skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, just spat out my drink at this. You have won the internets today, good sir. An updoot for you
Corporations do not exist to facilitate collective advocacy. There is zero reason to believe that the views of the C-suite or board of directors for a corporation represent the views of a majority, significant minority, or even any of its employees.

Pretending like they are a vehicle for collective speech merely amplifies the speech of the owners at the (potential) expense of the employees. Perpetuating the facade is sadly both another symptom and a furtherance of the corrupting influence of money in our politics.
Ghost sightings can cover a wide range of clothes and that is generally because ghosts wear whatever they wore when their mortal form died. The concept of ghosts dressed in white gained prevalence at a time and place when white linens were rapidly becoming common for the average person. The industrial revolution increased the supply of white linen clothes, also white linen bedding, both at homes and in hospitals. Ghost stories gained popularity during this era, which was also a time of growing world population and growing deaths in densely populated areas. This intersection is why ghostly appearances very much fit the description of a nightgown-wearing tuberculosis patient. During the Victorian-era in Great Britain, the medical field was advancing rapidly, so a keener awareness of life and death coincided with customary dress/fashion of the time to produce stereotypical images of ghosts and ghouls.
the original definition is likely tossing shell commands in a file to run later. chaining commands together. since perl and python supplanted this, they get lumped in as 'scripting languages'. both certainly can be used to write long running systems or short one off tasks.

compiled languages are rarely used for one offs because the effort they require is usually greater than the task calls for.

a big part of perl/python use is in tying together libraries written in more difficult lower level compiled languages.

you'll also see scripting used to refer to languages embedded in larger projects. lua scripts to control entities in a game, for instance. do they compile these somehow? I never did in the little project I used lua for.

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all of that together, I expect that scripting as a concept largely boils down to conceptually simpler languages with less view of the ugly underbelly of how things actually work in a computer, used to chain together abstractions created by lower level code.

scripting is duct-tape. whether you duct-tape together a one-off task or some wad of long running functionality is besides the point.
I am in France and use Direct Debit everywhere. This is the most ised and useful mechanism we have.

No virtual CC or similar tricks: the companies get the money from your account and you never see the bills .

One major point which may not exist in the US is that you have a button on your bank web site which you click to suspend or delete the DD authorization. From there on the bank will refuse to pay and the discussion is between you and the company.

When I want yo cancel something it is either straightforward on their site, or I send an email requesting the account to be removed and block DD
Even if they're _chemically_ inert, physical accumulation of particles of foreign matter in your brain might be causing problems. When it gets inside of cells, is it in the way of any processes? When it's between cells, does it trigger scarring? Do the particles clog capillaries? And because the study referenced was only able to find these particles via autopsies, if microplastics in your brain were causing health issues for you, you probably would never find out or be able to mitigate.
I recall the cotton tees of my youth being stiff and terrible-feeling.
Gastropreisis may be a rare side effect, but is serious and appears to a be a real risk.
I had the same question. I would think that with rust’s Vec, no allocation would occur at steady state. Vec does not automatically resize when removing elements.
Thanks, weird one - I just put in a fix, you can refresh the page to get it. Some kind of CSS glitch where the cells (<i> elements) got a height of 0 at narrow screen sizes, in Firefox only, despite those and their parent <td>s having an explicit height. Just added an absolute positioning hack to fix it.
You have a fair point, but also consider the large imbalance of power here.

On one side you have a mega-corporation that can take away the employees ability to eat, live indoors, or receive required healthcare. On the other you have Joe Six-pack who could possibly mildly inconvenience his employer, at worst.

Granting the mega-corp the ability to speak it's mind, without also guaranteeing Joe a few rights in return is just moving that threat from explicit to implicit.
OP here.

It’s unlikely any Git providers struggle with the number of repos they're hosting, but most are larger companies.

Currently, we're a bootstrapped team of 2. I think our approach changes the kind of product we can build as a small team.
Ask HN: Why has the job market been so bad for so long?
Weird, this drug chemically changes behaviour, so how can his behaviour stay the same?

It's been reported to reduce cravings related to food, alcohol, and cigarettes, you are saying your father while on the drug consumes the same?

Or is it that he uses it for a while, then lapses, repeat ad naseum?

If it's the second scenario, that's personal responsibility, not much to do there really, he has been given all the tools to improve but chooses not to, and that will catch up to him, no matter ozempic usage.
Will this happen for CLion too
Why do you assume you're supposed to feel an immediate effect?

Increased CSF flow aids in clearing metabolic waste, distributing nutrients, and reduced oxidative stress. You'll feel none of this after a 3 minute session.

A lot of the reactions here reek of placebo.
RTranslator is quite close. It needs a TTS for the target language to be installed.
It's quite a respectable accomplishment, don't get me wrong.

