skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lucky You! Musings from an oldster for today's generation (Douglas Hofstadter)
Afaik these sorts of consulting firms are built on the strategy of grinding people down and replacing them often. They know that having them on the CV is desirable and they deliberately burn people out with workload.

But hey we gave up on labor rights and protections long ago, so what can be done?
IIUC, there have only been (few) case studies on this, and this paper reads like a plea for larger studies.

But they also think TCE should be banned right away for other reasons:

> In many ways, the long-established health risks of TCE dwarf its relationship with PD. TCE causes cancer, increases the risk of miscarriages, contributes to birth defects, and is associated with diseases in nearly every organ system. The chemical is over a century old. We do not fly airplanes from the days of the Wright brothers or drive cars from Henry Ford’s era; engineers have developed safer ones. Chemists can do the same for solvents. Some companies now advertise safer alternatives to TCE [83]. They are needed as the use of TCE continues to rise globally.
You don't have to be a rabid nationalist to not wish for your country to be invaded and annexed by others. You don't even have to live there. I'm sure a large percentage of Taiwanese living in countries outside of Taiwan would not wish for it to be invaded.

I'm not even Taiwanese, don't know anyone of Taiwanese descent well, and I don't want Taiwan invaded.

The suggestion that there's some kind of weird oligarchy class of TSMC-controlling Taiwanese who couldn't give a toss if Taiwan was invaded is a mustache-twirling level of caricature.
Regardless of the quality or quantity of resources, somebody somewhere is like a guinea pig for every single item.

That could be you.
So Sealab 2021 begins.
meh, the most probable explanation is that israel infiltrated hezbollah and whoever was in charge of ordering and distributing those devices knowingly distributed the tampered devices.

That guy got a deal and was evacuated with his family before events unfolded. Seems way easier than alternative plans.
Of course they can!

Add in a little mRNA jab with some fish DNA to the mix and we can swim under water

The future looks bright indeed
Why would anyone want to support an ad-supported website by allowing cross-domain tracking? I think that's a stretch.
Yeah, I'm going out on a limb and predicting there's probably no case here, and if brought to court this lawsuit would be borderline frivolous, if not outright. These numbers fluctuate from year to year for many reasons apart from changes to admissions policy. What the plaintiffs most likely did is take the top few dozen schools, find a few where the numbers didn't go the way they wanted (which are statistically guaranteed to exist, practically), and point their fingers at them.
Stop using Google Analytics and your need to place cookies and thus need for cookie popups vanishes.

Goatcounter or Plausible will do fine. Some decent frontend log parsing will also be a viable strategy.

Stop feeding Google your customers data for free.
Maybe some EU regulation in action that forces to put price up-front without "hidden costs" so one can compare prices more efficiently (within EU).
https://archive.is/OTFBR
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> Both Trump and Biden handled the situation adroitly.

I don't remember any news like this during the Trump administration. I do remember the Foxconn plant that didn't open though!
Maybe it can. I don’t know.
Thy was what, 40 years ago? China has their great firewall set up today, never mind their social credit systems, automated CCTV citizen tracking systems, etc. Russia has people accidentally falling out of hospital windows or drinking polonium tea. I don't think this is at all comparable.
Where are we at in terms of being able to use genetic info for treatments and lifestyle improvements?
Curiosity questions is the revenue that is localized in Ireland and the Netherlands because of the double sandwich, of any significance in terms of percentage of total taxed revenue in those countries?

From memory Ireland and the Netherlands are also the biggest contributors to EU funding. So I am wondering how this shift would affect EU dynamics as a whole?
I might also suggest ARM. Way back in the day, one of my first-year CS modules included writing a rudimentary MIPS emulator for much the same reasons as above, but I came to that knowing 6502, x86 and ARM2 assembler already, having cut my teeth on Acorn stuff, and at the time I still preferred ARM2 out of all these for clarity. ARM obviously remains relevant today, albeit with many revisions.
That's word salad randomly picked from the small book of 'scary words from finance', but you haven't explained what the actual problem is.
Im sad, that DHH is promoting vi like editors so much. It distracts new programmers from what is really important and gives them false impression of productivity.
The font itself is not enough for good readability.

So-called "UI/UX" designer are making a lot of fancy work to make things illegible. Contrast between background (aka "paper") and foreground (aka "ink") is going down and down. So, no matter the font of choice, text is becoming less readable (and less relevant) also because of color choices.
While video and audio contents is getting more and more attention.
I love the “long press to preview” feature in mobile web browsers. But now all I get to preview is the cookie pop up! EU, pls fix.
Hamas may be the “legitimate” government of Gaza (or at least the most recently elected one), but Hezbollah is not the legitimate government of Lebanon; it’s a minority party with outsized influence in parts of Lebanon due to its militia and intelligence services.
Please stop using full justify text layout on your website.
I think the point is that the US and its allies (e.g. Israel) do similar things to what China is criticised for.
Yes, almost certainly HA was running a POCSAG network.
I’m fond of silos like the one the author unintentionally created. I’ve always felt like a forum that grows to a sufficient size will just end up being noisy and I’ll avoid getting involved. I’ve previously sought out Swedish-language silos which typically provide a smaller and to me more comfortable environment.

