skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a few people use a soft inflatable or plush collar that's more flat, and doesn't go up around the face, instead of an actual cone. That way the cat's the whiskers aren't disturbed while still preventing the cat from worsening wounds by licking. At least some cats seem to be a lot more tolerant of that style.
Care to elaborate? I'm curious.
Cloudflare doesn't offer the same product suite as the other companies you mention, though. Cloudflare is primarily DDoS prevention while the others are primarily cloud hosting.

And it is the DDoS prevention measures at issue here.
What are these "much better alternatives"?
>Then show the message's DKIM headers to blind.

You realize that Blind isn't exclusively for software engineers right? Lol
I became a US citizen because I wanted to be able to vote and be a full participant of my community, and it's easier to be in the same line as my wife and child at the airport.

But even though I am not a criminal, it was also on my mind that if I were ever falsely convicted in some travesty of justice, I could also be deported, which would make it even worse.
> What’s that

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767648
> For example, without undocumented immigrants, milk would be a lot more expensive (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/15/magazine/milk-industry-un...). The current election is showing us quite starkly how significant grocery staple prices are in shaping public perception of a nation's economic health.

This strikes me as a bit tone deaf. These people are paid slave wages to do this work. They have unsafe housing conditions. They pay cartel fees to get across the border. Their "employers" are breaking the law. The government looks the other way. Personally, I'd be willing to pay more for milk (or any grocery product) if Americans were doing the jobs and getting paid fair wages with good benefits.

It gives me Kelly Osbourne on The View vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8INEYLFWwc
I know that they are unrelated but for whatever reason each time I see Factor I think of Io. I think I heard Slava Pestov is working at Apple but I wonder what’s Steve Dekorte up to these days. It doesn’t seem like Io is under development anymore.

Edit: Dekorte is working on https://strvct.net/
I see that a few AI images get through. That is OK - we still filter almost 30 AI images correctly (scroll to the bottom of search results to see them all). Also overall the results seem to be of higher quality than on other search engines.

For something that we just started working on a week ago and knowing this is just the first iteration of the feature - I think we are doing good overall. When there is will, there will be a way. And there is plenty of will on our end to stop this thing.
The military's staff retention is relatively long. 5-10 years is an eternity in a tech company, and very few people hang around that long.
> you would have to explain how

No, you’re making this too complicated.

It happened miraculously because god is all-powerful and can do whatever, whenever. Boom. Solved. Easy.
As long as you keep your greencard, you still need to declare your income worldwide.

Depending on your home country, having US passport opens up a lot of other possibilities for travel too.
C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte
Are there promising AI startups that can help with immigration?
It doesn't seem that difficult to pull off - take one of the existing engines, get the top y moves, choose randomly. For each level down increase y by 1.
You're telling me the seemingly arbitrary 6 weeks of Prolog on my comp sci course 11yrs ago is suddenly about to be relevant? I did not see this one coming . . .
I was just thinking to myself how amazing modern software could be for a cybernetic battlefield.

With drones everywhere one could build up a 3D photogrammetric map of the front. Image recognition and motion extraction could track individual soldiers. Mobile phones and satellite uplink could be used to track the status of every friendly individual.

You could turn the fog of war into a top-down strategy game.

I wonder how forward-thinking this mega contract is…
This is true, I jammed the game out rather quickly but next thing I’d try is a hold-for-power control scheme (like the interactive demos in the article)
that's my thoughts as well. who's actually paying attention to the meeting if everyone is so intently watching what all of the other viewers look like instead of the actual presentation.
Gimp? Although the UX feels so outdated.

https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives#photoshop
That does not appear to be an AI generated podcast.
This happens every once in a while in investment banking, and we were warned about it regularly in HR training.

Here's Matt Levine on one of the incidents: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-04/wells-far...

The logic is if you couldn't trust a banker to not defraud their employer by submitting dishonest meal receipts, how could you trust them with client money and confidential information. I don't disagree.
I disagree in a very specific and limited way: good tests show you how to use the code, which can be as simple as just “here’s some typical parameters for this function.”

