skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should be interesting, good ol' science with scientific method based conclusions and stuff, clear cause + effects, fully empirical & non-speculative, like most non-scientist people like to have in official documents.

"Houston Methodist Neurological Institute researchers from the department of neurosurgery shrunk a deadly glioblastoma tumor by more than a third using a helmet generating a noninvasive oscillating magnetic field..."

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/hm-imd072221...
Nuclear waste is very easy to deal with. It’s physically small, and easy to transport.

It has a long half life, but a deep shaft filled with cement in a remote area does the trick.

There’s no kicking the can down the road.
> You can speak for everyone.

Not really. I only use header-only libraries and dependency management is a breeze for me. I check each library out as a git submodule into a third-party subdirectory in my project directory, point the includes path at it and off I go. When I want to upgrade, I pull the git tag/branch/commit I want and recompile. Its pretty simple.
I've got a few "early access" games where the developer lost interest or disappeared. Most infamously Starbase DF-9, but I've got a handful of other games in my library.

Now, I'll wishlist them rather than impulse buy them and then reconsider it when it comes out of early access.
> Affirmative action doesn't require a lower bar.

The one strategy I've heard of that doesn't do this, and isn't something any rational organization who saw no intrinsic benefit to "diversity" would already be doing, is "spending extra recruitment resources to yield good candidates of the underrepresented groups". For example, you could send 5 recruiters to all-female colleges or majority-black colleges that aren't highly ranked in CS, in the hopes of turning up as many good programmer candidates as you'd get from sending 1 recruiter to a highly-ranked CS college. That indeed does not require a lower bar—although it spends resources in a way I'd consider wasteful.

But I don't think that's what affirmative action normally means, and I'm generally leery of allowing proponents to redefine the term more broadly (that type of thing enables motte-and-bailey argumentation).

Did you have another strategy in mind?
That's about 1000mg of caffeine a day. A gram a day is diminishing returns for the average coffee drinker, and may signal addiction. Addiction is dangerous in itself, so we might explain the outrageous results of this study in that way. A lifetime on the edge is a recipe for disaster!
Exactly -- most "urban" areas in the USA are actually sprawling car-dependent suburbs that use far more resources of all kinds per capita than a true urban area.

What's more, is that we've forgotten that you don't need to build suburbs around cars. You can have pleasant suburbs with offices, shops, schools, and other non-residential buildings mixed into the neighborhood. Where people actually walk and cycle because the streets feel like they were made for it.

There's a massive gap between the population density of 60000 people per square mile you might find in an urban center, and the approximately 1,500 people per square mile you get in a typical suburb.
non-Intel 16" Pros do, too. Escape key was added back in Nov 2019.
With how automated space flight has become I think either nobody will be an astronaut anymore in short order with how automated every step is or the term will come to mean "person who travelled through outer space" until the point it is no longer interesting enough to be worth noting.
It works! Thanks Spencer!!
Ha -- I made another post summarizing the contents of this paper, but read another poster suggesting that it could be correlated with cigarettes, as nicotine is an appetite suppressant.

The authors of this paper suggest that the obesity trend started ramping up in the 70s - 80s and has continued unabated.

Sure enough, this is directly negatively correlated with tobacco consumption per capita.

https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06...

I'm surprised the authors didn't touch on this -- it's a really thorough research paper. I have to imagine that nicotine consumption (or lack thereof) is directly correlated with obesity considering it's both a neurochemical (something the authors were suggesting as a contaminant), we know it affects appetite (it's a stimulant), and those most prone to smoking are also most prone to obesity (remove cigarettes = more food intake).
Yeah. All the arcane template stuff, even if I understand for sometime, you're bound to forget it as soon as you stop using it (which you probably should in most times).

It reminds me, every time I try to jump too implementation of some standard library method/class, it just seems like a completely different language to me. And C++ is the language I've most experience with.

Meanwhile, I jump to some Rust or Golang* standard library implementation, it makes perfect sense very quickly. Even though I just use them for hobby projects.

* Go is probably a bad example because it doesn't have any generics. But still love how much more approachable their stdlib code is.
First Google result says a cup is 250 ml, is this right? I usually drink one and a half mug per day, which is about 750 ml. I
I did stop drinking coffee after 18 o clock and I'm sleeping way better.
A college-educated talks this way "I was like...".

The money were definitely wasted on her.
I don't know that « being modern » should ever be a primary concern. Especially when it comes to embedded where stable features and APIs are important.

It's largely the realm of C, with some industries working in Ada/SPARK. In terms of its profile, Rust fits the bill for being a good system/embedded programming language some day, but I don't know if it's mature and stable enough yet to be what you'd pick for a really serious job.

