skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alfernative title - “poisoning your body in micro-doses can increase cancer risk”

doesn’t seem surprising in the slightest.
Reddit's Newest User: An AI? Exploring Astral and the Dead Internet Theory
Zuck Humiliated Tim Miller Rips Apart Beta Mark Zuckerberg's [video]
> sudo apt-get install python3.10 python3.11 python3.12

This assumes the Python version you need is available from your package manager's repo. This won't work if you want a Python version either newer or older than what is available.

> You are incorrect about needing to use an additional tool to install a "global" tool like `ruff`; `pip` does this by default when you're not using a virtual environment.

True, but it's not best practice to do that because while the tool gets installed globally, it is not necessarily linked to a specific python version, and so it's extremely brittle.

And it gets even more complex if you need different tools that have different Python version requirements.
No opaque ranking system, no advertising, no opaque ranking system to favour content that induces negative engagement...

And now more than before, HN is not social media because it actually has useful content and quality moderation.
I think if people want to 'quit' social media, then just use it to keep up to date with friends/family. You follow ONLY friends/family, and limit consumption to only that, don't consume content outside of that circle.

These full fledged 'quit' posts are nothing more than an attempt at a political statement that falls on deaf ears.
I use NixOS, one of the annoying things to me is the documentation and error reports.

I swapped my installation to a Flake managed install a few months ago, and parts of my Nix files that were perfectly fine before started throwing out errors (specifically HomeManager), which no amount of Googling the error message that gone thrown got me any closer to a solution.

I looked at documentation recently to try and enable PGO/LTO and Zen 3 optimizations (don't mind compiling everything) and I think I saw at least 10 ways and none worked (gcc errors, etc).
At the last place I worked it was common to wait one to two weeks for a PR review. I was the only developer who would do a review within the same day that someone requested it; as a result everyone came to me when they needed a review to actually get done.

When performance reviews came around I was criticized for not getting enough story points merged (because I couldn't get them reviewed) and the fact that I was single handedly responsible for reviewing almost all of the PRs was not deemed to be a valuable contribution to the team.
While working for an Australian company recently acquired by an American company, one of the first post-merger meetings was about cross-cultural awareness. The invitation was from New York and scheduled for a Saturday at 01:00am Sydney time.
Wtf is this comment in relation to? Certainly not the article which is about a strictly technical issue or how to deploy time smearing for the first time.
For what it's worth, I've had some success treating my Long Covid symptoms with a specific form of Tryptophan found in Hydrolyzed Whey Protein (a standard bodybuilding protein powder.) You can get it OTC from Amazon [1]. My symptoms are slightly different from yours but sound close enough.

A recent study showed that persistent viral infection can block normal tryptophan receptors [2] which causes a diminished ability to synthesize serotonin, which it turns out is pretty essential for a lot of things including alertness & sleep, etc etc.

The tryptophan found in hydrolyzed whey binds to a different receptor than normal dietary tryptophan, thereby allowing your body to reuptake it and produce serotonin as usual. (This is all in the study.)

A word of warning: If you do this, take only a very small amount to start, maybe a quarter serving, because even though the body rate-limits serotonin production your tolerance will likely be extremely low from not having much for years. I didn't know this and I took a couple servings per day (after all, it's just protein powder right?) but by day two I was hypomanic which was unpleasant and it took about a week to return to normal. So start with maybe a quarter serving, wait a few days, and repeat until your serotonin normalizes.

Also DON'T TAKE THIS if you're on any medication that interacts with serotonin such as an antidepressant, SSRI, MAOI, or what-have-you. I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice, just something that helped me after many years of difficulty.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002QZORGK
[2] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01034-6
Say what you will about fact-checkers, there are countless issues with the platform beyond that...

> Alex Schultz, [Meta]'s chief marketing officer and highest-ranking gay executive, suggested in an internal post that people seeing their queer friends and family members abused on Facebook and Instagram could lead to increased support for LGBTQ rights.
The concept of a handle goes beyond a username. If someone can construct a profile that looks like someone's profile on another site and contains approximately the words in the username, like _username or imusername instead of username, they might be able to impersonate it. In that case it would be good to have an active profile on that platform to counteract it.
It's a reference to the very last paragraph of the article.
Change of geopolitics, tovarishch. Turns out being radically anti-censorship just allows the criminals to flourish.
Same question as in the other comment: Are warnings issued about the protein powders but not the original rice the powder is made from?
Well, all language has this fault that if you don't know what the words mean they don't convey anything. But you can learn what they mean and now you have a new phrase to easily communicate an idea to other people who also know what it means.