Now I'm thinking of a random number generator that uses a mechanical calculator printer (but I don't think there are any hex-capable ones easily available) or a typewriter to write password suggestions. The mechanical part would be tricky, because the hammers require some force to be actuated (and I would find it criminal to destroy a vintage typewriter for that).
US Tariffs on China Hurt Local Job Market Growth, Economy
> After extensive research, we rewrote significant parts of Emscripten to support asynchronous file system calls.

> We ended up creating our own Emscripten filesystem on top of Durable Objects, which we call DOFS.

> We abandoned the porting efforts and ended up implementing the missing Git server functionality ourselves by leveraging libgit2’s core functionality, studying all available documentation, and painstakingly investigating Git’s behavior.

Using a ton of great open source & taking it all further. Would sure be great if ya'll could contribute some of this forward!

Libgit2 is GPL with Linking Exception, and Emscripten MIT so I think legally everything is in the clear. But it sure would be such a boon to share.
Family as a Wealth Factor
IMHO the era of "we assume you're going to have a case on this" was cemented in place the instant the camera bump appeared. If you can't set you phone down on a service without it being all tippy thanks to the off center camera bump then you're clearly expected to stuff it into a case that is at least that thick.
>We don’t know long-term effects yet.

Compared to the long-term effects of obesity, Alzheimers, and addiction? Everything treatable by Ozempic, et al. has immediate short-term effects, and long term effect that significantly effect longevity.

The fearmongering around Ozempic not knowing the long-term effects would have to be is unnessicary. Yes, it sucks to have to be stuck taking a medication for the rest of your life, but would you rather be stuck with a delibitating disease and die 10 years early, or have to take a medication for the rest of your life?
Near immediate moderation of alcohol consumption in many people who are taking this drug has nothing to do with what or how much they eat. It is altering the brain function in some way.
You're suggesting that appetite is the cause of obesity. I don't agree with that notion. Repeatedly giving into your "appetite" will reinforce overeating
I hear you, but different people draw the what-caused-it line completely differently—it basically always feels like the other person started it and did worse (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). It's like the old adage "The fight started when he hit me back."

The reason I replied to you is that your account was producing quite a bit more than the other accounts in this repetitive and dyspeptic discussion.
> I wish they made comparable products for the dryer.

Isn't that just the lint filter? Every dryer I've seen has one.
> Leibniz's monads [...]have nothing in common with category theory monads except the name.[0]

The monad is something about which you can reason but you cannot look inside because it is windowless. No quibbling, please.
You can find a shareable link to the puzzle by clicking the gear icon.
HN might seem more focused and professional than typical social media, but it fosters a community and interactions
Some high-impact reporting there from the BBC!
Also contains my favourite quote of the day:
"Westcombe Dairy's maturing cave is equipped with cheddar-turning robot, nicknamed Tina the Turner"
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We can go back to the boom of distilled spirits in the 19th century, but that's kind of cheat because it predates modern drug regulation and aren't seen as medical since people just make and consume them privately.

Or the boom of compounded tinctures at the turn of the century, but again, that's kind of a cheat, because it becomes the impetus for modern regulation and was full of all kinds of wild crap.

But once we have regulation, we get the wartime boom of amphetamines and stimulants for energy and weight-loss; the mid-century boom of early barbiturates, tranquilizers, and sleeping pills; another boom of new stimulants and weight-loss drugs in the eighties, along with a boom of anabolic steroids; another boom of anti-anxiety drugs in the benzodiazepem class, as well as new anti-depressants; then a boom of opioid painkillers with purportedly "abuse preventing" formulations; etc

Each of these booms was absurdly popular during its heyday, generating tremendous amounts of revenue and reaching into countless homes, variously disturbing both physical health and familial/emotional security in significant ways, and then was turned against because of all the secondary effects that they brought with them.

In many cases, these secondary effects were noted early on but simply held in denial because of how freaking much people wanted to feel more energized or calmer or more rested or thinner or whatever in a world that seemed to be putting impossible demands on them. In other cases, people just didn't know where to look for the secondary effects and so they weren't anticipated.

In either case, the drugs always looked really rosy to the public and generally delivered on their prima facie promises.

Socially, these drugs are fitting an almost identical profile. Medically, maybe they'll finally prove to be the exception. We'll have to see.
Google photos is way, way, way better than apple photos at this. It’s not even a competition.

I have my sister’s dogs named in my google photos library. Every time I a take a picture of either dog, they are automatically tagged and added to a shared album I set up for my sister.

I have nieces and nephews with photos from newborn age to 10+ years old, and it has managed to organize them across their growth and ages. It’s incredible. I can search for “<niece name> <vacation area>” and get every photo of her on a certain vacation to make a family scrap book.