As for C++, I don't really see the point if you don't have technical debt.
If they can be rezoned residential, it could turn san francisco and other cities into wonderful cheap places to live. If everyone stays remote, we won't need offices anymore!

As it is, with office workers, society has to double the amount of living space needed.
> And of course, with their own ARM processors they can further dumb down macOS and lock it down

Anything to back this up? There was nothing preventing them from ‘locking down’ an intel based macOS, and I haven’t seen any evidence of a money grab with M1 based macOS either…
> There, however, needs to remain a distinction between people who are intensively trained and are flown to space to do exploration or accomplish scientific missions and those who happen to be on a ride.

Definitions based on role get tricky. If someone outside NASA pilots a space shuttle up to the ISS and then takes it back down without personally doing science, are they not an astronaut? If they are, what about a copilot? Does it matter how many buttons the pilot/copilot presses?
Federal civil rights cases are supposed to cover legal expenses, but the judge has to decide if they think the case was important enough to warrant it. So we might not be awarded the legal expenses.

This brings up a really big point though. If the lawyers don't want it because they can't make money, and the judges don't want it because it's not important enough, then who stands up for our rights? Do we even really have them if they can be ignored?
My point was that the author did not make a good case for debunking even the first theory, and I had no reason to believe that they would do any better in the rest of the paper. I did wade through 7 pages of "mysteries" which was a kind of annoying way to frame the topic in the first place.

Also, you make a good point, Hobbiton actually actually is a great place to start an adventure, and _is_ a compelling reason to continue reading.
I think the core issue is that a lot of projects want to have their cake, eat it too, but prevent Amazon from eating any.

They want the feel-good tailwind and community aspects of marketing the project as "we're open source" without, well, actually being open source.
Britain carves out exemption for gold clearing banks from Basel III rule
> The best way to reduce the of risk of severe health results from COVID is literally take one of the twenty different vaccines

I don't disagree with that, although I am not sure either, it's too early to tell regarding unknown long-term efficacy and side-effects.

The point is, many people don't need to risk the (hypothetical) best way (TM) when there are proven different ways of reducing COVID impact of similar efficacy (those who care know about them, often posted for discussion here on HN). Especially given the censorship, one-sided expertology and disinformation about vaccines and available treatments from the governments, institutions and media.

These groups really f-d up the vaccination program with their despicable tactics and large masses of people are not going to vaccinate precisely because of that - the main vaccine pushers quickly became completely untrustworthy.
I think you'd have to define what it means for a category to be valid. The way I see it is that a category is either useful or not and whether it is or not depends on our goals which depends on what we like and want which is subjective and the judgement itself relative to such a system so designed. That's not to say they are arbitrary, because they're objectively useful or not with respect to the goal.

I don't think biologists would agree with you about the horse. It's actually consider a crisis in the philosophy of biology that the concept of species is ill-defined. [1] Like I said, the resolution to me is pragmatic: the definition will depend on whether it is effective relative to some purpose.

1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/species/
Why on earth do we measure coffee in cups? People drink more espresso and other drinks like cold brew than ever these days, just talk about caffeine in mg
Thank you for this thoughtful comment. It seems the present moment is a flux for embedded programming languages, there is still a choice to make. Maybe we will be discussing "Modern Rust for C++ Programmers" in a few decades on HN!
You could be Scott Meyers, write:

====================================================

1992. Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs.

1995. More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs.

1998. Effective C++, Second Edition: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs.

2001. Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library.

2005. Effective C++, Third Edition: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs.

2010. Overview of The New C++ (C++11)

2010. Effective C++ in an Embedded Environment

2014. Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14
====================================================

and you would not be able to understand modern C++ anymore...

"The Errata Evaluation Problem"

http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-errata-evaluatio...

"As you may know, I retired from active involvement in C++ at the end of 2015, and in the ensuing two and a half years, I’ve forgotten enough details of the language that I am no longer able to properly evaluate bug reports regarding the technical aspects of my books. C++ is a large, intricate language with features that interact in complex and subtle ways, and I no longer trust myself to keep all the relevant facts in mind. As a result, all I can do is thank you for your bug report, because I no longer plan to update my books to incorporate technical corrections. Lacking the ability to fairly evaluate whether a bug report is valid, I think this is the only responsible course of action."
from the name Intrinsic I thought it was gonna be mainly about inserting chips into the brain. Perhaps the robotics is the first step.
It sounds like a crapshoot to me. I.e. Could be interpreted one way or the other.
That's not really fair. You can want to have an "open enough" collaborative community without a trillion dollar company ($cloud_provider) steamrolling you and your work.

