skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to have to take a course in sales psychology, we are selling ourselves afterall

Copy paste:

Social Proof: Use the opinions and experiences of others to influence a customer’s decision. This creates a sense of trust and familiarity.

Reciprocity: Give something valuable to the customer in exchange for their attention or consideration. This sets the stage for a positive interaction and creates a sense of obligation.

Limited Availability: Create a sense of scarcity by limiting the availability of a product or offer. This can trigger FOMO (fear of missing out) and encourage customers to make a purchase.

Curiosity: Use curiosity to motivate customers by creating an “itch” that they need to scratch. This can be achieved by asking questions or providing valuable information that requires further exploration.

Storytelling: Use narratives to connect with customers on an emotional level and make your product or service more relatable.

Expertise: Showcase credentials, industry knowledge, or relevant experience to position yourself as an authority and build credibility with potential customers.
Emotional Triggers: Tap into customers’ emotions by using language and imagery that resonates with their desires, needs, and values.

Loss Aversion: Highlight the potential losses or consequences of not taking action, rather than just emphasizing the benefits of your product or service.
Scarcity Mindset: Play off the idea that a product or offer is in high demand and may run out soon, encouraging customers to make a purchase quickly.

Active Listening: Demonstrate empathy and understanding by actively listening to customers’ concerns and addressing them directly.
Consistency: Consistently deliver value and follow through on commitments to build trust and credibility with customers.

FOMO (Fear of Missing Out): Create a sense of urgency by highlighting limited-time offers or promotions, encouraging customers to take action before they miss out.
TI DSP Assembler is pretty high level, it's "almost C" already.

Writing geophysical | military signal and image processing applications on custom DSP clusters is suprisingly straightforward and doesn't need C++.

It's a RISC architecture optimised for DSP | FFT | Array processing with the basic simplification that char text is for hosts, integers and floats are at least 32 bit and 32 bits (or 64) is the smallest addressable unit.

Fantastic architecture to work with for numerics, deep computational pipelines, once "primed" you push in raw aquisition samples in chunks every clock cycle and extract processed moving window data chunks every clock cycle.

A single ASM instruction in a cycle can accumulate totals from vector multiplication and modulo update indexes on three vectors (two inputs and and out).

Not your mama's brainfuck.
This doesn't feel like a serious question, but in case this is still a mystery to you… the name bit is a portmanteau of binary digit, and as indicated by the word "binary", there are only two possible digits that can be used as values for a bit: 0 and 1.
If you are good enough at the task of "finding a cofounder" that you can offer useful advice on it, you are... bad at some very critical things.

This is not a task anyone should be experienced enough to be good at.
UTF-8

When D was first implemented, circa 2000, it wasn't clear whether UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32 was going to be the winner. So D supported all three.
I really wish the two diseases had different names.
That should read "is NOW one of the top 5 used features in Photoshop".
A recently discovered vulnerability in macOS, dubbed “HM Surf,” allows attackers to bypass the operating system’s Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) technology, gaining unauthorized access to a user’s protected data.

The HM Surf vulnerability involves removing TCC protection for the Safari browser directory and modifying a configuration file within that directory.

This allows attackers to access sensitive user data, including browsed pages, the device’s camera, microphone, and location, without the user’s consent.
Probably not a popular take:

- But they didn't account for the treatment for Covid as being a possible cause for the difference.

- Nor - conveniently? - is there mention of vaxinated vs non-vaxinated. Boosted vs non.

- The final check would be those who knew they had Covid vs those who were asymptomatic. Stress is a powerful force. Those aware of having Covid may have stressed more, which is known to effect the immune system, weight gain, etc.
What are some less well-known but interesting Linux Security Summit projects?
I would like to know about less well-known but interesting security presented at the Linux Security Summit or other similar events.
What specific non-DDL things are you referring to here?

Aside from DDL, the only other major ones are manipulating users/grants, manipulating replication, a small number of other administrative commands, and LOCK TABLES.