If you work with people from a country where baseball is not popular you might find that the phrase "ballpark figure" doesn't mean anything to them. That doesn't mean we need a finger-wagging article about how nobody should ever say it.
> It rightfully explains how X, meta and others have taken a turn for the worse to say the least, but it doesn't say why I should delete my Facebook or Twitter account.

Isn't it a tautology? If you continue using a product that sucks rather than abandon it, you're using a bad product and it also has license to keep getting worse. Deleting an account is the strongest signal of rejection.
>“Learning” is the proper term. It takes input and applies it intelligently to future tasks.

To me "learning" is loading up the memory.

"Thinking" is more like applying it intelligently, which is not exactly the same, plus it's a subsequent phase. Or at least a dependent one with latency.

>Machines can learn, machine learning has been around for decades. Learning doesn’t require biology.

Now all this sounds really straightforward.

>Machines don't learn. They encode, compress and record.

I can agree with this too, people are lucky they have more than kilobytes to work with or they'd be compressing like there's no tomorrow.

But regardless, eventually the memory fills up or the data runs out and then you have to do something with it, whether very intelligent or not.

Might as well anthropomorphize my dang self. If you know who Kelly Bundy is, she's a sitcom character representing a young student of limited intellect and academic interest. Part of the schtick was that she verbally reported the error message when her "brain is full" ;) It was just an observation, no thinking was required or implied ;)

If the closest a machine is going to come is when its memory is filled, so be it. What more can you expect anyway from a mere machine during the fundamental data input process? If that's the nearest you're going to get to organic learning, that'll have to serve as "machine learning" until more sensible nuance comes along.

Memory can surely be filled more intelligently sometimes than others, which should make a huge difference in how intelligently the data can handled afterward, plus some data is bound to be dramatically more useful than others too.

But the real intelligent stuff is supposed to be the processing done with this data in an open-ended way after all those finite elements have been stored electronically.

To me the "learning" is the data input, or "student" phase, and the intelligence is what you do with those "learnings" if it can be made smart. It can be good to build differing scenarios from the exact same data, and ideally become better at decision-making through time without having more raw data come in. Improvements like this would be the next level of learning so now you've got more than just the initial data-filling. As long as there's room in the memory, otherwise you're going to have to "forget" something first when your brain is already full :)

I just don't think things are ideal myself.

>journal on extra-terrestrial aliens would prove that the word "aliens" is used to mean "extra-terrestrials"

Exactly, it proves that the terminology exists, and gives it more meaning sometimes.

The aliens don't have to be as real as you would like, or even exist, nor the intelligence.
> I guess this is an attempt at Vec::push_within_capacity?

Sure, yes. It's trivial to change to try_reserve if that's what you want. (There are other solutions for that as well, but they're more complicated and better for other situations.)

> Your function takes a reference and then tries to copy the referenced object into the growable array. But of course nobody said this object can be copied - after all we want it back if it won't fit so perhaps it's unique or expensive to make

Just add extend it to allow moves then? It's pretty trivial. (Are you familiar with move semantics in C++?)
I'm with you. The theme is cool for a brief blog post, but anything longer and I want out of the AS400 terminal.
I work from New Zealand, for a quite geographically distributed team. For our team, the solution is partly:

1. "Write everything down" culture.
2. Rotate the regular meetings. For example, a meeting around 1000 UTC for Europe / Asia folks on Monday. Repeat the same meeting at 2000 UTC for US / Asia folks.
3. Write good notes for each meeting, so people who could not attend can review asynchronously.

2x meetings may not work for a truly distributed team where you have people all over the world. In which you will need to have 3x rotating meetings which becomes a bit harder to manage.

DST changes do happen every six months, or so. We mostly roll with it, and adjust the meeting times as necessary.
Which is why I used the word primitive, and not the word stupid. If you are making this confusion, that is on you. The "cargo cult" terminology does not imply stupidity. It implies, at most, ignorance.

Also, the tale may be apocryphal, but apocryphal tales (such as fairy tales) still can contain interesting insights about how humans behave. Maybe that's why they propagate through time.
My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism
To moderate the majority of the community that will not be attempting prompt injections.

What meaningful vulnerabilities are there if the post can only be accepted/rejected/flaggedForHumanReview?
One thing I loved on the early internet was finding online communities for people who shared a niche interest or hobby with you.

For instance, I was interested in plant propagation as part of a gardening hobby, but didn't know anyone else experimenting with it.

Before the internet, you could find information in bookstores or libraries, but making new friends with common niche interests was much less likely.
> How can it teach us anything about human psychology if it never actually happened?

How can the fable of the tortoise and the hare teach us anything if a tortoise never actually raced a hare?
Meta seems to be playing the “commoditize your complements” game. Which is good for the rest of us who get close to SotA open weights models.
No, that generates a list of currently installed packages.

