skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not remotely true. We have strong studies out to 10 years at this point. Given the overwhelmingly positive results at our current state, it would take a huge safety signal occurring at 12-20+ years of usage to provoke a change in recommendation, and this is exceedingly unlikely. Basically all such signals are revealed by 10 years if they exist.
This is what happens when you advertise a shuttle run for "open source" designs, brazenly backdoor everybody's chips with a Management Engine (google "eFabless Caravel") and then, to top it all off, act like you can just show up at CCC and pretend everything is fine:

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-the-design-decisions-behind-the-...

Video from 38c3 talk 2024-Dec-29; question at time 31min:17sec.

This company, and its enablers (formerly) at Google, set back the progress of open source chip design by at least three full years with this bait-and-switch insanity. The people who could see through the ruse wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole; meanwhile it sucked up all the students, momentum, and funding.

Think about what three years of progress is worth in the tech industry.
Hey look, a NATO founding member with a backbone, congratulations!

> After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels

https://bsky.app/profile/osinttechnical.bsky.social/post/3lj...
Putin's opposition in exile shows signs of weakness
I use printf (or log messages, or whatever equivalent). Haven't found a need for more.
The best abstraction is no abstraction.
Yubico will sell you one for $650

https://www.yubico.com/store/
Pseudo-insightful quips anthology?
You started the business discussion, not me. You need to decide if you want to continue it or not.

When your tech is unreliable, it costs you money. The need for remote human assistance during edge cases means you have to staff that. You need really expensive sensors, so more upfront costs and maintenance. You can't run when it's rainy/snowy/etc, so more downtime. Maybe even slower rides and longer wait times so lower utilization. And of course more AI updates, more training, more data cleaning/labeling, more engineers etc etc.
What does "legally binding" do good at all? There are no other laws other than the rule of the strength.

U.S. was strong for a long time. It did whatever it liked.

Now Russia restored some of its strength to the point it can show others that sometimes you have to listen to when a bear warns you (quite calmly and nicely first).
This probably isn't true. What's more likely to be true is that it's hard to be overweight when your dying from cancer or whatever.
> net worth is a bad proxy for consumption and lived experience

Because it's simply not. It's a very good proxy. I understand what you said and only think you are somewhat right if talking about people who are at the very tail of the distribution (yes, when it comes to "consumption and lived experience" it hardly matters if you have 100 millions, 500 or even a billion).

For those in the the 99.X% it's certainly (and obviously backed by all kinds of data) good indicator.

Talking about the "lived" part. Here is another indicator http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/health/. Of course now you'll claim that living for significantly longer does not say much about the "experience" part or some other nonsense.

> You just can't read.

Or have a low tolerance of ideologically driven demagoguery.

>doesn't like that it makes his argument significantly less potent

I'm still waiting for you to elaborate on that besides just claiming it as fact or "proving" that it doesn't apply if you're in the 0.1% (which is hardly relevant).
I’ve been wondering lately how much of this is being good at troubleshooting, and how much of it is being good at picking up a problem someone else gave you, poking at it, and then putting it down again.

Not everyone is cut out to do that. Asking them to look at a puzzle derails their entire day, almost every time instead of just when it’s hard. So even when it’s their puzzle they resist picking it up because it’s a guaranteed bad day.
An actual group driving efficiency and digitisation of government services? Why would Elon eliminate such a thing?
A sitter isn't going to save you from a lifetime of HPPD or visual snow.
Had this on another comment, but decided to respond here more in the root:

If Russia invades a NATO country, then you guys can worry about WW3. Until then, leave it be. We could have avoided a million deaths by now if we weren't adamant to "stick it to Russia". Either Ukraine is a part of NATO, or not.

If the world let it be back in 2022, Russia would have finished invading Ukraine in a week, and then would have been stuck dealing with incredible amounts of terrorism and guerilla warfare coming from a very large Ukrainian population. What exactly would that outcome have helped them in this supposedly-dangerous "invasion of Europe"? More balls and courage to invade another country?

Same outcome if they win tomorrow after 3 bloody years of war. You think they want another European country? What for? You think Putin can continue to convince his populace to keep subsidizing more wars at this point?
They might be branded that way, but that's not what they are. They have dramatic effects on the metabolic pathway and insulin response that need to be carefully considered if you're not actually diabetic.

I recommend that you listen to the most recent Peter Attia podcast, which is a 2+ hour interview with Ralph DeFronzo (diabetes expert) where he goes deep into the effects of GLP-1 agonists on insulin response and other metabolic pathways. I came away with the impression that we're being too casual with how these drugs are being used -- if you're overweight these impacts are probably all for the good, but if you're not, it's more questionable.

https://peterattiamd.com/ralphdefronzo/
I had not heard of any real level of anger toward the USA from the average Canadian (the exception being as a response to the now-delayed 25% tariffs). Same applies here. Your average Swede is not angry at the USA for what it’s doing right now. The closest sentiment that’s broken through the mainstream is maybe “unease.”

