skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now, what UPF foods are is foods that have had most of their non-caloric content removed or been processed to increase calorie content, triggering this gorging behaviour. This is probably 80% of the obesity epidemic today.

It's been possible to buy prepared pure sugar (even granulated) and pure oils and fats for centuries, and eat them straight out of the container if one wished. Yet the obesity epidemic is much newer than that, and hardly anyone gorges themselves in that particular manner even today. There is clearly far more to it than "had most of their non-caloric content removed".
Good point. I absolutely abhorred reaction videos until I found a channel that works for me. A guy who reacts to videos about ultra luxury mansions. I find it interesting hearing an expert in the field point out things that most of us wouldn't think of. Plus he's got a great sense of humor.

What blew my mind was that there would be a market to watch other people play video games. You never know what catches on.
Look I am just being grumpy about this and I know it has nothing really substantive to do with the underlying story, which is D-Link EOL'ing products, but: there is really no such thing as a "9.8" or "9.2" vulnerability; there is more actual science in Pitchfork's 0.0-10.0 scale than there is in CVSS.
I'm gonna have to agree with that. It should always be based on 'Ask for forgiveness, but not for permission'.
and it's back now. No incidents reported on status.python.org.

there was some discussion on at least two github issues: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/127307 and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/2663
How long should a consumer expect their modem to last? How long ago were they last being sold at retailers?
yeah this is cool. I saw a couple other people posting about this idea. I know some other folks working on "sourcing the humans" or doing a marketplace style thing. Thoughts on things like Payman or Protegee?
> As Jobs said in his chat, "we put a gun to their heads and shot them dead". (I'm paraphrasing Jobs here, but he said something close to that - it was equally brutal, anyway.) Say good-bye to PowerTalk, OpenDoc, Copland, and their ilk. Good riddance, I say.

At least one man was very upset with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o
What you get from competition is the incentive to lay down fiber optics, so that you attract customers with your higher speeds and can rent the infrastructure to your competition. Though there are other forces at work in urban areas, in my area I know a lot of people out in the 'burbs with fiber optics while those living in the heart of downtown usually only have cable internet at best. Not sure what's happening there, and I imagine is where municipal internet can help (with both the taxpayer dollars and bipartisan buy-in for it).

On the customer service front, the painpoint is usually related to mobile networks. It's very painful to switch from one carrier to another, with limited time offers to keep you or upselling when you've decided to join. It's when this spills over into their internet services that I want to get off the grid entirely.
You’d probably have a harder time finding a school library or even harder a librarian in the school. Between funding prioritization and challenging public policy requirements many schools have removed their libraries.
In my experience scripts that expect your remote to be a certain way will break with this approach.
That’s not the question, though - it’s would they switch. Switching has significant friction, at least in people’s minds. You probably wouldn’t switch from ISP1 at $30/mo to ISP2 at $29.95/mo (with the same service) unless you’re irritated with ISP1 for other reasons. You might have chosen ISP2 if you were starting from scratch, though.
Used apple 2015 apple imac. I bought it to use as a second monitor because the retina displays is the only monitor I’d used for extended periods without my eyes aching. I did very little research, bought a used one to find out, nope you can’t hook it up as a second monitor and the hardware is awful
Mergers in business are like dating. You can't just throw random people in a room and expect that they're going to like one another. It's about establishing shared context.

Mergers happen because there is a shared vision that is greater than the two separate companies. Smart entrepreneurs look at the mission and identify the roadblocks to that. Business is a collaborative endeavor.

There are very few times in business where there is no way out (and in those moments, it's simply that a thesis was incorrect). You can always run a new experiment.

I am reminded of this fine line from Sasha Shulgin "There are no casual experiments."

Too often startup folk seek the easy way out instead of the path of least resistance.

Be like water.
All code is bad, some is useful
> Anyone who’s bipolar has ADHD

Did you miss a comma, or, like, where did that come from?
Previously (4 points, 63 days ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41636093
I think the analysis is forward looking.

> This technical progress is likely to continue in coming years, with the potential to complement or replace human labor in certain tasks and reshape job markets. However, it is difficult to predict exactly which new AI capabilities might emerge, and when these advances might occur.

The "small" benefits you list are in fact unprecedented and periodically improving (in my experience).

The generality and breadth of information these models are incorporating was science fiction level fantasy just two years or so ago. The expanding generality and context windows, would seem to be a credible worker threat indicator.

So it is not unsensible to worry about where all this is quickly going.
Here's the simple thing to know about AWS. They sell two great products (EC2 and S3) below market value so that you get locked in and their sales teams can upsell you on everything else. If you are a customer and are tempted to try out their alphabet soup of managed services because it all seems so convenient – don't.
Is the "way" it's using things affecting performance significantly?

