skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely from a cost perspective - imagine a 79 year old grandma.

Heavily overweight. She is already partially immobile. Pre-diabetic. She may have other conditions, further complicated by her weight. She's on a fixed income.

Which is more probable -

1) A dietary intervention that she attends once a week that revamps her entire daily consumption (but remember, she's on a fixed income) along with some intense exercise?

or

2) put her on a single medication that changes her tastes for sugary and starchy foods, reduces her cravings, reduces inflammation, and in turn, will make her lighter and more mobile.

It is a no-brainer for Medicare. This will save so many downstream costs.
Most folks who I know who made a large career change did one of two things:

- Hard shift: quit their job, went to grad school, and started over.

- Soft shift: got an adjacent job w/ a company w/ many roles (consulting, big tech, etc.), slowly got good at the adjacent role, and then title change.

I don't know what's best for you. Option 2 is safer. Could look like:

- Get a job doing UX in/around tech services/consulting/cybersecurity (eg IBM, Palo Alto Networks).

- Get on a team with cybersecurity engineers (eg, GTM for a "new cyber offering")

- Slowly build up your PM or technical skills (eg, start by learning SQL & doing reporting)

- When you're actually useful in the new area, ask about a role change

Keep in mind this is a lot of work.

- You're gonna need to go from No knowledge -> Junior -> Mid-Level -> Senior.

- Your opportunity cost is 1-3 promos in your current track, which would probably radically change your day-to-day anyway.

Good luck!
Yep, that's sadly my current setup. Most of my data are not super critical.

When I can spend some $3000 or so I'll absolutely buy several 20 TB drives and just nail the whole thing -- and will use ZFS -- but for now the several spare HDDs that I want dedicated to my data are set up exactly as you mentioned: root vdevs with no redundancy. ZFS is mostly handling it fine even though the drives have vastly different speeds (and one of them is actually an SSD).

So yep ZFS can still do quite a lot, it's just still not flexible enough in a manner that f.ex. bcachefs is. But the latter is still missing important features so I am sticking with ZFS for a while still.
Or you can have that in a "rack" aesthetics and pretend you run a datacenter. The end result is negligibly different.
The building codes will need to reflect the new normal. Defensible perimeters, metal roofs and masonry or cementitious exteriors are a must for many areas going forward. Log cabins amongst the pines just aren't tenable in the West any more.
Browser content should never be able to modify the configuration of my desktop window layout by opening a new window. There I said it.
Your comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42740033) was more-likely flagged because it and your followups are disproportionately hostile.
As does software development. What are the chances that he ends up in the FAANG equivalent in law?
Yes, exactly, finally you get it. Because yes, China is worse.
The Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
"I just assumed that the default state must be installing the bloatware, and changed it, and fortunately I was right."

That's how it is usually and also my way to navigate modern UI.

"No, I don't want to share all of what I do on my device with you and your 800 partners"
The FCC doesn't make rules based on who owns the telephone though.
Rare knife showing up at Bay Area restaurant tables, confusing people
If a US-based alternative appeared which not only substituted performatively, but also monetized creators and influencers enough to put everyone else to shame, people could not help but notice and migrate there in droves.

It would be pretty cool if there was a respectable capitalist with enough money, or if that won't do it then a bigger more-respectable political organization or something, and Tiktok would be nothing but a memory of how things used to be before they got better.

Think about it, a social force or financial pressure strong enough to reverse unfavorable trends, even after they have already gained momentum.

And all it takes is focusing that pressure in an unfamiliar direction that could probably best be described as "anti-enshittification".

I know, that's a tall ask, never mind . . .
Was it ever really a debate? There’s tons of experimental evidence that shows calorie reduction leads to weight loss, even without pharmaceuticals. The Ozempic data can be explained simply by this factor. There doesn’t seem to be enough data fluctuation between the two sets to indicate a significant set of unknown variables impacting the data.
Xiaohongshu is used by a lot of huaqiao outside of China. It has a sizeable overseas userbase, but it also has 300M total users.
"Two of the most notable examples from Ancient Rome
center on the emperors Vitellius and Claudius who were notorious for
their binge eating and purging practices. Historian Suetonius writes
that “Above all, however, he [Vitellius] was … always having at least
three feasts, sometimes four in a day — breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a
drinking party — and easily finding capacity for it all through regular
vomiting” (Suetonius, Vit, 13) [1]. Similarly, the emperor Claudius was
infamous for never leaving a meal until overfed, after which a feather
was placed in his throat to stimulate his gag reflex (Suetonius, Claud, 33) [2].
In his writing, Suetonius takes on a disapproving tone when describing
the eating habits of Claudius and Vitellius, as highlighted by the use of
words such as “luxury,” “cruelty,” and “stuffed”(Crichton, 204). This tone
indicates that although binge eating and purging were accepted, albeit
uncommon in Roman culture, the practices were negatively associated
with gluttony and a lack of self-control. "

~ Ancient Hunger, Modern World by Solia Valentine

Via: https://escholarship.org/content/qt2594j40t/qt2594j40t_noSpl...

