skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I know what will make me leave my current job, it's not worth my time to "get the interview" if they won't give me that amount.

Also, as a hiring manager, the one way people found themselves with me saying "That's great, go screw" was when it was clear they were playing us comp-wise by lowballing us to get their foot in the door & then raising the bar once the offer came. That's deceptive, and a character flaw I don't want to deal with in an employee.

Now if you mean keep your cards close to the vest and don't reveal your number until after they give theirs, then I agree. That's good negotiating tactics. But it's not always possible. And now we're back to who is in direr straights: is the candidate willing to walk away if the company demands a number & they don't want to give one? Is the company willing to lose a candidate in this situation? Whomever blinks first wins the day on this one.
Ask HN: As Billionaires Go, What Do You Think About Mark Cuban?
One of the interesting things would be if someone has some first-hand anecdotes.

Or how he compares to other billionaires, tech or not.
"I don't find the data personally convincing" is a poor retort. And that's all he says, without any further information.

Is his post supposed to be taken seriously?

If this person is a fact checker, he's probably run into plenty of people who would say "I don't find the data personally convincing" to explain why they don't trust vaccines.
(reply really meant for @arrowleaf)

Man, I'm so turned off by the entire cast iron hype cult. I've tried so hard to make it work for me, and it just doesn't, and everyone's advice is totally different so it's impossible to know what to do. Wash it. Don't wash it. Scrub the shit out of it. Just remove the chunks and leave the rest.

The reply will inevitably be "it's simple, just...." where the words following "just" are different from anything ever written on the topic before.
The only one sounding like Putin is Hillary Clinton and her numerous acolytes in the government.

So sure, let’s talk more about Trump.

Except she's no longer running for office, last we checked.

under the Biden/Harris regime,

Except it wasn't a "regime", and neither was Trump's administration. Both were democratically elected governments, whether you happen to like them or not.

Meanwhile, if you live and breathe according to emotionally manipulative language like this, then you already have a "regime" of sorts installed in your head.
> Prior to the recall, 900 restaurants had received onions from Taylor Farms, including in Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming, as well as portions of Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah.

That sounds big...yet far smaller than the recent Food Safety Fails at BrucePac - https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/10/theres-another-massiv... - and Boar's Head - https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/boars-head-will-neve... .

Should food safety regulations limit the size of food handling/packing/prep facilities, as a way to limit the possible scale of such outbreaks? You'd also need to limit the scale of inter-facility blending of food. And probably some other profit-maximizing stuff.
I believe Unity switched to net core last year
It does kind of suck if the binary is frequently updated, big and you have a slow internet connection. So some program which normally takes seconds to open can take 20 or more seconds to open after an update. Or if you don't use that program frequently, you always get a very slow start of a program.
If you eat a lot of fruit (I guess not seeing your tastes), you almost don't need to drink extra water, or very few, and vegetable water is extra pure and super valuable. Trees should be so much protected, they're doing a hell of a job
Reader discretion is advised :)

The advice given by the current article is just after the "followed by occasional crashes" state of the state graph : The author has already noticed that the "edge" is context dependent and still recommends winging it (he also mention previous personal problems with substance abuse so we are definitely in the "here be dragons" territory).

The author seems to be in the wreck everyone around you and then repair it business.

**

There are various culture on the internet, notably pushed by influencers and other self proclaimed gurus, that often push it further that reasonable, often amplified by filter bubbles and echo chamber that algorithm like to recommend.

It's typically called Bro-Science in the fitness domain. This empirical science has the benefit of the wisdom of the crowd.

Typically in running or fitness, one follow a training program to make some gains. But the danger is often over-training, or bad posture resulting in an injury. Learning unguided is often the cause of injury.

Typically what happens is your mental model you are basing your training program on is missing some important levers : For example you didn't consider some cumulative nutrient deficiency or adaptation that occur when not respecting cycles by having rest weeks. But you push yourself because you don't see a reason why you shouldn't push yourself and then the injury occur.

**

Real science here would recommend taking a step back, and look for the missing lever instead of random pushing the levers in front of you.

You should be humble and start with the hypothesis that there is some additional unknown risk you aren't aware of. Reasonable progress isn't made working on the frontier trying to push it forward, but rather by exploring more diversity while staying comfortably in the comfort zone in order to be able to handle the occasional rough patches that natural variance will throw at you.

The science behind if you want to learn more is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dilem... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit (Thomson sampling and no regret sampling). It typically consist of building an inner representation of the world (aka a world model) and acting on it conservatively. You may also look into martingale stopping time if you are inclined in probability theory.
Wealthier Americans Are Paying Millions to Age in Luxury Campuses
You could make the first part of the experience free-fall (throw people with a magnet strapped on down a tube that is conductive only near the bottom).