I wonder if the “have your cake and eat it too” dissonant thinking you’re hitting on is actually maybe easier found in the USA, and sort of on the other side of the spectrum. Plenty of folks voted explicitly for Trump because of his inward-focused, isolationist agenda. What they don’t realize is the extent to which the prosperity that they’ve seen up this point was dependent upon the rules-based order that their chosen leader is actively dismantling.
>> I was taught that if you worked hard and kept your head down, you could have a comfortable life

I didn't even work that hard and I have a comfortable life. I learned to code, and that was it.

Your mileage may vary.

If you move to one of the most expensive cities in the world, one of the things you can do is complain that it is really expensive to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

You can do that. I don't recommend it, but it is one of the things that you can do.

The number of YIMBYs who own property is approximately zero. "Yes, I would prefer that you make my life worse", said no property owner ever.

I am a bad person. I want my life to be better, not worse.
Genz just swapped traditional vices for social media...which also deals with impulse control.
I just noticed this myself, iOS Mail asked me to reauthenticate my corporate email so I went through the steps and after entering the TOTP code it said ‘Too many requests’. I tried again and the same thing happened.
What makes you think I am offended?

You came out pretty strong, stating that something was "literally part of the charter", and thats just wrong. And sometimes I think it is worth pointing out glaring errors.

Instead of "2%" beeing in the charter, it was a goal to have it done by 2024, and most countries managed. Which is very different from even the most charitable interpretation of your post.
Ducted fans are by nature less efficient than propellers. This is one reason that the next big leap in engine efficiency may come from what are essentially unducted fans.
There are a lot of people who romanticize America's time as an industrial nation, where most Americans were factory workers, miners, laborers, etc. They're being promised a return to those times, couched of course in the lie that those jobs will pay well, and the false assumption that workers will receive good treatment.
Hmm I don’t think we know that from the post. The list of unrelated objects could be immutable or mutable and never modified. An isEmpty check is 100% safe to be called concurrently in both those situations
This -- like a LOT OF THINGS IN THIS SPACE -- is one of those things where you just *have to experiment* to find out. Do not strongly take advice from anyone or anything, it's probably a lot like e.g. 'favorite text editor' wars.
Yup.

The current retail cost in Canada is ~$160 USD per syringe for Ozempic.
>any system that relies on information that was typed into a REPL three-months ago and is now only stored in the binary state of that REPL and nowhere else is totally insane as a production product.

Nobody does that.
Or even used at all. Feels like a lot of telemetry is getting collected simply because it can. "What if there is value we could unlock?!" Never mind that all decisions will be made on a manager's gut instinct.
"A program is like a poem. You cannot write a poem without writing it." — Dijkstra
Unrelated, but me and a bunch of very young friends from scratch.mit.edu
tried to make a website builder called dragondrop: https://github.com/dragon-drop-scratch
We were really young I think, aged maybe 11-14, no idea what we were doing
Ha, people didn't like that "of course," did they?
>> That late night trip to Mcs will have you feeling like crap the next day

> I've never had this reaction to fast food before.

I do. Because of it, I eat fastfood when I'm willing to pay that price, ~5x/decade.

> I'd like to see a study comparing people who ate mcs who thought of it like slop vs those who saw it as a treat. I'm curious how much of this is psychosomatic.

The notion that our psychology could be holding us back from fastfood completeness is one that never occurred to me. I like how novel it is.
Why would they prefer internal forums for something not directly related to their work such as AI or philosophy say?
That's not a good investment, that's pure evil.
No, it's they that are making this point. I merely point out that their claims of how much money this is going to generate are deliberately and wildly overstated.
one should operate under the assumption that all phone conversations are being recorded and will be stored eternally. with today's technology they are automatically converted to text, and some palantir-rebranded chatGPT model ranks it in different categories such as as counter-intelligence, organized crime, or terrorism.

This is state of the art and certainly done on a national scale by someone (with or without approval of your own government).
Not why you build software man, why are you taking 3 jobs and foregoing receiving 3 salaries.
Practical protobuf – from basic to best practices
Right, any CA you add yourself that isn’t part of what Mozilla ships isn’t considered a publicly trusted CA.
Of course it is outpacing Tesla. Most of the world wouldn't be seen dead in one!
> That map reflects who wants to continue the war and who doesn't

No, it does not. It's a map of countries which actively deny that Russia is to blame for their invasion of Ukraine. Sitting out the vote was an option.