[1]: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext...
[2]: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:ph...
That was the us policy for 20 years under the assumption that political liberalism with follow economic liberalism. It has not. This is also no one sided. China is preparing for conflict with the US so we must also. Yes hawks can push a country into war but so can doves.
I don't really know the exact legal situation surrounding this, but the viewpoint that in the past Soviet propaganda could be freely distributed in the US a rather curious viewpoint. The US government spent decades chasing down (alleged) communists, both using hard power and soft power, and many were effectively silenced, and many more never even dared to speak up.

So whatever the exact legal situation was the time, a free speech utopia where even enemies of the US had free reign did not exist. De-facto free speech was significantly more restricted on this topic.
Google bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (2023)
Yes that changed some time ago, it applies to 4 engine aircraft as well.
Reminds me, many years ago someone paid me to translate a Korean wiki article about some League of Legends pro player to English. No idea why, most of it was random trivia, it didn't contain any notable insights. But it was decent money as a side job so I didn't bother asking. Possibly similar motives to this article?

> Very few of members of the foreigner community are fluent in Korean. Foreigner access to Korean BW discourse is a contradicting concept: if you speak Korean fluently, you have no reason to be in the foreigner community, as it only has access to material that is strictly inferior and more limited. For this reason, Korean-speaking members in the foreigner community are exceedingly rare.

I can vouch for this in general - after becoming fluent I've stopped looking up anything related to Korea in English because the quality of information is much worse. I'm sure the same holds for other languages and places.
There are specialty insurance companies that will underwrite almost anything, for any duration, for a high enough fee.

But if the state regulator sets a maximum cap they wouldn’t be allowed to…
> In a more functional democracy we would see that mass data collection of any sort, by any company (foreign or domestic), is a national security risk.

You obviously don't mean "democracy," but some other word. We don't see mass data collection as a problem because most Americans don't care about privacy. The only reason this Tik Tok thing is even registering is because of the treat of China, which Americans do care about.
Maybe. Network effects are strong, though. I wonder how much losing access to the US market sets back TT's financial & competitive positions
I am neophyte in this realm, but I like what I am seeing so far. Since I want to get into robotics for my own fun, I will be looking at it more closely this weekend:D
I don't think that's at odds with what I said. If there's a good decentralized protocol that gets momentum, good for it. But, the interests that build social media apps well in terms of what is successful in the marketplace, usually chose not to do that because it isn't in their interest to do so. They spend a lot of money on marketing, driving engagement, etc, and most don't want to share it.

Email is a bit of an outlier because it gained critical mass before the web was predominantly commercialized.
Kinda disappointed by cloudflare - it feels they have quite basic logic only. Why would anomaly detection not capture these large payloads?

There was a zip-bomb like attack a year ago where you could send one gigabyte of the letter "A" compressed into very small filesize with brotli via cloudflare to backend servers, basically something like the old HTTP Transfer-Encoding (which has been discontinued).

Attacker --1kb--> Cloudflare --1GB--> backend server

Obviously the servers who received the extracted HTTP request from the cloudflare web proxies were getting killed but cloudflare didn't even accept it as a valid security problem.

AFAIK there was no magic AI security monitoring anomaly detection thing which blocked anything. Sometimes I'd love to see the old web application firewall warnings for single and double quotes just to see if the thing is still there. But maybe it's misconfiguration on side of cloudflare user because I can remember they at least had a WAF product in the past.
Whoosh.

That was the entire point of the comment, to point out the slippery slope in the HDMI/cable card argument in the first place.
To add, they actually prevent you from eating some bad foods too. At least in the compound versions that i know people on.

If they eat a lot of foods (some even good), their gastro issues are significant. So not only has it had substantial mental shifts around what they desire, but a bunch of foods are just not edible even if they wanted them anyway.
Yup. The people i know on this didn't even get it for the weight, but the behavior changes. This isn't letting them eat the same stuff and lose weight, this is changing what they want to eat.

They went from ADHD driven boredom eaters to not even thinking about food.
So the story goes (I'm probably just regurgitating some marketing)...

The founder has a software background, and built out a software service to track energy usage and deliver data-driven pricing plans. But when he tried to sell it to the energy companies, it didn't find much demand for the software. So they setup their own energy supplier to prove how good it was. They now sell their software in mulitple countries.

As a customer, not only can I get an API key and retrive usage data. But I can also use an API to see what other pricing plans are available. And in the mobile app I get to the minute usage reporting.
Very fun. Is this primarily a passion project or are you hoping to get corporate sponsorship & adoption?