I think the big problems are that you need a hefty magnet (which is inherently dangerous) and you can't really split up the magnets over the body (because that is INSANELY dangerous), so you experience that same thing that could be achieved via bungee cord/harness.

You would also need to limit (lateral) movement quite a bit, to get reliable braking...

A x-shaped magnet assembly strapped to the back could work, but you probably could not allow the tube being all that much bigger in diameter than that backpack...

edit: If you allow any fall configuration different from feet-first, the terminal velocity has to be pretty low to reliably not kill people, too. But you could make this work with a net, I think...
The core problem with this is:

- DON'T is very clear and specific. Don't say "Stat-Sig", don't conclude causal effect, don't conclude anything based on p>0.05.

- DO is very vague and unclear. Do be thoughtful, do accept uncertainty, do consider all relevant information.

Obviously, thoughtful consideration of all available information is ideal. But until I get another heuristic for "should I dig into this more?" - I'm just gonna live with my 5-10% FPR, thank you very much.
Reminds me of the Jurassic Park novel where they ask the computer to find 10 velociraptors on the island and it finds 10. And they actually have 20.
https://archive.ph/UGlph
One thing that's helped me is to every-so-often oil my wood utensils the same way I oil my wood cutting board. It's helps protect the wood and retain moisture so it doesn't crack. Also, at least some (if not all) woods have anti-microbial properties.
Wood is quite antimicrobial. You can look at studies on plastic/silicon cutting boards vs wood for a bit more peace of mind.
We had the best alternative decades ago. Let the community run the servers and ban cheaters while allowing individual servers to form their own culture and community. The obsession with matchmaking and games as a service (requiring publisher run servers) is what painted the industry into this corner.

Note that I like matchmaking, specifically skill based matchmaking, in some games and at some times but completely ending server browsers and community run dedicated servers was a mistake.
Right, and horses are not obsolete in all applications. There are still a number of cases where they're the best tool for the job.
metal spatulas scrape. there's non-stick dishes to worry about.

and I thought of the sunny episode when I read your comment.

"just in case is as good a reason as any to believe in something", whether it's monkey paws, throwing salt over your shoulder, knocking on wood, etc.
You do it at the file system layer. Clone the template which creates only metadata referencing the original blocks then you perform copy-on-write as needed.
Publishing only significant results is a terrible idea in the first place. Publishing should be based on how interesting the design of the experiment was, not how interesting the result was.
I'm not even sure how to categorize such an amazing known but widely crudded upon truth. It's incredible but this tower of protocols has been quite enduring and allows many many epochs of js to come and go, as time marches on. And it will keep being here.

There's so much scaredness, anger, and mistrust of js. But this tired take was with us, and still is with us, and will keep being with us for a long long long time. Nothing else comes as close to being a media form as HTML+js+css.
...until next week, when the prestigious scientific journal "The Atlantic" publishes a hot take on the dangers of silicone!
I'm inclined to agree that his likely is one of those situations where despite the novelty maybe provided by the new tech, old tech does this job better or at least sufficiently that you still end up using old tech.
Temu Dropshipper Fraud Using Amazon Listings
A large plexi ball with embedded magnets, and a (also plexi or glass?) tower with copper or aluminum spaced out in stripes (would that work? It should?) so one could see through it all, and especially see that there is a lot of air between tube and falling ball.

That would be scary, and a cool experience, I think.
Seriously lol, the effort vs risk ratio is insanely in favor of getting rid getting rid of plastic spatulas. Though, it should be pretty obvious even before this study that plastic, heat, and ingesting the result do not go together.
Let's be clear. This guy had CSAM and was caught using digital forensics. The cops would've been able to secure the search warrant at the time had they been required to do so.

This isn't some innocent person who is spending time in prison because of a legal technicality.
My favorite part about p<0.05 conversations is getting to be really pedantic about all the other sources of error in an experiment.

We're all just fancy monkeys with lightning rocks, it's fine dude
Where I'm from wooden are norm for stirring while cooking. Plastic are used as well but after the food is already cooked.
I'll take this a step further and say that the optimal time to be job hunting is *before* you're motivated to find a new job: either wanting to leave your current one or finding yourself unemployed.

People always talk about competing offers, but your negotiating power will never be higher than when you literally don't care if you get an offer or not. If I'm perfectly content in my current gig, the only way I'm leaving is for a *serious* upgrade. And it's no skin off my teeth if I walk away from a bad deal.
Absolutely, I have a 1080p Logitech webcam that gives worse quality in anything other than perfect lighting, whereas my 720p Intel Mac Air webcam gives grainer (but at least usable) quality in most conditions. Sensor quality and software have to be good too or it's just a spec pissing contest.
These are awesome, but feel more applicable to DevOps than anything else. Development can certainly affect these metrics, but assuming your code doesn't introduce a huge bug that crashes the server, this is mostly for people deploying apps.