That’s very much not a lock file, even if it is possible to abuse it as such.
Billing is broken at the Gandi domain registrar
[NOTE: Is it OK to submit URLs that require login?]

https://status.gandi.net shows all green, but:

- can't add or remove credit cards

- balance refill charges the card, sends no emails, account balance stays at $0

- at https://admin.gandi.net/billing/ you can't view invoices/orders etc with CORS error:

Access to script at 'https://assets-admin-gandi.global.ssl.fastly.net/billing/dis...' from origin 'https://admin.gandi.net' has been blocked by CORS policy: The 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header contains multiple values 'https://admin.gandi.net,', but only one is allowed.

(edit: yes, I've double-checked and that's the actual Gandi website)
At this stage in the cycle, i decided it would be a waste of time to look and see whether its actually valuable. And just assume it’s all marketing BS
> The deeper question is, do we want the shape of digital networks to reflect the observed concentration or real current social and economic networks or do we want to use the leverage of this new techology to shape things in a different (hopefully better) direction?

Here is a book on the topic - Compliance Industrial Complex;

https://www.amazon.com/Compliance-Industrial-Complex-Operati...

It's about anti-policies (anti hate, anti money laundering, etc.), securitization of governance (private companies create and enforce what should be law) and pre-crime, using technology to do this instead of addressing underlying social problems.
most developers I know do not use the system version of python. We use an older version at work so that we can maximize what will work for customers and don't try to stay on the bleeding edge. I imagine others do want newer versions for features, hence people find products like UV useful
As a reviewer... it really, really depends on how trivial or gnarly the PR is.

If it's a simple change that is obviously correct, I'll try to unblock the author ASAP - often within minutes, even if it interrupts my flow.

If it's a giant PR with lots of risky changes in vital code, an awkward-to-unreadable diff, and/or maddeningly questionable design/coding decisions that require me to think a lot and compose some nuanced, reasoned comments to steer you in a better direction, then, well, you might find yourself nagging me for a review 2 days later. (And I'll probably ask you to split up PRs like this in future, e.g. to separate major refactoring from any logic changes.)
That is a solid red flag for any workplace.
I think so, yes. I used the "height of our reason" phrase a bit ironically.

There is quite a lot of things any person is unable to understand about our own word, and you can see how they handle those.
I agree about the content of the material. But the process of promoting work, securing funding, and getting positions isn’t different.

There is a technical floor to participate, but to potential funders all the physics project proposals from Physics professors sound equally probable. They are going to choose projects based on internal initiatives (fad), name recognition, track record, etc.
6th gen Texan here with a very german sounding last name. My dad's side of family immigrated from Switzerland through Galveston. The original surname was sprinkled with umlauts. Someone tried Americanizing the name so people could pronounce but we still have pronunciation problems... and with the new spelling, French people think I'm one of their own.
The long term play might be to sell it to GitHub. I'm surprised github doesn't already offer something like this.
Smaller YouTubers can do pretty well, i.e., a thousand devoted fans (and sponsors), and a year isn’t that long. Most of my follows are smaller YouTubers. Everyone wants to be the Musk of YT and not a “regular Joe” FIRE-guy. Both live pretty nice lives

I can drop a list after work
I'm someone who used to use this phrase frequently after reading Feynman, but stopped long ago after realizing how lazy the story was. It became a popular phrase with the same crowd it most closely described. That's about the time people started saying things like "drink the Koolaid" in a positive sense. I guess the real revelation is that Orwell was the prophet of our own little apocalypse.
“Imitation without understanding”, “imitating but misconstruing”, “mindless imitation”, “superficial emulation”, &c.

I think “cargo culting” in the popular sense means little more than that (whereas actual cargo culting is much more complex, as the featured article describes).
CubesOS is the choice if you need a very high level of security, are willing to accept some workflow changes to achieve that, but still want a modern graphical operating system that runs all your normal software in a unified workspace.

Nothing else provides a similar mix of security and usability. The alternatives are either much less secure or have much worse usability.

Of course only few people have these kinds of requirements. I'd recommend Qubes OS if you are an investigative journalist or working in offensive or defensive IT security. Everyone else can safely ignore it.

Still, even if it's not made for most of us it makes interesting design decisions that are very much of interest to this forum. And a lot of the people it is made for are here too
What's important is that we break these companies up so they aren't used as tools by the powerful. Neither Zuckerberg's or Musk's income streams should be allowed to have such an important effect on everyone's lives, but as long as these communication companies are allowed to exchange their obedience for a regime's lack of antitrust enforcement, our 1st Amendment rights are meaningless.