If not then it's a pretty good proxy to one or two dimensions of performance, and a mix of similar benchmarks could paint a good fraction of a reasonable picture.
So what does "better option" imply?
For me, just playing Half-Life Alyx through the link cable alone was worth it.
i don't think it is either. at least not for me.

but YC has always been pretty vocal that they can identify the right people. And their results seem to bear that out at least to some degree (or maybe it's all just scale, and giving opportunities to enough people means you'll give opportunities to the right people often enough to balance out the cost of the wrong people)
I do not see how this could provide any value. Feels more like it prays on people’s insecurities
See, Chrome and the web plagiarized the original chef.
Not great, but it's surprisingly good if you can make this with just a text prompt.
Having wrenched more extensively than I want to on the Transit, the Sprinter and the Promaster I would hand out the pork to a defense contractor ten times over before I bought Euro vans of ANY make because at least they tend to build things with margin in the places you need it even if it's not peak comfort and user experience. The engineering culture and default assumptions are completely different and it shows.
This sounds like a case where consulting a lawyer might actually be useful…
They are just equally bad at customer service that most people don't even bother.
Ask HN: Book recommendations- released this year or other
Can you give some names/information on the software that is used ?
I mean isn't the news story itself essentially an ad?
I can hold complex, antagonistic ideas in my head at the same time. So I am reconciled to thinking both they were right to try (noting all the reasons why they might be wrong) and that it won't work (noting that it may work in an 80/20 sense)
Artists Stick It to 'AI Overlords' and Leak OpenAI's Sora Video Generator
Why do you think there is such a thing as 'D-Link haters'?

I don't hate D-Link (I don't care about them anywhere near enough to bother), but I think there's enough of a history of poor security practices to avoid their products...
> Do you see any learning or any creativity here?

Of course not if we take it to the extreme, ie only copyrighted work reproduced almost identical, but I've used the platform with my own music and it reorganized it in a very interesting way, actually inspiring new songs and arrangements which I'll probably play with real instruments. I haven't the slightest interest in replicating top chart garbage; however lawsuits by major labels are ruining also the creative aspect where no copyrighted work is involved. Suno is now quite likely retraining their model only on free music because of the lawsuits, and despite the hype, for some genres last version turned out awful.
Makes sense to me. These customers have margins and Amazon has an opportunity.
Chrome on Android doesn't have this setting.

Responsive design fail?
Pretty much.

Here's some declarations from an ancient UNIX (remember, UNIX(R) is a registered trademark of "The Open Group") ctags file to help show how that type of scheme works:

ISDOT rm.c /^#define ISDOT(a) ((a)[0] == '.' && (!(a)[1] || (a)/
Mrm rm.c /^main(argc, argv)$/
PASS rm.c /^#define PASS(byte) { \\$/
check rm.c /^check(path, name, sp)$/
checkdot rm.c /^checkdot(argv)$/
rm_file rm.c /^rm_file(argv)$/
rm_overwrite rm.c /^rm_overwrite(file, sbp)$/
rm_tree rm.c /^rm_tree(argv)$/
usage rm.c /^usage()$/

Side note: https://unix.org/trademark.html
Post also doesn’t mention this from the pricing that means existing customers in free tier aren’t being suddenly charged:

Note:

1. Customers with existing user pools created on or before 10:00am Pacific Time, November 22, 2024 will continue having a free tier of first 50,000 MAUs. Advanced Security Features (ASF) will continue to be priced separately and will not have a free tier, just like it has been priced previously.

2. Additionally, customers are eligible to create new user pools with Lite tier in their existing accounts and count those MAUs against the free tier of first 50,000 MAUs. To be eligible, customers' accounts must have had at least 1 MAU in the last 12 months on or before 10:00am Pacific Time, November 22, 2024.
What Japan Teaches Its Kids [video]
The only thing I don't like about this is if you're not careful it's very easy to accidentally commit a cleartext file. And then goddamn github doesn't let you delete a commit, you can only commit another commit that undiffs the diff. Then you go "fuck it" and rebase, and then find out even that didn't work, then you go delete and recreate the repo. Bleh.

And they don't give you the server logs to know if someone has accessed the cleartext file during that time.

