skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree that the jury is still out on diet drinks and heart disease, but it is pretty conclusive[1][2][3] that regular soda increases your risk of heart disease.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/daily-sugary-drink-linked-hear...

[2] https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/aha-dsd03141...

[3] https://consumer.healthday.com/cardiovascular-health-informa...
>It's really not that simple. They don't use any of the country infrastructure or workers.

They absolutely do. They implicitly use courts, police, customs, trademark/contract enforcement, etc.
> Do they really make that much from advertising

First quarter 2019 Google made 9.4 billion profit. That's 100 million USD per day. They will think about alternatives, as long as those numbers doesn't decrease.
I think it's more than that. If I understand correctly (and I may well not), this kind of thing isn't possible within classical QM, even in principle. The fact that we can do it at all, even in perfect circumstances, is enough.
While I agree, strongly, with you, software (or more pointedly, Web-and-mobile information technology) is what the general awareness of "tech" seems to be.

The reality is vastly broader.
The Knowledge Project podcast is awesome. Here are some snippets that I found very useful.

On starting his company in a secondary market:
I do think that there is an almost complete difference between how you build a company in a primary talent market and sort of secondary talent markets. For instance, one of the biggest differences in secondary places is, if I hired someone, the chance that we are going to still work together in a decade from now is super high.

Hiring for future potential
It means that it’s a much better idea to hire for future potential rather than for current skill. Once you do that, what you realize is, a dollar invested into helping to train people or even subtle things like making sure that next to any junior programmer, like for every five junior programmers in a team, you have one person who can become their mentor—these basic ideas all start having way more dividends

On building a hiring process for a learning organisation
..we have a hiring process that really, really finds people of high future potential. And then, we try to help them reach this potential 10, 20 years earlier in their career than they ever thought was possible, through coaching, through book clubs, through anything.
Fixed vs. Growth Mindsets
Everything in Shopify is built around this idea that if someone shows up with a fixed mindset, we convert them to a growth mindset quickly. And then once we have a growth mindset, we fill people with context (i.e. explain what their role is and what they are expected to do).

On the role of processes with an organisation
There are three kinds of process. There’s a kind of process that makes things that were previously impossible to do, possible. That’s good. Then there’s a kind of process that makes something that was previously possible significantly simpler, which is also good. However, 99.9% of all process that exists in corporate America is the third category, which is actually just telling people to behave slightly different from what common sense tells them to do.

So we have lots and lots and lots of examples where we just avoided having to create process by just changing the environment in which we all spend our time in.
FERC and NERC Advance Dramatically Expanded Mandatory Cybersecurity Notif Stds
I'm surprised that the complaint is about getting paid, rather than pointing out that Upwork facilitated an illegal and immoral system to be built. You don't get to use "demographic information" like "race" or "age" or probably many of the columns the post mentions to make hiring decisions. For the sake of the jobs industry, the author should change their post to say this.
Walmart told U.S. government India e-commerce rules regressive
Previous discussion with interesting comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19324766
Microsoft stirs suspicions by adding telemetry files to security-only update
If it's more trivial than an simple "pip install & onion-expose 8000", then please tell me ! (this is theorical, onion-expose is not yet on PyPI)

Also, let's learn from our history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
SEC approves first consumer RegA+ token Props for cross-app rewards
Android is an open platform relative to iOS so naturally you'll see a large range of manufacturing strategies since Apple prohibits the use of its operating system on hardware it does not sell.
I'm type II and other than the odd fruit juice, only drink artificially sweetened drinks. More and more stevia sweetened drinks recently, which I guess doesn't qualify as artificial though.
I would strongly advice anyone interested by the labels frequencies of dataset to get a look at the json file provided.
Interesting thing is not that much the frequency of X or Y labels, but the frequency of one set of labels.
(this would be a great addition on the webpage actually).

Pictures can have multiple labels. And so, having the ratio of "Forum + Drugs + Finance" vs "Market-place + Weapons" dispense more information than just the global frequency of "Finance"-related pages :)
Aspartame is bad for your in large quantities. The safe standard is 40mg/kg/day.

So my guess it is safer than sugar.

Claims that artificial sweetners are bad fall into the category of drinking litres of water in a short period of time.
SFTP, however, has FTP feature parity and is secure as SSH (since it is ostensibly SSH).
Kim Darroch affair, privacy and chilling effects
It is just a lazy journalistic cliche used whenever there is some new historical or archeological discovery, however minor.

https://www.google.com/search?q=discovery+rewrites+history

Of course in a technical sense, this is always true.
This seems like a solution for sharing a private development server with co-workers.