In more complex situations, good tests also show you the environmental set up - for example, all the various odd database records the code needs or expects.

It’s not everything you’d want out of a doc, but it’s a chunk of it.
This comment and the one above hold more than a handful of nuggets of gold, mark my words!
poe’s law hitting me really hard here
Code and tests tell you what. They don’t tell you why. And if there’s a bug not covered in the tests, neither code nor tests can help you figure that out.
I think anything which can be delivered to the web browser from CloudFlare could be part of the kill chain for a eager attacker.
Sky Follower Bridge
The hardship waiver is likely going to be specific to the facts of your situation, so you may benefit from hiring your own immigration lawyer.

If your waiver is denied, there's of course the alternative of your spouse going back to her home country by herself.
Why aren’t there tech startup immigration sanctuary cities? We have local authorities not working with the feds for referring criminals to ICE. Could you have the same for software engineers?
Benioff Sours on Copilot
SSH does some kind of lower-level multiplexing. Multiplexing is unavoidable here because the local server must maintain simultaneous TCP connections that must be somehow distinguished between each other whereas the tunnel is just a stream of binary data.
That is seriously sad
Or is he just trashing it in advance of a competing Salesforce offering?
Introducing BLEO rendezvous elements for "resupply" into a mission with such wild dV scope and no landers, imposes some extreme constraints. I don't understand why you would do that unless solar sails as he understands them are extremely scale-dependent (like atmospheric flight is scale-dependent).

I learned this doing engineering trades on the Aldrin cycler idea; Ultimately it doesn't add much to a mission because getting there and getting back into the transfer sacrifices more than you could really hope to gain. You're likely better off just launching what you need attached to everything else at the Earth escape burn.
https://www.sigstore.dev/

The emerging standard for verifying artifacts, e.g. in container image signing, npm, maven, etc

https://blog.sigstore.dev/npm-public-beta/
https://www.sonatype.com/blog/maven-central-and-sigstore
Aren't LLM outputs deterministic given the same inputs?
> But you could also consider all of these developments as evidence that the prescription of "just eat healthy" isn't broadly useful.

As programmers, we usually prefer to remove code to fix a bug than adding patches on top of buggy code. Let's not pretend that the same logic does not apply here.

That's clearly double unhealthy behavior and will bring unintended consequences. Which might be better than the current predicament but still let's not pretend this is not a "monkeypatch".
> I think revealed in this is that Matt has no understanding of the Wordpress userbase

Ironically, ever since past data of "active installs" was removed from the plugin directory [1], Matt is, as sole owner of WordPress dot org [2], the only person in the world with unfettered access to plugin usage trends.

[1] https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6511

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24262232/matt-mullenweg-w...
I dunno. I mean, sure, it's a worldwide-mirrored, cryptographically secure, curated, hierarchically and categorically organized, simple set of flat files, with multiple separate community projects, to test all packages on all supported Perl versions and platforms, with multiple different frontends, bug tracking, search engines, documentation hubs, security groups, and an incredibly long history of support and maintenance by the community.

But it's, like, old. You can't make something new be like something old. That's not cool. If what we're doing isn't new and cool, what is the point even?
> patients asked to be killed in part for social reasons such as isolation and fears of homelessness,

Why is anyone surprised? Did the people who planned out this program never visit a psych ward? They're chock full of homeless people in varying degrees of "I'd rather die than go back to the streets/shelter". Sad but it's how it is.
It's free to use while in beta! (Added a callout under the button to make it clear). We plan to introduce pricing options in the new year but will maintain a generous free tier.
It sounds more like we should ban email and all email providers should consider the problem of email spam which traditional mail didn't have because no one could afford that many envelops and stamps.

Or like we should go back to carts because cars are noisy and not only that but might collide with pedestrians and not only that, might even collide among each other.