At this point I just commit .tar.gz.gpg files for things that need to be encrypted, it's easier to not fuck up.
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Here's the best description I've heard of homelessness. It goes in stages:

1. You are evicted or priced out of your apartment or house. You are still working but you are now housing insecure. You might couchsurf, stay temporarily with friends or relatives or otherwise hop around until those options run out;

2. You are now living in your car. You likely still maintain a job. There's a constant cat-and-mouse with local authorities who will seek to tow your car or detain you if they find you living in your car. You might move around, sleep in Walmart parking lots and so on. At some point your car might break down and you can't afford to fix it, or it gets impounded and you can't recover it;

3. You are now living on the street. This is the first stage of homelessness that people generally see. Unfortunately visible homeless on the streets is largely viewed as an eyesore and people push local authorities to sweep them into a neighbouring town, city or county. Also, visible homeless is what drives people's perceptions of crime [1]. The same is true for the "migrant crisis" and visible (unhoused) migrants in places like NYC. Having no transportation, you will often lose your job (if you haven't already); finally leading to

4. You are longterm homeless. Because of this you likely have addiction and/or mental health issues as you self-medicate to cope.

Some (wrongly) believe that drug addiction leads to hojmeless. It's the opposite.

As for the cost of housing and homelessness rates, the link is well-established [2].

[1]: https://www.columnblog.com/p/people-feel-unsafe-because-visi...

[2]: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/...
>If they can build such a thing (which may or may not be possible, or may not happen soon), then they can immediately use it to make itself better.

This sounds like a perpetual motion machine or what we heard over and over in the 3d printing fad.

We have natural general intelligence in 8 billion people on earth and it hasn't solved all of these problems in this sort of instant way, I don't see how a synthetic one without rights, arms, legs, eyes, ability to move around, start companies, etc. changes that.
Somewhat offtopic, but I'm surprised that "device misuse" is that big of an issue. I suppose that these are most likely school-provided and school-administered devices, so they should arguably allow for some sort of time-based kiosk mode where the student is restricted in what they can do on the device. Aside from that, I do in fact agree wrt. on the potential of Khan Academy and similar systems - they seem to have the potential get closest to the "Bloom's two sigma" result of fully individualized instruction.
Webkit, as I understand it, is not really a C++ codebase built with a popular compiler, it's a codebase that follows its own significantly stricter standards and has a lot of additional tooling to avoid bugs.

And I'd say that even with all that additional effort, it has a level of bugs that's not "fine". Indeed, per the article, I suspect that the maintainers of Webkit are some of the people pushing to make C++ more Rust-like.
Discussions

(22 points, 9 hours ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42246978

(13 points, 4 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42250243
It wasn't a request routing outage; apps running on Fly.io didn't stop running. It was a deployments outage. For reasons passing understanding (I am reliably informed I'm wrong to complain about this), our website is the same Elixir app as our dashboard, and the dashboard got redeployed at one point. Our website being down is not the same as the whole service being down, though I guess there's a truth-in-advertising poetry to it being down when deployments are busted.
I set the ambient light in mine to neon purple and play a synthwave playlist. Definitely a fun mood to drive with on dark city streets.
Why is that odd? Slavery is explicitly legal for felons in america right now. We don't typically compare our principles against the worst of history, we try to be better than that.
FCC approves T-Mobile, SpaceX license to extend coverage to dead zones
Cant find the pricing change announcement, mind to share a link to it?
I don't think anyone checks their artifact signatures. I've changed signatures several times over the past few years (every time I get a new laptop I forget to copy over my keys) and haven't heard a peep from anyone using my open source libraries who actually noticed the change
You're always going to have graft and waste.

But you can optimize for the types of graft you want. Do you want them paying 20 labourers to do the work of 10? Or inserting a mountain of consultants and converting cash into PowerPoints? Or simply marking up materials and labour? I'd expect different projects attract different types of leakage.
> X in a Monday court filing argued that its users don't own their accounts and those accounts can't be sold or transferred to a third party without X's permission.

There you go. It's not your account, it's his account, he lets you use it. Always was, always will be: Private property, used under licence.
Another 60,000 devices ripe for malicious entities to use in their botnet.
A Surface Go 2. After a whole day of Windows Updates, I tried to use it to draw, as it was meant to replace my laptop and my notebook. I made a doodle and passed the tablet to my friend. When I was going through the file save dialog to save my drawing before closing the software, I decided to return it. I couldn’t imagine myself fiddling with that dialog again, nor using Windows Explorer to flip through my drawings. This device was everything I hate about computing made small enough to experience it everywhere. It gave me Windows Mobile flashbacks.

Now I have a MacBook Air and an iPad Mini. Two of my best hardware purchases. Procreate and Notability are genuine notebook replacements.
Relevant:

https://discuss.python.org/t/extending-subinterpreters-with-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3068139

https://wiki.python.org/moin/SandboxedPython

https://github.com/jailctf/pyjailbreaker

https://healeycodes.com/running-untrusted-python-code

https://lwn.net/Articles/574215/
All the other comments aside: these aren't even contradictory statements. We really do have no-tech-debt rules, and they generally have not been responsible for our outages. Consul wasn't tech debt; it was a carefully made decision (that I happen to disagree with and enjoy thinking about Michael Ehrmantrout shooting in the face).