In a sense, I think it’s a sign of maturity for a project to outgrow “everyone active in this hangs out here” places.

The discoverability problem described is a problem with silos, and it seems like that’s an increasing issue to me. Fifteen years ago these silos were indexable by Google and searching for your problem might give you a forum post, an IRC-log, a blog post or documentation. Many of these communities were still readable by all. In that sense the silos of yesterday were more accessible than they are today.
The Whoop band has an elegant solution. They provide you with a small (~30x30mm) power bank that you can slide onto the band to charge. The band stays on your wrist. When done, you just slide off the power bank and charge it again.
It could also act as an ad - Israel is capable of James Bond level stuff, their tech must be great.
If you go by manufacturing jobs, BLS seems to have the data going back to 1939. Peaks at 18.4m jobs in 1969. Currently at about 12.9m.

N.B. the current U.S. population is 1.6x the population of 1969.

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES3000000001
Check out languagetool, as mentioned in other comments. It isbtruly open source
The author seemed to be arguing at length about some sort of technical shortcomings, as though an argument had been made.
You're a covered expatriate also if:

"
You fail to certify on Form 8854 that you have complied with all federal tax obligations for the 5 tax years preceding the date of your expatriation.
"

I agree you should pay up your taxes but this will not only recover the due taxes but it will take more.
This doesn't apply for the majority of Americans living abroad, in safe countries where the USA recognises the taxation.

(The US is only extracting someone from the UK if they've killed a teenager while driving drunk.)
OP here.

More details about this particular release are in the blog post at https://medium.com/graalvm/whats-new-in-graal-languages-24-1...

Happy to answer any additional questions!
What?

You can do a fresh install of an older macOS version whenever you like (you need to enable that option in the rescue system tho).

You can also run older macOS in a VM (the hypervisor framework keeps getting new features that make guest macOS more fully supported).

Name an OS (ok maybe NixOS) that allows you to do clean downgrades out of the box. Also wonder what's gonna happen to your data in e.g. Postgres if you blindly downgrade.
Curious about this

Isn't the Mach kernel based on BSD?

How much of getaddrinfo is in the kernel, how much of it is pure "libc"?
I've long been of the belief that, much like uranium enrichment, supply chain integrity of semiconductors will become a national security issue. We've seen it already in reverse with export controls being placed on GPU cards, and of course there is a reason the NSA operates its own chip fab. The threat to western economies of (for lack of a better term) "poisoned" chips making their way into phones, laptops, industrial SCADA equipment, etc. is real if nascent.

On-shoring top-tier manufacturers like is absolutely a win not just for the high-tech manufacturing sector but also for the US and allied countries.

>This is great news, and we should celebrate.

Couldn't agree more.
They mostly use it to monitor (and automate) how successful ads are. Plausible is not a drop-in replacement for such use cases.
then you have to deal with cache invalidation, you need to have triggers in all places that change the look of the menu, for example when you install a new program, change the OS language, etc.
Math concepts converted to JavaScript
Can you show damages? If you can win a lawsuit here that would be great, paving the way for sueing Christians for their passive aggressive 'I'll pray for you' nonsense would be amazing.
from the government directly at war with Russia. sounds like a super credible source.
I've just recently jumped on the vim train via the Neovim VS Code plugin. For a while now i've considered diving in, but felt completely out of my depth until starting a new job recently where some teammates use it exclusively. I have been getting used to the vim bindings over the last month or so and it's introduced a layer of fun to programming that i've not had in a long time.

Doing simple tasks still takes longer than it would using other editors, but it's made worthwhile by the occasional "holy shit" moment when i learn a new command or write my own macro. The muscle memory will take a while to drill in but I can absolutely see it improving my efficiency after some time. I recommend it for anyone who's considering
I'm confused, how do you know the 99% of those wounded aren't Hezbollah operatives?

How many innocents would get harmed during a more conventional military strike against the same group of operatives?