A decade ago we used another solution which seemed to work well enough: Developers had a Unix accounts on a Linux server. Their workspace was mounted as a remote filesystem. Interactive console access was available via SSH.

Inlets seems to still require a remote Linux server, but seems a like a more complicated way to solve the problem.

By using a shared server, we didn't need maintain container image to keep laptop environments sync'ed. If we wanted to upgrade the development database version, we upgraded the DB once on the shared server and everyone had the new version immediately.
Yet Apple has been able to do that for well over a decade and sells phones via carriers. Even if you buy an unlocked Android phone directly you can update it without carrier intervention.
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From what I can tell, it will incentivize competitors everywhere, as long as they don't have revenues over €750M.
This is a great peace of reporting. The amount of research and investigation put into this, the interviews with insiders, the look inside the engineering process, internal company emails, etc.

It shines an extraordinary light onto this catastrophic failure. And in this case, truly, the engineers do not come out looking good at all.
Burnout vs. Boreout
Your solution implies they don't do anything wrong 24/7. That's not the case with nearly any public figure.
> Does that mean that EU citizens should also pay for these services?

Making people pay to access Facebook etc would be the best possible move for society ever.
I had not seen that particular example, thanks for providing the citation.

Perhaps I'm just being stubborn here, but allow me a moment. Isn't the core issue there that the executor requires the future to have a lifetime of 'static? Aaron explains it:

> ...because they are tossed onto executors like thread pools and hence not tied to any particular stack frame.

It's surely a huge undertaking, but wouldn't a more nuanced lifetime analysis solve the underlying problem here? I don't think the issue is that any other way to write this example is unsafe, it's that it's running into a limitation of the borrow checker.

What's required of an asynchronous borrow? The same thing required of any borrow: exclusivity. Sure, the async/await lets you write code that "looks synchronous", and gives the lexical cues the compiler needs to enforce the borrow. But does that mean it's the only way? The counterexample in Aaron's article even relies on async/await! That makes me highly suspicious that the need for it was taken as a given and never sufficiently challenged.

The core issue in that example is that the borrow needs to be held until some point in the future that can't truly be determined lexically. That says to me that it's not a borrow in the traditional Rust model. It is absolutely a useful borrow to check for, but why go about it backwards by only allowing such chronological borrows in such narrow circumstances?

Moreover, the example isn't realistic. The model that should be used for reading from a socket is a stream.

> The return type of an `async fn` is an `impl Future`.

Well, it is and it isn't. For instance, it appears that one can't await on a plain function that returns an `impl Future`...
I actually thought that line was a joke when I first read it. "We don't hire non-citizens, Hispanic people, or anyone over 30" sounds a lot worse than "we evaluate candidates according to an algorithm trained to predict work performance."
Ford settled: http://fordtransmissionsettlement.com/
It's true that when a French person comes to your country to buy your product, then goes back to France, the burden is on them to pay the relevant customs and taxes.

On the other hand, I would argue that the market of people who would come to your country to buy your product is significantly smaller than the market of people who buy it on the internet and have it delivered---and it's fairly typical for companies sending products to France to be asked to collect any duties, customs and taxes from the purchaser. Why would electronic delivery be different ?
Some caution needs to be used when interpreting these results. The ASB intake was self-reported with a lot of potential errors. The authors state:

"Additionally, women with high intakes of ASB of all types may have differed systematically in many ways from women with little or no intake, most especially since they were more likely to be obese and have a higher energy intake."
India, and large parts of China and Africa will be heavily impacted by climate change, far more than the US. India and China are already taking it very seriously - building tons of renewable energy capacity, high taxes on fuel etc. And that's with the world's largest polluter (the US) not doing anything, and in fact denying there's even a problem.

It would be better for everyone if everyone stops polluting. But rich countries, that are mostly in northern latitudes and less affected by climate change, aren't taking any action. So it makes sense for poor countries, largely in places affected by climate change, to try to develop faster by any means possible so they can better-handle the coming disaster.

Whereas if rich countries take the problem seriously, add carbon taxes and tariffs and whatever other measures needed, they have moral, economic, legal, and even military levers against those who don't sign on. Poor countries can develop their economies with renewable energy and not worry as much about preparing for climate-fueled crises.
> If you separate this conversation from reality and strip any sort of relevant context, then yes, population and pollution are orthogonal concerns. What you're saying is "if human existence didn't cause externalities, then a growing population would no be an environmental problem".

Not exactly. I'm saying that problems are always caused when negative externalities are not accounted for, therefore the problem of not accounting for negative externalities is literally to account for negative externalities.

The population size is a complete red herring to this basic fact. The fact that a low population entails that we can ignore certain externalities is completely uninteresting.