This is all documented very clearly on https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/implicit-commit.html. Hardly an "obstical course".
I definitely do look at tests to see examples of how library is meant to be used. But thats quite different
Headlines always get me. Correlation identified, but not causation.
utf8, for essentially the reasons mentioned in this manifesto: https://utf8everywhere.org/
The amount of data that would be required for a lookup table for all best moves for every board configuration would be infeasible.

They have managed to create one for 7 pieces. Last update on trying to get to 8 piece database: https://www.chess.com/blog/Rocky64/eight-piece-tablebases-a-...
is not ENIAC?
No, you just need to both understand how your system works and then clearly write down what it's doing and why. If projects like Postgres and SQLite and musl libc and the Linux kernel can all do it, I think the CRUD app authors can do it, too. But it's not magic, and another tool won't solve it (source: I've seen a hundred of these tools on scores of teams, and they don't help when people have no clue what's happening and then they don't write anything down).
I'm not sure if the maths are related, but there is a different (though similar) idea in gravitational slingshots. It's not the same because it simply uses "normal" linear momentum. But I also only read the abstract, lol.
You have an incomplete threat model. What passkeys bring that is new to the table is phishing resistance, when the user is the one that is breached.
Election results are not verified by looking at source code.
I’d rather leave a good comment instead of good test names. I mean do both, but a good comment is better imo. All I really care about is comments anymore. Just leave context, clues, and a general idea of what it’s trying to accomplish.
I'm sure that scenario would create something, but I'm not sure it would be serious. See the security theater around wearing shoes through airport security.
Smart pointers for the kernel
I don't know... I think it's pretty cool. In fact, I just found a podcast talking about this very thread (about a minute in, your comment even gets discussed ;-) https://drive.google.com/file/d/130s6OzcfsZam8V-6S5ugKmc0M7O...

I may have to re-task my paperclip making AI on generating podcasts...
We're talking about immigration, and more specifically how a State might approach it.

There are situations where the situation is so manifestly bad, that a prima facie approach to granting refugee status to asylum seekers (aka "opening the floodgates") from a specific location is the kind thing to do.

We've for instance seen countries do this for Syrians in 2015, Rohingya in 2017, Ukrainians in 2022.

But of course this is only viable (among other reasons, politically) for specific groups at specific times, whereas for other groups or at other times the case-by-case treatment of asylum requests has to be done again.

BTW, looking this up I was surprised to learn that the right to asylum initially did NOT cover people fleeing war, and some countries still do not consider it a valid reason to get a refugee status, among them the USA.
How so? Arithmetic on FPGA usually use the minimum size that works, because any size over that will use more resources than needed.

9-bit bytes are pretty common in block RAM though, with the extra bit being used for either for ECC or user storage.
ClassicPress: WordPress Without the Block Editor
First thing I though was that it looks like my Android phone when plugged into a monitor. So then the question is what do I gain/lose by running in a browser? I would expect the Android versions of the apps (Netflix, Spotify, etc) to be better and more efficient.

The only gain I could think of was the extra level of sandboxing the apps. That might be worth it for some apps, so I can always run those in a browser on my normal OS. For this to work out, it has to offer something else like Chromebooks which was packaged on low priced hardware and worked more like an appliance without PC maintenance. Running a browser OS on normal hardware+OS doesn't make any sense to me.
Saw the same thing. Laziness is not the issue, it's addiction to algorhithmic content. Algophilia, if you will.
That "knowingly" part is more subtle than it sounds. A friend of mine managed a restaurant in Sili Valley for many years. He was required by law to accept workers' documentation at face value. He could get in trouble for accusing someone of using forged documents. So.... by the nature of his business he had constant turn over in dishwashers and bus staff, and hired a lot of staff with "correct", but obvious to the most casual observer, forged paperwork. All he could legally do is shrug and add them to the payroll.
It's a Twitter idiom. Why would anyone expect it to work here, of all places?
Trying this on a few local models via ollama. Results:

- YES dolphin-llama3:8b-v2.9-q8_0 (detailed)

- YES nous-hermes2:10.7b-solar-q6_K (detailed)

- YES mistral-nemo:latest (just a summary)

- NO llama3-uncensored (lol)

- NO llama3.1:latest

- NO llama3.2:3b-instruct-fp16

Honorable mention: qwen2.5:7b-instruct-q8_0 gives a recipe for mixing M with sugar and caffeine! At least it would taste a bit better :P
I agree with your assessment. Through the 1980's, corporate Japan seemed to be on a more cooperative path. However, there were major changes during that decade. It's difficult to pinpoint any particular cause, but I think it can be linked to the decline of MITI's influence. MITI was a key to Japan's dominant role leading up to the 1990's.

I believe that MITI's success made it a political target, and politics can kill anything. My friends from MITI tended to share a similar opinion.
>the fasting required for bariatric surgery actually provides a large proportion of the benefit of the procedure

Can confirm. My wife had surgery ~3 years ago. I supported her by eating the same things she was for prep and throughout the surgery. We lost about the same amount of weight, through ~1600cal a day and exercise. I wanted to get down about 25lbs lower than my lowest during that time. But, a year ago my wife was diagnosed with cancer, and that process totally screwed with our plans, and we both gained weight, her quite a bit less than me.

The last ~6 weeks I've been restricting calories again, and have started the journey back to where I want to be. I will say that the surgery really impacted her hair badly, which she didn't love. Despite taking all the best vitamins, her hair went from thick to somewhat thin.

If you can get rid of the things that trigger you and stick to low calories and exercise, you'll lose weight. The surgery helps, but committing to low calories is going to get the results. And a friend who got bariatric surgery but wasn't committed to lifestyle changes, within a year was back to her original weight.
I don't think this is that terrible of an idea, actually. Before PyPI disabled searching, I'd say that the value of centralization was from that, and possibly due to security, but I think any claim of security from a central repo is deluding ourselves these days. There are so many opportunities for supply chain attacks that maybe this isn't actually worse. Requiring pip to refer to a github owner/repo might eliminate some of the squatter problems we have, too.
Emerging standard = not yet the standard
All these probabilities and so on are basically unknowable so the real utility of this kind of thing for a hedge fund is converting a traders view into a suggested size so they take the amount of risk that they're being paid to take.
Second generation children of immigrants vastly outperform children of non-immigrants, when you compare them by family income.

There are some differences by a demographic, but by and large, The stereotype of the hard-working immigrant parents pushing their children harder to succeed is accurate.

I don't know if they work as hard as their parents, but they have higher social mobility and lifetime income then their native economic peers.

Besides that data-driven point, My personal take on the original question is that the children generally don't work as hard as the parents, but that is simply a regression towards the American mean.

That said, just like not all people are the same, not all immigrants are the same. It is a broad classification that by definition includes both doctors and human traffickers. It's pointless to talk about immigration policy without getting into the details
In this day and age, an organization on the scale of the US Army should have software development as in-house competency, rather than something they outsource and procure.

It should be like combat engineering where it’s a set of technical skills they train and develop to solve the problems they encounter. They don’t hire an engineering firm when they need to cross a river.
The 47/50 bar for the Overall Progress Prize was actually set in the first competition, it’s just that no one got it. Interestingly, the purse for the prize has doubled from “at least $794,624” to “at least $1,589,248”.

Perhaps intended as an Easter egg, those numbers are equal to 97*2^13 and 97*2^14, respectively.
Boris Jonathon stated that the migration was essential to keep a lid on inflation by suppressing wages.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. I completely agree that finding social hobbies would help and it's something I should work on.

> I understand. Even genuinely useful medications often help with one aspect of a condition (usually one that inhibits participation in society or the economy— an aspect whose costs are substantially external) and actively exacerbate others (typically aspects whose costs are primarily internal to us).

