skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US government staff wildly oblivious to basic computer, info security safeguards
Yeah, it's much better when you have to change something, and you miss an important step in the guts of the code somewhere, and the compiler DOESN'T warn you, and you continue merrily on your way, unaware that six months from now when that code path executes in the wild, it'll take your company offline for six hours while someone (probably you) sweats their box off trying to figure out what the hell just happened.
Biomass is a very small percentage of US electric generation.
PiHole for one and Media player for the other.

Will be buying the new one to up my media player then I'll have a spare :-D
Finite scope of insurance: not a problem.

Deceptive marketing suggesting that the scope of an insurance policy is larger than it actually is: big problem.
That's a pretty weak argument in and of itself. Many crimes are mistakes.
I do something similar but using the Twilio API I send texts to the Pi that do various things including making a ringing sound.
Most advice we give is advice we want to give ourselves.
If you keep growing, cutting down, burning and regrowing trees the co2 load in the atmosphere will look like a sine wave (ish). The long-term trend will be flat, not upwards.

We can't "regrow" coal in the same way (across reasonable time scales). (Although burning coal, and planting a corresponding amount of trees and never cutting them down is also an option)
I do live I the Bay Area and I know more people 21-25 who smoke cigarettes than vape. See... anecdotal evidence is easy to find a counterpoint to.
Most people don't know what they're talking about, they're easily swayed by crowd dynamics, you should look into it dang and see for yourself. Bitcoin (sv) is Bitcoin. That's distinct from an assertion that it is superior to what currently trades under the BTC ticker. But it's probably that too.

There's a really high noise to signal ratio right now, I'd love to see how this comment ages over time.
They’re really not very competitive. In my experience there were discounts offered to people with mild myopia to get them in. People who need glasses to drive or see a blackboard pay more. People with large pupils pay much more. I think it’s likely the prices are suggested and discounted by the machine manufacturers who own patents.
Poop city has bigger problems than E-cigs. When will these politicians get their priorities straight?
> You could even license the UI library from Borland for use in your own programs. And Turbo Pascal had the exact same look.

Turbo Vision?
Okay, let me be more specific. I've built complex React apps full-stack down to Postgres and maintained them over ever-evolving/increasing product requirements. To schedule. With a tiny team, part-time dedicated. And little maintenance/defects/outages in between feature pushes.

The success here lied in using various tools, applied pragmatically at each step according to the given context. Probably the most important tool is defensive coding and building up a system from decoupled, almost visibly-correct components. Then some nice technical tools thrown in: dynamic development with hot loading, some modest storybooking of components, a repl, good backend libraries, conscious and measured unit testing, strong build/deploy/release tools.

The ability to turn on a dime and incrementally refactor things was paramount to the success and efficiency of this development.

Then someone says we need to use strong static typing. All the way. No judicious application of this tool, we'll use it everywhere. We'll make everything cohere to the type system. This is no pragmatic choice. This is religion. You know its religion because its an ideology that pervades the whole system. There is no judicious application. The extreme tax of contending with types as your system evolves is high. I've only ever seen strong typing enthusiasts deny this truth. Will one enthusiast be honest here? You can literally stand over a strong typing enthusiasts shoulder as they spend an hour running all over their system adjusting their types for one minor change in business requirements and they'll still say, "No, no, types don't cost anything..."
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So in a very real sense, record-keeping is being made illegal. You could write your own transcript of a video, but that won't convince anyone if it comes to trying to spread any kind of message, as transcripts are trivial to forge.
I have to admit, Australia looks particularly weird from afar. I mean, you guys are baking under intense light for huge parts of the year and yet someone thought "I know, let's burn some coal". I mean, at least here in Canada people have a sort of emotional attachment to burning things for heat.

Anyway, I just find it amusing.
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So I recently switched to FF from Chrome (at home and work). Whilst at work I often create email drafts that have links to articles I may wish to read later.

I have noticed recently the links in my drafts are no longer pre-formatted.

So I tried a few times copy/pasting URLs from Chromium into Gmail, and then pasting the same URLs into FF and subsequently copying/pasting into Gmail again (and vice versa).

Each time links from FF are not formatted, whilst ones from Chromium are.
Chandler is as related to the person responsible for putting musl in Fuchsia as are any two randomly selected software developers from anywhere in the industry. Having to disqualify someone from moderating a mailing list based on the union of all the conflicts of interest of tens of thousands of unrelated people is very silly.
Airbnb Germany did this once in a mail out to all hosts. We started a business (since closed) off the back of it.
At that point, you should just buy a real CSA share, instead of Imperfect Produce, which is sort of trying to be a fake CSA.

https://www.localharvest.org/csa/
"Liberals" are new Puritans. Same insistence on having the heavy hand of the State to force people to be virtuous (or else).
Those stubs have to correctly handle POSIX thread cancellation, which is "exciting" in the worst possible way.