> Every extra human born pollutes and has an environmental impact. We are very far away from bringing that to zero and, unless we do, population growth is an environmental problem.

It will never be zero. So what? Population growth for affluent nations is already negative. Growth rate falls as a nation enjoys better health care and more opportunities, which is why global population will start falling in about 80 years. Population growth clearly has a form of autoregulation.

What's not autoregulating are negative externalities of common goods, by definition. That's why population growth is not a problem and negative externalities are.
What do the chmod do there? Removing files count as writes to the directory at least in Linux, so chmodding the dummy file wouldn't do much I'm thinking.
Automatic HTTP(s) Interception and Debugging for Python
Soda is poison. It might sound dramatic, but I think we'll come to see it as similar to smoking or heavy alcohol drinking (assuming we aren't there already).

I've been trying to quit for years. I'll likely get mocked, but it is quite addictive once you're hooked (particularly as it makes you tired, which makes you want to drink more to feel "normal").

I'm trying to move to sweetened Iced Tea (40% less sugar) and eventually unsweetened Iced Tea/water. But getting used to less caffeine/sugar actually causes legitimate withdrawal, plus kicking a habit is always tricky.

It has been linked to cancer (stomach, throat, mouth, the whole digestive system), diabetes, heart disease, and beyond.
I think the issue is that the market just didn't materialize, not dead as you say, but not nearly as big as it needed to become.

I think of Make as part of the O'Reilly Media story. The MO there for the last 35 years is to jump on emerging trends. When that trend blows up, the business does really well. It's probably easiest to see by looking at O'Reilly's conference history. OSCON, Strata, Web 2.0 where all hits with long shelf lives. Where 2.0, ETel, etc were interesting trends that didn't get big enough.

I was just leaving O'Reilly when Make was starting and the idea was that it might become the next Popular Mechanics. Make got traction, but not quite at the level where Maker projects were a normalized part of life. For all the comments saying 22 people was a lot of people, that's really not a very big company.

However, I think it's still such a great community and I love that Dale is finding a way to make it work. The phrase "rightsizing" has such bad connotations, but it shouldn't. There's a size business that fits the actual size if the Maker community. If they get that "right" then everyone can be happy.
They pay taxes where they are located. I am opponent of corporate income tax as I think it's the worse possible way to get about taxation. France is already collecting VAT on what Google sells there. They could increase that if they want. Why should it matter to them if Google turns profits or not? The concept of "profit from sells to France" isn't really well defined either, their profit depends on cost of operating and those depends on laws and regulations of the place they actually use to make their product.
Here are some details on Hermes perf with sample code:

https://mobile.twitter.com/htormey/status/114935339023051980...

Here is a video comparing start times for a Hermes/non Hermes RN app:

https://mobile.twitter.com/nparashuram/status/11493502142154...

I’m currently at Chain React in Portland and they just gave a talk on Hermes. I tweeted a few screenshots that show other perf numbers/technical details for those who are interested.
> it wasn't done maliciously.

Depends on how you look at it. One alternative solution to the old battery problem would be to send it to a repair shop to install a new battery.

But Apple doesn't want people to have the right to repair their own devices, so that's not even seen as an option. Throttling to extend battery life is a convenient explanation that both solves the problem and avoids hurting their extremely profitable repair program (where they'd charge maybe $50 less than the cost of a new phone for a battery replacement).
I quickly scanned the study you linked and its conclusions, but it doesn't seem to draw any reliable conclusions at all. It specifically mentions the results need to be reproduced, are purely observational, depended on self-reported intake quantities, and did not correct for possible factors that correlate with intake of artificial sweeteners (such as obesity). Last but not least the test group was purely women in a relatively narrow age range above 50.

I always get somewhat triggered by people claiming artificial sweeteners are provably bad, because so far I have not seen a single study that conclusively claims this without a long list of reservations. All while the health effects of artificial sweeteners are one of the most researched topics in nutritional science.

I don't have a stake in this game at all (I rarely eat/drink things that have artificial sweeteners, or actual sugar, for that matter), but the fact that after decades of research there still is no smoking gun tells me the supposed adverse health effects of artificial sweeteners are way overblown.
What is the difference between front end and back end developer
One of the articles I read stated they suspected the skulls were originally in different caves but had been caught in a flood that washed them into a common area.
Was looking at potentiometers (knobs) the other day, and it's crazy that you basically have to make your own in Arduino if you want one that isn't from Palette. Microsoft infamously made the Dial that has the unfortunate design flaw of sliding off the Surface monitor it's supposed to stick to.
Wait Sabre is a real company?
They are actually Extraterritorial parts of the USA based on the UK experience
That's an unwarranted assumption! e.g., I drink lots of coffee, but I never contaminate it with fructose.