This internal/external trade-off is an interesting viewpoint that I've never really considered. It aligns with some of my negative experiences with the mental healthcare system.
I like the diversity of hardware and strange machines. So this saddens me. But I'm in the minority I think.
This all makes sense.

PEP 740 mentions:

> In their previously supported form on PyPI, PGP signatures satisfied considerations (1) and (3) above but not (2) (owing to the need for external keyservers and key distribution) or (4) (due to PGP signatures typically being constructed over just an input file, without any associated signed metadata).

It seems to me that the infrastructure investment in sigstore.dev vs. PGP seems arbitrary. For example, on the PGP side, PyPI keyserver and tooling to validate uploads as to address (2) above. And (4) being handled similar to PEP 740 with say signatures for provenance objects. Maybe the sigstore is "just way better" but it doesn't exactly seem so cut-and-dried of a technical argument from the things discussed in these commends and the linked material.

It's perfectly responsible to make a choice. It seems unclear just what the scope of work difference would be despite there being a somewhat implicit suggestion across the discussions and links in the comments that it was great. Maybe that's an unreasonable level of detail to expect? But with what seems to come across as "dogging on PGP" it seems what I've found disappointing with my casual brush with this particular instance of PGP coming up in the news.
If you can find a copy Apple's SANE for the 6502 test it. It was faster than hardware fpus. That was according to a friend who was an FP geek back when.
DAWs (digital audio workstations)

Video editors.

Image editors.

Web browsers.

Circuit, interior and architectural design.

None of these are anything like your "most desktop applications".
OT but flange focal distance is overmystified. It's just a mechanical interfacing spec.

You can't drill a hole on the sensor and mount lens body on it, and lenses must be placed at exactly focal distance away for parallel beams to converge on film or farther for diverging beam(from non-infinitely-far objects), so body designers pass a distance measurement from film to a known feature(mounting ring top surface) to be able to design a lens barrel. That's the flange-focal distance, sort of a "design length of body" to subtract from your overall lens barrel length.

It's actually possible to drill a hole on the PCB and woodscrewing lens directly on in cases with webcams and CCTV cameras, and in those cases the distance is 0.
The article points this problem out. It's recreational mathematics, not intended to be practical.
No, I would not call it success, but I do think it could be some realistic outcome.

The whole circumstance of having to buy it and then paying off the debt etc is kinda crazy.
wowfunhappy said, "I don't know why people keep using it."

so maybe it's an idiom that's spread beyond Twitter.
I guess this is dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871207

I have tried many regular dosing schedules including micro, as often as every day, and up to .3g of very strong mushrooms as my tolerance developed. But I actually started with "museum" doses and found that effective. I had no intention of seeing entities or anything because of "seeing the devil" as a kid and stuff like that.

I won't tell the story of my accidental breakthrough dose on 3g of GT, which changed my mind about breaking through and chilling with the entities.

But now I prefer high doses every Saturday.

Once per week is pushing the limit:

Please don't take psilocybin or any tryptamine more than once per week as it may thicken your heart valves.
The only time I have needed an await with ESM import is once on a single circular dependency in a super massive project loaded with circular dependencies.
Right now I tend to stick with gzip and bzip2, and rarely xz. I like the fact when I gzip/bzip2, my laptop does not heat up to a degree where I could fry an egg on it :)

Plus with the size of drives, getting 10% or so better encryption does not matter too much to me. If it saved 25% on huge files, maybe I would reconsider.

I did a comparison on a 43 gig file, here are the sizes I got.

Size and compression time comparison:

* txt: 43G n/a

* gz: 20G Compression Time 00:38:37

* bz2: 18G Compression Time 01:16:45

* xz: 18G Compression Time 12:25:42 (300M smaller than bz2)

The original 43G file was compressed via 7zip, and was about 600M smaller than the xz version.