Ideally, I see this war ending by Russia facing internal economic collapse. There were many indications showing that this was a real possibility. That seems much less likely now that they have a partner in Washington.
I would add to that that it wasn't even a regular EC victory the first time for W Bush, but the conservative supreme court gave him the win [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
It's an interesting idea, but ultimately being sensationalized. The article starts off by making a compelling case that the widespread adoption of these impulse-control drugs will disrupt the economy and lead to many changes in business models built around impulse buys. The issue is that these drugs only entered the public consciousness within the last two years, and many of the business model changes that the author implies are attributable to the drugs have been going on for a lot longer than that. His treatment of retail is an obvious one (he's ignoring the impact of changing consumer practices that came about due to online shopping). The replacement of anchor stores with medical centers is another one - I can remember reading about this on Hacker News in 2017.

I suspect his projections on the impacts these drugs will have on crime rates and alcohol consumption are probably also overblown. I could be wrong, but I would think that the sorts of people who seek out prescription drugs for impulse control aren't likely to overlap with people who drive drunk in the first place.

The anecdote about the lost muffin revenue was still quite interesting.
Agreed. I didn't really have the nightmare of "what if the government is impersonating me with hundreds or thousands of hours of phone conversation" until this thread, though.
> Obviously, it doesn't make any sense to say that a city wants something that its people do not want.

Is it really so obvious? So many policies are implemented by government that people as a majority do not want like wars and tax cuts for the wealthy or not implemented by government that people as a majority do want like healthcare or rational immigration policy. The idea that the representatives of the people are acting in the people’s interest is quite naïve to be honest.
They also select reliable customers by their rates. People who will bring in their car on time, and pay the bill on time, and not feign outrage when you hand them the bill, and not try to nickel and dime you by providing their own parts or or asking you to do work based on their own diagnosis of the problem.
For those wanting to archive all the repos:

$ gh auth login

$ gh repo list 18f --limit 4000 | while read -r repo _; do

gh repo clone "$repo" "$repo"

done
I would start by dumping the enviornment variables and directory structure.
What tools do you use to perform such tasks?
I believe you, but what do you think it is in the food that causes such severe reactions for you but doesn't affect me at all? Humans lived through periods of extreme starvation and other forms of malnutrition—our genetics are extremely clear on this, as is our tendancy to cannibalize our muscles when they're underused. It seems absurd to me a slightly different selection of nutrients could cause acute distress. (Hence my recourse to psychology—which would map well with the shift towards the moralization of nutrition these past few decades.)
I hired a contractor who thought she had bombed the interview because she didn’t solve the problem I gave her immediately and struggled with it. But when she got stuck it was because she was not seeing that the code she wrote didn’t match the code she described planning to write.

But she didn’t panic, she cracked open the debugger and went section by section through the code until she finally spotted her typo. Which is exactly the sort of person who won’t crumble every time something doesn’t work exactly the way the documentation says it does. We hired six people, and only renewed two, of which she was one. So as far as I’m concerned, I succeeded in my interview.
But the democrat appointed heads had all the power?
You Need to Blog More (Even If Nobody Reads It)
> with one that has none

I can't understand this type of thinking. Of course it has downsides. You are being extremely disingenuous to say this. Let alone not acknowledging that different people experience different side effects. Plus you're completely ignoring the /reasons/ why people drink in the first place and abandoning any effort to impact those. Do you work for the company producing this drug or are you genuinely this gullible?

> your attitude is evil and you are a proponent of evil.

So you label things you don't understand as evil? What is this meant to accomplish?

If you really believe what you say then why aren't you pressing for the drug to be free? For free consultations to be given out? If it's truly this magical then it's very irresponsible to let a for profit company own it, sell it, and market it. Isn't it? Wouldn't that actually be evil? To champion this cause merely to make money for a patent holder?

You diminish these terms in your careless use of them.
I see your point. But consider that drug generations are generally not defined by the manufacturer, but by the broad community of researchers and clinicians finding step-changes in their effectiveness/side-effect tradeoffs.

So by definition, if they ever consider a "new generation" of GLP1-agonists, they will be better by definition.
I believe you're correct. Apologies for the confusion.
Lots of people are hyperventilating about DirectFile, but:

1. IRS itself created DirectFile. 18F merely provided some unquantifiable "support"

2. DirectFile is not shut down.
It's not all "very likely" the next president of France would be far right.

The 2024 French legislative (not Presidential) snap election was Macron calling the electorate's bluff that even though they disliked low growth, carbon taxes, inflation, unemployment, immigration, they still wouldn't vote for a FN govt (in the second round; view the first round as a protest vote where some voters for FN are tactically expressing discontent with the govt).

The 2027 French presidential election is a long way away yet and Polymarket doesn't even have a prediction market open for it yet, but Oddschecker puts Le Pen as frontrunner but not "very likely"; and that's before Bayrou emerges as Macron's successor [0]. Macron stands to gain a lot of influence in Europe if he can forge a good relationship with Germany's Merz.

