurred when a fart was revealed to contain a lump. He had to return home to change his pants.
Yeah no. I would never be in a relationship with someone who did sex work in the past. I can easily be friends with a former (or even current) sex worker, but I can't stomach sharing the intimate parts of a romantic relationship with other people.
Building some kind of steady, independent lifestyle business (that's how I interpret your answer, correct me if I'm wrong) is an option but stays a bet and nothing says it would survive through the years. Salaried employment feels like a safer bet, despite the doubts I mentioned.

There are several side projects I started, halted, came back to, etc. over the years, and I love them but none of them could actually pay the bills. I also struggle to be consistently productive when I'm not part of a team.
Surely the question is whose fault it is, but whose side offers more chances for survival; apparently, in this case, it was the wrong side.