Instead of containing the tools and curtailing the progress (email and cars) we should probably try to contain and curtail abusers. Very hard to do, I know but the right thing to do.
sigstore https://docs.sigstore.dev/quickstart/quickstart-cosign/#exam...
No I haven't, and I am somewhat curious, but I'm also keeping up with it through some of the swift/apple podcasts and YT channels I follow. For me it's more about the cost, physical overhead, and (apparent) lack of other utility, which all-together would to me be sort of a more involved commitment than some little thing I may or may not ever bring out..

I'd only ever consider bringing something that is nearly invisible to both myself and others in terms of weight and required infrastructure, wouldn't bring anything with me for the purpose of occupying my attention that I can't forget I have, or that would consume more than a negligible amount of space/weight; I'll bring a book, but not a tome

Incidentally, Canadian cross-country trains don't even have outlets at the seat as far as I know; they're quite old sadly.

That said, I buy almost no superfluous electronics for raw consumption, and even an iPad Pro would be wildly out of scope, as nice as they seem to be, since although they do have other utility, I can't picture myself doing more than reading or watching videos. On-the-go entertainment is something I try to keep at arms length so I can spend that time at peace.

Fwiw, I do also hope it doesn't become normalized, not to squash others' potential for fun, but because our existing devices already enable people to protect themselves from social interaction on a large scale, which strikes me as damaging.
Here's an open source version that generates Podcasts:

https://github.com/souzatharsis/podcastfy

Developer's twitter: @souzatharsis
US intelligence agencies agreed with Israel, journalists that have never stepped foot in a Gaza hospital disagreed. I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle: just because injured combatants are taken to a hospital doesn’t necessarily mean that that hospital is a military command centre. However at least one hospital was more than likely (but not certainly!) used as such.

The tunnels under the Al Haifa hospital were built by Israel and are widely acknowledged to exist.

Do the other hospitals have bunkers and tunnels? I doubt it. They would not be easy to add after initial construction.
Counterpoint: the kid probably won't appreciate it and will be back on fortnite within hours
This is slightly old news. For those curious, PGP support on the modern PyPI (i.e. the new codebase that began to be used in 2017-18) was always vestigial, and this change merely polished off a component that was, empirically[1], doing very little to improve the security of the packaging ecosystem.

Since then, PyPI has been working to adopt PEP 740[2], which both enforces a more modern cryptographic suite and signature scheme (built on Sigstore, although the design is adaptable) and is bootstrapped on PyPI's support for Trusted Publishing[3], meaning that it doesn't have the fundamental "identity" problem that PyPI-hosted PGP signatures have.

The hard next step from there is putting verification in client hands, which is the #1 thing that actually makes any signature scheme actually useful.

[1]: https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/05/21/PGP-signatures-on-PyPI...

[2]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0740/

[3]: https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/
Considering the article mentions ReCET and semaglutide, presumably most people in the study weren't resuming the unhealthy diet.

Semaglutide is ozempic. By itself it can be enough to help people get their A1C down through healthier diets.

For me to find the study especially interesting, I'd have to see a comparison between ReCET + semaglutide vs just semaglutide. And upon re-reading I see that's their plan.

> “We are currently conducting the EMINENT-2 trial with the same inclusion and exclusion criteria and administration of semaglutide, but with either a sham procedure or ReCET. This study will also include mechanistic assessments to evaluate the underlying mechanism of ReCET.”
From what I can tell, this tracks just the S&P500 index, but ignores dividends.

The S&P500 return with dividends reinvested since 1971 is $257 for every dollar invested. Gold is $8 for every dollar invested.

And that's with 1971 being the lowest gold price in 100 years and the current price being nearly the highest in 100 years.

For reference, the CPI inflation calculator puts inflation at 7.9x since 1971. So gold track inflation in the best case scenario.
It would be nice if Inkscape supported SVG P/S. We need that for BIMI, and now have to pay someone who has access to Adobe.
Made one for these comments https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/e3b9d8c5-6243-4ae6-ab... (although I haven't checked the quality since I'm in a public space as of writing)
So a perpetual motion device!?
SQL functions can be non-deterministic just fine. E.g. SQL:2003 grammar defines DETERMINISTIC | NOT DETERMINISTIC characteristic for CREATE FUNCTION. Or, e.g. PostgreSQL has IMMUTABLE | STABLE | VOLATILE clauses.
It doesn't work that way. There are many positions with lots of moves that are reasonable, but many others with only 1-2 sensible moves. It would make lots of obvious blunders that an amateur human would never make.
Another pending, poorly integrated Salesforce acquisition.
I am late to the Google's AI party but... My personal impression (might be wrong) is that Google's breadth and depth of AI tools is heavily underrated ranging from Notebook LLM to AI studio. Too good as far as I have tried.

Google of course is the birthplace of attention is all you need.
> Thank you for confirming that investing in modern nuclear power leads to vastly higher power bills for the ratepayers.

I didn't and it does not. French power bills are much lower than German ones. As are Swedish and Finnish ones. Georgia power bills (Vogtle-3/4) are half of California's (PV/wind-meister).

Before 2002 (the German Atomausstieg), electricity rates were steadily falling compared to purchasing power. After 2002, they have been steadily rising.

In Europe, electricity prices correlate in pretty much a straight line with the penetration of intermittent renewables in the country's electrical grid. The higher the percentage, the higher the prices.

> Nuclear power needs to come down in price by 85% to be competitive with renewable systems. That is the fact today.

That is about as counterfactual as you can be. Nuclear is cheaper than intermittent renewables on any metric you can find. And that's even before you notice that intermittent renewables don't actually provide power when you need it.

The world has left the renewbro dreams behind and is turning to nuclear:

- COP28: worldwide tripling of nuclear

- UK: quadrupling of nuclear

- US: tripling nuclear

- Japan + South Korea: were going to abandon nuclear, now expanding instead

- Poland: getting into nuclear, in a big way.

- Holland: 4 new reactors instead of the originally planned 2

- Sweden: were also going to reduce / discontinue, now want at least 10 new reactors

- France: had a law on the books that disallowed the expansion of nuclear capacity in absolute terms and mandated reduction to below 50%. This law was scrapped in March 2023 (>70% majority), now on track to build 14 EPR2 reactors

- China: were on track to triple capacity, now accelerating.

- India: on track to triple capacity by 2031

- Ukraine: building 4 new AP-1000

- Italy: got out of nuclear late 80s early 90s, now getting back into nuclear

- Microsoft, Google, Amazon: all investing heavily in nuclear

- Major banks just announced support for nuclear

- IPCC calls nuclear essential for tackling climate change

- So does the EU, the US government, etc.

- Czech repubic: just ordered a South Korean APR-1400

etc.
Why would an expert work towards making himself redundant?
My frustration comes from seeing posts with no obvious merit other than the language they are written in. If that's the most compelling feature of your software then I don't care too see it on the homepage. Writing compelling headlines is hard, but it's part of marketing. My comment could probably have been more thoughtful, but I'd like to encourage people to submit better headlines which highlight their software's differentiating features.
A few things to keep in mind:

1) It's possible (however unlikely?) you weren't the only candidate to mention the idea

2) I sometimes ask candidates how they would handle tricky dilemmas I face; yeah, it's free consulting in a way but it really helps you see how the candidate thinks. If the candidate can't tell you something you don't know, why are you hiring them? But the ability to answer that question well may not be the only skill or the most important one for the job; maybe they were indexing more on another skillset than that idea itself and its execution for the role they were hiring. This is just part of interviewing candidly. I think you are better off showing your expertise than hiding it.