Open source is a religion, fair code or source available licensing is a pragmatic compromise to balance community contributions and usage with a reasonable mechanism to encourage or require economic support. Lot of open source folks going hungry and having to beg to get any income. Let the religious preach while the pragmatic get paid and cover their rent and grocery bills.
Is it? AGPL prevents the operating company from hosting modified version of the application without releasing changed code but doesn’t prevent actual hosting.
> Both gcc and clang easily deduce that the guessing is semantically pointless

Can someone explain this please, because I don't see how - as `node` and `next` could possibly be different values, wouldn't that `if` be needed and so is in no way a NOP?
Dude, it’s been about three months since my part of Canada received rain. We have been above 30°C for over a month. For a week, we were hitting 45°C and it looks like it’ll happen again next month. We are in drought conditions and there are ungodly huge wildfires all around us. We’ve got crop failures. We are NOT fine. Good gods, no, we are not fine at all.
It's really sketchy how their conclusions don't show the rate for 0 cups/day or 2-6 cups per day.
I'm pretty sure there's a study I read that said coffee reduces the risk of dementia.

Here's my rule for most everything in life: everything in moderation. When I skip a day with coffee, I enjoy it a lot more the next day.
It’s a blog. Not a journalistic article.

The whole point of a blog is to be a personal log.
Not only that. They live in the stations, because why not? Perfectly protected spaces. Except if flooded.

That's not exactly wanted here, because of the corrosive bird shit, possible interference with information displays, signalling systems and/or overhead wire/third rail, health concerns, and so on. But somehow they manage to evade or adapt all countermeasures so far.

Mostly pigeons/doves, the 'rats of the air', but also some larger seagulls.

Funny when you stand on the platform, bored, watching some talking heads yabbering on some projected screen, waiting for a few minutes until the next train.

And then suddenly one of the larger seagulls serenely gliding in out of the tunnel along the track, against the direction, scanning the platform.

Like WTF!?
It will be funded by the National Coffee Association.
little bit less than 250mL, but pretty close, yea
Note with Wi-Fi only 1 device can talk at a time and device -> AP -> device counts as 2 devices talking. Now factor in acknowledgements and inter-device sync and you've got a great mash of exactly-what-wifi-wasn't-made-for.
It literally mathematically requires a lower bar. If your criteria for hiring a software engineer is that an applicant demonstrate proficiency in a given set of tasks, for example, you will result in a pool of applicants sorted by proficiency. Say we have 100 slots open to hire people, and we would normally just take the top 100 applicants according to this proficiency criteria.

Now, introducing any criteria which results in a different set of applicants than the top 100 necessarily lowers the bar of proficiency. It doesn't have to be affirmative action, it could be any arbitrary change in criteria. "We want just as many people named Michael as people named Jim." Well, if that wasn't the case in the original set of applicants, you're no longer getting the top 100. Affirmative action by race is no different. It's not that there is a debate here, as I said, it is that you are necessarily lowering the bar of proficiency by introducing another set of arbitrary criteria.

Maybe there were 6 Michaels and 1 Jim in the top 100. In order to balance them out, there would likely have to be some Michaels removed, some Jims added, and some people from other common names removed. Every person that was removed for a Jim from outside of the original 100 was more qualified and excluded due to the arbitrary criteria. The bar was lowered.
> " How do you define success?"

Surely you jest. It really doesn't matter how you define success, IQ is a valid predictor of pretty much any definition of success you can think of. Income, academic achievement, you name it.
I love The Dig. When my father bought it to me, he said it was supposed to be a movie, but it was cancelled, so they turned it into a game. Don't know if that's true, but this is a great game. I don't have that kind time to finish it again now a days, but I did watched a YouTube video of someone playing it to the end. Again, great game.

Fun fact: this was one of the first games I ever played that had Portuguese subtitles.
I don't really disagree with you, but 53% is not that enormous of an effect. To put this in perspective, tobacco smoking raises the risk of lung cancer by about 3000%.
I’d love to hear more about this story if you’re willing to talk about it, although I can imagine it’s something you might not want to revisit.

I’m very curious about how in the world the guy thought he could covertly steal a $7m product.
It's extremely common in Lisp. Linked lists are the natural data structure of Lisp and in most modern programs they rarely get modified. Common Lisp provides vectors for greater efficiency but they might be less necessary in many programs if this trick works.
You’re right, how very strange!
Every time I see studies like this it reminds me of the Roche Biochemical Pathways

http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1

For starters, there are over 1000 chemical compounds in coffee.

For a 53% effect, let's toss out "coffee" and go with a specific compound. Are we talking about pH effects? The possible carcinogens with roasting? Caffeine? Does Diet Coke have this effect? The fertilizer used during growing? Does coffee candy with natural flavor have this effect?

After that, how do the biochemical pathways and inherent homeostasis handle this change?