Can you provide some insight as to why this would be preferred over an orchestration server? In this context - Would a 'mothership'/Wheel-and-spoke drone responsible for controlling the rest of the hive be considered an orchestration server?

This isn't my area of expertise but I think "Hive mind drones" tickles every engineer.
We have that. Welcome to the World Wide Web.

We all walked into the walled gardens and went "ooh, looks mighty nice in here!"
I might suggest a third option, which I pursued. Found a job at a public university system in my pre software development role. Received tuition remission and worked full-time while also going to school part time (online) -- my job would cover six credits a semester. And since I already had a bachelors, I was able to get a bachelors in computer science with 42 or 45 credits, and graduate in about 2.5 years (including summer courses).
It's hard to take it seriously when every single paper on the subject is from one guy
Get rid of the federal guarantee for homes that are deemed too risky for private insurance. Stop privatizing gains with publicly backed safety nets and people will engage in less risky behavior. But get ready to be labelled as heartless if you back or even suggest such.
Until trump lets it sink, tgis is mwaninvless.

Cash bribes are how laws are define now. Is america avaluable audiemce?
True enough but I don't think that will be fast either. The main reason to update would be features and they can keep the old version of any APIs up to support US customers. Other than that the only reason they would have to update is any breaking changes in Android/iOS which are a lot rarer these days afaik since they're both so mature as OSs.
> Meanwhile, for the sadist — and especially the famous one, as Gaiman has discovered — it leaves your good reputation a hostage to fortune, hoping that those with whom you had degrading sex in the past never properly get to know their own minds.

Of course - how could anyone that "properly knows their own mind" ever like something the author so disapproves of? You may think you want it, you may have longed for it for years, you may even have sought it out yourself, without the persuasion of a sadist or dominant (something the author carefully omits, along with any mention of safe-words, the most basic of basics in BDSM, despite bringing up the possibility of changing one's mind mid-act - the exact scenario safe-words address), but actually, those are all false desires.. planted in your mind by the devil to tempt you, I guess.
It's always very interesting to see people pull out threads with low like counts (like 12k) and claim that central idea of the post is widely held.

We're talking about platforms with tens of millions of users; wide appeal is at least a quarter million likes, with mass appeal being at least a million. A local-scale influencer can gather 10-30k likes very easily on such a massive platform.
160 likes for this?
That was physically painful to read.

Brilliant.
IIRC it started with "4-pooling" which is when, as Zerg, you build a spawning pool while only having 4 workers (it's been years, forget what they're called), rebuild your 4th worker and then start making zerglings to achieve a super-early attack (a "rush").

Then your opponent calls you all sorts of vile names and questions your sexuality, etc.
This is great and all, but this would better be served as a desktop app with lower overhead.
>Meta can't make a psyop as dangerous

We should treat social media as the addictive, mind altering drug it is, and stop acting like a free market saturation of them is a good thing.

China having their more potent mind control app pointed at the brains of hundreds of millions of people is not something to celebrate.
Apollo 6 (2nd Satun V launch) was "less than nominal" and warranted a congressional hearing. It did succeed, but luck played a part. George Mueller declared later that Apollo 6 was a failure for NASA.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080120112115/http://www.hq.nas...

https://web.archive.org/web/20080227133401/http://www.hq.nas...
There's the well-known case of Spain in 1985, that would impose a tariff on computers with 64 KB RAM or less. At that time, Amstrad launched the CPC 464 with 64KB worldwide, but for Spain launched the special model CPC 472, wich had a daughter board with an additional 8Kb chip not connected to the main RAM and thus unusable, but enough for circumventing the tariff. That tariff was short-lived.
I didn't actually realize that AWS supported this, I thought Azure was the only one offering it (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-confidential-co...)

Are you speaking of this functionality? https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/confidential-computing-on-... (and am I just failing to find the relevant AWS docs?)
Don't be too jealous. Your industry won't win with German anyway, but at least German industry won't lose to China like the rest of the world, so as long as you're in the EU, you're still ahead :).
Slim from a percentage of total premiums but substantial when looking at the absolute dollar amount of profits. It's all relative to the size of the pie.
Cool! I’m on the waitlist, look forward to testing it out!
People would just switch to a different service.
Oh yeah, you're definitely not getting rich on the salary. Low 6 figures isn't too bad in a small town though. Also, I really like vacation.
OpenAI's Realtime API Agents Demo
The author mentions just downloading the audio track. That's a lot less data than downloading any video at all. ;)
Oops, you're right...