I think it's harder to measure things like developer productivity. The closest thing we have is making an estimate and seeing how far off you are, but that doesn't account for hedging estimates or requirements suddenly changing. Changing requirements doesn't matter for DORA as it's just another sample to test for deployment.
I don't believe you should be downvoted for your original comment. Not sure why you are.

> there's a difference between a person being tricked to give up their credentlials and a zero day.

Only if you work at Apple.

We have mass conversational and voice cloning technology. It's not a question of if but when.
Seems to me a more reasonable threshold would be at most 10^-9 probability of the conclusion being false (in the Bayesian sense of course), with the prior chosen by the editor and reviewers (and the models being selected upon also being agreeable to them).
Show HN: October Surprise (A Short Story)
The last time I felt as compelled to write something as I did with this piece, it got mentioned in a George Gilder book. Not banking on the same level of success for this one, but I'm happy with how it came together and would love to hear people's thoughts (especially this audience)
I see. So it’s like capitalism but state is owner and everyone in country is shareholder (at least on paper). As opposed to having smaller subset of shareholders.
This is not uncommon, even in countries that don’t promote themselves as socialist. At least in Russia many companies are state owned. And in recent years even more nationalized to become state owned. And big companies that are not state owned still have a lot of control from state (like media companies).
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-health-risks-...
That's true of nearly everything in this space. You'll find lots and lots of comments below about PFAS and Teflon pans, for example, ranging from factual-but-misleading (e.g. "Teflon pans can emit harmful gases when overheated") to bald assertions (multiple variations on "Teflon pans are harmful to your health") with no context or specificity to the claim.

Setting aside the fact that the purported harms (if specified at all!) are nearly always based on confounded observational studies and/or animal models at doses that may not bear any relationship to the doses you're being exposed to in real life, the claims for any particular item are usually presented out of context. For example, is exposure at X<10 parts per billion compound Y meaningful, as a human who lives in the real world? Typically, nobody knows, but you can nearly always find an "expert" who will confidently claim that any exposure is "dangerous."

Skepticism and awareness of risk magnitude is essential when reading stuff like this. Academics who specialize in obscure areas love to get their name in the press, and the easiest way to do that is to go to a reporter and make vague and irresponsible claims about risks to human health, even if those risks are very, very small. [1]

For what it's worth, I have a Teflon pan, I've used black plastic spatulas in the past, and I'm not worried about it. Compared to the reasons I already know that I'm likely to die, these things are irrelevant.

[1] Case in point: I knew a tenured professor at a prestigious university who was absolutely convinced that if we all continued to eat beef, we'd be looking at an epidemic of vCJK (aka Mad Cow Disease). Saw a lecture from this person on the subject over a decade ago now, where the risks were presented as looming and absolute. We're still eating beef. Guess what hasn't happened since then?
> there is a sub-$20 cost

Plus the risk of the alternative you pick being much worse than the original option.
Seems far more likely it's a transient unhandled exception which isn't bubbling up to let the frontend know.
I would suspect a call to $(chmod a-w) would fix that, or at least serve as a very fine reminder that there's something special about them
ELxr: Debian Based Enterprise-Grade Linux Distribution
Stuff that works well with AI seems to correlate pretty well with high churn changes. I've had good luck using AI to port large numbers of features from version A to version B, or getting code with a a lot of dependencies under mocked unit tests.

It's easy to see that adding up quickly to represent large percentages of the codebase by line, but it's not feature development or solving hard problems.
There is a four part documentary by Stephen Fry called "Planet Word". Worth watching.
> root kit that’d exfiltrate your credentials

Yes. I truly believe some janky random anti-cheat kernel module could very well capture telemetry about my keystrokes to a log and then send that log off to a server.

At the very least I don't trust that it's secure enough to be in the kernel of a machine for which I require any degree of trust in its integrity.
> is your LSP just not working correctly?

I don't know, I can't tell, but I would guess it does not. I just got the one and only Java extension there is (the other has has something to do with Eclipse). Yet, no error highlighting.
Discussion (195 points, 8 days ago, 293 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41919670
Part of it is reflexes too. I used to love fast paced FPS games as a teen and was actually pretty good at them until my early 30's. As time went on, I started noticing I was doing consistently worse in 1v1 firefights. I started gravitating towards games that had a 'slower' way to contribute like playing vehicles in the battlefield series.