Some of them also have to translate between the userspace version of particular argument types and the kernel version, which don't always line up.
> mojitos or Moscow mules

When kids start demanding moscow mules, I'll give them a free copper cup.
The types tell me that that's not the function in question. Type variables in Haskell mean the caller of the function gets to pick the types. That means the implementation doesn't get to - and the compiler makes sure of it.

You're pattern matching on a number and returning a string. The function might be handed a function and expected to return a file handle for all you know from inside the function.
I had at least twenty ticks as a kid, all on my scalp. I used to spend a lot of time in the woods.

This was before Lyme had spread, though. I still remember sitting in class feeling my hair and feeling the back of a tick.

So .. I think they must be on trees and bushes, I’ve never had one elsewhere.
Because, at best, it is a very dubious and hamhanded way to solve a problem that is ill-defined.

Is the problem advertising, or advertising to minors, of nicotine products? Then ban that.

Is the problem that minors are able to buy vapes even though they shouldn't be able to? Then strengthen enforcement (ah, but that costs money).

Is the problem that some vape products are too easily smuggled into schools and look like USB sticks? Fine, then set a minimum size requirement on vaping devices. Heck, mandate they be colored a bright primary color.

Who cares what Juul or the tobacco industry says? They will say whatever they need to say to sell stuff, we know that. What matters is that vaping is substantially less harmful than tobacco by all accounts.

Personally, I could potentially get behind a total ban on tobacco, as it is very harmful and costly to society, although I'm generally anti-prohibition. But what makes no sense in any possible universe is banning vaping while keeping cigarettes legal.
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It's quite simple. Not smoking at all > vaping > cigarettes.

Massive progress has been made in getting kids not to take up smoking. If you're a smoker, switching to vaping is a good thing. If you're not, it's a bad thing.
In large corporations, people have clearly defined roles and responsibilities. Junior level people are given clearly defined tasks and are expected to carry them out and as they grow more senior, they are expected to mature enough to take on more and more nebulous goals and work out what tasks are necessary to accomplish that goal by themselves.

In a start-up, it's more the case that everybody is expected to do whatever they have to in order to keep the ship from sinking. There is less structure and supervision and employees are given the latitude and responsibility of what would be a rather senior role in a large corporation right from the beginning. That's the culture shock you're experiencing right now and only you can decide whether that's a role that will allow you to flex more of your talents or whether it's too ill-defined a role for you to be successful in.
IME it's not uncommon for successful surgeons to be fairly cold about the human body. Maybe that's not quite the same thing as "not valuing people", but ISTM it's on the same spectrum.
This all boils down to economic realities, available technology, etc.

Yes, the politicians can wring their hands but don't end up actually doing much because they understand that people like to complain about global warming but when asked how much money they are willing to spend to reduce carbon emissions, the dollar amount is usually like 20 bucks per person/per year. Macron discovered how angry people get when you actually force them to pay more and he quickly backtracked. None of the Paris signatories have met their goals, nor are they on track to meet their goals, because of political reality, not despite it.

So the politicians are generally smarter at reading the pulse of the public than the activists on this issue. People care, but only a little bit.

But as technology continues to progress, I have no doubt that long term we will not be using coal anymore. But solar has serious problems, the most intractable being the disposal of the solar cells -- they are quite toxic, and no one has figured out what to do with the decommissioned cells -- and we will have a lot of them if solar accounts for a non-trivial share of global electricity output. As in billions would need to be disposed of each year. So I don't think solar is the answer, given current materials.

Personally, I like nuclear, but I could be wrong. We will move on from coal just as we moved on from wood and whale oil and all the energy sources of the past, but it's going to happen on a timeline determined by technological feasibility and economics, not by politics or political pledges.
> That's strange, I haven't seen any calls for bans for wine, wine coolers, candy flavored liquors, beers made with fruit such as lambics, etc.

When Alcopops gained prominence in Europe, there was a huge outrage and much talk of bans. In the US, the FTC has investigated the link between wine coolers and underage drinking several times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcopop
Felker's comment was that a big corporation might release botched code that contained hacks, but their influence would mean developers would be stuck coding against it.