In this case the environmental significance of producing ammonia is much less impressive...
I mean, it was a ban when China did it to Facebook, no?
s/Silicon Valley/grifters/

(from someone outside the social media/cryptocurrency/metaverse/AI/ hoopla)
That tariff difference between "video" and "stills" cameras having a 30 minute cutoff is funny. If you think about the vast majority of the time when shooting moving video with a handheld or tripod mounted camera it does not involve 30+ minute long continuous takes. You could have a professional movie camera with that restriction and it wouldn't be a problem in the vast majority of cases.

So the restriction ends up being between things like security cameras, vtc cameras, and traffic cameras vs all other times of cameras. The relatively shitty camera in a doorbell or on your dashboard end up being more expensive to import than the fancy DSLR just because it is used in a different application.
So you agree that when companies want to truly give a customized experience to their customers, they would get on a call with them? I guess we are on the same page then.
After experiencing some disillusionment, I was able to re-kindle my love for software by switching to information security with no prior background.

I've posted this here before, but:

I did the OSCP, a 3-month course + exam that teaches an overview/the basics of infosec and more specifically pentesting

It’s a fairly well-regarded certification (and a tough 24-hr exam), and got me interviews for Senior Security Consultant roles at firms like NCC Group with no prior security background

I think a typical progression is something like Security Consultant/Pentesting at a consultancy and then transitioning to Security Engineer/Security Researcher at a more specialized firm

I was actually able to bypass this and somehow land my dream job (binary/IoT reverse engineer) immediately after seeing them post on the r/reverseengineering subreddit and just going for it (they didn't care about the OSCP cert, but the things I learned and tools I used/was able to put on my resume helped a lot I think)

Besides the OSCP, what helped me land the role was playing microcorruption CTF

That job was one of the best I've ever had and made a lot of lifelong friends from it
Gall's Law: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked"

The most important concept introduced in this article is that a JWT is not a simple system. The author then describes his own research which concludes that starting with a JWT will not result in a complex system that works.

Q.E.D. I enjoyed reading this.
> the average person wouldn't understand that Entertainment News was different than News

I think the 'average' person thinks of 'Entertainment News' as celebrity gossip, e.g., E! News[0] etc. Telling them the entertainment news/opinion/commentary they watch is not actually 'News' but is entertainment "news" doesn't compute

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E!_News
The options were illustrative but the numbers are plausible, it doesn't matter whether you use wool and mutton or bits and bytes as illustrations. That is what this is about, not the last few percent but the grand scale of the margin. That Apple takes to the IT-version of Hollywood Accounting [1] may be expected but does not need to be defended.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
They make up lies that they tell them in the SCIF.

It's just theater.
Frankly, it's possible; I don't remember at this point. At the time, I just decided to go for a separate chip since I hadn't heard of fTPM being available at the time. The chip in question's a 3900X and it's still running smoothly.
Did you bother to look up literally any part of your comment?

The Canon G5 X II has USB 3.1 over a USB-C port. All of what you said does not in any way shape or form apply to the topic at hand.
Ah, so it makes you feel like that because of the phone use and antisocial tendencies of others. That makes sense.

I'm truly worried for us.
The most depressing realization in all of this is that the vast treasure trove of data that we used to have in the cloud thinking it was not scannable even for criminal activity has now become a vector where we shall have thought police coming down upon us for simple ideas of dissent.
You're missing the point. The difficulty is not in the ray tracing, etc. It is in understanding the domain of the software and what needs to be done to make it useful.

I completely agree that whatever simulation they have can be easily done better with modern GPUs.
> One of the key components of terrorism is random or at least very loose targeting and some degree of disregard for collateral damage.

I don't see how loose targetting is required. Or was the Oklahoma City Bombing not terrorism because it targetted a specific building?

The FBI definition of domestic terrorism is only one of many, but they say:

> Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.

In my mind, the key is intent to further ideological goals. Killing a rival gang member to increase your standings in the gang leader boards isn't terrorism because there's no ideology. Killing a gang member to try to wipe out gangs could be, because it's an ideological battle. It wouldn't matter if you specifically targetted the leader of a gang, or the first gang member you saw, or someone you thought was a gang member without any investigation; it's the intent to further your ideology with violent crime.
The whole thing with social media is network effects though. The added friction of a VPN, though small, is just so much larger than "click download, open app"
Making AI illustrations that don't look AI-generated
8 years of posting this
I'd be interested in a source for that.
Forget about networking, divining your calling, identifying your superpowers, marketing your past experience and all that...

Read Cal Newport's So Good They Can't Ignore You ( nice video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-wvWdM6jY ).

Choose something that is likely to work out for you and put a lot more effort than anyone else does for long enough to make it happen.
clearly talking his book. whatever.
It's absolutely a risk because these databases are unregulated honey pots. They're a total liability
Now that you mention it, it's striking how many other networks do not mention raccoon at all.
If TikTok is just in the business of earning money they would've sold.