I would be fairly surprised if Hezbollah opsec guidelines didn't say that you must have the pager at you at all times, and make sure it can't be accessed by others.
Why are you assuming those 2700 people weren't Hezbollah? Who else was carrying the pagers to avoid Israel location tracking?
Unlikely, since no English speaker would be able to pronounce that cluster. The odds are overwhelming that it represents nothing at all, just like the apostrophe in "don't".
eh, they were launching rockets into Israel daily, and now they walk with a limp and will freeze every time something beeps. I count that as a win.

no, there won't be suicide bombers in Israel again. they've gotten much better at finding the rats - see original article.
The future 2 years down is cookieless anyway.¹

I'm afraid that these banners, because these are called "cookie banners" and not "consent to us using your data and giving it freely to other companies banners", will just go away, people (& companies) will be happy, and the consumer stays a fool.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_cookies
France has labor rights and EY employees are still getting exploited. The DIRECCTE sieged their office on a Sunday and every employee was there.
Those medical personnel may also be members of Hezbollah. Doctors, nurses, and emergency responders can have ideological beliefs. For example, in my country, there are medical personnel with far-right and extremist views, some even holding leadership positions in such ideological organizations.
Freelancers are shuddering in horror (or gasping in delight) at all the work they'll be getting from this in the next few years.

Endless numbers of ridiculous Ideas Guys will be showing up at tech meetups with "I got this thing like 90% of the way there, now I just need this little bit done, it'll take a good coder a few hours, right?".

Delving into the code base will be a Dantean expedition into the first few rings of Web Dev Hell, replete with LLM hallucinations of API endpoints that would be great if they existed.
Since the IDF has been shown to be intentionally cautious in their persecution of this war
Yeah!

Mine left me for younger model about 11 years ago.
I looked at the code to see why it would be doing that. It seems to handle the font customization stuff by basically downloading all of the variants and then combining them into a zip file in client-side code - even when you do no customization at all. Apparently that code which makes the zip (which I'm guessing is an external library) creates a corrupted one when run in Safari according to a comment buried in the JS.

Maybe it really is a bug on Safari's part but creating custom zip archives is something which would be far saner to do on the server side in the first place.
That's because reality that is readily observable by these people does not match the reality reported by the media and the reality portrayed in Democrat speeches. In that alternate reality manufacturing-heavy towns are booming and not dying out. US-made automobiles are the most advanced and Detroit is a world-class city. And it's simply not true, much like what Pravda would report back in the day.
Lol you have it backwards. There's so many Asian students in universities that universities are making up obstacles to prevent their numbers increase further. So if the numbers drop that evidence the universities haven't fixed anything.
Contrast is not the end-all-be-all I have pretty severe astigmatism, and when contrast is too high I get quite severe visual artifacts. For me text is more legible if the contrast is a bit tamed.
Your mileage may very much vary, much like pypy this is very inconsistent and highly dependent on your workload (as well as your dependencies).

My limited experience was that on re-heavy workload pypy is several times slower than cpython (~3x compared to 3.10) and graal is even worse (~6x compared to 3.11).
This claim was so easy to verify with a Windows NT 4 ISO and a resource editor, but nobody did. And nobody thought the bitmap has much better font rendering than NT 4.

Dave retired from Microsoft and started a business that sold scareware: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1GeF9AjlqP8
I love that your comment says this kind of striking terror in the enemy is completely unremarkable while the other says no such thing happened!
While providing marvelous gaming experiences, faster polygons doesn't equate better games, and is specially an issue in latest gen PlayStation and XBox where many games with great graphics have lousy gameplay experience at high prices.
jep[0] has existed for a while now, and does what GraalPy is doing quite well.

I'm using it for similar purposes as you stated and for that it works quite well. A research group I am collaborating with does a lot of their work in one Java application (ImageJ for microscopy), so by integrating my Python processing code into that application, it finds its way a lot quicker into the daily workflows of everyone in that group.

Most recently I've also extended the jep setup to include optional Python version bootstrapping via uv[1], so that I can be sure that the plugins I'm writing have the correct Python version available, without people having to install that manually on the machine.

[0]: https://github.com/ninia/jep

[1]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
This is both dystopian and hilarious.

23andMe a subsidiary of Pizza Hut...
We know exactly what you crave and it ain't anchovies.
It wasn't a naive belief, people did choose to get along economically and everyone benefited. The naive part is thinking that economic interdependence means political submission and that political and economic development are necessarily related.
I did say "offhand"; I'm not personally familiar with npm. There is some stuff like this in Linux-land if you know where to look, of course, such as the message in Vim, but even there you only see it if you start the program without any filename argument, or look in the docs, so it's hard to call that "nagware", which usually means something that won't allow you to use the software without first reading and acknowledging the advertisement.
I think a more common use case might be finding siblings if your adopted, or trying to reengage with your roots if you were say a member of an indian tribe or native hawaiian.

I have a family member who is retired and has taken up geneology as a hobby, she has connected our family history really far back. Not my cup of tea personally but I can see the appeal, its like a treasure hunt. She has traveled to go to old libraries and dig up newspaper archives.
A list of examples should be easy to provide.
I've found it extremely interesting. It's brought me greater insight into my grandfather I knew nothing about, and even the (very few) family traditions/recipes that have come down to me. It's made the world feel smaller and more connected, seeing actual relatives in all of these far off places, in the kind of way I always HOPED the internet would bring interconnectedness.