Apple photos search and tagging is pitiful in comparison.
If losing receipts is costing you $$$, then I'd be printing every one out, filing 'em in paper envelopes by date (one or more envelopes per week), and keeping a written summary (alphabetical by vendor?) in a spiral-bound paper notebook.

Yeah, that's a paper-based hassle. But with how human brains work, the physical ritual of doing stuff with paper is often a "stickier", and easier-to-recall-later, habit.
Creating a Simplified Form of Life
We should also ban plants while we are at it, since there are only a few letters of difference.

In other words: Banning certain types of plastics makes sense and we do that all the time. Banning "plastics" is about as sensible as banning dihydrogenmonoxide.
I've seen this more and more in recent memory. I feel like the standard used to be define an acronym the first time you use it, then you can use it without explanation.

Such as the TLA (three letter acronym) used here.
This is what I'm saying: personal responsibility. Celebrating this drug as a magic solution to obesity is not right. It is a tool, not a fix
I can't imagine that working, even if that AI were more reliable than currently possible. Someone who already disbelieves credible reporting and objective sources is not going to be swayed by an AI telling them to disregard their fantastical conspiracy theories. Especially not in a near-future world where everyone is inundated with AI fakery.

That's even without considering the efforts that would be made to undermine any system that showed any effectiveness. A lot of misinformation, probably most of the stuff that gets traction, isn't random, it's serving a purpose and being pushed for that reason.
Unless of course the only corporations allowed to exercise free speech rights were collectives of workers :)
Apple Tested Blood Sugar App for Preventing Diabetes
It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them
Worth noting, eating 200g of beef is easy. Eating 200g of kale (or lentils) is challenging.
They do not tell you that. You are wrong.

From their FAQ: "Ozempic® is a medicine for adults with type 2 diabetes that, along with diet and exercise, may improve blood sugar. While not for weight loss, Ozempic® may help you lose some weight."
> As opposed to now when bipartisan support for industrial policy

That's what bribes will get you

> The decade before there was bipartisan support for the war on terror.

Of course generally both parties supported giving themselves more power. There were a few holdouts with integrity though.
You could have just given it a time and canceled it later when it was safe to. No need to endanger others on the road for this.
I trust a defective AI a lot more than I trust Fox News ;-)

Now, more seriously, it'd need to put together a coherent argument and back it up with reputable sources, as just citing sources is very ineffective. The article I cited gives more details on possible approaches to that.
A high-profile geneticist is launching Pacific Fusion
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/7071.1697661373@cvs.openbsd....

From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt-AT-openbsd.org>
To: Jeff Xu <jeffxu-AT-google.com>

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 8:17 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > Let's start with the purpose. The point of mimmutable/mseal/whatever is
> > to fix the mapping of an address range to its underlying object, be it
> > a particular file mapping or anonymous memory. After the call succeeds,
> > it must not be possible to make any address in that virtual range point
> > into any other object.
> >
> > The secondary purpose is to lock down permissions on that range.
> > Possibly to fix them where they are, possibly to allow RW->RO transitions.
> >
> > With those purposes in mind, you should be able to deduce for any syscall
> > or any madvise(), ... whether it should be allowed.
> >
> I got it.
>
> IMO: The approaches mimmutable() and mseal() took are different, but
> we all want to seal the memory from attackers and make the linux
> application safer.

I think you are building mseal for chrome, and chrome alone.

I do not think this will work out for the rest of the application space
because

1) it is too complicated
2) experience with mimmutable() says that applications don't do any of it
themselves, it is all in execve(), libc initialization, and ld.so.
You don't strike me as an execve, libc, or ld.so developer.
42.8% of US adults are obese. Not overweight, obese. They will die years earlier form this, suffer many health problems, etc.

Until Ozempic, the US obesity rate has literally never declined since it started rising.

Thus people clearly are not loosing weight. What do you propose instead? Nothing else is working
> you'll also see scripting used to refer to languages embedded in larger projects.

Yes, but this is conceptually exactly the same as the aforementioned shell scenario. This is not something different.

Just as I suspected, there is only one definition, and one that has proven to actually be well defined to boot as you managed to reiterate the only definition I have ever known to perfection.
I heard listenship jumped 1000% (not surprising, it was rather unknown radio, but gained nationwide popularity) - I wonder if it's going to have some sticky listenship
Sitting at a restaurant however, no biggie.
The fact that I come in it just to read comments
Yeap, this is a big one. In Nx we have some facilities for doing zero-copy stuff that only really work if you have, say, Evision and EXLA running on the same OS process.

We do have IPC handles that could enable this over, say, ports, but then there's a whole other discussion on pointers vs ipc handles
I couldn't figure out if this project is based on an academic paper or not — I mean some published technique to determine LLM uncertainty.