As time goes on I've gotten more and more into single player games, especially games that let me build stuff.
The non-stick pans that release all sorts of concerning-at-even-1ppb fluorine compounds?
> They are literally next token prediction machines normally trained on just text tokens.

And in order to predict the next token well they have to build world models, otherwise they would just output nonsense. This has been proven [1].

This notion that just calling them "next token predictors" somehow precludes them being intelligent is based on a premise that human intelligence cannot be reduced to next token prediction, but nobody has proven any such thing! In fact, our best models for human cognition are literally predictive coding.

LLMs are probably not the final story in AGI, but claiming they are not reasoning or not understanding is at best speculation, because we lack a mechanistic understanding of what "understanding" and "reasoning" actually mean. In other words, you don't know that you are not just a fancy next token predictor.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207
I have to have some respect for anyone that took Yahoo for USD 5.7 billion. But I also don't think that makes him any more savvy at business than anyone else. He was in the right place at exactly the right time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com
Research shows decline in out-of-home activities since pandemic
You've got to be kidding. Boomers were fired or laid off all the time. Unemployment rates have been much higher during some years when Boomers were a major part of the labor force, hitting over 10% in 1982.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

Current money market rates are above 4%. So I guess today is a really excellent day!
why do you think these people are making the company money? The CEO and stockholders all seem to think the company will make more money without them then with them?
You’re falling down that slippery slope pretty fast there.

You can filter your tap water; there are various ways to do so. I’m sorry your water is contaminated. That’s awful.

I wouldn’t always assume the worst with the cows milk and butter. There is a wide range of product and conditions out there.

Certain kinds of plastics and applications are known to leach chemicals far worse than others. Frozen peas in plastic? It’s minimal. Food pouches for kids? Awful - it’s liquid that’s heated in the plastic to pasteurize it.

You can get olive oil in glass very easily. It’s usually the default. I order from the Napa valley olive oil company in bulk - glass jars with high quality oil that used to be excellent value. They’ve gone up in price but still decent value compared to the market.
Musicians know a whole lot more math than they are aware of. Music is math. Even if you don't read sheet music or study the intervals of scales and chords. Musicians that become programmers write some of the best code, same for lit majors.
But that is exactly what the storage array is doing. What is the advantage?
Precisely. As a scientist, that’s how it works.

If a new paper with an outrageous claim pops up, people are automatically suspicious. Until it’s been reproduced by a few labs, it’s just “interesting”.

Then once it’s been validated and new science is built off of it, it’s not really accepted as foundational.
MikroTik has been a bit of a behind the scenes player in networking since the beginning - at least in western markets. Even though I don't work in the networking field as much anymore I always look at their product release newsletters and am surprised at the price to performance their equipment provides with new interesting features.

I'm really not sure what a "Cloud-Native" processor is - will be interesting to see what comes of this partnership though!
> Surprisingly, libFuzzer struggled to figure out that input should be of size 1024 and couldn’t start fuzzing.

Is this surprising? Does libFuzzer support Redqueen or laf-intel like AFL++ [0][1] which will pick up on any comparisons (like a comparison to size=1024) and fuzz with the intention of changing that comparison to become true or false (to put it overly simple)?

0: https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/blob/stable/instr...

1: https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus/blob/stable/instr...
I wonder if someone makes a nice stainless-aluminum-carbon steel clad pan

This pan exists! It's made by an American company called Strata. Stainless steel on the bottom/outside, carbon steel on the inside/cooking surface, and aluminum sandwiched in between. It came out this year. I've seen a few cookware YouTube channels do some first looks, unboxing, seasoning, and first cook tests but no long-term reviews so far.

Cast iron is definitely the most challenging cookware material to use with any flat-top cooking appliance. Whether induction or traditional ceramic, flat-top ranges tend to be quite poor at creating even heating in cast iron. Gas on the other hand works quite well because of the natural upward draft produced by the hot combustion gases which wrap around the sides of the pan, enveloping it in a blanket of heat from below.
Of course, the point is that this all traces back to Java being a language originally designed for settop boxes, leaving the features of Oberon/Cedar/Modula-3/Eiffel/... behind, C# being born out of Sun's lawsuit when J++ was the original language for Ext-VOS, WinDev resistance to anything not C and C++, Singularity, Midori, Phoenix, languages like D, Go, Rust gaining attention, and so on and on.

Lots of zig-zags.

I am a firm believer that if languages like Java and C# had been like those languages that predated them, most likely C and C++ would have been even less relevant in the 2010's, and revisions like C++11 wouldn't have been as important as they turned out to be.
'The Remarkable Life of Ibelin' Documentary Is an Emotional Ode to Gaming