I think it's inherently human to want to understand who we are and where come from. Especially for someone like me in the USA. How did my people end up here?
OpenSearch is moving to the Linux Foundation
For anyone interested, here's the PyPI repository with additional binary wheels for GraalPy:
https://www.graalvm.org/python/wheels/

We also want to make it easy for Python package maintainers to test and build wheels for GraalPy. It's already available via setup-python, and we are adding GraalPy support to cibuildwheel. If you need any help, please reach out to us!
> Update 9/13/2024: TCL explained to Tom's Guide that the TVs associated in these reports are not US-based models.

Oh, well then I guess it's okay...

If you conduct your own study suggesting that the accusing study was wrong, would you also bring up a flimsy argument like "don't get involved, because geography?"

> The QLED TVs in question are the TCL C755, C655, and C655 Pro. According to both SGS and Intertek, these models don’t contain any signs of indium and cadmium. These are elements used in the creation of quantum dots.

Cadmium? I thought we tried to get rid of that. Perhaps QLED was a bad idea? Or is it just TCLs QLEDs that are a bad idea, so they fixed the environmental problems for us?
Cookie banners is not a policy, it is used to work around a policy, and often implemented incorrectly. GPDR says you need to be given a specific informed decision, but often cookie banners show a big green approve button, and a less positive deny button (if that is even the case). When the law is being enforced better (Which is slowly happening) those cookie banners should get 2 the same looking buttons, and that would result in more denies. Hopefully, companies would realize that they need to solve their marketing differently.
Pypy has cpyext which implements a subset of the C-API, however it comes with a long list of caveats, and is more of a backstop, they very much prefer cffi.
I would be interesting if you can find it.
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I believe Hezbollahs stated goals is the expulsion of Jews while Israel is interested in defending itself. Especially for Hezbollah it is their raison d'être. These positions are not equal.

That they want Jews expulsed is what they state themselves and I am inclined to believe them on that point at least.
Brilliant! Supported!
> write long random number on it

Human brains when generating 'random' numbers: https://xkcd.com/221/

> Once a month company publishes one giant zip with all the monthly result where you find your file by that random number you wrote.

Given how much of our appearance is due to genetics, that's basically all the harm with none of the convenience.
There's a reason why construction and other projects that require coordinating with external parties rely on Microsoft project so much.

I'm on a project now trying to manage external customer cutovers and integrations using JIRA and its a dumpster fire.

A proper project plan with deadlines, lead times, resources etc would solve 99% of the problems.

Its just non stop crisis "oh we forgot to get get change submitted on time" - "oh this customer can't migrate until date x" - "oh this test environment is down for scheduled rebuild on days xyz" - all can easily be tracked to automatically calculate timelines.

Agile is fine at a macro level, but it needs to feed into a better system for real world dependencies and deadlines.
To be honest I wish the Attention paper never came out.

All of this AI/LLM stuff is exasperating. I don't think I can stomach to hear another MBA talk about "leveraging AI" in their next startup/product initiative.

Cool, better autocomplete in my IDE is handy. But that's about it. I'd trade that back in a heart beat if I didn't have to have awful chatbots shoved in my face every time I open a webpage.

Retirement has never felt so far away.
And how do we formalize stupidity aka human beehiveour?

We write linq-pad queries against the planetary NSA Meta+C db collected by those neat seeing stones everyone carries since 2008. Its anonymous, its collected unaware, its omni-present, its not deformed by the questionnaire, its obvious the conclusion of the science of neurons and the model of the mind.

And now for a word from our project lead: Peter.
I can’t comment in the specific of this case, but in general adult LEGO builders will acquire pieces through a range of methods - the biggest being bricklink - a website where independent sellers sell individual pieces, often which they’ve ‘parted out’ retail sets to acquire.

LEGO has a similar service (‘pick-a-brick’), or in LEGO stores there is a ‘brick wall’ where you can pick up a small range of individual pieces (sold by volume - i.e. you fill up a box of pieces) and if you ever find yourself near Ulm, LEGO-land Deutschland has a physical location where you can buy pieces by mass.

But in summary, I don’t think there is a magic bullet - it’s an expensive hobby!
Similar experience here, was WGS and running the results against ClinVar came up empty[1] for known disease causing variants. Was not expecting that at all.

But I totally think this is more an absence of information than anything else. We all have a ton of de novo variation and that stuff is not going to be found in the databases.

1. Am carrying two recessive variants linked to a couple extremely rare developmental disorders (prevalence in live births of less than 1 in 10,000,000)
What is missing?

I have the feeling that you are mourning the old, bad days?
They're not large contributors to eu finance: 10th and 5th, respectively
https://www.statista.com/statistics/316691/eu-budget-contrib...

France and Germany account for nearly 50% of the funding.
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