If that's insulting at all, it's several levels less insulting than the sort of thing I see dang moderating.
That’s not feasible for a few reasons. The size difference between a cutting tool and the chip it produces is much smaller than the difference between a digging machine and rocks/gravel. The relative strength is also an issue, strings of steel or aluminum aren’t going to be sucked into a hole as readily as loose material. Lastly the geometry of a cutting head would be tricky if you need the chip to go towards the center instead of being thrown out. I guess it could work if you were milling something that turns into a fine material, like graphite. (Now THAT was a messy day in the shop)
Google is too big for the left hand to know what the right hand is doing. Various parts of Google use bionic, newlib, musl, and multiple forks of glibc.
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/us-youth-smoking-decl...

> For decades, the percentage of high school and middle school students who smoked cigarettes had been declining. For the past three years, it has flattened, according to new numbers released Monday. There may be several reasons, but a recent boom in vaping is the most likely explanation, said Brian King of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The benefits of not having a monoculture resonate heavily with me. I'm convinced it is in line with antifragility.

Odd that so much of the goals folks make involve building monocultures.
And hydro. I wish we had more nuclear, too.
Brutal. Should do that for those that don't meet a voted-upon (no veto's allowed) deadline for implementing the mitigation(s).
How do you feel about Keurig K-Cups?
Increasing prices has (surprisingly, give it's price inelasticity) worked in decreasing smoking rates.

Here is the evidence of the public health meaures:

https://www.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.n...
If they lead to an unnecessary mastectomy then false positives are pretty bad. Not as bad as dying, obviously, but still a severe blow to a woman's identity and sense of self worth.

It's going to be a hard pill to swallow if you have to tell a woman "sorry, we removed your healthy breast because the computer made a mistake."
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>> Sorry but this is just crazy.

The article was about "virtues of Haskell's strong type system" but you seem to have read it as "Why you should use Haskell and Type driven development in place of your existing C++ or Java Stack."

The author has published a computer science book. He probably doesn't work in a big company, but lots of people work in big companies and still appreciate FP / type theory / computational theory and forays into those realms.

Not to mention... A little bit of stuff like this and a lot of Rust makes more sense.
That’s what they said. The tool path here isn’t the hard part and if you used anything other than a ball end mill you’d waste a ton of time and come out with a worse result.
The biggest issue with cigarettes was the cancer risk. Vaping is much lower risk (if any) for cancer.

So even if people just swap smoking for vaping, a HUGE problem was solved.
If someone who doesn't beat their wife is at-least equally skilled the tie goes to the non wife beater.
" other developed countries are spending significantly less per capita for better outcomes "

What are better outcomes ? How are those measured ?

US is still the leader in healthtech, health quality, and health service timing.

Canadians are literally pouncing on new doctors like freshmen on beer, because existing doctors no longer take patients. The UK NHS has waiting times that are measured in months.

The only thing we struggle with is cost. So again, what are better outcomes ?
I've always kind of pondered why so many things get banned or receive strong, moralizing scrutiny under the auspices of "addiction" while coffee/caffeine remains the uncontested king of addicting commoditized chemical compounds.

Open mind here, but can someone elucidate this to me? It came up once in a rather intense discussion with my father in my teens once I discovered the devil's lettuce (cannabis) and my curiosity has yet to be abated by a convincing enough take on the matter.
This reminds me of the right wing stance on sex education.

Abstinence > safe sex > unsafe sex

Yes, the first is desirable, but let’s be serious, it’s not a reasonable goal for most people.
I don't understand what you're waiting for. You can easily build an event bus using a Kafka topic.
This scares the hell out of me when I hear people say stuff like this, because if you think a type system is going to save you from your outages then that means you're not aware of a whole other more comprehensive, efficient and dynamic set of programming idioms and tools that will actually save you.

Here's how you know what I'm saying is true. Because you can go across the landscape of systems in the real world and see both crappy systems falling over and rock-solid systems humming along happily -- and the differentiation between these two categories is NOT a type system. It's one thing: it's who wrote it and what was their level of experience and what was their value system.
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The jokes on me! What I mean to say is that Moore's law is transistors = 2^(t/2). That is it doubles every two years. But if that slows to 10% every two years, it's still exponential. Transistors = 1.1^(t/2). As long as the BASE is greater than one. I shouldn't have said exponent.
Fair point, but Google is not Apple. Google has a history of railroading standards to suit their needs, to the point where the standard becomes "what Google is doing". See the Chrome project.
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Forgive me for taking this rabbit trail to the limit...I also love candy...and a couple years ago I stop eating it entirely and switched to hot tea.

For $0.10 you can have endless flavors, real health benefits, and as much as you want.

Anyway...cheers. :)
The vast majority of devs can be (some definition) of productive in general languages like C#, Java, Python etc in a day or a few. As in, able to grasp code, spot and fix logic faults.