We're just people, working on building a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghNJxYP5Ses

Also: stop calling yourself an "outsider". You follow us as closely as anybody. :)
Notably, the benchmarks I provide are all single-core. You can get more if you modularize the project and spread out the load over multiple cores, and some of the other pages linked from the OP go into more detail
Discussion (33 points, 3 hours ago, 6 comments) https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-24-1193A1.pdf
Exactly. Few ISP's offer fiber.

Very few ISP's will offer data center speeds.

I am yet to find an ISP that offers over 5gig or for an affordable price.
You've misunderstood and misread your source. The data shared is "total deaths" and "mortality rate per 100k", not "total death and mortality rate" per 100k. It's 157 total deaths in the below 30 group, and 4.2 per 100,000 in the 20-29 range.

For what it's worth, you might consider reflecting on this. Your interpretation was off by a factor of 100, and you didn't notice! That suggests you are staggeringly misinformed about one of the most important events in recent history. It's akin to somebody saying that the military was only 0.1% of the US budget, or that foreign aid was 20% of the US budget. The only reasonable conclusion is that the speaker is totally uninformed on the topic.
the root cause, at least for bread, is pretty simple; US supermarket bread has a lot more sugar than freshly baked bread, because sugar is a preservative.
which do you recommend?
For production workloads, the LLMs are interchangeable.

As a product, ChatGPT + Python + web search + the interface are miles better than anything else except in some use cases I find Google’s NotebookLM to be a better product
I assume they just hire sociopaths for this sort of PR role. That way the employees will have no issues with lying through their teeth, and the company doesn't need to spend money on weed.
Thanks, this has been my go to technique after watching Kenji's video about it.
It is absolutely not a "perform or else" rule. Why are you reading so far into this? We really do have a rule about tech-debt changes, and it's a useful insight into why you might or might not want to work here, which is why we bring it up, despite the possibility it might alienate people; we'd like to be as honest as we can be. Worrying about people reading hustle-culture bullshit into stuff like this is a reason not to be transparent, which sucks.
Plenty of people were but Apple was on a path to bankruptcy. Turning that around meant killing some stuff and letting some people go. Some of that was stuff that people outside of Apple liked, but part of Apple’s problem was that they hadn’t been putting Apple first in their list of priorities, and they really needed to.
> don’t see the use case for first encrypting and then giving the key to the forge

You might only want to keep the files secret from the broader internet, rather than a (trusted) forge, which can make the unencrypted secrets available via an UI for eg. authenticated maintainers.

These cases would benefit from being able to see the secrets transparently in the UI when logged in.

Also, forges having access to e.g. deployment secrets is not that uncommon (e.g. GitHub with deployments via GitHub actions).
How recent is that? More than a decade ago, my friend related to me how his grandmother was subscribed to cable TV through comcast, but one channel wasn't working.

And every day, she'd call them to complain about the one channel that didn't work, and they'd apply a minor credit to her bill.
I just speed tested my Starlink connection at 93 Mpbs down, 9.3 Mpbs up. That's slower than usual but better than 10x the speed I was getting from a rural telco, and it has been more reliable too, for about the same price.

What am I missing out on from a faster connection?
Kind of reminds me of https://www.jasondavies.com/planarity/
But then wonder why people don’t stick around…

Unless they have some info channels which ultimately don’t need any presenters in the first place.
All this is actually covered in the article

> These benchmarks were run ad-hoc on my laptop, an M1 10-core Macbook Pro, with OpenJDK Corretto 17.0.6. The numbers would differ on different Java versions, hardware, operating systems, and filesystems. Nevertheless, the overall trend is strong enough that you should be able to reproduce the results despite variations in the benchmarking environment.

> Again, to pick a somewhat easily-reproducible benchmark, we want a decently-sized module that’s relatively standalone within the project

> "typical" Java code should compile at ~100,000 lines/second on a single thread

> We explore the comparison between Gradle vs Mill or Maven vs Mill in more detail on their own dedicated pages
And nobody saw this coming with the surge to “cloud”. /s

I don’t like AWS but god damn they are good marketers and had some good leadership that actually was ahead of the curve. Instead of min/maxing the quarterly earning calls.

Convince a nepo C-level executive of your offerings, wave your massive AWS dick while presenting your deck, throw in a few credits, keep it “cheap” for a number of years. Once the competition fizzes out, or you buy them up. Then nix those teaser rates and jack it up 100X over a decade.

Now AWS is pumping for the next millenia.