> This is why it's important not just that people do the right thing but also why they do it.

I care about what Zuckerberg, Loraine Powell Jobs or Musk feel the right thing is about as much as I care about what my bus driver thinks the right thing is. What we need is a functioning government.
Maybe I could've worded that better, but I was just providing perspective on the obsessive nature that we have on social media now. IMO, it's not "normal" to keep up with acquaintances and people from past times. They're no longer part of your life and you need to let go. If others find the life updates useful and beneficial to them, then so be it. I don't care either way.
That’s not the perspective that OP was sharing, though.
> Our study adds to the evidence that structural racism in federal policy is associated with the disproportionate siting of oil and gas wells in marginalized neighborhoods.

Yes, 2x is clearly "disproportionate", but it's a far cry from being obviously significant. If you assume that pollution is not significant in best neighborhoods, then it's not greatly significant in worst, because twice something insignificant is still hardly significant. Replace oil wells with something else that's clearly harmful: murders. Imagine the worst neighborhoods had twice as many murders as the best ones. This would actually be improvement over the status quo: worst neighborhoods are far more dangerous than just 2x!

> Even the last paragraph highlights the fact the pollution is a high factory in these districts.

It does no such thing. It says that wells can contribute to ongoing pollution. That does not mean that it does, and it does not even quantify the contribution of wells to pollution, nor does it even show that the worst districts are significantly more polluted in the first place.

The point of this study is to corroborate the narrative of redlined district being significantly more polluted than the "best" districts, and that this is why residents of these districts and their descendants have worse outcomes today. It shows something that's not very interesting on its own (just twice the number of oil wells). However, it's clearly successful in building narrative, given that it convinced you that it provides evidence for it.
> A simple screenshot of the OS environment would have been nice.

https://www.qubes-os.org/screenshots/
We may have to agree to disagree. I'm trying to convey a function that would need a different cleanup to occur after each call if they were to fail, e.g. reducing the len by one (though that is the same here too).
just wow
can i know how did you build this ? put me on track
also how long it took you to build ?
I was agreeing with you. "This" in my comment was referring to what you said people incorrectly assume.
>accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity

But the question is, are trans people actually mentally ill objectively? It certainly doesn't help them reproduce (a form of survival) from a biological perspective, for example.

This Johns Hopkins professor thinks it's mental illness:

https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/scpsva/Board.nsf/files/B8UR4X...
So they did 20 years ago
Agreed. Darkreader + some uBlock Origin filters to remove any residual orange and I have a perfect white on black reading experience.
HN runs all kinds of algorithms to help with spam, moderation, etc. Being open source would derail all the benefits gained from that code.
Even though I never used Qubes OS I used to really enjoy Joanna Rutkowska's passion for it.

Other women who's computing enthusiasm I enjoyed was Jessie Frazelle's writing and speaking about running everything in Docker on her laptop and Sacha Chua's love for Emacs.
Yeah on the opposite I'd say it's pretty clear that the insomnia and poor sleep during night contributes heavily to why we are so spent and sleepy during the day. Aside from general insomnia I also had so much night terrors. Terrible nightmare, then waking up, then resuming the terrible nightmare again. Sometimes I'd try to stay awake just not to experience the night terrors. I inadvertently learned lucid dreaming to handle them.
Surely the commonly referenced "food coma" affects more than just narcoleptics.

I imagine narcolepsy is only diagnosable when it causes major issues in your life.

In the same way that being "a bit obsessive" isn't OCD unless it materially affects your quality of life.
> He has his entire reputation staked on him being right about his own theory

You may be thinking of someone else. I'm not aware of Carroll having "his own theory" that he's "staked his entire reputation on."

In any case, he's explained his position, even in the quote I provided. He's simply describing what general relativity says about this. If you have some issue with it, you can respond on technical grounds, without needing to resort to ad hominem.

> He likely believes in the Big Bang too which is an absurd, and disproven theory.

Big Bang is not "disproven" - the Lambda-CDM model of the Big Bang is still known as the "Standard Model of Cosmology," and nothing has replaced it as a consensus among mainstream scientists.

> There are far too many mature galaxies that are far too old for the Big Bang theory to be correct.

The issue of galaxy ages has a number of reasonable explanations in the context of Lambda-CDM. One of them could simply have to do with age estimates, which is an area that suffers from limited observational data that's difficult to interpret. Recent work on the Hubble tension may help resolve that, e.g.: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/new-webb-telescope-data-sugg...

The idea that galaxy ages "disproves" Big Bang theory is at best, a misunderstanding of pop science hype, and at worst pseudoscience. That's not how science works, especially in cosmology where most evidence is very indirect and subject to interpretation.