This was done on a Thinkpad W541, my main system.
I can't speak for those other countries, but here in the US wringing our hands about "demographic change" is as old as the country itself.

"Few of their children in the country learn English... The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages ... Unless the stream of their importation could be turned they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will not be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious" ~ Benjamin Franklin on the topic of German immigrants, 1753

As the descendant of German immigrants, I'm not too bothered about demographic change. Transmitting the values of liberty are all that matters, regardless of demographics.
> Dr. Tong says, "The genome of this novel strain of Eremiobacterota enables it to metabolize ammonium ions found in cleaning products. The strain also has genes for alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenases to break down residual alcohol found in common disinfectants.

really interesting article, here's the paper linked in the article if you want to jump straight into that

> Diverse and specialized metabolic capabilities of microbes in oligotrophic built environments

https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...
<cstdint> has int8_t, uint8_t, int16_t, uint16_t, int32_t, uint32_t, int64_t, and uint64_t. I still go back and forth between uint64_t, size_t, and unsigned int, but am defaulting to uint64_t more and more, even if it doesn't matter.
Huh, we (family, extremely casually) just played on the bare wood...
Hey Microsoft... Are you okay?
> Connect this with an AI assistant to automatically update the character.

How does one do this? Perhaps an example in the README would be helpful.
A somewhat similar chart for the US is at the link below. It also includes a GIF that shows effective tax rates back to 1862.

https://github.com/chrisvwx/taxFoo.jl
What will be the benefit?

- CHAR_BIT cannot go away; reams of code references it.

- You still need the constant 8. It's better if it has a name.

- Neither the C nor C++ standard will be simplified if CHAR_BIT is declared to be 8. Only a few passages will change. Just, certain possible implementations will be rendered nonconforming.

- There are specialized platforms with C compilers, such as DSP chips, that are not byte addressable machines. They are in current use; they are not museum pieces.
There are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe. It can't be solved by brute force.
C itself was developed on machines that had 18 bit ints.
My niece is the child of an "illegal" immigrant. She graduated from University of Oregon last year, works in HR, is starting law school next fall. She was nationally ranked as a cheerleader in high school. As far as I'm aware, she's never committed any crimes. Her dad, whose mom brought him here as a 2 year-old or something, went to school with me and my sister, and he was a bit of a punk back then, skateboarding kid who hung with guys that liked to put firecrackers in lockers and throw bottles of piss at pep rallies, but he's actually a good guy now in his 40s. Didn't marry my sister, but married, three other kids. Never got that citizenship for whatever reason, but living a normal life.

I'm really not sure where these impressions come from. They're just people, humans being humans. They're not any different than me. They're not any different than you.

For what it's worth, Mexican culture is not an "extremely different culture" from California and Texas, which were both part of Mexico and are majority ethnic Mexican. I'm ethnically Mexican, born in California, currently living in Texas.
Super cool. I dig generating rules from within the LLM, but I'm not sure Prolog is the right choice in 2024.

I love Prolog and had the opportunity to use it "in anger" years ago to handle temporal logic in a scheduling app. Great experience, but I've found that more modern rules engines like Drools (anything using the Rete algorithm) are a MUCH better fit for most use cases these days.

If you are into this stuff, you might like the talk I gave on rules engines, prolog and how it led to erlang & elixir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDnntrhk-8g&t=1s
What Flying in a Wind Tunnel Reveals About Birds
I'm currently trying to build one, fwiw.
https://archive.ph/m3xAi
It’s tricky to assign impact, lost sales, revenue, customer satisfaction. Cost is just development and testing time.
The kana in the gameboy game is dead simple. Anyone that has a passing curiosity can pick it up and make it a fun challenge and then you’ll also be able to pass N5 if not N4. It really is just phonetics.

This is exciting I always wanted to translate a game :)
There’s a joke that basically goes the first generation are immigrants, the second generation are Americanized, and the third generation have opinions about immigrants.