This recent work is highly relevant: https://learnandburn.ai/p/how-to-tell-if-an-llm-is-just-gues...

It uses an idea called semantic entropy which is more sophisticated than the standard entropy of the token logits, and is more appropriate as a statistical quantification of when an LLM is guessing or has high certainty. The original paper is in Nature, by authors from Oxford.
My mattress cover is like that, as it's made from polyester. When I pull it from the dryer it produces an invisible, but irritating cloud of particles.

All that while most of the shavings accumulate in the lint collector, so it could have been even worse.
A game where the "points" are likes, followers and engagement
Is that really the case? I would say writing bug ridden C is easier then Rust in some cases. Writing working C is much harder then writing safe Rust.
> In Italy, researchers followed 312 patients who had fatty deposits, or plaques, removed from their carotid artery. Almost six in 10 had microplastics, and these people fared worse than those who did not: Over the next 34 months, they were 2.1 times as likely to experience a heart attack or stroke, or die.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/...
People also survived without antibiotics and electricity in past. Electricity generation is a far bigger environmental load than plastic. By your logic we should revert to burning candles. Even windmills and solar panels are made from toxic chemicals. Everything in life has its tradeoffs. It is not responsible to use a one sided mass hysteria to impose a lower standard of living on people when it is not clear what the quantifiable harm the technological innovation that is plastics is to justify doing so. Many things are toxic in the right dose but the dose makes the poison. Making policy without considering tradeoffs is the road to Idiocracy and watering plants with Brawndo.
NOAA issues statement to confirm it doesn't control the weather
>might take that as a reverse-jibe

I did not, but thanks for being considerate. I took it as this:

>I sincerely thought people would quit social media following the Snowden revelations, and I did myself, and then could not believe that they didn't seem to care at all. It was a painful and jarring learning experience.

It's been over 11 years now. I would imagine it's not unlike living in a former soviet country in that everyone knows it's going on, but we just don't talk about it.
x86 Early Kernel Boot Process with Microcode, ACPI Overrides, and Initrd
Don't use the name - "Mr Floppy at the beach" is meaningless, but "dog at a beach" will probably yield a lot more.

I've found google photos search to be pretty good, and if it can't find something usually the map-mode is enough to pin it down (e.g. go to the beach where you took the photo and it shows you the photos from there)
Had I not been flustered and in insane traffic I probably would have been able to figure this out on the spot quickly enough. I did eventually try this after a few minutes and it still wasn’t working. Alternatively, the product could just work how it’s advertised.
I wonder what will the cumulative effect be as more of life becomes virtual by default
> Is it healthy to rely on drugs to change your thought and behaviour patterns?

That is the same question people were asking about Prozac thirty years ago, with the same concern about continuing to use a drug for the rest of one's life. The idea may sound scary, but in practice people make a simple calculation: so long as the drug continues to make your life better, why wouldn't you continue taking it?
> Then why are you using it?

I'm not, I pretty much just accepted that Google doesn't care about usability whatsoever and haven't prompted it in a very long time.

To be clear, the only time I've ever used it was via "ok Google" in contexts in which I'm unable to interface with the phone directly, i.e while driving. If it doesn't work you'll learn that you can't start driving before queueing the navigation anymore. The voice assistant was a nice feature, but not important enough to waste my time trying to figure out which feature they opted me into and how to get back out of it.
You can basically extend your argument and replace computers with social media. It turns out all modern social media is done on a computer today, but even if it wasn't your argument still holds.
10x growth would be ~$1B revenue, 7000 cars. Let's assume it requires doubling head count from 2500 to 5000. That's $130K/car, $250K/employee. sounds break-even-ish.
It is very interesting to watch this play out, because of course the DSPs are effectively extensions of Amazon.

The complaint advocates that Unions cannot even be discussed by Amazon with its employees? But the unions, conversely, do have the right to discuss with Amazon employees?

This section is wild. NLRB complaint mandates a false testimony of laid-off workers. Whether or not that constitutes some form of fraud, it is extremely unethical.

>>The NLRB complaint also seeks an order requiring that Amazon publicly post the NLRB explanation of employee rights for one year; provide laid-off workers with a “neutral letter of reference” that says their performance was “satisfactory” and does not mention “the circumstances surrounding their termination of employment”;
Geico repatriates work from the cloud, continues ambitious infra overhaul
You could be seeing two different sets of people, largely non overlapping.
Federal investigators probe Tether
Yes that would be ML as far as I’m aware, but the thing in reference is software compensation for image quality. Effectively smartphones automatically upscale photos by default. I think the only exception is when you choose to shoot in raw
Hoping for reevaluation
I wonder if anyone's done a study for similar-but-natural compounds... Does lignin accumulate? Could we find a whole bunch of it in the brains of carpenters?