Milk sugars (lactose, glucose, galactose) don't affect leptin or ghrelin, so there's no risk of overeating as a result. (I also tend reduce my intake of these healthy milk sugars by using heavy whipping cream instead of whole milk.)
How to Recreate the GitHub Contribution Graph with Node.js and Google Sheets
Cannot say if it is exactly the same issue, but it seems that the Ford mechanics (at least here) are not trained to repair them and are not even capable of finding what the actual "root" issue is.

Additionally it seems that Ford has not found a good procedure to revive the transmission (i.e. new or rehauled transmission fail the same way).

A number of out-of-warranty cars (not that having Ford do anything effective within the warranty period is in any way easy) here in Italy (Focus and S-Max) have been seemingly recovered by using a special procedure to wash/clean the transmission of the old fluid, put in new "special" one + additives (and replace the filter) , then there is the need (via ODB2) to reset/calibrate the gearbox electronics.

The same or similar issue affects/affected also the DSG-7 gearbox mounted on many VW's/small Audi's (and Sjoda's/Seat's).
This pdf has pictures of the guts of this transmision:

https://atracom.blob.core.windows.net/webinars/ford/dps6_int...

I drive a stick, but recently I have been driving my moms's automatic subaru and it has a really nice crawl feature for steep dirt roads. You put the car in x-mode, take your foot off the gas and the car will maintain the speed you are at regardless of changes in grade or traction. You can adjust the speed with momentary application of brake and gas pedals. The computer controls throttle and brakes on each individual wheel, you can hear the ABS on downhill grades. Anyway it was the first automatic I have driven that worked well enough to be better then a stick for my use cases.
I've been a fan of dtrace for a long time and so I've been meaning to learn BPF to get similar functionality native to the linux kernel. I may pick this book up.
The rise and fall of a cyberpunk city in the metaverse
Pretty sure salaries for editors and writers are still pretty low, even in California.
And the Hood was a Battle Cruiser
Yeah, I will pay VAT and maybe tariffs. Both are perfectly fine taxes. Google is already paying VAT on sells to France. France could increase those on electronic advertising if they want to and Google will pay that.
I was a Perl 5 developer for over a decade and didn't recognize this as valid Perl.
Creating an AI-powered cat flap to stop a cat from bringing home dead animals
Double the correction magnitude to distort them in the other direction! That'll give 'em narrow scowls, puffy jowls, and beady little eyes.
Is VAT paid when Google shows an American ad to a French person?

The tax is on "digital services". It's unclear if the tax is on physical services from digital companies.
Strangely enough, in the article they actually recommend using an ad blocker:

> Childs recommends Android users use ad blocker software, always update their devices when prompted, and only download apps from the Google Play Store.
>Did CI save Google from the networking outage or tests prevent a global Cloudflare outage?

Yes, multiple times. It just didn't help with each and every outage, which is a different thing.

For the ones not preventable by CI (e.g. a disk was borked, power was down, but no integration / programming error etc a CI process could possibly spot) the question is moot.

Besides the concern about outages is totally unrelated to "speed of deployment".

Increased speed of deployment helps testing and iteration (obviously faster deployment speeds also means faster deployment to testing and staging environments, not just to the final server).
I'm hazy on the details, but it's not a protected class in the same way that e.g. race is. In alleging racial discrimination (in certain legal venues), statistical evidence of racial discrimination is admissible, however statistical evidence of age discrimination is not. E.g. if there are layoffs, and every grey head disappears, that's not grounds to allege discrimination. You'd have to have someone on record saying "we're firing all of the old fucks because they remind me of the inescapability of my own mortality" to litigate.

Someone with a better grasp on the particulars here please chime in :)
Have you actually tried this? What did you find? Because I actually conducted something very similar to this experiment with someone else once, because they said the same thing as you just did and I was skeptical. We left the one we squeezed in the fridge for several days (I want to say almost a week, but it's been a few years so I don't remember exactly) and it was fine when we drank it after. We did cover the whole glass to avoid constant air exchange etc. (I didn't try doing it without that) but it was a fairly decent debunking as far as I was concerned.
Completely ignoring the cables that carry their data.
Probably it means store-bought.

One key thing about squeezing your own juice is that typically you get more fiber in your diet and fiber usually has a negative impact on cancer, which I would strongly suspect would mitigate the impact of the sugars... in addition there is a health consciousness effect where you might notice that some man or woman who is that committed to fresh-squeezing fruit juice for themselves and their kids, probably has other healthy habits that would tend to discourage cancers.
I was not argueing anything.