3) Hindsight is 20-20; if you hadn't mentioned the idea, you still wouldn't have gotten the job. You took a risk to tell them and it didn't pay off, but you didn't get harmed. I agree it does seem unfair/unjust, but this is a little bit of the nature of ideas. If you want an acknowledgement/thank-you, I would circle back to the CTO and say "hey, I saw you ended up hiring someone else, but you did seem to like one of the ideas I mentioned (xyz) since it looks like you all are pursuing that... can you give me any feedback on what I could have done better in the interview?" That will give him a face-saving way to acknowledge your perception or refute it without you accusing him/her outright without direct evidence or threatening him... You might still not get an answer... but you might get a better sense of what happened, from the ensuing admission or the ensuing stonewalling/denial or failure to answer.
I think this general idea is going to be the key to really making LLMs widely useful for solving real problems.

I’ve been playing with using GPT-4 together with the Wolfram Alpha plugin, and the combo of the two can reliably solve difficult quantitative problems that neither can individually by working together, much like a human using a calculator.
I finally unsubscribed this summer.
If it's the H1B, why attack another person so viciously instead of attacking the system? By the way, it's the same story for immigrants almost everywhere. (African immigrant in Europe here—it's even tougher: companies literally expect you to be so grateful they gave you a job, as if you're not helping them generate profit and they did some kind of charity.) Conveniently, it's easier if you move from the U.S./EU to South America, Africa, or parts of Asia—remnants of colonialism, I guess.

The problem is the idea of the nation-state with borders and all. As long as we think being born in one part of the world gives you more rights than someone who just moved from somewhere else, we'll continue to have this bureaucratic nonsense that (and I'm almost certain of it) has a negative impact on economic growth. But I don't think that will change in the next 100–200 years, so let's deal with the unfair cards we have and move on with our lives.

finding ways to move on despite the administrative hurdles is the only pragmatic path forward. and Peter Roberts is trying to help with that ??
Does this mean impossibly small subwoofers? Would the rotating part have to precisely match the audio frequency to be amplified?
BGG has a lot of problems with its ranking system, but one of those is that it favours complex games.

The reason being is that complex games are played by fewer people and those who do master it are more likely to give high ratings. Whereas, a less complex game gets played more and is subjected to harsher ratings.

Somebody made a great data analysis of reranking BGG ratings by complexity for the real top games list: https://dvatvani.com/blog/bgg-analysis-part-2
Not everyone likes watching videos.
Unfortunately we live in a world of limited time and resources, and priorities need to be adjusted accordingly.

Honestly, I would put the blame on PGP. It has a … special UX. I tried to use it in 3 separate occasions, and ended up doing something else (probably less secure) because I would couldn’t manage to make the damn thing work. I might not be a genius, but I am also not completely stupid.
An electron app (maybe two)
Obviously they cant do that. Would be inviting a lawsuit.
Employers should have to prove they were not able to find a U.S. citizen who can do the job before they're allowed to hire someone that needs a work permit. Employers purposefully seek out non-U.S. citizens as they know they're happy to work for a lot less, especially if gets them into the U.S. This whole system encourages economic migrants, puts U.S. citizens out of work. As far as In am concerned you're actively working against your fellow Americans helping foreigners abuse and exploit our immigration laws.
> Assuming you're not extremely burned out

I don't suppose you have a handy rubric for that?
IDK, they sound like they overflow the "maximum code" counter and land up straight in the literate programming land. I wonder how far you could go writing your whole program as doctests spliced between commentary.
Maia does this reasonably well! You can play against it on Lichess. I have gotten a few "feels like a human" moments when playing against it - for example, getting it to fall into a trap that could trick a human but would easily be seen by a traditional search algorithm. It's not adjustable but there are a few different versions with different ratings (although it's not a very wide range).

https://www.maiachess.com/

https://lichess.org/@/maia1
Or chill out until you get a PIP and prompt exit package, rather than doing what Garman wants for free.
Seems this might still have the problem of moves being either extremely good or extremely bad depending on how many good moves are found, rather than playing at a consistent level. Or for example in a degenerate case where there are only two moves and one leads to mate, the computer will be picking randomly.
Major con: infinitely easier to deport