Anyway, obviously a European nuclear deterrent would have to firewall against any of the large member-states or their leaders going rogue. Rutte and NATO haven't commented publicly yet on Trump's recent stance. See what happens at the next G7 summit in Canada, 6/2025. And of course the Ukraine settlement and who provides security guarantees for it.

[0]: https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/european-politics/frenc...
I thought adding a shroud to propellers increased efficiency? That's why we use turbofan engines instead of turboprops.
I would argue logging options to be more of an exception than the rule. Compare the actual language features of Go to something like Rust or Javascript and you'll see what I mean. As a new developer to the language (especially for juniors), you can learn all the features of Go much faster. It's made to be picked up quickly and for everyone's code to look the same, rather than expressing a personal style.
Every LLM hallucination comes from some patterns in the training data, combined with lack of awareness that the result isn’t factual. In the present case, the hallucination comes from the unawareness that the pattern was a proposed syntax in the training data and not an actual syntax.
> Losing too much weight too quickly, with or without the help of a drug, can be very unhealthy.

Is there evidence to back this up? It sounds reasonable, especially without a limit on "too quickly" but (anecdata incoming) I'm curious because:

- When I first tried a low-carb diet (for non-weight reasons) I lost about thirty pounds in under three months without really trying, and hit something like 12% bodyfat
- When I started intermittent fasting (mostly unrelated to weight) I again lost about thirty pounds, this time in a little over three months, and probably ended up around 15% bodyfat
- Since then I found that neither low-carb nor intermittent fasting had a significant effect on my weight, so:
- When my doctor suggested I lose some weight I pretty forcibly calorie restricted, and lost about thirty pounds over four months (only down to about 20-something % that time)
- And just recently, for cholesterol, I've done it again and lost 25 pounds so far in something under three months.

...and as far as I know I haven't suffered any ill effects. I have a concept 2 rowing machine, and I just rowed my slowest 10K ever :-/ but I did row a 10K, and I am in significant calorie deficit, and I probably have lost a fair bit of muscle along with fat, and I have been away from the rower for several months, so all up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

All of which to ask, what evidence do you have, and what's "too quickly"?
> even seemingly simple systems are infinitely complex. (As Carl Sagan put it: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”)

Wikiquote cites the book “Cosmos” page 218 as the source of this cool quote. https://lccn.loc.gov/80005286
Yes, I am confused where people get that idea. 30 years ago in irc maybe?

(not dissing on irc: i was one of these people 30 years ago)
Counter-anecdote.

I have not lost my appreciation for good food, I just eat less of it. I used to be unable to leave any food on my plate regardless of how good or bad it was, now I’m perfectly happy to leave something uneaten if it isn’t to my taste.
I mean, according to many of the same people about a decade ago, the world economy should be running on bitcoin by now. And we should all be living in the ‘metaverse’. Like, it’s largely the same people who fall for every fad falling for this.
> Nothing says nerds can't keep a Chromium installed as an emergency backup,

I do, now

My boss insists on Google Meet, and it will not access audio on Firefox

Every single other website does not have this problem, dark patterns indeed
Ada

The open source tooling has significantly improved since I started using it in the last five years.
> North Korea is a China agent in this context.

This simply isn’t true.

> China is pretty much supplying all the goods that went away due to western sanctions

This is not correct. Some countries are being used to bypass sanctions, including China, but this isn’t happening with government support and the extra costs of evading sanctions are putting inflationary pressure on goods in Russia.

> buying all the exports that the west is trying to sanction.

Barring oil and gas, there’s nothing Russia has that China wants. And even then, they don’t have the infrastructure to buy the volumes to replace European purchases, thus the black hole in the Russian budget.
I think this, along with ACTUAL therapy as practice, might be the most "your mileage may vary" thing ever.

Ultimately (I'd say unlike perhaps other professions that try to fix things about you) -- therapy is 100% coaching. Which is to say, the therapist can't DO any of the meaningful work, they can only do their best to try to present you with ideas that spark you into following them.
Because being a whataboutism makes it not relevant.

Implictly making solving the Russia/Ukraine situation (which, again, is basically as simple as Russians just going home) require peace in the Middle East first seems like you just want to delay it for the next just about 5000 years?
Spare me and others the FUD. I tried salvia after years of reading about people's experiences with it.
No, the worst thing for European security would be to not have enough military strength to stop Putin if he decides he wants Poland (as prominent Russians have said they should take, after Ukraine). And then East Germany, and Chechia, and Slovakia, and Hungary. And then who knows if he would decide he is done?

Not being able to defend yourself is strictly worse for security than being able to defend yourself. I don't know how you can think otherwise.