That is far from accurate for more left-field languages. Should every new hire spend three months meditating and becoming one with the functional gods? Seems a bit silly, almost as silly as trying to hire a programmer that is a fit into the company, and knows the relevant domain AND programming language/ paradigm as dictated by someone long gone.
Microsoft's advancement in accessibility support has found itself new respect from me. I wish they expand their commitment to general computing apart from gaming.
I'm impressed at the creativity and disgusted that they thought this would be okay at the same time.
This will help but until health insurance and healthcare is disconnected from employer provided, and instead consumer focused, the pricing will continue to be shrouded and fixed.

Healthcare and health insurance should almost be separate but should not be tied to a workplace. Disconnecting health insurance from work benefits in favor of payment will help the private market and public market pricing, whichever or a combination of both that it eventually goes.

Healthcare that is consumer focused and disconnected from employer provided:

- will have to be price transparent

- will make starting a business easier

- will make the US more business competitive as companies in other countries don't have to provide it

- will allow people to change jobs more easily

- will make ageism less of an issue

- will get companies out of your private health

- will allow bigger grouping by insurance companies across the nation not at the job level (right now small/medium/family/individual private insurance is seen as more risky because private insurance groups by employer and smaller is more risky)

Health insurance is personal and shouldn't be known by your employer, and re-signing up every year and anytime you get a new job is tedious, it needs to be like all other insurance (auto, home, life mostly) that it is a personal consumer choice and private.

Unbinding and de-coupling healthcare from the job is pro-business and pro-consumer health and will lead to true market price transparency.
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Costco, Netflix, Chase. Microsoft appears to have a comeback by ducking out while the heat was on the other companies.
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I don't really see why e-cigarettes should need to advertise at all, they could simply be devices suggested to smokers by medical professionals as a cessation aid.

Had to let this post sit for a minute before responding, and on the grounds you're offering, to really think about it and look at other examples; ultimately I think I agree with you. Your point is well met.
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Interesting theory. A similar mental problem is a plot element in the sci-fi novela "Blindsight" by Peter Watts: https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
I was a Running Start alum as well (along with many of my friends). If you're in Pullman, you can take courses at Washington State University. It was incredible for me - for my friends who went to UW or WSU after graduation, they got 2 years of college credit and many graduated early. I went out of state and was able to skip introductory courses, and having already been to college in high school meant I was way more mature than many other students.

Honestly, for the cost of the program, it is extremely impactful. I didn't feel like I missed out on high school much either - I still took half my classes there.

I guess to counter the idea that it hurts on college applications: I can't say anything definite, of course, but I'm fairly certain taking physics at WSU looks much better on an application than taking your high school's physics. You look like a more ambitious and capable student.
Lootboxes aren't a form of dishonesty. It's a form of gambling. Gambling needs to be regulated, because that specifically does abuse psychology, whereas when you're buying a product, you know exactly what you're getting. There's no deception there, unless there is, in which case we have laws against it, because it's called false advertisement. We have laws against gambling, because we know how math works and the human mind doesn't by default.
That source says nothing about public health. Your assumption is vaping = worse public health.
The US subsidizes drug development, that's about all. Other medical R&D doesn't really come out of any publicly funded research system, it comes from medical practitioners. The cost of US drug development subsidy is maybe $40 billion, accounting for basic research and development by pharmaceutical companies. This is pretty much peanuts compared to global healthcare spending. Also, this money is arguably not really that well spent, since most of drug development is useless, and nations can improve their health systems and outcomes much more through things like routine care and monitoring than they will through expensive research.
Unfortunately, the good deeds does not protect from bad consequences.

Google has shown little regard to standards and community, specially as of recent, based on their handling of the musl libc in fuchsia, libc++ in Android, Go the language and it's community, and the elephant in the room: Google Chrome. Google has a bad culture of forking things and breaking things for good business reasons which does not align with the community and people outside Google.

The concerns around Google fucking things up with their influence is not unreasonable.
It's not going to automatically save me any more than a motorbike helmet will save me if I crash my bike. That's not going to stop me from wearing one, though.

I actually agree with your second paragraph, and I like to think the systems I build fall in the latter category, but I'm still not too proud to take whatever help the compiler can give me.
They’ve done both right? Gorilla glass was a capacity pickup?
Is that true across the nation? I know California isn't the whole energy market but their renewable energy mix is solar, hydro, fission, wind, geothermal, and biomass in that order. It's true that non-hydro, non-solar sources are larger than hydro+solar, but not by a lot and none of the renewable supplies are carbon-intensive.

Wind, by the way, is growing much faster than solar in California and could be larger than solar within a few years.
Then fork it - isn’t that the whole idea behind open source?