Forget it. The rabbit hole is endless with studies like this.
I'm not a systems engineer, I just do data analysis and algorithms that sometimes need to go really fast.

I only recently investigated rust, and was hugely impressed with it. I regret not investigating it earlier. Language support for ownership and lifetime of variables is such a huge step up for writing code. Trying to do this through as hoc conventions in C, or through RAII in C++, is a lot harder.

I haven't yet had a chance to write anything significant in rust beyond a few small test projects, but next time I want to beat Python performance on something I'll be using Rust instead of Cython or C or C++.
Ok but I'm not sure I could go back to compiling without modules.
The level of coverage these two got is deeply embarrassing. If I were a journalist I’d be ashamed for my colleagues fawning over some rich <bleep> buying a space ticket.
Do schools compete on quality of education or on self-selecting their students? I suspect it's mostly the latter, given how parents evaluate public schools as well.

You end up failing at your job not by virtue of teaching worse (you might be teaching better), but in not figuring out how to bias your application/admissions process.
Your logic is flawed in that you didn't clarify the definition of "small". How small are we talking about? This is a simple statistical question.

Calculate the number of sexual harassment reports of all US companies normalized by employee counts, and check if the number of sexual harassments at Blizzard is statically significantly higher. If so, then it is plain reasonable to suspect Blizzard has certain issues that cause this.

Whether the females are broadly and uniformly harassed is not a good indicator. As long as the rate is significantly higher than other company, it could indicate some problem and is worth investigation, even if the total number of harassment cases are small compared to the total female employees.
Yeah I agree with you, that's what I was saying, I feel the same way about LotR. First book was a snooze and couldn't finish the rest.
> It requires outside investment.

> That means the grade inflation of AP classes just serves as an indirect proxy for money,

So you think poor people just don't work hard enough? Only rich people care about their future and are willing to put in the effort to better themselves?

Sounds like some conservative propaganda to me....
Embedded has always been a "I learned this myself, while tinkering, then expanded my knowledge by tinkering more, and then by having a job doing something similar" kind of field. So that is not new.
> an array of strings is now stored in contiguous memory, which is great for memory cache hitrates, which often delivers whole factors of speedup.

How do they do that? As string lengths can vary. One way might be to store the continuous strings in memory and then maintain an array of pointers to those strings. But then we are back to pointers.

Searched google. Didn't find anything.
Cups is actually more specific, if we're relying on the baseline of regular drip-brew joe. There's other factors at play than just caffeine intake or else we'd have heard about this surrounding energy drinks and meal replacement supplements.

Granted, I haven't read the study, but the coffee/caffeine invariant just came to mind when I read your comment.
the prezo thing is enough for me, but yes there are other things. it's not necessarily that one thing, it's the philosophy and future expected behavior that it represents. i.e. i don't expect it to be a one-off.

but yes lots of other things.

oddly, i am actually on a 3-month trial -- which I thought was really strange but, just didn't care either way.

but are you saying i could give a 1-month notice?

i mean, i _could_, but why would i? same idea, hope for a miracle?

my ideal situation would be to stay, i think, because the position could, in theory, be at least ok -- sustainable -- and that's about all you can hope for sometimes.
Your comment made a great start to my weekend.
I can see the dedication and love you put into creating this.

Very well done, good presentation and execution.
At a superficial level yes. The actual impact to people and society I think is far greater and will have an overall negative affect on society and interracial relationships. Putting myself in the shoes of someone that was bumped out of something they earned through hard work and dedication because my skin color was not correct would make me bitter to those that implemented the policy as well as (hopefully less so) the person that got my seat. So now whoever made this policy has just maybe added a little racist chip on my shoulder where one did not exist previously. Multiply this many times over and all of a sudden we have a more racist society and reversing what I think the direction we have been going.
The dropouts are not universal. Results in the Starlink subreddit make it quite clear that you’re either obstructed or maybe have bad dish.
Solar is so cheap that it's now worth it to point solar arrays towards the 5pm sun angle, for utility-scale deployments that get time-of-day pricing.
There's too little information on the sampling

> We conducted prospective analyses of habitual coffee consumption on 398,646 UK Biobank participants (age 37–73 years), including 17,702 participants with MRI information. We examined the associations with brain volume using covariate adjusted linear regression, and with odds of dementia (4,333 incident cases) and stroke (6,181 incident cases) using logistic regression.

The study had access to a relatively large dataset, but how many people have dementia and drink >6/day?

Also, for understanding the effects of coffee drinking on dementia the data set has to be tracked for a decent amount of time... decades? I have very strong doubts about the integrity of the data.

How long do you have to drink >6/day before that kicks in? obviously doing it once isn't going to cut it.
We might as well just link to the basic problem statement rather than recapitulate 3000 years of philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox