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envp··on The Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies
Am I missing something… why does this sound like eugenics with extra steps?
envp··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
So it’s okay because he’s rich?
envp··on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
It already underwent some recent shrink flation. I used to be able buy 12oz bags but they’re 10oz now, consumers are getting shafted regardless :D
envp··on Hackers leak cop manuals for departments after breaching major provider
The website is absolutely awful to use on mobile, archived here for sanity: https://archive.is/qdSIr
envp··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)
fyi, the resume link is dead/inaccessible
envp··on Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
Beyond a points its curiosity and pushing existing computational techniques to their limits. Sometimes it leads to new discoveries in computational techniques or in rarer cases new theoretical work.

Long story short, it’s fun to find out new things about weird numbers :)

envp··on 'Entire ecosystem' of fossils 8.7M years old found under Los Angeles high school
Another joins the ranks of Chai Tea, Naan Bread, and Lake Michigan :D
envp··on AI Is Ruining the Internet
The problem is also that the rate of, and ease of production of terrible content far outpaces good content. So it does matter that there’s loads of junk because finding something worthwhile gets hard very quickly.
envp··on ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses
There’s already regulation affecting SDLC practices in the financial industry (SSDF in the US, DORA in the EU).

Definitely not a stretch for other (“important”) areas to start receiving such attention in the future.

envp··on Guess my RGB
So far I’ve gotten to the end for a few colors. Quite fun, took my about 20-30 guesses!
envp··on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users
Sure the customers decided, but what about their relatives? If any of my relatives uploaded their genetic info to this, it by extension has a huge part of my genetic info too, and my consent was decided without my knowlegde...

What I'm trying to say is: I don't think comparing it to equifax is reasonable in that regard.

envp··on Video Ads Are Coming to All Your Uber Apps
I typically associate in-app video ads with C-tier mobile games that are a few steps removed from a click farm. None of those has a home on my device.

I’m glad and feel lucky to live in a city with good public transportation, guess I can go back to the old call restaurant and pickup order method in peace now.

It also seems that they are planning on adding tablets to the cars to play ads? We’ve come full circle to taxis…

envp··on Big Pharma Greed’s Knows No Bounds
What good is a treatment if you can’t access it? If you’re poor enough even food poisoning is “untreatable”.
envp··on IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source
Best summarized by this quote from a coworker: “AIX is what you’d get if aliens implemented a UNIX.”

Utilities exist, but they tend to be different.

There’s also oddities like the compiler (xlC) emitting code that is able to dereference null pointers, with the zero page. It’s a valid but odd choice of undefined behavior. [1]

[1]: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/OJwY1pWFYhE

envp··on Endless Horse
That’s an average dachshund
envp··on Tensorbook
Certainly, but without knowing the workload that was used for the benchmark it’s a meaningless marketing number.
envp··on Tensorbook
> up to 4x

Thats not a minimum performance guarantee. They’re talking about an upper bound. It’s possible that the 4x is some niche benchmark.

envp··on Sepsis can lead to cell death
Perhaps the title could be better worded as:

“New insights into cell death brought on by Sepsis”

envp··on I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig
I’d bet that’s unlikely. A lot of if Rail’s power comes from the meta progamming (convention over configuration, was it?) which would be needlessly hard in extension land.

Extensions shine brightest on CPU bound workloads by doing away with a lot of the intermediate Object allocs/frees. The gains tend to not be worth the investment in IO bound settings.

This doesn’t mean Rails won’t benefit from extensions.

envp··on Python type hints are Turing complete
Python's type hints are undecidable. You cannot know, without evaluating the type-level program if it will halt.

The only way around this would be to set a recursion depth, which changes the semantics.

envp··on Lost USB with 460k city residents’ personal data found
I lost some clothes, sneakers in a duffel bag on my first ride with LIRR from NY Penn. Nothing valuable, but certainly essential. Was told off by the on-duty person to either show them a picture of the bag & items or get new ones lol.
envp··on YouTube CEO Defends Hiding Dislike Count, Says It Reduced Harassment
> Some of you mention dislikes help you decide what to watch,” said YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. “But dislikes were never shown to people on the homepage, search results, up next screen, where users were most likely to choose a video

Well I click the video and back out as soon as I see dislikes approachung likes in quantity.

Was that really so hard to come up with for said CEO?

envp··on Ant mill
Metastability and local maximums are the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability

envp··on $2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash
Bits tend to get squashed moving through bends right? Centrifugal force and all that

/S

envp··on Log4j 2.16: Certain strings can cause infinite recursion
But what if one of the arguments is a function call? Then it isn't easy to prove there are no side effects
envp··on What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too (2020)
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24449927

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401748

envp··on Square is now called Block
What's the next iteration, hypercube?
envp··on Launching Fig
I’ve had great success with using fish-shell [0] as an introductory material. It is really beginner friendly, has a sane scripting language.

[0]: https://fishshell.com/

envp··on The Zen of Weight Lifting
I think you're overthinking. I had the same fear when I first started going to the gym.

So far my experience has been really positive, I find it hard to put myself in such situations as long as:

1. Always start with low weight and try to check if you're "feeling" the right part of your body, sort of like a form + mind-muscle connection check

2. If you plan exceed a previous maximum, try to

2.1. Do that with someone around you, or

2.2. Do it in really small increments

envp··on Golang: Code of Conduct Updates
Ah! I'm glad my density was useful for once.

Regardless, lesson learned.

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